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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
AMAM. A.M. | A‚¦‚M. | P.X. F.M. ¡P.M.
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Kawloos. Dep. 6.37 8.00 8.23 9.15 10.09 12.02 1.15 2.37
Tanmasi...Dop., §. 45;
Shatin
Dep. 5,87
Taipo ...Dep, 7.11 Taipo Market/Dep, 7.16
Fanling
...Dap. 7.27
Bheangshui „Dep. 722
Arr 7.38 8.40
ShamshiDep 843
Canton)
Canton....Dep.
0.24 10.16 12.09 121 -
9.80
10,28 1,11
12,91 1,34
9.49 10.4912.94 1.47
9.33 10.45 12.39 151
10,09:10.38 12.48 2,01
9.08 10.0S 11.00 1253 2.063.14
F.X. | T.M« | TMZĮTIO
3.00 4,97 5.43 7.23
4.44 6,50
6.30 6.09 7.49 5,096,18 7,65 5.18 8.20 7.59 5.23 8.31 8.09
9.00 10.14 11.08 12.59 2.123.15 340 3,34 6.41 8.19
11.10
11
...ATT.
13.50
5.38
ANAK, AM, | AM,
0
a.M. | A.M. | 2,M, | AM, | P.M.; P.M. ¦ F.M.
8.05 11.06
8.40 S.335
9.20
6,21
3.32 6.247.15,
11.47 3.07 4.34 4.32 8.59 4.23 456 6.03
12.07
11.51 3.1248606 6.13 12.02
Arr.
Ebamchar Dep. 7.14 8.01 10.1510.49 11.09 11.40 8.00 4.17 4,43 Sheung bai Dep. 7.31 6.08 10.25 10.84 Fanling
Dep
1.16 8.13 10.29
4.42 310 8.10
7.20
Taipa Market 1 Dap 7,36 892 10.99 - Taipo ...Dap. 7.40 8.2710,43 11,06 Bhatin
12.20 8.39 1.56 5.83 6.9 ...Dep. 7.53 8,4010.56 --
18.32 3.51 5.08 5.55 6.41 Yaxmat.Dep. 9.07 8.52 11.03) - Kowloon ...Arr. 8.13 8,5311,1411.31 11:49 12.58 3,57 5,14 3,41 6.47 7.04 7.30
Fanling Shataukot
Shatankok Fanling
SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.
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... Dep.
200
... Arr.
AM, 7.45 8.40
L.V.
P.M.
A.M.
10.15 8.20 6.15 11,10 4.15
7.M.
7.10
P.M.
Dep
8.15
8,00 2,00 5.00
ATT.
7.10
0,35 2.55 5,65
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INTERNATIONAL ROGUE CAUGHT.
AMAZING CRIME RECORD.
Benter's Cologne correspondent writes:-
A private detective has laid by the is one of the most daring and impudent of post-war interna tional criminals, who is "wanted'
His
A CITY HELD UP!
BY A FEW MEN AND TWO,
BOYS
HOW BANDITS RAIDED CHENGANGKWAN.
DIARY OF EVENTS.
To-day.
Ceart sitting at
Bankruptcy Supreme Court.
Golf: Bogey Fool, Fanling, Cricket Indians. Royal Ex- gineers, I.R.C. ground, 2 p.m.
Bowls: Axawr, Aug.. 21th.
2nd Interpart Trial Chengrangkwan has had its lit. the bandit experience: very little os compare, with what other cities have suffered in days not long gone
by.
About the middle of the month in many European countries and of August all soliers were with drawn from this city and district. on whose head, if captured in Gerto Liuanchor and Luchowiu, ar many, big price was set name is Ludwig Oertal, alias von a result of the taking of Pengyv Egloffatein, with many other high by Northern forces. The city was thus left for the time being with sounding names used. as occasion required, and his picture, with det any protection whatever.
In a day or two a company of tails of some of the crimes, for about 100 men strayed in retreat which he will now be brought to ing from Fengpu, but they contri book and the offer of an ever-in-buted nothing to the defence of the greasing reward, has been constant y thrown on the screen at every kinema in Germany for months past.
Match, Craigeagower C.C. green, 3.30 p.m. Launch leaves Queen's Pier, 3.45
St. Peter's Y.M.C. Launch Pienie.
p.m.
Hong Kong Baseball League: Filivinos H.E.B.C.. Happy Falles Diamond, m
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Hotel Saray, 430 p.m. Tea Darees: H.K.
