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Hongkong Daily Press.
ESTABLISHED· 1857.
No. 23133, ¶EGĦAƒ±S BARANGTE HONG KONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1932,
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE.
On and after MAY AND, 1931, until Furthor Notice (all previous
Time Tables cancelled)). -
STATIONS
UP TRAINS
No. No. No. No.
10 8 |(AK) AND, AGE, | A6,
POR Kowloon.... Dop. 0.40 8.05|8,28 Yaumati
Dop. 0,44
Shatia............. Dep. 7.00
Talpo D 7.14
Taigo Market..
Fantiag
Bhanngshui
Shumahun
Canton
Dep. 7.19
Dop. 7,80
Dep. 7.86)
.Atr. 7,41] 8,5
11.32
No No No. No. No. No. No. No. 12 14 16' 23 18 | 24 | 20 29 A.M. NOOR P.M. T.XPM, FM, TM. T.
0.15 10.10 12.00 1.182.35 4.02 4.41 5.80.40
0.34) 10.21 12.08 1,20
9.37 10.85 13.20 1.88
1.52) 10.80 12.33) 1,51|
-0.67 10.54 12.37) 1.63)
...10.09 21.04) 12.87) 2.0G) ...
...4.49 8.43 7.45 8.02 6.55 8.00
8.18 8,08 8.73 }.
| 5,10) 0.134-11
5.29 8.228.27
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DIARY OF LOCAL The Shadow Over Scotland
EVENTS.
TO-DAY
(September 19).
19th day of Jemadi-al-awal Entries close for 13th Extra Racó leet, doon.
Amaal Mating of Reel Club, cena ng Institute, 3.15.2.10. Hockey RAS.C. v. Indio S.C., Caroline Hill, 6.15 p.m.
Hong Kong Fencing Club, Meat- ing, 5.13 p.m.
Badminton Club Meet, Sailors' & Soldiers' Home
Theatres
A DAY IN A DESERTED DISTILLERY
WHY THE MEN OF
OF THE GLEN
ARE WATCHING WASHINGTON.
BY HORACE THOROGOOD.
Grantown-on-Spéy, Aug 17 of such high-scale taxation do not
It would seem a long way from strike an ordinary observer as very
Quron's: "But the Flesh is politics here on Speyside-polities | clever. Consider, two or three of
9.05 10.14 11.00 12.62 2.10 3.148.34 6.27 8.33 | Weak?" 9.11 10.20 11,16 12.08 2.10 3.20 4,466,40 6.83 8.33
5,40
DOWN TRAINS
STATIONS
No. No. No. Ho
I 3
↓
4.31.
Canton ava Shumchub... Sheungekui..... Fantinger Taipo Markot... Taipe.......... Shatin..
Taupati.........
Kowloon....
Dap 7.17 8.00 0.56
. Twp. 7.24] 8.10) ILUR Dep. 7.28.14 10.09 Dap. 1.40 5.26 10.18
Dep. 7.45 8.30 10.22 Dop. 7.59 8.43 10.30 Dop. 8.111 8.56 10.-18
No. No. No. No. No. No! 10 -17 19 31 19 23 A,M. [P.M.] P.M. [PM› }PA. \V.M.
7.50
***
... [418].... 0.84 11.38 2.35 4.236.10 701 7.11 11,45 2,42 4.30 6.17... 7.18 11,60 2.40 4.36 0.22 .... 14,01 2.66 4.45 0.32. ..12.08 3.02) 4.40 6.30]
14208,186,02 | 6.40 ... ..12.39 1.9 5.14 | 7.01
..ATE. 8.17] 0,01 10.64) 11:12) 13 888.33 6.207.077,997.64
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By Order,
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HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS,
JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND MAÇAŬ STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., AND CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
HONG KONG-CANTON ́ LINE.” BAILINGS From HONG KONG-Daily at 8 am, and 10 p.m. (Sundays 10 p,m, only).
SAILINGS From CANTON—Daily at 8 am, and 4.50 p.m. (Sundays 4.30 p.in. only).
HONG KONG-MAÇAO LINE.
SPECIAL SERVICE.
SAILINGS From HỌNG KONG-Daily at 8 a.m. & 5,10 p.m.
(Sondays excepted). BAILINGS From MACAO Daily at 3 am, & 2 p.m.
(Sundays exceptad).
SPECIAL EXCURSION.
SUNDAY, 25TH SEPT., 1932. 8.8. "SUI TAI"
will leave Hong Kong at 9 a.m. and Macao at 4 p.m.
8.8. SUI AN”
will leave Macao at 9 am, and Hong Kong at 8 p.m.
SPECIAL 'SALOON FARES.
