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No. 21,654 號電拾伍百陸仟發式第日式拾月拾IT HONG KONG. MONDAY, DECEMBER 5th. 1927. 查拜禮日伍月弍拾年七廿百九仟登英 Pain:*3 PER MONTH KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
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TIME TABLE."
WEEKS DAYS.
(AM)|AM.|| AM, | AM; 越
*
Dep. 6,40 | 8.08|| 9.10|10.00 12.00 1.15283 3,00 4,83 6,43 7.15
9.20 10,0712.07 1.29
Dep. 6.48 |
Dep. 201
Dap. 7.13
Eawloon Yeamali. Bhatin
Taipo Market Dep, 720
Fanling
Depal 2,80 Skonngahul „Dep. 7.35 | --- Bhamchun...Att. 7.41 | 8,45 Canton 21 +49 Arz,
Canton ...Dap
9.83 10.19 1918 1.84 –
848 10.38 12,82 1,37
11.50
9.53 10.804.19.38-1.61 10.05 10.48 | 12,48 | 2,01| 10,30 10.51 | 12,51 | 2,06|3.14, 10,14 10.57 || 12,67 | 2.193.20
5.38
4.41 5,607.28 454601 7.35 4.07 6.15 7.49 5.118,19 7.52 5.21 6.30 8.03 5.26 6.38 9.07 9.40′ 5,32 6,41 8.13 6.47
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A.K. A.M. AM. A.M. P.X. P.M. P.M.Z.ML
8.05
FJM,
3,20
Shumahan :Dep. 7.18 8.05 10.34 11.09 11,379.58|4,41|| 5,49|| 624| 8.48 Shanngshai..Dep, 7.25 8.13 10.41
Taaling
Dep 7.80 8.16 10.46
Taipo Market Dep. 7.40 8.28 10,38
· Bhatin
Yasmati Kowloon
...Dep. 7,44 8.31 11.00
Dep, 757 8.4411,18
Dep, 9.11 8.56 11.25
11.448,08 4.48 | 6.55
11.49 8.10 4.53 6.00
13.00 8.21 8.02 6.10
12.08 8,26 5.07 6.35
19.19 3.39 5.40 6.28
12,31 | 3,51 5,92) 640
8.53
...Art) 8.17 || 9,02 | 11,31 | 11,48 | 1237 | 3,57|| 5,98 | 6,48| 7.04 7.29
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIO HOLIDAYS.
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4.3.
Kowloon
Yeamsti
Shatis
...Dep. 6,40 ...Dep. 6,48 ...Dep. 201
8.058.80 9.04
Taipa
Dep
7.15
TapoMarket Dep.7.20
Fading... Dep. 7.30-
Shrungahui. Dep, 7.85
Sham Chan A7,41 Canion
A.X. 9,10 | 10.00 | 12,00 8,24 3,00 5,38 | 7.15 9.20 10.07 12,07 2,37 626 7.23
9.33 10.19 19.19 2.43 9.48 10.33 12.82 3,565.62 7.48 9,58 10,38 1236, 8,00 5.56 7.59 10,05 10,48 12,48) 8,30 6.07 8,09 |9.07|6,41, 10,10| 10,61| 12,313,15 — 6,32 | 8,07 8.45 9.13 0.47 10.18 10.37 12.57-3213.40 6.18 8.13
- 6,47 —
11.50
5.88
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LX. LX A.X. ANG, 2.K. P.X.
8,05
F.M. F.M. F.X.
3.20 6.24
Canton ... Dep Shum Chun..Dep. 8,05 10.34 11.09 11.37 2.58
5.00 5.34 6.56 11,44 Shiranhai. Dep. 812 1041
8,05 6.07 5,41 11,49 8.10 8.11 12,00
Fanling ...Dep. 8.16 10,48
- Taipo Market Dep. 8.28 10,56
Talpa
Dep. 8.81 11.00
Shan ...Dap. 8.45 11.18
Yazmati Dep. 857 11:25-
5.21
12,06 8,99
8.95 1219 8,39 8.38
4.34
12.31 8,51 5.50
8,46
Kowloon dar; 9,03| 11,81| 11.49 12,87
8,57
5.56
6.17 6,32
7,04
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IMPROVEMENT TRUST SETS AN EXAMPLE.
A SWAMP DRAINED, AND
FILLED IN.:
"A GERMAN MYSTER
PRE-WAR SOCIETY-LEADER TO BE CHARGED,
MURDER OR SUICIDE.
