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No. 21,171

Hongkong Daily Press.

號查拾七百章千登萬弍第 日四初月四年寅丙

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY,

TIME-TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

A.M. A.M. A.M. AM. Noos

ESTABLISHED 1857%

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 15rn, 1926 #N"

Our London Letter.

LATEST SCIENTIFIC.

Kowloon..."

... Dep. 6.40!

Yeamati...

Dap 6.50

9.13 10.30 11.40 | 12.00| 9.24 10.39

1.15 4.35 "5.29

12.09 14 444 5.38

7.10 2.19

**BEST**

Shatia

.Dep.! *,03

9.88 1051

Taipa

...Dep. 7.18

9.491 11.04

Tips Market...Dep. 7.21

59. 11.08

Fanling.....

...Dap. 7.34 10.03 11.18

Sheangebui

...Dep. 7,86 10.07 11.22

1201 1234 1.49 8,09 8.04 6.09 1939

7,42 5.13 1.53 1248

2.03 5.24 6.19 7,88 12.32 2.07

1.36 456 5,51

7.81

Shamckso

AT 7.42 10.13 11.28 1230 1935

2.13 5.34 6291 8,01

P.M.

1.JE

Z

Shumchan

1 56

8,00

417 5,13 6,08

3.07

5.24

6.15 6.19

4.38 5,34 6.99

9.95

4.42 5.58 6.$3 3.38 456 5.51 6.46 3.50

8.03 6.58 5.08 3.58 B36 6.11 7.08

Sheangabai Fanling... Tipo Market Taipa

Shatin Yanmati...

A.X. A.

8.05 10.33 11.40 ...Dep. 7.91

Dep. 7.39 8.12 10.45 11.47 Dep. 733 8.16 10.49 1LST Dep 7.49 8.26 10.59 13.02 ...Dep. 7,46 8.30 11.0 12.07 ...Dep. 7.59 23 11.17 19.01 9.55 11.29 19.53 ...Dep. 8,19

9.03 11,97 12,41 237 Art R.20

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

Kowloon...

Yanmali... Shatin Taipo

1++

9,36 10,51 ...Dep. 7,02

...Dep. 7.16

Taipo Market...)

Feeling Sheungekní Shumahua

9.49 11.04

721 9.53.11.08

...Dep, 7.92 10,03 11.18.

...Dep 7.38 10.07 11.22

...A 7.42 10.13 11.3 12.50

A...A.M.

Revlona...

..Dep. 6.40 ...Dep 6.50

A..! NOD 9.15 10.30 11.40 12.00: 9.24 15.09

090

7.19 12.09 2.31 5,38 12.01

5,51 7.81 2,43

6,05 12.34 258

7.44 12.58 3.00

6,09 7.48 12.48 3,11 6,20 7,58 12.52 8.18

8,02 6.24 5,80 8,08 3.21 12.58

1.58 3,00

9.11

4.49 6,05

6.34

3,38

4.55 618

| 3,50 8,071 6.30

2.37

.5.15 6,88 8.58

6,47 6,59 7.07

Skamahun Sheungehni Fanling

Taipo Market Taip Statin Yazmati... Kowloon...

STATIONS,

דידי

8,12 10.38 11.40

...De 8.19 10.45 11.47

Dept

8.23 10.49 11,51

Dep. 33 10.59 12.02

Dep. 8,33

8.37 11.04 12.07

..Dep. 8.37

...Dep. 851 11.17 1221

Dep. 9.03 11.29

Am 9.11 11.37

P.M. 1.X. 4.37 5.40 6.09 3.07424 5,46 6.38 6.20 4,28 5.51 4,59 6.01 6.90

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

F.N. P.N.

WEEK DAYS, Farling ...Dep. 7.45 11.80 2.20 6.25 Shatadkor...Ar. 8.40 19.25 2.15. 7.20

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

A.M. PX, X. P.M. STAZIONE

STATIONS,

P.3.

WEEK DAYS.

ALL A.M. P.X. Shataukok...Dep. 6.30 10.15 1.05 5.00 Fanling ...Art. 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.55

HOLIDAYS, SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC

EZATIONS.

