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Hongkong Daily Press.
No. 21339號九卅百千登萬弍第 日叁廿月拾年寅丙
KOWLOON-CANTON
Kowloon Yeumati Bhatin Taipo
RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
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3.55 10.11 1991 136 1.43
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9.63 11.08
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5.20
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2.50 5,09
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Canton Dep. Khamaran...Dep.) 7.19 Sheangahu...Dep. 126 Tarling Dep. 781 Talpollasket Dep. 731 Dep. 7,46 Bhatin
Dep 7,68 Tanzati Dop 8.12 Kowloom
8.20
2.45
3,00 5.20 5.40 6.08 6.40 3.375.47 615
8.01
5.51 8.19
6.05 6.33
6.18 BAS
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H. P. WINSLOW, Manager.
Our London Letter.
BOOKMAKERS-ON STRIKE AT WINDSOR RACES.
KILTS AT OLYMPIA:
WINTER CLEANING AT
· BUCKINGĦAM PALACE.
-ROYALTY'S LONDON HOME
...
KUEICHOW FAMINE
STRICKEN.
MISSIONARY'S GHASTLY STORIES.
TALES OF CANNIBALISM.
According to the NC. Daily News to hand, what foreign missionaries are dajng in, famine relief in China is illustrated by a statement given by Mr. J. H. N. Robinson, of the China Inland Mission, stationed at Taungyi, Kueichow province.
Taungyi is the second largest city in Kueichow, and lies about ten days inland from Chungking. During the famine of last winter, following a season of bad crops, as many as 50 people died fo & single day.
Tales of Canniballam, ...
[FROM OCH OWN CORRISPONDENT.]
Lordos, November 5th. The King and Queen returned to London this week, looking all the better for their holiday and rest in the High lands During their absence Bucking ham Palace baa undergone a thorough "winter clean," which' is a somewhat formidable undertaking, seeing that there Each inmate of the emergency hostel are 500 rooms in this London home of was obliged to do his part toward famine relief. This included cooking and pre. Royalty, and that they have all been paration of rice which would be dis overhauled by the staff. It is a curious tributed among the starving townsfolic, fact that modern methods of house clean-making of straw matting and sandals, the carrying of coal and suplies, sewing, ing are not in vogue at Buckingham and helping in all the necessary ways Palace; for instance, there are no with famine victims. vacuum cleaners, and everything is done by hand in the old-fashioned way. But the result is to make the place spotless. The task of cleaning the Queen's apart ments is an anxious one, as her rooms
enough funds to carry on this work was The fact that the missionaries had due to the good offices of local silk mer chants, one of whom had conditions
brought home to him by Mr. Robinson. Robinson went the rounds of the town In company with this merchant, Mr.
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priceless souvenirs of her travels In order that things shall be replaced in exactly the same position after the cleaners finish their job, photographs of the Queen's boudoir are taken before hand as a guide to the staff,
Kilts at Olympis,
There was something in the nature of a sensation one day at the Motor Show which has concluded at Olympia a sue cess in every way-when it became known that the Committee of the Show had ordered an assistant of one of the Scot tiah Arms who was wearing tartan kilts to change his garb. The reason given was that under the rules of the Show no exhibitor is entitled to appear on a stand in fancy dress. The suggestion that a kilt is fancy dress aroused the patriotic pride of the Scots, and the Committee's ruling was promptly and indignantly challenged; but the official reply was, in effect, that the young man in the alleged fancy costume would have to get into trousers or get out. Fortunately the prospect of a Highland rising and march of the clans across the Border against the English was averted by the com- pliance of the exhibitor with the Com- mittee's behest. The young man changed tha.kilt for conventional dress, --
THE WEEK'S DIARY.
To-day.
Sixth Extra Race Meeting," Happy Valley, 9.30 p.m. “
Lawn Bowls:- Final of singles and doubles Championship of Colony, at Kowloon Cricket Club.
to-day's issue).
