London newspapers have arrived in Shanghai recording extensively in photograph and print the triumphs and disappointments of the Derby, fand as the world situation is so complex and _permented with the activities of diplomats it [s not surprising that among the features, ranging from the sporting side to the fashion angle, a diplomatic note should be mentioned. Mr. Joseph E. Kennedy, the American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, saw his first Derby, Dut it is stated he did not have the luck of M. Kassidolatz, the Jugoslay Minister, who having been a habitue of Longchamp and Auteuil when Minister in Paris, thought old associations must prevail and backed Bois Roussel. It only need-a gossip writer to unearth an anecdote re-Guarding Li Hung-chang, the rear Chinese Statesman who impressed the western world with his original, but really old-time ideas, to complete the record, The writer related that
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