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No. 21,91
號拾九百式千查萬弍第
日六廿月八年寅丙
HONGKONG, SATURDAY,
OCTUBER
2ND, 1926 陸拜禮.
HUMOUR AND DESPAIR.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
WEEK DAYS
Isumers
Am. 7,42 1 10.18 11,28 12.20 12.38
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
AM! Noor
Kowloon
6.40
15 10.30 11.40 12.00
118 4.35
6.99
710
6.50
9.24 10.39
Bhatin
7.02
9.36 10,51
12.09 12.31 1.98
4.14 $.38 124
7,19
4,56 5,53
7,81
19h
Tripo
7,15
-P.49 21.04
10.34 149
5,098,04
7,44
Taipa Markst
1.21 9.53 11.08
12.58
5.13 6,08 7,48
Fanling
10.08 11.18
12,482,08
5,24 6.19
7.38
Shaungahul
Dep.
1,38 10.07 11.22
19.52 9.07
5,29
6.23
8.02
Shamchun
213
5.54 6.29
8.08
F.M.
23.
Shanchan
Dep
201
Shaungthai
8.05 10.89 11,40 8,13 10.45 11.47
1.56
3.00
5.13
6.08
8,07
4.24 ~ 5.20
€15
Fanting
752 8.35 10.49 11,51
811
4.29
5.241
6.19
Trips Market,
Tripo
Shah
142 8.25 10.59.12.03 Dep
748 8.30 11.04 19.07 „Dop.
8,43 11.17 19 Dep, 159
4,38 6.34 0.29
3.25
4,42
Yanmati...
Kowloon ves
Dep. 8.12 8,55 11.29 12,53
9,03 1187 1241 | 237 ...Ari.! 1.20
6.99 8.38 4,58 5.51 3,48 8.50 3.08 8:03 6,58 7:06 3,58 5,18 6.11
Kowloos...
Dep. 6,40 Dap. 6.50 Dap. 7.03
AX 8.35
2241 10.39
9.88 10.511
Dop
7.16
9.49 11.04
Dep. 721
9.53 11.08
Dep
7.32
10.03 11.18
9.18 10.18
11.201
12.00 1268
Noom
902 6.29 7.10 915 10.50 11.40 12.00
12,09 251
6.39 719 1953 2,43 5.51 7,31
8,05 12.84 2.56
8,00 6,09 12.58
1.48 12.48 8.11 6,20 7.58
3.15
8.34 8,03 3.91 6,30 8,08
A
P.3
7.3.
Shumchun
Dopi
8,12 15.88 11.40 158
Sheungshui
Dep
8.18 10.45 11.47
8.00 3.07
4.1.7
$.20 5.40
5,09
5.27 5,46
Fanling...
Dep
8.29 10,49 11,31
8.11 4.28
6.31
Taipo Market ...Dop.
8.53 10.59 12.02
B21 1.98.
636 6,90
·6.01 6,30
Taipo
Shatin
Yanmati... Kowloon
...Dap. 8.37 11.04 12.07 Dep 8,51 11.17 1991 Dep. 9.03, 11,39 12.39 A 9,11 11.37 12,41
8.45
443
6,05
6,84
3,38
4.55
6,18 6.47
9.50 5.07
2.37
6.30 .8.59 7,07 8,38 615 6.041 6,88
Yannati...
Титро
Taipo Market
Fanling
Shengahni
Shamdhun
Dep 7,36 9.12 10.07 11.22
SHA TAU KOK BRANCH. WEEK DAYB, STATICES, Fanking Dep 7,45 11,80 9.00 6.25 Shatakok
6.40 12.95 215 720
2.M. PM
SUNDAYS LXT PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.
STATIONS,
7.M.
WEEK DAYS,
ANO ANG IM, Shatanko...Dep. 6.80 10.15 1.05 5.00 Funling AT. 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.58 BUNDAYS AND FUBLIC HOLIDAYS,
A.M. AM. Shatankok...Dep. 6.30 10,15 205 5.16 Fanling Art. 7.25 11.10 9.00 6.10 Further information may be obtained at the BamwAY OFFICRA, KOWLOO, ar from Mews, Tron, Cooz à Box, Læd, Hassecné, or from Tz AKIxican" Extansa Oc PANT, HONGKONG.
STATIONS
PM PM PM
Fealing...Dep." 7,48 11,30 8.30 8.25 Shataalck...Art, 8.40 19.25 416 75
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M. KARAKHAN LAUGHS, COLLECTING THE BETTING TAX.
DISORDER IN CHINA NOT DUE
TO RUSSIA.".
to
CHINA NOT READY FOR COMMUNISM.
REFERENCES TO CANTON.
DECISION REACHED BY BOOKMAKERS,
A TAX ON WINNINGS.
