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No. 21 568 號捌拾陸百五仟登萬弍第

ESTABLISHED 1857.

BAT HONG KONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26th, 1927. 伍拜體

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

| dodaj došli | Muški | Aut| | hell | P.M. | YM.;3.M., FM. | PM, 4 PM, | TM*

Kowloon...Dep. 6,37 8.00 8.25 9.15 10.09.12.02 1.152.87) 3.00 4.57 8.43 7.23

Yanusti....Dep., 6, 45 |

Bhatian Dep. 6,57

Taipo

Dop

TaipoMarket:E

Paying

Bhningzhi. Dap 22

9.2410,16 12,09 121 9.36 10.28 12.31 1.3. 8.49:10. 12/19,34

1.47

9.53.10.46 12.38 1.51 10.03 10.56 12.48 2.01

9.08 10.08 11.00 1133 2.06

444 3.50 7.30 4.50 6.08) 7.42 5,098,16 7.55 5.19 6.20 7.39 8,23 0,81 8.09

5.99 8.35 8.13

Shumelinn

Arr 7,38 8.40

8.08 10.14 11.08;12,59) 2,123

Canton

Dep ...AIT. |11,50

11.10

8.38

3.40 5,34 6,41 8.19 3,43- 847

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Art. Dep

7.14|| 9,01|10.18(10.4911.09 11,40 8.00) 417 4,45 6,52 8,24 7.15

(11.47) 3,07) 4.34 452 5,50) 11.31 3.12 4:28, 4.58 6.03

8.40 3,33

8.50 6,91

7.20

Chaton...Dep. Shamshan

Bhangshai-Dep. 1.318.06.10.25 10.5 Fanling Dep.168.13 10.20 TaipoMarket Dep. 736 892 10,39-

...Dep. 140.8.27 10.4311,08

63 8.40 10.56

Tripo

Tamat

Kowloon

| 9,07) 8,33|11,04 —

Tending Shamanich

Shatankok Fanling

8.13 8.58 11.1411.31

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19,03 3,394.38 5:00 8.13

12.07 3.26 442 5.10 8.18

(12,20) 3,39) 4.56) 5,93! 6.28)

- 12.82 3,51) 5.08)|5,85; 6.41) 11,49,12,99 3,57 5.14 5.41 6,47 7,04 7.58

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+44

... Dep..

M. AFT.

Dep! 6.15 ATT.

7.10 9.55

ANAK. F.X. 1,48

8.20 10.15.

6.15 8.40 11.10 4.15 7.10

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WHAT THE DOCTOR

FORGOT!

THE LAUGHING GIRL AND THE OPERATION.

WHY SHE DID NOT ALWAYS

FEEL FIT.

There is a charming American girl, about 25 years old, lying at this moment in a London nursing home in the oddest circumstances. A little over two years ago the bad to undergo a severe operation in New York. The aurgeon left in her body a forceps eight inches lang.

Some

THE HYACINTH PEST.

A BENGAL PROBLEM.

WATERWAYS BLOCKED.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the urgency of the water hyacinth problem in Fater Bengal aid the Jaharaja of Myasingh, to a representative of the Statesman in the course of an interview.

Register na Newspaper at the Uazeral Post Office in the United Kingdom.

DIARY OF EVENTS.

Today.

N. LAZARUS. Hong Kong's Only European Optician. Extablished, Over Forty Years, Manager:-RALPH A. COOPER Registered Optometrist (Canada).

BEACHÄFER PRICE: 3 PER MONTIL

Tes Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m.,; and King Edward Hotel, 5 pia.

Ping Pong League: St. Peter's Y.M.C... CAN. (Y.M.C.A.). Kong Football Club, Mesars. Jar

40th annual meeting of the Hong dine, Matheson's Board Room, 5.30 p.m.

Naval and Military Y.M.C.A.&.— "Cheer O': Concert, p.m.; "Better 'Ole": Variety Concert,,

p.m.

In all the addresses presented to His Excellency the Governor dur- ing the present-tour, attention is I J Jag ka

ant Parisien. drawn to the serious depredations

St. Peter's Y.M.C. Whist Drive, by the weed, and the Maharaja Cathedral Hall, 8.30 p.m.

Charles Chamier presents

"Our of Mymensingh illustrating the

Cabaret" Company, Theatre Royal. rapidity of its spreading propen 9.16

p.m. sities described how he placed two Queen's Theatre: "Sandy."

World Theatre: "Captain Blood." single plants in a reservoir, twenty

Star Theatre: "Dance Madness." feet square, at his Calcutta real-

Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe deace with the result that in one vid Siberia (Haruna Haru). Out- month the whole surface of the tank ward: Europe vid Marseilles, etc.

