oth May.
'THE race"meeting to" be concluded to-day has emphasised one weak spot in the otherwise admirable arrangements made by the stewards. As an interested party we should not refer to the matter if it were not one of real urgency. It is. of course, more from want of thought than from design that the Press of Shanghai are called upon to perform their duties under a particularly handicap. Only those who have endeavoured to present the public with a clear and accurate record of a race meeting are aware of the arduous nature of th ven under the best. of circum: paper men do nob at difficulties but they certainly expect from the Shanghai Race" Club something better than a tent—by courtesy which ata pinch will hold just hi "wet weather is pra The tent, moreov The; _is placed where is almost impossible to see the critical ride home down the straight, and as if this were not enough, the writers are hampered in other ways. Ridiculous as it sounds. well-known and accredited journalists were actually excluded from their own tent, miserable as it is, because failed to bring with them talisman' lokets, the mere production of which men who have never seen the ide of a newspaper office, secured them instant admission, This was protecting the Press, with a ven-glance, But it needs no more than a hint and we are certain the stewards will see to it that men who regard race-days as among the barest working days of the year, shall hav that amount of reasonable assistance to which their services to the public, and therefore to the Club, entitle them.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.