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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
WEEK DAYS
...Dep. 7.82 10.031113-
...Dep, 7,56 10,07 1193
Art. 7,49 | 10.137 11.8' 12.20
9.116.246,19 [7,88 58.23 638 18,02 3.71 5.84829 3.08
A.M.
Kowlood.
Don 0,10
P15) 16.80) 1140 18.00
435 5.99 7.10
Tanmati....
Dep. 6.60
PA 30.0
19,00
Shabis.
Dop 7.99
9.88 10t
9.40
11.04
Taipo Market: ...Depu
9.58 +11.08
Fanling
Sheangal
Stuncken
F.M.
F.M.
Blumbian
...Dep
7.81
8.05 10.98 11.40 136
8,00 417
638
Shaungahui
Dep
708
8.12 10.45 11,47
Fanling
Dep 7.33
8.16 10.49 11,51
3.11
Taipa Karkat
Do 7,43
8.98 1059 1201
Taipe
Dep 7,46
Shatin***
Dep 7,59
Yeauit...
Dep. 8,12
Kowhon...
R20
STATIONEN,
11.04.19.0?
6.09
801 2013
8.21
K2 819 138 5,34 6.99 3.25 4.42 8.88 6.33 8.58 456 5.31 6.48 2.50 5.08'6,03) 6,58 8,53 11.29 | 12,89
6.11 7.08 9,08 11.87 12,41 287 8,58 6.16
8.43 11.17 12.31
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WEEK DAYS, Fanling Dep. 7.5 11.30 120 6.25 Bhstaurok...Arr, 8.40 19.96 8.15 7.20
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,
7.M., T.M. P.M. A.M. WTATIONEN Fanling...Dep. 7, 11.30 8.20.6.25 Bhatantok...Art, 840 1225 15 7,20
STAZZONE,
WEEK DAYS.
A.M.
AM F
F.M.
Bhataukok...Dep. 6.20 10.18 1.05 5.00 Fanling A 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.35 BUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,
AM, AM ZM, Bhatankok...Dep. 8.30 10.15 2.05 5.00 Fanling...A 7.95. 11.10 8.00 5.35
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One is sometimes tempted to wonder whether the lessons of ten years ago in regard to the Navy hare be forgotten by our nation, writes Allexander Herd in The Daily Telegraph. The seamen of our raed men of the Royal Navy as well as of the mercantile marine, did not dis- appoint the country's hopes or confidence when the Great War descended on an. This country was not invaded; our food supplies, though interfered with by the ubmarines, never failed us; the English, Channel was bridged with ships, and that bridge, carrying millions of soldiers and their supplies, was maintained intact for upwards of four and a half years; the fighting forces in more distant theatres were supported regularly and amply even the Atlantic ferry" was main tained in face of all the enemy's ingeur ous tactics, and American troops were poured into Europe. And yet, in face off achievements exceding anything hitherto conceived na possible, who cares very greatly what happens to the Fleet, or i moved by the present distresses of our Merchant Navy, with hundreds of ships lying idle?
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These provisions do not apply to loyal servants of the companies who remained their posts during the strike. In order to make possible this sharing out of pilable work the unions have agreed
Advocate La Gros, for the executors of a temporary suspension of the Quar- the will, argued that the request could alfeed Week of the 1919 Agreement.
not be granted. They asked that a "In a memorandum issued at the hesd-benefice d'inventaire be granted to them quarters of the National Union of Rail waymen it is stated that the companies intimated that, whilst they were unable agree to a similar arrangement with regard to the supervisory and clerical
The Solicitor-General said the points || 15, Queen's Road CL TEL. 76 CHTYRIA grades not yet re-employed, owing to the
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raised by counsel could not be accepted. endeavour to treat them on simfins lines, All heirs, under Jersey jurisprudence! subject to work being available for which could claim the right of benefice d'inven- they were individually suitable, and subtaire. As far as he was concerned in his When the House of Commons discusses ject, also to the companies not being official capacity, as Solicitor-General, he the financial provision that should be involved in any additional cost. The
was in a position to give certain facts, if made for the Royal Navy some M:P. is companies stated they would arrange necessary, which would show that there
early meetings with the trades unions were good grounds for the application. what loe is it necessary to guard 1, That concerned to give effect to the above Advocato Le Gros said that Mr. Geo. question is an old device. It was asked arrangements.