AX. AM Bhataukok... Dep. 6.30 10.15 205 6.15 Fanling Art. 7.95, 11.10 8.00 6.30 Farther information may be obtained as the Bawat Office, Kowloon, or.fram Mears. Tros. Cook & Box, LA, Horozore, or from Trṛ ámsxious Expkin Con- PANT, HICHOKONO

Fanling Dep. 748 11.30 8.20 8.25 ShalackokAFT. 8.40 19.25 415 7.20

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THE KEYNOTE OF OUR TRADE. COST OF A COAL STOPPAGE. LOSS OF EXPORTS REFLECTED IN WAGES.

SELLING IMPERIALLY. NEW TITLE FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Speaking on "Imperial Salesmanship". at a monthly dinner of the Incorporated. Sales Managers' Association. held on April 15th at the Old Colony Club, Londour Viscount Burnham said that

WELL-NIGH UNBEARABLE BURDEN FOR OUR CHILDREN. Referring to the threat of a strike in Great Britain the Daily Telegraph, on | April 15th, deals with the enormous cost, THE MAN OF MYSTERY.

of the interruption to our overseas trade. if it waid, "there is to be a [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. |

hip was now recognised as be Loshes. April 12th. ing the keynote of our national and in:] stoppage of the pits, the disaster will OPTICAL MAGIC.

teredėjonal, trade, although he confessed not be confined to the coal industry. It The Optical Convention, opened in that this view was contrary to all our pre- will be a national disaster, more com- London this werk by the Prime Minister, indices and all our preconceptions. Weplete than anything which has occurred sets a new fashion in scientific exhibitions. I had always been inclined to look at the since the country, was industrialised and; It is a very big show, mainly composed marketing of our goods from the stand became dependent for the larger part of of technical exhibits relating to optical point of the monopolist. We had had the its food on the extent to which it van science, and experts talk abous optics in habit of sind of those who, until the end i sell its manufactures overséna, coal es- a learned way. But what. I particularly of the nineteenth century, had a virtual ports forming a not trimportant con refer to are what might be described as monopoly of the heavy trades of the tribution towards the paying of the For example, there is one world. The great Sir Walter Raleigh, | enormous hili. The more intemperate **stunts." 7000 which attracts people who know Macaulay told us had a monopoly off leaders of the miners speak in careless nothing about opties, except that they can crids, that was to say, a legal right to terms of the arrest of the movement of Bee. It is full of amusing gadgets, chiefly sal all the playing cards in the country, way to foreign markets, which is the We had thought that all the playing backbone of the industry, absorbing in to illustrate the tricky behaviour of the concave mirror. You hold out your hand cards, were in our own hand, and that normal years nearly one-third of the we could play them as we chose, and it entire output of the mines. But the to seize what looks like a nie, crisp Trea- sury note, but it is a mere projected rewould make no difference in the long man in this afrent is beginning to realise Hection, you admire the soldier's run. We had changed all that now the gravity of the position. Not only dream," where a beautiful ghost-like The long period of take it or leave it," will those cargoes not leave our shores mother and child brood over the sleeping at, as the French said, "à prendre ou if the mines are shut down, restricting, à laisser," had passed away. We were ability to pay for food we must obtain suldier, but these too are optical ghosts.*

But, the most elaborate and attractive all out for every particle of oversea from overseas, but a few weeks' idleness thing is the Fairies Theatre. There is trade, and we had been brought to our

arings by the cut-throat competition may lose us, once and for all, a good Carlyle talked many of our customers overseas. They of the post-war world.

have alternative sources of supply, us a stage on which brilliant little ercatures perform inime plays. The real play with of this country, being turned into a

The mere uncertainty which exists na to mented Lord Burnham, he, thought the not the most serious aspect of the matter. hidden players is "going on hidden awat paradise of bagmen. Personally, compast experience has proved. But that is in the background, and it is projected whole world was an inferno of bagmen

Sir Alexander Lawrence, late, Chief future delivery is handicapping the through big lenses which reduce the actors

idg part in a discussion which followed, to six inches high, and then optical mir-Assistant Solicitor to the Treasury, tak trade. rors turn the images right side up and said that the day of the small man and set them moving on the tiny stage. This small industry was going or had gone is a fascinating toy, far the bright pupid in future there would be large come

tations and one of the problem pets of light are shewn behaving with a he to prevent the public from be strange unreal life as in a vision of fairies indagato That problem work facerede statistics reveal. Three years ago:

