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TIME-TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

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Noor P.M.

Kewiser....

1. Dopy 6.40

9.13 10.30 11.40 12,00

1,35

4.55

Yazmati...

·Depa

6.00

9.24 10.39

12.09

1,24

6.39

7.10 1.19

Shatin

Dep.

702

9.88 10:51

10.21

1,00

408 6,51

7,33

Tsipo

De

7,18

9,49 11,04

1031

12:34 1.49

5,09

6,04

7.44

Tipo Market

Dep.

7.91

9.5311,06

19.38 133

5.13

6.08 748

Fanling

Dep. 7.39 10.05

11,19

12.48 3,03

5.24

€.19 739

Shaungakui

...Dap,

7.38 10,07 11.94

12.52

4,07

6,28

6.23

Rhamahzz

7.42 10,13 11.9 10.20

12.38

0.13

$941 6.29

8,02 8.0F1

Shamohan

Cep. 7.21 Dop

Der 7.48 8,30 11,04 12.07 ...Dep. 7.59 8.45 11.17 1291 ...Dep. 8.12

8.05 10.38 11.40 7.99 8.12 10.45 11.47 732 8.18 10.49 11.51 8.26 10.59 12.02

PM. 13

P.X, P...

1.58

3.00

4.17 5.13

8.06

9.07

4.94

3.20

3.11

4109 5.241.6.19

3.21

534 6.29

8.23

4.42

Am.-8.90

8.55 11.29 12,33 9.03 11,37 12,41

6.36 $.38

4,365,51 6.48 6.03 3,50 5,08

6.59 7,08 3.58 815 6.11

6.33

Sheangahni Fanling. Taipo Market

Taipo... Bhatin Ysumati... Kowloon...

Scw1009... Yatma...

Bhatin

Ταίρια

Fadling

Skumchun

A.K

AM.

ראטים

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

4.M.) Noor ..Dep. 8.40 9.15 10.30 11.40 19.00) 9.24 10.30 ..Dep. 6.50

9.36 10,51 ...Dep. 7.02

11.04 9.49 9,53 11.09 10.03: 11.18

...Dop 7.16

-Dap. 7.93

Taipo Market ...Dep. 721

Chengshui ...Dep. 7.35 10.07 11.02 7.42 10.18 1128

P.XC. ?M.

5.09 710 12.09 2.31 5.38 7.19 12.91 943 5,51 7.31 12.34 9.56 6.05 7.44 12.34

6.09 7,48 8,00 $12.05

12.45 3.11 12.32 3,15 3,21 19.20 12.58

אז ייא.

6.20 7.59

6,241 8.02 630) 8,06

T.M.

Dop

8.13 10.38 11,40 8.19 10.45 11.47 8.23 10.49 11.31

1.58

3,00 3.07

8.83 10.50 12.02

1.X. 4.17 5.40 6.09 4.2 5.46 6.15 Log 5.51 3,11

6.20

8.37 11.04) 12.07

Shumchoo Shoungehui ...Dep.

...Dep Fanling

Taipe Market. Dep. ...Dep

Taipo Bhatin Yeamati... Kawicon...

STATIONS,

Dep.

8.5: 11:171 12,21

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Usp. 8.03 11.09 12,33

A 9.11 11,37 12,41

2.37

238.01 6,30 4.42 6,05 6.34 6.47 34.55 6.16 3,50 5,07 6.30 6.59 3,58

5.15 6.39 7,07

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

WEEK DAYS.

AX, AX

t.x. 7.3.

Fanling ...Dep. 7,45 11.80 2.20 6.25 Bhatankok...A 8.40 12.25 2,15 7.20

SUNDAYS PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

SPLASHTONES

Fanling

2.x. F.M. P.X. A.M. ...Dep. 7,45 11.20 3.20 6.25 Shatankok...A 8.40 12.25 15 7.20

A.X.. «P,X.

F.M.

WEEK DAYS. STATIONS, Shataakok...Dep.. 8.30 10.15 1.05 5.00 A. 7.25 11.10 200 5.55 Fanling SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS, A 7.X - FX LX.

STATIONS.

