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No. 21,217

號七拾登百弍千豆萬式第

日九廿月伍年實丙

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

A.M. Noom,

•Dep/6,40! 9.15-10.30 11.40 12,00

∙Kowloom

Chumatio

Bhabin

Tipo

L

LX.

....Dep.1.50

9.24 10.39

Dep. 7.02

9,36 10,51

Dep. 2.18 9.49 11.04

Taipo Market...Dep. 7.21 9.53 11.08

Taning

Shaungahul

Shumchuz

Shamchun

Sheangshai. Fanling Taipo-Market

Taipo Shatin Kaumati... Kowloon

STATION

Art. 7,43| 10,18711,28–1990 19.38

F.M.

2.92 4,35 5,297,10 3.31 444 6,38 1739 2.43 4.56 6.51 (7,81. 2.385,096,047,44 3.00 3,136,08 17,48 3.11 5.24 6.19 7.58 3.15 6,98 8.038,00

* 3:21 8.34 6.29 8.06

12.00

18.01

1,38

19.34

1,49

12.33 153

Dep. 7.34 10.03 11.18 Dep 7,38 10.07 11,22

-12,48

2,08

1961

2,07%

213

PM.

„Dop 7.21

8,05 10.58 11,40

1.56

8,00

Depil Dop Dep. 7.43 ...Dap. 7.4

Dap 7.59 Dap. 8.12 Art. 8,00

7.93 8,12 13.45 11,47

3,07

424 8.20

7.32 8.16 10,49 1151

8.11 4.28

8.26 10.59 12.00

8.21

8.30 11,04 12.07

3.25 14,42

8.43 1117-1221

8.56 11.29 1253

2.87 9.08 11,37 12.41

All A

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2.3.

4175,13 6,08 6.35 8.19 1,34 8,29 5.38 6,33 8.51 0.48 -3,50 8,08 6,03 6,58 8.58 518 6.117.06

3.38 4.58

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

P.M.

7.M.

WEEK DAYE.

Dep, 7.45 11.30 9.20 6.25- Fanling Shataukck...Arr. 8.40 19.23 8.15 7.20

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

AM PM PM..

WEEK DAYE.. STATIONS, Shatoukok...Dep. 8.30 10.35 1.05 8.00 Fealing 7.25 11.10 9.00 5.35 SUNDAYS AND PUBLIO HOLIDAYS,

STATIONA, Lith. Shatadkok...Dep. 6.50 10.15 2.05 5,00 Taaling Art. 7.25. 11.10 8.00 5.35 Further information may be obtained at the BunWAY OFFICIS, EDWLOOM; or from- Miters. THUS, Coox & Scx, LTD, HONGKONG, "ot from Tm AxrRICAN EXPRIMI Ucx+ Pax, Hoxoxoxo,

STATIONA

AX FX TM PM Fanling...Dep. 7.45 11,30 3,20 6,25 Shatankok.4, 8.40 12,05 4,15 7.20

50%

H.-P.-WINSLOW, Manager,

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ESTABLISHED 1857.

HONGKONG, THERSDAY, JULY STB, 1926 #K

RUSSIAN GOLD FOR THE BRITISH MINERS.

ATTEMPT TO FOMENT REVOLUTION.

LORD BIRKENHEAD'S BRILLIANT EXPOSURE.

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Searching criticism of the latest-pro-intert. tional competition for the Eng-tains all that is to be known concerning posala of the miners for making the lid muufacturer, you are to add, public pay, and an "exposure of the in the interests of men already work. motives which governed the Russian gifting shorter-hours and receiving towards the British relief fund, were higher wages than

those of Any

made by the Earl of Birkenhead, Secre country in the world except the United tary of State for India. He was speak-States, this final disability, that the ing at the annual luncheon of the British English merchant is to pay a higher Imperial Council of Commerce at the price for English coal than the German merchant will pay for English coal. It Savoy Hotel

Lord Birkenhead declared that the is a ludicrous contention. I am astonish- Iudicrous proposals of the miners, which ed and shocked that men who have at- shocked and astonished him, would, iftained such a degree of influence as to put into practice, have the effect of dealbe leaders of a great national industry ing one fatal and final blow to every, in- should be so wholly untrained in the dustry in the country but that of the most elementary economic considerations miners...

as to have made themselves officially re- sponsible for such a suggestion. (Cheers,)

:

Having referred to the official state ment from Moscow that the Russian gilt to the miners funds was made by the Soviet Government and "not by the workers, Lord Birkenhead declared that it was absurd to suggest that the dona-

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A DISCIPLE OF LENIN.

