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TIME TABLE.
On and after AUGUST 26TH, 1930, until Farther Notion (all previous
STATIONS 0.5 No.4
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UP TRAINS
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Na.Na.15 No.24 NG, K0,28 F.F.P.M. PM, PM,
Kowloon. Dep. 8,35 6.00 8.34 8.05 10.00 13.01 1.182.34
Taumsti. Dep. 6,44
Shatin...Dep 6.56
Talpe...Dep 7,10
Taipo
Market. Dep. 15
Foaling..Dap. 7.35
Shoung.
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9.15 10.08 13.10 1,958
9.28 10.30-12.95 1,58]
@ 43 10.33 13.35 151)
9.43-10.87 12.39 1,55
- 10.00 10.47 19.48 9,01 *
3.00 4,30 5.40 7.45
4.386.497.53 4.50 6.00 8.03 5.04 0.13 8.17
6.05 6.17 8.22 5.19 6.27 8.83
6.25 0.32 8.37
chun...Arr. 7.28 3.40 9.0710,11 10.53 1.00 916 3.193.40 5.99 6,38 8.43
shui... Dep. 7.80
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9.01 10,05 10.52 12.34 2.10% 8.13
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5.42
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No.16 No.5 No.17 0.29 4.32
Na$1 No.23
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8.25
8.25
6.53 7.19 7,00
Danton .. Dep.
Shamchan...Dap. Sheangthai Dep. Fanling
...Dep.
Taipo MarEat. Dep.
7.13 739 10,34, (1,18 19.19 2.354395.47 7.20 9.03. 10.41 1.25
721 8.10 10.47 11.29:
7.838.21 10,57 11,42
Taipe ...Dep. 7:40 3.2611.01 11.45 Shatin .Dep. 1.7,539,39.11.14 115 Yanmati...Dep. 4.06 8.51 11.28. 12.12
| 2,424,485.54
2.464.50 6,58
2,565,00 8.09
| 9,02 ·6,048,13
19.15, 6.176.98 3.371 5.29 6,88
Kowloon...Arr. 8.12 8,67 11.32 12.19 12.09 2,335,35 8.44
7.36 7.59
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EXPLORING THE ENGLISH SEASIDE.
SOME AMUSING EXPERIENCES.
SEEKING "EIN ZIMMER MIT BAD AT HOLIDAY-TIME,
The Berlin' correspondent of the Daily Express has been having some fun during his holidays is England by going about pretending he speaks nothing but German. The follow- ing are some of his amusing expericaces at popular scaside resorts:—
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+ Kenten Sie Yarmouth 7"^ suddenly asked the jovial old gentleman in the blue serge suit who, as be had informed all the company in our motor coach, lived in Putney, and was going to Gorles
such apartment in the hotel, but took me upstairs and showed me a bedroom with a bathroom next door. I engaged it.
The ex-soldier eommissionaire, meanwhile, by signs and naming a number of Rhineland towns, gave
We had quite a conversation, in the course of which he told me that i the "Herren" bave the boxes on the right and the Frauleins these on the left, while liegen on the "sand" is verboten."
A bathe costs sechs pence."
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ton, to join "the wife and kiddies," he to understand that he had beGermans, and it is still a mystery
"I beg your pardon't" he said, visibly startled, but polite.
I repeated my question. He look- ed blank, but not for more than ten seconds. Then he must have remembered - John Peel
"Do I ken Yarmouth?" he
lunged to the army of occupation, but had forgotten the little Ger man he had picked up in the Fatherland.
The waiters did not own a word of German between them. Had I not smacked my lips, patted myself on the belt in cannibal fashion, and said Hunger, which hap
Mr. Gray had never been to
to me where and how he Tearued German
Mr. Willian Klenworth, a tall, who looks after the international broad-shouldered British seaman,
speedboats" at the Britannia Pier," spoke the best German I have yet heard during my present stay in England. He told me that his
acumen." I Pens to be, the German for hunger, father sent him to school in Ham-
beamed on me, delighted with, his own philological should just guess that I do, he chortled, and nodded enthusiastical ly.
Ja, ja he almost shouted
Iken Yarmouth!"...
"Dann können Sie mir vielleicht dort ein gutes Hotel empfehlen." said. Das beste Hotel."
The best hotel, my dear sir," he answered at once, by all
rueans."
He then gave me the name of an hotel at Gorleston, just outside Yarmouth, wrote it down on a slip of paper, and told the driver to drop me there.
That, you must agree, was a most promising opening to my adven- ture of exploring the English sea- side as a non-English-speaking for, cigner: in fact, as a German tourist.
I might have starved. As it was, they brought me some excellent cold meat and a glass of Layer beir
burg when he was a boy of eleven and although he is now sixty. eight, he has not forgotten his "Deutsch."
All this is nothing, however, com- After supper I went out and studied Yarmouth night life, walk-pazed with what the hotel had in ing along the gaily lighted pro-store for me when I returned for menade until I came to Yarmouth's lunch.
pen nir casino. The croupier a gentleman with a white overall and a bottle of beer, kent a large crowd of patrons hilariously amused by saying, Stop mucking abaht with them nobs."
"Stop Muchin Abaht
As he took my twopence and Rave me horse I asked him, Was ist einach But all he would reply was Stop muckin abaht." So I gave it up, lost my twopence, and returned to the hotel.
That, of course, was all Phoenician to me. An
They had printed for me a special menu in German!.
