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MASON'S
DELICIOUS
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Supreme Court
Hongkong Daily Press.
ESTABLISHED 1857, -
MONDAY, AUGUST 8; 1932.
No. 23097, 號柒拾玖仟叁萬弍第
HONG KONG, 日柒初月柒年申壬
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
On and after MAY 2ND, 1031, uätil Further Notice (all previous Time Tables cancelled).
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 18 14 1692 18 24 28 25
E. NOON ..| PM. PAL YAL PM/FM.
UP TRAINS
STATIONS
8
No. No. No. Na
10 8 2 AM AM, 2.M. | AM,
Kowloon
Taumati
Dop. 0.10 8.05 8,28 Dop. 6.48
9.84 10.24 12.08) 1.26 ...
9.87 10.80 12.20 1.88...
Dep: 7.14
9.52) 10.50 12.98 1.5.
Shatin.... Taipo
Tarpo Market
Fanling
Bhaungatui
Bhumchan
Canton
Dep. 7.00
Dop. 7.10.
***
IN
Dop.]7,50) ***
Dep. 7.36
Art. 7.41 8.64
11.32
0.1510.18 13.00 1.18) 2.35 402 4,41 5,88 7.40
9.57 10.51 12.37 1.55] ... 10.00 11.04, 18.47 2.05 9.05 10.14 11.03 12.02 9.10/3.1
***$498.427.48 5,025.86 8.00 5,15 6.08 8.78 3.196.128.11
6.20 6.25 8.7
5.34 0.27 8.12 9.11 10.20 11.15 12.88 2.18 8.20 440 5.40 6.33 8.38
5.40
DOWN TRAINS
7.281 ...
AMERICA'S WEALTH
WASTING.
RICH OUTPUT OF FIELDS AND
FACTORIES
BUT THE COUNTRY TOO POOR
TO BUY
BY MARY BORDEN
It was a relief to be in the train, just as there was too much grain rushing across the summer land-growing out there in the fields, just as there were too many straw. menpe away from the great haunted city of Chicago. New York had
borries. in the strawberry patches, heen dreadful; Chiengo was worse,
and too many peaches and apples if less depressing; Detroit, overy,
ripening on the trees.
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. one said, was in a terrible state;
STATIONS
1
A.M. AM. A.M.
17 7 3 15
A.M. P.,
13 23 10 31 1.M. FM FM, (P.M.
Canton Shumobun... Sheangahul Fanling Taipo Market
Taipo..... Bhati.....
Kowloon....a
4.15
so was Cleveland and Pittsburg.
Io California all the past season thore had been signs along the All the cities of the United States
ronds. Wherever there were fruit were suffering. Life in any great trees there were these signs. "Please 7.00-
123 6.10 7.01 7.19 industrial centre was a nightmare.
como and pick our peaches and take 10.84 11.38 298 11,45 2.43
4.30 0.17 7.11
I thought of the Empire State them away." For it is bad for the 11.50 2.40 4.38 0.32 13.01 2.50 4.45 6,82
Building, towering into the air trees if the peaches, rot on the from the rock of Manhattan,branches. And you could buy four Arr. 8.17 9.01 10.54 11.12 1205 0.38 5.20 707 7.307.64 superh and supreme monument of baskets of strawberries in San
Dep
Dop. 7.17 8.09 9.58 Dop. 7.24 8.10 10.08 Dop. 7.28 8.14) 10,08, Dep. 7.40 8.23 10.18
14
Dep. 7.45 8.80) 10.22
13.00 3.02 4.49 6.88
Dop. 7.58 8.43 10.30)
Dep. 8.11 8.55 10.49
12.208.15 5.02 0.49... 12,32 8.37 6,147.01
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YELLOW CLING PEACHES
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the American capitalist aystem, two- thirds empty. It was trying by any and every sort of inducement to attract tenants, to persuade mon anyhow, somehow, to move to it glorious empty rooms. They could be had for next to nething, those palatial offices.
If you would consent to take one, the Empire State Building would take the liability for your old offices, and pay the rent you were now paying to your present land- lord
It carried round its beautiful threat a debt for 3200,000,000. It of was paying its taxes out sightseers.
Francisco for sixpence.
New York's Hunger Crowd. Butter was-how much a pound? I had forgotten the exact price, but jabout one-sixth of what it was in England. And some farmers were complaining of other farmere that they were polluting their water supply by pouring milk into the streams.
But there would be a crowd to-
night in Times Square, in New York City, as there had been last night and the night "before; a silent erowd summoned by a single summons, the call of hunger, attracted there by the possibility of food.
The charge was a dollar, and you were shot upwards a hundred floors
They would stand a hundred deep into the air. A thousand people a round a wooden hut, erectod in the day did this. The view from the middle of the square, and, wait top was extraordinary. I shudder-patiently on the chance that some ed. I wanted no more views from one with money in his pocket would the top of skyscrapera.
buy a book of food tickets at the door of the hut and give them away. Many did.
The Farmers Desperate. The country was looking lovely.
