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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

A.M. Noor

Kowloon...

Dep. 6,40

9.15 10.30 11.40 12.0

Yuuations

.Dep. 6.50 9.24 10.39

ghatin

Dap 7,02

9.38 10,51

Taipa

.Dep. 7,16

9.44 11.04

Fanling.

Sheangalai

Shameaun

Shumchun

Tipo Markel ... Dep, 7.91- 9.59 11.08

Dep, 239 10.0311.19

Dep, 7,58 10.07 11.9

7,49 10.1811,98 12.20 1958

Bhaungahui

Tsaling Taipo Markst

Fixoget Bozdats &

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

SUNDATE & PUBLIC HOLIDAY ONLY

A.M. P.M.

Dep. 7.91

Dep. 7.31,

8.05 10.38 11.40 Dep. 7.23 8.12 10.45 1147 8.16 10.49 11,51

1.56

3.00

437

5.19 8,08

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4.99

Dep

7.40

8.25 10.59 12.02

9.01

4.88

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18

3.25

19+

Usp 7.59

8.43 11.17

12.21

...Dap

8.12

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·Sestin

Yanmati... Kowloos...

Dep. 7:40 8,30 11,04 12.07

8.07 4.24 5.20 6.15

6.34

6.39 538 6.59 458 3.88

5.51 6.48 3.50 5.08 0.08 6.58 5.$7 8.58 $15 '6.11 7.06

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P.MC.

WEEK DAYS. Fanling. Dop, 7.45 11,30 120 6125′′ Sbstankok...Ar, 8.40 12,95 315 7.20 SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

PLATKOST

2. 7.M.

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Fanling ...Dep. 7.45 11.30 3.20 8.25 Shstankok...AT. 8.40 125 415 7.20

STAMONE,

WEEK DAYS,

AMA TA, FEL Shatankak Dep 6.80-10,151,05 5.00 Fanling AFT 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.5 BUNDAYS AND PUBLIO HOLIDAYS,

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH, 1926 #B

Our London Letter.

BRITAIN'S SHARE OF WORLD" TRADE.

AN EXPERT'S OPINION.

FATE OF CITY OF LONDON CHURCHES.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTİ. ]

LosDos, August 1st. At the time of writing there is some speculation regarding the position in which British trade will be after the coal strike is ended. Various views are. ex pressed. The subject is, of course, of A writer in the world-wide interest. current review of the Westminster Bank asks the question, "Given normal con- ditions-can-Britain retain her trade?" It is the nature of such stoppage as that in the coal industry, the writer indicates, to intensify already existing tendencies rather than to create new problems, and the end of the dispute will leave British industries with the task of picking up the threads of trade as far as possible) where they were left at the end of April, er in fact of any moath during the last, five years.

The writer is concerned with recent utterances published here to the effect that the development of certain "com. are petitor nations whose

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PEMBROKE, Dock. A The astounding story of a dead son come back to life after being officially reported killed in the war in 1918 has created much excitement here.

There have been great doings in Sark, one of the smaller Channel islands. portentous legal battle concerning Sab bath Day observance, ships, and the Con atable of the island has been tought out in the little schoolhouse of this 1,200-acre beauty spot.

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Mr. John Webb, of Pembroke Dock, Sark Court, which only assembles when heard a knock at the door, opened it. there is business to transact, met soon and saw standing outside a man-deat after midday, headed by the Constable, and, dumbwhom he recognised as his Mr. John Baker. There followed the son, Private Thomas John Webb, who whom be bad heard nothing since re- Seneschal, the Sheriff, the Grethe, and joined the Army before the war, and of It's as easy the Vingtenier.

ceiving the official intimation of bis death eight years ago.

The Seneschal presided. He felt ati home in the schoolmaster's desk, turned for the time being into a tribunal, for he is also the island's, schoolmaster.

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Alter a few brief preliminaries came the one important case of the day. The Constable actioned" Mr. Walter James Hamon, "captain of the motor-boat Joy-Bell, for having on Sunday, July 18th, made an excursion to Guernsey and embarked more than ten passengers.",

A thrill ran round the on the indictment was read out. An excursion On Sunday! More than ten passengers

Advocate Sherwill appeared for Mr. Hamon, and entered a ples of not guilty He added as an afterthought that since the "action" was quite improperly drawn up, there was really nothing to

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our share of the world trade so greatly as to endanger the present standard of living. His conclusion is that such utterances have been inspired by an unduly gloomy view of British trade prospects.

