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Dep. 6.37 8.00 8.85 9.1510.09 13.02 1.15 2.37 3,00 4,87 5,45 7,23
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Taipo Market Dep. 7.10
Fabling .Dep. 7.27 Shengshui Dep. 732
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9.38 10.28 12.31 1.84
9.49 10.42 19.34 1.42
9.53 10.45-19.38 151
10.08 10.88 12,48 3,01
9.09 10.08 11.001253) 2,06 314
11.10
5.38
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A MODERN BLUE
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SCENES AT
DEATHS OF TELEPHONIST AND TWO WIVES.
ness
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THE KING IN SCOTLAND.
PICTURESQUE SCENES AT
HOLYROOD PALACE.
THE ROYAL COMPANY OF ARCHERS.
Scenes of splendour were unfold ed in and around Holyrood Palace when, the King and Queen held a
Eleven drawing-room.
hundred
DIARY OF EVENTS.
To-day.
Meeting of Creditors of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Taxicab Co Ltd.. Liquidators Office, 3, Queen's Road Central, noon.
University Bathing» Pienic to Clear Water Bay. Stanley leaves Queen's Pier, 2.30 p.rn..
Legislative Council Finance Com- mittee meeting, 2.30 p.m.
Tea Dances: E.K. Hotel, Hotel
MELT (Seine-et-Marne). Karely has a man on trial for his life displayed such amazing cool-people answered the Royal summons Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m. Baseball: Honolulu Chinese.. was shown by Gaston to attend, and all the noble families South China A.A., Happy Valley
Great crowds Diamond, 5 p.m. Guyot, the former stockbroker and were represented.
outside the gateways of the quad-| Naval and Military Y. M.C.A.. member of the Paris Produce Ex rangle watched their arrival in a "Cheer O" Informal Dance, 7 change and a millionaire farmer, blaze of sunshine, while many more p.m.; "Better Ole": Popular when he was charged at the Assizes thousands, gathered on the green Talk by Mr. J. E. Hunt on slopes of Salisbury Crags, looked "Canada-A Land For Britishers," with strangling Marie Louise down to see one of the most pic 7.30 p.m. Beulaguet, a Paris telephone girl,turesque ceremonies in Scottish his
tory. This was the presentation to whom he had promised to marry. the King of the Reddendo by the For Bve hours the accused under-Royal Company of Archers, the went an examination by the pre-King's bodyguard of Scotland. This siding judge, amid applause and chatter granted by Queen Anne in rendering is referred to in the hisses from spectators, including 1704 to the Royal Company of many well-known women.
Archers, under which they are bound to render, when asked by the reigning Sovereign, a pair of barbed arrows, which, in archery, consists of three,
Guyot only showed emotion when reference was made to his daughter. Tears rolled down his cheeks, and for a few minutes he was unable
..
Marching proudly in their green uniforms. with red facing, and their to speak. He also nervously wiped Balmoral bonnets surmounted by his eyes with a handkerchief when eagles' feathers, the Royal Company reference was made to his
of Archers crossed the quadrangle from the barracks headed by their rivea, bath of whom are alleged to pipers. All carried a great bow and have shot themselves.
two
Wives' Violent Deaths. Guyot's counsel strongly objected to questions on this subject, which, te said, had nothing to do with the death of Mile. Beulaguet, whose charred remains were found last year beneath a hayrick in a feld road from adjoining the main Paris to Meaux. But the judge insisted that the mysterious cir cumstances of these two deaths had an important hearing on the ques tion of Guyot's morality.
pair of arrows before them as they marched. The King, who was wearing the uniform of Colonel-in- Chief of the Black Watch, inspected the company before receiving the reddendo. The arrows, made of spliced bullet wood and lance wood, barbed with silver, were crossed beneath a crown of crimson and gold, resting upon a dark green velvet cushion embroidered in gold, with the letters, "K.B.G.S., George Y., 1997, R.C.A." The corners of h cushion were decorated with thistles, and the border, was of gold fringe.
Dinner Dansant at Cafe Re- staurant Parisien and after dinner" dance at Lee Gardens.
3rd Night Fete at Victoria Re- creation Club, 9 p.m.
THE
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Charles Chamier presents Revue. "Here and There," Star Theatre, In association with the GRAND HOTEL 8.30
p.m.
DE WAGONG LITY, Pezore. Queen's Theatre: "Down the Stretch.
The Fourth
4
World Theatre: Commandment." "
Star Theatre: "The Sea Beast" (matinees only).
Principal Maila:-Inward:
Australia, etc. (Tango Maru); Europe vid Suez (Korea),
Friday.
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m., and King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
Naval and Military Y.M.C.A... :- "Cheer 70: Concert, 7 p.m.;} Better Ole": Variety Concert, p.m.
7
Dinner Daneant at Cafe Restaur- ant Parisien.
Charles Chamier presents Re-ue "Here and There," Star Theatre, 9.30 p.m." Queen's Stratch."
World Theatre: Commandment.
-Star Theatre: "The Sea Beast" (matinees only).
the Theatre: Down
"The Fourth
Out-
Principal Heils-Inward: Europe vid Siberia (Rawalpindi). ward Europe vid Biberia (Aforea), 2.30 p.m.
Baturday.
