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No. 21,684 ### BABADANT HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11th, 1928. *_¤ŒÏƒ€¥Â¤¤¬Ħ¶X PRICE
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE.
WEEKS DAYS.
A.M. AM) AM, | AM.
T....P.M.P.X. P.X
Dap. 6.40 8.05 Dep. 6.49
Dap 7.15
9,10 10.00 13,00 1.18) 9,20 10.07 12.07 1.23 9.83 10,19 1238 1.34 8.45 10.5 12.22 1.47 955 10.38 12.36 1.31 10.06 10.46 12.46 2.01 10.10 10.51 1281 2.06
2.134,885,48
4:49 5.40 4.54 6.09
7.15 7.23 7.35
5,07,$10 8.15 5.11 6.19
7.52"
5.21 8,90
5,25 3,36
19.03 8.07
1016 10.57 1957 212 2.55 5.32.6.41
8.13
Kowloon Termati Bhatis
Tate Dep.7.2 Fanling
Bhangabri Dep. 7.35
Shamann Art, 241 8.45
Canton ...ATT.- 11.50 5.38
Canton
...Dep..
Bhamshank Dep. 7.18 8.05 10.34 11.09 Shengshui Dep, 7.25 -8.32 10.41
...Dep. 730 8.16 10.48
TipoMarket Dep, 740 896 10.56 ...Dep. 7.44 8.31 11.00 ...Dept. 7.57 8.44 11.13
@batin Yaamat! Dep. 11 8.58 11.25 Kowloon
Fanling
[J
Tipo
Kowloom
7.48
A..AM. A
AM
LJ.
7.M. P.K. PJ.
8.05
8,30
11,372.58 | 4,47
3.49 .6.24
11.44 3.05 4.48
5.56
11.49 8.10 4.50
6.00
12.00
3.21 3.02
8.10
12.05
9.26
8.98 6.07
6.15
12.19 3.59 6.30
6.09
12.81 8.51 6.32
T. 8.17 9.04 11.31 11.49
1287 8.57 5,98
6.40 6.46 7.04
SUNDAYS. AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.
.
hot...| AM. A.M.| 8.05 8.30 9.04
... Dep. 6,40
Yaumati. Dep. 6.49 ... Dep. 7,01
Shatin
Tsipo ...Dep. 7.15 TaipoMarket Dep. 7,20 Fanling Dep. 7.33 Sheangahul.. Dep
7,95
Aham Chan, Art, 7,41
ÅTT. - Dantou
Canton ... Dep
A
A.M. A.X. T...P.M. TX, 9,10 10.00 12.00 2.94 2.15 5.18 7.15 9.20 10.07 19.07 2.91 5.25 7.28 9,33 10.19 12.19 248-5.537.36 10.32.12.39 2.56-5,52 7.48 9.48
3.38 7.5% 9.53 10,86 12.36 3,00-
8,07 8,09 10.05 10.46 13.4618,10
6.12 8.07 9,079.41 10,10 10,41 19.51816; 8.45 9.131 9.47 10.18 10.57 12.57 8.91 2.65 0.18 8.38 11.30
6.36
6.03
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Fanling ...Dep. 8.16 10,46
A.X. 1. W
8.05 Shun Chan.. Dep. 8,06 10.94 11.09 Sheangabad..Dep. 8,19 10.41
F.X,
F.M. 3.1.
7.W,
3,201
2.58
5,00 5.34 5.58
0.54
$.05
6.41 5.07
6.03
11.49
6.0
12,00
6.17
Tipa
12.00
6,21
Shatin
1L18
12.19
6,58
6.84
12.3
6,50
6,43
KowloonA 903 11.81 11:49 12,87
8.58
6.17
6.52
7,04
• FIRST CLASS ONLY.
Taipe Market Dep.8.28 10,56
... 8.31 11.00
9.45 Dep Yanmati Dep. 837 11,95
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SOLE AGENTS
TEL
TWO VIEWS ON ATTEMPT TO KILL
CHANG TSO LIN.
CHIANG KAI SHEK.
GENERAL SUTTON AND MAJOR NATHAN.
INFERNAL MACHE IN A COFFING
MEETING OF BRITISH AND CHINESE CORPORATION~
HOW THE TROUBLES IN CHINA EFFECT THE RAILWAYS.
The sack of Cantón by the Reds is only one more step towards the whole of China going Red unless Britain takes a strong line of action Southerners," said against the General Frank Sutton, late military adviser to Marshal Chang Tso Lin, General to the Daily Express, Sutton is now in London.
PLACED ON
NANKING E
DIARY OF EVENTS.
Today.
Fanling Hund: Meet at Kennels, 2,45 pm,
terport Football Practice “Match : FheigKong. A. F.;
H.K.F.C. ground, 345 p.m.
