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No. 21,687 BENTIAL) BATAAT HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14th, 1928. E72
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE.
7.3. T.X. P.M. P
P.M.
WEEKS DAYS.
8.40 8.5 9.10.100 12,002) 9.15 4,85 5,437.15 Dap. 8.49
Kowloca Yazmati
4.35 5,60 7,23 4.54 0.0% 7.35
Oh 103 12,32
5,07 0,15
7.43
Market Dep, 720
9.53 10.88 12.36 151-
5.11 6.19
7.58
10.05 10.43 12.46 2,0
5.91, 8.30
18.02
́Khaungahui“, Dep.
Shimokun...A 7.41 Canton
10.30 10.5 1251 3.08
5,28 8,35
...ATT.
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8.45 10.19 10.47 12,57 2.12 2.55 8.39 6,41
6.03 11.50 5.38
8.07 8.13
Canton
1. Y.
...Dep
Bhamaha...Dep. 7.18 8.05 10.34 1109 Sheungsha..Dap. 7.25 8.13 10.41 Taling
...Dep. 7.30 8.16 | 10.48
Tips Market Dep. 7,40 828 10.56
Taipo Balin
Dep 7,44 8.51 11.00
A.MAX.
AP.X.
F.M.
P.M.
P.X.
803
11.37 2.58 4.41 11.44 8.05 4.49 11.49 8.10
8.90 5.49 €.24 5.56
8.00
12,00 3.215.02
6.10
12,05 3,26 | 5,07
Dep 7.57 8.44 11.18
12,19 3,39 5.80
Yazmati
Dep. 7.11.50 11:25
Kowloon
...AT. 8.17 8.03 11.31 11,48
12.31 8,61 5.29 1237 8.57 5,28
8.29 6.40 6.40 7.04
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.
Kowloon ... Dep.) 6,40 Yaamat...Dep. 6,49 Bhatia .Dep. 7,011- Taipe
Dep. 7.15!
Taipa Market Dep. 7.20 Fanling .Dep, 7,30
Ehonng hai. Dep, Tai
A.. A.X. 4.12. A.M. AY. A.M.
8.05 8.30 9.09.10 10,00 12,00 2.24 2.15 6.18 7.15
2,91 9.20 10.07 12.07
2.58 10,19 12,19 2,43
9.48 10.3 12.52 | 256
5.25 7.29
5.38 7,35
5.32 7,48
9.58 10.36 12.56 3.00 5.58 7,89 10.03 10.46 12,48 8.106.07 8.02 9.071 9.41 10,10 10,51 1251 3.15 18.12 8.07
Bbum Olaa. A 7.41 8.45 0.13 9.47 10.16 10.57 12.57 3.212.55 6.18 9.13 Cantos
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11.50
5.38
-6.03-
ZELE
1,25
5,10
P.M. P.X.
3.201 8.05 -
2.63 5,00 5.84 5,56 6.941 11.09 11,57
11,44 3.05 5,07 5.41
6.03 11.49 8.10 -5.11
6.07 12.00 8.21 1.91
8,28 12.05 12.19 3.30 14,57 9,51
T.X. 7.X
7.X
6.17
6.21
6,34
6.48
8.57 5.56
8.17
6,52 7,04
Canton ... Dep. - Shum Chun.. Dop 8.05 10.34 Shengshai..Dep. 9,12 10.41. Fanling ...Dep. 8.18 10.48 Taipo Market Dep. 8.26 10,56 Taipo
...Dap. 8.81 11.00 Bhatin Yaumati Dep. 8.57 11,25 Kowloon Art. 9.08 11.31 11.49 12.ST
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THE WORKERS "PARADISË."
ENGLISHWOMAN'S HARD- SHIPS IN RUSSIA.
"NÓ MORALITY IN RUSSIA
After nine years of untold hard- ship. Mrs. Dora Jeffries, a British subject, and her son, Mr. George Jeffries, aged 2, have escaped from Russia,
To a Daily Mail reporter they described fe in that country, Mes. Jefiries and her son ware ens ployed by the Soviet-the mother as general servant in the house. hold of Commdsar Somastiko and this in the State Railway en- gineering workshops outside Mos
COW,
12,000 MILES TO
STAND TRIAL,"
SEQUEL £10.00÷MAIL,BAG ROBBERY.
MAN BROUGHT FROM N.Z. ACQUITTED.
