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七卅百式千查萬弍第
日式廿月陸年丙
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 31st, 1926
A TRIP ROUND LANTAU.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
WEEK DAYS
A.M. Noor
Dep./43 9,13 10.30 11.40 12,00
9.24 10.39
Kowlood...
Yeamati...
Shatin..."
Taipo
Fanling
Sheangahui
Shamanun
A
1.49
4,445,38 7,19 243458 531 731 2.58 8.09 614 7.44 3.00 5.18 6.08 7,48 3.11 524 619 7,38 3,155,236,249,00
Dap. 8.50
12.09
... Dep, 7,02 9.36 19,51
1231
...Dap. 7.18 9.49 11.04
1234
Taipo Market...Dap. 7.21
9.53*11.08
12.33
Dap. 7.92 10.0111,18
12,49
2,03
Dep. 7.36 10.07 11.09.
Art. 7.43 10.18 11.33 12.20 123 218
12.822.07
13.91 5,34 6,39 (8,06
Dep. 7.21 8.05 10.38 11,
8.12.10.45 11,47
P.M. F.X.
1.56
3,00
4.17 5.18
6.08
3,07
520
Dop. 733
6.15.
8.16 10.49 11.51 8.28 10.59 12.02 8,30 11,04 19.07 8.48-11-17-1291- 8,55 11.29 .19.93 9.0311,87 12.41
211
5.95 -3,89-
2.87
5.34 5.35 4565.51-646- 8,50 5,08 6.03 6,58 3.53 5.18 8.11 7.08
6.19 B:09
6.99
Bheangebai, Dep 721
Shamakun
Fanling...
Thips Market ...Dep.
Taipo
***
Yeumati... Kowloon...
7,40
...Dep. 7,3 Depil-7:59
Dep, 8.13
... ART. 8.20
" L.K.
“SHA TAU KOK BRANCH,'
1.3.
P.M. F.M
WEEK DAYS, STAZIONA Farling Dep. 745 11.30 9.20 6.25 Bhatankok...AT. 8.40 19.35 815 7:20
STATIONE
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,
A.X. P. 2. P. Fanling Dep, 7.45 11.30 820 8.25 Bhataukok...Arr. 8.40 12,25 4,15 720
ETANIORA
169
P.K.
WEEK DAYS.
Bhatankok...Dep. 6,90 10.15 1.05 5.00 Tanling ...Art. 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.85
SUNDAYS' LIÐ. PUBLIU HULIDAYS,
STATIONS.
AK. AK NG 7.M. Shatavkok...Dep. 6.30 10,15 2.05 5.00 Fanling ....Arr, 7.25. 11.10 3.00 5.55
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CHRISTIANITY FOR TODAY.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S SERMON.
DOCTRINES OF EQUALITY.
Equality, the right of the individual, the brotherhood of man-there never were such- subversive revolutionary doctrines as those three doctrines of Christianity preached in the world, declared the Right
the police launch and the police statica, Hon. David Lloyd George, MP, at the are' the accepted mode of spending an the latter not so long ago a scene of i flower service of East Castle,street Welsh afternoon at the usual resorts round tragedy and bloodshed. Further along Baptist Chapel, which he attended re Hongkong. Big Wre Bay, Repulse Bay, the coast is a peculiarly shaped rock, cently, as he has done regularly for more Junk Bay, each place attracts the bathing rather lige the figure of a man leaning years, he said, than he cared to recount. parties throughout-the-summer-months-with-his-back-against-the shore, and with Before his address Mr. Lewis Davies had Few, however, think of taking a launch his legs stretching into the water. This spoken on "Christ and To-day." to explore the islands, within the vicinity. is the giant of Lantau. The natives They had been given an interesting Few, in fact, know much of British ter-assert be was once alive, and invaded the | subject, said Mr. Lloyd George-the effect ritory bere, except that select band which jisland opposite, where his forceful moving of Christ's teaching upon the outlook of possesses yachts, and even then the bad disastrous consequence for the radius of action is restricted because time is an important factor in the business world and comparatively few can afford the leisure required to visit the many places of interest.
Yet it is well worth while, restraining one's ardour for a bathe, to divert the launch round Lantau, say, and make a closer acquaintance with the villages and
the islands on the route.
We had not warned the Admiralty that we were going that way on a recept ocea sion, yet they seemed to know for a hydroplane very gracefully escorted us for a few seconds, coming within range of about one hundred feet and giving us some idea by the terrific whirl of the engine, and the rush through the air, of the enormous power that must be deve. loped to propel these things. But it very soon became a faint black object in the distanco and was probably saluting Macao, before we recovered from on surprise. It symbolised the onward rush of the modern age, the last triumph over nature, the air, in contrast with the |first-the junks and sampans which were | all around; "proud that they were harness- ing the wind to serve their ends, and not by any means independent of it.
GARBAGE IN THE WATER.
maidens of that isle. He was therefore seized, and mutilated, and probably be- came patrified with shame, for there he now stands supporting as it were his
native shore.
