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Hongkong Daily Press.
ESTABLISHED 1857
No. 22713. MEMBE±± ±±Ƒ**** HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1931.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE.
On and after MAY 28D, 1931, until Further Notice (all previous Titse Tables cancelled).
STATIONS
3
UP TRAINS
So. No, No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
A 10 8 12 14 10 22 18 21 20 25 AM. AM. AB, A., A.M. NOON PM PM PM, P.31. P.3K POST,
4,45 6,49 7.49 5.02 5,55) 8.00
|| 5.10 6,128,17
Kowloon
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Shatin Гайти
M
Shanební
Dap. 6.40.05.24 0.15 10.162.00 1.182.33 Yaunti......Dap. 6.6
0.24 10.212.09 1.20 Dep, 7,00 „Dop.' 7.18 Tatpo Market... Dop 7.18*** Fanling
Dop, 7.80... Dap. 7,35)
4.02 4.41 5.35 7.40
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29.37) 10.30, 12.20) 1.89) ... 9.82) 10.80) 12,33) 1,51) ...
....5,16 6,098.13
By
0.57 10.44 12,37 1,65| ... 10.09) 11.04 13,47 2.05)
Canton
| 5,20 0,22 6.27
5,34 0,27 8.92
9.06 10.14 14.00 12,52) 2.10 3.14... Skumbu.A7.41 8.44 9.11 10.20 11,15 12.68 2.10 3.20 4.40) 5,40 6.33 8.18
Chatan.....
7.23
11.82 10.401
DOWN TRAINS
STATIONS
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197 B 13 17 10 21 13 23 4.M.) A.M. AM.
A,M. PM,
Shunichu.....
Sheusgshui Fanding...
Taipo Market.
Taip
Sbutin
Taumatate Kowloot......
Dep.....
7.60
414
Dop. 7.179.03 0.55 10.34 11.38 2,30
Dop. 721 8.10, 10.03
Dop. 7.29 8.14 10.09
Dep. 7.43 9.26) 10,18)
Dep. 7.45 8.30 10.22)
.Dop. 7.69 8.43 10.30
..Dep. 8.11| 8.55) 10.48|
P.M.PKP., P.3.
$16 4.23 8.107.01 7.11 11,462,42 4.506.17 7.IN 11.50 248 4.35 6.22 1201 2.60 4.45 | 13:32]
12,00 3.02 4.49 0.38... 12,203.15) · 5.02 | 0.40 ... ..12323.37) 5.14 [701] ...
...AT. 8.17 0.01) 10,54) 11.12) 12,88) 8,33) 6,20| 707 7.30 7.54
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To-day.
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Rogation Day.
Canart, Cher Clửa, 8 km. Queen's Theatre: "Hell's Ankels World Theatre: "Three Arrows of Love" (Chinese &lm),
Central Theatre: "Mängu,”
"Gader Sus- King's Theatre: picion.
Dances: Tea Dance at Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner Dances, Hong Kong and Repulse Bay, Hotel.
European Mail:-Outward: Europe in Siberia' (Tatuta Maru) 8.30 4.31.
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THE CONDITION OF
ENGLAND.
A FRENCHMAN'S DARK PICTURE.
AND AN ENGLISHMAN'S REPLY.
ENGLAND'SCRIBING By André Sieg-1 routes gavo' as
the advantages fried Translated by H. . formerly enjoyed by Venice, Shake gaf Doris Hemming. London: Jonathan Cape. Pp. 280. 10.
But net.
reputation
speard was born in an England in- ferior in these résources to Franve
T is nseful to any nation to see and Spain, and to Portugal and its portrait drawn by a foreigner Holland. From the long struggle of perception and insight, writes for the prizes of the New World, M. J. Hammond, the wen-half piracy and half war,, we known Labour historian, in the emerged triumphant. Today there. Manchester Guardian, M., Sieg. is another shift of fortune, With fried has 'n
for the opening of the Panama Canal those qunlities, and his interpreta-commerce has found another great Hea route, the Pacific route, and tion of our character and our dificulties will be studied with this route is dominated not by Great care. It is the work of a writer who respects our past, and if his description of our present plight is neither encouraging to har con- World Theatre: "Enemy Beanty."fidence nor finttering to our pride, Central Theatre: "Range." it is written not in upite but in King Theatre: "Under Sus-
We appear to the writer picinu.
to be in danger of, becoming a spent force; but he makes it clear that with our decline and fall the world, as he believes, would lose an in fuener salutary in the past, needed for, the future. If our day is over M. Siegfried will
An eompuce epitaph as sincere as it will be delicate and grateful.
