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Hongkong Daily Press.

No. 21,275

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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

Kowloon... Yeumati...

Skatin

Tsipo

ree

Taipo Markst

Fanling.....

Bhanchpa

Shoungshui

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Fanling... Taipo Market Taipo

Shatin

Tannati...

Kowloon

...Dep. 5.40

...Dap. 8.50 9.34 10.89

Dap 7,02

Dap

716

Dep! 7.21

Dap. 7.32 10.03 $11.18

...Dep, 7.58 10,07 11.20

A 7, 10,13 11.28 12.20 12.38

LX. 4.K

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AN.

NOCK

9,15 10,80 11.40 12.00

12.09

9.36 10.51

12.01

9.49 11.04

9.53 11.59

F.M. F.M. PM, P.M. 20 435 5.29 1,10 9.31 444 5.39 719 9.434,58 8.51 7.31 2.56 5,09 8,047,44 3.00 5.18 6,087,48 3.11 5.24 6.19 7.39 3.15 5.29 6.23 8.02 3:21 5,346.29 8,08

AX. AK. AM.

201

2.K I'M.

FM.

8.05 10.88.11.40

1.56

8.00

4.17

-8.12 10.45 11,47 1141

3,07-

3.11

4.29

4.39 5.84

9.25

8.38

22.37

5.13 6,08 5.20 5.24 8.19 6.99 6.53 6,33 6,48 8,30 6,08 8,03 6.58

6,11 3.59 6.16

4,58 5.51

7.08

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Dep. 725 Dep. Dep. 7.42 7.45 Depil ... Dep. 7,59 ...Dep. 8.12 Am. 9.90

8.16 10.49

9.98 10.59 1202 8.80 11,04 12,07 8,43 11.17 12.01 8.55 11.29 12.33 9,09 11,87 12.41

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WEEK DAYS.

P.M. STATIONS,

AI Fanling

...Dap. 7.45 11,90 2.20 6.25 Shataulok...AT, 8.40 12.25 3.15 7:20 SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

A.X STATIONS

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PM

Fanling Dap. 7.45 11.30 9.20 6.25 Shataukok...AT. 8.40.12.95 4.15 7.20

STATIONS.

4,40

AM. ZM. FL.

WEEK DAYS. Shataukok...Dep. 6.30 10.16 1.05 6,00 Fanling A. 7.25 11.10 2.00 8.55 - BUNDAYS AT PUBLIO HOLIDAYS,

LX. A.M. 236. -2,M. STATIONS.

Shatankok...Dep. 6.30 10,15 2,05" 5,00 Fanling Art. 7.95, 11.10 3.00 5.53

Further information may be obtained at the BawAY OFFICES, KOWLOON, or from Mars, Tros. Cock & Box, Lin, Honożowo, or from THI AKKRICAR, E COM- FAKY, HONDICIG.

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1926 #

EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IN

ENGLAND.

EARLY MORNING TREMORS.

WIDESPREAD ALARM: NO DAMAGE.

RHINE OFFICERS STONED.

BRITISH CLOSE GERMAN CAFES.

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FAIR STOPPED.

WIESBADEN, August 18th.

As motor-car containing British others attempted to proceed along the crowded road alongside the fair at Dotz- ci last night the occupants were jeered ac and stones throw at them.

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號四拾月九年五十國民辈中

DISCONTENT IN RUSSIA. - »

PEASANTRY REVOLTING.

A NEW JOAN OF ARC.

THE FRIVATE FUNDS OF TROTSKY. In the early hours of August 15th various parts of England and Wales

HARBIY, August 27th. were visited by an earthquake shock.

News as brought by travellers from The disturbance was experienced between three am and Eve .m., according to

Russia indicates a general upheaval in that country against the Soviet system. the locality affected, and, though the

The matter was immediately, reported,

of misgovernment, and all denials sued worst tremors were felt in the Midlands, the area of the visitation extended in the and resulted in merabers of a Signal by the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs west to Radnorshire and Bristol, in the Company occupying Dotzheim Barracks, notwithstanding, the Ukraine, from all p east to Peterborough, and in the south to furning out, closing all cafés in the" dis-accounts has separated itself from the Seaton Devoni, New Barnet, and High-trict, and shutting down the fair. No, Union. It seems that it is a question of further disorder occurred and the troops returned to barracks at i a.m.

