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Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857.

No. 21.415 *=PTENA BAIT HONG KONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28th, 1927.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

101

AMAN. AM. AM, AM, TROT YM. P.X. 2.3.1.3, P.M. ..Dep. 040 8.05 8.30 8.1510,30 12,00 1.15 1.25 4.35 5.29 7.21

Kowloon

Yaumati...Dep.) 6.30

Shatin

7.03

Tripo

Talpo Market Dep, 741 Fanling ...Dep. 733

Sheanghai...Dep. 7.36 Skumdhan...ATT, 749

Canton

Canton

Arr,

E A.K.

Dep.

9.2810,5913,091,94 251 44 5,38 7.30

BRITISH WORK IN

CHINA.

BENEFITS TO THE CHINESE PEOPLE.

9,36 10,31 1991 136 243 456 5.51 7.41 A RECORD WHICH THE NATION- 9.4011041294 1,49 256 3,09, 8,04) 7.85

9.6311.08 18.36 13.00

3.00 3.13 0.08; 7.39

10.03 11.18 12.43 1.00 311 08.19 8.00 9.07 10.0711.22 12.5 2.07 3.15 98 8.23 8.11

8.45 9.19 10.15110 19.52 2.13 3.41 8.24 829 8.19. 12.90-

5.90-

4.X. AM. A.X, FM.AM.| P3G| PAK | PM. TAM, FM.

-6.45

Shamakan...Dep. 2.19 8.0610.38 11.403,00 417 5,13 Shoangthai Dep. 7.28 8.18 10.45 11.17 8.07 4.24 8.20 5.27

Fanling

TaipoMarket Dep. 1.41 Taipo Bhatia Dep. 738 Yanmati

...Dap. 8.12 Kowloon

8.27 10.59 12.02 3.214.39 5,34 6.011

Dop 7.45

3.00 6.40

1.89 11.04 12.07 3.25 4.49 5,398.05 6.33 8.43 11.17 12.21 5.38 4.56 5.51 8.38 6,46

6.20 6.58- 8.8711.29 12.33 3.50 3.08 6,03

Art. 1.20 9.03/11.57 12,41 8.58 3.1 6.11 6.04 6.38 7,06 720

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

P.K. par,

6.25 3,20

БОКЕ

A.K..

Fanling Shatankok

34 7.45

mx 8.40

11,80 12,95

2.00

· 3,15

4.13

7.20

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P.M

P.M.

100

7.25

6.30

10:15 11.10

1.05 1.05

6.00 3.15

8.10

J

Shataukot ... Fanling

147

#.

9.00- 3.00 8.55

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Further information may be obtained at the Barwat Ornicza, Kow. 100, or from Moser, Tros. Cock & Sow, Leo., Howexons, or from TICK AMERICAX ExYx Courant, Hore Kore, 60]

H. P. WINSLOW, Manager.

ALIST MIGHT STUDY.

References have already been made, by cable, to the record of British work in China outlined by Professor Soothill, Professor of Chinese at Oxford University.

In a statement to Sunday paper at Home Professor Soothill said: In view of the disheartening ignor ance and misunderstanding which exists among the people of this country in regard to the services rendered by their fellow countrymen

AN EMPEROR'S DIARY.

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MS. HIDDEN UNDER STAIRS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.

FREDERICK HI. MEMOIRS OF 1870.

Revelations of this kind are not for contemporaries to know

Registered as a Newspaper at the General Cost Utice in the United Kingdom.

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THE WEEK'S DIARY.

To-day.

Annual Race meeting. Entries close for E.K. Horticul tural Society's annual show,

Cricket: Volunteers e. Combined League, H.K.C.C. ground; Club de Recreio . K.C.C. (League), Recreio ground, 2 p.m.

THE.

HONGKONG

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Talegraphic Address : "TREMLIN, HONGKONG."

AND

SHANGHAI

H.K. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. Hotel Savoy tea dansant, 4.301ATOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACEHOral;

p.10.

I therefore direit that no one else but my wife and my grown-up. children is to examine my diary till the year 1922 is ended. AfterDance display by Miss V: Capell's that there is nothing to hinder its pupils, Theatre Royal, 5.13 p.m., publication."

These words were written by the Crown Prince of Prussia (after wards Emperor Frederick the Third and father of the ex-Kaiser) in 1857, on his last visit to England, before depositing the MS. of his War Diary, 1870-71, encased in three

in Chink it may not be unwise, great iron-bound chests, in a secret however invidious, to take a pass-place under the main staircase at ing glance at the work which has Windsor Castle. The diary has

Extraordinary general meeting" H.K.Philharmonic Society, Cathe dral Hall, 5.20 p.m.

