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No. 21,823 號叁廿百捌仟暨萬弍第
ESTABLISHED 1857.
日初月伍辰戊
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 23rd, 1928.
陸拜道:
日叁廿月躁年入廿百九仟者英
ROCKET-CAR'S
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
STATIONS
TIME-TABLE.
UP TRAINS
Na ↑ No. 4 No.10 No.9 No. 1o. 14 Na id {Nazi'No, 18(No. 34°NG, MN AK. AM. LX. A.M., 3.3. | P.M.] P.X. {F.M.) F.M. V.M. FEM. | TM,
Fewloc.Dep. 6.40 6.05 8.30 9.10 10,00 1215 1,152.85 8.00 4.30 5,49) 7.30 -
Tazmui. Dep. 648)
Shabin
...Dep. 7:01
Dep, 7,20
Taipo Market Dep. 7.15
Taipe
Fanling Dap. 7.80
9.50 10.08 13.24 12.
#83 10,20,12,3 134
948 10.33 19.40 1.47
9.53 10.97 12.53 151
10.05 10.47 1.08 4,01
4.88 5.60 735
4.50 6.01|7,50
-8,04). 6,15|8.08
5.08 6.19 807
5.18 450 8.17 5.93 6,858.2 5.29 6,41 8.37
7.28
Bhengakui Dep. 7.359.07 10.10 10.5 1.09 2.00 3.14- Shamchua Arr. 741 6.45 9.13 10.14 10.58 1,14 2.12 3.20 8.40
Canton
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Canton ...Dep.
19.40
5.38
DOWN TRAINS
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No. 7 Hà. I
8.05
No.15.17 Na,11 No... 13
T.M A.M. 2. P. P.M." P.M.
3.30
584.59 5.49 | 6,48 | 7.04 11.03 8,054.45 5.58 6.82 12.07 8.10 4.60 6,00 19.18 8.91 5.00
10 12.33 3.25 3.04 6.15 12.38 8.99 517 6.28 12.49 8,51 [5.29 | 8:40. 12.54 8.57 5,35 6.46
Samahan...Dep. 7.18 8.05 10.25 11.49 11,56 Shengshai Dep. 7.85 8.11 10.41 Fanling Dap. 7,30 8.16 1047 TaipoMarket Dep. 140 8.28 10,57 Tripo Dep. 744 8.31 11.01 Dep, 1,578,44 11,14 Bastia Farmati...Dep. 8.11 9.581126 Kowlook
Arr.8.17 9,03 11,32 19.39
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CHARIOT OF FIRE.
LEAPING START AT GREAT SPEED.
BERLIN, May 20th.
A man in a chariot of fire rush- ed over the track of Berlin's motor- racing course this morning, He WAL Herr von Otel, motor car manufacturer and sporting motor- ist, and his chariot was the first rocket-car which "the public has
acen.
And in such a chariot of fire- so he told us before he set off in smoke and flame-the heights of heaven will be scaled, the space. beyond the atmosphere of the earth and the sister planets of the earth will be reached.
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"QUEEN" WHO SLEEPS ON £1,000,
EPSOM, May 28th. Amid a great clamour-lean doga
The chariot was a low, black car of torpedo shape with two black wings like the wings of an aero-barking hungrily, tousled-headed children screaming, sharp-eyed plane. At the back jutted slightly out a dozen steel tubes in which women scolding the vanguard of were the rockets by which the car a great army of gipsies pitched was to be propelled. The car is, 80
their camp on Epsom Downs.
the heralds of the They are to speak, the stick of a rocket.
Derby and every day this week their number will steadily increase until their encampment is spread over the rise of the Downs near the course like a caravan town.
There was a zerics of violent ex plosions, and fames rushed from the back of the car in a tail of fire like the tail of a comet. The car leapt forward at incredible speed and clouds of brown sticke envelop ed the stand, so dense that the fery chariot was lost in them.
A New Thrill,
And all this happened in seconds, not minutes. Tell me that there is no new thrill in life and I tell you that I had a thrill-to-day-1-ama never likely to forget.
How the rocket-car swept round- the curve in the track I could not see, but there was a movement of delight when we saw it coming back at immense speed. The speed was, As we afterwards discovered, not more than 103 miles an hour, not much more than half the record.
The impetus to the car is given by the firing of a rocket, and as the effect lessens, the firing of an- other rocket gives a new impetus. forward. The rocket apparatus is so arranged that the man at the wheel can fire one or several simul taneously, according to the speed be desires to attain.
DIARY OF EVENTS.
To-day. (June 23rd.)
Birthday of HRH. The Prince of Wales.
Extra Race Meeting. Concert St. Patricks Club, 9 pim Queen's Theatre:" Bunrise."
THE
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World Theatre: Blonde or KING EDWARD
Brunette."
Star Theatre: "The Great Gataby"
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, & p..
Principal Mails Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Fanpura), 10.30 am Europe vid Victoria, B.. (Tyndareus), 10 a..
Sunday,
. (June 24th.). Midsummer. Day.
**
journeys of 500 miles and more. Many of the gipsies had rando
Queen's Theatre: "Good Morning One family had trekked from Judge, Cherie Valentina and Wales, another from Gloucester-Tomasita Birdwell, dancer, 9.20, shire, and a third from the open World Theatre: "Cirousmania, country round about Leicester."
