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DIARY OF LOCAL PILGRIMS TO MECCA AND
EVENTS.
TO-DAY.
(April 20.)
Cora Rain (Xu-yu).
Schneider Trio Recital at Eplens
May Institute, 0.20 p.m.
BRITAIN.
A TALE OF TWO SHIPS: AN ELDERLY EX-LINER AND A MODERN TOURIST
Haig
Bombay-Two pilgrim shipa have
to Paradise which can only be had
at the Tomb of the Prophet...
VESSEL.
Whist Drive at Seamen's "En-just passed down the harbour, out
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A little inter dumę, the second pil First come an elderly ax-liner of arim ship. She was three times as Nominations for Sanitary Board uncertain pedigree, carrying barge and a very superior person.
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twoon decks as mixed a cargo of Her decks were as crowded. There Lawn Tennis, Canton Hong humanity as ever set sail on a great were, men in flannels or informal adventure. Fieros, hook-based hot weather kit in which tennis Kong at HK.CC. Singles, Loung
Pathans with beards dyed red shirts predominated None of the Tak Kwong (Canton), M. W. Lo swarthy Afghans eyeing their fellow women was veiled. They were Doubles G. Bodiker and E. O Fin men with sour suspicion; lean, leaving India as filled with autioi- cher ». 8. A. and H. D. Rumjahs.polished gentlemen from Hydra-pation as the travellers who had Football-Third Division: Royal bad in long, frook conts and scazlet gone before, but with a very differ- fezzes; sophisticated products of ont objective. They were thinking: Air Force v South Wales Bor-
European universities mingling of London and Ascot and Scottish derora.
with simple peasants who have moors
Such happy pilgrims are now Central Theatre: "A Woman of never seen the ben, all jammed in Experience."
a tight mass between the rails, like streaming through Bombay in their Thousands. The pilgrim exodus Queen's Theatre: "Flying High" trippers on a Bank Holiday.
Homo has set in earlier than usual, King's Theatre: The Man I
VEILED WOMEN.
Extra ships carry this sudden over- flow of traffic and have not a cabin Killed."
Out of sight, but very much pre-left. Their passengers come by World Thentre? "General Crack.”
sent, were women shrouded in sack train from the remote cornets of Star Theatre: "Lottery Brida." like white catton garmente envelop this vast Empire: officers from Tea Dances at King's Restaurant ing them from head to foot; others lonely jchs in the Passes and can- and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner in silk saris and wearing gold and tonents almost as lonely in the silver ornaments, but as discreetly Pinios; planters from "Assam and Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Ponin.voiled as their humbler sisters; de the far south; rulers of districts sula Hotel and King's Restaurant, voted wives settling down in the where the British Raj is still res- European Mails:-Inward: space allotted them and their pected, even revered; key men in Europe via: Suoz (Chitral).
THURSDAY.
(April 1.)
Feast of Passover, Company Meeting; Mears. Powell, Ltd, 13.30 a.m.
Theosophical Society Meeting,
p.m.
family possessions between hatches; the intricate machine of government unpacking bundles, pots, pans, and and humbler representatives from mysterious parcels of food, and the back of beyond, passing down chattering like magpies.
the pilgrim's way with but one There were ancient men with thought in their minds they are patriarchal beards, sitting calmly going home. with their eyes fixed on an open The Imam bowed on his rug ot Whook-The Book-or staring solemn sunset, his face, to Meten, as the ly into the future. On the bridge ship benra "him towards the Red was a British skipper looking for Sea, is no more content.Eor them, ward as intently to his tea; to the as for him, there is great happines engine room a hardbitten Scot from at the journey's end, and the assur the Clyde, surveying his surround-ance is a kind of magie remedy that ings wish morose satisfaction. Still obliterates all the worries of the life further remevad from the vanities they are leaving behind. Generals of this world could be found sundry unbend and are jovial in the bonign gentlemen of the stoking profession atmosphere of the day of sailing. who cared not whither they were Subalterns are schoolboys again. bound
Hard-worked members of the Civil The elderly ship picked her way Service rise from their Ales and with dignity through a fleet of turn their backs on the nefarious fishing-boats. rounded, the light-activities of Congress.
those who have house, and set hor course for Jed Happiest are
the Anished their servitude and are dah, that bleak gateway to
Athletics Hong Kong Area An- al Athletic Meet, Sookunpoo. Queen's Theatre: Escape."
King' Theatre:
Terror."
A Holy
Central Theatre: "Groft."
Star Tentre: "Tilly of Blooms- bury,"
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World Theatre: “City Lights." Ton Dances at King's Bestaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner sacred city of Mucen. Her passen- leaving India for good. There is Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Bers, duly, vaccinated and otherwise certified as tree from the major Peninsula Hotel and King's Ros-epidemics of Asia, were on their way to acquire that safe conduct
taurant.
no contentment like, that of the time-expired official who has got through these final years of turmoil ¡Continued on. Page 5.):
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