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MASON'S

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B¶ÐAÆNT HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 11th, 1927.

No. 21,425 :【號五廿百肆仟萬弍第

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

10

AM. AM. 1,36,

Kowloon

..Dep 6.40

-8.05) 8.30| 9,15|10,30|12,00] 118|

9,94|10,99|19,09 122

Yazmati ...Dep. 6.50

Shatin

Tipo

Dep

Chaton

Chaton Shamabun

9.36105112.31 198 1.3 16 9.49 11.04 12.35 1.49 15 5,09

1.56 3.00) 61: 9.58/11.06 19.59 10.03.11.18.12.18 3.08 3.11 9.07 10,07 11.33 12.5 2,07 318 8.45 0.1310.18112912,50 918 3.91 12.20

5.90

5.29 7.21 7.90

TelpoMarket Dep.

Turling ...Dap. 7.39

Bhengshui...Dep. 7.98

Shamchun dr. 7,43

...Dep. Dog.

3.00.

Sarangani Dep.

5.40 6.08 6.40 5.47 0.15

28 24

5.51 8.19

7,41 8.27 10.59 12.02 3.21.39 6.34

8.01 8.29

8.05 8.23

638 6,48

Taliar ...Dep.

Tipo Market Dep.

Thipe ...Dep Shatin

· Alla | Mall, | AM, {'AM. | 2,320) | 4:30.

7.188.00 10.38(11,40) 3,00) 7.26 | 8.13 10.48(11.47 3,07|| 4,24|| 7.81 8.17 10.49 11.51.9.11

7,45 8.82 11,0419.07 3.25

„Dep. 758. 8,48 11.17 19,23 3.88, 4,56 631

Trumati Dep. Bowlson

8.12 3.57 11.29 12,39) 3,50) 5.08) 6,08|| -

| 6,30) 6,55), vien 8.20 | 9,05/11,37 19.41). 8,58 5,16) 6,11) 8.04) 6.38) 7,06 720

SHA TAU KOK BRANCEL

0

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F..

Fanling Shatatikok

7,45 11.80 8.40 12.95 8.15

8.20 6.25 4.18 7.20

1.1.

7.M.

5.15

5.10

Shatankok Fanling

LX. · 1.3. 6.30 10.15 105. 2.05. 5.00 7.95 31.10. 2.00 "2,00 6.56 E-SUNDATA AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS Exarpted. O-SUNDAYS AND FUENO HOLIDATE ONLY.

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DEAN INGE ON THE EDITOR TO KING OF SIAM'S

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TION.

PLAIN SPEAKING WHICH IS NOT PESSIMISM. RELATIONS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

Because he has dared to speak plain truths to a ceaselessly fatter d democracy, Dr. H., W. Lage, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, has been dubbed the Gloomy Dean."

We reprint the following extracts from an article recently contribut

NEWSPAPER.

ARRIVES IN MANILA EN ROUTE TO BANGKOK.

VETERAN NEW YORK NEWS- PAPERMAN TO LIVE IN PALACE.

The distinction of be the first American journalist ted to manage a newspaper corsrolled by royalty, belongs to Francis White, veteran journalist, lately editorial writer on the New Tort Evening World..

Mr. White is here en route to

of

Registered as a Newspaper, at the General. Fust Office in the United Kingdom.

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THE WEEK'S DIARY.

To-day.

H.E.CC. Ternis TournaINCHÉ. Tes Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy, King Edward Hotel, and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m.

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Annual dinner Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Astor Hours Hora, Palace Horal Hong Kong, 8 p.m.

Titania Chief and Petty Officers' Dance, R.E. Theatre, Wellington Barracks, 8.30.

dance for Soldiers Recreation Fund," 9 u.m. to 2 a.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Dress- maker from Paris"

World Theatre:"Man & Maid." Star Theatre Thank You" Principal Mails:-laward: Europa vid Siberia (Kashgar).