Credit bookmakers decided at a meet-,
·號弍月拾年五十國民華中
A VISIT TO A HONGKONG POLICE CHARGE ROOM.
Not a thing," said the Inspector, a
AN INSPECTOR'S WORRIES.
"Hello, Inspector, anythinging to- night I asked as I strolled into the ing of the Turf Guardian Society in charge room of one of the City's Police London that the betting tax of 3 per Stations the other night. It is one of cent. on credit bets will in, effect be a
my usual calls when other folks are Absolute and emphatic, and at times
tax on winnings. laughing, denials were given by M. Leon
playing bridge, dancing or are comfort- They passed the following resolutionable in the cinema. I am unfortunate in Karakhan, Soviet Ambassador to China,
being a pressman, the widespread certainty that the panimously, after a discussion which was present industrial and social unrest of parts divergent and heated: "Mem- China is due to Soviet influence and hers of the Tart Guardian, Society, under- encouragement, and especially to the take to collect the proposed tax by charg- ing their clients 3 per cent. on gross win- opinion that Bolsheviks are aisting! with inchey, men and guns in attempting nings and 3 per cent. on the stakes in to create a Commanistic China says a representative of the China Press who interviewed the Ambassador in Shanghai. In fact, asserted M. Karakhan, China is not ready for Communism; is not fit At present for even the first aceds of
Communism.
vested to produce those winnings."
Members as a whole declared that, thia proposal meant Bookmakers paying some part of the tax themselves. Some pro- tested angrily that every valorem tax was passed on entirly to the consumer, but the general opinion was
other ad
Was it not natural, asks the inter-swung in favour of what was called a
"sporting offer to the punter." viewer, that when I asked him on behalf of The Ching Press as to the extent of Soviet domination in the policy of China, he should have laughed heartily.het made was discounted as adding an extraordinary complexity to book-
Other alternatives were ruled out. Shortening of the odds was declared impossible, while a detailed tax on every
jovial Irishman, "not a blooming thing all night."
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I remained and discussed various.
things, crime and the boycott, and the amenities and disadvantages of living in Hongkong. I always find conversa- Lion with a police Inspector interesting.
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Suddenly our conversation was rudely 15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL TEL. CENTRAL. 75.
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Shantung constable | thrust a wisp of a man, a Chinese, into the charge-room. Two other Chinese) followed. The little man's eyes blinked. He was unsteady on his feet.
Cac of the Chinese gesticulating Frenchman in a rage wildly like a poured cut his story.
"Interpreter, what does he say," askedj RozsxoxG HOTIL);
[It seems very natural to us that keeping. should have roared with Karakhan
A Bas aughter at the idea that he should be
Mr. Crimp, of Messr, Ladbroke and the Inspector.. expected to answer frankly such Co., Ltd, took as a basis an actual query.Ed. H.K.D.P.].
week's turnover of £15,363. The tax on this amount at 3 per cent. is £1,605. If the bookmaker charged his client 3 per cent. on gross winnings only he would recover 1,021 of the tax, and have to make up £584 on the week. charged, as had been suggested, a fat per cent. on gross winnings he would recover £1,434-all but £151 of the tax.
Comrade Karakban is a handsome man, handsome of feature, fine big eyes, broad forehead, almost a leonine head and with a physique many would envy him, con tinues the China Press correspondent. He is nothing like his portraits and his manner is charming while also alert and active
CANTON.
The interview lasted an hour and half and naturally some references were made to Canton. The following extracts from the report of the conversation will | interest Hongkong readers:
"Then," he was asked. "Soviet waist- nace is not behind the Canton party or behind its army!"
Here we got the infectious laugh of M. Karakhan. He shrugged his honi- ders as is the wont of a man forced to explain an all too simple situation.
Behind Canton and the army The idea is ridiculous. We have nothing to do with the government of any part of China or with any of its army. That is the country's own affair."
If he
"He says," said the interpreter," that this man visited his father who is a tenant of the complainant. He got drunk and spat on somebody's hat. Com- plainant remonstrated, whereupon the defendant picked up a knife and threaten- ed to kill him.
preter."
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"Look at him," thundered the Inspec On the third suggestion. which was tor, you are a big man, he is small. carried. Mr. Crimp calculated that a 3 | I don't believe be would kill a cock. per coat tax on both sinnings and win aing stakes would recoap the bookmaker roach. Interpret that to him, inter- by £1,531, and that his loss per week would therefore be 2. In other words, a bookmaker with this average weekly turnover will bear annually. £3,500 of tax, sum, Mr Crimp pointed out, far in excess of ady, suggested fee for a book maker's licenze.
The decision does not affect race-course bets, which are taxed at the reduced rate of 24 per cent.