The court consulted hurriedly, and then asked counsel for the defence to draw up a new and proper action for them. Mr. Sherwill promptly oblig ed, and then, on his client's behalf, again pleaded not guilty.

Sixteen years had elapsed since Thomas John Webb left home. He is now thirty- two, and he did not know that his mother. died nine years ago.

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The "dead" man, being-dent and dumb, has explained in written answers to questions that he tramped from-Lou-read-under-the-Comper Ordostow of Isurkong) den to Pembroke Dock by way of Ports- mouth, Southampton, Bristol, and Glou-15, Quinn's Boan CuzRAL TEL. CENTRAL 75.

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Inquiries.

He went to Pembroke Workhouse, where he wrote his father's name on paper, and then he made inquiries and found his way to his father's door.

Private Webb was at first, said to be suffering from loss of memory, but he has since given, in writing, an outline of his adventures so far as he remembers them. He does not recollect where be has been since 1918, except that he came. to London from Switzerland.

His wonderful story of his experiences is as follows:-

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He want to France with the 3rd Glou- cester Regiment in August, 1914, and was wounded at Loos in September, 1915. His regimental number was 1897.

On recovery he was transferred to the 18th Durham Light Infantry ai Armen- tieres, proceeding to Arras, and then he was blown up somewhere and received Waiving this point temporarily, Advo-tead wounds at Crucifix Corner.

He was sent to the Lord Derby War cafe Sherwill pointed out that the court really could not deal with the case at Hospital. Warrington, in July, 1916, re all The maximum fine which the Sark joining the 4th Durhams at Seaham. Court can inflict is five shillings. The where he was transferred in 1917, serv- minimum fine for landing more than ten ing at Cabery Bush, near Arras, until

blown up in 1919. passengers on Sunday is £2

Four Substantial Reasons.

The Constable, sa prosecutor, started The reasons he gives for cultivating a

to give evidence. Advocate Sherwill ob spirit of cheerful optimiem can be briefly jected, unless he was first sworn. The outlined. He considers (1) that condi. tions arising from British being the first Constable refused, and hotly maintained that it was not the custom of the modern industrial State to enter the island." Happen what might, he in- international field and gain a start onsisted; the Constable of Sark should other nations, with the result that until ever be sworn. 1900 or so these latter were overhauling her, have now become stabilised," and Britain's share has since remained prac tically constant; "(9) while American trade overseas will doubtless be steadily augmented in years to come, this ang mentation can scarcely be confined merely to the export side of her balance-sheet; (3) as Germany's present abnormal con- ditions recede farther into the past, her war losses in population, territory, and resources will be increasingly felt; and (4) we are relying to a greater extent than before on our invisible exports to fill the gaps between the "visible" items.

The appropriate comment seems to be that it may be hoped that industrialists will feel reassured by this expert opinion that Britain-can retain her due share of the world's trade, given the necessary spirit of goodwill-on the part of Labour (with a capital L) in this country

Sir William Ridgeway,

The aext he remembers is being spoken Matters had now reached a deadlock.. The court had come to the end of its to in a foreign language by nurses in a tether, and therefore turned to Advocate large camp surrounded by barbed wire which he could not locate. It is evident Abandoning his Sherwill for advice. post of counsel for the defence, this that he was a prisoner of war. He wi obliging man became legal adviser to the told he could go, after a long time, and court. He gave it as his considered arrived at an outpost station, where he opinion that the best solution would be was reported by a chum to order his client to pay hall a crown, the costs of the action, or alternatively to send the whole case to the Guernsey

Court.

All agreed except the Constable, who st once declared, I appeal to go before the Guernsey Court!" Advocate Sher will had been expecting this. No ap peal is possible," he said" for the court

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He arrived in Switzerland, and was KING placed in an institution.

He does not remember how long he was in Switzerland, nor the time he arrived in England. He remembers arriving at Dover in a small sailing ship, and then he found himself in London.

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Having faint recollections that he came from Pembrokeshire, he began walking there. This journey took him three months. He arrived at Pembroke Poor Law Institution on Friday, and remained until Monday, when he began making inquiries for his relatives.

