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“六廿百式千位离式第一
一日拾初月陸年寅丙,
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 19TH, 1926 #1
FUTURE OF FLIGHT. EMPIRE TRÜNK LINES.
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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
WEEK DAYS
Al NOOK
Dep. 3,40 9.15 10.30 11.40 12,00
Kawican...
بكلامة
Elogit Sundaya
2
Public HolidaYS -
HOLIDAYS ONLY |
SURDAYA & PUBLIC
cirici
3.215,34
Yannati...
Shatin ...
..Dap 7,03
Dap 3.50
9.24 10.39
12.09
9.96 10.51
12.31
Taipo
Dap. 7.16
9.49 11,04
12.34
Taipo Market...Dap, 7,91
9.59 11.08
12:38 12.48
Fanling
Shengshui
Dep 7,86-10071122
Ahnachun
...A.7.43 | 10.1911.29 1220
13
Biamchan
...Dop.l
Sheangahul
2
A.K.
1,21 8,05 10.88 11.40 1.56 7.99 8.12 10.45 11.47
A.K. PM. | 2,36,
7.M, F.M.
$3,00
4,17
3,07
Fasting
7.32
8.16 10.49 11,51
8.11
24.28
Tipo Market....
..Dep
7.42
Tripo
Depi
9.26 10.59 12.02 8.30 11.04. 19,07
3,25
Shatin...
Dep. 7.59
5.43 11.17 1.9.21
3.38
Transti...
Dop
8.13
8.55 11.29 12,33 9.08.11,97 13.41
6.09 3.18 5.24 8.19 6.09 3.21 4.39 5,34
5,38-8,89 458 B.ST 6.46 3.50 5.08 6,03 €,58
516 37 8.58
6.11 7.06
6.13
3.20 434
7,48
∙Kowloon.... .. Are! 8.20
SHA TAD KOK BRANCH. WEEK DAYS, STATIONS, Fanling ...Dep. 2,45 11,30 2.20 6.25 Shatankok... Art, 8.40 -12.25 3.15 7.40
2. P.M.
P.M. M. Palle
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,
STATIONS" Fanling ...Dep. 7:45 11.30 8.20.6.25 Shatarkok...A 8.40 12.25 4,15 7.20
AXIM TM.
WEEK DAYS "STATIONS, Shatankok...Dep. 6.30 10.15 1.05 5.00 Farling Arr. 7.25 11.10 4.00 5.55 SUNDAYS PUBLIO HOLIDAYS. LN. AM TM. IM MAHONR
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SIR S. HOARE'S FORECAST.
"WETS" IN
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PROHIBITION AND BEFORE.
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MYSTIC "CURES" FOR HORSES. SECRETS OF A FARM HANDS SOCIETY.
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MIDNIGHT RITUAL, Secret meetings in a barn at midnight, Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt., Secretary for
An Anrican writes in the Manchester with marshals, lighted candles, bottles Air, who was the guest at luncheon af
to membership,-are features of the ritual the British Empire League given at the ward Ameries is the land of the of whisky, and a catechism for aspirants mysterious society called "The Empire Club, spoke on the future deblom. Here are just a few for a velopment of Empire Air Communica-starter, paraded without any particular Horseman's Word," and described in a tions, and envisaged remarkable im- order: The race problem, the crime prob provements in the near future, Within lem, the narcotic drug problem, the reprosecution at Cupar, File. ten years he sees the possibility of orgious problem, the evolution problem, theIn this case three young farm servante mare by fastening a running noose round air route to India in four days, to Cape unassimilated alien problem (melting pot or fined for cruelty to a Clydesdale Town in six days, and to Australia in problem), the divorce problem, the pro its lower jaw inside the lip, buckling up
Among the company were many re-hibition problem, "the law enforcement presentatives of the Dominions, Colonies, problem. Just now our problem solvers its foreleg, and throwing it upon the This was said to have occurred at n and Dependencies of the Empire, and are busy working at solving the prohibi- Bound Sir Samuel made an appeal to them to tion problem "Is prohibition in America
was being administered to new members, assist by forming and maintaining land- a success i This question is often asked, meeting of "horsemen" when the oath
1 ing grounds for aeroplanes, and erecting and variously answered My answer is aand the opportunity was taken to "cure good as any; It is, and it isn't; Yes and
the mare, which was a bad worker. masta. for airships.
OBSCURE ORIGIN. No.
ten.
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Women are not admitted to the society. All conceal and never re veal" is one of their phrases, while the "word" is imparted to new horsemen "between the collar and the hames."
Though it is alleged that the brother- bood is an elaborate and rough #prac
real joke, actual cases of doping of have been sent to prison for their parts
horses have been known, and lenders in the midnight meetings.
