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No. 21.550 號拾伍百伍仟登萬弍第日捌初月柒年卯丁

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

⠀ TIME-TABLE.

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Kowloo

Yanmati...Dep. 6.46-

Shatin

Dep. 6.67

Tripo

Dep. 7,11

Talpo Market Dep, 7.16

Janing

BhrungshalDep, 739

Dép

9,24|10,18 12,00) 131|

9.8610,28 12,31| 1,34|

444| 5,80| 7.30

4.56 8.0 7.43

9.49 10.49 12.34 1.47

3,09 0,16 7.55

· 9.59/10.46 19,88 1,51||

6.18 6,907.59

10.08 10.06 19,48 2,01

1.29) 0.31 8.09

9.02 10.08 11.00, 12.53 2.06 8.14

3,286,858.12

2.43

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5.38

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Canton ...Dep.

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Dep

7,268,12 10,29)

Taipo Market Dep. 7,86 8.42 10,83 Trips Dep. 7.40 8,97 10,43,11,08

...Dep. 7,53, 8,40|10,58 —

8.62 11,03-

Bhatin

11.47 3,07 4.34 4.39 6.59 ** 11.51 3.12 4.28 4.56 6.03. *19,03), 823 4.38 6.06 6.13

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AMERICA'S FLOODED

LANDS.

COURAGE OF THE REFUGEES.

TRAGEDIES AND HAIR-

- BREADTH ESCAPES.

FRY WILSON MIDGLEY.]

The tragedy of the Mississippi food cannot have been recognised in England, for it has not been, recognized in America

at least in Outside the area, New York, 1,500 miles away, it is difficult to get the actual facts about an evacuation which a wo- man journalist who has seen both tells me is even worse than Bel- gium."

FRENCH TRAIN MURDER MYSTERY.

BODY: FOUND ON LINE.

BLOOD SOAKED

CARRIAGE,

on the line not far from TouIKUS,

Registered sa a Newspaper at the General Post Oeo in the United Kingdom.

DIARY OF EVENTS.

To-day,

日伍月捌年七廿百九仟登英

Extraording General Meeting of 3. Y. Saa Co., Ltd. (in liquida-- tion), at 92-05, Queen's Road Cen- tral, 2.30 p.

S.C.A.A. Kat bothe " at China Building, 7th Boar, to meet All Around Chinese Amateur Athletic Club of Honolulu,

Lawn Tennis League:-" (" Division: H.5.0.0. 8.C.A.A.

Tea Dances: HK Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m., and King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.

PARIS. 3furders on the French railways are occurring with alarming fre- quency. The latest crime was enact ed in the express between Grenoble and Paris. It was reported at the Gare de Lyon that the multilated body of a passenger had been found in the Sacre et Loire Department.

On the arrival of the train at Paris it was found that the cushions Naval and Military Y.M.O.A, 1.- a second-class compartment were "Cheer O":"Concert, 7 p.m.; Sham- soaked with blood. Several passen-shuipa Comp, the J-Pans," gers were questioned by the special p.m. commissary, and they reported that wher the train left Lyons-Perrache two men were found sleeping in the compartment in which the blood was discovered.

St. Peter's Y.M.C. Whist Drive, Cathedral Hall, 8.30 p.m. *.

Wild Swan Co-optimists" Pot- Pourri Entertainment, RN.C. Theatre, 8.30 p.m.

Th

Dinner Dansant at Cafe Restaur ant Parisien.

Queen's

Further information received from Tornus station stated that the dead body found on the line was that of a man about 60 years of age, wearing the ribbon of the Legion Butler." mattress

His pockets were empty, and there of Honour and the Croix de Guerre. were no papers by which to identify him. Not far from the body was the hammer with which the brutal rims had apparently been com

In Belgium and in the other war evacuations the people were warn- ed. The woman with a and some of her household goods on a barrow was a typical figure, but in the Mississipi basin thou sands of people have fled with nothing at all..

mitted.

Obviously they could be warned But the great levees-looked too A passenger said a man carrying solid to break. They had no idea a bag was seen to leap from the in which direction to flee. Most train. The driver and fireman of of them could not afford to go far the locomotive reported that on a enough to get outside the area of specting the engine they discovered the floods, so hair-breadth escapes human debris adhering to have been commonplace. The ter-wheels ror of the waters in the minds of everyone" is revealed by a common action of the negroes in the re- fugee camps rubbing their bare toes in the sail for satisfaction and saying: "Dust is the best hing

what is"

"An old negro woman taken from a tree where she had perched for 20 hours was cramped in a bundle with stiffness. She was put on the ground with promises of comfort Never you mind boss," she said, "I'm just thankful to sit here and praise the Lord for something solid and dry under me."

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..Saturday.

V.

Golf: Captain's Cup, Fanling Lawn Bowls League:-Division: L: Civil Service 0.0. v. Kowloon Dock R.C.; Taikoo RC. v. Kow. loon 0.0.; Kowloon B.G.C. Police R.C. Division II: Kow- theloon C.C. v. East Point R.C.; Craigengower CC. v. Civil Service C.C.; Royal H.K.Y.C. ». Club de Recreio; Kowloon B.G.C. v. Taikoo R.C.; CRC. v. Taikoo B.C.

Lawn Tennis

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The Dijon police are making an active search fer the murderer.

OPPOSE HIM.

