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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1318, 1926,

LADY CLIFTON IN UNKIND MOOD.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

6.40 9.18 15.30 11.40 19.00 115 438 6.27 12,09 124 448,39 19.01

1.3.

Noom

Shumahan

Shamchun

Sheungahui

Fanling ...

Dep. 733 816 10.49 11.51

Kawloon,..

..Dep.

7.10

Taumati...

6.50

0.24 10.39

7,19

Bhatia

7,02

9:36 10.51

186 456 3.51

7.31

Tripo

718

9.49 11.04

· 12.34 1.49 5,09 6.04

Tipo Harkst

7.31 9.53 11.08

156 813

8,08 7,48

Fanling

Dep.

733 10,03 11.19

12.43

2.03 594

Shenagakni

... Dep.

1.38 10,07 11,22

12.59

2,07

8.19 6.39

7.58

8,02

7.42 10.13 11.28.12.20

12.58

3135,84 6.99 8.08

A

2.3.

Dep. 71

8,05 10.98 11.40

1.56

8.00 417

5.18

Dep. 7,98

8,12 10.45 1147

8,07) 424

$.20

4.11

498

6.06 6.15 5246.19

Taipo Market

Dep

7,42 826 10,59 12.03

138

8.29

Talipo

Dap

7,48 8.30 11,04 13.07

3.25

Shatin...

Dep 759 8.43 11.17 1221

8.38 456

Tammunti...

Dep.

Kowloon...

Dep.

0.40 8,35

7.00

5.11 8.56 11.29) 12.83 8.20 SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

ANL NOON 9.15 10.30 140 12.00 9.24 10.59

"8,50

5,08

5,51 6.09

K.98 5,89 8.48 6.58

9.08 11,37 12.41 2.37 3,58

5,16

6.11 7.06

* no

19.09

231

9.36 10.31

12.21 2.43

19.34 256 19.38 8.00 6,09

12.48 3052 7.86 9.12 10.07 11,23 7,49

9.18 10.13 11.29 12.30 12.58

7,10 6,39.7.19 5.51 7,81 6,05 744

8.11 6.20 758 8.15 6.24 8,07 8,91 6,80 8,08

Dep. 8,12-10.38 11.40 1.58 ...Dep. 8,19 10,5 11,47

3.21

3,00 4.17 3.90 5,40 6,09 8,07 4.24 5.27

5.46 616 8.11

5.51 6.20 6,01

9.38 456

6.08 8.18

16.47.

9,50

9.37 9.68

5,07 5.15 8.04

6.30 6.59 6.38 7,07

Kowloon...

Shatin....

Yaumati...

Taipo

Taipo Market

Fanling

Shamanun

Shrungabui

Shamchun Shonagahui

Taipo Market

Taipo

Yanmati... Kowloon...

TZATZONE,

9.49 11,04

9.33 11.08 10,03: 11,18

...Dep. 823 10.49 11.51 Dep. 8,33 10.59 12.03 8.37 11.04 12.07 Dap ...Dep. 851 11.17 1991 Dep. 9.09 11,29 12,33 ...A. 9,11 11.8712.41

WEEK DAYS,

8.25 4.12

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

1.1. 7.30

NA A Fanting

Dep. 7.45 11,30 2.20 6.25 Bhatsukoi...AT. 8.40 12.25 8.15 720

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIO HOLIDAYS.

A.M.

FX P3

Fanting Dep. 7,48 11.30 8.20 6.25 Shstankak...Art. 8.40 11.25 4.15 720

JURIDIS

6,30..

780

WEEKDAYS, Sastankok...Dep. 8.30 10,15 1.05 5.00 Fanling/Art. 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.33

STATIONS.

SUNDAYS AND FUBLIC HOLIDAYS,' AM AM PM PM Shatankok...Dep, 6.30 10,152,05 5.16 Healing Arr. 7.95 11.10 8.00 630

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SHANGHAI'S REPUTATION FOR DISSIPATION AND

MONEY GRUBBING.

"GORGEOUSLY, SPLENDIDLY CONCERNED WITH MONEY-MAKING."

THE CHINESE AND THE BRITON.

Unlike the great majority of people who write in the Home papers concerning China in general and Shanghai in particular, the Baroness, Clifton knows her subject. Her writings on China have always been remarkable for their pungency and humour, and to her opinions we "accord our full respect, says the "NU. Daily News." The following article from her pen appears in a recent issue of the "Daily News," In it the deals with Shanghai sternly but with discrimination. Only our innate chivalry, adds the": Shanghai journal, prevents us from remarking that she may be a beast but she is nevertheless a just beast.” The article follows --

Shanghai has got a reputation for dissipation and for money grabbing which it possesses, one must admit,

through its own fault.

