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TIME TABLE.

AMAMA

Kowloon ... Dep. 6.40 2.05

Temat

Bbatin Dep./7.01

WEEKS' DAYS.

A. JMK.

FM

1.K. 1. X. P.M. }P.X" | Y.X || E.Ka

9.10 10,00 12.00 1.154:33 8.00 4.83 5,68 7.15

Dep. 6.49 |

9,20 10,07 12,07: 1.29

9.33 10.19 12,19 1,34

Dep. 7.15

9.48 10.32. 12.89 1.47

Tipo Market Dep. 220-

9.53 10.86 12,368) 1,31|

Dep. 7,80

10.06 10.46 19.48 2.01

Taipo

4.4% 5,407,28

4.54 6.02 7.35

5,07 6,15 7.48

531 0.19, 7.53

5.31 6.30 8.03 3.29 6.85 8.07

Ehrungshni .... Dep.|7,35 | 10,10 10,51 | 12,51 | 2,068,14

Shandhan ......AṀ7, 7.41 | 8,45) 103#] 10,87 | 12,57 | 2,12[3,20) 3.40′ 5,88 6,41813

Canton

Canton

Bhamaban

Sheungahui

Fanling

11,50 5.38

Par

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P.X. 7.M.

3.90

8.53

8.05 7.18 8.05 10.34|11,09 | 11,37 | 9,05 | 4,41 | 3,49 | 6,24|| 6,48-

812 10.41 123

11.44 3.05 4.48 | 5.58 1,50 8.18 10.45

11.49

8.10 4.50 6.00 TaipoMarket 740 8.2010.56

12.00 8.1 8.02 6.10 „Dep. 7,44 | 8,31 | 11.00 Dep. 757 8.44 11.18 Yennati...Dep. 11 8.56 11.25

Bhatia

· 12,08 | 8,26 | 5,07635

12.19 3,39 6.30 6.29

12.81 3.51 5.83 6.40

Kowloon "...Art. 8.17 | 9,03 || 11,31 | 11,49 | 12,87 | 5,57 | 5,38 | 6,46 7,04 | 7.29

BUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

Kowloon Dep. 4,40 Yausti

Statin ...Depy 7,01 Taipo ...Dep. 7.18 Taipo Market Dep, 750 Fanling Dep. 7,30 Sheangahui..Dep. 735

2.I.

AK, AMAN. AM.

AM. 8.03 8.30 9.04 9,10 10,00 13,00 3.24 3,00 5.18 7,15 9.20 10.07 13.07 981 3.0817.08 9.33 10.19 12.19 | 8,48

5.38 35 5,52 7,48 5.58 7,52 6,07 6,09 6,12 8,07

9.48 10:32 12.37 9.58

9,391 10,38 12.88' 3,00| 10.05❘ 10.46 | 12,463 8,10)

9.078,41) 10,10) 10,51| 12,51 | 8,15)

› Shum Chun.AT. 7,41 | | 8,45|0,13|9.47, 10.18] 10.57 | 12,57°3,21) 3,40|8,18 | 8,18-

Danton

11.80

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426

Canton

A... Dep

8.03 Bham Chun.,Dep. 8,05 | 10.84 11.09 11,87

12.

1,2,

2.68 5,00 5.84 L.K8 11.44 8,05 5,07 0.41 8.03 11.49 8.10 5.11

F.M. 320 534

12,00 8.91

12.05

5.25

19.19 1251 8,51 5,50

3.39

5,89

5,56 8.17 6.52

7.04

Shengshai..Dep. 6.13 10.41 Fanling Dep. 816 10.48 Tajpo Market Dep. 8.26 10.58 Taipo Dep. 8.81 11.00 Shatin

Dep. 843 11,18

Yeumati Dep. 867 11,25

Kowloon Arr.) 9.08 | 11.31| 11.49 18.87 8,57

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BRITAIN'S ECONOMIC

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SIR ALFRED MOND'S VIEW OF THE FUTURE.

FOUR DEAD IN BED.

LIGHTING SYSTEM

DEFES

CABLE FAULT AND CRACK IN GAS MAIN

DIARY OF EVENTS.

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Society of St. Vincent de Paul Sale of Roses for "Our Four Day." Legislative Council meeting, 130 p.m.

Hockey Army u. 5/2nd Punjabi est, 3.20 p.m.

Four people heves fo Manchester

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Garrison Football League: B. ing at a meeting organised by the and olectricity undertakings..