Losbos, Dec. 18th. The man arrested in New Zea lana Joseph Festër, aged 44, of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgane in won nection with the £10,000 mail ha robbery from a Cardiff to Landes. thin on February 2nd, of last year, was acquitted at the Old Bailey an the charge of stealing and recedy ing £1,000,
Foster, in the witness box, wai Į he was a native of New Zealand and enme to this country in 1911, Shortly before the Cesarewitch of 1023 he received what he consider
was ad information about Myra Gray, He went to the race Newmarket and won just over £400 an the course. Myra Gray
Mr. Jeffries's husband, Mr. Allen Jeffries, managed a business in Mosen before the revolution and was arrested by the Cheks (the Tert rorist poloe) in 1918. The mother, with her three childrení, escaped to the Ukraine, and afterwards drift. ed back to Moscow. Two of the children d.ed: Mr. Alen Jeffries escaped and is now in the United States where Mira Jeffries, and the son will join him
was returned at 50 to 1. He also wan 183 on ar antepost bet an Myra Gray and the day before the Cesarewitch he had won £50 on a French horse. His winings for
the week exocedri £600.
He
By. February he had accumulated £1,100 by Furcher betting on the Condillons Of Domestic Work.
course, and on February 2nd he Mrs. Jeffries said: "
came to London to see about opm- I was employed by Comradeing a starting price office. brought the £1,100 with him. Smmashka, as a general servant. I had to get up at 5 am. and cook for and fërve tan people, in addition to cleaning & Bat of eight rooms in the winter and a house of ten rooms in the mim. ner outside Moscow. Semushke gave parties nearly every night, while his son and daughter en tertained on a lavish scale.
their people turned young parties into brgien
He travelled alone from Cardi by the 0.30 p.in. train and never went near the locked van where the (mail bag was kept.
The
I hoped for some news of my husband, but none came. I was paid at the rate of 50s, a month, but had to provide my own food.
"Anti-British Demonstrations.
The end care after the Soviet representatives were thrown out of Britain after the Arcos raid in May and after the murder of Volkov, the Soviet envoy in Poland fin June), there were te:- rible arti-British demonstrations at Moscow, and Semashko threw me out because I was a British subject. He knew I had nowhere to go; he knew also that I was 1. The hard work nearly killed re and I remember that ever the doctor I consulted was sur prised that Senashko worked in so hard.
Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, K.C., defending: So that if this robbery took place on that train, or at any of be stations on the way up, had you anything whatever to do with it-I had not.
Trip To New Zeala Continuing. Foster said he was advised that owing to the betting tax the starting price business was no good, and he gave up his iden He returned to Merthyr Tydfil and decided to visit with his wife and child his family in New Zealand. His father, a clergyman, died in October 1825, but his mother and sisters were living in Hamilton, New Zealand He gave full par- biculars of where he was going be for he sailed."
He arrived in Auckland on May lith and was not arrested umil June 7th.
Jr. Percival Clarke, eroes examining, asked why Foster did not explain in New Zealand that hohlaired the money by betting. Foster: On the advice of the bist eninsel in New Zealand 1 made no statement
There is so morality in Russia to-day, and the Cominissam and their families are setting the Anxious Zo Face Charge.
. pice. Woman of the working.
Did you want to come back to Classes suffer, and, as I said to country 1-1 we antious to the collector of funds for thetare this charge after all the pub. British miners inst year,
How dare you ask us who live in licity given to it on the other side. Until to-day this defener has not penary and walk about in razs ten raised?-1 did mention to to give money to people whom your own papers show to be bet Inspector Ward, of Wellington,
I at the money by betting. Sir Henry Curtis Bennett had
ter off than we are?'"
that
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Bankruptcy Court, 10.30 am, Distribution of prizes at Elis Kadoorie School by the Hon. Sir Shou Sun Chow, 10.30 12.
Fanling Hunt: Meet at Mrs. Hartford's Bungalow. 243 p..
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Entries close for Colony's Chess Championship.
Yachting: 7th Championship ract for racing yachts.
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Mr. George Jeffries, describing began his speech for the dece,Army Game (5.10 m, Chinese life in the workshops, spoke of the when a juror rose and saddi bẹ deductions from wages, and add-thought the jury had come to a ed:
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Last year we had deductions Sir Ernest Wild, the Recorder: for the British miners, for the You cannot come to a decision now vagrant children, and for, the unless you are unanimously in blind and deaf. This year we favour of an acquittal. There was had deduotione for aeroplanes to the doubt, he added, that Foster be called "Our Reply to Chamcould have been the thief, but our law insisted that a man must be berlain."
The British delegates who came proved to be a thief. The case to Moscow in November were could not be stoppal unless the paraded like wild animals in a jury were undaimons. chreus, and there were only cer- The jury asked to be allowed
Not
taim prople with whom they were retire, and five minutes later r allowed to speak.
turned with a verdict of guilty."
Foster was discharged
BRITAIN PAYS BACK £18,515,000.
L.S. DEBT REDUCED TO
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LONDON, Dec. 15th.
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A half-yearly payment 02,575,000 dollars (£18,515.000) we made yesterday by the British Gov- ernment to the United States Treasury, of which sum 25,000,000 dallars (£5,000,000) was on account principal, the of repayment of jbalance being intercat
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Ambrus Tour in Re-
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The original deht, as settled in 1923, W33 4,000,000,000 dollar (£920,000,000). It will be repaid
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