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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE,
WEEK DAYS
po
...Dep
Kowloom. Yazmati Shatin
Taipe Markes... Dep. 7.21
Taaling Shrungakui Dep. 7,38 10,07 1123
ATT. 7.49 10.13 11.29 12.20 12.38
Dap 701 9.08 10.99 11.40 1.50 7.23 812 10.43 11.47
LIG
P.M.
AN. Noon
6,40 935 10.30 11.40 13.00
1,15
4.85 5.39
6.50 Dep
9.24 10.99
19,09 1.24
5.28
.7.19
...Dep ...Dep
7.03
9.36 10,51
19.07
1.86
458
3.31
7.18
9.49 11.04
1.49
6.04
7.83 10.08 211.19
9.33 11.06
14.09
5.13 8.08
748
12.48
2,03 524
819 7,58
12.32
Shunchan
3,07 6,29 6,25 8.02 213 0.34 6:09 8,08
1.3.
Shumairaa
Sheungabui
Fanling...
Dep. 7.24 Dep
8.16 10,49 1151
Txipo
Market
Dep. 2,42
828 10,59 12.02
Tripo Shatin
Yaameti... Kowloon...
2,45 8.30 11.04 12.07 Dop. 7,59 8,43 11.17 12.21 Dep, 8,13 856 11:29 | 12,33
R.20
9.08 11.37' 12,41 2.57
8,00 4.17 5,13 6.06
5.20
·8.07 -494 2.11
6.21 8.19 9.91 4.38
5.34 6.99 5442 6,38 6.99 3.984.66 5.51 8,48 8.50. 5,06 6,08 6.58 3,58 518) 811
7,00
Kowloon... Yazmat... Shatia
6.40 Dap
Dop 6,50
AXA AX
Noor 8.95 9.18) 10.30 11.40| 12.00 1,00
0.24 10.39
12.09 981
5.49 5,98 7.19
2,36† 10,51
„Dep
9.49 11.04
Taipo Market
9.53 11.08
Fanling.
..Dep,
10.08 11.18
Sheungabui
...Dep.
9.12 10.07 11.22
Shamchan
7,40
6.05 8.09 12.38 3,00
6,20 7.68 13.45 3,11 12.53 8.15 8,24 8,03 9.18 10,13] 11.29| 17:90′ 10,58| 3,21 8,80
8.08
12.34 2.56
I.X.
1.58
-7,M, 8,00 417
5.20 5,40
3.07 4.24
6.27
5,46
0.09 8.16
3.11
8.21
8.95 442
8.05
8.51 8,20 6,01 6.30 634
8.38 4.55
6,18
5.37
8,50 5.07 8,58 5.15 6.04
·6,80
8.39 6.38 7.07
Taipo
Shumakun
Bheungahui
Fanling
Taipo Market
Ts.pa
Shatt...
Taumati... Kowloon...
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
Dep. 8.12 10.83 11.40 Dep. 8.19 10.45 11.47 Dap.
8.23 10,49 11,51 Dep. 8,3 10,591 12,02 ...Dep. 8.87 11.04
12.07
12,81 9.48 5,51 1,31
Dep. 8,51 11.17 12.91 Dep. 9.08 11.99 19,83 Art. 9.11 11.37 12.41
SHA TAU KOK BRANCH. WEEK DAYE,
Fanling ...Dep. 7,45 11.30 9.20 6.25 Shatankok...ATT. 8,40 13.25 315 720
STATIONER,
LE PM.
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS, AX. 7.X... PA
STATIONS
Fadling ...Dep. 7.45 11.30 8.20 6.25 Bhatankok...A 8.40 12.25 4.15 720
STATIONĀ,
AX. N.
WEEK DAYE.
Bhataukos...Dep. 8.80 10.15 1.06 8,00 Tanling Art. 7.25 11.10 200 6.55 BUNDAYS LED PUBLIO HOLIDAYS, LX. AX EXEM
STATIONS.
Shatankok. Dep. 6.30 10.15 2.05 5.15 Fanling Art, 7.25 11:10 8.00 6.10
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DORKING, September 20th.
The great strides now being made in
I went from Waterloo to Dorking wireless telegraphy, as well as the pro- mise of Transatlantic telephony, is speed-to-day along an old railway that has recently been rejuvenated by electrifica- ing up the world's system of cable com- ("CE QUE J'AI VU A MOSCO" manication, not only in this country and tion, and all the way, though no new
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The Germans expect to complete their section of a new Transatlantic cable best tween Emden and the Azores by the end of this month. It will connect up with a new cable laid between the Azores and New York in 1921 by the Western Unior Telegraph Company.
