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ESTABLISHED 1857.
1928. BARA HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MAY 24th,
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
STATIONS
Kowloon
Yazmati
Bhatin
Talpo
TIME-TABLE.
UP TRAINS
Fat F«, & }X, 10 MG. & Wo. 13. 14. o 14 K«,23′Fall W», 34 36, 5620,36 LEAK. AM. AM, BAM. ZOON PR. PM) EM.Į VAL FEM | RM
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9,10 10,00 12.00 1.35 2,853,00 52010.08 13.06) 1.28
4,80 5,42 1,30
4.88 5.307.58
8.40 8.058.80
Dep. 7,01
Dep. 7,15
Thing Market Dep. 7.30
Fanling. Dep. 7,30
Bhengshui Dep. 7.35
Bhamakan
Canton
9.83 10,2011.30 1.34
9.48 16.98 12.35
5310.87.18.87
10.0510.47 18.47], 201|
9.07 10.10/10.59 12.59 9.06
7,41 8:45 9.13 10.1510.88 12.58 2,12 3.20
6,48
-13.50-
5.38
DOWN TRAINS
STATIONS No. 1
AM 4.K...
Danton ...Dep.
fATT.
I
450 6.02 7.50 8.15 8.08 $148.07
9,41 8.37
6.47
26.77|#1#^«, 17 No.19 No.3 No.13 36.15
A.M L.M. P.M.
8.05
11.05
8.30
6.21
ShamchanDep. 7.18 8.08 10.35 11.00 11.38 2.68 488 5.49 654 2.01
Shrungshui Dep, 7.35 8.11 10.43
Fanling
...Dep.
7.80
8.16 10,47
Taipo Market Dop.
Tapo www.Dep
Bhatia.
7.40 5.26.10.57
744 8.31 11.01 Dep: 7.57 3.44 11.14
Yazmati... Dep. 81156 11.28
Kowloon AF, 917 9,03 11.32 11,49
11.168.05
11.50 8.10 4.50
5.56 6.00
| 12,01 | 8.91 | 5.00 | 8.10
12.08 3.95 5.04 635
19.90 3.39517-6.28
12,2 3,51" 5,29 6.40
7,06
12.08 8.57 5.25 8.46 7.04|7,44
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BATTLE TERROR OF THE FUTURE.
UNDERGROUND FORTS VERSUS TANKS.
EXPERT'S VIEW.
MR. JUSTICE · AVORY · THREATENED.
ARMED GUARD IN COURT:
ANONYMOUS LETTER RECEIVED.
sat as a member of the Court of Criminal Appeal at the Law Courts
An armed guard was present in Military experts and all those who court on April 30th when Mr. Justice Avory, who presided grer were in close contact with the enemythe trial of Browne and Kennedy, during the war of 1914-1918 will be stirred by Colonel J. F. C. Fuller's
Two men ant in the body of the new prophetic book, "On Future court," and it is believed that two Warfare " (Sitton. Prade & Co., more were in the public gallery Ltd.), mys a Home paper. Con Later in the day, when the Court troversy will be raised by his vision monal Court, and there was no one was sitting as a King's Bench Divi- of a war of science, small man-
present who could not easily · be power, and death-dealing machines. identified, the guard left the court, Colonel Fuller, & General Staff but was maintained in the gallery,
Arrangements were also made for one of the the Judge officer, recognised as
be accompanied on his cleverest brains in the Army, has journeys to and from the courts by specialised in the study of thean, armed inspector of the City police, and a guard was placed at mechanised force, its effect on his house, tactics, and on the morale of mili- tary and civilian population..
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To-day.. (May 24th)
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Official Opering by Mrs. Duppuy of St. Peter's Club Bathing Shed Repulse Bay, 3.30.
Queen's Theatre: "Les Miser- ables."
World Theatre: The Frontiers-
man:"
Star Theatre: "The Boy Friend." Tea Dances H.E. Hotel and Hotel Saroy, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
Principal Mails:-In wardr Europe. vid Suez (Rampura).
