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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
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BANDITS AND RED SPEARS.
TIME-TABLE.
'GOING TO THE
AM. | AM. | &M|| A‚M; { P+X+ | PM [FM, PM. ] PM. | TM, | TM
Kowloon Dap. 6,378,00 8.15 8,18 10.09 12.02 1.152.37 3.00 4.57 5,43 7.23
Yaamati...Dep. 6.45
Bhati
Dep. 6.57
Taipo
...Dep, 2,11
Taipo Market Dop. 2,18
Yooling
707
Bhaangshui Dep 723
9.210.18 12.09 1.31
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9.86 10.25 13.21 1.34 --
9.19:10.49 12,54 1.47
4,445.50 7.30 4,566,097.42 5.00 6.16 7.55
9.53 10.46 19,39) 1,51
5.13 6.20 7,59
10,03 10.88 12,48| 2,01)
5.23 6.31 8.09
9.09
10.08 11.00 12.63 2,063.14
5,296,338.13
Shamohua
Cartout
AFT 7.35 8.40 8.43 (Dep] =
£1.50
9.0
(0.1411.08 12.59 2.123.15 8.40 8,34 6.41 819
1.10 5.38-
| KIMŲ KUM.! KM, | AM.|'AM, {A.M. | P,M, | AM, | FMJ PM, P.X.
Canton Shanchan
...Dep.- Art
B.CS 11.06
9.40 3.33
6,31
Dep. 1.1 8.01 10.1810.49 11.09 11.40 3.00 4.17 442 3.32; 6.24 Shrungshui Dep. 7.21 8.08 10.95 10.5-11.47 3.07 4.241.32 6.59 Fanling Dep. 7,18 8.12 10.29
"Taipo Market Dap. 7.85 8.22 10.30.
3.12
•
Txipo
...Dep, 7,40 8.27 10.4311.08
Shatin
Dep. 7,53 8,40 10,54
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12:07 828435.10 6.16
1.28 1.55 6.03 12,03 8.32 4.5 5.00 €15
12.20 3.39 4.56 5.93 6.29
Yaamsti
Dep. 8.07 8.5211.09 --
Kowloon
a
10 11
12.39 3.51 5.08 8,55 6.47) ...Arr. 3.18 8,58 11.1411.3111,4812.88 3,87 5.148,41 6,47 7.04 7.56
SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.
Fanling Bhstänkok
7.45 10,15 *** Dop. * Arr.
LY
8.40
A.X.
Bbatankok Fanling
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... Dep.
8.15
Art.
7.10
P.X. 8:20 6.15 .11.20 418 7.10
1.1. 7.M. 7.30. 9.00
8.00 3.00 3.58 4,53
7.M.
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LONDON, August 13th All the arrangements have been completed for the arrival of the King and Queen at Balmeral when
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LEADER EXECUTED AT TONGSHAN,
DIARY OF EVENTS.
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To-day.
Mid Autumn Festival (Chung- ch'in-chieh).
Bankruptcy Court,, 10.30 a St. Peter's Club Picnic for Blind Homo inmates. Start from Star Ferry Wharf 2.30p.m.
Launch Pienio
Naval and Military V.M.C.A.&. 1-----
Launch leaves Queen's Pier, 2.15 p.m.; Kowloon, 230 p.m.
Cricket: IR.C. r. R.A.O.C., on 1.R.C. ground, 2 p.m.
PEKING, August 24th. According to our Tongshan co respondent, a large band of native bandits, has made is appearance in the district of Chienanhsien, under the control of the Yungpingfa Pre- feet and "not far from Tongshan, where they are attacking wealthy.C. natives ara holding their children ior ransom. For instance, Inst month a gang of 30 bandits attack-
Lawn Bowls League:-Division I; Kowloon Dock R.C. v. Taikon Division II: Taikos RC. . R.H.K. Yacht Club.
Hong Kong Baseball League: "Dragons" (S.C.A.A.). t. Filipinos, Happy Valley Diamond, pm.