An old couple, for instance, who lived
on the edge of a narrow lane. found a new road creeping towards the back door of their cottage. A garage firm offered to buy them out for the sake of their corner site. They have no children, so they have purchased an annuity, and will live in comparative laxury,
Then there is Mr. Chart, who farmed just outside Dorking. The new road from Reigate to Guildford gut through some of his fields and gave him two fine road frontages. His Gelds as farming land
were £30 to £40 an acre, but he was able to sell the land which included the
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At the present time Germany has no 11. Henri Béraud visited Russia last direct cable connection with America, her He is a French working man, and two cables having been confiscated in the year his book, What I saw at Moscow," is ar by Great Britain. One of these cables, now the Imperial" cable, runs addressed to the people of France, and from Pensance, and is operated from the to the peoples of Europe. M. Béraud Central Telegraph Office, London, while the other runs from Brest, and is worked went to Moscow to bless; without preby, a company on behalf of the French judice he wished to return with a favour- Government. able impression of the Bolshevik regime.
M. Béraud found two kinds of Soviet coins; the earliest (struck about 1994) bear the device of a working man, wield ing a heavy hammer aver an anvil. The newer coins show the globe of the world with a sickle and a hammer in the fore-
Britain's reply is the completion of the ground. It will not be long, in the fastest cable in the world, "connect
It was impossible to buy land round opinion of M. Béraud, before Moscowing Londen with New York, through
Penzance and Bay Roberts, Newfound-Dorking until after the war, and the casts aside the scaly maak of Interns and, which will be operating in a few town was prevented from developing by tionalism and blazons on her, currency the weeks at the remarkable speed of 500 a ring of residential extaten. Death new design of Russian Imperialism. All words, or 2,500 letters, a minute-nearly duties and other land taxes are forcing cight times as fast as any of the existing the owners to sell, and the price they do that the coin-designers will have to
cables to-day.
are securing is causing most of them to is to intercross the sickle and hammer,
revise the estimates of their wealth. and lay them on the globe, and there you have the Czar's orb with its cross! The significance of the change will be easily grasped, there are those in Russia who have grasped it already.
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Another cable of the new type was recently completed between the Cocos Islands and Fremantle, Australia, which it is claimed will be workable at 9,000 letters, or 400 words, a minute early next year.
The policy of those who are now ruling what was once the Russian Empire is at the moment, beyond question, the most ambitious in the world; it is also the most carefully hidden. Imperialism is never candid, though it usually has plenty The world's largest cable-ship, the of excellent excuses. The excuses of the Dominia, is at present engaged in put Union of Soviets are original The ting down the longest cable in the world Union's stock plea is a fantastic inter- in the Pacific, says the Daily Mail to
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and exploit nationalism, wherever nation- British Columbia, with Fanning Island, alism can be used to the hurt of some- 3,500 miles away, and in expected to work one else. The Government at Moscow at 500 letters, or 160 words, a minute, now declines to apply its communistic five times the speed of the original Pacific doctrines to Bussia, but uses commun- | cable laid, in 1902.
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valued at more than £2,000, were put up Two shops in Dorking, which nobody for auction recently, and were sold for £4.500.
Perhaps the best example of the way in which prices have soared to unexpected heights was the sale of a small roadside inn on the Hope Estate at Dorking.
The inn was built by the Hope family eighty years ago, and cannot have cost more than £250. The new road from Reigate passes by it. It was sold a few weeks ago, with a small meadow on the other side of the road, for a fraction under £8,000. A brewery is to replace the ina.
Mrs. Randall, who owns fourteen acres adjoining the Dorking housing estate, in- formed ΣΤΑΘ that she had received more than half a dozen offers of purchase, but had refused to sell, though the price offered was many times in excess of that given for the land-
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Speculators at Leatherhead, Ashtead, Epsom, and other places in the district are laying their hands on whatever pro- perty they can secure, knowing that values will increase.
NAPOLEON'S WALKING STICK.
