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TIME-TABLE.
Oo and after APRIL 8th, 1929, antil furthy. Fotios (all previons Timo Table cancallel)
STATIONS
No. 1 No. 4 AM. AM.
Kowloon, Dep. 6,40) 8,05;
Taumati, Dep. 649
Shatin. Dep. 7.01
Taipo
Market. Dep. 790
Fanling Dep. 7.30 Shrung-
shai...Dep. 75;
Shops
coun...Arr. 71 8,48|
Taipo... Dop.7.15
IF TRAINS
Kaja
4.M.
Sunt, & Hulik only
¡NG. 4 | No. 126,14 No:14 Na22′No.18/10,2'XO, ŽE MOJI
A.K. A.M. | FM. | T.K., P.M. P.M.) P.M. PML, FM.
•
8.70 9.15 10.00 12.10 1.75 2.31 8.304,305,407,85
0.25 10.08 19.15 1.23 9.38 10,2012,30 1,35
05310.33 11.45 1.48||
9.58 10.37 12.47 1,58
-
10.10 10.47:12.67|3,02||
9.07 10.1% 10,2 1,0 6,07 3.00
4.995.48 7,43
| 4,50) 6,00) 7,55 5.048,138.00
5.03 6.17 8.19
6.19 6,278.33
-
5.23 6.928.24
3.ia 16.21 10.58 1.09 3.13 3.16 4.00 5.39 6.38 8.31
CantAr→Jizoši
5.48
DOWN TRAINS
STATIONS Ha. I.
No.3 No. 7 4.M. A.X,
8.10
...Bep.
Caston
Shumchun... Dep.2.17. 8.03 10.34 Sheung bui.Dep. 1.25
7.25 9.11 10.41 Fanling ...Dap. 7.30 3.1
7.30 9.15 10.47
Taipe Market. Dep. 7.40 828 10.57 Taip ... Dep. | 1,46 | 3,31 11.01 Shatin ...Dep. 7,57 9.44 11.14
17.19
No. No. No. 17 Mo,29 | No. 31]No. 13 10,23 A.M., K.M. | P.M.P.M. PM. | 2.M,
TIRE
། 3131
11.27, 11,47- 2.53 | 4,39 | 3,47 | 6.42 11.858,01 4.48 | 5.84 19.00 3:06 4.50 6.58 12.11 8.17 5.00 6.08
Yaumati Dop. 8.11.58 11.28 Kowloon Arr. 8.17 9.03 11,32 12.07
7.07 7.14
18.16 8.99 5.04 6,13 12.30 8.96 5.37 6.23 12.42 3:49 5.29' 6.58 19.48 2.84 5,35 6,44 7.22 7.49
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RUSSIA AND “ 'ASIAN REVOLUTION.”.
HOW THE SOVIET RECRUITS AGENTS.
EXPERIENCES OF A NEGRO SEAMAN.
HAPPY TO RETURN TO ENGLAND."
The Manchester Guardian " ́published the following pergunt of the experience and impressions of a native of British Guiana who has just returned from Russia," where he _hus." lived for six years. lle is a British subject, and has a British passport with German and For- veginn virg. He might have been unable to leave Russia had it "wat been for the German Coneal in the town where he was living, who helped him to get a Norvegian eisa (Forway is looking after Great Britain's interests in Russia until diplomatic relations are resumed.)
When a ship puts in at a Russian you walked too slowly when you j For three years I was what they
bad your exercise in the prison port-Odessa, Nikolaevsk Novoros yard you got a kick or a blow to call a "candidate for party meni. Bisk, for example man with a rifle butt. If you tried to re-ship." I did not like the lessons special Communist pass comes down taliate you were a counter-revoluat all and avoided them as much
the quay, or even on board, and tionary-anything could happen to
I could. I went to Nicolaevak. The food was so in where I worked in a factory called shouts in the language of the coun- sufficient that I was hungry all the
Zavod Andre Marty." In the try to which the ship belongs:-
I couldn't eat it at all
end the authorites insisted on my "Hullo, boys! Where are you
No charge was brought against taking the Communist training from? The Russian Seamen's Clube and I was released without an seriously. I was sent to Moscow and invites you all for a good time up explanation. I get a job as fire attended lectures at a kind" of town! Plenty of drink! Plenty of man on a dredger, but lost it again: college for "Communist Workers of girls! Come along! You're all for three months I had odd jobs or the East."
none at all. But I was learning the Russian language.
welcome!
President Arrivas.
you then.
time.
"Red Heroes."..
You follow him along the docks and up the boulevard, where there is a rather shabby building. The words International Seamen's Working conditions are very bad Club are on the doorplate in in Russia, not only because of the several languages. Inside you'll low wages and the wretched hous- find an almost erapty room. There fing. You can't say what you think, is a kind of desk in the corner, for if you are overheard you might There is is an old bookcase.crammed be reported, and then you will go with dusty books and pamphlets, to prison for counter-revolution and on the walls are photographsary activities" or something of the of Bolshevik leaders.
sort. You can't trust anyone-for all you know your mate on the job may be in with the Communists, The president of the club arrives. and there is no telling who is not He tells you what the Soviets have an agent of the G.P.U. done, are doing, and will do. He! If you are arrested you'll go to tries to explain why there is such I prison without saying good-bye to proverty all around, so many pro anyone. As far as your family is stitutes, and so many wastrel child- concerned, you have simply vanish ren He asks you if you have aed from the face of the earth. And cigarette or a safety razor blade, you never know when you will be or if you'll bring one along next a free man once more. time. If you've been on an English ship he will very likely ask you if you can bring him a pot of jam or marmalade.
