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No. 21,721 號登廿百柒仟登萬弍第 ·日肆初月弍辰戊
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
WEEKS DAYS.
AM. L.M. ASE, J.M.
F.M.) P.M. {{P.M. | F.K,
Kowloon
Dep. 6.40 8.05
Yauma. Dep. 6.49
9,10 10.00 12.00 138 2.15 485 5,48 9.20 10.07 12.07 129- 9.83 10.19 12.19 1.34- 19.82 1292 1.47 -
4.48 5,50
4.54 6,01 5.07
7.15 123 7.33
4.15 7.49
5.11 519
7,53
5.91 8.308.02
10,1 10.87 11,57 2.12 2.5
5.26 0.35 5,32 6.41
8.07 BIJ
Bhatin
7,01
DIN 7.15 10.58 12.35 1.31
Tipo Market Dep. Fanling
7.80
Bheangahul „Dep. 735 Bhameauna, 741 8.45
10.05 10.48 12.45 201
10.10 10.51 12.51 2,00
Canton ...A7. — $11.50 5.38
Canton
„Dep
232
A.M.
P.J.
PX.
8,05
་་
11.27 9.88 441 11.44 8.08 4.48 11.49 8.10 4.52
6.49 5.56 8.00
6.94
14,00 8.31 5.02
#10
1206 826 5.07
BJK
12.19 3.39 5.20 12.81 8.51 5.32 12.87 8,57 5.58
6.28
6.40
6.46
7.04
Shemahan... Dep. 738 8.05 10.34 11.09 Shengshui.Dep. 7.25 8.13 10.41 Fanling Dep. 7.30 8.18 10.46 Tipo Market Dep. 7,40 8.28 10.50 Dep. 7.44 831 11.00 Dep. 757 8.44 11,13 M.Dep. 9.11 886 11.25
Termati Kowloos
8.17 8.04 11.31 11.49
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.
A.
Kowloon...Dep. 6,40 || Yazmati...Depj 8,49 Shatin Dop 7.01
Taipo
Dep2,15
Taipo Markot Der 720
7.30
•
AMAM. A.M. 8.05 8.30 8.04
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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24th, 1928.
MEDICAL VIEW OF TEA DRINKING.
伍拜禮
日肆廿月弍年八廿百九仟暨英
DIARY OF EVENTS.
INJURED MAN PUT
ON LINE.
AFTER BEING RUN DOWN
BY CAR.
MOTORIST CHARGED WITH
MURDER.
PARIS
What is alleged to be one of the most terrible murders in the his- tory of crime is being investigated by the French police, who have arrested a motorist. The charge against him is that he took the body of a Polish workman, whom he had knocked down and seriously injured, and placed it on the rail; way line to be cut to pieces by the first train to pass that spot.
The night train from Meaux to Senlis had just left Montiryan
'A LUXURY AND OF NO:
REAL VALUE"
AWFUL EFFECTS OF FIVE
CUPS A DAYoun
"A average cup of freshly-made tea will improve typewriting, the naming, of colours, the cancellation of certain letters in a page of print, and calculations.
This is one of the main coticlu sions established by DER J. S MeDowen. F.R.C.F., in an article on the physiological action of tea as a beverage, published in the Dingend Jubilee number of the Practitioner.
The tests, he explains, were made by HolEngworth with a dose of caffeine equivalent to that contain-
St. Martine Day. Holena Hay Institute Study Circle, 10:30 am.
Bible
eth Ordinary Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong and Territorial Estates, Ltd.; St. George's Build leg, 11 am.
Bealios Public School Prize Dis tribution by Lady Chow, Queen's College Hell, 3 p.m.
Tea Dancer: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.so.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.; Laze, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30 p.m.; Cafe Regent, 5-6.30 pm.
Hockey Club "A". Club de Recreio, King's Park, 3 p.m.
Annual Meeting of Seatholders, Union Church, Kennedy Road, 3.20 ̧ p.m.
