-Chefoo, Sept. 18.
Chefvo is in a semi-state of martial Jaw and the city is closed after 10 at night, Chinese being forbid-don to appear on the streets aft this hour.
The Autumn Race meetings held fon September 5 and 13 aroused much interest but the wet weather did a great deal to spoil the events 'The second meeting had been ranged on that day and the day fol ing necessitated that the finish-ices be postponed until the fol-day, September' 13, The racing was of a higher standard than Chefoo has been for many years, The first serious accident at an: Chefoo meetings for several years occurred on the first day when Mr. Kay, taking his pony Mik to the start for the second time, got bolted with and came down heavily in the country. A broken collar bone, two fractured ribs and a strained shoulder were the result.
Of the jockeys at the meetings Mr. Villers headed the list with Mrs. Railton second.
The first prize of $999.00 in the: Chefoo Champion Sweep Stake was won by an officer on the USS. Black Hawk.
The Champions was won by! Christmas Morn (ridden by Mr. Villers). Sandsnipe (Mr. Rail ton) was second and Survivor (Mr. Swaney) third—Reuter's Pacific TuAN Chi-jui, who has been promised the Presidency of China if success attends the Anfu arms, is tone of the organizers of the modern Chinese army. He was a signatory to the memorial to the Throne lurging the Emperor to abdicate. " He jis a Field Marshal of the Chinese army who has been twice Premier Jof China and went into, retirement]
Tientsin in'1922,
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