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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE."

WEEKS DAYS.

AM. | AM. AM,

A.M.

2.M.P.X.P.M.P.M.

2,14

Kowloon Dap. 6.40 8.05 Yaumati...Dep. 8.49

2,10 10,00 18,00 1.15 2.15 435 5.43.

9,20 10.07 19.07 123-

4.4% 5,50

7.15 7,23

Bhatia

Dap. 7.01

233 10.19 1918 1.34

4,54 5.0%

7.35

...Dep

Faoling

Market Dep. Dep

7,15 7.20 7,80

9.48 18.33 12.32|1,47

5,07 6,15

7.49

9.53 10.34 12.36 151

5.11: 6,19

7.32

10.0510,46 12.46| 201|

6,21 8.30

(8.02

10,101051 1261 2.08

526 6.34 8,07

8.13

Bheangahni Dep. 735

Bhamchun AF, 7,41 8,43 10,18 10.57 12,57 2.12 2.53 8,32 641 Canton

...ATT. - 11.30 4.88

Cantos

Bhumchun....

Bhaungahni„Dep 7.25 8.12 10.41 Fanling Dep. 720 8.16 10.46 Taipolarist Dep, 3.40 8.26 10.56

Taipo Shatin

6.03

AX. || AMA, AMAN..

A

7.M.

1.M. F.M.

8.05

7.18 8,05 | 10.34 | 11.09

11.37 238441

5.49

8.201 6.24

11,44 8.05 | 4.48

5.58

11.49 8.10 4.52

6,00

12.00 | 3,21 |- 3,02

€10

Dep. 7,44 8.31 11.00

19,08 | 8,26 | 5,07

8.15

Dep, 757 8.44 11.18

12.19 8,396,90

6.28

Yarmati -

Dap. 8.11 866 | 11.23

12.81 | 8,61 | 6.32

Kowloon

Art, 8.17 8.02 11.31 11.49

1237 3.57 6.58

6.40 6.48 7.04

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

Shafi

Tripo

Taipo Market Dep, 720

Fanling

R

Kowloon

+ Dop 6,40

-AAM AIM. 8.03 8.30 9.0

Taumati

.Dep. 0.49

..Dep. 7,01

Dep. 7,15

..Dep. 7,30

Sheungshui.. 7.85 Sham Chun, Art, 7,41 Canton

---

5.88

A.. 9.10 10,00 12,00 2,94 2.15 5.19 7.16 920 10.07 12,079,81 - 8,267,28 7.35 9.33 10.19 12,19)| 9.48 10.34 12.33 2.56552 9.53 10.36 12.388.00

8.367.52 6.07 8,02 10.05 10.46 12,468,10 9.07 0.41 10,10 10.61 12,51 R.151 8.12 8,07 8.45 0.1318.47 10,16 10.57 12.57 8.31 2.566,18 | 835 11.80

6.03.-

A

4.M. {AM,

TX. 7.X.

F.N.

Canton

8.05

Bham Chan. Dep. 805 10.34 11.09 11.37 Shengshui..Dep. 8.79 10.41

3.201 9.58 5,00 5.34 5.58 6.941 3.41 11.44 8.05 6.07

6,0%

Tanding

Dep. 8.16 10.48

.11.40 8.30

5,11

8.07

TalpoMarket Dep.

8.26 10,56

12.00

3.21

8.27

6.37.

Taipo

Dep. 8.31 11.00

12.05

8.25

5.25

6.m

Bastin

...Dep. 8.45 1118.

12.19

5.89

6,34

13.51 3,51

5.80

6.45 1

8,57

5.56 617 6,53

7,04

#

• FIRST CLAM ONLY.

Yanmati Dep 8.67 11.25

Kowloon Mar 9.03 11.31 11.49 12.97

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28th, 1928. AN BRUASHABTEX

QUARRELS AND JEALOUSY,

GOVERNMENT AND THE GREYHOUNDS,

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

“MONNA LISA.”

AUTHENTICITY PROVED

BY SCIENCE,

GENUINE WORK AND NOT A COPY.

Dec. 29th. PABIA famous wodą sure has been saved by mothern science. An expertise" of the Monni Lisa of the Louvre Museum by the Xorny and ubra-violet my has failed to reveal a single doubt about her authenticity, or a single blemish on her family tree..