Hotel. and
Ping Pong Longue: W.Y.O.B.U. *. Y.M.C.A. (S.C.A.A.).
Dinner Dansant at King Edward Hotel.
Bay Hotel. (Whitey Smith's Jazz Carnival Dinner Dance, Repulse Band).
International Race and Recrea
p.m.
Oriental Strolling Players and 1st Northamptonshire Regimental Band, Lee Theatre, 8.30 p.m.
city. About 10.30 o'clock, on Erition Club of Macao open-air dance, day night, the 19th inst., we were Race Course Pavilion, Macao, 8.30 disturbed by a fieres fasillade in the street passing our door, and Fid For Freedom,
"Revellers" Concert Party at later by a lond hammering, accom- Kowloon Football Club, & p.ui. The private detective saw him in panied by shots, at the door of aa restaurant in the suburbs of hotel nearly opposite, and later at
Forbes Russell Comedy Company Cologne, and, not wishing to make the door of the telegraph office, also Theatre Royal, 0.15 p.m.
present "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," scene, told him to walk two paces nearly opposite. Our own door ahead to the nearest police station,
was not molested, The bandits the detective, of course, holding no consisted of 38 men and two boys warrant for the man's arrest. For in their early teens, all armed. answer Qertal struck him on the They left daring the afternoon of head with a water bottle and bolt the next day, Saturday, the 20th ed. The detective, although par-inst., the city having put together tially stunned, dashed out and saw and given them $10,000, and they him board a passing tram-car. He having taken from homes and shops commandeered goods amounting to almost the gave chase in motor-car, and when his man
same value. They insisted on the alighted a desperate struggle ce city providing them with an escort eurred, but ultimately the police to ensure their safety in leaving. arrived and the criminal
was and eighteen citizens perforce ac secured in a very damaged condi-companied them.
tion.
T
Cinderella" (Sir James Barric Queen's Theatre: A Kiss for Piny).
World Theatre: "The Rugman!" (Jackie Coogan).
Star Theatre: Coccon."
"The Golden
Europe
Principal Mails:-Outward: vid Marseilles, etc. (Devrinha),' 10.30 a.m.; Europe vid Siberia (Carharthenshire), 10 a.m. Bunday. 14th Sunday after Trinity. Golf: Bogey Pool, Fanling. meeting Gymkhana Race Macao.
When away from the city, these He admitted that he had been were not permitted to return, but lying low in Berlin plying a trade found themselves, ty no one's sur as a hawker; that recently he had prise, held for rand. But before established a "lair" on the Dutch they were many miles away from frontier in order to be able to slip the city, they were met by a com over the border quite easily at the pany of about 50 soldiers, from frst alarm, and that he had been Showchow, who at once engaged Julled into sense of false security, the bandits, with the result, accord- and had ventured into Cologne.ing to report, that two of the lat He had not been in the city anter were killed and one wonaded, hour before he was recognised by Also, the whole of the escort" P the smart private detective.
War Work!
During the war Oertal pursued his criminal career on a large scale. At one time he posed as a delegate of the American Red Cross Relief Society in Rumania, and actually stole a number of trains loaded
escaped while their captors were. occupied with their own defence. The bandits, however, were not pres
vented from getting away with the rest of their loot.
P
at
Cricket I.R.C. d XI. In- dian Merchants, LRC. ground, 2 Inter-Departmental Bowls.-Final Cs.C.C. green, Happy Valley, 3,45 Police r Sanitary Department,
H.K. Baseball League: Japanese match, Happy Valley Diariond, 4 Dragona (S.C.A.A) final
p.zzz.
Formal opening of New Sindi Merchants' Club, 7th floor, China Building, 4 p.m..
General Ma Chang Ping's troops Yesterday the first Tan of arrived to occupy the city, ro citi Cathedral Hall (after Evensong), 6 Social gathering St. John's zens now breathe freely again.
Naval and Military Y.M.C.A.&. :—
with foodstuffs, clothing, and
Thus 38 men and two boys teld | P.m medical stores. His chief exploita since the war have been thefss of city of thirty thousand in Men's Meetings: #Cheer 0, 7.45
100 soldiers.-Shanghai Mercury. habitants, including a company of
State documents from the Moabit Prison, Berlin, and from other Government officers. In 1923 he was arrested, und tried, to commit suicide in court by taking peisen. He was convic'ed and removed to the plison infirmary, whence ho made his escape, and had succeed- ed in kreping at liberty till now. Many other big crimes are debited to his account.
