The Hippodrome, as the Harbin trace-course is styled, has been formally taken over by the Chinese Land Department, notwithstanding the protest of the Japanese Con-late, The question of actual ownership is rather Originally the land was leased by the. Railway Land Department to officers of the Russian Railway Guard, who started a racing society years ago, but after passing through two or three hands it was acquired some three years ago by some Fapanese, who" exploited—the
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