Saturday,

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ed by Dr. Inge to Scribners Bangkok, anys the Vanila Times Kowloon Dock Recreation Club Magazine. He has penetrating re- last Thursday. He is travelling on marks to make on the Far Eastern the President Wilson. He was problem and also on the grave pro-chosen by Prince Vasti Vatavanishta blem due to the influence of feckless of the Siamese royal family to and weak kneed Socialists at Home. manage the Bangkok Daily Mail, a

Dean Inge writes:-

Siamese-English paper. He also The expansion of Europe has been takes a hand in the operation of tho the salient feature of world-history Free Press Syndicate of Bangkok. during the last century and a half. Mr. White's appointment came in The White races had, in the year a novel way, he says: A few months 1000, established a decisive supie ago, F. B. Sayre, son-in-law of the macy all over the globe; many belate President Wilson, and at one lieved that the time was not far time American adviser to the distant when, the fow remaining in Siamese court, was asked by Prince dependent coloured nations would Yasti to find a capable newspaper- fall under the sway of one or other man to manage the Bangkok Daily of the competing White peoples of fail, which is owned by the European descent. By great good Siamese royal family. After a

Meals aan be had as follows: fortune, aided by the sterling quali look around, Mr. Sayre picked on

Per Carrer. } ~ twinkle

Tea Dances: HK Hotel, Hotel ties of her people, Great Britain me." Mr. White said with a

Breakfast...7.30 a.m.--10 am. ...$1.00 obtained the lion's share of these † in his eye. A contract for one year Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.. Tidta. 1:00 pm.— 2p.za....$1,00 Dinner danse, Cafe Parisien, 8 Dinner......7.30 pm 9p.....$1.25 was signed by Mr. Sayre on behalf of Prince Vast, with a previse for p.m.

Nothing to equal it at the Pries in another four year contract at the

the Colony. expiration of the one year contract, should "Mr. White care to remain

conquests.

Then it was necessary to ob serve that in the present century at least one non-European people Japan-has been able to repel the

Aggression of a great European Military Power, and has taken a place ne a Power of the Erst class. No one now supposes that Eastern Asia will ever be a dependency of Any White nation. Our anxiety is not how to subjugate the so-called Yellow race, but how to prevent them from ousting the Whites from White territory by economic com- petition. These acts seem to indi. cate that the expansion of the Whites, and not least of the Anglo- Saxons, has almost reached its

terta.

Great Hope for British Empire." "On the other hand, there seems at present to be no reason why the British Empire should not hold to- gether as a loose federation, a Lengue of Nations in being.

and should his work proro satis- factory,

Fanling Hunt meet, Sheung Shui Police Station.

Fotball and Cricket: Details in KING EDWARD Saturday's Sue.

Yachting "Ladies" Cup for all racing yachts.

Peak Club danes, 9.15. p.zn. China Sugar Refinery Co. Staff dance.

Queen's Theatre: "The Dress- maker from Paris"

Mr. White is Australian by birth

World Theatre: "Max & Maid." bat American by naturalization.

Star Theatre: Thank You." He has been in the newspaper pro-

Principal Mails:-Outward: fession for twenty-five years, and has been employed on leading Europe vid Marseilles (Aitana dailies in New York, the East Coast Maru), 9.20 a.m.; Europe vid Mar-

મ and Europe After six years in seilles, (Eashgar), 10.30 England and the Continent, Mr. Europe vid Siberia (Shantung), White returned to Australia and | 2.30 p.m. in 1913 went to the United States. This is his arst trip out of America since that

Mr. White is a Democrat, heart

and soul, and a Wilson. Democrat

Sunday.

Fanling Hunt Spring Paper Chase, Lok Ma Chau Cross Roads, Golf: Junior Championship Final,

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Cruisers

at that. "President Wilson con- Faulic verted me to Democracy when I first. met bim, at Washington," Mr. White said. I have been more or less intimate with him and mem- bers of his family. Even on my trip out here, I selected the Presi dent Wilson to travel on.

Inquiry elicited the fact that 31r. White would be provided with one of the royal residences as a dwelling place in Bangkok. He declined to say whether a harem was included.

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ENGLISH RAILWAY

G.W.R.

DIVIDENDS.

COMPANY DOWN BY FOUR PER CENT..

On the whole, the tendencies which make for continued union, and closer relations seem at pre- gent to be stronger than the fissiparous tendencies. It would be Pash, I think, to speak with more confidence than this. But the supre macy of the English language and institutions seems to be secure for a long time to come, in spite of the diminishing fecundity of the Anglo-Saxons, both in the British Empire, and in the United States. If England one day ceases to be the political centre of a World Power, it will remain, perhaps even

The board of the Great Western more than it is now the spiritual Railway decided to recommend a horie and ancestral hearth of dividend for the half-year of 13 per large section of the homan race.

cent, making 3 per cent. for the Truth Unacceptable to Socialists.

with a balance carried for- year; "It is irritating that one cannot ward of about £32,000.