Friday, (May 25th)
Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helens May Institute, 10.30 am,
Union Insurance Society of Can- 11 am,
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"On Future Warfare," with its ing letter received during the trial ton 9th ordinary yearly meeting, KING · EDWARD
cold, hard reasoning, its unemo- tional references to the casualties of war, its descriptions of mobile heavy gun platforms moving to the offensive, tanks in action, airplanes in operation, and gas attack will prove as discouraging to one ection of the public as it must inspire to further effort the mechanically minded among the professional soldiers.
Army Of 60,000.
The small army is foreshadowed for 1046 by Colonel Fuller, Sixty thousand officers and men, with 2,000 fighting machines, is his estimate."A microscopic force when compared to the horde armies of 1914-1918," he concludes "Yet, though during the last year of the war we used up as many tanks as the number I have just quoted, can it be doubted that if the organised force outlined had existed we could not have decimated these hordes as surely as Alexander decimated the Persians at Issua and at.Arbela ?" Colonel Fuller describes and ex- plains mechanised force at battle strength.
These precautions, which were taken against Mr. Justice Avory's wish, are the sequel to a threaten-
the previous week. It said in effect that if Kennedy was sentenced to death an attempt would be made to assassinate the judge. The hand-m writing, it is understood, was that of a woman
China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.. 18th ordinary yearly meeting, 11.13
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Meeting of Creditors of the Hong Kong and Territorial Estates, Ltd., noon.
Mrs. Kennedy, discussing the sending of such a letter with a re- porter, said "I am anxious to remove any wrong impression which may have been created in the minds of the public. I have written to Mr. Justice Avory assuring him that I did not write the threatening ||ables.” letter, and that I had no knowledge that such a letter had been written,
Property Sale: China Auction Rooms, 3 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Les Miser-
World Theatre:""The Frontiers- man."
Star Theatre: "The Boy Friend.” Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savay. 4.80 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
Principal- Mails:In word: Europe via Siberia (Malva). Out- ward: Europe rid Siberia (Fan-
I have also made it clear that, although I am still firmly convinced that my husband had nothing what- ever to do with the actual shooting of Police Constable Gutteridge, yet I was tremendously impressed with the Judge's scrupulous fairness throughout the trial and, indeed, the | pura), 80 am. fairness of all those connected with it. I would like also to thank the officials for their well-meant kind- ness to me throughout my terrible- ordeal."
No appeals had been received by the Court of Criminal Appeal up till April 31st either from Browne or Kennedy,
The great war ought by rights to have been an engineers' war. From the autumn of 1914 until, that of 1917, on the western Kennedy's appeal, it is under Iront, it was purely a series of stood, was to be lodged that his siege operations. In place of case was prejudiced because the being a war run by professional judge refused to order a separato engineers, it was war run by amateur pioneers, and, the result was a chaos of earthworks. " Elsewhere the writer refers to mistakes in the control of the grënt
War.
trial.
"SLIMMING
ORDER FOR LONDON POLICE?
BURLY CONSTABLES' FEAR.„
Saturday, (May 6th)
Queen Mary bora, 1867, Fifth Extra Race Meeting, Happy Valley, 2.30 p.m.
Golf: Whitsuntide Meeting. Queen's Theatre: "Les Miser- ables.
World Theatre: "The Frontiers-
man"
Star Theatre: "The Boy Friend." Tez Dances: HK Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30, p.m.; King Edward Hotel, s p.m.
Principal Mails":- Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Matwa),
10.30 a..
Sonday.
(May 27th) Whitsun Day.
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Unveiling of Queen's Rest PALACE HOTEL. Memorial Plaque at St. John's Cathedral, 9 am. by Col. Hayley Tas K. No. &. Tel 4: PALACE.
Three Minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Golf: Whitsuntide Meeting."
Ferry Wharf and Railway Station Queen's Theatre:
Entirely under English Management Electric Light and Fans Throughout.
"Thats My Daddy,"
World Theatre: "Three Weeks in Paria"..