Friendly Football: Club de Re-
the Royal couple go there for their ed Esinchengchen and Haifengkow creio 2nd XI. v. H.M.S. Durhan, villages and carried away 90 rich 345 p.m.; Club de Recreio lat XI. natives whose relatives paid courly. RAM.C. 5 pm. (Both Matches
at King's Park)." $200,000 as ransom for their release, Later, during the month of June about 300 bandits attacked the city of Chien and and killed one Chi
holiday. This week officials coa for the North. Their Majesties will not have to do anything in the nature of ceremonials while they are at Balmoral. "Their visit is a
real holiday for them both, and police officer and wounded two policemen and then withdrew scot although the Queen as usual will free with a large booty. Prior to do a good deal of visiting in the their departure, the bandiis set fire neighbourhood, in quite an informals the henses cutside Chienanhsien way, while the King" will fish and city. shoot, the party, will be in every sense a family affair.
Greyhound. Rading
The notorious bandit leader of Chienanhsien, Kuy Cheng Ching, has been appointed regimental com
Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel
Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m.
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Whitey Smith's Jazz Band).
Repulse Bay Hotel Carnival
Promenade Concert by Band of 1st Cameronians. Ede Memorial Park, Kowloon Tong, 8.30 to 11.30 p.m.
Concert at Kowloon Cricket Club! for Service men, 8.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Wanderer in the Wasteland."
World Theatre: "Hey! Hey! Cowboy"
Star Theatre: "The King on Main Street."
Principal Mails:-Outward: Europe vid Marseilles, etc. (Kama Maru), 9:30a.m.
Sunday
It is expected that the Duke andmander by General Feng Yu Hsiang Duchess of York, with little Prin whose scheme is to disturb the rear of the Fengtien army inside Shan- cess Betty, will make a stay at hikwan. When brought before the Balmoral, and it has been arranged military court, Kuo. Cheng Ching For Princess Mary and Lord Las confessed all his secret connections with Feng Yu Hsiang and be, there- celles, with their two sons, to join fore, was executed here by the the Royal party,
authoritica. But there are bands of native bandits and Red Spears who call themselves. adherents of I bear that London bookmakers Kuo Cheng Ching and swear to are in high good humeur over the take revenge for their late chief greyhound racing which is regularly when opportunity occurs. Hence, taking place at the White City, Chienanhalen is far from normal Shepherd's Bush, under the con- at present on account of the repetition: Semi-final: Small Units trol of the Greyhound Racing Asso-sence of these lawless bandits and ciation. They have every reason | Red Spears-ANA, for enthusiasm, as they are
as the saying is. ing money," Figures available show that many of the leading men from Tattersall's Riog are included in the thousand or more bookmakers operating at the White City.
coin.
As the new epert grows in popu-' larity so also the size of the wagers increases. It is current gossip that bets of £500 are by no means un usual, and the attraction of the sport for the gamblers is that there can be no dead certainties. "Morc- over, the bookmakers can afford to give, reasonable odds, because it frequently happens that every dog in a race is backed. Thus everyone is satisfied.
ROBBER DEFIES SEVEN MEN.
REMARKABLE CASE AT
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seven
13th Sunday after Trinity. Craigengewer 0.0, 3.30 p.m.
Interport Bowls: Trial games at Inter Departmental Bowls Com
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THE KING EDWARD HOTEL BAND WELL PLAY AS "ÜNDEN →→→
7.30 to 9. 1 to 2. TIFFIN HOURS, DINNER HOURS Police, Happy Valley, 3.45 n.. H.K. Baseball League: H.K. DINNER DANSANT Baseball Club 2. Club de Recreio. | SATURDAYS: 8,00 to 12,00 Pa Happy Valley Diamond 4 p.m. Naval and Military Y.M.C.A..
"Cheer O, 7.45 Men's Meetings:
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Open-air Concert by 1st North-
Dock. Kowloon amptons Band, Bathing Beach, 8.30 p.m.
After dinner dance, Lee Gardens. Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe via Negapatam, papers Manila j.(Alipore),
(President Grant).
Monday,
Tea Dances: HK Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 pm. and King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
A remarkable case of pusillani-! mity came to notice when a robber, armed only with a knife, entered a Chinese shop in the French Con- cession at Tientsin where burly men were sitting and who allowed the intruder to take a sum of seven dollars from the cash-box
Water Polo League: 2nd Scots and decamp without so much as
Guards K.O.S.B.; V.R.C. "A" lifting a finger to prevent him, The backers say they can get bet The occurrence took place aboat. Royal Navy...
