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Show No Derby Race This Year AN English friend informs us that there was no derby run on Epsom Downs this year, H that the only races have been at Newcastle; that H all the buildings on the Epsom Downs have been h converted into hospitals for soldiers wounded B and ill that have been sent over from the fighting H line in France. H It was the first year that the derby on thu B old grounds missed in some one hundred and thir- H ty-soven years; the first year that the royalty H and nobility had no desire to see it. The hos- fl pitals and recruiting stations have fully absorbed H attention. H The thought seems to be: H "Once more into the breach, dear friends, once H more, H Or close the wall up with our English dead!" |