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TIME-TABLE.

WEEKS DAYS.

AM AM

AM,

Kowloon Dep. 6.40 8.05

Yanmati... Dep. 6.49|

Bhatin

traips...

Dep

7,01

Dap. 7.15

alpo Market Dep. 7.20 Farling Dap 7,80 Shengahni Dep. 7.35

P. P.X.F.X. P.X. (P.X. 7. PM 9.10 10.00 12.00 1.152.35 3.00 4.55 5.43 7.15 8.2010.07 13,07 122

19.19 1.34- 9.82 10,19 P.48-10.39 12:23 147 - 15- 9.33 10.36 12.38 10.0510,48 | 12,46) 10.10 10.5 1251 10.16 10.57 | 12,57 | 2,13

Shamchan...AFF, 7,41 | 8.45) Canton MÅTT, 11.50 5.38)

4.47 5,607.23 4.54 6.0 7.35. 5.07 6.15 7.49 5.116.197.59 5.31 6.30 8.02 8.98 8,95 8.07 3.40 5.39 6,41) 8.13 8.47

AM. A.M.

A.M.

4.M.

8.05

AM. P.X.

F. P.M.

#:

Canton...Dep.-

mahan...Dep.7.18 8,05 10.34 11.09 congikai „Dep. 7.25 8.12 10.41

nling

7.30 8,18 10.45 pokarkes Dep. 7.40 8.28 10.56 ара

...Dep. 74483111,00 Bbstia Dep. 757 8.44 17,18 Yazmat.Dep. 11 956 11.25 Kowloon ...Arr. 8.17 9,02 11,31 11,49

F.M.

6.46

6.53

3.20 11,372.58 4.41 5.49 6.94 11.44 8,05 440 5.56 11.49 8.10 4.50 6.00 19.00 3.21 6.02 610 12,088,265,07 6351 12.193.39 5.30 6.28 12.81 8.51 5.32-640 12.87 3.57 6.98 6,48 7.04 7.29

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

AM

Taumati Dep. 6,40

Buntin

...Dep. 7.01

Dep. 7.13

4.X.

AX.

J.M. 7.9, 73, FM Kowloon...Dep. 6.40 8.05 8.80 9.04 9.10 10.00 12,00 2243,00 8.18 7.15 9.20 10.07 12.07 2,31 5.257.23 9.83 10.3 19.19 2.49 5.38 7.35 9.48 10,81 12.33 2.56 5,52 7.48 9,53 10.34 1936 3,00 5,56 7.52 10.05 10.46 12.46 8.106.07 8,02 6,12 8,07 9.079,41 10,10) 10,31 | 12,51 | 3,15| 8.45 9.130.47 10.16 10.57 12.57 8.21 3.406.18 8.15

Taipe

Taipo Market Dep, 720

Sheng hai. Dịp 135

Bham ChurnAIT, 141- Canton A-11.80

Theuanhai. Do Fanking Talpo Market Dep. 8.98 10,58

5.88

6,47

She the

Canton

A.K

8.05

X.M. 1.3.

7.1.

Bham Chaa..Dep. 8,08 10.34 11.09 11,87

4.58 8,00 5.84 5.K8

3.20 6.94

8.13 10.41

11.44

8,05 -5.07

5.41

m. Døp.

8.16 10.46

11,49

8.10 5,13

6.03. 8,07

12,00

8.91 5.21

8.17

12.05 3.28

821

1219

8.39 5,88

6.34

12.31

3.51 5.50

6.45

3,57 5.56 6.17 8.52

7,0%

Taipo

Bhatin

Taumati

Dep. 8.37 11.00

Dop

8,45 11,18

Dap 8.87 11.25

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Kowloon Art 9.08 11,91 11.49 19,87

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"THE MOST SINFUL CITY ON EARTH?"

It is quite usual to read articles denouncing Shanghai and its ways. No one denies it has peculiarly dark are anonsant places but the majority of its inhabitants Europeas and as in every city, are quite ordinary respectable poople: ta "night life" is mainly left to visitors. However Mr. Ketchum of the London Daily Express gives the following "purple" description of the place which is the kind of thing people at home like to read about the Far East.

cow,

He writes:

again the money is placed, the great wheel in the centre is spun. the strained silence follows, and the veice of the Chinese croupier rings out, "Double rero! Every one has lost!.

Is Shanghai the most sinful city On earth?

Are more niquities performed bere under cover of darkness than, let us say, in Mos- Bagdad, Constantinople, Cairo, or Calcutta? I think so.

It has always been the legend of An old man is lying back in a travellers, and I think that I can corner drunk on the whisky which, bear them out. At any rate, there as a bankrupt player, he has had is no city in the world where the for the asking. A respectable wo- populace abandons itself more Iman who has lost everything is completely to its nocturnal pleasented nervously, another, ac- aures, nor, indeed, where stranger cumulating the courage to face her events go on during the mystic husband when she goes home to him in a motor car. arhich will be hours between dusk and dawn.

