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TIME-TABLE.
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Dep.6.37 8.00 8.25 9.15 10.00 19.021:15287 3.00 4.87 5.43 7.25
Taamati ...Dep. 8,46
Bhatia ...Dep. 4.57 Talpo
...Day, Tarparkdarker. Dep. 7.16
9.24 10.18 1909 191
9.8810,29 12,21)
9.48 10. 12/12.84 1.47
9.53 10.46 12.88 1.51
210031010 12.43 201
9.05 10.08 11.00 12.33.2.06.9.14-
7.11
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Art, 7.38 2.40
Dep] = 8,43
8.08 10.1411,06 12:59 9.12 3.18
11.10
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68 | 6| KING] AM. | 4,36,
Dap. —
ATT.
6.05
- 11.06
Canton
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4,441 5.80 7.30 4,58 6.0 7.42 6.09 6,18, 1.56
6.43, 6.3PT.09 ER 8.35 8.13 140 3.94 6,41 8.19 3.43
8.47
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| Dep.) 7.14] 8,01|10,18|16,49/11.09,11,40 3,00
8.08.10.25 10.84 Sheungshpi „Dep. 7.21
111.47 8.07 Fanling
...Dep. 7.16 8,1210.20
TaipaMarket Dep. 7.38 8.10.89
Tipo
Akatin
Yaumati
Kowloon
...Dep. 7.408.2710.43 11,06 «Dep. 7,58 8.4010.56 ...Dep, 8.07 11.0%;
11.51 3.19 1.98
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GRIM FIGURES.
VIOLENT DEATHS IN ENGLAND.
THE NUMBER OF SUICIDES
SWOMEN NOU KO NÁSH AS
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She statistics of violent deaths in England and Wales in the course of a year do not make pleasant read- ing but they do provide a strong dose of realdam.
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St. Peter'e Church Young Men's Club Whist Drive, Cathedral Hall, 8.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "The Love of Sunya."
World Theatre: "Jealousy," Star Theatre: Time the Come- dian."
"In 1928 the males who suffered On the Continent the tall Eng violent deaths numbered 12,348 and lishman is a character so readily the females 3.774-a small army of accepted that it is surprising to 19,820, or more than the total H.K. Football League:-Division have the average height of the population some important: R.A.F. . Scots Guards; Police people of this country put at no towns. The men who committed. South China A.A. more than sit. ic. This is the suicide, totalled 3,099 and the Championship Swimming Races estimate with which Professor women 1,330. It is a pathetic fact at V.1.C., 5 p.m. Parsons favoured the anthropolo- that three bays and three girls be gical section of the British Associatween the age of 10 and 15 took tion at Leeds. He stated that their own lives. Between 13 and measurements which he had taken 20 years of age the total was 112. in the course of the last twenty
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figures reach their highest years had convinced him that point between 43 and 65 years of have added nearly two age. In 1926 the mea between these inches to their height in two de- ages who took their own lives cades, and he locks forward to the totalled 1,559. Women are not so time when the men of the nation rash. They totalled 595. The pathos, W.Y. College (C.C.Y.M.S.).
Ping Pong League: T. Institute will reach an average of 5ft. of the youthful suicide has and the women sit, dia., or 5ft 7in. counterpart in the suicides of the
Professar Parsons has taken aged. Last year. 114 men and measurements of medical students women destroyed themselves when for twenty years, and he mentions 73 and upwards. Those who sub- this class as representing the averject themselves to the torture of age Englishman of good education acids and other corosive paisana who has been well fed and well number hundreds, but they are a house, and has been able to deve small company by comparison with lop his physique. In this analysis chose who resort to gaa the majority of men are about 5ft. Last year 387 men and 333 women Gis, in height, and there is no died by inhaling coal gag, and 527 marked indication of change in the people died by selm-inflicted hang. period covered by his investigation. ing. The men who drowned them It is the stunted individuals in the selves numbered 558 and the women great industrial areas of the Mid-319. It is a remarkable fact that lands and the denizens of the back the disparity between the sexes is atreets of the cities who bring the much less pronounced when it comes average height for the whole nation to "jumping from high places." down to the figure mentioned The Seventy men dithis last year and greater freedom now enjoyed by 4 worden. In the course of the women in the inatter of games and year there were I71 casts of murder. out-door sports of all kinds has put Again, it is a pathetic fact that the extra fuches on to their stature. at the victims 45 were under one No doubt facts and figures of the year old, and the total of those kind referred to at the British Asso under 10 years was 83. Included ciation meeting have only a limited in the violent deaths were 18 mer interest; but the Professor was on and one woman who did not want safe ground when he said that to but had to. They were executed. under the cloak of education Lon- The deaths by accident reached the don is doing its best to change high totals of 9,531 men and 4,974
3 into an Al population.