Services Football United Shield Competition: Hal:S. Car iisle e. K.0.8.B.s. Sookuapoo, 9
Tea Dances: HK. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m." King Edward Hotel, à p.m.; Lang, Craw ford's Restaurant, 4,30-6.30 p.m.; Cafe Regent, 6.30 p.m.
Hockey Club 1st XI. Army (Sim Shield). L.S.R.C., 4.5 p.m. Cafo Regent dinner dance, 8 p.m. Entries close for St. Peter's Young Men's Club Billiards' Tour- nament Championship. 8 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: La Boheme." World Theatre: A Thief in Paradise,"
SHANGE, Jan 4th.. Chief among the events of the Commukist demonstration in Chi-'} nese sections on Tuesday last week, assiduously withheld from the for- eiga Press but of great interest to the Shanghai public; were two at tempted derailments of trains uponi which Chiang Kai Shek proposed Fortunately the first travelling. was decoreled through the mis adventure of Chinese farmer, who curiously attempted to investigate Chang Tso Lin is British trade's what the arrangement meant, and warned of the only barrier against the Red the General' was. menace in China. Japan is sup dangers he might encounter whilst The en route to Nanking. Adequate porting him: so should we. Reds control the Chinese, Eastern precautions were taken and further Railway, one of the most import designs upon his life were averted. The original bombs had beru ant strategic lines, and Russian
a cófia alongside the officers and N.C.O's. are driling placed in the Southern forces. Their object track of the Shanghai-Hangchow is to undermine British prestige! Line near Sungkiang, in such a way and trade in China. They have that the movement of the locomo- Ared on British gunboats and im-tive would brush against a bamboo prisoned Captain Lalor, but they pole connected with, the coffin and The innocent, farmer aw bomb. American or have not fred on French boats or maltreated their the device, and manipulated the aubjects. The reason is that they bamboo pole. He is dead as a Recreio.
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Star Theatre: "The Rainmaker." Dick Norton and his "Globe Trot. In aasormation with the GRANT HOTEL Price's Building. Tel. Central 75. term" in "Happy" Moments,"
Thursday. Star Theatre, 0.15 p.m
Cathedral Women's Workers' Guild: Corporate Communion; St. John's Cathedral, 10 am; Com- mittee Meeting, 10.30 a.m.
Annual Distribution of Prizes Ellis Kadoaric School for Indiana,
by Mfr. A. 1 Arculi, 11.30 am.
Garrison Football League: 12h
Sookun poo, 4.13 p.m. H. Bty. R.A. 31st H. Bty. "R.A. Tea Dances: HE Hotel and Hotel Savoy. 4.30 p.m.; Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-0.30 Club de Hockey: .C.A. t. Reception to welcome the Rev.
Cathedral Hall, 4.45 p.m.
p.m
wish to get rid of Britain, for result The explosion failed to and Mrs. Alfred Swann, St. John's
Britain is the only Power they really fear. They are encouraging
damage the track.
A further search of the Shanghai-
Nanking Line revealed two addi- tional borbe event other
America and France to steal our trade because they know that ence they have got us out of the country possible demonstration Chiang
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America and France will easily he/ Kai Shek's train was preceded by Victoria, at St. John's Cathedral TIFFIN HOURS: DINNER HOURS"
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by the Rev. Bishop Duppuy, 5.30 pm
Music from Shakes Musicale: pear," Helena May Institute, 5.30 Cafe Regent dinner dance, & p.m. The Fire Queen's Theatre: Brigade.
World Theatre: "The Taxi
shaken off Unless we act-at-onec-
The Chinese papers state that 250 we can write off all British invest Nationalist soldiers on the same ments in China, and you can also evening in Nantao disarmed 50 re- wipe out any hope of future trade, gruits, who are believed to be p.m. for China will become simply agents of General Sun Chuar Fang.
A demonstration in Pootung dependency of Moscow. It is no 100 unemployed men, who had use voting millions of pounda to gathered in the vicinity of the Mit- defend à concession in Shanghai. sui Coalyard, and who fired on the military when they approached, What good is Shanghai if the rest
was broken up by the vigour of the of the country is allowed to go soldiers. Several are reported to Red? Shanghai depends, as a have been wounded. " trading base, entirely on the sub-1 wry behind it. If China goes Red, Shanghai will be a head without a body."
Dancer."
$1
ters Star Theatre, B.15 p.m.
Star Theatre: "Satan in Sables." Dick Norton and his "Globe Trot- Scenes and Screams," in Principal Mails:-Inward: Alleged bandite, but who are be-Europe via Negapatam, letters lieved to have acted in concert with (Hector) the other gangs raided Huangto, seven miles toward Narking on the Annual Distribution of Prizes at railway, but were rewarded only Queen's College by HE
Cecil Clementi, with several rifles-N.-C. Daily Governor (Sir
K.C.M.G.), 11 am.