It was full of mistakes, but that to the only teatises the more arduous character of this labour of
international courtesy.
Who says that the British lack enterprise 7
What I say is: Hoch, Yar- mouth."
Experiences at Eastbourne.
Is the air of Eastbourne less bracing, leas conducive to enter- prise and courtesy, than that of Yarmouth, Margate, Folkstone, and Hastings?
Does the salt of Eastbourne's brine semi-paralyse the glottal: muscles of Eastbourians and render
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promptly decided to emulate them unable to speak foreign|THE HOTEL RIVIERA
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"Yes," I said, bowing my most Continental bow, "Good-bye!" and passed on,
Two Up to the Doctor. My reception, however, late in As I went in, the commissionaire the evening, at the hotel in Gor-stopped me."The manager world leston, recommended by my friend like to see you, sir.". from Putney, and at the one in Yarmouth, where I finally decided to stay, made my prospects of a happy holiday at first seem dis- tinctly less bright. They brought the score most convincingly to two up for Dr. Egon Escherich, of Ratibor, in Silesia, who, in the train coming from Berlin, had told me that, much as he would like to spend his holiday at the English seaside, be could not do s0, 85 he spoke no. English and the Eng- lish seaside speke no German..
He was therefore spending two days in London and then going straight acrosa to Belgium, whose seaside could speak German.
Laughs and Suiggers.
At the Gorleiton hotel not a soul spoke German; they laughed and Aniggered at my attempts to make urself understood, and, when I picked up my bag and walked out, said, "Don't be rude! "
I took a taxicab to Yarmouth's premier hotel. Here things were certainly better.
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A charmingly polite ex-soldier! commissionaire understood, after a time, that "Ein Zimmer mit Bad" meant a room with a bathroom at
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He caught up with me at once, however, and, rising magnificently to the occasion, said, "Ein moment
der manager!"
Who could resist that I waited for der manager who came and naked me, in halting German, to sign the aliens' register. Here was a crisis indeed..
How could I explain that I was an Englishman and still let him be: lieve I spoke only German? All went well, howeter. I signed the aliens' register as a British subject, and refused to understand when the manager suggested that perhaps I was naturalised.
This morning Yarmouth complete- I turned the tables on Dr. Egon Escherich, of Ratibor, Silesia.
British Enterprise. Believe me or believe, me not, Lifeguard Gray, who presides over the mixed bathing machines on the fight-hand side of the Britannia Pier, speaks magnificent German.
language 1
Whatever the cause" may be, the distressing fact is that Eastbourne is the linguistic dance of England's seaside.-
Although I have. bunted de- eperately all day I have found only four persons capable of talking or understanding German, and only one of these four is British by birth.
Kate Handshakes.
In all other resorts which I have visited on my non-English-speaking voyage of exploration, hotel seh vants, taxi-drivers, bathing attend- ants, and pier .showmen did their best to understand me and make. themselves understood. If they had no German they tried the little. French they knew, and if they had no French they tried pantomine gestures.
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Eastbourne, however, received. my approaches with mute band shakes of negation. We don't widerstand you.. Learn English and then we will talk to you, Eastbourne's attitude to the for- eigner, ...
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Diary of Coming Events.
To-day. (September 3.)
Queen's Theatre:- Such Men are Dangerous."
World Theatre: "The Changing Age (Chinese Film)...
Star Theatre Resurrection," --Central Theatre:"The Dance of Life."
Majestic Theatre: The Wife's Relations.
Water Polo-1st Div: Chinese Athletic . V.R.C.
Dinner Dance Hong Kong Hotel
9.30 p.m
Tidea: High, 5.40 am and 9.24 p.m.; Low, 1.38 pm and 11.50 pm
Melody."
Thursday,
H.K. Football Referees'. Associa- tion, Anaual Meeting, 5.30 p.
Annual Dinner and Dance: Por tuguese Company, H.K.VD.C. at Club de Reercio.
Concert at The Theatre in 31t. Austin Barracks, 8.30 pm,
European Mail-Inward: Europe wir Siberia (Oldekirk), Outward : Europe vi Siberia (Empress of Canada), 10 am.
Tides High, 6.48 am, and 9.38 p.m.; Low, 2.14 p.m.;
Friday, (September s.) Queen's Thea Melody"
World Theatre: "Three Passions,"
Broadway
"Central Theatre: The Dance of Life,"
Majestic Theatre: The Secret
is
Water Polo:-1st Div.: Kowloon S.C.. Chinese Bathing Clab,"
Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Europeau Mail-Inward: Europo vid Negapatam (Takada). Out ward: - Europe
vid Marscillen (Katori Maru), 6 p,m.........
Tidos: High, 7.41 a.m. and 9.51 p.m. Low, 12.57 m. and 2.46.p.m.
Baturday. (September 8)
Queen's Theatre: Broadway Melody."
World Theatre: Three Passions.". Star Theatre: "Mare Nostrum." Central Theatre The Dance of
Majestic Theatre: The Secret.
Colf: Captain Cup Baseball Texaco a Filipino Central Theatre: The Dance of
Victoria Recreation Club Night Life"
Hour."
Fete, 9.16 p.m. World Theatro"Three Passions."
Concert at The Theatre in Mt. Ton Dance: Feninsula Hotel; 3 Stay Theatre “Mare Nostrum," | Austin Barracks, 8.30 p.m.
p.m. Majestic Theatre "The Secret Hong Kong Club Extraordinary Hour.
General Meetineg 5.30 pm
Dinner Dance Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
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