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Dep. 8.40 8.05
Dep. 5.49
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4.49 5,50 4.54 8.04
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6,07 8.15
7.30
7,35 7.48
6,11 619
Yanmati Bhatin
..... Dep. 7.01
Tuipo ...Dep. 7.15 Calpe Market Dea, 7.20
Fanling ...Dep. 7.30
Bheungshu..Dep. 7,35
10.05 10.46 12,48 2,01) —. 6.21 680 10,10 10.51 12.61 206 5.24 8,33 BaumchneArt. 7.41 8.45 10.16 10.67 12.37 9.12 2.53 3,52 8,41 Canton
11.30 5.38!
Canton
6.05
Shamongs Dap. 7.18 8.05 10.34 11.09 11.37 3.68 4.41 Shuughxi Dep 125 822 101 Fanling ..Dep. 2,30 8,16 | 10.45
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5.49 5.36
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Taipo Markst Dep. 7.40 8.28
10.58
12.00 | 821 | 5,02
8.10
12,08 8:26 3,07
8.15
Dep. 7,57 8,44 11,13
12.19 8.39 5.30
6.2%
Dep. 11 R6 11.25
12.81 8,51 5.99
6.40
Kowloon
...AIT. 8.17 : 9.03 11,31 11,49 | 123
8.57
5,38 8,46
7.04
Taipe
Shatin
Yaunati
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4.
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Bhatia
Taipo
Dep: 6,40 ...Dep. 7.01 Dep 7,18
Vet Dep, 720
...Dep.7,30
Shengshui.. Dep. 7.35 Sham Chun.ATT. 7,41 Canton
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Canton
A.K. A.M. A.M. AM A.X. A.M. M. M||1.3. || VM, 8.05 8.30 9.04 9.10 10,00 12,00 3,24 2.155.18 7.15
8.2010.07 12.07 2.31 6.98 7.3 5.38 7.35 9.33 10.19 1219 9,43
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9.48 10.82 12.3256 3.52 7,48
9.53 10,38 12.36 3.00-8.56 7.39 10.05 10.48 12.461 3.10 6.07 9.09 9.07 8.41 10.10 10,51 12.5119.15-16,19 3,07 8.45 0.13 9.47 10.16-10.37 12,57 331 2.5516,188,13
6.03 - 11.50
5.38
A.M.
8,05
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2.68
5,00
5.34 8.58
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3,201 6.24
11.44
8.05
5.07
5.42
0.09
Taipo Market Dep. 8.23 10,50 Taipa
Fanling Dep, 8.16
9.16 10,48
11,49 3,10 5.11
6.07
Dep. 8.31 11.00
19,00 12.05 $.26 5,25 12.19 8.89
3.21 5.21
6,17
3,57 5,56
6.17
7.04
Shatin
Dep. 8.45 11,13
Ysamati Dep. 8.57 11.25
Kowloon 9.09 11.81 11.49
5.38 12.31 3,51 5,50 19.57
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MUSIC FROM THE
AIR.
UNCANNY ALBERT HALL CONCERT.
PUZZLED LONDON AUDIENCE.
LONDON, December 13th A slim young man in a dinner jacket stood on the platform of the Albert Hall last night, and, moving his hands up and down above a wireless instrument, drew violin
music out of the air. It was un- canny. It was unnatural; but the music was so remarkable that the great audience, which contained many Iamous musicians, broke into loud applause.
WEAKLING"
SCHOOLBOYS.
PARENTS AND NE VES.
COLLEGE DOCTOPS"
CRITICISME
of
We do not want too much eat- ton wool or hot-house treatment to develop the kind of boy which this country wants," sud Dr. L. R. Lempriere, Medical Officer Haileybury College, speaking at the Public Institute of Health London, au "The Health of the Public
Dr. Len- Schoolboy priere, who has been at Haileybury for twenty-five years. said it was his experience that boys returned to school after holidays out of condition. The time allowed for bathing at public schools, he The concert was Professor Leo thought, was much too long, and was responsible for a considerable Theremin's first public demonstra- amount of debility and loss of Twenty minuter in the tion in England of the apparatus weight.
school swimming plunge which he has invented for drawing ample. Ile found that the public was
music from the air. Professor schoolboy of to-day was taller than Theremin is thirty years of age, the boy of forty years ago, but was "He is professor at the State In more of a Sybarite and a weak
ing. There were more weaklings stitute of Technical Physics 4th the English public schools to- at Leningrad, and his invention is day than formerly, although it was so unusail that he is now touring not public school life which was the world with it. His next demon-responsible for this. It was due to the material supplied; it wIS stration will be in America.
not the soil, but the pred.
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"Harnessing The Howl." The instrument looks like an ordinary large wireless set. A two- foot brass aerial rises at one end of it and a circular metal hoop at the other. As the human hand, which
is a conductor of electricity, enters the electro-magnetic field round this aerial the pitch."of the
Public Schools Good For Spolled Children,
DIARY OF EVENTS.
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Cathedral Women's Workers' Guild Corporate Communion, St. John's Cathedral, 10 am; Com- mittee Meeting. 10.50 ..