There are some other considerations ca which a word may be said. Mr. Cook, who, "I believe, once described himself as a humble disciple of Lenin, has re- cently thanked God for Russia, and has explained that a sum of £400,000 has been received from their comrades in Russian mines in order to support the dependents

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After the name Cutty Sark follow the "ex-Mario de Amperio, ex- words Ferreira, ex-Cutty Sark" In the succeed- ing columns are the facts that the ship was built at Dumbarton in 1889, and that now she hails from Falmouth, and is the property of Mr. W. H. Dowman.

Here, compressed into a few words, is the life story of a famous clipper, the fastest vessel which thrashed through the roaring forties" in the last glorieus epoch of sails.

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Women yacht owners are well repre seated in the register, and almost to a woman they are of British nationality. 15, QULIN'S BOLD CENTRAL The honour of owning the largest yacht belonging to a woman-falls to burs Work- man, whose Ayria is a vessel of 189 tons."

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The most famous racing yachtswoman mentioned is Lady Kennedy, formerly Lady Constance Baird, who appears as FOUNTAINPENS the owner of the Thistle, a six-metre in- ternational rating racing yacht. In 1924 Lady Baird, as she was then, took the To foment revolution in this coua-

Thistle to America, on board the dru try; and

of their English colleagues in a moment | tanin, and sailed her in the races for six- the British-America Cup To filch from the British coal trade of adversity. This announcement has re metre boats as large a share aa they can in the vived, if it ever fagged, my admiration for our common human nature. It is, interests of the Russian coal trade. The Government had not yet had an indeed, a touching reflection that the opportunity of considering the distine miners in Russia are prepared to work tion which must be drawn between ten hours a day in order that their genuine charitable gifts and contribu British colleagues may not have to work tions from a foreign State. The Govern-eight-flaughter that they are prepared ment, added Lord Birkenhead, were not to subscribe no small proportion of their going to be bullied into a course, they wages of 25 a week in order that their English colleagues may not receive less Enew to be profoundly uneconomic.

„than' 40s, or 50% a week. (Laughter.)

£

The largest vessel on the register is the royal yacht Fictoria and Albert, which is the property of the Admiralty. The biggest private-owned yacht is Mr. W, twin-screw oil- Beebe's Arcturus, engined boat of 2,522 tens Mr. Beebe, an American, whose chief interest is deep-sea fishing, sailed in the drcturus to the Sargasso Sea, where he discovered many new forms of submarine life.

KING'S YACHTS...

Among royal owners King George in

"The leaders of our trade unions, men "FINAL BLOW TO INDUSTRY" Referring, at the outset of his

great prudence and experience, had to the General Strike, Lord Birkenhead the sense to see the impropriety of a given pride of place, for he heads the said that in his judgment the leaders of cepting such financial assistance and the list of owners with his Britannia, which unfortunate effect its acceptance would has just been entirely re-rigged. The the great trade unions gave moderating produce on public opinion, and they King of Spain owns more yachts than counsels to the miners. If they made a therefore refused It. But it has been any other royal owners. He possesses one grave error of judgment in committing openly claimed by a person speaking motor and two sailing vessels, and two themselves to the experiment of the gene officially in Moscow that these money sailing racers are building to his order eral strike, it was nevertheless due to

are being paid not by the miners out of at the moment. them to say that in a moment which must those almost negligible wages, but are Mr Hilaire Belloc and Mr. Arnold have been of great pain to themselves, officially contributed by the Russian Bennett

represent letters among the and almost at the earliest-moment-that-

“Government.

owners. Mr. W. L. Wyllie, R.A., the one could have deemed it possible they

"famous painter of ships, in the owner of realised the error of their ways.

three yachte, and Mr. Lewis Baumer, black-and-white artist and etcher, apr pears in a new light as the owner of a

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FOMENTING REVOLUTION. "The very success of the means by

"Now it becomes necessary to ask with which we opposed the general strike,"

what motives thoes moneys have been Lord Birkenhead proceeded, "is some- what apt to blind men's eyes to the advanced, which have led Mr. Cook to thank God for Rusia. (Hear her.) Is

Yachts famous for their beauty or their gravity of the problem by which we are still confronted. The difference between it suggested that behind those contribu-appointments, or by reason of their the general strike and the coal-strike tions there lies any real sympathy with ownership, include the Duke of West- from this point of view is rather that the British miners, any desire on grounds minster's Flying Cloud, planned as one between spectacular fighting upon the of humanity to alleviate the conditions of of the most luxurious vessels afloat, Lord KING barricades, which must meet a swift and the British miners Nobody even dares Birkenhead's Fairi Mr. Henry Ford's discernible issue, and the case of a to make such a contention. Indeed, it Sinlin, and Mr. Pierpont Morgan's patient who if the ailment is suficiently would be ludicrous in the fece of the ex-Corsair. protracted must almost imperceptibly perish of hemorrhage. We are confront ed, if the coal strike be sufficiently pre longed, by every conceivable form of danger in the future. It unhappily is the case that the leaders of the men are not prepared to confront the facts as a the nation except the members of that particular industry see them, and at. I will make bold to say, the lenders of the trade unionist movement as a whole see them.