Do you see any sign of it?" be asked. In Canton maybe? No: this is the usual, traditional accusation that the Soviet. rules Canton. I asked my con- sul in Canton to investigate and report to me a single soviet feature in the Canton Government and he was unable to report single ope, and no one has been able to
Then the policy of Bovietising China
Comrede Karakhan bere emphatically denied all participation by his govern ment in China's affairs The tak ofve me a concrete example" Canton receiving assistance in money from Soviet Russia was foolish. Not one has failed?"
No; we have nat given a single penny penny had reached Canton from Soviet coffers, and all this talk of the Christian to students for propaganda. Students General Feng Ya Hsiang obtaining go to Russia, to study, but not at the millions of roubles and thousands of men expense of the Soviet Government. We and hundreds af, guns from Russis was have the intention of providing for the usual kind of allegation made to students to go to Russia for study out hurt Russia in the eyes of foreigners in of the Boxer Indemnity, just as other this country and the world in general. countries are doing at the present time."
"Then Comunistic China has not re- ceived one zouble from Soviet Russia to nasist her cause?".
>
Not one rouble! Prove it to me if you can. It is all talk"
Then in what way does the Soviet desire to assist this country if not with inancial help and the propagands of her policy
1
"We" want to assist China as one independent nation wants naturally to assist another. We are free and we want to see China free. Is not that natumi ?” A POSER.
i
:
CANTON'S MONEY.
"How do you account for the amount of money Canton has to expend on the present military campaign, and at a time. when Canton is supposed to be without financial foundation of
great stability Trade there. is in a lamen- table condition in many people's eyes and taxation has reached the limit, if all we hear from reliable source is true.***
Any
The reason is," replied Comrade Karahan, "that the Canton govern ment has managed to reorganise its finance and the revenues now come into the government exchequer instead of Well, if you admit that militarism being grabbed by the militarists as is the and banditry is one of the big factors case in other proviness. I must admit with unequal treaties in keeping China that Russian financial experts have help in the position you say she is, what pro-ed the Canton Government to put its portion do you give militarism" and to finances straight, but other than this. handitry at compared with the propor- Russia has had no hand in it. The re- tion of unrent you allocate to unequal organisation of the finances has resulted treaties ?
in some relief in taxation for the people Comrade Karakhan here again laugh- and increased revenues for the govern- ed, and he is a charining man when he ment." Inughs. He declared he was not yet a calculating machine.
"But the military get the lion's share, do they not?"
The complainant was taken aback, the truculent little man grinned. Before his traducer could get another word in he rushed off his story. The big man was a liar and a coward. The little man admitted he had got merry, but then, be only visited his father occasionally. He was a coolfe at the Supreme Court, and he was not the one to trangress the law.
He beamed on the Inspector, when he saw him smile. He turned up his nose at the complainant.
It was soon finished. The complainant
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Cracked Plates,
No sooner had he gone than a detee tive brought in another coolie. 4. parcel which he carried was opened and was found to contain foar cracked plates.
"He has a suspicious took," said the Inspector. I noticed that also.
The coolie said he had received them from a certain person in Kowloon He gave the person's name and his telephone borated his story as to the existence of number. The telephone directory corro- that person and the place where he lived. The person was called up, but there was no reply. When this was pointed T out to the coolie, he said that his bene- factor was removing to another house next day.
I'm afraid we'll have to keep you here to-night," said the Inspector.
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A Family's Report.
I was preparing to leave when another Chinese accompanied by "three women rushed in. They all began speaking at once, and it took a quarter of an hour before the comprehensive story could be got out of them,
The man's son had been knocked down by a cyclist. He was unconscious. Would they let him go to hospital! Oh, no, that was not necessary. He was not un conscious then, he was a little better What the dickens did they want. Did they want to do with the cyclist
пож
It is not our business to fight here," That is the business of the Canton he stated. We have fought in our own Government. The revenues are received country and will fight again if necessary by the Ministry of Finance. If the mili We have shown that we are able to detary get a portion of this it is because the fend onr interests against foreign Canton Government has allocated that compensation No. Did they want him aggression. Perhaps this is what is en- amount to them. The Russian experts charged Yen. Then the boy would have couraging the Chinese to fight. We have can assist by their advice, but they have to be taken to hospital They were no objection to that."
no power over the disposal of the taken aback, and again a long argument ensued. How old was the boy1 He was "Then there is no Sovietim in revenues." China 7"
Again Mr. Karakhan laughed. [M. Karakhan seeing to have enjoyed this enterview. We should have laugh- ed also had we been present-Ed. H.K.D.P.
(Continued on next Column).
Then," said the Inspector, "it is up
At present I desire to go to Canton, sixteen. but I am not sure that I shall be able to manage it. I am greatly interested in to him whether he wants to go to bos and I would like to see things on the An order was given. Two detectives spot. I am, afraid, however, that cir- were soon out with a stretcher. Tho cumstances will not permit me to go at whole family rushed out with them. present'
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