H.K. Baseball League: H.K.B.C. t. "Tigers" (SCAA), Happy Valley Diamond, 230 p.m.

Socialists in North Battersea are evidently tired of Mr. 8. Saklat

Baseball: Honolulu Chinese vals, their Communist member of Japanese Baseball Club, Happy Parliament.

He will be opposed Valley. Diamond, 4.30 p.m. by an official Socialist candidate Naval and Military T.M.C.A... - Launch Pimier Launch leaves at the next general election. Man Still Fighting Floods,

The local Socialists have under Queen's Pier, 2.15 p.. Police Most of the rescued families are review a number of possible pro Pier, Kowloon, 2.30 p.m.

St. Peter's Toung Men's Club without fathers The men have spective candidates, and as con

Launch leaves beep away fighting on the levees they have made their selection Launch Picnic.. aben, the last rush came and may the name will be submitted to the Queen's Pier, 3.30 p.m.

Friendly Football: Chinese Ath- Socialist headquarters at Eccleston-

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have reached some temporary camp square for approval. It is stated letic v. Service team, Sookanpoo WILL GIVE EXHIBITION DANCIA ON EACH Rifles, 99 Calibro, Repeating kid,

good enough for men who would that the Socialist Party will en rather stay and watch the waters which had engulfted. their home, dorse any candidate against Mr. Saklatvala who has the recom- than be removed to a refugee camp pendation of the local party.

Most of the refugees stay where This will mean a four-cornered they are in camps set up in former election in the division, and that, parks or on private estates Six in all probability Mr. Saklazvala people share a tent with soldiers' will not be a member of the House with

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Comedy and tragedy mix to- gether. A boy who had been. rescued pleaded so piteously for bis father and mother that finally be was told they had been drowned, Without a word the lad "dashed down the bank of the levee and was lost in the Mississippi"

נ:

THE PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA. HEAD OF NEGO REPUBLIC

VISITING LONDON.

Another Euler is coming to Lon- don to add to the number, says a copy to hand of a London paper.

The man had declared that Mary and has a constitution based on

5.45 p.m

Ted Dances: EK. Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30

p.n.

Dinner Dansant at Cafe Restaur- ant Parisian and King Edward Hotel.

Wild Swan Co-optimists?! Pot- Pourri Entertainment, 8.30 p.m.

6th Grand Promenade Concert by Band, Pipers and Drummers, 1st Cameronians, Lee Gardens (if wet Lee Theatre); & p.m.

Benno Moiseiwitch, pianist, at Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.

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Charles Chamier presents Revue Cocktails," Star Theatre, 9.30

Queen's Theatre: Butler."

Battling

Star Theatre: "The Barrier." World Theatre: “Sun Up.”

Principal Mails:-Inward: Earopė. 4 Siberia (Kashgar); Australia, etc. (Tanda). Outward: Europé

Sunday.

A rescue boat came in to one He is the Hon. C. D. Burgess King, station, answering the usual ques the President of Liberia Liberia tion Anybody "left" with the is the All Black Republic which was story of an old man and his co-founded by enthusiastic American vid Marseilles (Kashgar), 16.30 Jane was no ordinary cow. She that of the United States. Mam Europe vid Siberia (Glen- had fed every one of his children, King is

But gary), 4.30 p.m. full-blooded native. and he would not desert her, he is very British in his habits and Three bouts after that had reported sentiments, and although his visit that the old man on Milliken Bend to London is &, private one, be will was still refusing to come without certainly visit the Foreign Office to his cow. The situation was become discuss matters affecting the relo ing dangerous, so a special boat tions of the Republic with the was sent off to save both him and British Government.

It had gone a few It is expected that his Excellency Mary Jane minutes when the radio report will be entertained by the Govern came in: "Water going over Mil-meat during his stay to an official liken Bend." He had waited too hunch or dinner, but that has not long.

yet been decided. Mr. King is due in London on July 20th," and will stay about a week,

The concentration

camps are rapidly turning into small towns Local industries are springing up." The barber is generally first to lead the way. He shaves all alike. Those who can pay, pay; those who cannot, promise.

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Open-Air Concert by Band of the The courage of the people is mar-Welch Reginent, Kowloon Dock vellous, but many of them are com- Bathing Beach, & p.m. pletely unable to recognize the Bocial Gathering, St. John's magnitude of the disaster.

They Cathedral Hall, after Eversong this com Many people who have been well where over an area of water (8 p.)

nothing shows but an oc Evening Service Peak Church, to-do are as poor as the poorest casional church spire or a tree on 6.30 p.m. "white trash. Pictures, etchings, a knall. They are unable to realize Naval and Military Y.M.0.A.:— beautiful old furniture, books, that for 50 miles the scene is just Men's Meetings: "Cheer O," 7.45 clothing, carpets-everything Is the same.

p.m. "Better Ole," 8 p.m.

火

Widespread Ruin,

goze, in many cases washed away Most of them are, happily, fine, in the foods in others simply ruin healthy people, accustomed to an ed by immersion for weeks in open-air life. But their plight muddy water. Some of the richest when the flood, goes down will be

families in the area have lost every-almost worse than it is at present. thing but their land, that lies Then they will have to face the under water, and when the water awful reality of disaster. Half gces will be under a layer of slime, million of them are in this plight with every plough, every tool, It is the greatest catastrophe that every farm engine rusted and ruin has ever happened in America, ex

cepting perhaps the Civil War Daily News.

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