WEEK DAYS. -Single: $3.00; Retorn: $5.00. EXCURSIONE.—Single: $2.50; Return: 14,00,
Nork-All Steamboat Company's Steamers are fitted with Wireless,
CALIFORNIA PACKING CORPORATION
CALIF., U.S.A.
GREEN GAGE PLUMS
"Green Gage Plums
Dismiss all glums.”
YELLOW CLING PEACHES
Yellow Cling Peaches Are within your reaches"
Obtainable at All Compradore Shops.
Sole Agents: KUNG SHEUNG CO.
HONG KONG.
CHINA BUILDING,
Central: Nice Women."
Star: The Own Desirɛ" King's: Man of Mayfur." Oriental: "Caught." Majestic: The Spy."
Tu Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels and King's
liestaurant.
Sunrise: 6.11 am.; Sunset: 6.23 p.in.
Tides.-High at 11.50 and 23.44;
Low at 5.36 and 17.00.
Principal Mails Inward-U.S.A. and Japan by President Coolidgo.
and Now
Outward-Australia
Zealand by Tai Ping, 19.30 0.m.
TUESDAY (September 20).
18th day of Jemadi-al-awal. Lammert's Auction, 11 a.m. Auction: Hughes & Hough, Rotary Club Tiffin. Supreme Court long vacation begina.
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of any kind, let alone American them politics. The beautiful river swirle along the bed of its broad valley, Bashing in the sun. The heather overs the hills with a rosy glow. Mountains and moors and forests ramble in lines of magnificent free dom about the high horizons. What oan Speyside have to do with the fortunes of two gentlemen, named Hoover and. Boosevelt, fighting for the 'residency of the United States of America
Whisky is so preposterously dear that the warehouses are enormously over-stocked. The millions of pounds sterling which the stores represent in luty is only potential money while they lie there under the excise officer formidable pad- locke: it means to the revenue ex-" actly £0 0 Od. On the other side of the account, the taxpayer has to keep the 2000 men, normally em- ployed, on the dole. In reat-free Yet, nowhere is the result of the houses with plenty of vegetable Presidential élcetion awaited with garden ground, they are not, super- more anxiety than here
ficially, much worse off, but your For the beauty of this scene con- Highland warkaian is a self-re- ceals black tragedy. It is centre of specting man, and he hates the delo, the distilling industry, which is It was pitiful to see the villag the chief industry of the High of Tom's Hill.
which grew up landa. In notinal times there are round the Glenlossie distillery, tiks about a hundred distilleries work solutely idle, the men lounging at
:
1
K. Football Association Meet-ins, in Scotland, employing some the garden gates the children rov ing 5.30.
2000 men. Last year only 15 woming about thin-faced and poorly Mamak
Hockey Tournament working and only 200 men were clad. Thirteen families, some of Meeting, St. Andrew's Hall, 530 employed. When the next distil them with eight children, and the &lery year begins. in October, it is entire male population, except four feared that not more than three or men who kept the distillery clean, four distilleries, will. reopen. In
on the dole Dufftown, just over the hills, with
p.m.
Fellowship Meeting, Sailors Soldiers' Home, 8 pm
Whist Drive: Civil Service 0.0,
8.30 p.m.
Theatres.
a population of 1900, al! its seven distilleries are shut, with only frail. hopes of reopening. The town de- "But the Flesh is penis almost entirely or the indus-
Central: Nice Women." king's "Man of Mayfair." Star: The r Own Desire" Majestic: The Spy." Queen's:
Weak"
Oriental: Caught. !*
try.
The manager of the largest said Ten Dance at King's Restaurant to me: "To-day I am ashamed to Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels and King's Res-cross the square."
taurant.
2,5.
Because (he mucant) of the groups Tides.-High; Low at 6.05 and of employed maltmen, mashmen,
Principal Mails.
stillmen, etc., atanding about there Inward:-Calcutta and Straite following him with serious eyes full y Tilawa.
of the unspoken question, "Shall Outward-Japan, S. America and Europe San Francisco: we start this, time, or must we Shinyo Maru Reg. p.m.; Letters starve ? 5.30 p., on t inst.
WEDNESDAY (September 21.)
Ember Day.
20 day of Jemadi-nl-awal. Ladies' Church Aid Society Meet- ing, Sailors & Soldiers' Home, 10
IL.M.
Hong Kong Area Aquatic Sports,
V.B.C.. 2 p.m.
JOHN HAIG
•Choring Kagh Defi A MARKINGS OLD LABEL
·UOKITER #COTCH WIRÉTT
426
Maging Director.
NOTICE
We have removed to GLOUCESTER BUILDING (Sonth Arcade)
N. LAZARUS
Ophthalmic Opticians.
(Single Copy, 10 cts.
Per Month, $3.
The Whisky
of Quality
from the oldest distillers in the world
Haig
THE FATHER OF ALL SCOTCH
SOLE AGENTS:
In another direction, the results GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD., of the high duty policy are not
HONG KONG without a touch of farce.
