A few days ago a declaration was made by the local City Kuomintang, favour of prohibiting race-meetin the interests of public trality. Outwardly this action would be aimed first at the Chinese Race Club and the International Race Club which are of course under Chinese jurisdiction, but later the movement might well be turned. against the foreign Race Club, which ix a- registered British com= pany. That there ix some reason for thix movement, other than a desire to improve public morals, is shown in the fact that the Chinese Race Club has been asked to arrange two days" races to provide ne the Inter. Club races or to reduce the number of undesirable visitors. at this meeting, it was decided by: the pating clubs that a charge be made for given to the and they were the police needed But on the day elf, after a number of more respectable folk had paid the fee with: out question, a mob of roughs the barriers and occupied the able space. The question of abandoning the races wax con ered, but it was finally decided to proceed. Not only so, but at the meeting on the forthcoming Saturday no attempt will be made to enforce the fee for admission.
The Wine Tax Bureau Raid move in the kame was yesterday morning, when ned officials from the Wine Tax Bureau entered the Race Club premises and claimed the right to examine the stocks of wi spirits, They: treated by the club officials, who knew that all requirements' had een met. All duties had been paid, and even the Wine Tax stamps had been purchased. For the latter the Race Club holds a receipt, ax it also howls a letter from the Bureau stating that as the necessary pay: ment had been made the stamps ced not be affixed to the separate After inspecting the bar and the cellars, the leader of the group anrouneed that, as the regulation that each bottle must. be stamped had not been complied with,—his men would proceed to remove all unstamped bottles. The documents just_ mentioned were produced for his inspection, but these he refused to regard as' valid. He was also told "that a message had gone through to the British Consul-General, who was in communication inner for Foreign subject,
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