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No. 21 646 PEAITEIXO BADACANT HONG KONG. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25th, 1927. t BE#AGBÆLTE AFFE PRICE: 3 PER MONTH,

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

WEEKS DAYS..

TIME TABLE.

2.3G AM...M.) 4.3.

P.M... FM. PP.. | P

Kowloon Dep, 5,40 8.05

8.2010.07 12,07 1.29

4.49 8.50 7.23

Bhabin Taipo

9:9310,19 12,19 1,34

4.54 0.03 7.35

9.48 10.39 12,82) 1.47

5,07 6,15 7.48

TalpoMarket Depa

9.63 10.36 12.36 1,51

511 619 7.52

Γιολίτης .Dep 7,301

10.05 10.46 12,46 201

Shengshui Dep. 735

10.10 10.51 1251 206 214

Tarmati...Dap. 6.49

...Dep. 7.01

9.10 10.00 12.00 1.15 295 3.00 4,5-5,237,16

521 6.30 8.02 833 8.36 8.07

Shamdhun...Art. 7.41 8.45 10.16 10.57-12.57.123.20 3.40 5.32 6.41 8.13

Canton ...Art. 11.50 8.58

"AM" "IM," "AM, | 430"

·8.05 Canton ...Dap. Shanshan...Dep 7.18 8.05 10.34 11:09 Shengshui.Dep. 7.25 8.12, 10.41 Fanling

...Dep. 7,30 E.16 10.48 Taips Market Dep. 7.40 6.28 10.56 Tsipo

...Dep. 7,44 8.31 11.00 Bhatin Dep 7,578,44 11,18 Yeumati

4,218.86 11.25 Dep Kowloon Arr.| 8-17 9,02 11,31 11.49

Kowloon

8.47;

AMP.MP.M. PM. EXP

8.90 11.37 2,684,41 5.49 6.94 8.48 11.44 8.05 | 429) 5,58

6.53 11.49 8.10 4.52) 6.00

19.00 821 5.02 8.10

13.05 8,26 5.07 6.18

12.18 8.39 5.30 -6.28

12.81 8.51 6.32 6.40 1267 8,57 5.98 6,46 7.04 7.29

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

الاية

Yausti...Dep. 6,49

Bhatia Dep 7,01

Twipa

..Dep. 7.13

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A.K.

A.M.

| TM,TM) P.M. } P,M, Dap, 8.408.05 8.30 9.04-9.10-10,00 12,00 2,243,00 5.187.15. 9.20 10.07.12.07 2.31 6,257,23 9.33

6.38 7.33 10,19 12.19 2.49

27.49 15.52 9:49 10.33 12,33 | 2,36) 9.591-10.83 12.36 3.00 5.58 7,52 10.05 10.46 12.46 3,706,078,02 6.128.07 9.07 8.41 10.10 10.61 12.51 3,15 8.45 9.139.47 10.16 1057 12,57 3.21 3.40 6,188,13

5.89 11.50

Taipo MarketDep.

7.50

Tanting ..Dep. 7,30

Shengshui. Dep. 7.35. Shum Chan..Art, 7,41 Canton

8.47 ---

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Canton

..Dip.

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8.05

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... Depe

836, 10.48

Sham Chan. Dep. 8.05 10.34 11.09 11,57 2.68 Shanngehui. Dep. 8.12 10.41 Fanling

Dep

18.45 11.18 -

TX FM. 1.X,

5,00 5.84 3.56 11.44 3.05 5.07 5.41 6,09

5.11 11.49 8.10 12,00

5.21 3.28 12.05 12,19 8,39

7.X. 3.20

6.34

8.07

8.17

6.91

8.24

6.46

6.17 5,56

6.52

Taipo Market Dep. 8.28 10,68

Tripo Dep. 8.81 11.00 Bhatin

Yazmati Dep. 8.57 11.25

12.31 3,51 6,50

Kowloon Art. 9.03 11.31 11.49 12.87 8,57

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THE MOST HUMOROUS NATIONA

JAMES DOUGLAS SAYS WE ARE

OUR ARRAY OF MIRTH PROVULERS,

Humour is a sense of "incon gruity, and therefore every nation has the humour that it deserves. The Americans laugh at us and we. laugh at the Americans, because their native stock of incongruities is different from ours. They are amused by our solemn idolatry of cricket, and we are amused by their equally solemo idolatry of the grandiose.

When I talked for two hours with Emil Ludwig, the author of "Napoleon," he told me a story about a series of essays on the elephant written by writers of the various nations. The title of the American essay": "WILE Bigger and Better Elephant I wish I could remember the other essays. day I will persuade Herr Ludwig to write them down for me.

