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No. 23117. ANABEĦ***ð п*8Ƒ** HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUT 31, 1932.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE.
On and after MAY 2ND, 1991, until Further Notion (all proviqui Time Tablon cancelled),
UP TRAINS
STATIONS
No No. No. No. £ 6.10 8 ANG AMAX. 'AM,
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 12 · 14: | 25 | 29 |∙18 | 94 | 96 22 AM. NOON P.M.| P.M. P.M. PM, 7.M. P.M
Dep. 7.00
Dep. 6.40 6.05 8.28 9.18 10.18) 19.00 1,18) 2.25 „Dep. 6.49) *
9.24 10.24 12.08 1.28)...
9.07 10.30 12.20 1.88
Dep. 714
9.53| 20.50) 12,83|1,51|
+
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9.37 10.64 12.87 1.55 ... 10.09 11.0 12,47 2.05) ...Dope 7.35) 0.06 10.1111.00) 19.52| 2.10 3.14
4.02) 4,43 KKS 740 4.40 5.43 7.48 6,08) 5,55 8,00 5,136,088,78 5.16.13
Kowloon....
Yeumati
Shatin.......
Taipo
Taipo Market......Dep. 7.10.
Fanling. Dep. 7,30) Shoung hul Skumchun .........Art. 7,43] 8,44 | 9.11 -10,20] 11,15 12,58] 3,18 3.90 440 540
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Canton.....
11.921
5.40
DOWN TRAINS
STATIONS
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Dop
Dap. 7.24 K,10) 10,03)
Dep. 7.24 8.14) 1008)
‚Dep.] 7,60 8.23 10.18
Dop, 7.45 8,80 10.32...
Shunchun...
Shaungthai...
Fanling
Taipo Market..............
7.50
Dep. 7.17 8.03) | 0,58) 10.84| 1138] 2,35]
Dep. 7.59 8.43 10.ag
Tarmati..........Dep. 8.11865 10.45
Kowloon................ MÅTT. 8.17 9,01. 1155 11,19
✪ Sundays and Public Holidays.only
1
7.201 For
714
No. No. No. No, 10 31 18 29
4.18)
4236.107.01 7.18 11.45 2.43 480 6.17 711
11.502.40 4.85 0.37 ... 13,01 2,58|| 4.45 | 0,89|| 12,06 2,02 4.40 | 6,38 12.208.16 5.03 0.49 1237 327 5,14 | 7,01)
12 88 8,83) 5,207.07) 7.30|7,54
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THE BRITISH NAVY OF YESTERDAY
FLEET FLAGSHIPS AND BATTLESHIPS
OF OVER THIRTY YEARS, AGO
WHEN PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR WAS
ALIVE WITH COLOUR
[BY DR. OSCAR- PARKES.)
Portsmouth thirty odkryears ago The new deserted harbour alive with colour and interest. St. Vincent, Duke of Wellington, and Victory and the little Hero down
by
THE JUBILEE-REVIEW,
Think of the Jubilee Review in
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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.
TO-DAY.
(August 31.)
Queer of the Netherlands, born 1890.
Hockey-Trial Matches (Club ground, King's Park), 5. p.m.
Queen's Theatre; "Lovers Cour ageous.'
Star Theatre: "The Hottentot." Oriental Theatre: "No One Man."
Garilon Theatre: "Ingagi." World 'Theatre: "Sporting Blood."
King's Theatre: 20 row"
After To-mor-
Ten Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay Hotel and King's Restaurant.
Miscellaneous-Whist Drive at Seamen's Institute and Kowloon Dock, 9 p.m.
Home
from
Mails. Inward America by Empress of Asia.
Tides. High at 9.34 and 22.08; Low at 1.56 and 15 20.
THURSDAY..
(September 1)
gth Day Rabi-al-Akhir," Meetinga-Theosophical Society,
8 p.m.
with the Agincourt, Minotaur, Northampton, and the brigs lined Haslar and Gosport, with up with the Powerful and Terriblo. picket boats always, dashing to Thoy covered a span of thirty and from the Dockyard: A couple years, equivalent to that between of Majestics and a Royal Sovereign the present and the last Hood alongside the South Railway jelty,
And the foreigners! Germany re with a Diadem and an Apollo or presented by the quaint old Konig so farther on. Those wonderful Wilhelm, "modernized" with a coal hulks-what wouldn't we give serried row of assorted embrasures to are the gallerfed stern of the old | along her topsides, and masts load- Pitt again and Myrtle alongside, od up with those useless tops whict with Carnatic and the rest farther Gerraan constructors then affected. up stream. A background of che The Spanish Viscayn, very much quered sides, the Excellent and like our Australia within fire show Veron hulks, and some old craft of gilt at her bows; Brooklyn's laid up during gunnery or early great white hull and three towering WT. experiments; the dear old funnels-how I wished we had Dovastation and the yachts out in ships like her. Pothunu a typical the stream and the Dockyard bristanout-bowed Frenchman, with all ling with masts and yards.
her long guns in all turreta; the great Lepanto, bouring four 100 tonners amidships and assuming that she coal wipe the sea with any ship present; Rossin with her a boy my delight was to es-hull as full of guns, big and small, cape from the shepherding police
as a pin cushion and four awe- man and party of sightseers as inspiring funnels, a tout ensemble soon as possible and make a day only slightly spoiled by an un- of it by myself. In those days necessary three-mast rig, Fuji, ahave." there was no secrecy, and a school- sort of cross between Majestic and boy did not matter anyway, Revenge, the tubby little Vasco da
Central Theatre: "Corsair," I used to go aboard any ship and Gama (of the whole parade the Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Tea Dance at King's Restaurant, thoroughly soak in the environment only ship now on the active list), Peninsula of each. A happy hunting-ground and Helgoland, with her doms-
Hotels, and King's Restaurant. was the line of Reserve ships along shaped gun shields and curious Miscellaneous.