Coy. K.O.S.Bc. C. Coy. K.O.S.B.; Empire Industries Association, and held in the Cannon-street Standige (19) a Hilda Standige Hotel Savor, 420 p.m.; Lane,

The victims were Winnie 4.15 p. Hotel took as his subject:"An (8), the scho daughters of

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Empire Economic Unit," Alfred pointed out that the recent labourer; Edithbon (17), their Cafe Regent, 430-30 p.m

Sir Thomas Standig an engineering Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30 6.30 economic tendencies of the world step-sister, ashy office clerk: Crawford's Restaurant. 9 p.m. were in nasional industries to and Mrs. Markener (30),

H.M.S. Titanic dance, Lane, wards amalgamation, in interan friend who waodging in the tional industries negotiation and house and nursingMrs. Standige, cartels, and in Imperial industries who is recovering from pneumonia.. amalgamation and rationalisation. There already existed one great taken to the imary in a state Ernest Gibbon a step-son, was economic entity in the United of collapse, and cat which bad, States of America, and another been in, the kitchen of the house was in process of formation-the and one of its kittens were found United Economic States of Europe.dend.

30-Year-Old Cables:

The choice for Great Britain lay between joining a European econo place. Ardwick during the night

The tragedy occurred at Legh mie unit isolation or an Empire and was discovered the following economic unit. If Britain went morning when Mr. Standige, hav- into the European complex sheing taken up tea to his wife, called would be committed completely to his daughters end received no re- Europe, which would mean the ply. His stepson, Thomas Gib final economia and political disbon, also, going to call them, en- ruption of the British Empire.tered the small back bedroom Let them consider for a moment which the four people shared and the size of the British Empire. It found them dead in bed. comprised 13,909,782 square miles. compared with 3,026,769 square miles of the United States and 3,050,000 square miles of Europe. Ia population we had 450,004,000 compared with 105,910,520 of the United States and 497,000,000 of Europe. In regard to resources the Empire had of foodstuffs 27 per cent of the world's wheat pro. duction, 66 per cent. of the world's wheat production, 86 per cent. of the rice, 53 per cent of the cattle. and 41 per cent. of the sheep. And the production of Empire food- stuffe Fas constantly increasing. Of metals we had 59 per cent. "of

The house in old one. About two feet from the end of it and rather less than that below the surface of the pavement, there Is a 12-inch gas mais flanked by five electric cables encased in bitumen, 11 carried in one wooden trough These cables have been down near ty 30 years. Daily Mail re porter was informed officially that faults have been detected in both. these lighting #istributor

An official of the electricity de purtment said "ACAN RE

We knew taule occurred

"The

After dinner dance, at Lee Gar- dens.

Cafe Regent dinner dance, 8 p.m Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, 9 pm.

Ladies Night, European The Quaints" Blue Train," Theatre Royal, 9.15

present Pim

Queen's Theatre: "The Show," World Theatre: "A Hera on Horseback."

Star Theatre:"Dancing Mothers" Principal Mails:-Ontward: Europe via Siberia (Chengtu), 8 PA

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Cafe Regent dinner dance, e p.m." K.O.S.B. Boxing tournament. Murray Barracks, 8p.m.

Debate between University of Oregon team (on tour of the World) and European YMCA, Y.M.C.A., Kowloom. Subject: "Is

A Democracy & Failura f," 9 p.m.

The Quaints" present The Blue Train," Theatre Royal, 0.15 p.m..

Queen's Theatre: "The Show." World Theatre "A Hero.on Horseback."

the word's production of gold, 49.9min 900 cold the district. Tha per ceft of the tin, 58 per cent. of the nickel, and 30 per cent. of the zinc. Of other raw materials we had 77.1 per cent of the world's' wool production and 67,5 per cent. of the raw rubber. The Empire had virtually a world monopoly in jube. The figures of the total

The casing of the electric cable exports from Great Britain to all the Dominions showed in the past some distance, but the gas main was burned completely through for twenty years progressive increase was very slightly fractured. and also in the inter-Imperial partmental experts "detected the Cricket Leagüe:-Division I.: trade between the various com odour of coal gas and of the burn-Chinese R.C. v. R.G.A ponent parts of the Empire. While

II. Recreio Royal Navy; trade, with the rest of the world of bitumen in the locality. within and between the component generally declining, trade parts of the Empire was showing a steady increase,

Star Theatre."Danging Möthers.”. Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe Biberia Fushi section was located and the cura Coward: Australia, New rent shut off. Only after this Zealand, etc. (Tunda); 2,30 pm tragedy was reported was the

Saturday. fault actually traced, and then Bankruptcy Court, 10.30 a.m. it was also discovered that the Golf: Captain's Cup, Fanling. 12-inch gas main at the same Fanling Hunt: Steeplechinee spot was also tracked.

Meeting, Kwanti.

Yachting: 4th Championship race for racing yachts.

Motor-cycle Football, Mongkok, De- 3 p.m.

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Whether bitumen fumes or an R.A.O.C. Royal Engineers; the fatalities is still the subject of 2nd XI. escape of coal gas is to blame for Police R.O. v. Civil Service C.C. investigation...

PSYCHO-ANALYSIS BY LAYMEN.