The dividend on the Ordinary defend a well-considered judgment about future history without being board took £2,100,000 from reserve.

for 1925 was 7 per cent. The stock charged with pessimism.

If my

The Southern Railway dividend arguments are bad, let me know where the fallacies are to be found.ia 25 per cent. on the Preferred Ordinary stock, making 5 per cent.

The the year on the Deferred stock.

The board took £704,000 from the reserve fund and £123,000 from the suspense account, carrying forward

I have herer, attempted to prophesy for the year, and alt per cent. for without giving my reasons. Socialists are annoyed, as I expect- ed them to be; but Dame Nature will not alter her laws to please the Socialists. If there ever was a frait which was rotten before it was

£200,000 From Reserve. ripe, that fruit is Socialism.

State ownership of the means The dividend for the correspond- of production has almost always ing period last year was 21 per proved wasteful and inefficient, cent., making 6 per cent, for the Individual acquisitiveness is not by year.

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£150,000.

any means the only incentive to in- The sum of £200,000 was taken dustry,

but it is a very important from reserve, and £245,000 was car- incentive, and when it is withdrawn, ried forward. Blackness invariably appears. Equal- The Metropolitan Railway Com- ly mischievous is the system of pany dividend for the year is 3 per doles, pensions, and free State cent, against per cent. in 1925. aid, which has assumed monstrous The company's net income for the proportions in England. Man will year was £714,529. always become parastic if he is given the chance.

Angio-American Relations.

Not Size But Quality Tells. Let who will call this pessi-

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"To return to the question of mism. When I look at a map of Anglo-American relations, the re- the world, and see how small a spot Intions of this mighty Power Eng is the little island off the north-

and and the British Empire should west coast of Europe, which itself be," he adds, friendly. The only a peninsula of the great Asiatic notion that the American nation is masa, and then consider in what only 150 years old will be discard large letters my countrymen have ed, and a reasonable pride will be written their name on the earth's taken in its earlier history, before surface, I am much more inclined to the disruption,

be vainglorious than despondent. England will- probably be the

"Our great daughter nation will chief cultural centre of the Englishb- surpass us as much as Carthage speaking, nations and young men surpassed Tyre; but bigness is not and women will increasingly come everything, Attica was no bigger to England to finish their education, than a small English county; Pales as young men from all the Mediter tine was about the size of Wales; ranean countries flocked to the un- and the England of Shakespeare versity of Athens.

might have housed all its inhabit (Continued on next column). ants in hall of modern London."

Presented Cups for

Tennis: K.C.C. 1. E.M.S. Hermes, 3.30 p.IL

Queen's Theatre: "Torrent." World Theatre: "Little Robin- son Crusoe.

Star Theatre: "Fashion Row."

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Monday, FLK.C.C. Tennis Toirnsmen k E.C.C. Tennis Tournament be gins.

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy, King Edward Hotel, and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m.

Old Felstedian Society dianer, Hotel Savoy

Diuner dance, Cafe Parisien, 8

p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Torrent," World Theatre: "Little Robin- son Crusoe "

..

Star Theatre: Fashion Row." Principal Mails:-Inward: U.S.A etc. (Taiyo Maru); Earope vid Negapatam, papers (um Sang).. Tuesday.

HLK.C.C. Tennis Tournament. Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel; Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m. Annual Meeting Mid-Levels Resi- dents Association, at Ladies Re- creation Club, Peak Road, 6 p.m.

Dinner dance, Cafe Parisien, 8

P...

Debate, St. Peter's Young Men's Club, Bonham Road, 8.20 p.m.

Principal Mails:-O utwa zdr

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Wednesday."

H.K.C.C. Tenuis. Tournament. Tea Dances: H.E. Hotel, Hotel Savoy, King Edward Hotel, and Cafe Parisien, 4:30 p.m.

Dinner dance, Cafe Parisien, B p.m.

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Thursday, H.K.C.C. Taanii Tournament. Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m. Musicale, Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m.

Choral Evensong, St. John's Cathedral, 5.45 p.a

Dinner dance, Cafe Parisien, 6 Debate, European Y.M.C.A.; Kowloon, 9 p.."

p.m.

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