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No. 21,724

號肆廿百柒仟登萬弍第 日期初月弍辰戊

HONG KONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

Our London Letter.

28th, 1928. XЯN

DIARY OF EVENTS.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEKS DAYS.

6.408.05 9,10 10.00 12.00 6.49

Dep. 7,00

Ebeangshal Dep. 235

10.08 10.46 12.48 2.01 10,10 10.61 12.51 2,00 Shamann. Art. 7,41 8.45 10.10 10.57 12.57 Canton Arr 11.50 5.08

BRITISH RAILWAYS AND ROAD TRAFFIC.

COMPETITION OF MOTOR SERVICES.

(AX. AM. AM. A

Kowloon

Yanmati

17.01

1.1 EMFP.M. | P.M.

1.159.13 4.35 6,43 1442 5,80 9.20 10.07 12.07 1.22 R33 10.19 1219 13- 5648 12:19 13.55 1.47 965 10.86 12.86 131

P.X.

7.15

4.34: 6.0%

5,07; 6.35

7.93 7.35 7.48

6.116.19

7.59

5.31 6.20

16.02

5.95, 6.85

8.07

3.12 9.55 5,5 6,41

6.03

8.12

COMING. FIGHT IN PARLIAMENT."

A.X. AM

A..

-AM. P.M

P.K

P.X.

Canton

Shumahua

7.80 8.16 10.48

8.03 7.18 8.05 1024 11.09 11.372.58 4,61 4.45 11.44 8.05 8.32 10.41

P.X.

3.20

LLOYD'S CHANGE OF ADDRESS.

5.49 6,21

7.40 8.28 10,65

7.44 8.31 11.00

7.57 8.44 11.18

Youmati Kowloon

Dep, 9.11 8.54 1128

8.179,02 11.31 11.49

11.49 3.10 452 12.00 8.21 6.02 12,06 3,265.07 12.19 3.89 5.20 12.81 3.51 6,32 1297 3.67 5,38

6.00 6.10

8.3

Shenngahwi Fanling

Taipo Market

Tsipo

Bhatin

6.23 6.40 6.48 7.04

BUNDAYS AND FUBLIO HOLIDAYS,

AM 10 MIN. AX. 8.05 8.30 9.04 9.10 10.00 12.00 2.04 2.15 6.18 7.15 7.23 9.20 10:07 12.07 2.33 5.25

6.58 7.35 9.33 10.19 14.19 2.43-

1.1.

Kowloon Yeumati

.Dep. 6.40

Dep. 6,69

Shatin

...Dep. 7,01

Tipo

Dep. 7,15

Taipo MarketDep, 720

Faning

Sheungshal. Dep

Shum Chum.A, 7,41 Osaton

9.48 10.32 19,329,56

5.52 7.48

9.55 10.36 12.35 3,00

5.56 7.59

10.05 10.46 12.46 3.10

9:07 9.41 10,10 10.31 12.51 3.15

6.07 3,02 6.13 8,07

5.39

6.03

8.45 0.13 0.47 10.18 10.57 12.57 3.212.556,188,13

11.80-

.. Dep. 8.12 10,41 Dep. 816 10.48

Taipo Market Dep. 8.25 10,58

8,51 11,00

-

་

Canton Dap

J.K.

8.05

FM

7.M.

Bham Chur..Dep. 805 10.34 11.09 11,37 9.53

Shrungahui.

Fanling

5,00 5.84 5.36 5,07 11,4 3,05

541 6,03 11,49 3,10 5.11

PM.

3,201 6.341

6,07

12,00

8.21

6.21

6,37

Tsipo

12.03 325

8.25

Brain

Dep. 845 11,18

12.18

8,39

6.34

Tsumati

Dep.-8.57 11,251

13.31

8,51

8.50

6,46

Kowloon.A 8.03

0312.31 11:19 12,87

-8,57

6.56 617 639

7,04

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GIRLS WHO DRINK VINEGAR.

AND THE FATE OF LOUISE.

A WARNING FROM THE PAST!