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During the „belmian era few zimies were better known than that of the Conarya- tive leader, Herr von Heydebrand und der Laan, whose powerful in Euence behind the political scenes earned him Le sobriquet of "the
What will be the Erst example of building in Singapore by the au- thorities for
the public-apart from the tenements erected by the Government in Cross Street several years ago-is about to be commencncrowned King of Prussia." To- ed by the Singapore Improvement morrow a bearer of this distin Trust shortly on vacant land at the guished name, and a member of the junction of Lavender' Street and same family, will have to answer Serangcon Road.
in the Breslau Courts a charge of murdering his wife, who herself be- longed both by blood and previous marriage to the highest rank of the German nobility. By birth she was Baroness von Lekow, and her first husband was a member of the well-known noble family of Yon Zobeltitz
This land was formerly too swampy to be used for building, but it has been filled in with earth brought from the excavations at
Monk's Hill, in Bukit Timah Road, where a site for Municipal quar ters is being prepared. The Im- provement Trust propose to use some nineteen acres. for a model housing scheme, the main object of which is to show Singapore build-1
and property owners that the shophouse is not as they believe at present necessarily the most profitable form of building, and to prove what can be done to build up Land along open, attractive, and bealthy lines and at the same time earn much the same proft as the present methods yield.
Herr "Heydebrand, who was head of the Department of Crown Lands and Froests at Breslau, had for some time lived apart from his wife in a country house cutside the city named. She dwelt on "an estate of 2,000 or 3,000 acres, which she had inherited from her frat husband. She had decided to ap- ply for à divorce, but a visit paid to her by Herr Heydebrand led to a reconciliation, and they return- ed together to his house, stopping at Breslau ronte, to make
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numerous purchases,
That we on fb-13th last year. On arriving at their destina-
Ample Accommodation. Mr. W. H. Collyer, manager of the Improvement Trust, told a Strait Times representative that this wna hot claimed to be an tirely new idea in Singapore, but it was the first attempt to give a tion both of them appeared to be Practical demonstration of th About 140 houses of a semi-detach in good spirits, but a watchman ed type, would be built, the idea who passed the house late at night being to arrange them in two's, heard, through one of the windows, three's, and four's and to give each house small back and front gar den. The accommodation would consist of two bedrooms and a liv
DIARY OF EVENTS.
To-day."
Golf: Captain's Cup, Fanling..·. Yachting Ladies' Snd Cham- pionship Race.
Toa Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30
p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 3 p.m.; Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.33 p.m.; Cafe Regent, 4.30-6.30 p.m
Hockey: Y.M.C.A. "A". Club "A". Flower Placing" by Mr. Sohjun "Japanese Wada, Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m.
Demonstration on
Cafe Regent dianer dance. 8 pm. Forest
Queen's Theatre: The Flaming
World Theatre: *The Rain- maker."
etc.
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Europe ria San Francisco and via ward: America, Canada, etc., Siberia (President Madiary), 5 In action with the Gund Hors Prince's Building. P.m
Tuesday.
St. Nicolas Day.
Annual Sale of Work for Blind Home, Kowloon, at Helena May Institute, 10. a.m.6 p.m.
K.O.S.B. 7. 20th H. Bty. R.A.3. Garrison Football League: H.Q, H.Q1 K.O.S.B... 19th H. Ety. R Sokumpoo, 4.15 pm
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Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m., and Lane, Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel and
Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-6.30 P.m.; Cafe Regent, 4.30-8.30 p.m. K.O.S.B., King's Park, 5
Hockey: Club 2nd XI.
p.m. Lecture on Christian Science, by Dr. John M. Tutt, C.S.B., of Board of Lectureship of the Mother Kansas City (Members of the Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachu sctta), Old Chamber of Commerce Room City Hall, 5.40 p.m.
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Hotel Launch meets all Steam- ers. Dining Room and Lounge is now open to the Publie.
THE KING EDWARD OEM.S (9 John's Cathedral Braash) meeting Cathedral H 6
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WIE-PLAY is USDES tician." M.A., Subject: ིས
Christ, the Pol; | TIFFIN HOURS: “DINNER HOURS
1 to 2.7.30 to 9, After dinner dance at Lec DINNER DANSANT Gardens.
SATURDAYS: 8.00 to 12.00 13.
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Cafe Regent dimmer dance, 8 p.m. St. Peter's Young Men's Clab the angry voices of a man and woepering dance at Lane, Crawford's man evidently engaged in a violent Restaurant, 8.30 p.m. quarrel. Some time later Herr
Dockyard Recreation Club whist
ing-room, in addition to a kitchen Heydebrand came. downstairs and drive and dance, Seamen's In. (Thirty Tiffin Tickets for $25 can be
and the usual offices, and water and electric lighting would be sup plied. The houses would be built of brick, with tiled roofs, and would be one-storied structures,
Playground Facilities.
told a servant, who was still at work in the kitchen, that his wife, had shot herself while he slept. He said that she must have leaned over him to reach his pistol, which he had placed on a table at the bed- side.
stitute, 6.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: Deacon."
"Alias. the
Pirate"
World Theatre: "The Black
via
Wednesday. Nominations close for Sanitary Board vacancy, I p.m.