Catterick Camp has acen list of the Army Vocational Training Centre which has been nt work there for several years preparing "for civilian life chiefly oversea man who are with in aix months of finishing their period of service in the British Army. Every year 30,000 men leave the Army to enter civilian life, where the openings for them at present are painfully lew. Through the vocational training centres for ex-soldiers leaving the Service the Army authorities are doing some Ettle to dam one stream that has too long fed the ocean of Happily the re unemployment. moval of the centre from Gatterick to new headquarters in the Southmind is more childlike than ours. cf England does not mean a con- traction of the useful work. On It delights in every variety of bir- cus. I wish we could invent" cir- the contrary, a camp and a farm

cuses like the Ku Klux Klan, the capable of being used to house or

the train four times as many men have Fundamentalists, the Elk, been provided at Chirledon, Wilts, Reindeers, the Rotarians, and all the flamboyant glories of Herd and the work, especially directed to the training of men for publicity. oversen settlement, will go forward under even better conditions than at Catterick.

that

DIARY OF EVENTS,

To-day.

Entries close for Macao Bth- Extra Race Meeting

Cricket Shangbair. United Services H. K. C. C. ground; Malay Kowloon C.C. at Kot loon.

Tea Datices: H.K. Hatel and Hotel Saroy, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5pm. Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.50-6.30 P.m.; Cafo Regent, 4.30-8.30 p.m.

Hockey Club “A” z. Club de Recreio, King's Park, & p.m.

Government House Dance. Engineers Institute Dance Cafa Regent dinner dance, 8 pm.

Club present "Bulldog Drummond," Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.

H.K. Amateur Dramatic

Queen's Theatre: What Price Glory."

World Theatre: "The Man on

the Box:

Star Theatre:

Wages for. Wives."

Principal Mails :- Inward : Europe Song

Suer tia

(Kashgar); Europe via Siberia (Mongolia).

Saturday.

In some respects the American

We are sadly hampered by our The" great sense of incongruity. art of boosting is based upon the absence of that sense. Example, the Tunney-Dempsey fight. This is the boost of boosts. It makes one ashamed of greyhound racing, the best boost of which we are capable at the moment.

Extended Scheme. Chisledon is capable of accommo- dating four times as many trainees a Catterick could. A farm of 500 acres has been secured, in addition

On the whole, I think, the English to the camp area, so that there will be ample room for the expected are the most bumorous nation, for growth of the Centre and its work. their sense of incongruity is a pus The Centre had been at worked by the normal as well as by the some time training men in manual abnormal. Theriot the occupations for civilian life when humour of the greatest tragedy in the group settlement scheme spon-human history, the World War. of This achievement proves beyond sored by the Government Western Australia attracted atten- question that as a race they are tion, and was strongly supported the greatest humorists in the by the War Office on behalf of the world. Centre. In 1924 that scheme was stopped, but as both the Prime Minden of Western Australia had Minister and the Agent-General in seen the work at the Catterick Centre, and been greatly pleased by it, the Western Australian Govern ment was persuaded to continue to take men who had been, trained there, and it is still doing so. 1.

First day of Jemadi-al-akhir. Queen of Norway born, 1809. Italian Convent Bazaar, for Orphans and Invalids, Caine Road, 10 a.m.

Bankruptcy Court, 10.30a.m. Interport Cricket: Malaya P. Hong Kong, H.K.C.C. ground (1st day).

Hong Kong Jockey Club 8th Race Meeting, Happy Extra Valley.

Yachting:-Club-Cruise to Dis covery Bay.

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Cricket League:-Division I. : Craigengower C.C. v. I.R.C.A." Division II. Club de Recreio v H.K Electric Co.

Friendly Cricket: Shanghai

a. C.,

Kowloon; Kowloon HS. Tamar. C.S.C.C. and XI.ROOT VERS

Extinbition Tennis Matches; for Charities, Chinese Recreation Club, 3 pim.

Football League-Division I.: S.C.A.A. . Club; R.A. Kow loon; Queen's . Scots Guarde; There is no doubt that the Eng Chinese Ath. z. Recreio. Division

"A" Kowloon R.AT ish have produced more great II. humour of Shakespeare surpasses "B" Club; Chinese Ath. v. St. humour than any other race. The K.O.8.B. v. Recreio; South China.

towers over the Joseph's; University It

v.. South all others. humour of Cervantes and Rabelais. China A." Division II. "B" There is nothing like it in any South China "A". Scouts; St. Joseph's . Chinese Ath.; Kowloon other literature.

Below Shakespeare the English. South China "B"; Kung Woo #

produced humorists like Moslems.

have

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Cafe Regent and King Edward Hotel dinner dance, 8 pm.

"Al Fresco" Concert for Inter- port Cricketers, H.K.C.C. ground,

p.. H.K. Amateur Dramatic Club

final

of performance prezent

Theatre Bulldog Drummond," Royal, a&15 p.m...