St. Peter's Young Men's Club opening dance, R.E. "Theatre, Well- ington Barracks, 8.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Making of O'Malley."

World Theatre: "Wife of the Centaur."

Star Theatre: Long Live The

been done in and for China by been translated into English and is King-"... Mails:-Inward: U.S.A., : published (Stanley Paul. 16s.) for the first time.

British effort,

There would simply have been no proletariat for Borodin to mislead The MS. was concealed in Eng and meite to madness but for the land, we are told by the Empress British, because it is around and Frederick, because the Emperor within the British-made Treaty regarded his papers as being in a Forts that the proletariat has better place of conceniment under Aathered glud to be able to earn. mamina's (Queen Victoria's care a living, however meagre,, rather than in our house in Berlin."

Our com- than starve elsewhere..

This reference, says Mr. A. R Allinson, the editor of the present yolume,is no doubt to Prince Bismarck, the more or less avowed enemy of the Crown Prince anu his English Cors and their political party geneally."

merce

has provided millions of Chinese with employment and help ed palliate the over-renewed ques- tion of over-population, which heretofore has only been relieved by food, famine, pestilente, epidemics,

The lengthy diary is & detailed infantile mortality, and appalling | civil wars. Innumerable Chiness Account" at the Franco-Prussian interest thinly to students of the political tory of the period.

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Annual Race Meeting (2nd day). St. David's Society lay wreath Cenotaph, 11 a.m.

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W. H. PERRY, Manager.

consequence of British venturers, and venturers and mer of courage they have had to be.

Cricket Volunteers . Army, Re- creio

ground. R.K. Hotel tez dance, 4.30 p.m. Hotel Savoy tea dansant, 4.30

St. David's Society Annual Din ner, Hotel Savoy, 7.45 p.m.

Troop Murray

Scouts social dance, R.E. Theatre, Wellington In the matter of communications

"Semrch it is venturers from this country Connell thai Sun Chuan Barracks, 820 p.m.

Orchestra. who have led and developed the

Fang landarely said that he

Queen'

Theatre:""The Mystery way both in modern shipping and in was and to go from the clean-club. railway construction. Without these liness and order of the Shanghai World Theatre: the civilisation of China remained Concession to the disorder and Circus.

Bacient,"

and

communication:

squalor of the larger area under Star Theatre: "Lazybones." throughout the empire was extreme Chinese control, and he command-

The

Principal mails -Outward: ly slow, dificult, and costly.

ed the establishment forthwith of Europe rid Marseilles (Angkor), stimulating influence of the steam-

Municipal Council for Greater 1.30 pm Wednesday. ship. mostly British, and of the Shanghai to be modelled on that railway, a British invention and in-founded by the British.

Annual Race Meeting (3rd day). troduction, on" conditions in China

H.A. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. is already difficult of calculation;

Hotel Savoy tea dansant, 4.30 and they are yet in their infancy.

The Customs Service,

"Cricket: Volunteers 7. Royal

FL

Industry and Education."

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"The Devils'

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The Maritime Customs, of, which British energy and capital, of Nay Week Dinner, Repulse Bay

In industry both Hong Kong" and Shanghai saw the origin, with modern factories, workshops, dock. verds, which are already an asset of much value to China. Modern industry will yet become, when past ite danger period, one of the great- est. providers of work and of the accessaries of life to

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H.M.S. Titania Carnival Dance, Hotel Savoy, 9 pm.

Kowloon Football Club dance, tion tor Lane Crawford's..

tens of Queen's Theatre: The Mystery

Club," World Circus."

Famine relief was founded by the British. Not illiberally has the City of London and this land given of its substance to save the starving stranger in China. Famine relief bas now been organised under

British Missions.

Theatre:

Devils'

"The

Sta Theatre: "Lazybones."! Principal Mails:Inward: U.S.A., cto. (Presirent Lincoln). Outward: Europe vid Siberia (Paul Lecat), 12.20 p.m.

Thursday. Annual At Home" United Ser- vices Recreation Club,

EL.K. Hotel tea dance, 450 p.m. "Hotel Savoy tea dansant, 4.30 p.m.

Recital, Helena May Institute behalf of the (for funds on Services), 5.30 p.ro.

H.M.S. Ambrate Dance, Hotel Savoy, 9' p.m.