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The origin of the organisation, which remarked that the air world owed a great special Senate committes has been... deal to Sir Samuel Hoare for the pro hearing both sides on the prohibited digious work he had done during the five question, each side having six days for finds its members among the farm ser- vars he had been in office. We heard argument the result of which will be the vänt and carter classes, is remote, and [Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances
...of Hongkong.] a great deal, said big grace, about the well-known-nothing. The "drys are in is connected with the idea of the posses a strong strategic position; they have the ion by some of supernatural, powers Imperial wireless chain, but it was even mare important that we should have at nine points and the inw as well, but are whereby they can control the tempera-
on the fractioua chain of aviation throughout the Empire. subjected to attacks on all sides. Howment and actions-of-any-horse, however, 15, QUEN'S ROAD CRNTRAL.
ever, the strongest arguments At the outset Sir Samuel Hoarer side will not be moral, but illustrated the advance made in aviation material: the "drys" can and de point by tolling the story of an officer living with pride to the increased efficiency of in the neighbourhood of Farnborough recently finding a stranger in his garden the working inen under probibition and On inquiring where te cause frem, the to the general prosperity--which may or interloper repiled in broken English with may not be due to prohibition and not chtsizable in any other way. The "wets" the single word "Japan." He was a Japanese officer tying round the world will point to the increase of crime and the general disregards for all laws as & MACAO who had just had a forced landing In directly caused by prohibition, which in
view of such an incident, Sir Samuel turn may or may not be se. asked, what progress might we not ex-i With the advent of prohibition drink- pect in the near future? A beginning ing ceased to be a vice and became, in- had been made. At home we were run stead, an adventure; and youth-always ning regular commercial air routes over looking for adventure-saw the advan- THE LATE EARL OF DUNRAVEN, nore than 1,500 miles of European terture, but did not see the end of the trail. ritory: In Australia regular services so it goes, and the end is not yet ; it iz were covering distances of nearly 3.000 not a pretty picture. The wets have miles. South Africa was considering the no real solution, because the forces be-
The late Earl of Dunraven-took-s-keen. question of starting an internal air line hind the "wet" sentiment are the forces interest in sport practically all his life- whilst negotiations had already proceed that are and were responsible for prohibi-
Chab in 1899-and although it is a long ed some way for inaugurating a service tion. We may be badly off today, but he was elected a member of the Jockey between East Africa and the Sudan. In that is as nothing to the unspeakable con- time since his "dark bine," yellow chev the case of the British lines, traffic and ditions that prevailed when the American rons, yellow sleeves and cop passengers were constantly increasing salon was in the heyday of its glory; on our racecourses, be, in partnershi
must-have & short and machines were becoming more com- therefore a man
owned Bome notable thoroughbreds. fortable. Flights were more punctual memory to wish to see those conditions with the late Lord Randolph Churchill, Among these were L'Abbesse de Jouarre than many railway journeys, and less back again We were contending not dangerous than many motor trips. Since with the evils of drink alone, but with (winner of the Oaky and Manchester the starting of British air routes in 1919 every vice- and evil allied with the aaloo Cup), Molly Morgan (winner of the there have been only five fatal accidents and what it stood for. Curiously enough, Cambridgeshire), Desmond, Morganatic,
Salute, add Festa. Step by step we were winning the battle we never thought of the expedient of against tad visibility and uncertain we taking alcoholic drinks away from the ther. The route from Croydon to the
prest-making class of commodities. Channel was the best lighted route in the world, and machines would in the near future be flying regularly over it through dark nights and dense fogs.
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His horses were
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trained at Newmarket by the late Robert Sherwood (who won the Derby on Wild Dayrell in 1855). The best horse ever owned by the deceased Earl was undoubt edly Deamond, who, although not a sea sational performer on became one of the greatest sires of his day. Lord Dunraven refused an offer of £40,000 from a foreign Government for Desmond, who sired only one classic win- ner, this being Ahoyeur, who was awarded first place in the Derby of 1913 on the diaqualification of Craganour-another of Desmond's sons Up to the time of his death Desmond's progeny had won 359 races, worth £140,000.
The late Earl owned the yachts Vallyrie 1, H., and III. The first- named challenged for the America Cup in October, 1903, but was beaten by Firilant, and Falkyrie III was beater in the same event in September, 1883 by Defender Lord Dunraven had shot. big game in America and Cands, and he was in every way a typica British
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Therefore it is rather funny when some of our newspapers ever so often aim their editorial" Big Berthas" at the wicked foreigners who have no respect for our laws but supply the thirsty in this country evil is so obvious; all we have to do in with imported stuff The remedy for that to destroy the market for said wicked foreigners. But, on second thought, the cure may be worse than the disease, see- ing that most of the imported stuff ends up inside some of our "best" people.