LONDON, December 31st. To those in touch with politics there is nothing surprising in the resignation of Mr. Snowden from

A legend has been growing up membership of the Independent that Leonard da Vinci's master- Labour Party. This is the cam

pice, which was returned to the which paratively small section

museum by the Italian Government makes programmes of the ultran 1913- had been hidden in a Red Variety for the Labour cheap hotel room in Florence for Party and sets the pace. He re-

two years has not the original gards its mission as a propagandist that. Vincenzo Perugia, the Italian body for the spread of Bocialism as bohemian artist, had carried out ended, and that it should become of the Louvre in his umbrella in merged in the Labour Party. Mr.

August 1911. Snowden has been at logger-heads |*- with the LLP., for some time.. He has repudiated many both of their ideas on the platform and in the Fresa.."

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Roza Lacquer.

It is certainly a copy, the late Gustave Geffroy, a distinguished art critic and director of the Gobelin tapestry works, remarked many times.

"And this painting is much one that wes darker than the stolen," still others contended.

The Louvre authorities laughed at "these sceptics, although the documentary proofs that they ex-

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Cafe Regent and King Edward Hotel dinner dancen, 8 p.m.

Artillery Association Royal (Hong Kong Branch) dance at Seamen's Institute, B p.m.

RE.WO's and Bergts. Meas Whist

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The differences between the

The original had a transparent former Chancellor of the Exeche-rose lacquer on the lips, which" is not on this one," "other artists quer in the Labour Government and

pointed out. the leaders of the I.L.F., came to a head recently over the proposed surtax on unearned incomes of over

Star Theatre: 2500 a year. This fantastic idea has

Seng." been forced on the Labour Party as

Principal Mails:-Inward: a definite part of the Labour prohibited would be considered incom- Europe via Negupstam,

The suggestion is that a photo to day. They had photo only (Laisang); U.S.A., etc. (Pre gramme,

graphed Moana Liss or Lsident Wilion) Outward: Europe hundred millions a year over and Joconde," as she is known in via Marseilles, etc. (Haruna Maru), above the present crushing total of France, shortly before she was 1.30 p.zn.; Canada, America, etc. taxation would be realised the photograph ofany Thoked the Protestaus), 10.30 am.

stolen, nad a'énightled "copy of

Eeropo vid Victoria, B.C. | TIFFIN HOURS: DINNER HOURS.

1 2 7.30 9. surtax. The money would be used-cracks, which are a painting's

Bunday.

DINNER DANSANT not to reduce the national debt, but

SATURDAYS: 8,00 to ̈ 12.00 **. for the furtherance of Socialist

TEA DANSANT schemes in the form of sops and

·MONDAY to FRIDAY...... doles to the "'orney 'anded sons

Thirty Tiffin Tickets for $25. can be of toil" Mi Snowden, who is

ontained at the Office of the abore Hotal), about the only man in the Socialist party with a knowledge of finance, says the proposed tax is economical |ly unsound, and the expected Field

would prove illusory.

Quarrelsome "Comrades."

It may be that other prominent men in the Labour Party will be tempted to follow Mr. Snowden's lead. For the past three or four years Mr. Hamsay MacDonald, the ex-Premier, has been worried by the turbulence of the I.L.P: wire-pullers, But as one of the earliest members of this section of the party of which he is the accredited leader he has "not broken with the disturbers of the general peace. He retains his membership from sentimental rea

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The cracks in the painting re- turned from Italy were identical with those in the photograph of the original, and the vast majority of experta acopted this proof as conclusive.

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3rd Annual Masonde Service, St. John's Cathedral, 6 pm,

The development of new photo

particular graphic processes-in the X-ray, ultra-violet ray, and microphotography--led M. Henri Verne, director of the Louvre Museum, to examine recently 9,000 paintings by these methods. It was a brave thing to do, even if the results were not to be made public. The two rays, and parti- cularly the ultra-violet one, instan- taneously reveal the full history of an old painting-the alterations, restorations, suppressions, additible Lover." tions, and a host of other details, as well as exposing modern fakes.

It is probably the case that Mrships Snowden has resigned without con sulting any of the other leaders, but

it is well known that his views on the surtax, and generally with re gard to the 1.1.P., are since

most of them. To a political ob server it is a source of amusement to note the constant divisions that proceed in the ranks of the Socialists. They are a quarrelsome crowd, always squabbling and bickering, and intensely jealous of Any man who gets into prominence in the Labour movement. To bait the leaders is considered quite good sport.

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