MASON'S
DELICIOUS
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No. 228
Library, Supreme Cour
Hongkong Daily Press
ESTABLISHED. 1857.
WAPGWAASA BRUAKE** HONG KONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1931.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE.
On and after MAY 2ND, 1981, until Further Notion (all
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Kowloon
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Taipo Market
Sheang bul Shumchun
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Dep. 640 8.05 628 Dep. 6.48
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9.15 1016 12.00 1.16 2.35 4.02 4.41 5.88 7.40 9.24 10.34-12,08)-12674 8.37) 10.25)13.20 1889
1.52) 10.50:12.58 1.512....K166.08 8.18):
9.87 10.54 12.37:1.55. ***
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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.
TODAY
(October: 101):
Lawn Bowls Shanghai Happy
| Valley Clubs, Police ground,
"Aquatics:" Entries Close for YRC. Harbour Races.
Hockey-Club "A. Recroio. King's Park, 3.16 pam
Hong Kong University Unine. Anniversary Dance, 0 pm.
Whist. "Drive in Kowloon Union Church Hall, 9 p.m."
Queen's Theatre:
1,40) 5,43) 7.48:
5.123 5.56 8.00
5.196,138,17
6.20 6.52 8,27
the Moon,"
8,60) 6,88) 8.38
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⚫ For First Class Passengers anty. Will stop at any station on request. E: Sundays and Public Holidays excepted.
Further information may be obtained at the Railway Offices, Kow- loon or Canton, from Mesars. Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd., Hong Kong, Tho, Amorvian Express, Ca, Hong Kong or The China Travel Service, Queen's Road, Hong Kong."
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BUNDAYS and EXOURSIONS.-Single: $2.50; Return ‹ $4,00,- Nor-Al Sambat Company's Steamers are fitted with Wirsisus.
Reaching for
"World Theatre: "Sout
Liberty" (Chinese film).
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REAL
RULERS.
GROWING DEMOCRACY OF PRESENT
DAY GOVERNMENT.
FARMERS PEASANTS, BLACKSMITHS
AT THE WHEEL.
Is has been said that during the The German Chancellor, Dr. present century a vast redistribu. Bruning, is also shid to have come
of tion of wealth has been taking place of peasant stock, which may account
Star Theatre: Bishop Murder as a result not only of increases in for the fact that, oven on his com Casio.
wages in many trades but of deathparatively small, salary, he is able Cantral Theatre: "Young duties and the heavy taxation of to live so thriftily that he returns Engles."
King's Theatre: "A Connecticut great incomes,
part of it to the Treasury. Yankee,"
Butcher's Son Prince's Theatre: "Hot For Paris."
Majestic Theatre: "Charlie Chan Carrick.On."
Ten Dance at King's Restaurant: Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.
European MailOutward: Europe Suez (Haruna Maru) 6 p.m. Europe via Biberia (Kashgar) 3.30 p.m.ZA
Tides:High at 147: Low at 8.45
and b.10.
SATURDAY. (October 17.)
Interport Lawn Bowls-Hong Kang Shanghai, Club de Recreio. ground, 3 p.m.
Cricket Interport Trial, H.K. C.C ground. Friendlies, Indian Recreation Club Craigengower Cricket Club; Royal Navy Civil Service Cricket Club; Craigengow- er Cricket Club Indian Recrean tion Club (End division).
Lawn Bovis, Interport Dinner. Entertainment at Peninsula Hotsh, Rose Roop, Les Dejehans et William Rimela..
Queen's Theatre: Reaching for the Moon."
World Theatre; "Gold Rush." Star Theatre "In Gay Madrid." Central
Theatre: Young Eagles."
King's Theatre: "The House of the Arrow."
1
Prince's Theatre: Hot, For Paris."
Alajestic Theatre: "Charlie Chan Carrics On."
Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.
European
Mail:-Out war di Europe rin Siberia (Pres. Madison)
3 p.m.
Tidesigh at 12.03 and 9.40; Low at 8.04, and 4,51.
SUNDAY.
(October 18.) 20th Sunday after Trinity.. St. Luke. Evan. Distribution of Prizes and Sports at Craigengower Cricket Club, 3 p.m.
Cricket: Volunteers Navy.
Royal
Queen's Theatre: "One Romantic Night":
World Theatre: "Gold Rush." Star Theatre: "In Gay Madrid," Central
Theatre:
Young Eagles,"
The numerous sales of the estates of the old families are one symptom of the social revolution that is still in steady progress.
M. Pierre Laval, the Prime Minis- ter" of France,, may have been The most significant revolution brought up in lesa penurious sur which has taken place within the roundings, for his father was a but life-time of the middle-aged man of cher and was also engaged in the today, however, has been concerned business of a chrrior, going the not with the redistribution of wealth rounds in his cart to deliver the but with the redistribution of politi. pareels of his customers.
But, at
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world-crisis there is not a single circle of the "governing classca.'' member of what used to be called the "governing classes" in control of the destinies of any of the great nations.
?
Duke's Bon.
In Czecho-Slovakia, again, Presi dent Masaryk, the son of a coach man-ser and a cook, is the head of the State,
The reing of government have
Various writers have published: mssed out of the hands of the gov aring classes, in the old sense of studies of the distribution of genius, the words, and future historians will somep of them arguing that genius. probably look back on the present age as the first age in history in was a plant more likely to grow in which, all over the civilised world, middle-class surroundings than in it was luckier for a statesman, to the too-comfortable world of the have been bom the son of black- smith than the son of Guke, aristocracy or in the too-uncomfort- It is, of course, no now thing for able world of the poor. It is clear, man to rise from poverty to the however, that a childhood passed in highest office in the State The United States has for generations poverty is nowadays no handicap to taken pride in the fact that it was genius, at least in statesmanship, possible for an American citizen to
The New Rulers. be born in a log-eabin, and to And arrive at the White House,
The old-fashioned Conservative even in Russin of the Tears there. were instances of men born outside would possibly attribute most of the the nobility being chosen for great present troubles of the world to the political office. At the same time, fact that the old governing classes nothing lika the Europa of to-day.
in which the political head of alno longer govern, But it would be most every great nation is the son as reasonable to suggest that the of a working man, has ever befom old governing classes governed so existed.
incompetently that a new governing Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Eng-class lind to be called in to put mat fish Prime Minister, is the son of a ters right. And neither statement farm-labourer, and, according to one would really express the truth. of his biographers, "nearly became a farm-labourer" himself.
Blacksmiths Sons.
At the head of the United States is President Hoover, who is the son of a blacksmith and who was him self at the beginning of his career a clerk in a real estate office.
What has happened is that a no- cial revolution lias taken place:eveu: in those countries where there has been no violent revolution, and that no longer can the "governing class es," belonging to various parties, look forward to keeping political: power within their own circle.
It would obviously be an ex- Another blacksmith's son, Signor aggeration to say that the world is Mussolini, rules Italy, having benow governed by working-men, but gun his career as a schoolmaster never before have the children of earning about £21 month.
the working classes played so con- spicuous a part in guiding the de- stinies of the nations..
Stalin, the ruler of Russia. is a Georgian pereknt's son, whose first employment was that of a book keeper.
Robert Lid in the London Newly. Chronicle, 1
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