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HOW BRITISH SECTION FARED IN 1926.
INTERESTING ITEMS.
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England, and 3500 provided for LATE RUSSIAN TZAR. the purchase of a Morris Holst was not required.
The total expenditure amounted to $267,839.83.
TOMB OF ALEXANDER LIS
DISCOVERED EMPTY,,
ANOTHER MYSTERY,
in
The local passenger receipts amounted to $882,268.81, as against $332,942.68 for the pre- vious year, and the goods receipts. The following items are extract-were $21,762.64, or $2,286.92. loss
Berlin, July 11. ed from the annual report on the tlun the previous year.
Revelations have been made In the Russian journal "Slovo" that Kowloon-Canton Railway (Bri- The gross Receipt for the year the Soviet Government in its Hapt tish Section) for 1925, by Mr. were $480,578:31, 49 againsttor jewels and documents recently H. F. Winslow, Manager:-- $420.186.15 for 1924, an increase ransacked the crypt in the church
"The amount provided for the of $10,892,16.
of the St. Paul fortress, year 1925 under Special Expendi- The operating expenses amount Leningrad, in which the remalas of ture was $518,160 and during the led to $529,901.49. The disburse-reter the Great. the Great year at
various times other menta against the estimate of Catherine, Alexander f., and the amounts were voted. making aordinary working expenses was later Romanoffs le embalmed. total of $604,827.13. A sum of $504.422.56 and the portion of Special interest was attached to $538,000 was included for the Special Expenditure property the opening of the, coffin of Tear purchase of six new carriages, but chargeable to Revenue $14,744.04. Mexander. According to the his $231.107.83 lapsed,, as only part Further items amounting, to $10,-torians, he died at Taganrog in of the cost of these carriage was 734.89 are included in respect of South Russia, on December 1, 1825, paid by the Crown Agents during services rendered and materials but the popular baliq has alwaga 1925. It was decided to postpone supplied by Governmen: depart been that Alexander 1. did not fie the extension of the carriage shed, ments, also payments by Railway at this time, and that the body of and 379,830 was not required during the year not provided for some unknown person was buried Part only of the work of surfac in the Railway Estimates but in his stead, while he escaped in ing platforms at out-stations was charged to Government votes, disguise to live for many years as carried out and 34,301.57 lapsed The working expenses, exceeded a hermit in a remote monastery under that sub-head. As the ex- the Revenue by $99,328.18.
He is said to have been recognised | tension to workshops cost less The Fanling Branch Line re-long afterwards in the person of than anticipated, a saving was ceipts were $11,984.59, or $2,289._ja grey-bearded monk who was mak- made of $4,46-4.57. Owing to non- 66 less than the previous year, ek a pilgrimage through Russin arrival of spareg for locomotives the decrease in the number of Strange to say, states the "Slove.” $23.990.27 Was not required, passengers travelling being due ed was found by the Soviet werk $2,000 provided for new fencing to interference by
the atrike and gates at. Taipo.
men to be empty. Market pickets, stationed on the border. Station was unexpended as the The results of the past five years materials did not arrive from are as follows:-
Year Gross Receipts.
1921
.1
$603.980.77
1922
710,295.75
1923
474.721.78
1021
420.186.13.
1923
430.578.31
Working Expenses Net Receipts:
$527,991,06 + $76,989.71 143.151.40 48.791.35
Through and Joint Sectional follows:-
"
Passengers booked a Stations in British Section to Stations
--
562,144.35
523.513.13
507:314.42
.520.901.49
87,628,27 99,323.18
passengers: carried were
18
1923
1924
1925
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250,719
168,734 16.224*
157,115-
16,916*
in China jucluding Lowu.... Passengers booked at Stations in China including "Lovu to Stations in British Territory 249.152 *Lowu hooking not included
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as formerly.
1924
1923-
0
The local passengers carried were as follows:-
1923. Main Line. Fanking Branch Libe
the coin of Alexander I when open-i
jloitereri wh
Wonen among the crowd Vi When the crypt was opened uni
nd gathered round; fortress ried i workmen as they) Have a enre. childrei.!
the states,
jeeringly to
essed in.
Catherine is a dangerous one to imeddie with ***
as she had
Catherine was seen inst lain in state dressed ina gowni of heavy pale blue silk and wear-i ing pink silk stockings und dainty white satin slippers, An order studded with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds was fixed to the brand) silk ribbon she wore across hur Sreast, and below it a cross of The dend Empress sapphires. wore a diadem sel with pearls and diamonds, surmounting the high white periwig.
thr
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An inventory was made by the inicials, present, and the coffin was carefully closed, since a telephone 951,001 - 1,177.234 1.083,821
| message had come from the Soviet
KING EDWARD HOTEL authorities" directing that 73.838 82,505 58.419
wels should be allowed to remain A Lit PATH: Loan Cork Water System I regret to report the occur- robbers then tied up and gagged where they were for the presentanil Bentary Fillings, o frence of an armed robbery in the the shroff, the watchman and the A few days later the sarco
office coolie, and taking the key of phagus of Peter the, Great shroffs office on the evening of the safe from the shroff's pocket, opened, and the figure of the September 25. The cash from took all the money out of his safe. Founder of St. Petersburg wan dan fout-statiofis arrived by train emptied the bags on the counterclosed. still awe-inspiring even
shortly after 6 p.m. as usual and and escaped. Of the money after all these years. was taken to the door of the stolen $1,884.57 was taken from The superstitious...workmen Po shroff's office under the escort of the shroff's safe, and $369.04aged in the task of opening the an Indian Policeman who then from the bags of cash. The con involuntarily made" the sign! left the building. The begs con- former sum in the shroff's safe of the Cross at the sight of the
taining station receipts had been was part of the Railway Imprest once mighty Tsar. Despite the twij placed on the counter, and whilst Cash of $5,000. The loss is writ-hundred years that had passed the shroff was sorting papers, ten off in the accounts for the ince his death the thick grizzled three men armed with revolvers current year. the amount being hair of the Emperor was still un- suddenly appeared in the office. charged to Miscellaneous debita in changed. pushing in front of them the the Income Account.
