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Yazmati.Dep. 6.45
Talpo Market Dep. 1.1R
Tarling
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9.58 10.28 19.21 134 —
9.40 10.49 12.34 X.47
4,445,00 7.30
456 0.01 7.43 5,09 6,16 7.55
5.13 8.20 7.39
Shatin .Dep. 5.37
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297
Sheangabai Dep, 7.32 9.0
Art 1.38, 3.45 9.08
8.43 11.10-
9.53 10.48 12,38) 181 10.03 10.86 13,482,01 10.08/1.00 1953 2,668.14 10.1411.08 19.50 2.129.18
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Shamahan
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7.14 8.0110.16 1.4911.09 11,40 8.00 417 4,48 3.52 6.24 7.15
11.51 8.12 428 4.58 6.03
Shanzgahul.Dep. 7211 8.08.10.25 10.5 11.47 3.07
7.368.1910.99
Taipokarkel Dep. 7,56 8.3210.30
Paling
Taipo
Shatin
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Dep. 7.40 8.2710.4311.06- Dep, 7.55 8.4510.58
12.07 826 442 5.10 638 -19.20 8.38 456 5.33 0.28 $12.99 3.61 5.08 0.35 6.41
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A VISIT DURING THE LATE.CAMPAIGN.
COMMANDER A CHEERFUL VETERAN OF MANY WARS.
The experiences on which this article are based date some jew wreks back, but the military situation" which they "cover is "ractly" the same today as it was then, writes a special correspondent to the "North China Daily Yere." General Ling Tai, commander of 4th Ankuochun Artillery Brigade, is certainly one of the west interesting of all the lenders of the Northern forces which, Re- cording to recent reports, may very soon again be at grips with Feng Yu Hsiang in Honan. He is really one of the most important too, for, with the exception of few field-pieces with special waits and the
Russian contingents General Ling is in charge of all
to neompany the expedition and since that time he had remained continuously with the Shantung divisions.
Photographing a Battery,
The whole unit consisted of 170 odd field-guns, manned by some 4.000 men, including machine gun- ners, infantry guards, and mount ed scouts. They never operated to- gether as one unit, however, but were attached to other infantry or cavalry units, by batteries, accord-
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Farewell Concert at The Better 'Ole Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, 7.30 the artillery attached to the Inding to varying requirements from
Steel and Coulson's Billiard and 7th Army Corps, or the Chihlu time to time.. General Ling said League: R.A. . E.O.S.B.: Queen's divisions of the Ankuochun forces. that he would be glad to call out. RE and R. Sigs.; D.R.C. v. Northants; St. Patrick's Club r. I first met the General in company the whole of this detail stationed at Garrison Sets Mess; Warders 2. with my friend and newspaper as- sociate, Koa Teh Chen. We called at his headquarters without pre vious notification and passed in our cards, and the orderly was back almost immediately to "ching
Hsuchow and put them through all | Revenue. their paces to be photographed, and he appointed the next afternoon as a suitable time.
When we started out to keep the appointment I had expected to be
St. Peter's Young Men's Club Debate: "That Professionalism a A deteriorating effect on Sport." 8.30 p.m.
H.K. Male Voice Choir rehearsal, St. John's Cathedral Hall, 1 p.m. Queen's Theatre: Miss Brews- ter's Millions."
dise."
World Theatre: " Paths to Para-
Star Theatre: "The Love Toy."
Tuesday,
us. We went in-through three taken out to some camp near the tooms until we came to a small city, but we, went first to the Gen- bedroom where our host was sit-eral's headquarters, where we wait- ting on the edge of a Chinese couched while he get into his uniform Principal Mails:-Izward: clad in a two-piece Chinees robe and presently three field-guns, each.S.A., Canada, etc. (President de nuit. He apparently knew Koo drawn by eight mules, came roll-Taft), very well indeed and was explosive ing into the court and were un- in his hearty greeting. He made hitched and unlimbered and lined no apology for his neglige costume up against the wall, while
on their seeming only to be most exceeding-heels came two machine guns-for-Tea Dances: HK Hotel and ly glad to welcome Eco Teh Chen | lowed by come hundred riflemen, Hotel Bavoy, 4.30 p.m., and Lane, and his foreign friend, and with and the General, putting the last Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-6.30 no room for any farther thought touches to his own outfit, announc or consideration at the moment. ed that everything was ready.
I pointed out that it would be
Two Sides To a Character. General King has a most engag-impossible to photograph the whole Ping-personality. He rather gives battery, or even one complete gun. one, the impression of being an team, in that confined space, and overgrown boy, Happy-go-lucky and any stents would be quite out of full of the devil "out of school, the question. There was a touch 6nt on duty he is an exacting and of sheepishness to his answering| punctilions officer.
grin as he explained that he had I can imagine him grinning had the guns brought in to save whenever an enemy shel! lands un- us the ten i tramp out to the comfortably ncar, and scaling camp and mentioned further that back a double dose in sheer good if we then went out we would be nature. And General Ling is in too late for the special dinner he in position, too; to know something had had prepared and asked would of what enemy shel-fre means, for I please do the best possible any one would have to go far to find
way. I did, and if the resulta more war-scarred veteran in any were not all that could be, desired army. There is a shiny patch of there can be no question but that glazed-over scalp on each side of the dinner that followed was a his head, while several other success from start to finish, and of "plote" on his surface anatomy itself, if there were not so many other pleasant features to recall it, have been pieced out with some would make my meeting with Gen body else's skin.
erai Ling Tai fasten itself to mem mory for a very long time to come. Importance Of The Organization.
forces.
Artillery Strength Of Ankuochun.
General Ling was able to give us more information is to the big gun Nothing ever is or ever will be strength of the Ankuochun than beard of him as an independent we, perhaps, might have received factor in any engagement that may from any other clicer of the Chihlu take place, for his forces are seat
He explained that, bar tered throughout the whole Chihl ring whatever artillery Sun Chuan organization, but I witnessed the Fang inight possess, and a few tremendous part played by the special batteries attached to mixed artillery and machine guns at
at the units, the role artillery strength battle of Hanchuang; and if the of the North consisted of four Chibin armies, continue to push brigades. All of these had Feng Yu Heiang back into Homan, originally been organized in Feng, as they did from Hsuchow to Tang tien, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd han, one may be certain that the were still serving with the Feng- guns and men of General Ling tion troops, bui when Chang Ta's 4th Artillery Brigade will Tsung Chang had been sent south have done their part in bringing by Chang Tso Lin, his own it about.-North China Daily brigade, the 4th, had been ordered News.
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After Diner Dance at Lee Gar to the earth cracking.
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