A bizarre metropolis is this Fan placed at ber disposal "on the Eastern outpost of the British Em-house." pire, merging, as it does east with west in an incongruous combina tion of peoples who hail from every quarter of the globe.

You have your British Settle- ment, with its Anglo-Saxon inhabi tants-English, Scotch, Irish, Canadians, Australians,

and Americansits..

English clubs parks, and imposing bank build- ings, triumphs of British architec tural genius standing like mighty sentinels along the whole length of

the Bund

DIARY OF EVENTS.

To-day,

Yachting: Ladies' 3rd Champion- ship Bace.

Tea Dances: 'E.K. Hotel and King

·Hotel" Savoy, ·· 4.30 - p.m. ¡ p.m.; Edward Hotel, 5

Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30 p.m.; Cafe Regent, 4.30-6.30 p.m.

Cich de Hockey Y.M.C.A.. v.

p.m.; Recreio, King's. Park. 3 University v. Punjabis 2nd XL, 5 p

Cafe Regent dinner dance, 8 p.m.` ' Social and Community Singing as St. Peter's Church Young Men's Club and farewell to the Vice-Pre- sident (the Rev. H. Copley Moyle), 8.30 p.m.

Y.M.C.A. Billiards Challenge Cup Final, 9 p..

H.K. Philharmonic Society 'pre- sent Merrie England," Theatre Royal. 9 p..

Queen's Theatre; "We're In the Navy Now."

World Theatre: "Red Dice." Star Theatro: "A Hero on Horseback.

Principal Mails Taward: Canada, U.S.A., etc. (President Jackson); Europe via Siberia (Sado Haru).

Tuesday,

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Sanitary Board Meeting, 415

Chinese boys in chocolate-colour- ed aprons are rushing hither and thither with free drinks, free sand wiches, and even free meals if you

Everything, you {! \" demand them. see in this mysterious temple of philanthropy is free. You go home with everything but your money.

It is one of Shanghai's dens of iniquity, at least one of which one taik-and write: for here can many a man and woman has been precipice of the ragged to destruction round roulette tables con rolled by a bank that is never brokin. -

You have the French Concession, with ite Parisian restaurants, its

The Nefarious Chit System. Roman Catholic churches, French schools and convents, and that.

Theet that you run out of gayest of all sporting institutions in the Far East, the Cercle Sportif ready sh need not deter you. Francais, which serves as a verit. The se wil supply you with able social Mecca for loreigners of money for here, na is the case everywhere else in China, the all nationalities and creeds.

nefarious chit, viem prevails --You have;i; too—the Japanese under which, no me Teuily how Concession, with its Japanese tea

ba, houses, Japanese shops, and pink-complete a stranger you may

you can, with the greatest lack of Japanese complexioned

women formality, contract,

GD account in slip-slopping along wooden

Many running into thousands. sandals attired in their quaint, the wife, then, of an American bright, silken costumes of, old.

zaval officer--tbese women arc Japan.

obsessed with a peculiar erase for the game in China-has signed You have suave Italians, the way the enlary of her husband Portuguese, dark-hued Mongolians, long before he has earned it in and Russians, hordes of them, the vain hope that the Fates will varying in type from bearded libertinea of Georgia to golden- smile upon her before he has re- turned from his journeyings haired Tartar "beauties and black- eyed coquettes from the Caucasus. You have the Chinese, their dainty little women folk in dark, rich silks, their men immaculate in white.

but

Tartar Beanties.

You have

I am writting of the night life of Shanghai.

"It is now three in the morning. You have dined at the great Hotel Majestic, where hundreds of merry makers foreign and Chinese alike -have been dancing the foxtrot and the tange throughout the even ing to the western jazz music of a British regimental band.

abroad.

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Russian Girls.

I have written only of one type of place of amusement; but in this Faris of the East there are scores. It is a city of cafes and dancing halls and all-night Elubs. Go along to the Carlton Hotel to the Palais de Dane adjoining it, if you are in search of another form of entertainment. Here you will find hundreds of pretty Russian girls, clustered round tables, only too eager to become your dancing partner for the remuneration of less than two shillings a dance.

Russian Exiles.

p.m.

Garrison Football League: RAM.C... B. Coy., K.OS:B÷

#. C. Coy., 20th H. Bty. R.A. Sookuupoo, 4.15 p.m.

Tea Dances: HK Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30

p.m.; Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30. p.m.; Cafe Régent, 4.30-8.30 p.m.

"Organ Recital by Mr. F. Mason at St. John's Cathedral, 5.45 p.m.

After dinner dance: at Lee Gardens.