Shatankok...Dap. 6.90 10.15 2.05 8.16 Faaling Art. 725. 11.10 3.00 6,10

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·践拾月陸年五十國民華中

FROM THE SALONICA FRONT. MY WAR TIME NOTE T the writers of revues, and the news-

papors which published letters from the Three documents from the Salonica BOOK.

front, got at them. Then they lost their front are of some interest. One is an A GLANCE OVER SOME DUSTY, as humour. Nevertheless there is account of a battle fought during the A sort of thrill in coming across an entry Peloponnessian war. We had carried out which helps you to date the first record- an operation in the vicinity of Amphi- OLD EXPERIENCES—AMUSING AND Fcd-ux of "Dec lay promenade," or a polus, and had found something there successful revival of bow the General which we thought might be of interest to archæologists. In the course of corre-. atraffed the Brigade doctor for the poor

the British spondence some official at condition of the Battery horses,

Museum sent us an account of the ancient battle fought on precisely our ground, and in very similar conditions. There were numerous and striking parallela. As 3000.

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I thought I had not a single. war relie left. My wife soon dust-binned my beautiful German helmet, vintage 14; aad my periscope director, although so useful for small mea in hig football crowds, was handed over to the tender mercies of an optical nephew interested in prisms. But some things are not se easily shaken off. Trying to separate the hocks I had finished from the books I am in the middle of, and the letters I mean to answer from the letters I hope to answer, I to-day enme across 'á bundle consisting of some dusty dirty papers and

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as the British Muscum account had been circulated and rend, all those who had received a classical education were able to remember all about the ancient battle. But they did not boast about their know- ledge. They merely said most laconically. with a glance at the foot of the document. The second Thucydides: of course." document is the transistion of a Turkish 15, Quxas's BOAD (ENTRAL,

CALDBECK, · MACGREGOR ·

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rejoinder to one of our invitations to deserters. Invitations and promises in Turkish supplemented by bully beef and

I suppose we all thought it Shakes-jam in tins were reckoned by sore In-

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sweat reprove A

new arrival with

two very dog-eared note-books without covers. They looked so old that I could pearean when firat we heard an old elligence Officer to be an efficacious lure if adequately displayed in front of our not understand how they had survived!

But on one occasion the picpaganda wire: Deserters did at times come in seems to have fallen into the hands of a

the hanger of cockroaches. Apparently

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Turkish patriot, er wag, of whom there are very many amory that people. He replied with spirit, and not without abuse, in quite a lengthy document.

Some of

most picturesque, if not most typical, phrases were "The brave Turks who are in front of you are the same glorious heroes that gave you your boots in your hands at Gallipoli... The chests of the Forks are a thousand times stronger than

Garn! I was growin' fat on bully heef, they had somehow acquired an immunity when you was suckin' milk," I find that not granted to fresher papers. I opened took very lengthy notes on the covers the bundle. They were documents from tion of a famous battalion commander the Great Wari, Undeterred by the fact (one of the first to take any interest in that all the book-caters of my icfested artillery F.0.0.s) who used to keep his house had found them indigestible, I de mess cheerful on the foul Wytschact rided to sample them. In so doing I was Ridge by a nightly performance of the doubtless fortified, by the martial, and buffoon philosopher. He was one of the imperial ardour stirred in all our breasts cleverest and bravest old soldiers who by last week's military nad ever commadded man; and his relief from Government House function, where I had very serious anxiety was to talk noasense Tand the guise of deliberate reason. him down for impromptu aphorisms on all ** Scientists. sorts of subjects, such with all their formulae which, to a man who knows how to look into them, mean nothing, are just like Asquith." He was Operation Orders, and others Routine the first, and I believe will ever remain Orders Those were apparently selected the best, exponent of Burlesque philo not for the fame of the occasions on which sophy, whom I have ever come across in The last stanza was reckoned to have!

seen a man in martial uniformu.

A MIXED GRILL The contents of my bundle "proved to he a mixed grill. There are some sheets of orders, of which several are called

real life."

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ARTISTIC EMBROIDERY.

your Golden Cruisers, by the Blessing of Allah; for Allah is always with them." The third document is a copy of some verses written for the Balkan News, which was the daily paper of the Salonica Army, in the hope of providing a little warmth among the wintry mountains.

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fulfilled this aim. But the revulsion of KING EDWARD taste from war poetry has been so strong that I dare not transcribe it here. Al

FEAR.