Appleton, the executor, had sworn duly repeatedly throughout all the years when
to execute the will, and was in fact do- Germany was building up bor sen-power.
ing so. Mr. Skinner, the principal heir, was not a legatec under either of the Even as late as the spring of 1914 resolu-vessels, except cruisers. But such com tions were being sent to Mr. Asquith, asparisons are invidious. They are only wills. He could not show that the estate ho then was, by 'gatherings of his fol lowers protesting against the precaution of intercat as an indication of the was not being properly administered, The British ary measures which his Government were aghts from which we have fallen-from consequently he had no legal right to ask taking. In a sense we were arming superiority over any two fleeta, to in- for a legal inventory. against Germany, but in a wider sense feriority to one fleet. And yet there are authorities were, he understood, taking we were just maintaining & tradition still groans over the burden which the steps in order to secure the death duties handed down to us by the Elizabethen Navy imposes on the taxpayers of this which they alleged were due.
The Chief Magistrate said that a prin-Hookose. Bozu BEY BAY Horax seamen and their successors. You may read all about in The History of The full extent of our decline in re- cipal heir was not obliged to rest con- the World," which Sir Walter Raleigh dated in the following statement, show. tens with a statement which an executor a soldier by training, wrote when hear a battleships, battle-cruiser, de consisted of how it was disposed of. ing entrength of the Royal Navy, so might are to make. He had a perfect right to know how and what the bitte languishing in prison 300 years or so go troyers, and submarines are concerned, An estate might be in debt. Shakespears had something to say on the same subject. We needed a strong fleet on the eve of the war and at the present in those far-off-times, because this is an
JULY, island. It had not then a population of 45,000,000 people; its inhabitanta namber- ed about 4,500,000; it supplied all its needs from its own soil, while to-day two-thirds of our people live on overseas supplies: the world-wide Empire, whose highways ara tha ocenia, did not then exist. But these men of Queen Elizabeth's day were convinced that a strong Navy- the strongest fleet afloat-was essential, and they and their successore of later nges made great incrifices to maintain it. UNFORESEEABLE FUTURE, I, Let it ba conceded that we have no specified enemy in view against whom we must now arm; but let it also be confess ed that we cannot by going into a crystal or by other means foresee what the future may unfold. Let it be also remembered that a man-of-war, cannot be built in less than two or three years, and that it takes three times a long to train efficient officers and men to man
country
time:
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commision Capital ships with re-
duced crows Capital ships paid of... Craisers in full com
mission mig Cruisers with reduced
we
1914.
MAY, 1020.
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91
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Cruisers paid off Destroyers in full.com-
mission. 110 Destroyers with reduced
Crows
Destroyers paid off Submarines in full com-
mission
Submarines with reduced
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199
Bubmarines paid off
Including destroyer leaders and
torpedo-boats.
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54
113
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Advocate Le Gros said the Houston" estato was certainly not in debt.
Sir William Vernon replied that legally neither the Court nor the principal heir knew that the Fress had said, and that even in Parliament it had been said, that there was a huge extate. That did not deprive the heir of his right to have a complete and full inventory prepared. He had been disinherited, and surely he had a perfect right to know how the catate stood. When an exécutor drew up
an inventory he was obliged to call in the principal heir,
In reply to the Chief Magistrate, Advocate Le Gros ssid that they had not called in the principal Eeir, though an inventory had been drawn up.",
The Court ruled that Mr. Skinnar hed the right to a legal inventoryć
SPAIN'S LUXURY TAX.