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the late strike," said Mr. Lloyd George, WHY CHINA SEES RED Bound the Eastern extremity of the "I am perfectly certain that all His, PUTNAM WEALE. island with the aid of glasses, one sees utterances would have been excluded about a dozen square black patches in from the columna of the British Gezetté. the ridge of the peak of Lantau over (Laughter.) The editorial blue pencil of two thousand feet up. These are the Mr. Winston Churchill would certainly pioneer settlement of the Missionaries have eat right through the Sermon on who now find Cheung Chan too fashion- the Mount. I rather think that the Home able, too expensive and too luxurious for Secretary would have had Him watched their small purses and simple tastes. as a dangerous character preaching doc Driven from the Lantau mountains by trines and principles which were subver force of circumstances, having tried Tai sive of our institutions. And you would Mo Shan and found it wanting, they have probably find that the next edition of the built their eyries up in the sky line of Gospels published in the twenty-first cen Lantau. Let us hope they will not be tury would have been compiled, not from
the recollection of His disciples, but from disturbed by the photocrats from Hong the notes taken by the police who attend kong who spoil the market by their ex ed. His addresses. (Laughter.) I na travagant ideas of wages and the cost of equally certain that He, probably for the things for though the missionary is incur-approval of the Archbishop of Canter- bury's appeal for conciliation instead of ably happy and onistic-even about fores, would have been excluded from the Liberal Shadow Cabinet. (Laughter.) So the boycott-be has no money to waste.
that: I am not sure that He would have been altogether acceptable under present conditions. His doctrines were revolu- tionary. His doctrines, were essentially subversive."
UP-TO-DATE CHEUNG CHAU.
To leave the edge of Lantan and come to Cheung Chau is to pasa into anoth world. Here we have electric light, a
Here, too, bosts of a different type wireless station, and a modern school,
and up-to-date houses. Nothing is lack
The doctrines of equality, said Mr. Lloyd George, the right of the individual, the brotherhood of man were preached in a world where the rights of man were
thousands and millions were just as much
from those, usually found in Hongkonging to make the island a pleasant and unknown, and thousands and hundreds of
were to be seen, some suggesting by the
bandy resort for Hongkong people long narrow shape the catamaran of Columbo, others, the gondola, by their There are beautiful bathing beaches, flat" wning gracefully drawn over the top which are not always littered with debris; as 1 protection against the sun. We also in fact, the south side is generally very met the garbage returning to Hongkong, clean and pleasant. And the launch ser vice is admirable. Of course, in times of typhoon it is not possible to get across to business, but that might be counted an added attraction. If the flies and the
which had been deposited farther out, instead of being burnt in Hongkong as it should be. #
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property sa cattie. Equality did not mean that all should be exactly the same. It would be a very, dull world if all were the same. But, everybody who came „jo this world ought to have a fair chance, and that was the doctrine of equality. KING EDWARD The old doctrine by which one section of society had all the good things, and-the- privileges, the pomp and the power, the glory and the joy of life, and another. nothing but the drudgery and the drab doctrine which the Christian religion
water is not without importance to those mosquitoes could be, eliminated Cheungness and the misery of life, that was the
Chau would soon have a boom in land destroyed. who bathe Many would rather go. values, for it provides such exquisite It was right to say in a Protestant out a bathe at all than bathe in the harbour.Even Repulse Bay can be thoroughly repulsive at times. It is often yellowish and muddy. While scullious, onions and strawe indicate something nore than which way the tide is flowing
views and such delightfully fresh breezes, Living in Cheung Chau is rather like living on the bridge of a ship without the discomfort of restricted space, or of the unpleasant feelings which are often engendered by the motion of the ship on
Middle Ages and the Dark Ages stood church that the Catholic Church in the up for this principle of equality and emancipated the whole of the serfs in this country. We had slavery here, and great leaders of Catholicism, under the it was entirely through the action of the influence of that Church, that the eman-
A serve at each of the mouths of the the water. The place has great possibili. cipation came. But that was the doctrine i
West River might help, but an incinerator in Hongkong would do a great deal more.
tien.
But to return to the launch which we The journey back from Cheung Chau in
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of the stain of the slums.
left skirting Lantau. Here were one or the wake of more debris, reveals the distrine ever preached on this earth. This two villages bestling among trees-quite tinctive greenness of Green Island and picturesquely situated, very attractive in the enormous development that has taken colouring and setting, with always a junk and is taking place on the Pokfuiam side or two to add to the quaintness and charm of the island, judging by the unpleasant"!
scars on the hill side and the numerous WOMAN OF 100 AND MODERN houses that now stud this area. The boycott may retard this development but Up an inlet, gnugly tucked away, lies it will not unrest it altogether, and so Tai Eo, over which towers the peaks of we get back into the Harbour-the source Lantan Posted at the entrance are the of the Colony's wealth, and the funda- guarantors of peace justice and security { mental cause of its existence. ⠀
THE GIANT OF LANTAU.
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“SHORT SKIRTS AND BOBBED HAIR DISGRACEFUL."
“Granny” Geering, of Stanmer Park, near Brighton, who was 100 recently, held ̈an “At-home" to celebrate the occasion. She was born at Rottingdean, and has lived in Bussex all her life.
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Restoration period, in uniforms of the estate. Carl of Chichester's
interested the Ame- rican-visitors intensely. They were not day, aney don't seem happy unless they "I cannot understand the girls of to part. The pikemen wore their breast said Mrs. Geering in an interview, only dreased the part, but looked the are going to dances and such things, and back plate armour, with blue Times have changed. Those short breeches and scarlet stockings, while the skirta and bobbed hair are disgraceful. musketeers swaggered about in their I hate to see girls smoking. In my young scarlet uniforms and gay "Cavalier hats. days we did not want face powders and They also wore the long curls and short lip sticks; we had good complexions and beards of the period. They gave a strik did not spoil them." ing display of "Lodging the Colours," which will form a feature of their pro- gramme at the Royal Tournament.
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