Every distillery has its resident excise officer, sometimes two. In normal times he is a vory busy man.
TEL. No. 20135.
Not a drop of whisky can be dis- THE ST. FRANCIS HOTEL
tilled without his presence. He weighs it in all its stages, from still to warehouse and warehouse to, trader or blander. He unlocks the furnaces in the morning and locks them at night. No one can enter the warehouses without him to turn the key. The distilleries bristle with
his padlocks, each padlock having That is why the progress of the a dated label inside, which the key, American Presidential election is on turning, perforates and cancela. heing so anxiously followed un Oh, an important man, with i Speyside. If America decides to go salary in keeping with his impori- "wet," whether more or less-it
ance: The finest house in the vi hardly mattors there will be at
onen an outbreak of happy activity lage, with the finest garden, is us in the now-deserted distilleries, ually his, and he pays no rent for And not only in the distilleries. it. And to-day, in fast for a period The farmers will feel the returning running into years past, we tax tide of prosperity, too, Nearly alf the barley used in the distilleries is is locally grown, but to-day a field
Funeral of Mr. Lo Chung Kue, Entries close for V.R.C. cham rionship, 0 p.m. -
Theatres,
Central: "Nice Women,"
Queen's! "But the Flesh
Weak "
Oriental: "Caught,”
King's: May of Mayfair." Star: Skin Deep"
Dinner Dances-at-Hong-Kong Hotel.
Tides. High: 00.00 and 13.00; Low: 7.26 and 17.03.
Principal Mails, Inward:-Europe via Suez by
Naldera.
THURSDAY : September 22).
21st day of Jemadi-al-awal, Hong Kong Area Aquatic Sports, V.R.C., p.m.
Parade of H.K. Police Force at Central Police Station, 5 p.m
Badminton Club Meet, Sailors & Soldiers' Home.
Theatres."
King's: "The Strange Case of Clara Deane," s
Queen's: "Tarzan the Apeman." Star: Skia Deep." Oriental June Moon!!
payers have been keeping these. lucky fellows in ideal circumstan
barley is a rare sight in this coun-ens doing practically nothing!' try. It has gone almost out of uultivation.
It is not their fault'that we are being put, in these hard times, to suchungscessary expense. They do next to nothing because there is American Prohibition is of next to nothing to do. They are course, only part of the reason for
SEVENFOLD DUTY.
the extreme depression in the dis charming men met several), and filling trade. The more desperato I know they would much rather be factor is the high duty on. spirits working. But I confess that, as 1 The manufacturing costs are a mere toured from one shut distillery and trifle by comparison. Roughly,
the duty, amounts to seven times the one hungry, unemployed vilings to another, and saw at each place the value of the whisky. In the ware houses of Glonoran I saw over 850,
beautiful residence of the excise of
ficer.h feeling" of baffled anger 000 gallons, in Eutts and hogshende, representing. £3,000,000 in duty. At
grew in me...
Balmenach thers wore a million and half gallons, representing about
Moderate monthly and daily rates.
Restaurant
Breakfast Six course Tiffin Beven course Dinner
80.75
1:00
1.50
Cakes & Pastries fresh daily or made to order.
Telephone
Hotel No. 26634 & 20035. Pastry Department No. 22422
MALAYAN CHAMPION'S SUCCESS
due to
PHOSFERINE
PROFESSIONAL FEATHER AND
- LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION
Y. G. SONG writes SINCE the commencement of my career
as a professional Boxer I have tried. many different tonics but results were disappointing. However, I was eventually advised by my Manager, Mr. Tan Ngee Yong. to try Phosferine, and I can testify that It has been of the greatest benefit to my training, and I recommend it to all engaged in athletic pursuits, in fact
I HONESTLY ATTRIBUTE. MY
SUCCESS TO THISLARA WONDERFUL PHOSFERINE." Y. C. Song, Pinang.
PHOSFERINE
THE GREATEST OF ALL TONICS FOR
UNCONQUERABLE,
Buch, then, are the economic ro
Debiliy fodigusidy Bulte of the whisky duty. A para-
Sleeplessness The trade is pressing for a subs-lysed industry, a fast-diminishing
Tides,--High at 00.25 and 14.18 £4,500,000 in duty. Low at 08.50 und 10:30.
Principal Mails,
Outward: — Japan, USA. and antial redaction in the duty, even return to the venue and a grow
is
Prown 23268.
via Biberia: Empresa of Canada; 5 p.m.
hope of that, although the resul
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Wask Digestion
Mantal, Exhaustion?
Losa of Appetita
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Made in Liquid and Tabiats, each sold in 3 sear ̄the "largar-simas:are::)ko mare":"economical, *Also take Phosfering Health Salt, the TUKID saline-it Ton
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