The reddendo ceremony immed iately preceded the drawing room, for which guests had been arriving in a constant stream by motor-car for more than an hour. Entering by the main portal of the Palace, ther
Golf: Bogey Pool, Fauling. passed in a continuous procession around the green-tarfed courtyard. Lawn Bowl League:-Division Every variety of Scottish uniform 1: 0.5.0.0. v. Oraigengower C.C.; was to be seen. The scarlet robes Police R.C. z. Kowloon C.C.; Kow- of judges of the Supreme Court, in loon B.G.O. z. Taikoo RC. Divi- full bottom wigs, gave broader sion II.: Craigengower 0.0. splashes of colour to the animated East Point R.C.; Taikoo R.C. v. Club de Beercia; Kowloon: 0:0. «. Royal HK. Yacht Club; Kowloon B.G.C. v. 0.6.C.C.
By dint of the closest examine tion of the prisoner's private life the judge compelled him to confess that he had had innumerable mis tresses. With the excuse "I was single at the time," he admitted every accusation of immorality.
According to him own version, when bo strangled as he alleges,
After the King and Queen had accidentally-the pretty telephone taken their places in the Throne girl in the course of a quarrel as Room, which they entered accom he was driving back to Paris in his motorcar he was already the lover of his brother's widow, whom he planned to marry so as to re-
are his vanishing fortune. This is the motive which the prosecution advances. for the crime."
scene,
panied by Princess Mary Vis countess Lascelles, Brig. General Archibald Houison-Craufurd, a des- cendant of the John Houison who saved the life of James the Fifth and fetched water to bathe bis wounds, handed to the King an old This is an old custom which dates back to the King James incident."
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H.K. Baseball League: Filipinos Club de Recreio, Happy Valley Diamond, 4 p.m.
Naval and Military Y.M.C.A.. Launch Picnic Launch leaves Queen's Pier, 9.15 p.m.; Kowloon, 2.30 p.m.
"St. Peter's Y.M.C. Inand picnic, Launch leaves Queen's Pier, 3.30 p.m.
Tea Dances: HK Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.80 p.m. Dinner Dansant at Cafe Restaur
Hotel
The audience of society women listened intently for every confes sion of Guyot's amorous adven.
The Queen and Princess Maryant Parisien and King Edward tures.
He seemed to "take pleasure spent three hours in the morning in recounting his prowess in the in a shopping expedition, in the streets of Edinburgh. Their visits role of a Don Juan, and shrugged were mainly to antique dealers, and P his shoulders at every rebuke of the many he first call was at a shon Stretch."
judge.
"An Utter Scoundrel."
A violent incident occurred when the judge accused him of having
made,
interesting purchases were
next door to the famous house of John Knor, in High Street, which forms part of the Royal Mile. the Scottish nobility, this is now Formerly the residential quarter of
spoken in disrespectful terms of the
largely inhabited by Edinburgh's girl be is accused of murdering poorest citizens, who gave the You must be an utter scoundrel, Queen and Princess warm-hearted he said, to have called the woman you killed and the woman you once loved by such a name."
Gurot grew pale, but merely shrugged his shoulders. "I was fond of the woman," he muttered, "but not more than any other."
greeting.
THE LATE GENERAL HOFF-
MÄN ON RUSSIA.
General Hoffman, who died re- Mas. Beulaguet, the mother of cently at Bad Reichenhall, was the dead girl, sitting in the well of chief of stall. to Prince Leopold of the court, banged her gloved fist Bavaria, who became commander on the table in front, of her, and in the East when Hindenburg and was about to jump to her feet, when Ludendorff went to the West. He counsel restrained her, while the was the German negotiator of the audience hissed the prisczer. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Guyot admitted that he had lat-
After the war was over Bussis terly been in debt to the extent of continued to be his special subject, several million france. His line of and he was prominent in resisting defence was that the telephone girl Bolshevist influences in Germany, had driven him almost distracted. Not long before his death he ex- by her demands and when she pressed some very interesting views struck him in the car, he seized her on the Red
It was inefficient
I throat with one hand and squeezed a low opini of which he had
Charles Chamier presents Revue Pot Pourri Star Theatre, 9.30
Queen's Theatre: "Down the
World Theatre: "The Fourth Commandment."
Star Theatre: "The Sea Beast"? (matinees only).
Principal Mails:-Outward:
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Europe rid Marseilles, etc. (Raval PALACE HOTEL. pinds), 10.30 am.
Sunday,
10th Sunday after Trinity. Golf: Bogey Pool, Fauling. Inter-Departmental Bowla :- Harbour Dept. v. Police, 3.30 p.m. H.K. Baseball League; Japanese v. H.K.B.O., Happy Valley Dia mond, 4 p.m.
Open-Air Concert by Band of the Northampton Regiment, Kowloon Dock Bathing Beach, 5 p.m.
Band of Queen's Royal Regiment plays at St. John's Cathedral Evensong Service.
Social Gathering 8t: John's Cathedral Hall. after Evensong.
Naval and Military Y.M.C.A., :— | Men's Meetings: "Cheer O," 7.45 p.m.; "Better 'Ole,” 8 p.m.
After dinner dance, Lee Gardens. Principal Mails: Inward: U.S.A., Canada, etc. (President McKinley).
Honday, Extraordinary General Meeting
her until she fell back dood, though i he said, because it had never had MY Ban Co., 82-18, Queen's Road he had no intention of killing her. competent instructors, and, save | Central, 2.30 p.m. Then, not knowing what to do with for the 60,000 picked Cheka troops, Tes Dances: H.K, Hotel, Hotel the body, he dragged it to the foot ill-equipped. He further express Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4:20 pm. of a hayrick by the roadside and,ed the view that an invasion of carelessly throwing down a match, Russia was quite, feasible, and that the precedent of Napoleon did not apply to a modern army..
set fire to the rick............)
The trial was adjourned.'
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