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Our London Letter..

No. 21,176

號六拾七百登千位离式第 日拾動月四年寅丙

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

Kowloon...

Taumati...

Taipo

Fanling.... Sheangahni

Aanmehun

Shumchuz

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-4.50 ...Dop.

Sheangabai ...Dop,

Fanling

Tipo Market. Dep.

Таро

Shatin

*.

Yeumati....

... Dep. 7,45

....Dep. 8.12 8,58 11.29 12.33

Kowloon...

1861

8,02 6.99 S.OF

4.1.

Noor

.Dep.

8.40

9.16 10.30 11.40 19.00

924 10,39

12.09

Shatia. ... Taibo Market

...Dep. 7.02 0.88 10.51 ...Dep

7.16 9.49 11.04

12.91

5.29 7.10 4.44 8.38 2.19 436 3.51 7,31 5,09

6.04 7.44

... Dep.

7.41 9.53 11.08

12.38

6.13 $,08

... Dep.

7.33 10.08 11.18

12.48

9.04

5.24 6.197,38

...Dep.

7.50 10.07 11.99

12.59

6:03

7.43 10,18 11.23 1220 1289

2.18

54

A.M.

A.K.

P.M..

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8.05 10.38 11.40

1.56

8,00

8.12 10.45 11.47

6.13 6.08 5.40 6.15

Depy 26

7.82

8.16 10.49 11,61

8.19

72

828 10.59 13.02

8.80 11,04 12,07

...Dep. 7.59

8.49 11.17 1221

ATTR20 9,03 11,97 12,41

2.07

4.38 5.54 6.29 8,25

6,48 3.33 4,56 5,51 3,50 5,08

6.58 6.05 6.11: 7,03

'Kowloon.

Tacmati...

Shatin...

Dep. 7.02

M.. NOOM Dep. 6.40 9.18 10.30 11.40 1200 2.22

+8,50

9.24 10.39

F.M. P.M.

5.99

7.10

19.09

2.31

5.58

7.19

9.36 10.51

12.01

Taipo

Dep, 7.16

9.49 11.04

rona

3.49 5.51 7,91

Taipo Market

Dop

721 9.53 11.08

Fanling

Dep

7.82 10.08 11.18

Shaungthul

12,52

8.11 12.48

12.38 3.00 6.00

2.36 0,05

鮮

7,48

4,20

424

Shumehan

7.58 3.15

8,02 3.21 6,80 8.08

Shamahan

1.56

3,00

4.17

Shaungehni

3.07

8.11

3.01

4.42 8.05

5.40 6.09 4.24 3.46 816 6.51 Logi

8.20 1998.01

6.90- 8.94

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

Dep, 7.86 10.07 11.22

Art. 7,49 10.18 11.28 18.20 12.58

8.13 10.89 11.40 .Dap ...Dep. 8.19 10.43 11.47

Farling... Dop 8.23 10,49 11.51 Taipo MarketDep. 8,3 10,59 12.02 ...Dap. 8.37 11.04 12.07

Taipo

Bhatin

Yazmati... Kowlook...

STATIONS,

3.33 4.55 8.18 6.47 8.50 5.07 6:30 6,59 5.15 6.89 7.07

...Dap 8.3 11.17

12.21 Dep. 9.03 11.29 12,93 Arr. 9.11 11.37 12,41

3.59 2.37

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH,

1.M. P.M.

WEEK DAYS,

AM. Fanling ...Dep. 745 11.30 2.30 6.25 Shatakok...Arr. 8.40 19.25 9,15 7.20

SUNDAYS AND FUBLIO HOLIDAYS,

1.M. PEP.M. STATIONA Fanling...Dep. 745 11.30 3.20 8.25 7.20 Shatankok...Art. 8.40 12.25 415

STATIONS,

WEEK DAYS.

P.M.

Shatankok...Dep. 6.30 10.18 1.05 5.00 Fanling

...A 7.25 11.10 3.00 5.55

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

STATIONS.

AM.

AM PM FIL

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SUCCESSION TO THE BRITISH THRONE.

-POSITION OF DUKE OF YORK'S

DAUGHTER.

HEARTY WELCOME TO THE AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND, LONDON, April 28th. The birth of a daughter to the Duke and Duchess of York has naturally ex

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NEW ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIELD OF AVIATION.

A remarkable but little noticed deve- lopment in modern fighting neroplanes is the steady increase of the altitude at which they can fy. The limiting factors are the machine and the man, and no little credit is due to the latter when it is remembered that the air at an altitude of. 30,000-ft. is only one-third of its normal density and the cold frequently Both the reaches 10-deg, below zero.

號登廿月伍年五十國民華中

DESERT MARCH OF SPANISH AVIATORS.

