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Hongkong Daily Press.
No. 21,189
號九拾入百登千姿萬式第 ... 日五七月四年寅丙
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
WEEK DAYS
Yaamati... Shatin
Taipo
Thips Market
Fanding ju Shengshui
Shamehun
Shanchan
Shengshui
Facing
Taipa
TIME-TABLE.
مالية
7.03 9.54 10.51
ماليف
Dep. 7.41 8.05 10.38 || 11,40 ...Dep. 7.93 8.12 10.45 1147 731 818 10.49 71,51 Tipo Market...Dep. 7,43 8.36 10,59 12.04 ...Dep. 7.40 8.30 11.04 13.07 Shatin
Dep 7,59 8,43 1147 1121 Yaamati... ...Dep. 812 8,35 1129 13.83 Kowloon
***
AM.
Noor
Kowloon...
8.40 9.18 10,20 11:40 719,00 6.50 924 10.89
115
12.7 1.38
7.16
9.49 11.04
7,89 10,03 118
13.09
3.51 71 12.84 1.49 5,09 6.04 12.49 1,69
4.95 6.99 456
5,88
5.13
6.06
Dep. 7,28.10.07 1122
7,49 10.18 11,29 12.20
19.48 4,09 5.24 6.19 7.38 14.52 4,07 5,29 6,23 8.09 12.58 2.13 5,94 6,29) 2,001
LX.
AN
P.X.
1.58
921 8.31
Kowloos.... ...Dop 6.40 9.15 10,30 | 11,40 | 12,00 Yanmeti...
...Dep. 6.30 9.24 10.39 Bkatio Таро
3.38 4.56
5.31 6.43 3,50 15,08 6.03: 6,53 R.20 9,081 11.87 12.41 237 338 5,16 6.11 708
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIO HOLIDAYS
A.M. NOOK
YAS
3,00 417 5.18 0.06 3.07 424 5.20 6.15
5.31 6.19.
6.99 6.33
...Dap. 7.03 9,3610,51 ...Dep. 7418
7.16 9.49 11.04
Sheungahni
0.00 5.29 7.10 12.09 2.31 539 7.18 13.21 2,45 5,51
7.51
Tipo Market ...Dep. 731 9.53 11.08 12.33 3.00 6,09 7.48 ...Dep. 7.53 10:03 11.18: 12,48) - 911 6,20 7,53 ...Dep. 7.36 10.07 11.22
13.52 8.15 6.24 8.03 .....AT) - 7,43) 10.18) 11.28| 13.80 1*1258 -5.21 8.30 8,09
She the
-
3.07
12
417 8,40 6.45
6.09 618
8,11
5,51
6.20
4.33 8.01
4.42 8,05
8,38
6,34 455- 6.18 8.47
6.30
8,50
2.37 1 8.58
5,07 6,30 6.69 536 6.38 7.07
Fanling...
Shunchna
Shumchan Sheangshui Farling
Taipo Market
Taipo Bhatin
Yazmati... Kowloon...
*
.....Dep
8.12 10.38 11.40 1.58 8,00 8,19 10.45 11.47 8.23 10,49 11,51 8.33 10,59 12.02 8.37 11.04 12.07 8.51 11.17 32.21 9.03 11.29 18.33 P.11 11.87 12.41
SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.
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WEEK DAYS, PTAZIONE, Fanling ...Dap. 7.45 11.30 2.20 6.25 Bhatakok...Arr. 8.40 12.25 8.15 .7.20
SUNDAYS LID FUBLIO ŽOLIDAYS,
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE TB, 1926 EI 骁五月陸年五十國民華中
Our London Letter.
TRADE BAROMETER.
COAL PRODUCTION FIGURES.
COMPARISON WITH GERMANY
AND U.S.A.
FILM.
PAGEANT OF INDIAN SPLENDOUR
the working day in mines in Great¦ THE QUEEN SÉES A BUDDHA Britain even bours. And in the con- sidered opinion of this former Chancellor of the Exchequer, it is impossible to carry on the majority of our collieries with the present, number of working hours except at a wage which would impoac great hardship upen the miners." They, Bower, the foregoing facts and hgures plainly show, have the remedy in their own bands-namely to produce more coat than they have been doing.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
LONDON, May 5th
A TAX ON BETTING. · The Trade Barometer" issued by the
Lord Beauchamp, Lord Liverpool, Lord Federation of British ladustries by their Buxton, Admiral Lord Jellicos, Lord economic experts gives an indication re Navar, Lord Sydenham and Lord Stan garding the general tread of events inley of Alderley have combined to give the business world. During the last their personal experience is Governors quarter there has been a "moderate in of Overseas Dominions on the subject "in trade, and this is due to two of a tax on betting In a letter to The factors. One is scascant improvement which has not been confined to the big industries but has been widely diffused The second and most important cause is stated to be the coal subsidy, on the
crease
14-YEAR-OLD STAR. Another Command performance of British alms was given in the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle last month. There were more than 100 persons pre- sent, including the Queen.