Queen's Theatre:

Graustark,"

Beverley of

Sir Thomas F. Wade and Mr. Horatio Nelson Lay were the prin- was cipal founders, and which afterwards admirably developed by Sir Robert Hart, is so conspicuous ly honest a service that for decades it has been the chief national pledge for Government loans. Instead of millions of Chinese workers." accusing the British, however false-education, while we have not done , of refusing tari increase, it is all we might and ought to have the Chinese themselves who might done, we have ventured to trespass more reasonably express gratitude o China's sovereign duties by reu- for delay, because if it be true that dering some not inconsiderable aid. the consumer pays, then the exist Hong Kong has encouraged and ing tariff and control have kept made prevision for schools, col- rival war-lords from further whole leages, and a fine University, wholly sale robbery of the people. Sir for the Chinese, Lately the Sbang. Francis Algen bas, so far, been bai British community subscribed allowed to maintain the honourable a large sum of money to assist in traditions of the past, but ultra the education of Chinese. Nationalist Chinese nim at his speedy expulsien. At any rate, the services rendered in the past and the present can no more be undone then, they can be over-estimated. The Customs lighted and lights a const which had lain in age-long Anglo-American direction on the darkness, save for the lures at sound basis of relief works. wreckera. It charted the same un- charted coast, partly aided by the British Admiralty, and buoyed the In medicine, as is education, and channels and rivers, and introduced every other social service--the and developed valuable conservancy blind, the peer, the illiterate, the works. Amongst a number of other leper, it is British missions that benefits, it conferred the wonderful took the lead. Sir John Macleary services of the posts which have Brown told me that he was in Peking since extended their ramifications, before a single missionary was under the control of a French direc allowed to enter, and that Dr. tör, to the farthest village in the Lockhart was the first missionary ndruitted, not as such, but as Lega land..

tion doctor. He it was who found Concessions and Settlements.. ed the first hospital in the capital, The Concessions and Settlements, which, after sixty years of admir So unjustly inveighed against, were able service and development, P- actually meant to be ghettoes principally under the London Mis- to which the foreign traders were sionary Society, has now become confined. Not allowed to establish the elaborately equipped Rock- their busineas houses in the ad- feller Medical Institute Of the jacent cities, they were granted tens of British hospitals in the leases of balf a score of mud flats, leading cities of China there is no in every case without the pale." On need to make mention, but one these, with amazing diligence and may, perhaps, be permitted to add years of toil, they have succeeded that, if there had been no British in doing, the impossible by "the medical work in Hong Kong, transformation of these unattractive neither would there have been Principal Mails:-Outward Aua- sites into such remarkable towns any Sun Yat Ben, saviour of tralia and New Zealand, etc. na Shanghai, Hankow, Tientsin, the his country"; and had there baca (Tanda), 2.30 p.m. Shameen as Canton, not to mention no British hospital in Peking, there

General Feng Yu Hsiang.

write

the magnificent port of Hong Kong, would have been no Christian whose readition is now also de:

One blushes to have to manded by the Nationalist. In all these places it is the British who these things about our British cop- have also established something of tribution to China's well-being-for which the Chinese had no previous more could be said for they ought conception, a form of representa to have been written by a Chinese,

Such not an Englishman. Happily there | tive municipal government. has been the fine development, for is a large number of thoughtful instance, of the Shanghai Municipal Chinese who would gladly concur

in all that is said above. (Continued on next column.)

Mesa."

Star

Punch.

World Theatre: "Wild Horse

Theatre: "The Shock

Friday, Annual meeting Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

Extraordinary general meetings, Union Insurance Society of Cnaton: British Traders Insurance Co.: and China Fire/Insurance Co., Union Building, at noon,. 12.15 p.m. and 12.30 p.m., respectively.

H.E. Hotel tea dance, 4.30 p.m. Hotel Savoy tes dansant, 4.30

Organ recital, St. John's Cathe dral, by Mr. F. Mason, 5.45 p.in.

Mr. S. R. Loe's dance party, Hotel Savoy, 9 pm.

Masked Ball, City Hall, 0 pm. Queen's Theatre: "Beverley of Graustark."

World Theatre "Wild Horse Mesa."

#The

Shock Star Theatre: Punch"

Saturday.

Angual Race Meeting concluded. Football and Cricket: Details in Saturday's іваце

Yachting: Menagerie Race for Racing Yachts

Golf Captain's Cup. Annual meeting Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd., 11 sat.

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