Cricket and Football (details in
Yachting: 5th Championship Race. European Y.M.C.A. Camera ramble.
By
H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p... Palace Hotel dance, 9 p.m.
Club
Queen's Theatre The Sea Beast." World Theatre: "The Man Life Passed
Star Theatre: "The Song of Love.” Principal Mails:-Inward: USA, Canada, etc. (President Jackson). Out- ward: Europe vid Marseilles (Karmale), 10.30 am.
Sunday,
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Social Gathering, St. John's Cathedral Lght refreshments. Service men wel Hall after evensong (0 p.m.), Music,
comed.
Cricket: C.R.CH.V.D.C., on C.R.C. ground, 11 am.
Rounds for Championship.
Golf: Jasper Clark Cup, and Qualifying
Yachting: St. Andrew's v. St. George's Societies.
Queen's Theatre: "The Wall Flower."
Monday.
Last Xmas Letter Mail for Home closes (via Siberia), 10.30 am.
Yachting Ladies 3rd Championship Haca
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actual sufferings. On this round they came to "a" wretched hovel which was being used by country people, many of them formerly well off, but destitute through failure of their crops. A large fire burned in the centre and around it were hunched the sleeping figures of those in the last stages of starvation. attention whatever from the starving The dead lay about and received no stoies who sat among them. In many
H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. cases it had been verified by Mr. Robin Chesterton, assisted by Mr. G. A. Taylor,
Lecture: Radio," by Mr. AA son that a not unfrequent occurrence was for a sleeping famine sufferer to topple at Institution of Engineers, 6.45 p.m. over into the fire, become baked and pro-Practical demonstrations. vide a gruesome repsat for those huddled in these wretched community shelters. tion it had been verified a number of During the particular famine in ques times that human beings were killed and eaten by the starving and though the penalty for this was severe it existed none the less. The fact, also, that many plum eaters were unable to obtain their daily ration of the drug accounted for numbers of deaths, indirectly due to the hard times of the famine.
Little Anti-Forsignia. Describing his journey to Shanghai, Mr. Robinson said that almost no anti-. foreignism was encountered coming down I may say that there was no intention a small village named Kai Shih about 60 the river. At one place, in Szechuan, at to disparage or ridicule the Scottish from Chungking, soldiers in an inn national costume. But the Show autho- where the missionarice stopped manifest- rities cannot relax the rule referred to.ed alight anti-foreign feeling, which bow. To permit national costume on the stands ever was entirely dissipated by the might easily lead to startling results. missionaries small children who won Some half-dozen foreign zations are anthem over through eating with Chinese nually represented at the Motor Show, chopsticks and speaking Chinese. The and what with Spanish ball-fighters, soldiers returned later on in the evening Tyrolian mountaineers, and Neapolitan with fruit for the foreign children who ice-cream vendors, Olympia would look are generally able to put Chinese in more like a ball-room than a place for good humour. Near the same place a serious business. John Bull might look little trouble was experienced on board well enough at an agricultural show, the train where the missionaries were but his farmer's get-up is some-how hard to associate with the elegant mechanical polish of an up-to-date car.
I understand that the assistant in kilts who attracted so much notice was handing sprigs of white heather to visitors to the Show from his stand, and this action also had something to do with the Committee's prompt intervention.
The Bookmakers' Bizika.
told that they could not travel as they were Japanese and Japanese had just bombarded Wanhsien. Not attempting to correct their "historical facts," the party explained that they were not Japanese bat British and were allowed to travel in peace.
through the machine, which takes a per example, and betting is transacted centage of all staken. In all there coun- tries racing flourishes
Shortsighted Policy.
Queen's Theatre:" The Wall Flower.". Principal Mails:-Outward America," 8.30 s..; Europe vid Siberia (Suwa and Europe via America (Siberia Maru), Maru), 10.30's..
Tuesday,
Sanitary Board Mtg., 4.15 p.m. HK. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 pm.
St Andrew's Ball, City Hall, 9.30 p.m.
