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Hongkong Daily Press.

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No. 21,194

號四拾九百袞千空属式第

日式初月伍年寅丙

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 11TH, 1926 AN

THE GENERAL STRIKE.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

WEEK DAYS ··

Dep. 752 10.03 11,18

8.26 10,59

12.02

7.48 8.30 11.04 12,07 759 63 1117 19.31 8.12 8,55 71.29 12.33 $1,20 9.03 11.37 1241

4.64

A

A.M. INDON

Kowloon...

Dep, 8,40

9,15 10.30

11.40 112.00

1.15 4,55

6.29

7:10

Yeumati...

Shatia

...Dep. 7,00

Dep. 650 9.24 10.39

12.09

124

5.23

739

9.36 10.51

19.01

1.38 4.56 5.51

7,31

Taipo

Tipe kot Dep. 721

Dap 7.16

9.49 11.04

12.34

1.49 5,09

8,04

9.53

11.08

12.38

1,596.13

8,08

7,48

Fasling

12.48

2.03 54

6.19 7BS

8beangthai

...Dep

7.36 10.07 11.2

12.521

3.07 6,23

6.23

8,03

Shumekun

ATT

7.4.10.13 11.98 12.204 19,58

313 584

6.00

8,001

Shamokan

... Dep.

7.31

8.05 10.38 11.401.56

3.00 417-8,13

8.08

Bheangebni

8.12 10.45 11.47 |

3.07 424 5,20

Fanling

8.16 10.49 11,51

3,11

5.04

6.35 6.19.

Taipo Markat

3.1 4.38

5,54 8.20

Taipo

3.25 4.49

Bhatin

B.38 4,58 8,31

6.33 6.46

Yeamati...

Kewlean..

2.37

9.501 5,08 $585,16

6.03

6.59

6.11 7.08

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

Kowloon Yazmati...

...Dep 6,40

Bhatin

...Dep. 7.00

Noor A.2. A...

9.15 10,80 11.40 12,00 12.09 ...Dap. 6.50 924 1039

1.01

5,09 7.10-

2.81 5.38 7.19

9,58 10,51

5.51

7,31

Thipe

Dep 7.16

9.49 11.04

12,34

236

6.05

7,44

Fanling

Shoungshui

Shumchan

793 10.03 11.18 Dep

7.36 10.07 11.22 ...Dep. ...AT. 7,42 10.18 11.28

3,00 6.09 -7.49 12.98

7,58 6,20 12.48 3.11 12,52 8.15 6,24 8,02 6,30 8.08 12.20 12.58 8.21

L.M.

P.X.

1.56

8,00 4.37 5.40 3.07 3.11 4,28

TM64 6.09

3.95

Dap

9.11 11.37 12.41

5.37

Taipo Market Dep 721 953 11,08

Shamchun

Bhaungthai

Fanling

HY

...Dep. 8.12 10.88 11,40 ...Dap. 8.19 10.45 11.47 Dop 8.23 10.40 11.51

Taipo Market Dap. 8.39 10,59 12.02

Taipo Abatin

Fet

Yanmeti... Kowloos...

Dep. 8.37 11.04 12.07

...Dep. 8,5 11,1 12,21

9.03 11.39 12.53

STATIONE

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

WEEK DAYS,

P.M. M 990 6.25 Fanling...Dop, 7,45 11.30 Bhatankok...Arr. 8.40 12.25 3.15 7.20

P.M.

SUNDAYS AD PUBLIO HOLIDAYS,

LN. 2.M, P.M. STATIONE Fraling ...Dep. 745 11.30 8.20 6.45 Shstankok...Arr, 8.40 12,25 415 720

IZATIONS,

194

3.48 6.16 108 6.51

8.20 4,38 6,01 6:30 4.48 8.05 6.31 4.55 8.18 8.42 6,59 6,07 6,30

7.07

5.15 6,88

WERK DAYS

AX 1 M LX

5.00 Bhatankok...Dep. 6.90 10.15 1.05 Fanlingt. 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.55

SUNDAYS PUBLIO HOLIDAYS,

AX. LE M

STATIONS.

JAL

Bhataukok...Dep. 6.30 10.15 2.05 6.15 Fanling ...A 7.25. 11.10 8.00 6.10 Further information may be obtained at the Railway Offices, Kowloon, or from Masers. To Cook & Sox, LTD., Homozone, or from Tax Amexican Extras Com PAST, HorexONG.

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A HONGKONG LADY'S EXPERIENCES.

VIVID AND INTERESTING PERSONAL · LETTER.