(Haruna Maru), 3.30 p.m. was covered by the plant..

Saturday.

L

4th Ordinary yearly meeting. H.K. Realty and Trust Co., Ltd., Exchange Building (2nd floor), concerted and 11.30 am.

Since then she has done pretty rough travelling in India and Morocco. A healthy sporting giri, full of life, she has danced and swum, and played lawn tennis, and ridden on horseback, and even

The only practicable method of gone in for a course of acrobatic

dealing with it was that of burn- dancing, which is nearly the limiting, he 'said. All landowners in the way of human convolutions should" make a

And all the time the eight-inch simultaneous effort to clear their forceps has been lying inside her, the Government, for though the property, pending a decision from Nature doing its best to protect pest has already reached serious her by forming a sort of cocoon of proportions much can be done if the task is taken in hand im- membrane around the murderous mediately. If there is delay, how

ever, ultimate eradication may not only be out of the question, but it will seriously jeopardize any prospect of their being able aven to cope with it.

instrument.

The Doctor's Order,

Inevitably, now and thes, in the past twenty-four months, she, has not felt particularly fit. It seem ed to her more effort was called

for to get through the daily round. and when the came to England a few weeks ago she made up her mind to see a doctor,

She saw one of the very best in He examined her and London: ordered a X-ray, suspecting that she might have a tumour. When the X-ray was taken, the operator was

The Operation,

A few days ago abe' was operated on by a famous surgeon, and the forceps removed with extraordin: ary little damage to her internal

A Giant Weedcuttar at Work, In places it is thick enough to bear the weight of a man, continu ed, the Maharaja, who described how he himself had walked across rafts of the plants that had made channels useless as Depending as it does entirely on water for its communications, parts of Eastern Bengal are rapidly suc-

waterways.

Naval and Military Y.M.C.A.5.1-

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Launch Picnic: Launch leaves KING EDWARD

Queen's Pier, 2.15 p.m.; Kowloon, 2.30 p.m.

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Central Most Modern aml Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone. "All Trams pass in front of Hotel. Most Moderate Rates in the Colony:

H.K. Baseball League: Japanese Filipinos, Happy Valley Dia- mond, 4 p.,

ers Ping Pong League: Hop Ying. Club . C.R.C. (8.0.A.A.).

European T.M.CA Bathing picnic, Big Wave Bay.

St. Peter's Y.M.C. launch picnic. Launch leaves Queen's Pier, 3.30

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel

Charles Chamier presents Cabaret" Company, Theatre Royal,

15 P

sa astonished by what was revealed cumbing to its irresistible spread-P that he thought she must have beening, and it is imperative that de lying on something, and insisted tion against it should be immediate. Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m. or her getting up and having a The Maharajs described what be. Dinner Dansant at Cafe Restaur other photograph

called a great floating solid "y" ant Parisien and King Edward

Hotel similar in structure to a

The Players Concert Party, plough, on the deck of which there would be an apparatus for drag Taikoo Club, 9 p.m.

"Our ging in and pressing into bundles the plants as it forced its way into the thickly growing masses. These When she was well bundles would then be burnt. enough to be told what had been Thus, he said, it would be possible the trouble with her, she was to re-cper the waterways that are shown the offending instrument. new entirely impassable for boata. When she saw it she exploded in It would be equitable, that boats a great burst of laughter.

plying in such areas should pay a She has not so far developed any small toll as contribution towards feeling of rage against that New the cost of clearance, though the York surgeon., She even speaks of

economy.

hig with pity. But being practi-task of coinbating the spread of the cal as well as delightful, and the plant must be financially assisted daughter of a well-known Ameri- by the Government.

can industrialist, she has no inten- tion of letting him off too lightly. The Coming Claim,

£250,000 CLUB SITE.

BUSINESS PUSHING HOMES OUT OF NEW YORK.

NEW YORK

Queen's Theatre: "Sandy." World Theatre: "Captain Blood.”. Star Theatre: "Dance Madness.":

Sunday.

11th Sunday after Trinity.. Memorial Service for late Wor. Bro. D. C. Logan, Zetland Masonic Hall, 10 a.m.

Golf: Happy Valley Champion,

Theosophical Society bathing picnic. Launch leaves Blake Pier, 3.46 p.m.

ship.

w'd

Inter-Departmental Bowls-Har bour Department Police, 3.30 H.K. Baseball League: Filipinos v. Club de Recreio, Happy Valley Diamond. p.m.

Open-Air Concert by military band. Kowloon Dock Bathing Beach, 3 p.m

So the X-ray photographs have been deposited with an American official in London, the London 'doc- tor and surgeon and all concerned in the case will have their affidavits ready, and the New York surgeon will be invited to refund the fee Property values in New York paid him for the operation of over exceed. the marvellous.