Principal Mails:Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Pyrrhus), 2.30 p.m.”
Wednesday...
H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. U.S.A., etc. (Empress of Asia).
Principal Mails:-Inward: Canada,
Thursday.
Society of St. Vincent de Paul for poor Annual Street Sale of Roses for of Hong Kong.
B.K Rotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. Kennedy Road, for Charitable Objects. Jumble Sale Union Church Hall,
Kowloon,
Ladies' Night, European YMCA.,
Friday.
H.K. Hotel tes dance, 4.30 p.m
To Secretaries. [Secretaries of clubs and associations, etc., are kindly requested to forward any forthcoming events to the Daily Press for inclusion in the above column, which it is our endeavour to keep as correct and up-to-date as possible. I
ANONYMOUS LETTERS IN HAMPSHIRE VILLAGE EXPERT ON THE HANDWRITING.
coluntus to the case of anonymous letter Reference was recently made in our writing which has for years annoyed the vicar and several people connected with the parish church at Yateley, a little Hampshire village, near Aldershot.
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Going on strike seems to be catching like mensels since the miners have been doing it for six months; or how else can you explain the action of the bookmakers in Tattersall's Ring at the Windsor races this week in refusing to take bets as Most people agree that the action taken a protest against the betting tax which by the bookmakers at Windsor is foolish, has now come into operation1 The idea and that those responsible for it are of the gentry who call the odds, and merely using a weapon with which to cut generally know how to take care of them-their own throats If there are similar selves whers backers are concerned, pro- sporadic strikes in the next few weeks ceeding to follow the example of coal or months a good deal of confusion will howers and bricklayers is really comical be caused and the existing order of things There was no betting on ibe two days of will be seriously disturbed for the time shown to a handwriting expert in Lou KOWLOON HOTEL. the Windsor. meeting, and as backers being. Betting all over the country is don, who said the extremely bad writing stayed away since there was nobody to transacted on the basis of the starting was no indication of the writer's in take their bets the racecourse company prices as ruling in Tattersall's Ring telligence:: On the contrary, he declared. lost a couple of thousand pounds in gate These prices are obtained by represents the spelling and some of the well-formed money.
That is one side of the story. What titled to look at the books of the lead: 1y well educated had been taken to d
tives of two sporting papers who are en letters indicated that the writer was fair Under a new & experienced Manager the ultimate result will be is a matter ing bookmakers, and the figures so for speculation. The incident at Wind- obtained are wired from the course to guise the handwriting, as was shown by
Elaborate care had been taken to,
Not long ago one of these letters was
differently. There were several "B' in the extract, and they were all formed. differently.
whether the writer was a man or
It was not possible to tell definitely woman, but he was inclined to the view that it was a woman,
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sor is not to be repeated, but it-is more the new agencies and thereafter all over the way the same letters were written than possible that it will have results England, Or these prices betting is done that the bookmakers in question did not everywhere. If there anticipate. Their grievance in commoti course, if with bookmakers generally is that the Tattersall's Ring there can be no betting is no betting in tax makes it next to impossible for them at all anywhere since there are no start to carry on their business. Nobody being prices to go upon. This happened lieves, this, of course, and the last an during the two days strike of book who will believe it is the Chancellor makers af Windsor. It can be easily It was difficult, too, to tell what the Tel. Kowloon 608 & 609. of the Exchequer. The bookies also imagined that the subject was discussed appear to think that if there is ho in clubs, and elsewhere to the exclusion betting there will be no racing to speak of almost every other topic. The trouble of, but here again they are mistaken seems quite likely to revive the demand Many countries have abolished bookmak for the totalisator in which the odde ate ing altogether, France being a notable worked out satomatically, and the tax (Continued on next. Column.) levied by taking it out of the till-EB.
character of the writer's own
hard
was, for it was obvious that the writing Cables Kowlotel had been disguised for so many years that the original characters had been almost lost.
The local police are still pursuing their inquiries into the matter,
Wm. H. PERRY.
Manager.