The body was elad in dark Chinese Watchman who had been
tite Accidents during the year are green military tunic, and on sitting outside the door, The as follows:-
feet were black leather cavalry boots.
Collisions
Derailments Engines Split Points
Railway employees".
Passengers
Trespassers
Main
Line
Branch
Line
2
nil
2
3
2
1
Involving
death
nil
3
Serious injury mil
Minor injury
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BABY'S BATH.
A man went into a hardware shop and inquired "How much do you ask for a bath-tub for a child?"
"Ten and six," was the reply. "W-h-e-w!" whistled the !customer. "We'll have to go on
Both collisions occurred while ger, was killed at Taipo Market washing the baby in the coal- shunting, one at Lowu, and the Station while crossing the line in scuttle till prices come down." other at Hunghom near Bridge front of a train entering the No. 2. One engine derailment station. One of the trespassers
EIGHTEEN MONTHS.
occurred at the crossover road was a deaf and dumb coolie, and NOT A SINGLE ATTACK IN outside Kowloon Station, and the another an imbecile, the third was other at the North Points Taipo, an unknown woman who was due to fallare to lock the point found on the line near No. 2 lock of facing points.
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It is doubtful if the Bangkok people fully appreciate the value of the Pasteur Institute. It is run on the most modern lines-and by the Siamese themselves, gays the Bangkok correspondent of the "Straits Times,"
Former Malaria Sufferer In Ceylon Gives Grateful Thanks To
fortunate,as to be bitten by a death; DR. dealing snake, they can diddle him by rushing to the Pasteur Institute. where u very efficient young man will complacently tell the victim that he is being rapidly stalked by
death.
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One reason for the immense popu« i larity of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in the Far East is the enthusiastic por-1 sonal recommendation given them by men and women who formerly suffered from malaria
aria but now refoles in free- In the same breath he instructs dom from the old much-dreaded spells you to prepare for the injection. of agus and fever. Theas people are All the preparation necessary is to veritable
advertisementa give him a sufficient area of your in
the World mous blood and nerve! body in which to inject the serum, one of thom, Mr. G. Wilson de Silva, tonic, so well do they look. Recently These medical men prefer the of the Government Railways Accounta bdomen for this little operation. Department, Kandy, Ceylon, recorded Up to a short time ago a French But as the action has to be awift the facts of his case: doctor was at its head. But what and vigorous to counter the virulent "Although I worked in malarial dis- probably la of the greatest interest poison of the snake that is moving tricts I kept in good health until 192, when malaria got into my system," is the snake farm run in conjune- through your system, and will said Mr. de Silva. "Then intermittent tion with the Institute. I think I a surety, take you to happier hunt-attacks made me very weak, I had am"right in saying that there are ing grounds if not quickly stopped, aches and pains all over my body, loat no more than four such farms in the doze is large, and the syringe considerably in weight, and had bad the whole world.
restless nights.
was always trying malarla re- One is at Port Elizabeth, South
the attacks continued until Twe Hours' Anxiety.
medies, yet Africa, one in South America (this)
When one, however, is faced with eventually I commenced a course of was the first, I believe), one in
Willams' Pink Pills. Then grad- Bangkok, while it is said there is the alternative of death there is unlly my health, strength and appetite
not so much as a murmur of objec-were restored,
Now the aches and one in India.
tlon at the operation. The next aina have gone, I sleep soundly, and medical science Siam is se far ad- anxiety."
It is gratifying to think that two hours are passed in deep am happy to say that since my cure some eighteen months ago I have been free of malaria. It is with feelings of vanced, in view of the readiness of outside people to regard her as
Has the serum acted, or is that thankfulness that I look back upon the backward. As a matter of fact, in sickly feeling the deadly poison day 1 decided to give the wonderful blood. Dr. Williams' Pink Pille, That sickly many directions Slam can give a doing its fall work?
4 lead to any country, in the East. feeling is caused by the shock, plus Malarial gorras cannot live in the Hundreds of snakes are kept at the serum, and the snake has bit-ure rich blood created by Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, and it is the farm and pariodically their ten in vain
the same good red blood that re polson is axtracted. From this But think of it were there comedies snaemis, restores digestion and there is made an anti-anake anake farm. Yet you do not have appetite, build up the serves. imparta poleon'. serum.
auch institution down, your way, new health and strength to the whole As it happens there are not many and you manage to live, fairly system. Your chamlet sells Dr. Williams' Plik Pills, or sent post free, poisonous szakos in Slam, but it is cheerful lives. The next tire any at $150 per bottle, $8 for 6 bottles, by gratifying for Bangkok residents to one asserts that Siam is antiquated, the Dr. Williams Medicins: Co., 60 know that even if they are so un you just mention spake farm. Kiangae Road, Shanghai.
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