A FIVE. PER CENT. IMPOST. BLOW TO BRITISH EXPORTERS.
whatever ships we may be able to send If account be taken of every warship to sea in an emergency. It may arise in of every description, including auxili European waters or in some distant series of all kinds, the contrast between The new-tax from which the Spanish -no one can tell where a blow may fall. the state of the Fleet on the ove of the Government hope to derive a good in- The koels which are laid now and the war and to-day in even more notable, in come for a depleted Exchequer has been. officers and men who are being moulded view of the revelation which was made decided upon. It will take the form of into the fine virile pattern with which during that struggle of the importance a 5 per cent. impost on articles described we have become familiar, will have to of small craft. We had 300 men-of-war in a schedule as "de luxe," and will suffice for many years hence in circum-in full commission, with 303 with re- undoubtedly hit exporters in Britain, stances which no one can forecast, Evon duced orews and eighteen paid off; now who cater largely for this particular the Opposition has agreed, by its recept the 300 have been reduced to 210, the demand.
vota on Mr. Lansbury's egregious motion 309 to 201, and in place of eighteen What constitutes a luxury article is in the House of Commons, that we need vessels paid off there are twenty-four. perhaps a matter of opinion, but nature some sort of Navy,
The Fleet is a mere skeleton of what it ally the Government have been guided
Is the Navy small enough to satisfy was in the early summer of 1914. These by the normal customs and habits of the that section of the Dation which has for comparisons, let it be noted, are not con- people. Pleasure yachts and motor boats gotten the extent to which we are decerned with the Fleet during the war, head the list, and heavy as a tax of 5 pendent on the sea for food and raw when it attained enormous, proportious, per cent. on the value of some of these materials? I doubt whether the question with 1,911 pennants dying in regular may be, they can certainly be held to in that form has over before been naked men-of-war and 3,831 auxiliary eralt in come under the category. It is and but it seems more appropriato in pre commission. The battle feet which wo parently, not so with chessboards and sent conditions to put the matter in that could now send to saa on mobilisation is games,, such as mahjong, which are also way than to pose the unnecessary en less than one-third the sixe that it was subject to the tax, but it must be borne quiry: Is the Navy strong enough to when the war opened; the cruisers have in mind that these are used only by the meet every probable requirement? Any been, cut down by more than one half, leisured classes. The afternoon tea habit A.P. ought to be able to provide an and of destroyers and submarines, we is new to Spain, but is now attracting answer from studying the Navy Estimates possess 68 per cent. only of the numbers crowds to several fashionable tea rooms of the past ten or twelve years, with the which existed in July, 1914. .
recently opened. These are to be made aid of the current Navy Listy Members How much smaller must the Navy be to contribute their share to the Excho of Parliament, irrespective of party, are before it will be socopted as all quer's revenue, in spite of the cost of ex supposed to examine such docoments at enough? For while ships have been twenty pesetas per kilo, Cabarita least, da carefully as an ordinary man scrapped by the hundred, officers and men and dance halls, must add 6 per cent. examines his own accounts; but, of have been put upon the beach. For to their bills, Fans, if coating over forty course, they do nothing of the kind I every 100 officers on, the lists twelve years pesetas each, will be taxed, and piso fire wopder if anyone except the officials who ago there are now eighty-three, and for footwear, the delight of the Spanish prepare them is really familiar with the avery 100 naval ratinga we have sixty-woman, figures presented annually to Parliament, sight, the whole personnel having been Of interest to the British manufacturer' showing the Bums which it is proposed reduced by al per cent.-by nearly one are the following items, all during in to devote to the upkeep of the Flect, or third. How much further, must the move the Bat-montor-cars and sololies, car- has any conception of how the money ment go, representing in irreparable loss ringed; firearms, carpets, wallpaper, fish- is spent! The Nay Estimates are very of skill in the use of naval instrumenta ing gest, fure, and wireless apparatus. illuminating. They show how radically of war, as well as in seamanship. The Sporting and travelling waar seen to the Fleet has been cut down, until in one failure of the Admiralty to obey the have been singled out, but generally with capital ships at sea it is weaker than command to gconomise at all costs and in a fair reserve in cost price. In view of the United States navy we have in full every direction has been in respect to the present rage for expensive dresses. in commission only twelve shins of the line. the dockyards. The staffs of these Madrid, affecting oven tho' working and there are fifteen under the Stars catablishments have been cut down only classes considerable revenue may be ex- and Stripes, and there will soon be cigh by 5 per cent., in face of the shrinkage pested. Oddly enough, Ince, powders, teen; we are also weaker in all other of the feet for the repair of which the range, and shingling hairdressers go scot
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