"What Price Queen's Theatre: Glory."

Sterne and Dickens, who are with Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Training 01.Soldiers' Wives.

out any rival in any language. Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; Lane, The feature which strack the They have also produced the Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30 Dominion authorities that the greatest of all satirical humorists,p.m. Cale Regents 4.30-4.00 p.m. course of training at this centre Swift, whose sense of incongruity enabled soldiers in the last six ravaged the whole map of life. months of their Army service who

Shakespeare, Swift, Sterne, and intended to emigrate to bring their Dickens are the Big Four in the wives and families to live with kingdom of humour.

Can any them under somewhat primitive other race produce four humorists conditions in old, carpty war-time fit to be compared with these hute, and, while they themselves giants? To ask the question is to were undergoing the intensive answer it. training in handicrafts, the care of American humour is great ia horses and agricultural machinery, quantity but inferior in quality. We and so on, to secure for their wives It nges rapidly, like manna, World Theatre: "The Man on no longer laugh at Mark Twain the Box (6.13 and 9.20 p.m.); a useful training in such things as butter making, cheese-making, and and Mr. Dooles. George Ade has chinos The Mystic Fan, poultry farming, including artifi- been out-moded by Will Rogers, (2.30 p.m. and 7.15 pm.). cial and natural incubation, rear- whose jests die as soon as they are ing and preparing for market. In born. I see by the papers," said addition to their farming work, the Will Rogers to a Chicago audience, men in their spare time and that there were fewer murders in work in the carpenter's shop or in Chicago last year than the year the bricklayers shop, where they before. "There will be fewer thin learn to work with cement, or in year, next year, and every year, the bootmaker's shop. Beyond all until there are only two men left this, every man passes through the in Chicago, and they will die in a. farrier's shop and learns both cold duel."

men.

Star Theatre: Wages for Wives."

Mails Outward: Principal Europe via Marseilles, etc. (Min- golia), 10.30 Europe ma Siberia (Szechuen), 2.30 p.m.

Sunday,

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and bot shoeing of horses. The An English lecturer was asked by Orphans and Invalids, Caine Road, PALACE HOTEL. xheme is not limited to married his American chairman to supply 10 am

A large number of single him with a specimen of English St. Andrew's Society and Scottish TL E. No, & Tel As: "PALAUE.”. Three Minutes from Kowloos Wharf, men have been trained also.

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Electric Light and Fans Throughout, spoke for an hour and a half. He Church Kennedy Road, 10.30 a.m. then called on Will' Crooks to give his address.

Success Overzaa.

Men both married and single, who have gone out and settled on land in Western Australia have all done well. Not one man nor one family has returned, and the Com- mandant at Catterick can show a sheaf of letters indicating how well those trained at the centre are do ing in their new life oversen.

"My address," and Will Crooks, reaching for his hat, "is 27, Lime street, Poplar, and vanished. The American chairman ruined the story by making Will Crooks say,

I live in Poplar."

American humour is parochial. Western Australia is not the only The Ford stories, for instance, will feld for ex-soldiers oversea settle pass with the Ford car. The new ment. The Centre has trained men Ford car, we are told, will create also for the 3,000 families' scheme

Asenaation. Why 1 Because it in Canada. These, likewise, have will have springs, That is a bet dons extremely well. It is hoped ter joke in, America than in Eng that commanding officers in all land, because the English roads are the American. branches of the Service will notice not so rough 48 that the Army Vocational Train roads.

Golf: Jasper Clark Cup and Qualifying Round of Champion- ship, Fanling, 10.45 a.m.; Kowloon Golf Club Championship Matches. Fanling Hunt: Opening Meel, Mrs R. J. Paterson's

Yachting Club Cruise to Dis. covery Bay.

Interport Rifle Shoot, Taikoo Range, 2.15 p.m.

Exhibition Tennis Matches, for Charities, Chinese Recreation Cluby 3 p.m.

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After dinner dance at Lee Gardens.

ing Centre is now capable of tura- Bootlegging hour evaporates ing out many more men, and will on ita voyage Lerb the Atlantic. co-operate in getting men leaving The true test of humidur is its per the Ariny to join the Centre and mauence. That is why great wits Queen's Theatre:"Say It Again" World Theatre: ""The Mirage" a short life and great so justify the Army Council in asic have. ing the Canadian authorities to humorista a long one. Wit is the (5.15 p.m. and 9.20 p.m.); Chinese earmark a number of homesteads

of literary incongruity, him "The Mystic Fan" (2.20 p.m. for A.V.C. men in connection whereas humour is a sense of the and 7.15 p.m.). with the new system of settlement incongruity of human life. Words Star Theatre: "The Great Love,"

English which the Canadian Government fade, but life remains.

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