He is still suffering frcan & head PROSPECTING BY TELEPHONE. wound and a wound on his right fore-

Sir William Ridgeway, the eminent has decided that the infraction is so This archeologist, who has just died was slight that no fine is imposed."

thegreatest final shot crushed the Constable into generally regarded authority of his time on that subject silence. But he had other interests. It pleased Then, with great dignity, the court him to be at once an authority on the adjourned. thoroughbred horse and on the zebra He was also noted for his sense of humour He did not suffer fools gladly, and to illustrate this there is a story of an amateur scholar, who arrived one, day ra Cambridge on a visit and announced, that he had formed a new theory on a disputed point of archeology which he intended to propound to Sir William Ridgeway. The visitor's friends, after bearing the theory, advised him to do no thing of the sort, but he persisted and departed for Caius to call on the great

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What happened at the interview has never been known, but, after it had lasted some twenty minutes the visitor was seen flying hatless into Trinity Street, It is explained that the main factor while Sir William followed, brandishing about the now method is the manner in a stone axe snatched from his walls and which the telephone is impressed into crying, "I'll kill the fellow I'll kill service. A geologist who is also an elec the fellow !!

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He has an aunt, Mrs. Alice Williams, living in London, but her address is unknown.

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Father Satisfied. “ "I have not the slightest hesitation. concerning the identity of the man who came to my door," said Mr. John Webb to a Daily Express correspondent." He is, beyond all doubt, my son

"I recognise him by his features, and his written replies to questions I have. put to him in writing make the matter doubly certain. He has answered ques tions relating to his wife, from whom he lived apart since before the war, with detail which only he could know.'

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trical expert first finds a place where rock STRIKE AND COAL STOPPAGE.

containing ore props out on His sentences exploded rapidly, each auspected being driven home by an emphatic the surface of the ground and places one "hmph!" One day two undergraduates terminal of his electric circuit on this

spot. were discusing his blindness quite un

"I aware that he was within earshot. may be blind, hmph!" said Ridgeway

but I'm not as deaf as the man who said his prayers kneeling on the rat."

The City Churches.

It has not yet been finally decided whe- ther or not the nineteen City churches which are declared to be redundant are to be demolished Parliament has yet to come to a conclusion on the point. Meanwhile, however, it is of interest to

He then carriers a wire, connected both with a telephone and the other terminal, ver adjacent land, and periodically tou- ches this wire to the ground. The electric current, if ore is underdeath, will flow through the ofe and make itself audible in the telephone.

It is predicted that hereafter. "lost" mines or lost veins of ore will be sought in this way.

- £8,049,348

IN MÁY

British railway statistics for May (which included the general strike and the coal stoppage) show that the number of pas senger journeys (excluding those of sea- son-ticket holders) was 52,302,3, a de- érease compafed with May, 1025, of 47,914,885, or 47.8 per cent.

The receipts from these passengers de- creased by 2,181,811, or 407 per cent.

If the London Tubes and Metropolitan. District Bailway be omitted, the figures all lovers of London that a suggestion There will be plenty of opportunities to show a decrease in journeys of 40,832,937, has been put to the Bishop of London discuss the matter at length. The general or 61.1 per cent., and a decrease in re- by a prominent American resident in the idea is that the churches should be taken ceipts of £2,071,138, or 41 per cent. Metropolia that the churches, if they have down, almost literally stone by stone, For all companies the receipts from to come down, should be presented to the and cach part-should be numbered, so passenger train traffic were £2,721,073 Dominions and to the United States.

It is said that some of the Canadian that the historio edifices can be re-erected | less than in May, 1925, or 38.8 per cent.:

Church Bocieties are interested very keenly in the matter, especially as the Bishop of London is now visiting Canada where be will make a fairly long stay (Continued on next Column).

in a suitable environment, as a link be

ween the outlying parts of the Empire and the Empire's hub. It is at all events a very attractive proposition, but whe ther it will come to fruition remains to be seen,B.

The tonnage of freight conveyed was 5,803,810, a decrease of 20,919,457, 07 78 per cent Receipts amounted to £3,288,937," a decrease of £5,397,875, or 61.8 per cent.

Between April 25th and August 8th railway receipts fell by £17,000,000.

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