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No. 22699. * *A**** HONG KONG, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1931.
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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.
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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
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SERVICE SUSPENDED
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
By Order,
G. A. WALKER,
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HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS,
JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONG KONG, ÜANTON AND MAGAO STEAMEVAT CO., LTD., AND THECHINA NAVIGATION CO.,LTD,
HONG KONG-CANTON LIŊE. SallingsfromHong Kong Daily, at 8A.M. & 10.00P.M. (Sundays
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EXCURSION TO MACAO:--
ON SUNDAY, THE 3RD MAY, 1931 8.8. "SUI TAI "
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Will depart from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf at § A.M., and from Mao at 1,00 P.M, NOTE-All Steamboat Ocmpany's Steamer ste fitted with Wireless.
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'To-day.
(April 27.)
University Court Meeting, 3.13
1. art.
University Arts Association Meet- ing, 8.30 p.m.
Hong Kong Cricket Club, Tennis Tournament: Open Singles: E C. Fincher . M. W. Lo..
Queen's Theatre; "Billy The
World Theatre: "Hwang Tion Poh" (Chinese film).
Central Theatre: "The Benson
"Kid."
Murder Case."
Dances: Tea Dance. H.K. Hotel, Dinner Dances, Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel, and Hotal Cecil.
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Tuesday.
(April 29.)
Annual. Inspection, Hong Kong Police Reserves, Central Polica Station Compound, 3.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: Billy Tho Kid."
World Theatre: The 24 Heirs " Part 2 (Chinese film)...
AMERICAN'S SEÈK THE
SOUTH BY AEROPLANE, ROAD AND STEAMER.
FLORIDA IS THE PLACE.
Americans are reverting to the, light flannels and unloading our Practice of the Red Indians, who passengers at frequent intervals. travelled south in the winter in Thirty-two hours later we reach- search of sunshine, writes Percy S.jed Miami, in South Florida— Bullen in the London, Daily-Tele-Miami, the magic city, where graph. The exodus this year to every day is June "--and by the Florida, America's greatest Riviera, evening of the day following the de- and to the British islands within | parture from frigid New York we easy reach of Miami, has been the are actually in Havana, Cuba, the biggest on record.)
Wall Street may collapse, land beoms come and go, but Florida is the place, where "summer spends the winter," and sunshine is an asset greater than land or gold. All classes, rich and poor, are the pilgrims, and the trok by rail, and rond, sea and air, each year will gruw larger.
The "Sun Rush" started when good roads became the warp and woof of America's system of land transport, and when three families
out of four owned some sort of motor-ear. Then came a most amaz Central Theatre: "The Beasoning and successful campaign of
Murder Case.**
King's Theatre: "Ingagi." Dances: Tea Dance, H.K. Hotel Dinner Dances, Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels and Hotel Cecil.
Paris of the Western world. Its cafés and restaurants 'have all the allurements of Continental night life. The lust stage was made possible by aeroplane flight from Miami, Insting just over two hours. From New York to Miami is 1,150! miles as the crow flies.
All Roads to Miami. The journey south, an all ronda converged upon Miami, was a verit able triumphal way, Great aero- planes, some containing twenty pay- sengers cach, roared overhead in a never-ending procession, "The Sunshine Special" trains, from the frozen tracts north, sped along in nowspaper adverting that. New three sections, each of thirteen World has ever witnessed. First Pathan ears. On every high road First!" meaning usually a trip Florida caravana the watchword was "See Amerien parallel with the castern coast of of motor-cara, across the 3,000 miles between the from Rolls-Royces to Ford road Atlantic and Pacific coast: This sters, whirled swiftly to their des broad area having been exhausted, tination. Now and then one caught we were told that the time hat glimpses of the North Atlantic, arrived to explore the "World's
with excursion steamers southward Greatest Riviera" and the islands bound run without a break through- Hong Kong Schools Athletic adjacent thereto, where solar rays out the year. Sports, Caroline Hill.
plus liquid sunshine are always in
Leaving Frost Behind.. Next came quick cheap trains competing with long-distance motor
Wednesday,
(April 29.)
·
Queen's Theatre: "Billy The senson. Kid."
· World Theatre: "The 24 Heirs Part 2 (Chinese film).
The annual trek of the Red Indians following the flight of the swallows took any time from Aix weeks to a couple of month. To day the winged 'planes make the thousand-ould miles from New York people from the fee and snow and in seven or eight hours. Good run-
Central Theatre: "The Benson 'buses and aeroplanes to carry Murder Case"
King's Theatre: "Ingagi." Dances: Tea Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances, Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.
Thursday.
·
Queen's Theatre: Those Three French Girls."
World Theatre: "The 24 Heirs" Part 2 (Chinese film).
King's Theatre: "Ingagi." Daners: Ten Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances, Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.
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Take my own case to illustrate days, according to the route select- the success
of America's well-ed. The cars of the plain folk, as Haw them last December, a organised crusade of advertising to capitalise, the sun. I left New York never-ending caravan, become moro at ten am on the bleak day in numerous every year. They bring early March, with a temperature small farmers from the New Eng around freezing point. The train, land States to "lots" they culti nicknamed "The Influenza Special vato in Florida in the winter, and -there is another called
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(Continued on Paga .) were in Northern Florida, wearing!
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