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號安拾月齢年五十國民華中

YESTERDAY'S HEAVY MAIL,

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NEARLY 1,000 BAGS. Nearly 1,000 bags of letters and papers were brought to the Colony by various All Kad steamers yesterday "morcing, been sorted at the G.P.O. shortly after

tiffin.

The ss. Arafurn brought 63 bags from Australia and Manila; the as. Karmala

The

In our issue of Wednesday we published a letter from a Shanghai

395 baga vii Suez, consisting of 29 bags school-girl on the "Lighter side of the Strive". To-day we are able to "all alone in

of letters and papers from the United give the impressions of a Hongkong Fady who was

Kingdom (dated May 13th) and the re Kensington when the trouble commenced. The fact that the letter was We get all

mainder from the Continent and Straits; never. intended for publication makes it doubly interesting.

the 8.5. President Cleveland, 488 bags. manner of little intimate details which would undoubtedly have been

from .S., Honolulu, Japan and carefully eliminated by the writer in a Letter to the Editor," and wo

Shanghai, including six bags of letters are obliged to the husband for passing it on to us unexpurgated. The "Stanley" and his affection for his wife is a

from the United Kingdom vid Siberia closing reference to

and 20 bags of letters from the Continent characteristically feminine touch. The correspondent writes: By the time this reaches you I nope the The gracious elderly lady enlisting mesri Siberia; and the as. Siyang, 114

sengers thereupon äsked if I had a motor bags from Shanghai and Amoy. Strike will be well over. You may even

... or a motor-bicycle. When she found Karmala also brought 92 bags of parcels be sick of the subject by then. But at present 7 feel it my bounden duty to give I hadn't she tactfully suggested I might from Home, dated May 6th. Later in the you my own, however limited, experience like to be a postman. I was then escort-day the s.s. Kut Sang brought mail from nf it. Personally I never thought it woulded over to the other side of the room and the Straits.. come to anything, and consequently forgot an ex-Colonel (I should" think) took me to all in my 0,3. S. paper till too late. in hand. Do you think you're strong Monday night there was some little ex- enough to carry a heavy bag?" was his citement here owing to the girls below first question. "I carry a heavy market making a dash for Italy by the last train, basket," I replied "And some of them while three of their colleagues, whose are heavy," he said with such feeling, homes were at some distances, "became that I concluded he'd had to handle one temporary occupants of the fat.

Tuesday morning I sallied forth to shop, per usual Returning vid Archer Street I found a big crowd of strikers trying to stop the few 'buses that were running They succeeded in emptying one, but several got through, and though the police were handling the situation with trict I could see they were somewhat an- easy: Since then there have been mone along that route, probably owing to the surrounding unsavoury neighbourhood Paddington

in

A HOPELESS FEELING WITHOUT PAPERS.

...

ONE WOMAN TO ANOTHER.

But I'm afraid the "nico boys" had a very trying time the first day or two and some of them got very roughly handled. Needless to say we have all been rather keyed up and there has been much visit

of news. Two of the household are con-

A VISIT TO CHURCH.

himself in a domestic crisis. Eventually, still treating me as an invalid, he filleding of one another's flats and pooling up a form and told me to take it to a table, on a platforms at the end of the vinced that a house opposite is a fair of comings and goings into room where two women were presiding.reds and have construed the most of diabolical purport They were both smart and quite attrac innocent

chiefly owing to the house having what tive looking, but evidently regarded them. machinations

they laridly describe as "red blinds," eyes as the Salvation of the Country

I stood by the table with my form and but which are actually pink curtains.

One pooh-pooh the idea, though I fall into dis- up and snapped one looked moment which I ignored. She was favour by doing so, and know full well conversing with a messenger (with car) that it is put down to my lack of religion. who had just returned from an errand. But I occasionally get a whack back, na a fruitless one, as the S. of the C. when I remarked to one of them last nigh: read, "Oh, you poor thing, (in such re the mean and petty act of some man; Wednesday there were no papers at all, hard voice that the sympathy of the "I expect he was a churchwarden or MACAO and it really gave one rather a hopeless words went for nothing) that's the second sidesman"

feeling. The Times and Telegraph issued empty house we've sent you to to-day." a small single typewritten sheet which What organisation! Then she looked at

Last night, however, my conduct was various shops posted up in their windows. me and snapped "One" moment" again. Wherever there was a little bit of paper I suppose she thought I should meekly most exemplary, as, being anxious to see a window one would see a crowd surg withdraw a step or two, instead of which what the churches were doing, I attended ing round it, eagerly mopping it up.