8th Annual Meeting Queen's College Old Boys Association, Queen's College Hall, 5.30 p.m.
Cale Regent dinner dance, B.p.m. Annual Dinner of Artillery Com--
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something across the rats but was unable to pull up the train, which ran over and muthinted the body of the workman.
made tea.
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FOG VALİZM | 206,"|
Quite a brief infusion of tea, ap. 9,10 10,00 12,00 2,94 2.15 6,18 736
parently, extracts from the ten haf City Hall; 8.30 0. 12.07 2.81 5226723 9.00 10.07
afil practically
'the available 9.33 10,19 12.19 23-5.58 735
caffeine, while the longer the tea 5.52 9.48 10,82 2,531 10.86 10.00 - 17.00
17.59
is infused the greater the amount of tannin extracted. 10.08 10:46 12.48 8.10 6.07 80
6.17 8.07
Taning. Dep.
Sheungshui..DepŲ) Bham Chan Art, 7.41 Canton
235
9:07 9.41 10,10 10,51*1231 | 9,15| 8.45 0.138.47 10.16 10.57 12.57 831 ∙11.50
5.38
03-
Canton
AX.
8,05
Sham Chan, Dop 805 1054 11.09 11,37
Bheangahai..Dep. 812 1041
Tanline
Dep. 818 1046
Taipo Market Dep. 825 10.56 Taipo
Dep 8.51 11.00
Bhatin Dep 8,45 11.18
Yazmati Dep 8.57 11.25
* Kowloon Art. 9.03 1181
IX. -73.
2.58 500 5,84|| 5,58-
1.X.
8.201 6.341
11,44
2,10 11,40
8,05 3.07 0.41 6.09
5.11 19.00 8.21 8.21
6,07
8.17
12.05 2,28 16.25
3,99 12.19
1,58 19.51 $.5T 6.30 1-10-19.57-857-8,56 6.17
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The dead man bas, been identified as a Pole named Gramlika, work ing at a farm near Monthyon. By accident the police, as they were placing the body on a stretcher, noticed on the roadside pieces of broken glass and the brass fasten- ing of a motor car lamp. A day dater & Belgian labouros told the authorities that he was driving on the road near the railway line-on the evening in question when be noticed a car standing on the road side with its lights out. The driver told him there had been an accident but that everything was all right
Dar's Broken Lamp. The police hays arrested Bloque, building contractor. An examination of his car showed that one of the lamps was broken and that its brass fastening was miss.
Two men who had been in the
car with Bloque have made a state ment to the police, according to which the contractor and bis com- panions were returning home after a drinking bout when they knock over Grambka
"It is evident," he adds, that the idea of diluting strong and stale tea for second cups is quite. fallacions, since the majority of the caffeine is taken out by the first infusion. It may be desirable to dilute the later infusions because of their tannins content, but it is not necessary to dilute quite a strang cup from a first infusion." A curious point noted is that with caffeine there is no evidence of depression subsequent on purely stimulating dogseven though teste are reported as inter-
up to even bears
The disadvantages of tea" lie in its excessive consumption and in the possibility of bad preparation, and in excess the caffeine may bring about... nervolg. ́excitation, with tremors and disturbed sleep, headache and general ineficiency?
The statement in quoted that the
effects of excess might, especially in a young person; be produced by five cups a day.
Y.M.C.A. Dance, Pianoforte Recital by Mr. Harry, Ore, assisted by Mrs. E. Dunbar (soprano), at the residence of Mr. L. Dunbar, Hutnomah," May
Road 9.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Lovers."
"Altars of World Theatre: Desire."
Star Theatre: "The Road to Yesterday
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Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor poration, City Hall, noon.
Fanting Hunt: Drag Hunt, meet at Mr. Potts Bungalow, 245 p.m. for the racing yachts.
Yachting: Presented Cups race.
Hong Kong Jockey Club's 1st Extra Raco Meeting, Happy Valley.
C.C. v. Civil Service C.C. HE. C.C. v. H.E.C.C.; H.K. University C.C. 2nd XI. HM.S. Tamer: C.R.C. r. Queen's Begt.