Second Round of U.S.R.C. Tennis HOARDED GOLD TO PAY Tournament (open events) to be
News.
FOR GIFTS.
MAJOR NATHAN. Speaking at the annual meeting of the British and Chinese Cor- poration, Ltd., Major Walter S. Nathan, R.E., C.M.G., the chair- man, placed Marshal Chang Tao Lin It was an- in a different light. nounced that the Corporation could of. poy no dividend and that a sum 131,000 odd of the earnings of the year, being balance of interest" due to the Corporation from the Chi- Lese Government, was in default.
And half. More sovereigas Continuing, Major Nathan said: The railways, though nominally sovereigns are being passed over under the control of the Ministry shop counters in London this Christmaatide than have been send of Communications, continue in fact since the early days of the war, to be used as instruments of
civil
we
SOVEREIGNS BROUGHT OUT AT CHRISTMAS, "
completed.
Friday.
the
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel SA707,
4.30
p.m.; King p.m.; Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30 Edward Hotel 5 p.m.; Cafe Regent; 5.30 pm
Annual meeting Cymdeithas Dewi Sant (Hong Kong St. David's Society), Mr. D. J. Lewis' office, Messra Johnson, Stokes and Mas-
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Cafe Regent dinner dance, 8 p.m. Queen's Theatre: "The Fire Brigade"
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and "Scenes There is searly a railway book- ing office which has not received a Screams," Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m. TL F. No. 3. Tel, Ad: "PALACE” Principal Mails Outward: Three Minutes from Kowloon Whart sovereign or half-envercise during Europe via Siberia (Hector), ́5
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Saturday.
says a London." paper. war whenever occasion demands, Modern misers who have hidden and their earning capacity is, with stocks of gold coins in secret one exception, gravely impaired. drawers for many years are now The exception I have in mind is taking their precious hogids out the Peking-Mukden Railway, Dur for use. ing most of the months of the year under review this tailway has not been directly disturbed by civil war, and its earnings have recently ex- ceeded all records. But, unfortu
A hall sovereign was tendered | p.m. - nately for British bondholders and for a twopenny fare in a Woolwich
Bankruptcy Court, 10.30 a.m. tramear on Saturday. The owner this corporation, the respect for
"Distribution of prizes at Elis obligations, which
have been had no other money with him, and accustomed to associate with the follow
12
Tassenger promptly Kadoorie School by the Hon. Sir Chinese reputation for fair dealing, has not been shown by Marshal bought the coin for ten shillings Shou Son Chow, 10.30 am.
Fanling Hunt: Meet at Mr Hartford'e Bungalow, 2.45 p.m. Chang Tao Lin and his subordi
Entries close for Hong Kong Dates, who are now in control" of
Jockey Club Annual Race Meeting, this railway. Ita surplus earnings
behalf, have been which are hypothecated to the made on our
Entries close for Colony's Chees bondholders of the Shanghai-Hang- ignored. The result is that British chow-Ningpo Railway Loan of 1909, bondholders and this corporation Championshi
Yachting: 7th Championship race and of the Shanghai-Fengching are placed in the curious position Hallway. Mortgage. Redemption of financing quite against their for racing yachts.
Cricket League:-Division: Uni- Loan of 1914, as well as to this will one of the contending parties corporation, as security for the in the Chinese turmoil, at a time verity . Chinees B.O.; Craigen- v. Kowloon C.C.; Peking-Mukden Railway Double when it is the declared policy of gonwer C.C.
.Hoyal Navy- preserve a 1.B.C. "A" Track Loan of 1921, have been used H.M. Government to by Marshal Chang To Lia for rail- strict neutrality. The funds seques Disini II: Royal Navy Civil way extensions and betterments, trated monthly by Marshal Chang Service 0.0, 2nd XI.; Kowloon and, indeed, for other purposes in Tso Liz from this source namely, C.C.R.E.
Friendly Cricket: H.K.C.C. e. Manchuria without any regard for the surplus earnings of the Peking- which they should first be applied. ficed in a few months to extinguish v. H.K.C.C. 2nd XI.; Club de Re- Our own protests against this all the arrears due to British bond-ereio . University 2nd XI.
Tes Dances: HK Hotel and flagrant and long-continued infrac holders and ourselves; but all tion of agreements, and the diplo-offorts to secure recognition of the Hotel Bavoy, 4.30 p.m.; Lane, matic protests of H.M. Minister British liens on these funds bave so Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30 (Continued at foot of next column.) i fer failed."
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