Star Theatre: "Man of the Forest."
The army of the future will be "based on petrol
it will be
The chief topic of conversation in able to advance one hundred miles London police messrooms during "a,day. It must be comparatively the last week in April was & amali.. ..ita organisation must rumour that an altimatum from. be simple. It must, however, be headquarters, "reduce or retire," able to find the enemy, to hold him is to be issued. No official order. when met with, and when held to has yet made its appearance. Bell hit him and to pursue him. The There is concern not only about finding of an enemy will largely the present members of the force depend on air reconnaissance, and who may fail to train down to air power depends on landing the standard set but also about the facilities. Without air super-prospects of men just joining. iority surprise will be gravely re A police constablo said to a re stricted, and surprise in mechanical porter: "It may be that it is the warfare is obviously all-important." intention of headquarters to re- crait only men of slim build, but So the mechanised army will who can say what these men will be like ten years hence The big move forward by road and cross
of
divisions the London country, but there will be obstacles men
"Fatness" means fitness. bred out of the nations' appreciation Ninety-nine policemen out of, every
are fat.
hundred are fat because of an abun Fortifications are likely to dance of muscle, not because of a
superfluity of flesh.'"
Anil Tank Moats.
เ
of tanks.
numerous and small
shell.
Tea Dances: HK. Hotel and Hotel BaToy, 430 p.m.; King Edward Hotel; 5 p.m.
Monday. (May 28th.) Whit Monday. Fifth Extra Race Meeting, Happy Valley, 2.30 p.m.
All day Picnic St. Peter's Club. Queen's Theatre: "Thats My
World Theatre: Thres Weeks in. Paris."
proof and gasproof. Zones of
Policemen are asking, "What modernised Martello towers sug use would 'n' slim sergeant, be in a gest themselves. Towers sunk in crowd What would be the in-Daddy." anti-tank moats, and possibly en evitable fate of a thin man trying circled and connected by mine-to disentangle a traffe block ?? felda. The top of the tower will only just appear above the level of the ground, crowned by a small tevolving steel cupola containing one anti-tank gun, its garrison sumbering about ten" men. They should be
£275,000 LOSS ON L.C.C. TRAMWAYS.
ATTRIBUTED TO EXTRA COST:
OF FUEL
There was net revenue de- County Council tramways for the ficiency of £276,158 on London year ended March 31st, 1927, and
Star Theatre: "Man of the Forest
Ten Dances: HK. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30
p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 6 p.
Tasiday. provided with some hidden means
(May 20th.) of exit which will allow their garrisons retiring, should their
Balo of Crown land Kowloo gun be put out of action. "The tactical outlook has chang
Inland Lot No. 2010, 3 p.m.
Sanitary Board Meting; 4.18 p.m. ed," stresses Colonel Fuller earlier
Half Yearly General Mesting- in the book. We have light tanks 38,000 of this is attributed, ix. Jockey Club, 8.15 p.m. fighting light tanks, which presup the auditor's report on the Coun- Extraordinary General Meeting, poses that each will be equipped cil's accounts for the year, to the R.H.K. Yacht Club, 6 p.m.
Queen's Theatre:"" Simon with anti-tank machine guns, and on
Jester," a both sides these machines will be general strike of 1926 and the extra Cost of fuel due to the coal stop:
World Theatre: “ Is Zat Gö'1”. supported by heavy tanks. Some- page. where in the offing will cavalry be,
Star Theatre:"You'd be Sur- The deficiency, the equivalent,' of aticking panic-stricken enemy rife 1.4d. in the pound, was charged prised."
the
men routed by the cavalry light to the special county rate. TheTes Dancer: H.K. Hotel and tanks, while, well in reas, on some previous year's deficiency was anti-tank billtop, will be congre- £114,022.
gated the infantry, loudly applaud- The total debt incurred to March ing this excellent sport, Bach, I 31st, 1927, was £17,391,763, which believe, is what a battle will look had been reduced to a little more liko in the near future."
than 29,000,000.
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