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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1926

Scottish Letter.

TYRANNY OF THE FACE. [ v. Lucas.]

KOWLOON-CARTON RAILWAY.

·TIME-TABLE.

Yaomati...

Bhatin

Fanling. Sheangahai

Shamchas

Sunnickas

9.30 10.51

„AT, 7,40 | 10,18 119 12.2011.58

الامل

626 10.39 13:02

8.30 11.04 13.0

60'9

4,42

TTM

5.13" 6.08

8.16

5.20 5.24 639

WEEK DAYS

A. H

A

AM. Noom

Kowloon...

Dep 8.40

9,18 10,90 14:40)*12.00)

Dep. 8.30

9.24 10.39

...Dep.

7.02

Taipa Taino Market

..Dep. 718

9.49 11.04

...Dopy

9.53 11.09

Dap

15,03 11,18

...Dep.. 7,88 10,07 1192

14,09

198 12.21

5.51 7.81 12.34 1.49

6.0% 19.39

6,08 1,53 5,19 12:48 2,03 5,24 6,19 7.58 12.52

K2S 9.0% 6,28

8,02 2131 5.84 A50 8.0E1

115 4,95 5.29 7.10 5.98 7.19 4.56

4.M.

P.M.

8.06 10.98 11.40 1.56

8.001 4.37

Sheangahni

7.00

8,12 10.43 11,47

3.07

ADA

Fraling ...

8.18

Taipe Market ... Dep.

7.45

30.48 11.51

311 4.09

4.58

5.34 6.99

Taipe

...Dep. 7.46

8,986,33

Austin

...Dop

7.59 8.43 1117 199

3.58

456

6,51 8,46

Framsti....

...Dep. 8.12

8,55 11.30

9,50

5,08

Kowloca.

Art! R20

„9,03 | 11,57'. 12,41 2.37

3,58 576 6.11

€,03 6,58 7.06

Kowloon...

Yaumati...

Dep. 6,40 Dop

Bhatin

Dop.

7.02

9.36 10,E1

Taipe

Dep.

7.16

9.49 11,04

Tipo Market ...Dep. 7.21

9.58 11.06

Fanling.....

Dep. 7.32 10.03 11.18

Bheungnhui

...Dep. 7.36 10.07 11.22

Shumchan

Art. 74 10.13 11.08 12.20 13.33

A.M. Noos

5.09 9.15 10.30 11.40 12,00 12.09

3.33 2,91

7.10 8.50 9.24 10:59

18,21 2.43 5,51 7,31 2,58 .8.05 7.44 1238 3,00 6.09 1248 311 6.30 7,58 14.52 8.15

8,01 5.94 8.21 8,80 8,09

P.M. 1 7.1. 1.56

2.M,

9.00

5.40

8.09

3.07

8.18

as 5.51

4,38 6.01

6.50

3,95

4.42 6,05

8.33

4,55 6.18

9,50

5,07 6,80

2.37

5.15 6 89

8.54 8,47 8.59 7,07

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

Sbumshun Sheungshai Fanling Tipo Market

Taipo Shatia.

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Ysamati... Kowicon...

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SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

A Ma 2.M. F.M.

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SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

2.2 7.24

STATIONA

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WEEK, DAYS, ITATIONS

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BUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

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J. M. BARRIE AS A CRICKETER.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]"

EDINBrucit, April 9th.

The Budget has excited a large anunt of interest in Scotland. In its general lines it followed the forecasts; it was

rather "humdrum: " hat in an import ant detail, the Betting Tax, to quote the words on one of Mr. Churchill's chief supporters in the North, he has "de-

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While, boking the other day at á portrait of Henry VIII, E was struck by rather an odd thought. To us Heary VIII. II pose, the best-known Eng lish end of the past, probably in fact, the only ne pradats to Victoria || whose tarus would instantly the res cognised, from Land of Gronts to John's End. That's Henry VIII," the school children would say, adding of course," the usuaformation as to his marrying Pmpensities. There would be no such unanimity if the picture of Alfred the Great William the Conqueror, Charles the Fire or George the Third, were.

exposed

MEMORIES OF SIR JAMES CANTLIE

AMAZING ENERGY AND SELF. CONFIDENCE

GREAT ADMIRER OF THE

CHINESE.

[CONTRIBUTED

Many years ago, the writer was given an introduction to Dr. (as he then was) James Canthie.

We met in his consulting room, although there was nothing of a professional nature

gbout the visit

He had just published his book Sun | Yat Sen and the Awakening of China?" It is before me now, Cantlie himself, said

that he dictated most of it; the joint author C. Sheridan Jones put the thing into shape. Anyhow it was a great suc

cess and there can be sio doubt at all that it was Cantlie's name that sold the book. It was said to have been the best seller of its year.

Nowy odd thought was that the chance that during Henry VIII's rei, during his lifetime, almost no cne kng what he was like at all, and he might have gone incognito, anywhere outside Court citcles without danger of detection, the reason for his subjects" It was, perhaps, characteristic of unfamiliarity with the vast, bearded. Cantlie that the first question he askal thin-nog, natrowieyed, and flathrowed me, after we had spoken of our mutuni face that we now know no well being, of friend who gave me the letter of intro course, that there were then au lustral duction, was Have you read my book ed papeis or any mechanical means of reon Dr. San 15 Fortunately, I had glanced producing pictures and no

"Alms the through its pages, so, risking a cross- media by which all of us are now axamination about details, I replied in mizny acquainted with the features of the affrative, the pent, oftes, even to the point of

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big

ture to-morrow might at the Regent Street

Then you must come to hear me lec-")

Polytechnic. I shall speak about. Dr. Sun, China and Hongkong. You can get tickets at the door. It is in aid of the Red Cross Fund. You must bring your wife and any friends you can collect. I shalt look out for you!”

liberately walked in the way of the lions. In this letter, however, it is suficient to indicate the manner in which the tax has been received in this part of the country. Broadly speaking it has drawn upon Mr. Churchill the hostility of all the anti-gambling ns. sociations as well as the turf and letting representative, and, most important of all, the Churches. The opponents of the tax, are already busy. They are organi ed: indeed deputation representing some of the Scottish Churches started by rail for London on the very night of the Budget, in order to bring pressure" on local representatives.

