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號捌零百柒仟登萬弍第日捌拾月正辰戊 HONG KONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9th, 1928.

鄭拜禮

日玖月弍年八廿百九仟登英

TIME-TABLE.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

WEEKS DAYS,

YOUNG CHINA IN LONDON.

MADCAP JAPANESE PRINCESS.

5.1 6.19

MISS CHINA IS BEAUTIFUL. HOPING TO RESTORE BOY

EMPEROR

WHY SHE WAN'S

TO CHINA

[ay NINA CONDRON.}

AMA A.M. ¦ A.M.

Kowloon

Dep. 8,40 8.03

Taumati

Shatin

Dep. 7.01

Dep. 6.10

Taipo

Dep.2.15

Talpo Market Dep. 7.20

Fanling. Dep. 2.80

Bhengshui Dep. 2.35] Shamokun...A 7.41 8.45 Canton

11.50

9.14 10.00 12.00 1.15 9.20 10.07 1201 12 9.33 10.19 1910 1.34 9.43 19:32 10.39 1.47 9.53 10.36 12,36 151 10.08 30.46 12.48 2.01 10.10 10.61 12.51 2.06 10.14 10.57 19.53 £.12 2.55 8.03 5.38

EX. PT.M. | F.M.

2.15 435 6,43

P.M.

4.42 5,50

7.16 7.23

A CHEERFULLY INFORMAL

AFFAIR.

4.64 8.01

7.35

5.07; 8.15

7.48

8.31 6.30 536 $31 6,39 6,41

7.58 18.02

8.07

813

Canton Dep

Shamerun... Dep. 7.18 8.05 10.34

Bheangabai Dep. 7.23 8.13 10.41 Dep. 7,30

TaipoMarket Dep. 7.40 8.26 10.56

Dap 7.44 8.31 11.00

A. X. AM.

8.05

A.X.

T.X. P.M.

PM.

8.20

11.09

11.37 2.584.41

8.49 8.26

11.44 8.05 | 4.48

6.56

Fanling

8.18

10.49

11.49 3.10 4.32

6.00

12.00 3.21 5.03

0.10

Taipo

12,058,265.07.

6.13

Termati Kowloon

12.19 3.39 5,20 Shatin Dep. 757 844 11.8

19,81 RIG 11.25 Dep| 1.11 AFT. 179.04 11.31 11.49 1887 3.57 5.88

6.2%

3,515,32

6.40 6,48 7.04

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

A.M.

A.K. A.M. 4.M. 9.05 8.20 9.04

Kowloon ...Dep. 6,40 Yaamatio. 4,49 Shatin ...Dep. 7.01 Taipo Depi 7,16

TaipoMarket 7.90 Fanling Dep. 7.30 Sheangahul..Dep 7.35 Shum Chun. Art, 7,41 Omaton

Canton

AM

A.M. J.M.

10.00 12.00 2,24 2.15 5,78 7.35 9.10

12.07 201 9.30 10.07

-5.28 723 9,33 16.19 18,19 2,43 5.38 7.85 9.48 10.32 12,32|2,58| 3,52 7.48 9,53 10,38 12.36 3,00| 5.56 1.59 10,06 30.48 12.48 3.10.07 9.02 14,19 0,07 9.07 9.41-10,10 1951 1951 19.15 8.45 9.13 9.47 10.16 10.57 12.57 8.2725A) 6188,18

6.03- 5.88 11.50

A.X.

8.05 Dep. Barim Chur..Dep. 805 10.34 11.09 11.97 Ahaungshni..Dep. 8.12 10.41

Fanling Dep. ·8.10-10,48

Market Dan. 820 10.56

Taipak

Taipo Dep. 8.31 11,00

**

Statia Dep. 945 11.19

Yeamati Dap. 867 11.25

-

T.X.

1.M.

www.

3.201

2.58

5,00 3.84

36

6.241

11.44

3.06

8.07

·0.41

6.03

12.00 8.21

.3,10 11.49

5.11

6.07

8.21

12.05

8.26

5.2K

12.19 8.20

4.38

12.31 8.51 6.50

3.57

6.58 6.17

7,04

Kowloon ...A 8.03 11.31 11.49 12.87

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A beautiful princess 10 years I happened in Soho the other old elever and accomplished, whe evening In a Chinese restaurant has been banished from Japan and gay with coloured lamps and fes

returned to her relatives in Peking. toons young China made merry. "It has just returned to Japanese ter- was the annual dinner of the Cam-ritory. She is the Princess Chin. bridge Chinos Students' Society, daughter of the late Prince Su, of held for the first time in London the former Reigning House of the cheerfully informal affair without Celestial Empire, who proved too the discipline of boiled shirts or big a handful for her Japanese ceremonial speeches.

foster parents to handle.

Young China in frolicsime mood is decidedly attractive, and Chinese undergraduates when they get to gether can make exactly the same kind of noise as English under graduates...

