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TIME TABLE.
On and after MAY 2ND, 1931, until Further Notice (all previous
STATIONS
Time Tables cancelled).
UP TRAINS:
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 1 12 246 108
10231824 28 28 Noox.X, F.M. V.M. PMPM.] TM AMAM,
Kowloon
Taumatt... Dep. 0,65
E
Dop. 0.40 8.00
3,28
Shatin....
Dep.) 7.00) ...
9.15 10.16 12:00 1.18 2.85 0.24 10.24 12.08 1.20) ... 9.87 10.30 12.20 1,86 ...
Talpo
Dep
[ 7,14
Fatpo Market
- 7.18
0.57 10.54 12.37 1.35 ...
Fraling
7.20 7.30
Shoung hui
Chunobun
Canton
Pe
· 0.62 10.50*12,88] 1,51|| ...
10.09 11.04 18.47 2.06).
402 441 888 7.40
9.08 10.14 11.09 13.83 2.108.14...
Atr.) 7.41| 8,44 0.1710.2011,1812.68 2:16† 8,20) 4:40)
'STATIONS
Sbumabun...
Canton
Sheungshuf
Faniing
Taipo. Markot..
Tripo
Statio
Taumati
Kowlooa:
Ta
8.40
DOWN TRAINSC
445.48 7,48. 8.02) 4,558,00 6,166.08 8.18.1
5.194.12 5.17
6.29 6.25 8.27
8.34 0.278.85
3.40) 0.33 6.38
7.29 ...
No. No. No. No, No. No. No. No. No. No.
21 13 23 15 17. 18 118 1.76
A.M. F.M.) TM, T.X. I.M. ÞM.
| A.M.) A.M. A.M., A.M.
Dep...
...
Dep.7.17 8.08 0.58 10.94 Dop 7.24 8.10 10.08) Dep. 7.7 8.14 103,08) :Dop] 7.40) 8,26) 10.18| Dep 7:45 8.30 10.22
Dep. 7.58 8.63 10.30
Den | 8.11, 8.55) 10,48)
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4:15
6.10 7,01 7.11 11.88 2.85 4.29 11,48 2.42 · 4.80 | 0:17) ..... 7.18 11.30)-2,40 4.35 ·) 6,22) ---
1201 2.80 4.48 | 0.82) ...
120002 440 5.36
14.50 8.15 8.03 0.49
19.39 3.37 6,14 7.01 ... |
12 38 8.33 6.207.677.38 7.54
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To-day. (July 6.)
P.W.D. Auction of Crown Lands Water Polo First Division: Kowloon Chinese Bathing.Club;' Second Division: University. South Wales Borderers; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Royal Bignale, ......
Queen's Crack"
Theatre: General
World Theatre: "Double Cross Roads!
Star Theatre: The Pagan King's Theatre: The Dancera" Central Theatre: "Phantom of The Opera."
Majestic Theatre: Twin Beds." Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels.
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Our Good: Concelt,
An absence of egoism is not What annoys foreigners in English people is not that we think too usually marked where Englishmen' much of ourselves, but that we do are gathered, together. You may not care a atraw what other nations think that Dr. Renier is making a think of us, writes Mr. H. C. shrewed jibe, but, as Benodiek said, Bailey in the London Daily Tele-when the ladies, wore humbugging himp, this can be no trick: the graph
We are rather more self-consci-conference was sadly borne.".
· Kuropean Mails: Outward: Europe via Siberia (Pres, Jackson) ous, and the political doctrines re-
Fides:-High at 248 and 12.33;cently fashionable have laid down. Then we have some odd inference, that it is the first duty of the Eng from common idioms. Because all lish nation to give satisfaction to
Englishman says "Sorry" by way the others.
of apology when sorry he cannot But here is one of our foreign, Dr. Renier discovors insinceri observers writing a book to naist
wirty; when we say "I am afraid" in that mental and moral develop this, that, and the other, we are ment which we so sorely need, by a "portrait of the English" as he aces them and a vision of England of the future" na revealed Star Theatre: "The Pagan:",
to him, Central Theatre: "Phantom of The Opera.
Tuesday. (July 7.)
Speaker: Rotary Club Tifin Rev. A. Sewann on Rowing."
South China Association, Entries: for Night Fete (Acquatlo Sporta)
Entries Close.
Queen's Crack."
Theatre:
"General
World Theatre: "Double Cross Roads,"
"
King's Theatre: "The DanceTA!! Majestic Theatre: "Twin Beds." Dinner Dancca at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.
European Mails-Inward: Europe uia Siberia (Athes 11.). Outward
Like Nobody Fiss.
showing our national caution, and all that can be deduced from our use-do we use it much of the phrase, "not room enough to swing a cat," I shudder to think. Such conventional locutions in any language mean nothing in particu
lär.
Dr. G. J. Renier is a Dutchman, soventeen years resident in Eng. sad, and his long and, I fear, painful studies of us have led him back to the good old English contion with "Est-ce que', does not Europe via Marseilles. (Athos 11 viction that the Englishman is like Prove that the French are more in-
9.30 p.m.
Tides:-High at 3.0 and 1.08; Low at 7.32 and 8.39.
Wednesday. (July 8)
That a Frenchman begins a ques-
nobody else in the world. Here is quiring or more subject to amazo
ment than other people. They use' one typical example of his method
rather: byperbolical expressions ju "The Continental, the Trishm
wonding their letters, but they would the American-those,
shart
hardly claim this as evidence that Lawn Tennis:"B" Division: whom I like to call ordinary they are pocalíarly affectionate to Chinese Rt.C.Indian being-overstate the English their fellow creatures. Cralgengower. Kowloon C.C..
Army Tennis Club M.B.K., understate. They show by so do South China Hong Kong 0.0ing a greater deference to truth."
What they are the qualities which
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Theatre:
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Star Theatre: "Sunny Side Up" Contral Theatre: Phantom of The Opera"
King's Theatre: "The Dancers." Majestic Theatre: The Singing Peony" (Chinese film).
European Mails:Qutward: Europe vin Siberia (Tatsuta Mara) 8.30 am.; Europe vin Marsoilles (Patroclus)-10.30 am.
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convinced that they are, that they own, and that they produce all that is best in the world"
Dr. Renier has been at pains to collect evidence of this strange and shocking charge. One paper says London is the healthiest great city. in the world, and another that it is
Alas! Dr. Renier is not always wholly serious. Much of his book, I am bound to suspect, is "spoke sarcastic," though in my innocence I suffer from an uncertainty, which perhaps troubled the author him- self, as to what is sarcastic and what is not "English conversa tion," he writes, "is full of taboos. I' and 'you are words that are avoided, or if pronounced slurred over with apology. For the per- take breath. sonal element is out of place.”
the world market for Oriental-car- pets, and sixty years ago somebody wrote that "England was par ax cellence the land of journalistic energy," and people still go on saying that we have the best Civil Service and the best police and the best buns and even the best weather Let us stop there and
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