AMAZING ADVENTURES OF CAPT. ESTEVEZ.

FULLER DETAILS.

fust on we are reading the reports of the enthusiastic welcome accorded to the Spanish aviators on the completion of their flight to Manila, the details come to hand of the amazing adventures of the other members of the party-Captain Estevez and his mechanic Calro who dere

ited the utmost possibis amount engine and the man neel-special trent. forced to land see 120 miles east of!

terest in the country. But it, has also I proved to be a matter of world-wide in- Lerest. Within 21 hours of the announce ment telegrams of congratulation began to pour in at 17, Bruton Street. the old London home of the Duchess before her marriage from public bodies and in- dividuals in all parts of the British Empire.

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Amman in the course of the journey to! Baghdad.

Why they abandoned their aeroplane | keep them from, freezing. The engine is fed with "explosive mixture under pres. sure, and it is conceivable that some day is not yet clear, cables the Cairo corres- the pilot will have to be fed with air in pendent of the Daily Telegraph, but ap- the same way. This might be done byparently they fenreil that something had putting him in an enclosed cabin sup- occurred to prevent a search being made plied with compressed air, or possibly in for them. Hence, after waiting for some A diving suit. As neither of these time, they decided to set off on foot nud methods is suitable, however, for a pilot endeavour to get to Animan. who has to fight his aeroplane the usual method is to supply him with oxygen through a gas minsk. He is kept warm

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According, soon after midnight they commenced to carry out their astounding 18, Qox's Boad Unsthal plan, and plunged into the waterless desert for the first stage of their long

Their sole provisións consisted? of a few pints of water in Thermucs lasks and a packet of sandwiches which they had brought from Cairo,

nurch.

There is some good-natured controversy in the Press as regards the succession as a result of the happy event. The College of Arms has been consulted, and is quoted as follows: The new Princess by clothing which is electrially heated by is stated. *becomes a possible successdr¦ a dyname" on the aeroplane, to the Throne. Supposing the Fringe of Steel construction is also helping in Wales were to predecease the King and the struggle for altitude, for it was on

Captain Estevez, who has had experi- had no issue, and the Duke of York were

an all-steel aeroplane constructed by the ence in Morocco, and speaks Arabie, to die without a son, the Princess born Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Co. that hoped to fall in with some tribesmen. this week would be the heir to the Throne. Flight Lieut. Woollett, in the ordinary they marched until dawn, when they laid Taking their direction by compass, and would take precedence over Prince

course of his duties, recently made a down to sleep under the shade of a rocky Heary and Prince George."

fight higher than the top of Mount Peminence covered with stunted trees. They set forth again at nightfall, and There is no Salic law in England; its Everest. It is a high tribute to the continued to sleep by day and march at absence brought Queen Victoria to the efficiency of the Royal Air Force and its right, painfully accomplishing half Throne, and siter making the wide pre equipment that a fully loaded standard dozen miles per stage, sustained on a sumption already indicated, it would type of service machine should be able piserable pittance of water and frag The two men continued to stumble mean upon the King's decease the acces to fly at beights that a short time ago

considered possible for blindly on for four nights. It is possible sion of the Princess. Of course, if the were only Prince of Wales marries and has children specially built aeroplanes stripped of all that they were missed during the day by the R.A.F. avitors engaged in the the new Princess is olimiar the encumbrances, and it is a fine tributeurch, owing to the fact that they were were sleeping.. hader to the Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar exhausted and

shelter. engine, with which the aeroplane was Gtted.

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children of the Prince of Wales will be in the direct succession. Princess Mary is a remoter possibility still, for all the King's sons and any children they may have would have first to be ruled out."

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On the fifth night. (Friday) Mechanic Calvo was utterly broken down and 'un- able to continue the journey. Captain Esteves pushed on desperately, hoping to find help, but sank down at dawn almost unconscions on the spot where he was "There was so historic event a few days is being made to end the neglect which found at eight o'clock by a searching aere- plane, having accomplished about one- He ago at Windsor Castle when King George the memory of Byron has undergone in third of the distance to Auiman. aa Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier his native country. A screen, symbolic of had just sufficient strength to give the he had left Calvo, who was found short- Guards was photographed, for the first the Supreme Sacrific, is to be erected over approximate direction of the spot where KING EDWARD time, with the King's Company of the the pot where the poet lies buried inly afterwards in an even worse state si 1st Battalion of the Guards. The photo- Hucknall Torkard Church, near Notting-exhaustion. graph was taken on the east terrace of the ham.