Oi a genuine serious philosopher with though I personally seem to have over, whom I spent a snowy day in the neigh-come this revulsion from war things to bourhood of St. Eloi, my notes retain a the extent of reading and writing about starting record. As a resuit of some re- my old scraps of paper, I have no cou marks which I had ventured on Instinct Sidence that others feel it to do likewise. and Reason he wrote me two pages of foolscap (where he got such paper at that time I can't imagine) most legibly in ink. To anyone who is interested in Psycho- Analysis they might be interesting They can hardly be regarded as intimate ent Sdences, because I never saw the man. altnough he hears before or since,

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After the armistice we all said with

they were issued, nor as examples of lucid or succinct expressión, but perhaps be cause they were once thought to contain something that might be regarded by a doomed man as a faint excuse for a ghost of a consoling laugh. There was a good example, minning through pages of fool sap as well as "Messages and Signals femps, of the now hackneyed cancelled and-as-you-were Operation" Order. There was a most imposing Operation Order of about two thousand words, divideil into thirty paragraphs, all very complicated, requiring hours and a hermitage to study, superhuman intelligence to understand it, and supermen of sublime precision and teadfastness to carry it out, marked SECRET-DESTROY As Soon As Read. A special Routine Order appears containing the immortal edict "As the word Farid has a depressing sound it is henceforth to be replaced in all orders by the word inutes' work in the fo'castle: Neither why be ashamed to admit the force of dancing nor holding the candle... the fear in our lives? It is there, and in WORKING-PARTY." There is a draft of a biccher may go once ioo often to the welt itself is neither good nor bad. It is an conciliatory. "reasons in writing for

robbing Peter to pay 'Paul... to evil only if we are unable to overcome it. being caught stealing. forage from the A.S. C. Then there is an Army Book 153 prepare is to prevent... the BA. works circumvent it or spurn it. But man has in a mysterious way its wonders to perfound countless methods of doing that. It is often said that "art, philosophy, This notebook was preserved right

form. These in the course of dealing through the war, because, although eer- taining such ephemeral notes as foraze with a Latin gentleman who mancurred science, humour,, poetry, religion, in all lists, lines of fre, duplicates of Field huge floating crane in the docks at their grades of good and bad, are the Messages, and the names of a teaia for a Marseilles. Would that I had noted the outcome of love. To me it rather appears actual orders and reverses of which they that, love itself, as well as all these other rugger match, it was also used for re-

of fear. It is generated by fear in order cording jests and topical small talk in wore the artistic embroidery! Surely a alleviations of life, is really the outcome the winter 1914. It is a terrible experi- man who can generalisc life's petty an ence to be thus confronted with one's only noyances at that rate is well fortified to to overcome fear. To overcome this ever- attempt to set up as a humourist, and deflect all the slings and arrows of outlasting fear which is the inevitable accom- entertaining fellow of deliberate mirth rageous fortune; no matter what appear-paniment of life lived in hostility, man, is aparts, new arts, new sciences, new ideas. I was at that time obsessed with the icen ance of ungovernable temper he may driven eternally to invent new loves, new This, it occurs to me, is the lesson of my that the war could not go on unless people choose to assunic.

tattered scraps of paper. laughed. You couldn't shoot because

one accord "This is Peace at last; let we know that there is no such thing as us think no more "nhout War." But now peace: but only changes in the form of hostilities. With hostility as a perman- well-known name. A Hittle later I sailed ent feature in life, we find that fear is human emotions. Most people dislike in the Mediterranean with the proverbial the mast widespread and powerful of hip's Chief Oficer who speaks in pro- verts, He is credited in my notebook admitting this about fear; and therefore with the following in the course of five deny the permanence of hostility. But

Paschendale, Dompierre; some that are

Broadly, there should be no restrictions

M.P.

There are sketches and there are verses. there was nothing to shoot; and you The sketches are chiefly efforts at mill- couldn't dig because there was no solid tary panoramas, the Wytschaet Ridge, earth to dig. But you could keep alive by laughing; and there was quite a lot not recognizable, hit of fighting maps, on a married woman continuing to prac to laugh at, if it were carefully collected. and aeroplane photographs, and a design tise her professica.-Mr. Philip Snowden, Whatever I could collect up and down the for a fireplace in the frst decent dug-out ever succeeded in finishing. The ronds, and out and in the trenches, I we stored in notebooks. They are all very verace are either unpublishable, or of so old jokes now. They were probably old sloppy a tone as to be not worth reading. before the sack of Troy, But they enjoy. If one was a young soldier during the war, ed a lively resurrection and rejuvenation one had to be in love. One was expects during the first winter in the trenches. ed to intend getting married next leave.

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