Before the war England may he w

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wer during die next. Production #38 no good without selling ability, and it was a question how for the Government could help in that matter. The whole of the tradition of Governments and public servants against concerning themselves with trade That was partly because, in days gone

"It is no exaggeration to state that the KING EDWARD by, almost all Government interference with trade was thoroughly bad! It was, whole future of our oversen trade de- ment of France with the Protestants that sent impasse. That the condition of thirty or more days and many parents was responsible for the establishment of affairs is critical is shown by the decline "The school year has the watch trade in Switzerland The of over £20,000,000 in our exports in the wonder why. hitherto been regarded as very short in-resent Department of Overseas Trade first three months of this year as compar was a hybrid between the Foreign Office ed with the corresponding period of Inst deed. But in spite of heavy fees and and, the Board of Trade. Owing to the other, things the pressure of candidates ability of the linister at the head the year. That decline is a serious one, particularly for the wage earners in the for the principal schools shews little siga Department bad won the confulente of serious for the whole community, but

the community.

large number of industries which are Sie Alexander spoke of the reluctance concerned in making goods for sale over- of slackening The headmaster of Well. ington College is reported as saying that of a Government Department to apnd sean. Not less than three-quarters of he expects next year to be a critical one pullie money on anything that was not that falling off must have represented a

Ammediately productive, and cited, the less in wages paid in this country. The 1914 torchlight tattoo at Wembley ay an in- "On that basis, the men and women in public school numbers

of Government Department who are associated with these industries class" will then he of age to enter, and stance

spending money on preliminary nd- were the poorer, by £15,000,000 or the effects of the war on the birth-rate vertising. The tattoo was consequently £15,000,000. It is common knowledge and on the financial position of parents a "flaming success." The fact was that that most of them are less well paid than Government Departments always had in the miners, and especially those engaged will begin to be apparent

Meanwhile a review of the present lists mind the fearful hubbub, which followed in the iron and steel industrice. They TrL: Kowloon No. a. Tel Ad: "PALACE”

have had the good sense to recognise that There was one function which could they cannot receive more than their caly be performed by the Government labour is worth, judged by the exacting working through the Foreign Office, and standards of international trade. Whe that was arranging tours of the world will hazard an estimate as to the in by one who was the most popular person fuence which the shutting down of the to give their hoys a public school eduen-in the country. It had been suggested pits would have on all these innoceat

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A MAN OF MYSTERY.

AN ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE... The papers have had a good news story this week concerning the life, of Mr.

mount up, reacting on our credit, and sending up the cost of living once more, Bayard Brown, an American millionaire,

just as it shows signs of falling. The whole of the effort of the reconstruction who has died on hardd his yacht on the

period would have been wasted in a few River Colne near the Essex fishing village

weeks, and as the price of consummate. of Brightlingsen. He had spent nearly 40 who struck his fancy would be invited folly we should have placed on the chil

the workers of years on the yacht, a splendid steam aboard and given suins of money ranging dren, who will be

to-morrow, a well-nigh unbearable bur pleasure craft of 1,800 tons, called the from ten to a hundred pounds or ever

more. On rare occasions he went aborden-the debt not of war against other Faljregia: which was originally built for and travelled to London, these journeys, nations, but of, war amongst ourselves." the late King Edward; and not the least it was surmised, being connected with his

financial affairs + interesting, fact is that during all bese years she was always provisioned for a voyage, stenin wax kept up, and her "were officers and crew of twelve men under strict discipline ready for the order to sail. But the order was never giver

Mr. Brown never entertained, but lived like, a recluse on board the Falfregio and romantic background. Bat. all ni- Yet he was very generous. He literally tempte-and there were many-to pierce threw money away. Every morning the veil were unsuccessful It may have small flotilla of rowing boats left the shore been that in early manhood Mr. Brown was "crossed in love." The tecret, may and remained near the yacht. Lenning never be told. Spending much time lean over the rail the eccentric millionaireing over the taffrail looking seawarda one would listen to uppeals from the people can only guess what were the inducements to have his own country sad drone away remote in boats for help, and those suppliants his life away a recluse in a

Essex hackwater, -H.D. (Continued on next Column).

It is evident that behind this strange and enigmatical man's life there was some mystery. There were all the essen tials for a novel of the "Count of Monte Cristo" type. It only needed a Dumas or a Wilkie Collins to clothe the set- tained facts with the necessary thrilling

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