Cafe Regent dinner dance, 8 p.m. Queen's Theatre: "We're In the Navy Now."

Star Theatre: "Hogan's Alley." World Theatre Sea Horses

Mails Outward: Principal

via Marseilles, etc. Europe

9.30 p.m. i America, (Diomed), Canada, etc. Europe via Victoria, B.C. and via Siberia (President Pierce), 5 p.m.

Wednesday. Fanling Hunt: Meet Hunters' Arms, 6.30 a.m.

Entries close for Fanling Hunt Steeplechase.

HE. Art

Exhibition, Club Pedder Building (4th Floor), 10 a.. to 1 p.m., and 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Cricket League-Division II.: Royal Navy Royal Engineers'. Investiture Government House, 4 p.m.

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.)

King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.; Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30 p.m.; Cafe Regent, 4.30-8.30 p.m.

H.K. Philharmonic Sekiety pre sent "Merrie England" (matinee), Theatre Royal, 4.30 p.m.

2.

XI. Hockey Club let H.K.S.R.A., U.S.R.C., 4.45 p.m.

Cafe Regent dinner dance, 8. p. Queen's Theatre: "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."

World Theatre: Sea Horses." Star Theatre; "Hogan's Alley." Principal Mails:-Laward: London parcel mail (Kalyan).

Thursday.

H.K. At Club Exhibition,. Ped- der Building (4th Floor), 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Garrison Football League: H.Q.

2 KO.S.B. v. H.Q. 1 K.O.S.B.; 12th E. Bty. R.A. v. B. Coy. KO.S.B., Sookunpoo, 4.15 p.m..

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Perhaps you have been the guest

It is worth ten times what you (as I have been) of Mr. (or Mrs. and Miss) Wing On, of the mil pay to hear the stories of their Honaire draper family, the head experiences since they undertook of which, with his vast departmen- the hazardous pilgrimage from tal stores, is the Selfridge of Moscow to this freedom which they Shanghai. May be, better still, it have at long last gained. They has been one of the gala nights, are not all by any means ladies the occasion of an American or a of casy ways, for many, though Russian ball, when, this palatial they have long abandoned their Majestic Laliroom, with its spray titles, come from the highest strata ing. fountains, multi-coloured of the former Russian aristocracy, lights, and revolving chandeliers. while more than one is known to- has become a maze of shimmering day to be supporting from her iridescente. Champagne corks are meagre earnings a down-at-heel old popping, wine is flowing in rivers. man somewhere in the background, Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and PALACE HOTEL. You have spent one glorious hour; Russian nobleman who is, in Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m., and Lane, Ty: F. No. 3, Tel Aŭ: "PALACE." you have no wish to retire... fact, her husband

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Hockey: KO.5.B. 2nd XI. v. drive up to the doar of what ay thing of the inside of the Orient, YM.G.A., King's Park, 5 pears to be a bank, ring, and wait In this case there are people who

Helena May Institute Concert: and see! If you are lucky the door, will take you to the Chinese City

"Alice in Wonderland" (Music is opened, and you are let in cauor Chapel. It is a short drive in and Play), 5.30 p.m. Liously by a smiling Chinese youth. motor-car from the International

"Are you a member?" he whis. Settlement. pers warily. You are! So the world-and you are passed on. You reach your destination, You are led to a lift, carried up prove your identity again, and, three storeys aloft, and then guid having made your way along a ed through divers labyrinthine series of dark, dank, narrow alleya passages until you have reached and small courtyards, you are theclub." Here curtaine are ushered in aroom where nervously drawn side until your mysterious, half-dead figures lie in identity is beyond question, and every corner, and here, almost then at last you are admitted. overcome by the siding fames of Take a glimpse at the scene be- opium, you take your place with fare you! Green-covered tables are your companions on a curtained scattered in half a dozen rooms. divan. If you are an old band at. Round them foreigners are crowd-the business, the little pipe and ed, mostly American, women, the lamp are handed to you, and you wives of American naval officers are left to toast the tiny pellet in who are off on coastal or patrol the smouldering blue fames. duty on the Yangtaze.. On the oc- casion which I have in mind there Fare twenty or more of them at two

tables,

Optum.

Or, if you are as I hope only a casual, inquisitive visitor, you order coffee for two or three, as They have come in a party at the case may be, some cigarettes, the invitation of the management, and then, when you have remained who has given" them a supper. long enough to satisfy your The meal being over, they are now curiosity, you rise and call for paying for it; for, over and over the chit.

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H.K. Philharmonic Society "pre sent Merrie England," Theatre Royal, p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

World Theatre: "! Beware of Widows."

Star Theatre: "It's The Old Array Game."

Principal Mails:-Inword: Aus tralia, etc. (dki Maru), Outward: Europe via Siberia (Kalyan), 8.30 Friday,

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