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No. 22,183 AWEIƒ±Ãƒƒ BAREZ HONG KONG, FRIDAY,
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
Oasid after APRIL 8th, 1929, antil further Notice (all previous
Time Tables canvalled.)
IF TRAINS......
Xa. No, LX. LX.
Ma,10
A.M.
Taipo...Dep. 7,15
STATIONS
Kowloon Dep. 6.40 8,05
Taumati.Dep. 6.49
Skatin...Dep.7.01
Taipo
Market. Dep. 7.30
Fanling Dep. 7.80
Sheang
shut.Dep. 7,35
Sham-
chan...Arr.
Canton Arr.
7.41 8.45
|12.05]
Bam. & Holis, only
No. No, 12|No.14 |Na, 16 No.23 Nm, 19]Mo24 No, 20 Mə,31 |A.M. AM. | P.M. │F.M. F‚X, P.M.] P.M. P.M.) 2.K
8.909.316 10.00|12.10′ 1,15j 2,31 8.30) 4,90) 5,40)
9.25 10.08 12.13) 1,23) ---
9.88 10.20 13.30 1,88
9 69 10.83 12,43) 1:48)
9.68 10.87 12.471,52)
10.10 10.47 19.67 2,02 —
7.85
4.88 5.43 7.43
4.50 8,00 7,55
8.04 0.138.08
-5,086,178.12 5.15 6.978.33
6.23 6.32 8.26
9.13 10.31 10.58 1,08 3,133.154.00 5.99 6,98 8.81
9.07 10.15 10.52) 1,02 2,07 3.08 -
5.48
W
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DOWN TRAINS
7.18-
31 333 33 - R19112
No. No.1 Na.1No.10 No.31|26, 13 | # 0.23 A.M... | T.M. (PML | T.K. P.M.
STATIONS
No. 1 No. T A.K. A.M. A.M,
...Pop.
8.10
Canton
8.215
Єhumohan...Dop. 7.17 8.03 10.33 11:37 11.47 3.53 4.39 5.47 6.43
Sheau hai Dop 10
Foaling Dep. 7.30 8.16 10.47
B.11. 10.49
8.28 10.57
Dep. ...Dop.
7,449,31 11,01
8.44 11.74
Taipo Market. Dep. 1,40
Tripo
Shalin
Yanmeti...Dep. 8.11 8.58 11.28
1158 | 2,01 | 4,48 | 5,54
13.00 8.06 4.50 5.59
13,11 3,17 5.00 6.09
18.16 3.2 5.04 613
.12.30 3.36 5.176.25
12.42 9.49 5.29 10.38
Kowloon...Arr. 8.179,02 11.32 18.07 12.49 3.54 5.85 8.44 7.92
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伍拜禮
THE WONDERFUL CAVES OF FUJI.
BEWITCHING GROTTO UNDER THE MOUNTAIN.
FAIRYLAND DISCOVERED BY ENGLİSHMAN.
“MEANDERING PATHWAYS LIKE A MAZE."'
What colour wheme would" you fancy far the grand hall of your mansion! Do you think you would like a treatment in ebony and silver, or how would black lava and shimmering ice de Rather cold in effect perhaps, but then abnormally rare, writes the Tokyo correspon- dent of the North China Daily
News.
season.
The question is suggested by a visit to the great ice envern on one side of Mount Fuji," the Supreme Altar of the Sun," which everyone summer is climbing during the
Not far off are the attractive Shiraito Falls, and in the solitude of these uplands, except in the neighbourhood of the few small villages that seem like flies on the mountain side, the sight of a human. being, if mountain climbers be ex- cepted, is a rarity; squawking ducks and whirring pheasants are
mire numerous.
In the placid mirror of the lakes at the foot of this peerless moun- tains which towers snow-draped in serene grandeur above them, a solemn silence prevails all through out the year, except at this season when Fuji and its vicinity become
wooden ladder and Dually over here and there, cling unconvention- rough masses of rock. You are a draperies of thin ice whose de then in the outer vestibule, Alicate tracery gould hardly be single shaft of greenish light from imitated by the hand of man. the world above vaguely reveals Rough corners support heavier de some curtains of lava, and you imeorations like cornices and a variety agine you see weird forms. Your of festcons. exhaled breath falls ay from you in thick white plumes; and you observe that it has become decided- by chilly.
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The colour scheme everywhere in black and white.
It is the lesser details of which one becomes aware first, before oné realizes the noble proportions of Further in, the little oil torch of the great rock-hewn room itself and the guide Bickers amid the pitch the marvellous vaulting overhead. darkness as he holds it for you to The hall has three domes, the con- muke each step and you regret you tral and inner ones being strikingly forgot to bring your electric torch. symmetrical. The largest of the Soon you discover you are treading icicles are uspended from the on an unusual pavement, which re-apexes of these semi-spherical sembles sandstone, but you can nickyaults, and from a point on the it with your heci, and it is very floor exactly below there riscy what would be called a stalagmite if this slippery sometimes. It is ice.
were a limestone care. Beneath the inner dome, there is an inner group of these glacial figures which sug- gest heroic-sized statues of the en- tire Lot family done in salt. And that floor has been there for many thousands of years, formed by tors of pure solid ice.