The King wore the uniform of the re- giment. The Company is about 120 strong, and the average height of the men is eft, ins., while the tallest man in the Company is a giant standing 6ft 5ins. Needless to say they presented a fine appearance. Each officer and man is to, reseive a copy of the photograph signed by the King. At the conclusion of the ceremony, which was quite private, the Ring addressed the men and told them he was proud to have had his photograph taken with them.

The feet of both were terribly biister- and lacerated and in a septic cond:-

Amman.

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CUSTODY OF CHILDREN. ACT GROSSLY UNFAIR TO HUSBANDS.".

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Mr. H. C. A. Bingley, the Marylebone magistrate, stated that he regarded it as grossly unfair that wives had been given a sorts of rights and extended rights from time to time, whereas husbands had practically no rights whatever except in

Castle, and a special staging had been The committee issued an earnest appeal tion, but Captain Estevez had sufficiently. fitted up in front of the Royal part-this week on the anniversary of Byron's recovered to be removed to hospital at Amman on Sunday. Calvo's condition, ments, thus giving the group a pictures-death, and are asking for the cost of however, was more serious, and he was que setting The Queen was an interest erecting the memorial at the earliest pös-kept in a tent specially erected," where ed spectator from a window overlooking sible date. The sum required is £6,500. he was given all possible attention until the terrace.

There is a notable list of patrons, iniiwas judged safe to remove him to As is known Captain Estevez telegraph. cluding the Duke of Portland, Viscount Burnham, Bishop Welldon, Mr. Lloyded to Madrid requesting permission to continue his fight but the Ministter of George, Sir J. J. Thomson, O.M., and War instructed both the aviator and his Mr. Galsworthy. Lord Henry Bentinck, mechanic to return to Madrid. M.P., is chairman of the committee.

WELCOME, THE AUSTRALIANS:

Whatever happens in regard to the Test Matches the Australian cricketers can certainly not complain of the warmth of their reception on arriving in Eng land. The word enthusiastic scarcely describes it. Mr. Sydney Smith, the Australians' manager, declared that it LORD BALFOUR AS COMPOSER. was overwhelming, and added, "I do Lard Balfour is of course well known not think that ever to the annals of the High Court. The magistrate had before him an application by a young for his wide range of interests, bus 1 do cricket, either in Australia or here, man, who alleged that his wife had de not imagine that the famous statesman, team has been given such a welcome asserted him and his 2-year-old boy, and now practically retired from public life, was given to us at Victoria." Among said he wanted the custody of another ia regarded in the light of a musical those who were waiting to greet the child that she had, as she was living in

adultery. composer. He has, I am told, composed players were the High Commissioner for I can only repent," said Mr. Bing- what may be called a miniature overture Austrália, Sir Joseph Cook, and many ley,that husbands have practically no representative cricketers, including the rights in a police-court: That is poor for a number of instruments, and al-captain of the last English team to visit comfort to you, but I cannot help it 11 though he refrains from giving the gen Australia, A. E. R. Gilligan.

you had deserted your wife, she could eral public the pleasure of hearing him Hotel Cecil, and being in fact very shy which would have been heard within a Their home while in London is the have got a summons for desertion for £8, in an orchestra, he does not mind, oblig men the cricketers, on seeing the dimen few days; but there are no reciprocal ing bia friends. It is commonly held sions of the crowd outaide, many armed rights on your part, and, although your that Lord Balfour's essay on Handel is with autograph books, slipped out of a wille bas deserted you, you cannot take private door by twos and threes and proceedings in this court Subject to as good an essay as can be found of its made their way to Australia House in being overruled, and ruling is and I am kind. His musical tastes are prepon the Strand. They were formally received supported by several of my caressu deratingly Handelian, and it is suggested there by Sir Joseph Cook. They had also that the last Custody of Infants in the Press here that it would be extra- the opportunity of talk with many gives husbands no powers. I had hoped well-known Australian men who occupy that the matter would be raised in the ordinarily interesting if his overture public posts in this country. The wel-House of Commons. It was raised in the were given as a prelude to the Handel come which was so hearty, and the happy House of Lords, however, by a noble atmosphere in which the visitors have lord, and the Lord Chancellor replied in Festival next month..·*

come among us, coupled with the keen-effect that it was: early days, and the new of everybody regarding the forth best thing was to wait and see how the It is often said that Lord Byron is the High Commissioner said, "there with you, but my legal powers are coming matches, is altogether delightful. Act worked. My sympathies are entirely forgotten and his poetry is not read in is no doubt the game will be played entirely limited by Act of Parliament these days. There is, I believe, consider- with the best of feeling and in the spirit To the best of my knowledge I have no of true gentlemen. These visits do earthly power to help you. I regret it able truth in the statement. But there more than we imagine to cement the good very much, and I personally think it is

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