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Cricket League:- Division I.:Thirty Kowloon C.C.. Royal Artillery. Among the conclusions reached Division II: Civil Service C.C. are chat the moderate consumption 2nd XI. v. Kowloon C.C. 2nd XI. of properly, made tea has no Friendly Cricket: Craigengover taken with meals it acts as a useful serious disadvantages, and that antagonist to the Onewhat oporific effect of the meal itself; that it is essentially a luxury and of no real value excent that it We got cut of the car and promotes a sense of wellbeing; and could see that he was badly injur that when urns are in use, the tea ed," said M. Boucher, one of the should be made in teapela by rapid passengers Bloque and Patron iafusion with boiling water and (the other man in the car) picked | poured into the larger vessels which him up by his legs and arms and may then be kept bested cas re- placed him on the railway line, quired. saying: we shut our mouths,
nobody will know about it.
M. Boucher decinred that when
the injured man was placed on the
line he was still groaning.
EASY GEOGRAPHY,
Football: Sunday Herald Char- ity Cup Final: Scotland . China, H.K.F.C. ground, 4.16 p.m.
Hockey H.K. Ladies Hockey Club Kowloon British School Former Pupils' Assoc., King's Pl
Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy," 4.30 p.m.; Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4:30-6,30 p.m.; Cafe Regent, 6-8.30 p.m.
Bloque admitted having run the DEVICE FOR MAKING MAPS Hotel, & p.m.-
man down but denied that the Pole was still alive when placed on, the Vine:
Cheer OY.M.ⱭA: Im promptu Concert, 8 p.m.
Cafe Regent and King Edward Hotel dinner dances, 8 p.m.
Old Haileyburians dinner, H.K.
Cricket Club Craigengower Bachelors Dance, § p.m.
Queen's Theatre: Lovers." World Theatre: "Altars of Desire."
IN SCHOOL.
"Every boy his own map-maker" may be the slagan of to-morrow's 17,000 MINERS' POVERTY. schoolrooms, if an invention by
Mr. Mont Folck, FR.G.S., be Star Theatre: "The Rondo comes popular. It is an ingenious | Yesterday."
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Sunday. 1st Sunday in Lent
LONDON, Jan 17th.
The Avan Valley, a colliery area in South Wales and an offshoot of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's, consti- tuency, is undergoing very severe depression. In the thres villages of Blaengwynfi, Cymmer, and Aberkenfig there are 17,000 people unemployed, which is 65 per cent of the population.
So acute is the poverty that 25 shops closed their doors on Satur- day, and the miners are leaving in Sange crowds for the agricultural areas in the hope of getting work. The sobriety of the valley has been reflected in the police court, where there has not been a case for three weeks, and this is due to enforced temperande..
Mr. Mont Folliek's patent con-
riete of a dissected map within a Golf: Junior Championship frame, mounted on wood. It is (semi-final), Fanling; Junior dissected along, the county boua-Section: Championship (1st round) daries, each map section correspon Happy Valley. ding to a county. The papil can
Fanling Hunt: Point-to-Point thus build up the surface of Eng- Rice. and county by county and “take. "Yachting: Presented Cups race it to pieom again, gaining an in- for the Cruisers. timate knowledge of the shape and Theosophies Society Lecture, situation of each one.
Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, á p.m. 7
"Cheer "O" YMC.A.: Music, 7.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: The Side Show of Life”
To represent towns, studs are provided to correspond in size with. the site or population of time towns They fit into holes, which corres pond with the size of the stud. The pupil, finding a small hole, will World Theatre The Grens look for a small stud and will thus Love (5.15 0.20 p.m.); Chinese learn not only the potion, but Drama The Romance of a Star" also the size of the torms. The (7.15 p.m.).
* Star Theatre stads can be marked on the back with the name of the town, the Youth." the population and such other in-
In normal times, it is stated, the public-house barrelage is 60 to so week, but last week the supply
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