2.30 and 7.15; Millionaires," 5.10 and 9.90, 1990
Star Theatre: "On: Ze Boule
Tea Dances: HK. Hotel and Ho! Baroy, 430 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, & p.in.
"
No Real King" Left. Since the King of Kent (Mr. Levi Boswelly died four years aga varde”
gipey told a reporter, there has.. been no real king. He added:
Times have changed. In the old days there were rich men Among us. There was one who always had £4,000 in gold in his caravan and he used to make his wife sit on it for safety. Bank
it! Nat he-he'd never let it go once he'd got it.
There are still some prosper- ous ones among us. There's & queen on the road to Epsom now who sleeps on £1,000 every night, and there are a few more that do the same,
Dozens of gipsy families, he said, were taking the road to Epsom in motor-drawn:
some of
caravans,
which had coet £1,500.
The hon. secretary of the Gipsy Lore Society, states that on June 25th there are not more than 15,000 gipsies in the British Isles.
725 Miles At Hour." Herr von Otel gave us his pro gramme to-day. The next step will be to attempt to beat the world's record for speed, and it will be attempted on railway lines. The WEDDING TRICK TRAGEDY. third stage will be the construction" of a rocket aeroplane with a speed of 183 to 950 miles an hour. The fourth will be to send up register- ing instruments to a height in the air which has never before been at- tained. Not until the fifth stage will the inventor try the aeroplane with inen on board.
In the sixth stage an attempt will be made to fly to a height of 12 to 18 miles, and attain a speed of 725 miles an hour. The last stage-and Herr von Otel hesitated. and said that an engineer should not be a prophet may, be an at tempt to reach the nearer heavenly
bodies.
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ELEPHANT KILLS YOUNG ENGLISHMAN.
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Principal Maila : - Outward: Europe vid Siberia (Rhcin), 8.30
8.02.
Monday (June 25th.) Matine Lot No. 97, 3 p.m.
Sale of Crown Land, Kowloon
Annual General Meeting, Hong Kong Polo Club.
Queen's Theatre: "Good Morning Judge, Cherie Valentine Tomasita Birdwell, dancers, 9.20.
and
World Theatre: "Oircusmania,' 2.30 and 7.15; Millionaires," 5.10
and 9.20.
"On Ze Boule-
Star Theatre: varde."
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 30 p.m.; King: Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe. vid Siberia (Mirzapore). Outward:
dont Jackson); 6 pm.
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(Thirty Tin Tickets for $25 can be cotained at the Office of the above Hotel),
Tal. Add: «VICTORIA." Telephone ‹ No. 0, 373.
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Tuesday. (June 26th.) Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.15. Queen's Theatre: "Good Morning Judge," Cherie Valentine • and PARIB. Tomasita Birdwell, dancers, 9.20.
World Theatre: Exit Smiling.” Star Theatre: A Woman's
A dramatic love tragedy took place at Benner, when a young shopkeeper named Valentine Foa-Woman." taine shot and killed a girl named Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Eugénie Anger, the daughter of a Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King. wealthy farmer, and then attempt Edward Hotel, 5 p.. ed to commit suicide. Ma
Four years ago the couple fell in love; They became secretly be trothed, but the girl's father re- fused to consent to their marriage. declaring that the young man had not a sufficiently good position
Fontaine implored the girl, who was under age, and thus unable to marry without her parents' con sent, to run away with him, but she refused to do so unless they were first married.
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Wednesday. (June 27th:) Hong Kong Tug and Lighter Co... Ltd., 4th ordinary yearly meeting. 2.30 p.m.
Hong Kong Philharmonic Society General Meeting, 1.20 p.m. -
Queen's Theatre: Twelve Miles woman named Lorre to marry him Out, Cherie Valentine and Toma A terrible story of a man's death at a register office, promising tosita Birdwell, dancers, £.20. from an infuriated elephant comes release her from her vows immedi- World Theatre: Exit Smiling. from Uganda, Wately after the ceremony. The two Star Theatre A Woman's
A young chemist at Jinja went two lovers then went to a neigh. | Woman."
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on an elephant expedition. He bouring church, and on Eugénie Tea Dances: HK. Hotel and P., Box No. 620. encountered a herd of five beaste, Anger taking the name of Lorre Hotel Bavoy, 4.30 p.m.; King
and laid down his gun to photo graph them, when an elephant through the bush behind, seized him in his trunk and dashed him against a tree, breaking it
It then battered him against the stump of the tree. The man crept away, but the elephant charged him again and kneeled down on his body, after which he picked him up in hie trunk and hurled him away into the long grase,
they were duly married by the priest,
The girl's father learned of the trick which had been played, and after a search he found his daugh ter and forcibly took her back to bis farmhouse, where she gave birth to a daughter
va
Forbidden by her father to see Yalentins Fontaine again, the girl obeyed Her lover, after repeated attempts to break her resolution, The injured man lay for two got into the farmhouse, when hours before he was found and Anger was absent. taken to hospital at Kampala, He shot the girl three times and where he died. He was only in his the lodged a bullet in his own twenties, and came out from home head. Fontaine Etill alive but about two years ago-Beuter
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