Men serving on ships that go to foreign ports get much higher wages-soinetimes £9 a month,-ut they are mostly Communists or If you are coloured-as I am,-he Red Heroes" who fought against will take you aside and ask you the Whites. And there is always a if you will go through a Communist spy or two amongst them. If one training, so that you can be sent of them says or to the British colonies as a Com-suspicious he is arrested by the does anything munist missionary,
G.P.U. at the first Bussinn port of call.
The president of the club I wont to was an Irishman named Twist. and, by Jove he does twist you all right.
There are no entertainments" or tea-parties, no religious meetings with music, no comfortable beds nothing that sailors like to have when they go ashore, absolutely nothing.
Arrest.
When I had been ashore some time I was arrested-I don't know why. My ship left without me, and I remained in the district" prison for two months. The walls had been whitewashed once, but had income, all dirty and soiled. They were bespattered with blood where vermin. had been crushed by the prisonera. The rooms were four or five yards square and swarmed with bugs, deas, and lice
-I didn't are mnch of foreign visitors when I was in Russia, but from what I heard I gathered that things were well staged to impress them. When the general strike was in England the money contribut ed by the Russian, workers was simply deducted from our wagen-
We were never consulted.
We asked ourselves why we should help the English when so many were glad when they heard that the English trade unions had refused the money.
Becoming a Communist.
I was desperate through lack of employment when I was told that
I am from British Guiana, which is in the West. But they said it didn't matter-all coloured people are vounted as belonging to East...
the
The "college it was named a large building with white-washed after Stalin-was very primitive: rooms and many small cubicles. The desks were rough and ill-magle. There was a blackboard and a few exercise books, and of cours: the usual Communist literature" and photographs of Bolshevik leaders. The dining-room floor was sprink- fed with saw dust. We used to line up, plate in hand for our food. which was often so bad that I couldn't eat it, so that I went hungry. all day long.
The Lessons.
And sometimes there were no mare helping left when the end of. the line had reached the cook who served them out,
As for the lesosns, we first learnt we read histories of the different to sing the Internationale." Then revolutions. about capitaliam, about the theories We were told all
tion of the workers (especially in at Marx, and about the exploita England and why Russia needs money. The training was to be complete in three years, after which I was to go to Africa and make a revolution.
science. God gave me a will to pat But it all went against my con- down Satan and his vainglory. I longer. I left Moscow for Odesen, could not stand these lessons any
and would not go back again. 1 tried to find a job, but the authori ties in Odessa had been informed that I had deserted the college and was developing capitalist tend- encies." So no one would give me. a job anywhere.
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Diary of Coming Events,
To-day.
(September 13.)
Star Theatre: "Blue Skien."
Dinner Dances: H.E. Hotel,' and Christian Fellowship Meeting,Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m. Helenn May Institute, 10.30 am.
Billiards League: St. Patricks Tides:High: 411
r. Hong Kong Police Rés. Craigen- 12.50 p/m gover. Somersets, HE: Police
*. Buffalo Club, R.E.'s v. Garrison Mess, R.A. K.0.8.B.
Tennis:-Chinese Athletic Asso ciation. Tournament: S. E. Green and G. Bodiker . T. Honda and Yoshida, G. W. Sewell and C. Holmes Nz Kam Chuen and Choi Fing Fan.
Promenade Concert (E.0.8.B. Band) II.K.V.D.C. Parade ground,
11.15 p.m.
Forbes Russel Comedy Co.: "By Candle Light," Theatre Royal, 0.15 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "While, the City Bleeps."
1.m.; Law:
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Star Theatre “ Blue 'Skies.” Ten Dances: Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Feninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, Saturday,
3.30 p.m. (September 14.)
Tides:High: 3.30 a.m. 'and 0.44 p.m.; Low: 1.36 p.m. Baseball Japanese, v. Hong
European Mails: Outward: Kong.
Europe vi Marseilles (Morea), Lawn Bowls:-Div. I.: Kowloon | 10.30 a.m. C.C. v. Bowling Green, Police Recreio Div, II.: Taikoo . Kow leon C.C.
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Annual Aquatic Sports of Police
Cardboard Lover," Theatre Royal, Forbes Russel Company: "Eer
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Quden's Theatre: "While the City, Sleeps.".
World Theatre: "The Villa by World Theatre: The Villa by the Sea at 5.15 and 9:20 pm; the Sca," 6.15 and 9.20 p.m. The
The Hermit's Own Wedding Hermit's Own Wedding" (Chinese.j (Chinese picture) 2.30 and 7.15 p.m. I picture, 2.30 and 7.15. p.m.
Sunday: (September 15,)
Sixteenth Sunday After Trinity. Baseball: Kióras v. S. Chini, Queen's Theatre: "Beau Broad-
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World Theatre: "The Emden.! Star Theatre: 5 and 10 cents Annie."
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