Ping
Pong League: Club de ter odds at the greyhound meet 8 o'clock in the evening, when there ings than is possible on a race- was torrential rain, and the shop Recreio v. S.C.A.A. (C.C.Y.M.S.). Dinner Dansant at Cafe Restaur- course; and the bookmakers admit in question was an oil merchant's that with every dog being backed at 20 Rue Depasse, the proprietor ant Parisien. they find it much easier to make of which is named Li Li Chang. money. The trials of these dogs The man actually had to put for the purpose of what is known down the immife to take the money as "grading takes place in pub and yet no effort was made by any lic, that there is no secrecy any of the seven to prevent him leaving. where. Lord Lonsdale, the sport- It is, of course, not to be wondered ing authority, bas stated that grey- at that there are armed robberies bound racing is not aport. in the when such weakness is displayed. sease that horseracing is, and he Feking and Tientsin Times.... gives it a couple of years 45 1 craze which will then die out. Ho may be right, but that remains to
-Automatic 80S. be sen, nad for the time being there is no doubt that the excite There is, boweyer, another deve- ment of watching greybounds. pur.lopment of wireless regarding which
Social for Service men at St. Peter's Young Men's Club, 8.30 p..
Principal Mails:-Laward:
Empress
Aria); Manila
(President
Har- America, etc.
and President Lincoln); rito Calcutta and Straits (Laisang). Outward: Canada, U.S.A., etc, Europe vid Siberia, and via San Francisco (President Grant), 5 p.m.; Manila (President Harri son), 8 p.m.
Tuanday.
Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 P.
H.K. Baseball League: Club de Recreio . "Dragons" (S.C.AA.), Happy Valley Diamond, 5.15 p.m. Ping Pong League: Hop Ying Club Dinner Dansant at Cafe Ro staurant Parisien and after dinner dance at Lee Gardene
Oriental Strolling Players open at Les Theatre, 9.30 p.m.
Principal Mails:-Inward: U.8.A., etc. (Shinys „Maru)," Outward Australia, New Zealand, etc. (Tai
Manila (Presi.. ping) 10.20 .m.;
Wednesday.
suing the electric" hare" has cap details are available. This is a tured the public faney in London. device for equipping ocean-going ships with an alarm for the auto The "Beam" Wireless, I hear that the Marconi Com. matic reception of 803 signals from vessels in distress. So.com- pany's engineers at the great Chelmsford Works who are engaged pletely successful is the invention. CAA (Y.M.CA.).
that it has been incorporated in the on the beam system of wire- latest merchant shipping rules lesa transmission have well-nigh issued by the Board of Trade. » perfected the invention for sending
It is probably well-known that mersages in facsimile. Experiments the majority of ships only carry are being regularly carried out, and one wireless operator, who is, of the experts are now dealing with course, on duty for a certain num- transmission in a way that has ex- ter of hours out of the twenty-four. ceeded all expectations. A speed It is possible, therefore, for some of 300 words a micute has been distress signals to be missed while dent Lincoln), 4.20 p.m. attained.
he is resting or sleeping. An auto- The marvellous thing about this matic alarm will recall him to duly Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel invention is that the actual hand-by ringing a bell in his cabin, and writing is reproduced. Thus a tele also on the captain's bridge. This gram from London will be delivered | automatic device is put into opera- in New York or Montreal or else- tion when a ship in distress sends where exactly as it is presented for out thres four-secomni dashes before
Ping Pong League: W.Y.O.B.U. v. dispatch at the London station, the actual S06 signal. understand that great progress has I zm informed that the autora T. Institute (C.C.Y.M.S.) also been made by the Marconi ex-tic alarm means a great deal of Dinner Dansant at Cafo Be- perts in the improvement of the activity at the Marconi Works, staurant Parisien. system for the wireless transmission which are scarcely able to cope with Principal Mail:-Outward÷| of pictures and that the speed at the orders for the new instruments Canada, Americs, etc., Europe via which this can be done will sur that are pouring in from shipping Siberia and vid Vasvouver, B.C. prise the public when details are companies at home and abroad. (Empress of Asia), 10 m available in the near future. This The apparatus was invented by is as much as can be usefully said
one of the Marconi engineers, Mr.
at the moment, for the tests are. W. J. Davis, who is attached to still in progress.
(Continued on next Column>"
the Designs Department at Chelms ford H.B.
Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m. and King Edward Hotel, & p.m.
Water Polo League : X.0.5.B. v. K.B.S.F.P.A. "B" V.R.C. "A" . K.B.B.F.P.A.A."
Thursday.
Legislative Council Meeting (De- bate on Budget), 230 p.m.-
Ten Dance: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Saroy and Cato Parision, 4.30 p.m.
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