Miss China is beautiful. She wore a kimono-like dress of celestial blue, made of such stiff and thick brocade that it could have stood alone. She greeted me with grave composure, Her dignity is a refreshing thing to meet in this somewhat hoydenish But the very modern Miss agc.

She had China is charming also. long legs and short red skirts. She tucked a cigaretta into the corner of her dainty little mouth, and flirt ed and danced and talked American slang with Oriental self-possession.

A Chinese welcome is something I was surrounded with hospitality and Chen-there must be a bewildering number of Chens in Chitial I was told that there are only about one hundred proper names to serve the millions of that vast country. A Chinese telephone directory is a nightmare that does not bear contemplation!

to remember.

Chopsticks.

Princess Chin was adopted by N. Kawashims, of Dairen, a friend of her father, and brought up as 2 Japanese girl, attending a girls' finishing school in Tokyo under the name of Hiss Yoshiko Kawashima. She blossomed in culture beauty, but during the past three or four years she has developed the paris ciple, of self-determination to marked degree.

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DIARY OF EVENTS.

Today.

Belgenland (Round World Tourist Liner) due

Wemen's Workers' Cathedral Guild: Address by Rer G. B. Hewitt, on The Church of Eng land in the 19th Century," 16. ↑ Committee meeting. (Both meetings at St. John's Cathe- dral Hall).

10.30

ZITI

Annual Ordinary Meeting Hum- phrey's Estate and Finance Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel, 11 a.m.

40th Ordinary General Meeting of the Hong Kong Land Investment and Agency Co. Ltd., Jardine,

atheson's Board Room, 12.30 p.m. Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.; Laac, Craw- ford's Restaurant, 4.30-6.30 p.m.; Cafe Regent, 66.30 p.

Helena May Institute Musicale : Music of Childhood," 5.30 p.m. · "Cheer O" Y.M.C.A.:

promptu Dance 7.30 p.m.

Im.

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Cafe Regent dinner dance, a p.m. In ostion with the GRAND HOTEL Queen's Theatre: "The Gaucho,

World Theatre: Blarney." Star Theatre:

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The Man Up-

The Banvard Musical Company Katja, The Lancet," present Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.

Principal Mails:-Laward: Europe via Siberia (Kuange), 9.30 p.m.

Friday.

Helena May Institute Bable

She acorned, all offers of marringe

Empress of Australia (Round with both Japanese, and Chinose World Tourist Liner) due. suitors and annqurced that she in-Study Circle, 10.30 am

Tes Dances: H.K. Hotel and tended to devote her life to the

p.m.; King task of replacing the deposed Boy Hotel Savoy, 4.30

p.; Lane, Emperor of Chica upon his throne. Edward Hotel, 5

Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30 Finding that she could accomplisti

Hockey: Cb "A" e. 3/15th little or nothing as a girl, she kickp.m.; Cafe Regent, 5-6.30 p.m. ed her silken kimono and her Punjabis, King's Park, 5 p.m. brocaded sashes into a corner and donned man's clothes, scandalising her foster relatives by wearing these on all occasions and by choos ing only young men as her asso cintes

Mer tombe fadidas abandon the taskondooking after this too lively princess, and she was sent to Peking. Recently she by returned to Daire travelling steamer frem Ticntain having had fellow passengers and crew by the Chopsticks are easier to negotiates because of her behaviour en than I had imagined. After a little rule, when she insisted upon being

a man for the time being. practice you can balance enormious mouthfuls of ice on the end of them. One pair of chapsticks, onc bowl for rice and one willow-pat SHANGHAI NATIVE CITY. terned plate to each guest through. out the whole of the long, delicious meal-what an economy in washing up!"

There were dishes of strange vegetables that looked like seaweed and tasted like boiled rose leaves: there was chicken cooked with chestnuts, and the inevitable fried Doodle.

Everybody talked in excellent English, and it was explained to me that it was impossible for them to talk to each other in Chinese. as that language has almost as many dialects as it has letters in its alphabet. One dialect is hopelessly unintelligible to another, and Eng- lish is to the exiles a welcome Find of Esperanto.

The drinking of toasts in China is a long and elaborate ceremony. A loving cup filled with cider and ice and oranges was passed down the table, beginning at the place of honour, where Dr. Chen to the Chinese Legation) sat beside the very youthful President of the So- ciety. Each guest drank in turn.

Hot Easy To Go Back. My partner at dinner, who was n little sad because his Cambridge days had just come to an end, spoke

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Pirniding Facilities. Orabrates twice a week. Boss place high-alan PORTARTHUR Famous for the two memorable Sieges and. He bearitful landlocked Harbour. Exactly one hour's journey from Dairen by exprom Yamato Hotel (14 rooms) Bansient place of historical and scenic train. inberers to fill a month with frosb walk or drive every day, Mont healthy and malubriona spot in the Far Eart

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"Cheer O" YMCA Concert and Dance, 7.30 p.m.