A London doctor told a press representative that the practice of taking vinegar to reduce plump ness was far too

women.

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日捌廿月弍年入廿百九仟登英

Gall: 4th Round of Ladies' Golf Championship.

108th Ordinary Meeting Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steams boat Co., Ltd., noon.

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 3 p.m.; Lane, Craw- common amongford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30 p.m.;

Cafe Regent, 8.30 p.m.

"The daly way it does reduce them," he said, “is by causing in- digestion and pulling them down through preventing their food frem nourishing them.”

A warning to women who drink vinegar to make themselves alim appeared in the British Medical Journal.

4 post-mortem oxamination re- vealed that an English woman bad been a chronic vinegar addict, and her internal organs were described

Losnos, January 28th." The railways are preparing in real earnest to meet the increasing competition of the mater traffic of the reads which has taken from them o vast and ever growing volume of revenue. They are proas "pickled." moting Bills in the next session of Parliament to give them powers to provide road transport services. But these proposals are being strongly criticised. The Transport Committee of the Federation of British Industries has appeared as leader of the opposition to the

Bills.

The thief objection is that the railway companies are invading the roads, Parliament will let them, for the sole purpose of diverting traffic from road to rail; and it is arged with great force of argument that, having obtained statutory powers to compete with existing road services, the companies use their immense resources to crush competition. Moreover, it is stated that there would be then no ineen tive for the companies to improve their own services which have not been as efficient of late years as the public had just reason to ex pect.

of road and rail.

A similar case which occurred in are at Dijon is related in the

British Medical Journal.

The Fading Giri.

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Hockey Club 2nd XI. . Royai Engineers King's Park, 5 p.m

Cheer O Y..C.A. Special Can- cert, 7.30 p.m. by Miss Eileen and Doris Woods and others.

Dinner in honour of Sir Miles W. Lampson, K.C.M.G., C.B, M.V.O., at Chinese Merchants' Club, 8 p.m.

Dockyard Ladies Recreation "Club Whist Drive and Dance Seamen's Institute

Cals Regent dinner dance, & p.m. Queen's Theatre: "There You Are."

Louise," says the story, "was very pretty, andi possessed, in a just proportion, the classic Fullness or figure which delights all eyes and is the glory of the imitative arts.

"

One evening, looking closely at Louise, Dear friend,' I asid, you are unwel; you seem to have grown thinner Oh, no,' she answered, smiling (but her smile seemed somehow Hinged with melan choly), I am quite well; and if I am thinner,hy I can afford to lose a little that direction with out being begraded

But after his comparention I began to watch my dear friend anxiously, and soon my fears were realised I saw her colour fading, her cheeks growing hollow, her charms withering away.

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World Theatre: Tin Gods"

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41st Annual Meeting, H.K. and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. at Jardine, Matheson & Co., noon. Fanling Hunt, meet at Sheung Shui Police Station, 243 p.m.

Entries close for Macao 'Race Club's 6th Extra Meeting, 4 p.m.

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Hockey: Club 1st XI. K.0.8.B., U.S.R.C, 5 p.m.

Diocesan Girls' School, Kowloon, Price: Distribution by Mrs. Russel Brown, 5 p.m.

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m. King 8 p.m. Lane, Edward Hotel,

4.30-0.30 Crawford's Restaurant, p.m.; Cafe Regent, 5-8.30 p.m.

Chear 'O Y.M.C.A. Whist Drive,

1 invisted on learning the truth, and she confessed that, tired.. of the jests of some of her girl friends, who assured her that in lese than two years she would be fatter than Saint Christopher, and by the advice of other friends, the had sought means of thinning her- sell, and to that end had been drinking a glass of vinegar every morning for a month.

Cafe Regent dinner dance, 6 p.m. 8th Annual Dancing Display by Miss Violet Capell, and her pupile, Star Theatre at 9.15 p.m.

Theatre: "There You Queen's Are."

Mies Chee Toy will sing popular English and Chinese Songs,

World Theatre: "Tin Gods " (3.18-9.20 p.m.); Chinese Drama Romance of a Star" (2.16-7.16 Pin.).