Dances: Tea Dance at Hong Kong Hetol: Dinner Dances, Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.
Friday.
(May 15.)
Hong Kong Volunteers. Annual Diner and Prizegiving 3 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Hell's Angels " World Theatre: Enemy Beauty" (Chinese film).
Central Theatre: "Rango." King's Theatre: "Under Sus rision."
Dances: Tea Dance, H.K. Hotel. Dinner Dances, Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel, and Hotel Cecil.
European Mail.-Inward: Europe
Negapatan (Kulsang). Ont ward: Europe ri Suez (Hakusan Mara), 6 p...
Saturday.
(May 10.)
China Entertainment & Land Investment Co., Ltd., Meeting. King's Blida, Mu.m.
Lawn Bowls: First Division Kowloon B.G.C. Civil Servire, Craigengewer C.C. r.. Palice. Re ercio r. Kowloon Dock, Taikoo . Kowloon C.C.: Second Division Covil Service
Craigenpower.
If K. Electric. Taikoo, Yacht Club Kowloon B.G.C.. Kowloou C4 r. Recreio.
Racing-Fifth Extra Meeting (Happy Valley).
Queen's Theatre: "Hell's Angels." World Theatre: "Enemy Leauty" (Chinese film),
Central Theatre: "Rango King's Theatre Under Sus. picson."
European Mail:-Outward: Europe ein Siberia (Pros. Madison Sam.
sorrow.
AIDA UNI
The cumulative effect of M. Sieg fried's picture distressing, and the reader whose feet are never cold as he turns these pages must have
Britain but by the United States. Great Britain has relinquished to this Power that naval ascendancy for which she fought such exhaust. ing wars first against France and then against Germany. A loss of prestige so palpable in M. Sieg fried's eyes in decompanied by QS30
For of power in other fields. nature has turned against us with a vengeance. In the old days we had only to scratch the surfner of our soil to find the con! that was the secret of our power. To-day other nations have learnt to scratch deeper and better, and coal is no longer what it was, for herens. in 1913 89 per cent, of the world's steamships burat coal, the figure in 1030 had dropped to 57. All our export industries, once so powerful, are now threatened by vigorous
an incommop.stock of self-end. rivals. In this new world, so full ence. For M, Siegfried looks at ua of difficulty, it is hard to say where from one angle after another, and we should turn, to Protection or new to Free. Trade. Should wo throw ench new napęet suggests a cause of weakness. Everything is in our lot with Europe or with the against us, and those qualities that Empire? Alas, with out wasting enable a nation to stand up to ill. assets the observer has to note also fortune are losing their strength,
a wasting moral strength, a wast
No longer the favourities of the ing politieak genius. In France.
a great crisis as a leaderless people given over to frivulous pleasure, shrinking from the hard truth, de ceiving ourselves with the illusion that the stern laws that govern life clsewhere will somehow relax their cruel power on British soil.
se nor the spoilt children of the with peasant habits, idleness is industrial revolution, we are facing blamed as a sin, but in England
there is a general and fatal indul- genee. The English leaders of in- dustry and commerce shock their French friends by their lax hours and their neglect of duty. If the rich have their hunting and their mátoring, their short working day and their luxurious week-ends, the Elect of Panama Canal?
poor have their greyhound-racing Much of this picture is familiar and their kinemas, and the dole enough. We all know that England has filled England with rentiers. was nu inconsiderable Power, as Even our fiscal virtue, à quality so far as wealth and commerce go, striking to the French, where long, natil the discovery of the Atlantic
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