Annual Distribution of Prizes Ellis Kadoorie School for Indiana, by Mr. A el Arculi, 11.30 am.
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DE WAGON Lits, Pexixo. Shau Tsang, as Archdeacon of Chinese work in the Diocese of Victoria, at St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. Bishop Duppuy, "5.30 p.m.
Musicale: Music from Shakes pear," Helena May Institute, 5.37
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Cafe Regent dinner dance, 8 pm. Queen's Theatre:
The Fire
"The Toxi
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World Dancer.
Theatre:
Star Theatre: "Satan in Sablés." Dick Norton and his "Globe Trot- in "Scenes and Sereams," Cers Star Theatre, 9.15 p..
Mails:-In ward: Principal Europe via Negapatam, letters
The weakling type of boy wRS found more in the public schools of the South than in those of the North, and represented from 10 to | 15 per cent. of the "whole 'school Catarrhal defects caused more, illness, loss of work(Hector). population. and play, and interfered more with the happiness of boys than any other disease
bygien waa
Friday.
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the intensity of the tone, which varies from the softest pianissimo to the most thunderous fortissimo, as the hand approaches is regulated or recedes from the metal hoop. What Professor Theremin seems to -have donó is to harness the wireless
hawl.
The noise he made last night. magnified by amplifers, could have lifted the roof from the Albert Hall. He produced notes in contrast as anft as velvet, and so high that the car could not register them,
"Remarkable Expression."
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dental hygiene was very
Parents were good. mainly responsible for nervous all- ments among bays. The highly nervous boy was invariably found to be a spoiled child, and the best possible cure was the public school life. Defective eyesight was very common, and 20 to 25 per cent. of those who entered the schools had bad eyesight. The effect of public school life on the individual was in the majority of cases bicin, and resulted in the wonkling be coming robust, and the nervous boy growing confident and self-con- trolled.
Higher Standard Of Cleanliness Needed!
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Annual meeting Cymdeithia Dewi Sant (Hong Kong St. David's Society). M. D. J. Lewis' office, Mears. Johnson, Stokes and Mas ter, 6.30 p.m.
Saturday.
Cafe Regent dinner dance, 8 n.. "The Fire Queen's Theatre: Many people considered that the public school was not the Brigade." He played with remarkable ex-
Theatre : "The Taxi place for the weakling, but he dia- pression Schubert's "Ave Maria.agreed c quite recognised that Offenbach's Musette, Saint-Saens such a bay was a nuisance and an
Star Theatre: "Satan in Sables." "The Swan," Rubinstein's "Nigh" anxiety, but he had as much right
Dick Norton and his "Globe As the robust to the advantages Serenms," Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m. and several other popular nirs.
in Scenes Trotters
and They were loudly, applauded by which the system offered.. critical audience. There were mo
Principal Mails Outward: wrat when with closed eyes it was
Europe via Sheria (ector), 5 possible to imagine that one
p.m.. listening to a violinist, to a 'cetlist. "In our pubËe schools we dn- and to a soprano. There were mo doubtedly want a very much higher ments when it seemed that ontwas standard of cleanliness, both per- listening to a drunken violinist play-sonal and general," he said. The ing with a buttered bow.
food was good, but there was an The The audience left impressed but hours of work require sane
insufficiency of fresh fruit. puzzled. They were impressed by modification in the era of the the weird sight of this young maa standing before them and just pick-alloy, who worked as long as ing violin music out of the air, forms. Only in the summer time shaking his fingers in the empty should. study be demanded before air, and preincing an emotional breakfast. At Haileybury he for- tremolo; plucking t invisible
bade the wearing of overcoats ex- strings and" producing staccato
But they wondered if they cept when sports were being wit notes.
nessed, or during had seen a revolution in music or merly a seven days' wonder. When Mr. Bernard Shaw heard it at a private concert on Saturday he said that he had heard better noises on a comb covered with tissue paper!
Notes To Be Tamed. Professor Theremin believes that all the notes of an orchestra, brass, woodwind, and drum, are in the air rendy" to be tamed and harnessed as he has harnessed the wireless violin. He believes that in time he will be able to create a wireless orchestra capable of greater range and expression than any orchestr which blows with the human breath or draws horsehair over catgut
Bankruptcy Court, 10.30 m. Distribution of prizes at Elis Kadoorie School by the Hun. Sir Shan Son Chow, 10.30 a.ra. Hartford's Bungalow, 2.45 p.m.
Farling Bust: Meet at Mrs. Entries close for Hong Kong Jockey Club Annual Race Meting, his elder brother in the higher 3 pm close for Colony's Chess
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Yachting: 7th Championship race for racing yachts.
Cricket League Division I: Unk versity. Chinese R.C.; Craigen- Rower C.O.
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Dancer." Ruficient pince of historical and scania Professor tri sata Hotel (1 room
Alexander and I have been en- Star Theatre:
* Satan Intoret to fill a month with fresh walk or drive every day. Most healthy ticate his new invention and to gaged for dix months," she said Sables." sud saithrious spot in the Far Enea"
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