Naval and Military Y.M.C.A.&.:- Union Club, the eldest in the city Men's Meetings: "Cheer O," 7.45 two years ago and to shoulder-in addition the expenses of this one and ouentially British in charap.m.; "Better 'Ole," 8 p.m. and of the four weeks or so in a ter, has shifted five times since it After dinner dance, Lee Gardens. Principal Maila:-Inward: Europe nursing home in the country that foundation in 1838, and is now to

letters will be needed to

the make a sixth move, Originally vid restore

Negapatam,

only housed at 312, Broadway, close to (Rinda). patient to health

Meanwhile, in a foom that is a the Daily Mail's present New York. and carnations office, the site was obtained for s bower of roses this merry girl, who had come to few hundred pounds. For its new England to be quiet and to try her site at the corner of Park-avenue band at writing, lies propped up and Sixty-Ninth-strpet it will pay on her pillows, weaving plate for £250,000. short stories that can scarcely be more original than the one she has been living herself.

Monday. First day of Rabi-al-awat,

Ten Draces:" H.K. Hotel, Hotel

Hotel Launch meets all Steam- Dining Room and Lounge is now open to the Public.

THE KING EDWARD HOTEL BAND WILL PLAY AS UNDER TIME TIFFIN HOURS: DINNER HOURS

1 To 2," 7.30 to 9. DINNER DANSANT

SATURDAYS: 8,00 to 12.00

TEA DANSANT MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS;

FRIDAYS.

Tel. Add: “VICTORIA' Telephone: No. C. 373.

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Take of TOURISTS Cable2Address: "VICTORIA”

Savey and Cafe Parisien, 4.20 pm PALACE HOTEL. and King Edward Hotel, 4 p.m.

Dinner Dansant at Cafe Restaur-

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Concert at St. Patrick's Catholic Club, 8 p.m.

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Ping Pong League: St. Louis TL K. No. A Tel AS:"PALACE” Three Minutes from Kowloon Wharl; 8.0.A.A. (0.0.Y.M.S.). ・・ A few years ago Park-avenue was Club

Water Polo League: Royal Navy

Ferry Wharf and Railway Station. the resting-place for smoke from

Entirely under English Management the trains which passed down it. v. K.O.S.B.; K.B.S.F.P.A. "A" &

Electric Light and Fans Throughout. Today millionaire apartments, V.R.C. "B" some with bathroom fittings of SLEEPY SICKNESS VICTIM-Pre gold, rise on steel structures above the covered railway. Every LIBERATED.

year the homeliness of New York

H.M.B. Despatch concert party is pushed farther north by advanc- ing business.

present The Indespatchables" at The Home Secretary, Sir William

R.N.C. Theatre, 9 p.z. A document recently found gives Joynson-Hicks, has decided to the price paid for a 100-acre faEurope via Negapatam, papers Principal Mails:-Inward: vise the King to grant a free par on New York land at the close of den to Mr. Norman Newton, & Post the 17th century. A Dutchman, only (amba), America, etc. (Presi Office employee, of Manchester, Johanan Hoese, bought, it dent Garfield and President Jeffer who, after being sent to prison on £1,000, and was informed that the 807) Outward: Canada, America, charge of sleeping-out, was amount was aheer extravagance, Europe vid San Francisco and found to be suffering from sleepy To-day his thousand pounds would Europe vid Siberia (President Me

Kinley), 5 p.c buy a lot eight inches wide-on-the Mr. Newton disappeared from same site. If the ground were still his home, and when found at Longin the family's possession

they ton, Staffordshire, the police there could sell it for £25,000,000. did not associate him with the miss In those days the ing man. · Os reaching Strangeways of Manhattan Island Prison, Manchester, his identity the business the city

sickness.

for

Tuesday:

Tea Dances: E.K., Hotel, Hotel Bavoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m.

all2gue: Club de

Paint

New Dinner Dansant at Cafe Ro was discovered, and Mr. F. B. Mer- silk, warehouses in Madison-avenue staurant Parisien and after dinner riman, K-C., placed the facts before tower above Mr. J. P Morgan's dance at Lea Gardens Capt. Hacking, Lader-Secretary at home, and although he refuses to 5.

Et. Peter's Y.M.O. Executive the Home Office, with theresal move and fighta valiantly for Committee Meeting, 9.30 p.m.a RETAIL AGENTS]} thắt within an hour, Mr. Newton quietude, he, too, like Union

Club,

HMS. Despatch concert party was released. The conviction will must soon give way to New York's present The Indespatchables be wiped out..

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