Stuck down on the mud flats of this Yangtze mouth, on the site of a mere Chinese fourth-class town-almost, in fact, a village, when it was surrendered to the English in 1846-Shanghai is situated in about the world's most odious] and unattractive position. Not even ae tually on the wide edge of the Yangtze, it is poked away up a tidal tributary of this great river, which rejoices in the jocund sounding name of the Whangpoo. By rights the place on these outlying mud fats ought to be singularly unat tractive, and yet there is about this strange city, this incongruous mixture of the best and the worst of all westera nations planked down on the edge of Asia, a good deal of solid attraction.

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The Appeal of Shanghai: Peking may be romantic; Canton may house the

of the jeunesse doree Kuomintang-the modern revolutionary. party of China-it has also been the earliest-home of Anglo-Saxon merchant adventure in the Eart Macao, with ta colour-washed wrecks of pale green For- tuguese houses may have known the Forng Camoens wrestling with couplets of the Lusiad beneath its magnolia trees; MACAObat Shanghai, though it is but of mush room growth compared to the other great the most gorgeously splendidly concerned with money-making of the It was as a foreign settlement founded by the British, and the Americans ce there extremely soon afterwards. Need one say more The French do their little, hit as well: there is the French concession in the foreign settlement, se well as the International. There are also Italians, Belgians, and Germans living there now, in Shanghai, and more have lived there before them: it has never been a noticeable characteristic of any of these great nations that they disliked money.

And then there is the great race, that most dignified and splendid of all oriental peoples, the thin-fingered "Celes tiels to whom the yellow alluvial mud soil whereon Shanghai is piled, belongs, and the Celestials are not by any means, as theit profoundest admirers will. ad init, the least money-worshipping of Shanghai is the apotheosis of commer cialism. There is no time for anyone who is not interested, roughly speaking, in money-making, or money-getting. And this is very natural and very praise worthy that foreigners who are trading with and living among a race who are undoubtedly the greatest businessmen on earth, should concentrate heavily on the pursuit of the flying dollar.

The Chinese are the most commercially minded people on earth, except our own charming Anglo-Saxon selves, but with differences, differences which are purts cularly accentuated in Shanghai, the great Manchester of the Pacific sea-board.

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CHINKIANG INCIDENT OF FORTY YEARS AGO.

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The following interesting letter signed by "Sab-Lieutenant appears in recent issue of the Daily Express:---

To the Editor of the Daily Express."

SIR, Tho present serious disturbance

Shanghai: the Western international

aspect of it is inartistic, profoundly, splendidly so. Inartistic with that fierce pride of its commercialism which could only happen in a place where the big monied interests are in the hands of the Amèricans, the Irish and the Scotch.

There are efforts, gallant efforts, made by the Latin population to combat this jolly Anglo-Saxon boorishness. There is in fact, an extremely good municipal orchestra, conducted by a distinguished Italian artist; Maestro Mario Pati.

Yet, and what a tremendous emission in the great city of Shanghai-it is a great city, and, of course, every one who gets up to make the time-honoured after dinner-speech refers to "this great city of Shanghai " (deep British and American applause from everyone who has got their money in it, very properly and Faaturally), although there are many thousands of foreigners in the settlement, in spite of the fact that there is a very fiae racecourse, possibly the beat in the East next to Calcutta-there is no per manent theatre.

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GRAND OPERA.

THE APATHY OF HONGKONG PEOPLE.

THE SAXON MENTALITY.

The Italian Grand Opera Company has been here several days, and they remain until Saturday night, when they give their last performance. Except on. Moo- day night, when, the Company presented "Faust," the audience was very meagre. The artistes are all good, a few of them are brilliant, and yet the audiences have been post

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Amongst the audience-I have attended the theatre every night-were a lew Chinese. That is not surprising. East- ers and Western music are opposite. Of the Portuguese there were not many, and this is surprising in that as a race they are fond of opera. There was also a paucity of Saxons. The majority were inersize under the Companies" Crelansers at Roughag Scotsmen.

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The Saxon is nat overfond of opera, | 15, Quinn's BoAD CENTRAL. TEL. CHEIRAL 75, and that is due to his mentality. He is not imaginative; he is not easily moved, and he dreams very little. A No, No Nanette" makes him hilarious; when a piece of Verdi's or Puccini's. leaves him. cold. The Britons and the Scots still retain the characteristics of their fore fathers. Their natures are mystical, they revel in imagination, their lives are sur rounded with song. Temperamentally they are different from the Saxor. In olden times, minstrels reamed the Eng lish countryside, but not to the extent they did in Scotland, Ireland and Wales. There, they were part of the households of princes. England preferred its jestera. Scotland and Ireland 'its minstrels, 'and Walea its harpists. For the Englishman comedy, for the Cell tragedy, and so their likes and dislikes are easily account. ed for.