THEIR MOTTO.

Their

QUEEN WHO THREW CAKES AT A POPE.

EX-EMPRESS CHARLOTTE'S 86TH. BİRTHDAY.

The aged Empress, widow of the ill- fated. Emperor Maximilian, who was shot with his back to the wall by rebels in Mexico City in 1867, is a sister of the late King Leopold II. of the Belgians.

pressed intentions of those from whom these moneys proceed. Their intentions are: openly avowed. In the first place they seek to foment revolution in this country. They failed with the bludgeon, and now they are relying upon the weapon of slower incidence. second intention is to filch from the British cost trade a large a share as they can in the interests of the Russian coal trade. If Mr. Cook and his friends

BRUSSELS, June 5th; think the second of these considérations Ex-Empress Charlotte of Mexico yester- is one likely to increase the wages of day celebrated her eighty-sixth birthday. their clients, they are, I think, very at the castle of Bouchort (near Brussels). Their motto is: Not a penny off seriously mistaken, and I should be re- The Queen and King of the Belgians luctant to believe that Mr. Cook's express never fail to pay the ex-Empress, their the pay, not a minute on the day! When they are confronted by the some sion, that he was a humble disciple of aunt, an early visit on the occasion of what obvious difficulty that not only on Lenin," really means he was prepared to her birthday, and this year nothing has these conditions is the industry unable welcome these subventions if their pur- been changed in the usual programme. to sustain the necessities of foreign compose is what those who make them declare petition, but that many pita cannot keep them to be, namely, to encourage a re working in any circumstances at all, and volutionary movement in this country. are asked: What do you suggest? Do No decision upon these matters has you suggest that a further subsidy should been arrived at by the Government. be paid a subsidy to be contributed as There has, indeed, in the pressure of to a very large proportion by men who public events been no opportunity of the tragic death of her husband was an are working longer hours and earning reaching such conclusion I go with smaller wages than, you are they re confidence, however, so far as to say that ply, No. How, then, the question is whatever decision may be reached in the put again, do you suggest that the un matter, there is a real distinction be doubted economic dificulty should between private contributions proceeding dealt with 1' At last, after many weeks from feelings of genuine charity made of reflection, we are furnished with the either in this country or abroad to helpful suggestion that a higher price for assist the cause of people who are suffer. coal should be charged to our domestic ing as a result of industrial disturbances consumers than the price at which we and the contributions which proceed from

She subsequently went to Rome, and are going to sell coul in export to the foreign Government. (Hear hear.) foreigner.

Whatever conclusion is reached, I was granted a private audience with Pope No suggestion could more vividly cannot doubt that distinction must be Pius IX. The Empress refused to comply have made plain the economic quicksands and ought to be borne in mind. (Cheers) with the Vatican etiquette of wearing & along which unfortunately those who find No one will suspect that the Government mantilla but instead appeared before themselves in a position of influence has any desire except that the men in his Holiness wearing a bet. The Fope, among the men have been groping thear the coal industry should receive the who bad just finished his Mass, was at way, It appears never to have struck maximum wage which that industry breakfast, and during the conversation them that if you are to charge a higher economically can afford, but equally no she dipped her finger in his socos, and, price for cost to our manufacturers you one would suggest that we intend, what sipping-it, said, "At any rate this can't. are going to deal ons fatal final blow to ever trials we have to support, to be be poisoned." every single industry in the country but pushed or bullied into a course which, their own.""; (Cheers)*1

because we know it to be profoundly "Take a concrete illustration. You uneconomic, must in the end involve us have a manufacturer in this country who in even greater destruction than if we set is competing with a German manufac our teeth now and decide to face the issue tarer. As if the existing conditions did as we faced the shorter and swifter issne not produce consequences harsh enough in of the general strike." (Cheers.)

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Her mind mercifully failed ber before nounced. She left him when the French troops were withdrawn from Mexico, der ed Orising under the personal impervision:c came over to Europe to plead for further military help. W

VIOLENT SCENE.”

A fruitless interview with the French Emperor resulted in a violent scene, dur- ing which she accused him of attempting to poison her.

She then threw a dish of pastries "at his head. Her brother took charge of her after this, and placed the Empress in the castle of Tervueren (near Brus sola), She ect fire to her bedroom one day in a fit of madness, and burned down the whole castle,

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