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Friendly Cricket: E.C.C. # Craigengower C.C. C.S.C.C.. R. A. F.; Tamar v. K.C.C.- 2nd XI. ;' H.K. Electric R.C. r. China Light and Power Co. R.C.

Lawn Bowl:-Spey Royal Cup Final: Taikoo Craigengower C.C., at Kowloon C.C.

Our plein duty was to promote in every possible way and on every possible cecisión the movement in

STRONG PROTEST FROM commerce which was taking place. The proposition of

VIENNA DOCTOR. ILI Empire economic unit presented unlimited

Football League :-Division I. : capacity, overwhelming in. iţa Some time age the question of Recreio v. K.0.8.B.; Kowloon v. superiority. The Empire contain the practice of psycho-analysis by Chincee Ath, Club Police. ed almost everything we wanted in laymen was brought up in a law Division: II. "A": St. Joseph's 1.

Atillery; arder to exist. No other economie suit against a pupil of Professor Royal

Kowloon V. unit would be able to compete with Freud's, Dr. Reik, who had applied K.O.S.B.; South China "A" v us. The Empire occupied a posiit to certain persons without being University . South Chica B." Recreio: Chinese Ath: e. Club; tion which ought to enable us to a medical man, his title being de- Division. II. "B" South China demand the most favourable trad-rived from the faculty of philo. South China "A"; Moslems ing terms (Cheers.) If he were saphy. On that occasion Professor permitted to handle these vast and Freud contended that, if a laymen St. Joseph's; Scoute. Kow- important resources and material, was sufficiently prepared and train-loan; Chinese Ath. v. Kung Woo. he would say without hesitation ed, he could treat neurotic cases. Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel and that he would be in a position not At the annual meeting of the Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.: Lane, to negotiate, but to dictate terms. "Organisation of Medical Inde. Crawford's Restaurant, 1.30-4,30 (Cheers.) He had been told by pendent, Analysts," Dr. Stekel, a p.m. Cafe Regent, 4.30-6.30 p.m. sonic who criticised his action in popular doctor in Vienna, protest Hotel dinner dance, 8 p.m.

Cafe Regent and King Edward trying to awaken interest in this ed energetically against the system, question, that he was trying to as which has developed considerably Hong Kong Boxing Association's sume the mantle of the late Mr. there, and declared it to be most

second tournament of the season, City, Hall, 0.15 p.m. Joseph Chamberlain. They would dangerous,

"The Show." find, if they followed the growth

Queen's Theatre ; Psycho-analysis might be com- and change of trade, that the view pared, he said, with an operation

World Theatre: "A Hero on the brain, and only an experi- Mr. Joseph Chamberlain took of

Horseback.!! the need to secure closer Imperial enced medical man could be alert trade had been amply borne out by to its perils. Numbers of neurotic the facts. (Hear, hear.)

OTL

Star Theatre:"Dancing Mothers." Principal Mail Inward: patients, who had been analysed,UB.A., etc. (President Adams). He was not satisfied with the now practised analysis on ethers, Outward: Europe via Marseilles, slow and tedious progress, which and it would not be very long etc. (Fushimi Maru), 9.30 a.. was being made with Empire set before such people would adver- ticment The Government would tiss" Analysis for one Schilling." have done well if, instead of spend Dr. Stekel mentioned many cases ing hundreds of millions in paying of individuals who had taken to people to do nothing, they had spent the money "in settling them in the Dominions, and thus creating new purchasers for our goods. but not of medicine, abused their Introducing the speaker, Lord title by deceiving clients, who took Hunsdon said he did not believe, them for medical men.

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Sunday. 2nd Sunday in Advent Golf Captain's Cup, Fanling;upervision of the Proprietress, 1st and second rounds of Royal Special Terms to Families on applic psychoanalysing simply because Hong Kong Golf Club Champion- tion tom they could not make another living. Others, doctors of philosophy

ship.

10 am.

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44th Annual Al Fresco Fete "of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, compound of the Catholic Cathe Lecture Theosophical Society:

was to be found the reason why with us more and more in the neu-dral, 3.30 p.m. to 11.30 p.m. our exports had fallen so greatly tral markets. While this country In the past this country bad boeN

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the workshop of the world. Now was not self-supporting the Empire by Mr. H. E. Lanepart on "The the world had its own workshops and the ideal at which their Coming of the World Teacher" and was becoming more and more all parts of the Empire should

association was aiming, was that Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, industrialised, with the result that unite in an economic union, so that p.m.

"Cherr GY.M.C.A. :-Men's nations not only provided them aclves more and more with the just as the Empire worked together Meeting, 7.45 p.m.

in the time of war, we should also goods with which we used to su face the world in time of peace as Gardens. ply them, but they were competing a great self-supporting co-operat (Continued at foot of next column.)ing entity. (Cheers.)

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