"ADVERSE CRITICISMS.”!
ASSURANCE COMPANY OFFICIALS ON REASON FOR FAILURE.
The creditors and shareholders of. the Lancashire and General Assur-
ance Company, Ltd., of Pall Mall
REDS SMUGGLED INTO
BRITAIN.
ONE-DAY TICKET TRICK.
MOSCOW STILL PLOTTING,
p.m.; "Better 'Ole," 3 p.m.
Open-air Concert by military band, Kowloon Dock Bathing Beach, 8.30 p.m.
After dinner dance at Lee Gar- dens.
#
Principal Mails:-Inward: America, Canada, etes and, Europe via Siberia (President Cleveland). Monday. Tea Dances: H.E. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m. and King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.
Ping Pong League: Tutorial In- stituts v. C.R.C. (C.C.X.3.8.).
Forbes Russell Comedy Company present The House of Unrest, Theatre Royal, B.15 p.m.
Stringeat as are the precautions already, taken by the Home Office and the Special Branch of Scot- land Yard against the admission of undesirable aliens to Great Britain,
Principal Mails:-Outward: new methods are being devised by the authorities to keep out, of the Europe - vid Siberia (Hakone country foreigners, to whom passaru), 10.30 m. port facilities would not be grant„ રä.
Tuesday,
Sanitary Board meeting, 4.15 For a time after the official p.m. presentatives were cleared out of Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Soviet diplomatic and political re-
After dinner dance at Lee Gar-
Forbes Russell"Comedy Company present "Half-a-Loat" at Theatre Royal, 8.15 p.m.
S.W., and with numerous branches London the work of the revolution. Ping Pong League: Club de Re- throughout the country, met at Bankruptcy Buildings, Cary-street, Bry organisation of the Communist creio v. St. Louis (Y.M.C.A.). W.C., under the compulsory wind-Party in Britain came almost to
a standstill, because the transmis dens. ing-up order recently obtained by sion of money from, and secret creditors.
commanisation with, the offices of Mr. H E. Burgess, Senior Off the Third International at Moscow cial Receiver, said the company's has been rendered Impossible. Principai Hails:-Inward: Canada, isaued capital was
Now the British Communist cof- América, etc. (Empress of Canada). £73,092, of which £43,100 only was paid, up.. fers have been refilled, and a be- Outward: Europe vid Marseilles, de. (Rkeæener), 2.30 p.m.; Canada, In March 1923 the company ad-ginning has been made with a cam- vertised and issued a prospectus in-paign directed from Moscow to America, etc., Europe vid Siberia create another industrial upheaval, and via Victoria, B.C. (President viting subscriptions for one and particularly intended to pro-Lincoln), 5 p.m. million shares of I. cach, but ow. ing to adverse criticism in the duce conflict in the coal-fields about
St. Matthew's Day. Press only about £800 was subscrib the end of the year.
Tea Dances: H, Hotel and The Communist Party here has ed. Accounts showed that the 1925 claims amounted to £61,801, appro- established contact with Moscow Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m. and King ximately 20 per cent of the pre-and instructions to it are being Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.". mium income of £57.571 for that conveyed by Soviet messengers who Ping Pong League Hop Ying can smuggle themselves through Club. C.C.Y.M.5 (St. Peter's year, which led to the conclusion the ports
Club).
that the company must have-under- taken a very considerable amount of risky business.
Wednesday.
"
couriers can reach Britain is to tion Club, 9 p.m.
One method by which these-alien-8th Night Fete Victoria Recreat
from the Continent with Forbes Russell Comedy Company Liabilities were estimated
at one-day excursion tickets. They present Nothing but the Truth," £41,000. So far as could be judged wait at places such as Boulogne Theatre Royal a.15 p.m. the assets would not realise sufi until a confederate, who buys two Principal Mails:-Outward: cient to satisfy the costs, charges tickets in England, arrives and Australia, New Zealand, etc., and expenses of the winding-up. hands over the return half of one. (Tango Maru), 9.30 à.m. The failure was attributed by the There are no passport requirements
Thursday. officials of the company to adverse and the foreigner can come on to Legislative Council Meeting, 230 newspaper criticism and insuffi London without challenge. Action p.m. cient capital.
to prevent this is, it is understood, 3rd Annual Swimming Gala of The liquidation was left in the to be taken immediately by the local military forces, RAS.C. "hreds of the Official-Becch
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