The King stipulated, as before, that alt the apparatus used should be of British manufacture,
of Asia,” an all-Indian production, which "The Light The photoplay chosen was
reconstructs the early life of "Prince Gautama, who became the Buddha
HOW IT WAS MADE.
The making of this film was the great Times, to which they are all signatories,est romance in the history of cinemato they described what they have learned graphy. It was produced wholly in on the subject in many parts of the Em. India by high-caste Hindus, entirely with pire.
native money.
It does not contain one We have found the tax productive," artificial scene, costume, or accessory of ground that examination of the uzem they state, wherever introduced and any kind. ployment returns shows that the great
arc Tho jewels alone
-alued at to have no reason whatever to believe bulk of the drop is due to improved that the imposition of such a tax has
£5,000,000, No insurance company or conditions of the mines. If the coal increased the amount of betting in the combination of insurance companies could industry is excluded from the figures the Dominions with which we are acquaint. be found willing to take the risk of insur- seasonal improvement shown is only ed. The method of imposing the taxing them. They were guarded through slightly greater than last year, when the
has, in our experience, been facilitated put the production by a strong body of appreciation of the exchange was having by the establishment of a totalizator on an adverse influence.
troops.
the racecourse, & percentage of the Qaments and jewellery on the bridal takings being paid to the Government. elephant in Gautama's wedding proces- It may be that in this country there are
sion are valued at £150,000. practical difficulties in the use of such method, but the evidence given before the Select Committee on betting duties indicated that a tax on betting would
Gautama's Sun God" chariot is made of solid gold and is nearly 1,000 years old.
MYSTERY.
For the ensuing quarter the forecast in not very encouraging, for it is assumed that the seasonal improvement has nearly Shatankok...Dep. 6.80 10.15 1.05 5.00
apent itself and that the coal subsidy will Fanling
ART. 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.55
be dropped. The conclusion is reached SUNDAYS PUBLIC HOLIDAYƐthat in world trade generally the year
The splendour, pageantry, and mystery F.M. P.X.
1998 is likely to be one of readjust not be difficult to collect. This is a valu-ol this production, and its art of art- Shataukok...Dep. 6.30 1016 205 5.16 FanlingArt. 7.25. 11.10 8.00 6.10
ment and consolidation rather than ex-able contribution to the discussion of the lessness," bale, description. In sheer Further information may be obtained at the Railway Orficus, Kowlook, or fimm pansion. It is pointed out in regard to subject and will help the advocates of gorgeousness it is beyond Hollywood's Mamers. Tros. Cook & Bar, Lan,, Homekowa, or from Tun Antuican Frenzas Com-
our own position that the absence of an ZATY, HONGZONO,
appreciable inflow of gold during the past three months confirms the view that our domestic situation is still out of
Faning...Dep, 7.45 11.30 9.20 6.25 Shatankok...Am. 8.40 12.25 418 7.90
501
E. P. WINSLOW, Manager,
HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO adjustment with our exchange. This, us
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I have said, is the experts view, for what it is worth.
Although it is rather early as yet to write about the arrangements for the coming Imperial Conference I am able to state that the Cabinet has appointed an Inter-Departmental Committee with a Cabinet Minister as chairman, to draw up the agenda for the Conference. Among the most important subjects that have been decided upon for discussion are the Locarno Pact, disarmament, and the enlargement of the Council of the League
of Nations.
a tax ou betting."this country,
TRANS-SIBEELAY EXPRESS.
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Great interest is taken in Londen in the news which has been received to the effect that the Soviet Government and the International Sleeping Car Com pany have come to an agreement for the restoration of the Trans-Siberian El. press, by which it will be possible to enct China, everland, from London, in 13 days, and Japan in 14 days. The
wildest dreamai
Mias Secta Decvi, a fourteen-year-old girl, heads a company which acts with wistful sincerity and devotion.
Two touches of realistic detail deserve special mention. The tree under which Gautama sits is actually growing on the accepted site of the tree under which the Buddha sat.
