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TIME TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

A.M.

Roos

9.16 10.30-11.40 12,00

A

AN

...Dep. 9,40

Dep. 6.80

994 10.30

Kowloon...

Yaamat...

Bhatia Tripo

Taipo Market

Dep. 7.31

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...Døp.

Fanling

Shengshui

12.09

12,21

12.45

... Dep. 7,02

9.95 10,51

7,16 9.40 11,04

9.5311.08

7.92 10,03 11.18

...Dep, 7.36 10.07 11,23

A 7.42 10.18 11:29 12.20 13,58

5.09 7.10

18.04

8.08

5,246.18

3.16 5.29 8.23

9.91 5,348,29

ghamchan

A.K. A15.

Shamolun

Dop

7.21

8.05 10.38 11.40

1.56

9,00

13. TJ

4.37 6,13

5.08

Shaungsbul

Dop

7.3·38.12 10.45-11,47

-3.07

Fraling

Dep,

7,31

8.16 10.49 1151.

3.11

409

Taipo Markat

Dap

7,42

8.26 10.59 19.02

3.21

409

424-5.90 $15 8.19 8.9

5.24

5,84

Tipo

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Dap 7.45

8.30 11.04 12.07

9,25

glos

· 4,42

5.99

Bhatin

7.59

8,43 11.17 19,21}

3.38

4,36 5,51

8.50 1.08 609

2,37

3,381 8.168.11

6,33 8,48

7.06

Yaum... Kowlogo....

Dep. 8,12 8.35 11.29 14.33 — ATT, 8:20 9,03 11,37 12,41

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH, WEEK DAYS.

P.M

STATIONS, Fanling.Dap. 745-11.30 2.20 6.25 Shatankok...ATT, 9.40 12.25 8.15 7:20

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

STATIONS,

LANG AX,

WEEK DAYS..

IX. 1.M. Shatautok...Dep. 6.30 10,15 1,06 5.00 Fanling AT. 7.5 11.10 2.00 5.53 SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS," -

AX. A.X Bhatankor...Dep. 6.30 10.15 2,05 5,00 Fanling A. 7.25, 11.10 8.00. 5.58 Further information may be obtained at the Hailway Övrigs, Kowloon, er fram Mesaros. Cook & Box, La., Hoxoxoxo, or from Tor AxERICAN Ezraza Cox TANT, HONGKONG,

STATIONS

A.M. FX FX PM.

Taaling...Dep. 7.45 11.30 8.20 8,25

Shatoukok...arī, 8.40 12,254,157,20)

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Mr. Fenard Fyryan, the Official Re that they can only read in the English papers American news of a sensational ceiver, said the proofs of debt amounted character, such as disasters by Blood and to £48,490. and Mr. Coopman hąd, not feld, big divorce scandals, murders, and surrendered to the bankruptcy proceed- so forth. It is intended to run a weekly ings. He understood that Mr. Coopman paper, and produce it on Tuesday so was on the High Seas somewhere, and that it will not compete with the Sun-sailed from Colombo on June 28th.

The Ross Institute. for Tropical Dis! day papers. Several important"meh on It was stated that Mr. Coopman's resi the New Fork Times stat are in London dence had been let furnished at £595 for uses will both commemorate, and con. hard at work completing the difficult job one year. The furniture belonged to his tinue the momentous work which Sir 15. QuX': BOAD CENTRAL TEL CENTRAL 75.

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ing to Mr. Coopraan which were not incribed by the Prince as "probably the cluded in the tenancy. The wine cellar most deadly and the most elusive of all tropical enemies." He spoke of the per- was apparently locked.

sonal interest in this subject which he had gained from many visits to cropient; countries where malaria abounds.

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to a very serious attack of malaria, with complications, during the royal tour to

wide West Africa last year. But for the warld- on mesquitoes which Sir Ronald Boss started 20 years ago, no in the early stages. In Fleet Street THE BRITISH ARMY OF TO-DAY. British Government could have! satisfaction in expressed that the paper has the backing of a journal of so high The Royal Tournament at Olympia was agreed to a royal visit to West Africa. a standing as the New York Times. Fas usual a great attraction this year, and By that war Sir Bonald, the director- leaves the impression-not that the in-chief of the new institute, has saved THE FRENCH DEBT TO BRITAIN. Various items in the programme were ad-more lives than all the military warsi mirably done, because that is what one

ever

expects, but that a new type of soldier of the last 100 years have cost. In Indin is now in the Army. The fact is mazy alone it is officially estimated that men have chosen the Army as a career. In these days you will find many who 1,300,000 people used to die each year of have been through secondary schools, this mosquito-borne disease.. and who have passed the London matrícu- lation examination, or have obtained the equivalent Oxford or Cambridge, leaving certificate.