'staire'

Cafe Regent dinner dance, 8 Queen's Theatre. The Gaucho. World Theatre: Blarney." Star Theatre: The Man Up The Banrard Musical Company Mary." present Theatre Royal, 9.15 p..

Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe vin Nezapatam, letters only (Saarland)

Mercenary

Saturday,

Central British School Annual Sporta, King'e Park, 2 p.m.

Yachting: 8th Championship Race for Racing Yachta."

Fanling

Ride,

Hunt: Hunt Hunters' Arms, 2.30 p.m

Cricket League:-Division I.: University 1st XI. v. Kowloou C.C. Division II. Club de Recreio v I.A.0.C.; Tamar r. Royal Navy.

Navy Friendly Cricket: H.K.C.C.; H.KC.C. 2nd XI. v. H.K. Garrison 2nd XI.; Kowloon C.C. 2nd XI, University 2nd H.K. Water; C.S.0.C. 2nd XI. .

Police C.C.

The Chapel Electric & works Co., & Chinese company, who are just completing near Woosung their new waterworks plant, with a daily capacity of 20 million pal- lons of filtered water, will. in the course of two years, boast also of A new electric power plint of the most recent design, which was ordered a few days ago.

In January, 1927, tenders were obtained for the equipment of the power station, but the study of all the details, which were to make the new plant not only most modern but also most economical, took more than a year. Now, the direc tore of the company, having dreid- ed that the offer antwering fully all of their requirements was that submitted by the Skodaworks, Ltd., of Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, have placed their order with this firm, which, it should be noted, was the

only one among the 35 tenderers East. I have been away four of all countries, who offered every years," he said, "and it will not part of the plant, from the boilirs be easy to go back. I am going to the outlet of the power station, into politica-bub first of all I have built in their own works Accord "ing to our information the present much to do on my own estates."

will be 25,000 He talked of his ancestors' tombs capacity of the plant on to extend scattered over hundreds of miles of kilowatts, with

100,000 kilowatts. The equip valuable land. In some cases," it

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Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Restaurant, 4.30-6.35 4.30 p.m.; Lane, Crawford's p.m. Cafe Regent, 6-8.30 a.m.

"Cheer Y.M.C.A.: promptu Concert, 8 p.m

H.K. Football Club annual dio- ner, Lane, Crawford's Restaurant.

8 p.m.

Im-

Eliot Hall Concert and Dance, 9 p.1.

Cafe Regent and King Edward Queen's Theatre: "The Gaucho " Hotel dinner dancen, 8 p.m

World Theatre: "Blarney." Star

Theatre: “The Man Up- } stairs.

The Banvard uzical Company

"Mercenary Mary present

p.m.

he explained, a whole mountainment of the plant will consist is dedicated to a single grave. I am mainly of three Skoda high pres Theatre Royal, 4:30 pm and 0.16 sure boilers and two Skoda high going to gather all the graves fogether in one mausoleum and pressure turbo-sets each of 12,500 said to amount to about 81,400,000.. release the consecrated land for kw. The total of the contract is agricultural purposes."

North China Daily News,

"But it will be a hard tussle, he added: "there are many mem- bers of my family who will not no- prove of what I want to do. We talked of the burden of ancestor worship, and its strangle-hold on economic life,

After the long meal, while gramophone played and the girl in the "red frock charlestoned; I sat in quite corner with Mrs. Fai Ma

Stic beautiful in a white kimono.. Applications misy be sent to the Hotel Managers at the various resorts or to

talked with shining eyes of her THE SUPERINTENDENT OF HOTELS, Trane Departmen baby Paul, who has just be christen- MEKTED OF SHA0S, BOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY. Daded in St. Paul's Cathedral, and she (Continued at foot of gest column) ABQ, Hth & 6th PA,, AL. Lipper's and Bentley 2

nder the direct management of the ROUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAYCO

Information post from an request, Desprated Booklets, and

explained to me that the scarist coloured eggs given to the guests. at the christening are a. symbol of "It's an English idea," new Hig she said, type of the resurrec tion

Principal Mails:-Inward; Outward: Europe via Marseilles, USA, etc. (President Van Buren), etc. (Kamo Maru), 9.30 am.

Sunday.

Sexagesima. St. Peter's Church annual meet- ing, after morning sorrice

Fooling Haat: Meet at Sheung Shad. ?

Golf Junior Championshif (second round), Fanking; Police . Taikoo match, Happy Valley, 9-

And I thought of the resurrection of the sleeping heast of China afa the new life of these fearless pioneers in education and civila tion, and of the fresh worlds they Are moulding for the little Pauls of the future to live in-Daily Mail.

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Yachting: Regail of 3rd Chan=" pionship Race for Cruisers.

Cricket: Mr. G. R.. Bayers XL. XL Civil Ber- Combined Schools vice Cricket Club ground, e p.m.

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