Official opening of New Ter ritories Agricultural Show, Tung Ying Hok Po, Sheung Shui, 2.30 p.m.
Fanling Hunt: Mect at Huntera' Arms, 2.45 p.m.
Star Theatre: "Manhandled." The land would be properly laid
Principal Mail-Inward: U.S.A, etc. (President Pierce);" "Europe out and roaded, and one feature of
"Frau Heydeland's body Waria Siberia (Porthos), Outward the scheme of special interest to found on the bed completely Europe via Marseilles, etc. (Par parents, Mr. Collyer pointed out, divested of clothing. In her hand thos), 2.30 p.m.; Canada, America, would be the open space which was a Walther pistol, and her in- etc., Europe via Vancouver B.C., would be provided in the middle dex finger was on the trigger... Aand Siberia (Empress of of the miniature suburb, and which hallet had entered her right tem- Canada), 5 p.m. would enable children to play in ple, and lodged in the skull on the complete safety from traffic. The left side of the back of the head. area was bounded by Serangoon But these circumstances, which Rond, Lavender Street (where the seemed at first sight to point to strip of frontage would be sold for suicide, are interpreted by the pro- private building), and the new secution as incriminating evidence. main road which was to be nilt It is urged that with this particu- out as far as Alkoff Gardens and ar weapon it would be impossible Macpherson Road.
for anyone with the right hand to It as proposed to rent or sell inflict on himself a wound such as that which caused the death of houses, and the rent should be Frau Heydebrand, As motive for Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m. King Tea Dances: E.K. Hotel and somewhere between 830 and $40 a the alleged crim it is suggested Edward Hotel, 5 month, and the purchase price be
p.m.; Lane, tween $4,000 and 80,000.
that the accused man, who person- Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-0.30 Mr. Collyer emphasised that the main salary, wished to posses himself H.K. Football League: -Division.
ally had little more than his official pim.; Cafe Regent, 4.30-8.30 pm. idea was to show that houses of this of his wife's estate. It is true that I. Scots Guarde v. H.A.F. type could be built and let at rents in her will she left all her property which were nearer the limits of the to a nephew, but her husband is U.S.R.C, 4.45 pm.
Hockey: Chab ist XI . K.O.S.B., family man than shophouse rents. said to have been ignorant of this Certain formalities have to be at the time of her death, and to completed before work con be have expected to become her sole started, but it is hoped to let the heir. building contracts shortly."
A singular feature of the case 15 that, though under the capital charge, Herr Heydebrand was not | Deacon. arrested.
the
Tiong Bahru Scheme, The other big scheme which the Improvement Trust has in hand is the levelling and filling of seventy acres of land at Tiong Bahru, at the back of the General Hospital and the Asylum.
This land was acquired by the Government for suburban develop- ment, and after it has heen laid out and put into a condition for permanent building it will be sold by the Trust, who will exercise general control over the design and appearance of the buildings to be put up.
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Cafe Regent dinner dance, 8 p.. Queen's Theatre;. Aas the
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Thursday. Cathedral Women's Workers' Guild: Address by the Rev. G. E. MYSTERIOUS OUTBREAK ON land in the 19th Century, St.
Hewitt on "The Church of Eng-supervision of the Proprietres
TERMS MODERATE, Special Terms to Families on,applic John's Cathedral Hall, 10 8.22. tion to Committee meeting, 10.30 a.m1.
Mas. J. E. OXBERKY, New Territorice Agricultural
Propristrou Show, Tung Ying Hok Po, Sheung Bhui. Prince's Building and Land Co., HONG KONG. WEEKLY
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Garrison Football League: B. Coy. K.0.8.B. v. H.Q 1 K.0.8.B B.A.0.C.. D. Coy. K.0.8.B.; Bookumpoo, 4.15 p.m.
A tongkang, fully loaded with druma of benzine, belonging to the The scheme is at present held up Standard Oil Co. of New York, until alternative accommodation caught fire on the Jelutong side of has been provided for the 2,000 Penang harbour on Monday night. squatters on the land, and until and was quickly transformed into the Hokien Kongsi bave removed a huge floating blaze visible for the Chinese graves now dotted iniles around, ~· about the area. Outraan Road, The crew cut the tongkang adrift. which is the main road to the day and it eventually-heme stuck on trict, will be widened; and a new the mudbanks, Light men were. main road will be run through the badly burned and were taken to area, together with sub-divisional hospital and several had marrow Toads. The open spaces which are escapes. such a welcome feature of the Im- The damage is estimated at provement Trust lay-outs will also 810,000. The cause of the outbreak be provided
is a mystery-Straili Times.
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Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoys 30-3OUNTAINING ALL THE WEEK'S Crawford's Restaurant, p.m.; Cafe Regent, 4.30-8.30 p.m.
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