India that Sir Ronald Koss identified the It was as an obscure, Army doctor in

malaria parasite in the stomach of an A sweltering anopheles mosquito ou August afternoon in 1897. The micro-

There is a certain amount of subdued satisfaction that terms of settlement of the French debt to Great Britain have been reached between M. Caillaux and Mr. Churchill It has taken seven years to arrive at this stage-and even now the agreement is subject to ratification by the respective Parliaments. Mr. Chur- The effect of this is seen in a higher chill's statement in the House of Com- degree of intelligence and better physi

que, and better character, The Army is mons has set forth all the main facts a highly specialised force, superior to any scope with which he did it was an regarding the debt settlement. Briefly, other body of military in the world. As ordinary type of glass such as a school- the French are to pay us on a debt of the result of inquiry I find that only 36 boy might use for magnifying a drop of £620,000,000 a sum of £4,000,000 per out of every hundred men who offer them- ditchwater. andum, rising by 1930 to annual pay selves for enlistment are accepted, while ments of £12,000,000. In this connection it is pointed out, that our payments to the United States (for debt half ai large as that owing by France to us) ere over 237,000,000 a year, or much more than France has been asked to pay. Britain.

One condition which the French wished to impose has been rejected. They want ed to make their payments dependent upon the falfilment of Germany's agree ment to pay her war debt to France un der the Dawes Plan. Such a condition, amounting as it did to a mere sign inent of a part of the German liability, was obviously unacceptable to us. compromise it has been agreed by Mr. Churchill that if Germany defaults the question of the French capacity to pay this country will be taken into account. The opinion here is that in conceding this we have not given anything away, for that would have to be done, even if there was no understanding on the point.

PAYING FOR IT.

the chances of promotion are much Military officialdom did not approve greater than in the old days. Something of Rosa's researches. It tried to make like 30 rankers are selected for training for Commissioned rank at Sandhurst him break them off so as to take over the every year.

work of a medical brother-offieer who With the demand for increased eff-had obtained six months special leave ciency in the Army the standard of living for racing

of the rank and file bas vastly improved.

fer live in luxury compared with their But Rosa was dogged and determined. predecessors. A senior officer of great ex- He left the Army and, helped by Sir perience told me the other day, "Our Alfred-Jones, who had made a fortune. Army is now the most intelligent in the in the West African trade, he started his world-and probably the soberest section of the community,"

great campaign against the mosquito.

THREE FATAL" DISEASES. " BLEEDING THE RATEPAYERS.

Sir Ronald Ross is 68. The whites of One form of Socialist activity in this country of a specially pernicious charac- his eyes are yellow from the effects of

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Guardians in large working class dis self experimentally, Fifteen years tricts to run up expenses on relief. The ago I was told I had three fatal dis design is to embarrass the Government cases," he said, "and now I am starting for political ends, and at the same time

to bleed the ratepayers-the hated bour-on yet another active spell of work," geois. It got to such a pitch in West He will be aided at Putney Heath by Visitors to London who do not know Ham that the Ministry of Health stepped two other brilliant authorities" on tro their way tolerably well round the West in and superseded the Guardians. Relief End are apt to make discoveries. A there is to be administered by oficials pical diseases and hygiene-Sir William friend from the country tells me how from Whitehall. To get the necessary Simpson and Dr. Aldo Castellani, who Astonished he was on enterting a big legal sanction Mr. Neville Chamberlain was born in Florence. In this large ordinary restaurant near Piccadilly piloted a short Bill through Parliament; few nights ago at the prices charged. He and the net result now is that not only auburban house, standing among pleasant was accompanied by his wife and thought West Ham, but any other Board of gardens, these three men, first in the he would probably get a light supper for Guardians who are tainted with "Red" world at their special work, will research 5/- a head: There was no meal of the politics and bent on spending public and experiment with all those dreadful kind, but plenty of dishes à la carte.

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tiasis, which swells the human body into d'oeuvre, and after that Welsh rarebit, and two small cups of coffee. The bill amounted to 12/2d.

A curious point is that some Liberals a monstrous bloated caricature; yellow are opposed to the courss which has been fever than kills 9 out of 10 white men adopted. They think it would be better who catch it blackwater, malaria, and This is the sort of thing one has to to tackle the whole problem of local gov. sleeping sickness. look out for in London. It might, of ernment which they say is in need of re- Men invalided from tropics can go course, have been worse. There was a form. But the answer is that in the there and have cultures made from their cabaret show in the restaurant in ques- meantime the ratepayers of places like blood for comparison with the unique. tion at the supper hour, but my friend West Ham where there are Socialist collection of living tropical microbes was full of wonderment, when he saw majorities on local bodies would be bird which Dr. Castellani keeps in well. crowds of people come in and sit down white. As it is, Mr. Chamberlain told warmed incubators. There are 12 beda to eat, as to how these people in family the House of Commons that there are for patients whose cases present unusual parties could afford regular meals at such families in West Ham whose means had symptoms. Everything is available t prices. The "show" was paid for over and been raised to £5, 26, and a week the Institute for research work of the over again in the charges for food and by the receipt of relief from the Guar highest value, except money, of which drink, while the profits must have been in dians, who refused to reduce the scale supplies for one year only are in hand, the region of 200 per cent. There are For anyone to talk of abolishing this and mosquitoes for experimental pur- places, on the other hand, that give enjoy-state of things as if it were an attack on poses. Sir Ronald Ross says he has had able little uppers at reasonable prices; local government generally, as come to import the latter from other districts and the visitor to London who wishes to Eiberals have done, seems particularly as Putney and Wimbledon seem unc

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