Tould be interesting to record the Long interviews with leading ecdesias-gradual spread of the glad or sad tidings tics have already been published in the as to what our rulers looked like. Prob press, and in most of the pulpits thereablynedy much (minded; kings were are certain to be loud condemnations of and their subjects þad an idedliza.. Now what we really wanted to know"

State recognition of sin." What, en of them in their mind's eye sobe

se to take clias and blankets and was whether, as griffins in the Far East. the other hand, is the attitude of the sagnat, authoritative, wearing such babies could, rezalis introndal general publie, in whose bands I lie

any path kinglike. Peronallenger duti I stil thicket Lord Mayors rather in year. the ultimate decision? During the past this way; never as individuala. Taking few days I have made it my business to the case of the eighth Harry again, a tions were fired at the restless doctor. talk the matter over with representative certain number of Londoners might have He dismissed them with a word or two citizens, and have been struck with the seen him a few residents about Hamp and immediately rushed back to anec want of crispness, in their opinion.ton; but who else besides the divorce dotes of his own lite in Hongkong and i They hummed and hawed, and edged umberland know of the monarch's fear the marvellous deeds of Dr. Sun. behind generalities. Even political wire- tures, or even the shires? Nothing ex-." PUNCH" AND THE DOCTOR.".

cept what oral information brought them. "It was because of Punch' that I pullers in the majority of cases, would For the painted portraits were not com- not commit themselves. At the present on nor much distributed. moment, those most closely in touch with Queen Elizabeth, again, could not have the Man in the Street, and even with been a familiar figure, although by her Lime" the engravers were getting busier. the Man of the Middle Class, is waiting As for her statesmen and men of letters, to see in what direction the wind blows. they cannot have been known at all. As yet it is too early to say whether that Burleigh and Shakespearce could have passed anywhere unsuspected, where Mr. wind will be a storm or a breeze; but Baldwin and Mr. Bernard, Shaw would this much may be asserted, that the now find recognition inevitable. Charles attitude of the unco gaid to the Bet- the First was probably better known than any of his predecessors, but not until the ting Tax hua little backing from the last months of his life: Photographs and ordinary citizen, and the Scottish poli-illustrated journalism dating from Vie- tival wire-pullers of the Opposition do

toria's reign, it was reserved for that queen to be the first monarch whose fea- not expect that it will affect many

tures

to

court officiala?

What could North-

votes. At any rate in our cities and in- to lay were universally familiar; and

dustrial centres.

M'CONNACHIE-BARRIE ON CRICKET.

could escape identification.-Sunday Tirarx:

of

Thrums," but he still retains the essential mannerisms of speech charac teristic of his native country,

In rather a feeble'manner such_ques-"|

went out to Hongkong." he said. He raced his words out as if he had not a second to spare. He was restless, esger and, in a way, self-centred.

My friends thought I had become too notorious in London for a doctor," he went on," and when Punch said His name says he Can't Lie but we say he can aly friends advised me to go away as far as possible from London for a spell, and so that is why I went to Hong- kong.

Lord Beaverbrook has recently stated that all successful politicians and all the journalists who really influence public opinion are great egotists...

What is ability in public life?" is the

set the of the

eras, will be have the rents at ily

"I answer my question that it is mainly exotism."

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If that is so then it may account for the success of Sir James Canthic. That he had ability in public life and publicity cannot be doubted. His was the fertile brain that made Dr. Sun Yat Sen famous. He was much more than a Boswell to

ficity agent..

Sir Jaines Barrie's speech on "Cricket" at the journalista luncheon to welcome the members of the Australian, téam has excited quite an extraordinary amount of amused comment, and this despite the fact that the main charm of his speeches down at a single gulp, and more recent that I should write an ecount of Sur

be

It is not long since Sir James Barrier Sun. He was his world-wide pul remarked-I like to think that I am a master of hard facts." The public has been swallowing them for a number of years. The M'Connachie story went

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He was likeable. He gave of his energy freely to any good cause. He told you all about it, for he did not hide his light under a bushel He was, however, quite interesting.

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He was the most pro-Chinese Britisher Not so Sir James. Of his prowess sa on the earth. In his vivid imagination learn that bis apparently spontaneous batsman we cannot speak, but as a slow there was a China which has never exist- quipe and quidities are all most care-left-hand bowler he has attained dis-ed in reality.

He was a man with a high standard of fully prepared and learned off by heart. tinction, if not fame. In May, 1928,

during his installation as Lord Rector duty and of abounding energy. He would His fantasies are far too delicate of St. Andrew's University, he bowled a scorn to do a mean act or tell a lie. His and elaborate to be invented on the spur, few overs on the cricket field of Univer imagination run away with him, but he of the moment. Barric, of course, has its College, Dundee, dismissing Prin- would have been shocked if you had long ago shed all the broad Scotticians sa Sir James Irvine in five balls, hinted that he was painting the lily, He over to Ear!' most certainly had the courage of his and later bowling an

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