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In the beginning, the Soviet govern- ment, thought that it could boldlevize
It would seem that the Roumanian Europe. That proving too difficult (the Cabinet under General Averescu has Russians are temperamentally incapable aroused grave political and popular dis of sustained effort), all the Soviet content by the final turn given to the greatest treasures a beautiful" relic of A family of Verdos keep as one of their activity was diverted to the problem of Italo-Roumanian Pact, writes the Diplo Napoleon. This is a stick of boxwood, Asia. In order that they may have their matic Correspondent of the Daily Tele-which the famous wood-carver, Auguste. hands free to do mischief in Asia, the graph. Roumanian opinion bad all along Dupont, a soldier of the 16th Artillery,| Bolshevik rulers are content to regard the scen no tangible advantage in such a West as a nucleus. (On ac contente de pact, unless Italy agreed to recognise de of repose after the victories of November, in the suite of Napoleon I., in the hours mayauler D'Occident). It amuses initely Roumania's title to Bessarabia 1796, against the Austrians at Arcole, them to make difficulties for the French Since Italy, as might have been anti-made and presented to the General On and the British, and it puta critics off cipated from her past attitude and her it are. artistically carved the head of the scent to be always denouncing in understanding with the U.S.S.R, has Napoleon and some episodes of those epic all the rags of Europe "Imperialist once more declined to do any such thing, days, and it bears the date of November asaasaine. All this is part of the all the amenities contained in the diplo 20th, 1796. general scheme that underlay their anti-matic Notes annexed to the pact and ex- Roumanian campaigns and their implaining Home's omission under this pudent claims to Bessarabia, while it head, have failed to assuage the bitter- tried to rouse the old turbulent spirit ness felt at Bucharest.
nominating him Corporal, and he was so Napoleon compensated the artist by much attached to this stick that he always carried it with him, but on his departure of Foland. All these are merely maneu This bitterness is the greater because he forgot it, and left it in the house of Tres calculated to produce distant effects, it had been originally suggested by the the family, who have treasured it ever in fact, investments to lock up. The im Government that the pact with Italyance-Morning Post (London). mediate objective of Moscow is the East, would provide for the mutual recognition and the Far East.
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The capture of Tchita in Transbaikalis the high contracting parties of their
present frontiers," and not, as has hap and the creation of a Republic in the pened, of their frontiers as based on extreme East, flanking Mongolia, eneir existing treaties," the Bessarabian Con- cling Manchuria, and stretching almostvention, for lack of the necessary number to the borders of Korea is the rough of ratifications, boasting as yet no legal Aurvey stick (de rude jalon) from which existence. It is permissible to hope that the Soviet domination of the East has the mishap which had befallen Roumania been aligned. The incorporation of inay serve as a lesson to other Eastern Tehits in the Union of the Soviet Be Powers, whose pushful Foreign Ministera publics was the first act in the deliberate are never satisfied unless they are always resumption by the rulers of Kusaiz," for signing treaties, for the most part of the good of the Russian people" of the dubious value political aspirations of the Czars—those aspirations which led to the Russian- Japanese war. No one but the inter- nationalists" of Moscow would have the
M. Béraud can still see Tchitcherine's face to pretend that this was not sounded.
face when he heard the word "Imperial- The next act was to send Bolshevik ism." Profanation. How dare anyone emissaries to China,-there to spread a suggest in his sacred international pre national communism and an anti-foreign sence that the Red Army, and the crush- madness which murders strangers to the ing military budget were not necessary P. O. Box No, 620, accompaniment of bymns of interna for the very existence of the Soviet tional comity. Mongolia is now cut off regime! The spread of that regime was from China; to-morrow she will enter the no doubt desired, but that was merely Soviet Union (she has practically entered that more might share in its benefits !" it already) and then Russia, with all Eer The most odious feature of the Soviet old political ambitions 'revived will be diplomacy is its lying bypocrisy, for ones more at the Mukden Gate to threa-Soviet Russia, to-day, is the most mili- ien Japan anew, and to encompass and taristio power in the world. Ever since dominate China
1923 M. Herriot has been denouncing the B.E.A. Air. Hijos, and Miniature Hifles, It is the same story in Westem Axis, revival of Czarist ambitions in the Far3 Calibre, Repeating and Automatio. Persia and Afghanistan! But the most East Why the Far East The mirage EPORTING CARTRIDGES of all des brutal exponent of the Soviet principles of Constantinople is still luring Russia eriptions. was Zinoviev in Georgia. Ee, at least, on. A thousand years ago the barbarian did not mince words. He stated outright, Rurik hung up his shield at the entrance | BIRMINGHAM. that, while the territorial expansion of of the Bosphorus, that shield is to-day Bourgeois nations could never be any still flashing in Russian eyes, and it will thing but exploitation and wickedness, so flash until the end. After all, it is a the conquests of the workers meant an simple matter to convert a crescent into advance of civilisation.
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