Although insult to officers are not in frequent in the Cologne area, this in silent is the first of its kind in Wies baden.

gate.

While the shock was sufficient to cause widespread alarm, to shake furniture, rouse many including beds, and to sleepers and bring them anxiously into the streets, no serious damage appears to have been done, and no one was hurt.

The visitation, which was of varying intensity, and lasted from a few seconds.

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People Ficck into the Streets. At Presteign, Radnorshire, the tremor is described as severe. The shock was 4.48 experienced at

Buildings shook and people rushed into the streats. were subterranean rumblings. Llandrinded Wells claims to have ex- perienced vibrations as early as three o'clock. Residents in New Barnet, High Barnet, and Highgate, on the other hand, were awakened by earth tremblings and the movement of pictures and fur- niture at 443, while Bristol had its wins dows and doors shaken a quarter of an hour later.

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A distinct shock was felt in Leicester shire about five colock. People were awakened by the movement of their beds. the rattling of windows, and a movement that resembled the shaking of their houses. At Ashby-de-la-Zouch the shock. It seems that the Red Army is warer- occurred as the clock of the parish churching between passive resistance and ta commenced to strick five, but before the open revolt against the Soviet misrule chimes had ɓnsihed the shock had passed, and that the Black San Fleet has de-

clared some sort of independence.

Hereford Shaken, Hereford and the surrounding districts were visited by the shock a few minutes before five o'clock. The occurrence was all the more alarming from the fact that it was accompanied by a noise as though gule of wind had suddenly arisen. This ceased with a loud bang as suddenly as it began.

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trans-Baikal regions a Russian Joar of reaches here to the effect that in the Are has appeared. This lady, said to ke about 30 years of age, has gathered a large following and has founded the order of the Black Star. She has met with the full support of all the countryside and Soviet spies and informers are afraid to touch her.

The cost of living has augmented con- siderably and milk is scarce, thereby affecting the upbringing of Ettle children, especially babes.

It is significant that although from the very beginning the Bolsheviki persecuted religion, they are making an effort to Pacify the people by showing more toler ance.

Workmen who were engaged on repairs The effects of the earthquake were felt in the high road reported a curious inci- in Birmingham about five o'clock, and dent. They all declare that during the people at first jumped to the conclusion tremor the town clock struck three times, that an explosion had occurred. The and then immediately afterwards follow most terrifying experience was in Hared by striking the correct hour of five. borne,

where, in Kingscote-road, the The shock was most violently felt in the houses rocked and cracks were left in the lower part of the town. People in all ceilings. A resident said the wardrobe parts were alarmed by their beds being Dogs drawers in his bed-room few open; and ralied and vigorously shaken. crockery rattled violently. The shock howled, and even more affected were the WAS followed by long-drawn-out cats of the town, which, by meowing and rumbling noise, like a distant peal of dashing about the roome, showed their apprehension. Residents came out of thunder.

their houses in fright, and the whole town was awakened into a state of excitement. The shock was felt throughout the county, but no injury or damage is, reported.

The last time that there was an earth-from Russia state, that the latter are quake shock in Hereford was on January sick of the whole game. 26th, 1924, at six o'clock in the morning. No damage was done.

In the Moseley and Sparkhill districts residents say they were awakened by the noise to find their beds swaying and articles of crockery rattling. With the exception, however, that in several cases the outsida apparatus of the wireless sets was thrown about, no damage has been reported. The duration of the tremors is variously estimated at from five to sixty seconds.

The earthquake was also felt in Derby shire, and a report from the village of Winster describes the shock as of rather A severe character. The tremore lasted fully one minute.

Panic at Lillow.

At Ludlow, Salop, at five o'clock there was a rumbling noise and then a crash People were shaken in their beds, and tables and pictures rattled. The shock lasted about thirty seconds,

The churches are now fall and Red agente no longer desecráte them by preaching obscene mock-sermons within their precincts. Efforts have also been evident in other directions, to calm down the people but it is quite clear, travellers

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A pronounced tremor was felt between four and five o'clock at Bedworth, near. Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Police Inspec- the Commissars' money and Trotsky, who KING®

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comes to their own private fortunes. tiretly "four times. At the house of Mr. chemist, ornaments were

