The Archive · 1938

Annamite Emperor Buys Public School Boys Canidrome Greyhounds Give Good Account

Racing Dogs to Live Life Of Leisure Only A brace of sleek greyhounds from the Canidrome kennels left Shanghai lest week and are now on the high seas en route to Indo-China. They are to fulfil the ancient passion of Eastern potentates for this aristocratic animal which still finds expression, even in the ultra-modernism of such as Emperor Bao Dai, 26-year-old ruler of Annam, to whom the greyhounds are consigned.

The youthful Annamite Emperor is spending millions of piastres on a new palace at the famed summer mountain resort of Dalat, 190 miles inland and uphill from Saigon. This young, French-educated ruler, who stocks no less than twelve of the latest, stream-lined American automobiles in his luxurious garages, turns to the stream-lined greyhound to fulfil another need, thereby falling in step with the rulers of ancient Egypt and other Near-Eastern empires centuries ago.

Defeat R.A.M.C. Easily

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