Two Points of view, The immense houses which greet

"One night at the theatre I met a ̈Scöte amateur efforts in Shangbar show how man and we discussed the merits of the casily a regular theatre and opera house Italian Company "I don't profess to might be filled. And how much good it know much about music," said the Scots- might do. The Chinese are the most in man, "I hate the theory of it, but I feel telligent of Asiatic races; if instead of great music, I understand it. It holds sending them second-rate officials, Da strange crowd of wandering journalists, love the himan voice more than the me, crushes me almost. It has made me lawyers, missionaries, publicans and a music of the birds or the music of the showing them a little of our best, intro-they can be forgiven their defects because ners from the West, we concentrated a spheres. I cannot say I like Italians, but duced them to those aspects of our West of their art, their music. A nation our material and entirely depressing, what a ern civilization which are not wholly tured with song is a great nation." good thing it might be.

Chinese Faculty For Bixing Up. There is a great deal of stuff talked just now about the hatred of the English by the Chinese, their anti-British at titude. This is really very fanciful non- sense. The truth of the matter is that the

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There came to my mind something that a great writer had said in regard to imagination. "You cannot fall in love without imagination," he wrote, enjoy the song of a robin, nor the beauty of a rose," And I decided that the Scotsman had imagination.

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Another night I accosted a Saxon at KING Chinese people, who are, in many ways, the theatre. He was bored. He said amazingly cute, have the fscnity of the music was rubbish, and that the sixing up fools and cads surprisingly well artistes were amateurish. Verdi and developed; and we, the Americans and Fuccini were nothing to him. I decided the English, have shown them a few of he had no imagination. our worst specimens. For the agreeable

A Real Musician. specimens of Anglo-Saxons among them the Chinese have great respect. They and that Saxon a buffoon. The Saxon I would call that Scotsman a musician, not only exhibit no anti-British feeling had also told me that be knew pretty of a virulent type, but they seem-one music when he heard it. Had he been a really wonders why, when one knows one Mus. Bac. I would not have beheved self and one's countrymen so well to him And that brings to my mind a think we are the most pleasing nation of musician I once knew, a musician who the Western world.

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It is most charming of them, and we position. Having known him, I would should try to be worthy of their admira-place him in the same category with my tion. Remembering above all things that Saxon friend. He might have known the they are, the Chinese, whatever their theory of music, but he never felt it as faults and, like us all, they have many the Scotsman does." at heart a curiously aristocratic and ele- gantly-mannered people. Shanghai, with den armed with a gun. He was accosted This musician was one day in his gar- its wealth, its resources, its vitality, and by a friend, one who held no musical a magnetic romance which only the East can give, has a magnificent opportunity diplomas, but one who was well known of removing from the classic. Celestial in the locality for his fine singing. mind the conviction that we “Barbarians.”--

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S-ENGINED GERMAN 'PLANË.

BERLIS, September 14th. The German Air Hansa claimed that their machine which started from Desanu today is the largest passenger seaplane in the world, and certainly larger than any British seroplane.

"It has five motors, each of 400 h.p.," and carries 22 passengers, two pilots and one electrician. It will be sub-divided into smoking, non-smoking and ladies' com

on the Yangtze reminds me of an apartment, and will be fitted up to enable cident which occurred nearly 40 years ago at Chiakiang, about half-way between Hankow and the mouth of the river.

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"The blackbirds are eating my ap- ples," was the reply, and I must extir- pate them. Do you get any trouble from them in your orchard -

"Yes," said his friend, "but I am too fond of music to shoot a blackbird."

That musician was afterwards called the "apple-tart Mus. Bac."

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passengers to sleep during night travel. face value of 87,808, were seized on a

It looks the same da any other Junkers all-metal aeroplane, except that it is A sudden riot there resulted in, Euro-much larger. All the preliminary trials pean warehouses being looted, and were satisfactory, British residents were obliged to seek refuge in a hulk on the river. The ship in which I was serving was despatched to deal with the trouble

The Total of the province came on board, and eventually agreed to execute the ringleaders and pay an indemnity of 5,000 taela, saking to be given three weeks to arrange the payment.

Later, when payment was made, the

He reminded as, in explanation, that the Yellow River had recently over flowed its banks, that a Mansion House fund had been raised in London for the relief of the victims, and that the money had come in extremely useful for paying off the indemnity!

I am afraid that the present serious 是急 incident" will not be settled so quick

BIG HAUL FROM CHINESE DEFENDANT EXTRACTS BAIL.

Over 6,900 Macso lottery, tickets-of-a-

Chinese at Upper Lascar Row on Mon- day, and yesterday an application came before Major C. Willson for the con- fiscation of the tickets and for the estreating of the bail of 8760 left by the arrested man in the hands of the police.

It was explained that the arrested man, who is well-known to the police as being an extensive lettery ticket trafficker, had not appeared in Court, and the necessary orders were made by the Magistrate -The same man was arrested a year ago. with other Chinese for smuggling lottery tickets and he had then, as now, jump

Tuotal pocketed the receipt and remarkedly, and, in any case, we shall do welled "hir hail

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