Drive side the parade ground, which has scaffolding of boat derricks amid Palies Recreation Club, Happy
- Whist now been converted into docks-ship-how the ship's passage of Valley, 8.30 p.m.; Tenders for Sultan, Hercules, Ratoigh, Prince each was far too short to allow Albert, Glatton, and the rest for a proper gloi. What a joy to wander round the deserted decks and perhaps have a sandwich lunch in the chart house;
VETERANS OF
DAH DAY BY ANDRIA
Aquatics-20th Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery, Sports (V.R.C.).
Oriental Theatre': "No Onc Man."
Queen's Treatro: "Mata Hari Star Theatre: The Hottentot."! King's Theatre: "After To-mor- row,"
World Theatre; "Oh Sailor Be-
demolition of old Jockey Club Stables due; List of Subscribers Hong Kong Jockey Club, Subscrip- SHIPS THAT LASTED.
tion Griffimis, close noon. We didn't crap ships after a Tides-High at 9.90 and 22.31
hectic years ia those days, low at 2.43 and 16.04. They were allowed a nice long, and handle their guns! To see the comfortable almshouse existence Canopus completing
And the Formidable on the slips, and wou passed, and the Navy List made a long after their active days were
to
feel that you were actually few aboard the veterans of Alexandria
the worst, they would have been quite impossible. I once listened
der whether she would really have fine show with lists of third-class to a graphic account of the voyage
three funnels or not.
THE FIRST, SUBMARINE.
battleships and coast defence ships, of the Cyclops from Portsmouth second-class gunboats, and the like, to Portland from her then accoun
Que wonderful visit included the to maintain. There were sporadic stern, she rolled to tho
Awash from bow to all perfectly useless and expensive tant officer.
danger sight of the first of the submarines, attempts at "reconstruction" of angle, hung there giddily, wallow just delivered from Barrow," a
some of the old ironclads, and after ed awhile, and then slid over to thrill only equalled some years lengthy periods in Dockyards hands the opposite extreme the whole
later when, having slowly walked the length of the building which "has-been" would emerge die trip. It was only the presence of guised by fighting tops, tall un;
the engineer-commander in the familiar funnels, clumps of cowls stokehold which kept the black and a bridge of sorts, mildly be squad at their job, so the story wildered at seeing the open sea went.
flanked the dock in which she was completing, I got my first sight of the Dreadnought,
what a collection | 'It must hava bean during the manoeuvres of '01 or '02 that the "B" Fleet passed us
The Reserve Fleet in those days again and under the delusion that Almost as bad were the Hero she was again fit for the line. and Conqueror, and Ajax and The Sultan was actually painted Agamemnon. Awfuses bosts, all the two "A" word gray when that livery came in, four, while and tried to join up for the afflicted with an independence of
at sea with the old Alexandra
leading the line. Seems strange manoeuvres, but sano domini had their helm which was more than t that only 30 years ago we had a ite way, and she had to creep back flapship armed with muzzle loading
to Portsmouth after a short strug
guns and a sea speed of perhaps gle with her infirmities, amid the lived of their presence bý a
13 knots. How fine ate looked, her
freeboard ""towering in contrast
respectful condolences of her suc
with the "Admirale in line asteru, cessors and bitter references to the each with a piled-up bow wayo al Comino Channel.
mort washing the forecastle.?
There was the old Dreadnought (d favourite, but ranking after the
Devastation and Thunderer_in_the
hiararchy), with unfamiliar tall funnels; Edinburgh, Bans Pareil
COAST. DEFENCE
**BATTLESHIPS;".
with her giant turret, the "Jew," fence battleships."
disconcerting. In any fleet ex were attached were promptly re ercises squadrons to which they
signal ordering them to retire to until exercises were over.
the horizon out of: harm'a. Way
Scattored all over the globe were ware: a' bost, "áf one-funuel," "threc' mosted: guuboats and sloops and the "C" class corvettes, and the Heroine clasa were still in com Then there were the "coast de-of one of the latter proceeding mission. I have a couple of photos These aggres under full sail with her engines ng the Nile, with her partially sive-looking but quite useless little broken down, and the rig includes eased funnels, was called, and turret-skips added an interest every stitch of canvas in the ship, Thunderer. A fleet had some up-harbour scenery, and on oc varied interest then when nearly casions pushed out a mile or so on every ship was different, no matter a machinery test. For coastal war what their fighting value may have fars when seas can be as bad as still be found doing duty as bargr been,
(Contimed at next column.)... or pentoons Sic transit!
with aprit sailstry sails, and try sails called from the ship's boats.
Here and there a few relics can
37 ormarley, Direstog.
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