We are going to the dags: [knew it when I was biden to dino At the barbarous hour of 7.15. It seems queer to be dining by daylight, But my host has a good enough cellar, Sherry, none too bad, Hock, Rupertsberger Hofstuck, Claret, Mouton Rothschild And Port, Cockburn 1912, Topped off with a glass of old brandy.
That's the way to go to the dogs.
So this is Luna Park!
Or is it the Stadium?
A capacity crowd (To quote the newspapers) Buzzes and hums with subdued excitement.
By-and-bye there is a rumble and a roar And "Cuthbert"
The electric hare Mpkes a trial circuit of the tract The dogs are paraded For the first race.
shall pat my money on an animal Called Beautiful' Maude.
Sentiment, I suppose.
There was once a girl, Twenty years ago—Oh, well, it doesn't matter And T expect this berist is a male anyway, The dogs are barking in the start~ ing. boxes, "Cuthbert" his begun his winged OF the track, And the crowd in its breath million Fapanese Showing the completes courtesy, As "Cuthbert" flashes by The dogs are released, They certainly can travel, tiful Maude leads!
Now she's headed an fall back, Ut she's tating? Joan Gatuend the nota And whatever sex Beautiful Maude really is She's no lady.
In ack going to the Western it ix alleged, struck a pedestrian and killed' him.
Tienes is said alarm as the result of the stabbing of a Chinese postman by Japanese soldiers who attempted to search the mail which he was carrying. It Appears from a report in yesterday's "Shunpao" that, after the postman refused to allow the Jap-nese to search hix mail, they saulted and stabbed him, French troops who were stationed near by arrested the Japanese and refused to surrender them even after demands had been made by Japanese sol surrounded the railway officers for them. Later, Japanese
station and drove Chinese away, after injuring a number of them. Chinese in "Tientsin have been holding meotingx to protest against this unwarranted action, The report, except as regards the last sentence, sounds somewhat apocry-
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