Almost no man in a job, carning The white farmhouses with their great white barns shaded by great salary, went in or out of Times- trees, seemed serene. Their win-square without doing just that. He dows. blinked at me in a kindly could not do it in the face of that incurious fashion.
waiting crowd. He would buy a book of ten tickets for a dollar and distribute them among the nearest hungry man, and they would melt
Women in cotton wrappers sat in rocking chairs on their verandaha, or stood at their gates in the sun in lilac unbouanets. Men, driving into the wooden hut and get each tractors across the fields, did not one for his ten-cent ticket, a cup of turn to look at the train. Surely coffee and a large sandwich, while these people ware happy. But the others would take their place out- position of the farmers was des side, so they would not be missed in perate, so all the newspapers said the crowd or make any differance
I closed my eyes. I was glad to to its dimensions,
be in the train. It was hot out. Clothes Incredibly Cheap. there in the fields; the sun streami.
Starvation in the midst of abun ed into the Pullman, but I was cool
dance! A very clear-sighted and I was going to Cincinnati. My
courageous American, Walter Lip- host there was vice-president of a
mann, had written on that subject railway. He had taken my ticket, just the other day. If ever there was
air-
and bad said to me over the tale phone, "You'll be in an conditioned car. You'll be com- fortable." I way.
Trains are Mostly Empty. But the business of the air-con- ditioned cars was, I reflected, one of the reasons for the present plight of the railways. It cost $10,000 to put this admire system of yen tilation into each-car,-and-the-rail- -way-got-nothing out of it They
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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.
TO-DAY,
(August 8.)
Beginning of Autumn (Li ch' iu). Criminal Sessions: Opening Day
af The Village Road Murder Trial. P. W. D. Auction Sale of Crown Land, 3 p.m.
Cham.
Lawn Bowls:-Singles pionship of the Colony; H. Nish
v. R. S. Nicol (Kowloon Bowling Greea Club Ground)' 5.30 p.m.
Fencing: H. K. Fencing Club Meet, 3.15 p.m.
King's Theatre: "Reserved for Ladies"
Queen's Theatre: "Polly of The Circus."
Central Theatre: "Flood." Star Theatre: "Reducing," World Theatre: "Laughing
Oriental Theatre: "Personal
Sinuers."
Maid."
Gardew
Theatre:
"King
of
Jazz."
Ten Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Hongkong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel and King's Re staurant.
Whist Drive at Y. M. C. A., 9 P..
Tides:High at 1.81 and 13.25;
Home Low at 7.09 and 10,42,
Mails:-Inward from Amarica by Pres. McKinley; Out- ward for Europe vin Siberia by Rakuye Maru 10.30 am.
TUESDAY.
(August 9.)
Criminal Sessions, Village Road Murder Trial.
Rotary Club Tilin, Lane Craw- ford's Restaurant, 1' p.m.
Whist Drive at Civil Service Cricket Club, 8.30 p.m.
Lawn Bowls-Open Champion- ship, A. M. Holland v. R. E. Luz; A. H. Oswick v. C. S. Beat (Kow loon 0.0.), 5.30 p.m.
Meetings. Re motor cycle Relia- bility Trial (Lano, Crawford's Res- taurant), 5.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Polly of The Circus."
King's Theatre: "Reserved For Ladies."
Central Theatre: "Flood." Star Theatre: "Reducing" World Theatre: "Reininiscenes
"King of
Garden Theatre: of Peking," Part 2.
Jazz."
Theatre: "Personal
Oriental Maid. "
Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Hongkong Hotel and King's Restaurant.
Tides:-High at 1.87 anxi 14.30; Low at 8.32 and 20,18.
a land flowing with milk and there was no relief for the mind. honey, this was one, and with anywhere, Nothing solid to rest patrol, too, and beer, whisky, and on, unless it was the land out there
rushing past the windows, gin They were all cheap now; 80 word clothes,
I was going down country to a village on the borders of Kentucky Incredible how cheap clothes and Indians.
What would I
were.
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COMING SHORTLY
to the
KING'S THEATRE
"THE CALENDAR"
I had bought three lovely find there! More ghosts? More A BRILLIANT RACING PICTURE summer frocks at a shop in Newmisery 7
were
York for 83.95 each a pound
They sterling roughly. quite nice enough for Ascot! But there was somehow no com
had to do it, because every other.fort to be had in the thought of railway was doing it, but only the going to Ascot, or the Garden passengers benefited.
They were more comfortable, the few passengers scattered along the empty seats. The train, like the Empire State Building, was two thirds empty.
There were too many railroads, too many cars, air-conditioned and otherwise, too many freight trains;
WA motored from Cincinnati along the south shore of the Ohio River to Louisville, Kentucky. We had our lunch with us, and we rolled, smoothly along the magni--|- cent road through sleepy town, Party, in an American frock that past stud-farms with white railed had cost $3.95. It would be fun paddocks, over gentle wooded hills. for me. But what did it mean?The broad river was on our right, What sinister fact lay behind it the blue grass country on our left. It meant that something had gone", very wrong with the world. But what?:
There were so many answers, and rutinued at foot of next column,).
My host, the railway magnate. told me as we wont about his troubles. He took a long view, and it was not cheerful.
(Continued on Pape 12.)
THE SCREENS FINEST DRAMA OF. THE TURF FROM THE PEN OF EDGAR WALLACE, WITH BRITAIN'S FAMOUS STAGE PAIR, EDNA BEST AND HERBERT
MARSHALL.