In every stage from ""23 | The Blue-Stocking" to the Fore. to 33 years of age over 1,000 men Altogether there were 2,000 scient-lost their lives by accident in the ists at the Leeds gathering of the course of the year. British Association. Of this num- ber more than hall were wondu I see that in some of the nows
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Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Crawford's Restaurant, 5-7 p.m. Hotel Savoy 4.30 p., and Lane,
Polo Interport Match: Shanghai Hong Kong, "Causeway Bay, 4. P..
Steel and Coulson's Billiard League: Police r, R.A.; Warders v. Queen's; Revenue . D.R.C.; Gar.. rison Sergts. Mess Northants St. Patrick's Club r. R. E. and R Signals,
After dinner dance at Lee Gar- dena,
Queen's Theatre: "The Love of Sunya,"
World Theatre: "The Splendid Crime."
Star Theatre: They Like 'em
Elderly women are subject to accidents. Whereas between the ages of 83 and 75 the women who died from accidents numbered 533, Rough." those who were 75 and upwards numbered 1,117 To the making of acedents there seems to be no end. In official returns pages are devor ed to different forms of accidents and it is a reritkáble fact that last year 28 men and women suffered violent deaths by falling out of bed.
papers this is acclaimed as the riumph of the blue-stocking There is some truth in it, too, for women have been lecturing on the most recondite subjects, and the fact that they have acquired enough knowledge to lecture on them before the most critical audiences in the world is sufficient answer to the accusation of male students that nearly all women are plodders and step might be construed as... A nothing more. At the British Asso- triumph for Capitalism. The pre ciation meetings women have been sent Conservative Government sent dealing in the most learned and the Soviet agents in London home exhaustive way with such subjects to Russia because they were ea- as the mystid crustacean, the struc-gaged in mischief-making here; and zure of bifurcata tuberculata, altra Labour, Jeaders who have all along violes experiments with the veand professed great admiration for Zein, and other illuminating topics Moscow thought if they, too, broke Perhaps it is because women are with Soviet Russia it would be con- prepared to devote themselves to strued as an admission of blunder- these things that their presence at ing on their part in putting faith in Oxford and other universities pro- their Russist friends for so long, vides a constant source of irritation | Also, they imagined that it would to the young men at these seats of look like supporting the Tory party. learning. The men blame them for their "confounded assiduity." Tho woman student at a lecture never ceases to take notes, and works, or plods, relentlessly.
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Queen's Theatre: "The Love o! Sunya.""
World Theatre: "The Splendid Crime."
Star Theatre They Like 'em Rough.""
Principal Mails: -Outward: Europe vié Siberia (Szechuen), 5 p.m.
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Kowloon majority in favour of this step Moscow, and therefore these 8 University w. PA. ;Chinese Ath. v. Chib; 8.0.A.A J. K.0.8.B.; aincunted to nearly two million have suffered a severe defeat votes. "It is very significant of the | is fairly clear that British trade S.C.A.A. “B.” Division II, “BN opinion of the trade unions in this unionists are sick and tired of ex-Boy Scouts v. S.C.A.A. “A”; Chi- country that the decision has been tremists, who have been mainly re- nese Athletic . St. Joseph; South taken after the expulsion of the spousible for our industrial troubles China "B". Kowloon; Mosiems Soviet diplomats and trade delega for years part. They have been. Kung Woo. tion from London a few months ago. disowned by the Tradea' Union Con- Charity Bazaar of the Chinese The latter course was in accord-gress, but much still remains to be Bisters of the Precious Blood, ance with public opinion, and has done. For one thing they will have Catholic Young Men's Club, 16 endorsed by to be cleared out of the local trades Caine Road responsible men politica; and now that we have the selves in, and it will not be an easy Trades Union Congress severing matter to get rid of them. relations with Moscow we have de A fact to bear in mind is that finite proof that, despite mistakes the decision to break with the made in the past, the trade union Soviet was taken by the Congress ists of Britain are patriotic enough| after a series of speeches that were Interport Polo Dinner, Hong, to place the interests of their own remarkable for their moderation. Kong Hotel country before" everything else. The vote was the deliberate ex-Queen's Theatre: "The Love of
The break with Moscow would pression of opinion of organised Bunya." have been made long ago, but for Labour in Great Britain recorded
World Theatre: "The Splendid
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