One Law For Skilten, a shaken from a bedroom mantel-piece. One of the reasons for the rapidly grow. I was awakened at a few minutes. to Dozens of other Bedworth people ex-ing dissatisfaction with the Soviet Gov- five by a loud report (said a resident).perienced the tremor. Yet a few miles crauient is one law for the commissars This was immediately followed by distant, at Nuneaton and Longford, no, and minor-commissars and another for second report, equally loud. I jumped one appears to have been disturbed. up in alarm, and ran out into the street. As I went I noticed everything in the room shaking and rocking to and fro. The ornamenta on the mantelpiece shook, and some of them fell. Pictures. on the wall swung out, and banged back again. The bed itself shook. When I got into the street I found that most other people had been awakened, and many of them gathered in the street in their night attire. But although it was impossible to get. people to go back inside their houses for a long time, nothing further happen ed, no one was hurt, and no structure damage was done.

A railway signalman, who, along with a policeman, was out in the street at Ludlow when the shock occurred, said:

I heard a rumbling from the north, as if a big lorry was approaching. This was followed by a loud noise like that

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the common people. Thus, while the Shock at Reading.

common folks are forbidden to travel Coming south, there was a distinct with bulky luggage, the commissars and shock. in Reading, particularly in the cther government officials are never re west-end of the town, at 4.15. The occup-stricted in the sathe way. Indeed, ini

contrast with common folk's entering ants of a house in the Bath-road were awakened by flours of their bedrooms Russia who are forbidden to bring in swaying alightly, but no noise was heard. with them more than two suits, six pair

of underlinen and two pairs of boots, the, The tremur lasted many seconds.

counmissars and government officials are more often than not seen entering Russia from abroad with numerous trunks and boxes, full of such luxurica as are denied to the common folks. There is that story of the Naptha' Syndicate manager who brought in from Germany soine

All over

Banbury (Oxfordshire) the earth tremor awoke people.

Just a minute or two before five o'clock (said a woman resident) I was awakened by feeling the bed violently shaking, as if somebody was holding the foot and rocking it. I then noticed things were rocking on the dressing table. At first I thought the disturbance had been caus ed by a motor-lorry passing the house, but I soon realised that it had taken something bigger than a lorry to shake

trunks with him and quite recently when the notorious Comrade Ivanoff left Harbia after the CER. rumpus, it was observed that he took with him 20 tranks and leather suitcases, whereas when he of an explosion. My companion and the house like that. The shaking went first came out he brought with him only one metal trunk and two leather suitcases hung on to one another until the shock on for several seconds. It woke every- passed, and we then rushed to the lower body in the town, but by the time they and even then it was affirmed by Customs officers that the trunk contained nothing part of the town. A small chimney fell, had got out of bed it was all over.

An alarming shock was felt at Bath but documents and text-books-N-C and crashed on to the roadway, but co other damage was done

just before five. Many residents stated | Daily News. that bedroom furniture rattled, and in some cases their beds swayed. The shock- appears to have been more severely felt WHAT SAILORS WANT TO BE. on higher ground, and it is reported that

A resident in Richards Castle, another part of the town, described the earth quake as being like the roar of an express train, followed by a loud report.

A police-sergeant in Evesham, Worces ter, said that at two minutes to five he was awakened by the house shaking with a sudden jar. "I thought some- body next door had fallen out of bed," he said.

"But I soon found that it was the whole of Evesham, and not only my bed-room, that was shaking.

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the wall of a house at Weston was crack-.

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ed; no other structural damage has been is shown by men in the Royal Navy, who reported. At Glastonbury also the shock under the Admiralty scheme of vocational training are given courses in chosen

was severe.

Between 4.30 and five o'clock earth-trades in order to fit them to take their quake tremors were feit in Seaton and place in civil life on completing naval district (Devonshire), many, people get service: This interesting fact is shown in ting up and going downstaira Beds the returns for the period October 1st, thook and windows rattled. The tremors 1995, to March 31st, 1928, Of the 1,832 lasted for about two seconds. No damage was done.

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Tremors, which lasted for nearly two minutes, were felt just before five o'clock at Northampton and in the neighbouring villages of Kislingbury and Stowe Nine A tremor lasting about fifteen seconds Churches. In the Kettering district was felt in Market Drayton and district many residents were awakened by the just before five. A correspondent, visit disturbance, which lasted several seconds, ing different parts of the district, was and was noticed particularly by persons informed by many house-holders that on night duty at the hospitals and rail- they thought their houses were going way stations. All agreed that the clock over, crockery and beda rattled, and. (Continued on next column.) several persons fell from their beds.

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