"
The dying man whom Gautama greets
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These are matters in which the The Company hopes to be able to rup Dominions take a profound interest, and a train of six cars daily from Calais. it is fully expected that important de- Plans for the duplication of the line cisions will be. reached. Whether there across the Siberian versta are being con- will be an Economic Conference, as was sidered. When the double-track has been held last time when Dominion represen- laid there will be 28 trains at different to London, has not been stages of the route daily-13 going to tatires came settled; but I understand that the Gor- the Far East, 13 returning to Calais. crnment here are not in favour of such Mr. Snow anticipates that a sufficient number of cara will be available within three months of the date of signature of the agreement to permit the service to begin.
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COLOUR BLENDING.
The hearing of the. Hosiery Trade's) application at Royal Palaceyard, West- minster, for a protective duty might easily have been à dull business.
But there are men with a sense of humour in the hosiery trade, and each day and in every way the evidence grows brighter and brighter.
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PALACE HOTEL.
Women's whims, the fickleness of the ankle-all these topics have been fashion, why some silk stockings ang at exhaustively discussed at previous bear-T.: Kowloon No. 3. Tel, Ad: "PALACE! ings.
Mr. Merchant, told the committee that Three Minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry no Englishman had ever blended colours Scotsman could. He was, of course,
Wharf and Railway Station. & Scotsman himself.
as
Mr. Farnday, who represents the Joint' Industrial Council (which had lodged the application) asked for further details: Are you referring to the tartan!" he said.
-
"No," replied Mr. Merchant. "The Scotsman wears tweeds in the open air and his eye geta used to blending colours, whereas the Englishman usually wears dark clothes.
SOURCE OF THE COAL TROUBLE.
Last year 681 days per man were leat in the coal industry in Great Britain...
ONLY ONE TUNNEL Nineteen were lost through, lack of trade
a statement published or transport difficulties, 1.18 of the loat According to days were caused by breakdowns; dis- prominently in the Morning Post the putes caused a loss of 1.57, holidays 11.80, route from London to Vladivostock will ordinary stop-daye 19.41, while 22.73 days be via Ostend, Brussels, Dusseldorf, were lost owing to the absence of the Dortmund, Berlin, Frankfort, Pose, workmen for personal reasons. That is Kutao, Warsaw, Brest, Minsk, Smolensk, to say, in 1928 the miners worked on an Moscow. Pensa, Samara, Oufa, Tohelia to blend colours he either achieves some- average only four days a week; and acbinsk, Omak, Townk, Kansk, Irkoutek, cording to calculations made by Sir Tehita, Mandchouria, Kharbina, and Robert Horne, on these days the real Yiadivostock. From Kharbine the line branches also down to Mukden, turning working time did not exceed 61 bours.
In Germany 3 hours a day is worked and the wage cost of production per ton of coal is 7/9 as compared with our Korea, to the neighbourhood of Nagasaki. one, he said, and soon the islandeza had":
again thence to Peking and Hankow on the one side, and on the other through
11/5d. While our exports of coal have Fares from London to the Far Eastern fullen from 98,000,000 tons in 1913 toties, and ports will approximate the first 65,000,000 in 1925, the German export has and second-class steamship fares.. increased from 34,000,000 tons in 1923 to 25,000,000 tons last year.
In the U.S.A., Bir Robert Horne tolls us there is no statutory restriction of hours in the chief coal-producing States Conventionally, where there are effective Trade Unions, arrangements are made for an eight hours day at the working place underground" As is well known, "(Continued on next Column).
The result is that directly he goes
thing too quict or too lond. (Laughter.) All the finest tweeds come from Scotland, and the best colour blender is either a Scotsman or a drunken Irishman." (Loud laughter.).
Where the Irishman comes in was not
explained. Instead Mr. Merchant chang ed the subject and talked of pull-overs.
The Prince of Wales wore a Fair Isle
more work than they could cope with, and orders were placed with Donegal knitters,
Then the Leicester manufacturers evol As there is only one tunnel on the whole ved a machine which made fine imita- route from Ostend-namely, at Irkoutak, tions of the pullover, and there had been a European demand. Some factories had in Siberia and no low bridges, it is worked night-shifts making them. announced that the sleeping cars will be Now-a-days the Donegal Knitters want- high and roomy, Practically all the ed good pay. Once upon time they were amenities of ship-life will be available content with very small reward, but they library, indoor games, shower baths, had tasted of high wages, and had drift gymnasium, and special dining-saloona. ed. to America or into domestic service. At regular intervals the express will be Agenta had to pay fairly highly for their stopped for a period long enough to handiwork allow passengers 45 minutes or an hour in a city, exercising muscles, sightseeing, or purchasing curios.-H.B.
Six hundred firms are making fancy.
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