MANY LAWS BUT FEW ABIDERS. As for the so-called law enforcement with the accent on force as applied to the prohibition laws, the less said the INDIA IN FOUR DAYS. better. To be fair, an important excep- Since Assistant tion must be made. Turning to the future, Sir Samuel said Secretary Andrews has been in charge of that during the next ten years the three the Federal enforcement machinery a real main lines of progress should be an air effort has been made to get the big route to India in four days, en air route offenders. Before General Andrews took to Australia in ten and New Zealand in charge the small fry were the chief game twelve days, and an air route to Cape of the prohibition agants, and, para Town in six days. Some time also adoxical as it sounds, it is easier to con- fourth line might well be formed across vict the big than the little offender. The the Atlantic to Canada in two and a half reason is-to-be-found in the jury system. days, but for the present the competition Here was the "Majesty of the Law of the transatlantic liners might make working out the destiny of the offenders that line-commercially more difficult to alleged possessors of half a pint of inaugurate. When once those Empire moonshine, or whatever it might be. The trunk lines were running, smaller lines judge, the jury; a special prosecutors would no doubt radiate from them, link the lawyers for the defence, expert wit ing up with them the territories of this nesses to determine the nature of the or that Crown Colony or Dependency, liquid-all occupied with one poor. Ettle The steps that were being taken to carry drink of something casty. Well, after sportsman. this policy into effect were on the military everybody had had his say, those who side to organise landing grounds and air were entitled to speak, the jury would go ports, and he asked the Dominions and out, take a smoke and come back with Crown Colonies to assist in this work mercy. The thing was out of proportion, Next they were starting the first stage of it was like digging a-garden patch with a A new aeroplano line to India, and not ateam-shovel. Of course the jury was later than January next a regular service aiding and abetting the lawbreaker," would be running between Cairo and but so were juries in England when steal Karachi. The third effort was to starting a sheep was a capital crime. commercial lines over the Empire by It is the law and should be enforced," means of airships. With sustained effort is-s remark made again and again. It is he believed the airship could be made and should, but all the same the remark useful weapon of Empire defence and an reminds me of something that happened invaluable instrument of Imperial unity. many years ago one New Year's Night, A protracted period of research and ex-in New Orleans, A. British ship was tied periment had shown that there was no up to the old Jackson Street wharf, and "technical reason why, airships capable of the celebrating crew got out of hand. carrying 100 passengers, 20 tons of The captain sent, ashore for a squad of freight, and a crew of 50 should not run police, who came on board and arrested regular and punctual services to all parts the whole crowd without any particular of the Empire Considerable progress trouble, with one important exception, had been made with the construction of The exception was somewhere around five the two great airships being built for the feet and a couple of inches tall, small but Government, but they would not be able awful tough; he was the ship's bos'n, to By to the Dominions unless masts were After a bat fight they got the twisters may be true, but it is not the whole truth built, and in this work he invited the as- around his wrists and had him down an by any means; because the great silent cops" piled on masses never cause headlines. Most of sistance of the different Governments. deck with four or five" The backbone of the Empire, said Sir top. One big, lat cop kept his feet, and us are trying, and trying hard, to do what Samuel, was its line of communications, used them to kick the bos's in the ribs; is right, but that is not spectacular. As and it was this he wished to strengthen keeping time with his feet, he kept on individuals, we are much like yon; human saring Damn you (kick), don't you nature does not change with distance. know you are arrested (kick)-and-so-America has always done the right thing That is the attitude many of us take in the dad, and will continue to do so; to the law, the attitude of the hos'n; we it is only a question of inding out what Out here, on the Just do not realise that we are arrested, the right thing is,
don't care whoop Pacific Coast, we are working out & civily isation which we hang will be second g none. God gave us as beautiful a country sa will be found anywhere and we are A valuable Alsatian dog, which was
If as a people we lack anything at all, trying to live up to it. If only we get missing from a house at Gwaelodygarth, Glamorgan, was found lying dead on the it is moderation Our appetite for good away from the ides that fear of the grave of its master in the local cemetery. ness outruns our ability to perform law is the governing factor in human "Its former owner, Mr. W. Chilcott, had hence the prehibition law. We are very behaviour and cease to believe in good- been dead for months, and the dog would generously treated in regard to laws wo nem by force alone, we shall be far ahend "Thera ought to be on the road to hatter things. We must often remain away for two or three days have only to say, At a time. It had evidently pined away ia law against it," and shortly there is not lose our belief in the innate decency and died from want of food.
BROKEN HEARTED DOG.
DEAD ON HIS MASTER'S GRAVE,
We are not & law abiding nation
HUMAN NATURE IN AMERICA
(Continued next Column).
However and that is the hard part for Europeans to understand,-with all our problems, we are a happy people in a happy country. Most of our problems do not bother us if we do not bother them, and we are saving ourselves in spite of laws and in spite of reformers. Our re formers will do anything for us, but let us work out our own salvation. What you see in the newspapers about America
of human natare."
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