A screen of stone drops before you and seems to bar further progress. What you have seen already is re markable enough, but the guide invites you inward. He crouches upon his heels, bends his bead bis knees and almost between advances by shuffling backwards He is a small man and he is negotiating a needle's eye.
The Heart of Fuji, ... This is the heart of Fuji, silent. You follow somehow, using calm, sublime, peerless, like its face. variety of means and methods of What uncanny revels the mountain
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the raucous honk of a Ford breaks the age-long silence.
The pathways here meander like
guide rises, and you find you, too, can stand erect. Now you are in' the second nate-chamber, the ceiling a complicated maze, Damp muss of which is lower than in the outer and the leaves from a tangled forest öac, while the floor is wet and more of oak, maple, and other trees com-slippery. The slope is inwards and pose a thick vari-coloured carpet on you go and are compelled to halt, over the lava rock. Here, at an abruptly because there is yet an elevation of some 3,750 feet on the other needle's eyo to negotiate. side of the bump called Maruyama,
A Marvellous Hall. this wonder lay for many a year hidden and unknown and was re-
..
One is next introduced into the
ing grotto under the lava stream! How glassy bella of ice will tinkle and silvery blades of ice will clink!! One almost feels that he can hear the stems of the goblets snap after the great toast to the Ice Throne has been quaffed.
Here it is always winter, al- though Vulcan's fires are burning deep in the mountain's bowels. What processes in the rich labora vealed to the world of mountain grand salon, which probably has no tory of earth shaped this astound- climbers by an English missionary. parallel in the world. From the ing cavern? What forces froze its Our guide told us that the cave of lofty ceiling are suspended glisten-flowing fountains? Let the geologist which we were in search was over ing icicles-the candelabra of the and "the physicist answer-if thes Explanation can be found, 600 ft. long and, as we found out Ice King we called them. The ice can. afterwards, it is more than 30 ft. floor is covered in many places with bat we felt that we would rather high in some parts and very much fragments in shining heaps, which not have explanations; preferring to have fallen from the to believe that here is located the less in others The width also pr varies up to 40 ft. perhaps at the walls. Seams in the sides and ceil-Ice Throne of the Mountain King ing are filled with gleaming crystal, and that, in the heart of Fuji, he widest place.
not of quartz but of ice, whose pure holds a grand - lévée · occasionally, white lines stand out in sharp re- even as Russian monarchs once did
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Diary of Coming Events,
Today. (August 23.)
Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 a.m.
H.E. Football Club, 42nd annual general meeting, Jardine, Mathe- son's Board Room, 5.30 p.m.
Baseball: 8. China v. Japanese. V.R:C., Night Fete, 9.15 p.m. Queen's Theatre: Four Walls" World Theatre: "Red Lips." Star Theatre: "Gigolo."
Tea Danees H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
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Mails Inward: European Europe ria Negapatam, papers. only (Kumsang),
Monday, (August 26.)
Water Polo: Somersets v. V.R.C. "A," Kowloon "A"e. Royal Navy, |
Billiards: Garrison. Mess 1. Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Pen-V.R.C., 5.30 p.m. Buffalo Club, K.O.8.B....insula Hotel and Repulse Bay Police, R.E.'s RA, Craigengower Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
". H.K. Police Res., Somersets v. 0. Tides:-High: 11.38 a.m.; Low:
Queen's Theatre:""Four Walls."5,09 a... and 6,13 p.m..
end P.O.' Club.
World Theatre: "Red Lips" Star Theatre: "Gigolo." Tides-High 10.45 .m. Lud 11.42 p.m.; Low: 4.31.a.m. and 6.40
pam.
Saturday, (August 24.)..
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European Mails:- Inward: Europe vid Negapatom (Garbeta). Outward: Europa vid Marseilles (Hakoraki Maru), 9 a.m.; Europe via Victoria, B.C. (Tyndarcus), 13.30 a.m.
Sunday. August 25,) Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity. Baseball: Hong Kong Fili
St. Bartholomew.
Bowls: Division Lawn Police v. Taikoo, Kowloon C.C. v. Craigongower, Kowloon D.R.C. v.
pinos. Kowloon E.G.C., Civil Service .
Ten Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel, Recreio. Division II, Taikoo v Civil Service, Recreio. Yacht 4.30 p.m. Clab, Kowloon B.G.C. v. Kowloon Tides:-High: 19.08 .m. and C.C., Craigengower v. Hong Kong 12.20 p.m.; Low: 5.55 a.m. and 6.42 Electric
p.m.
Dinner Dances:
H.K. Hotel,
Repulse Bay Hotel nad Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Tides:-High: 12.41 a.m. and 1.28 p.m.; Low: 6.34 3.m. and 7.10 p.m.
Tuesday, (August 97.) H.K. Stock Exchange Bettlement Day.
Water Pola: TRCB K.O.8.B."B." Chinese "B" v. Kowloon B
Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 p.m.
Tides-High: 1.27 a.m. and 2,56
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