I replied graciously "I'm in no hurry," Evensong at St. Mary Abbotts. I intend Thursday I succeeded in getting The And realising she was making no impresed to hear Dr. Orchard, as I felt. I should Times by, queuing for it at Smiths in sion she waved me on to the other party, like to hear a Labour partisan on the Kensington High St. Kensington had who was merely fling cards and handing crisis. But finding no buses were run: pathetically selected last week for their out register numbers, but doing it in aning and my feet not being at their best, been to St. Mary's since [...'s] wed shopping week, and the whole district manner that suggested it was the most I decided to go nearer home." I had not was gay with hunting and flags. But it's brain-racking job of the crisis.

When I go outside it was pouring ding and didn't realise then what a vast an ili wind that blows no one say good, and, as lise Hardy 'remarked, suggestion in torrents, so with a view to pro- church it, is. Yet last night it was full, with all its power was on the optimistit serving my gouty tootsies for postal and it was really quite a treat to see a

hus crowded evening service once I hopped on to side. And undoubtedly it was. For what duties

huge white notice with When I saw and heard the Vicar I was with the bunting, the crowds in the street bearing a and the masses of visitors, it wasn't. till Circular tour to Ealing and, Aldwych? most disappointed, but fortunately the one saw the policemen on the 'buses that I asked if it went to Notting Hill Gate curate preached, and though he looked

and the conductor said "Yes." But the the typical lighting parson he made one realised it wasn't a gala day.

Thursday I went to Kensington Town tooney-taking conductor said only on the simple but eloquent little appeal for Hali to offer my, services as a canteen homeward journey, and that it did got peace. Judging from the Archbishop's worker. Only to hear that they were go up Church St., as I'd imagined. It address at St. Marting they had douhtless already, as I guessed they would be, was raining so hard that I decided to sit all had instructions to do so The whole tumbling over one another. I couldn't tight and go for a joy ride, and I was service was arranged to suit the pecasion King."...The streets were swarming, take on anything in the way of clerical very glad I did as it was a most interest and wound up with God Save the werk owing to my eyes, so it ended ning experience.

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THE TRAFFIC.

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The Park was packed with lorries and so far the men have not come out. It's any amount of marquees had been run up to be hoped they don't for the sake of since Tuesday when I last saw it. The the people on my beat. I'can see myself traffic on the road too was a sight to chucking the bag over someone's area beboki, and when we reached Oxford St we were jammed like sardines in a tin railings and decamping.

with every vehicle imaginable.

A VOLUNTEER WITH HANDICAPE.

more.

One of our amateur detectives came up

when I returned to tell me that evening was the crux and that the specials nad been specially warned. By the number of them about it probably was so, but they'd also been warned not to let the public think that trouble was expected, and were Lorries of all kinda were Inden with all strolling in pairs or merrily pow wowing I felt an awful fool as I was met at the sorts and conditions of men and women; in stationary groups of four in a most ...I'm sending you door of the recruiting room by a very motors were led to overflowing; there reassuring manner. nice woman who asked if she could help were archaic carriages and prehistoric a paper or two.. You will probably have I brightly replied that 1 had come brakes. Yet despite the deluge everyone others by that time. But I thought the to help them. When I discovered canteen

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were, what it looked like, Derby Day. the size of The Express might also in- explained. that I was handicapped cwing The 'bus drivers and conductors were ofterest you

"Oh, you varying stations in life, but the majority to rheumatism in the eyes. poor dear!" she exclaimed, I know evidently of the public school type. An what that means. I've had it myself. elderly lady in front of me waxed so

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Do you think you could be a messenger?" enthusiastic over the beautiful teeth of with Mrs. P. and I've no doubt one of I said I thought I could, despite the fact the driver of the 'bus alongside ours and the amateurs will be up ere long to dia. that I also bad rheumatism in my feet the many "nice" boys we saw that I cuss the situation. Qur'one unanimity is t She thereupon led me into a vast recruit-nearly remarked to her You'll be quite the Prime Minister, And, as one of qur ing room with the zaale and female clite sorry when the strike's over." But later temporary residents had a lift in his car| HONGKONG WEEKLY of Kensington presiding and said in ashe voiced the opinion herself to her the first morning we all feel we know him powerful carrying voice: "This lady neighbour (a complete stranger) saying personally. I'm sure 1 should call him wants to help us but she's got rheumatism How we shall talk of all this in years/Stanley" if we met. We like his pipe; |

in her eyes and feet, and I know what that means because I've had it myself."

to come!"

(Continued" on next Column).

we like his affection. for his wife, but above all we like his religion.

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