Star. Theatre: "Fascinating Youth.

Mails:-Inward: Europe Principal vid Sibéria (Funnian), Thursday,

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St. David's Day,

St. David's Society wreath lay- ing ceremony at Cenotaph, 31 a.m. St. David's Society annual din- ner, Lare, Crawford Restaurant, S p.m.

The Case For, The Rallways, But like everything else, there are two sides to the story. On behalf of the railway companies Sir Herbert Walker, General Manager

**No time was lost; doctors were of the Southern Railway, Appeals

summoned, they examined and gave her medicine. Vain efforts: to pablic opinion against the The sources of life were irremedi. F.B.I. He emphasises the presentably azailed. unfairness under which "the rail- "Louise, reduced to the dreadful ways as ratepayers are not pertion; fell asleep for ever when she state that accompanies consump- mitted the same free use of the was scarcely eighteen years old." road as other ratepayers." The im- proved facilities which, he states, are demanded of the companies can only be obtained by co-ordination way along muddy roads, covering many miles, for the sheer love of "This, of course, is true as far being a-wheel At that time cycling IL relexalon. as it goes. In many parts of the was regarded as

were enthusiastic. country the railways are the biggest Society, folk ratepayers, and they are compelled Now the bicycle is regarded as a find large sums for the upkeep means of transport, Undergraduates of the rands that they are not allow cycle wearily from college to lecture

Around the World ship Frun- ed to use.

In other words, they hall, and workmen pedal without

conia due." are helping to find the money to delight from shops and factories to

· Principal The advent of the make easy running for their com- their homes. retitors, the bus companies and the motor has made us indifferent to owners of fects of motor, lorries cycling. And yet, strange to say, carrying goods that would otherwise more cycles are manufactured in go by rail. There is every prospect this country yearly than ever-be- of a big fight in Parliament, and fore, not for pleasure but for utility as far as I am able to judge the purposen, feeling is that the railway com- panies will have some difficulty in

All the business world is more or proving that co-ordination, as Sir less interested in Lloyd's, and it Herbert Walker employs the word, may be noted that the big change would not in practice spell mono

over from the Royal Exchange to poly, with the inevitable disappear- the great new building in Leaden anto of many of the road services hall Street will take place early in April On March 24th, however, the

that now exist.

The Moving of Lloyd's,

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A Jubilee Of The Road," formal opening will be performed Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of by the King and Queen Follow State for India, was the principal ing the ceremony by Royalty" there guest at the Jubilee Dinner of the will be the Enster holidays, which Cyclists' Touring Club, Eeld this will allow members time to transfer week, and he gave some entertain the bulk of underwriting books from ing reminiscences of his youth as a one building to the other. cyclist. He learned to ride on a The new underwriting room is a boneshaker,' as the earliest type noble hall, spacious and splendidly GUNA by W. W. GREENER of bicycle was called with very good designed. Teak "boxes" take the WEBLEY and SCOTT, and Other reason, for the wheels were thod place of the mahogany decks at Makers-British, French and with iron and were made of wood. which underwriters have written American.

Later Lord Birkenhead rode a bigh isks for so many years. There will bicycle, and performed the fent of be seating accommodation for 29 doing the journey-which must have persons in addition to accommoda- been-a-great adventure from Liver tion for 168: brokors. The under- pool to Dundee. Evidently as a writing members of Lloyd's number cyclists he deserved to be the guest 1,300, but the majority are members of honour at a jubilee of cyclists. of radicates for whom the under- It seems curious to recall that writing agents-about 140-are ac- act, The famous oven in King Edward's reign, which customed to

in the "Captaine Boom is not sa long ago, people went out

to be the same in every on bicycles, and straggled up in building clines on hot days, or splashed their particular as in the old quarters at the Royal Exchange It has simply (Continued on next Column.)

been transported.-H.B.

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H.K.C.C. Annual Lawn Tennis Tournament starts.

Cheer OY.M.C.A. Dance, 7.30 p.m.

Ladies night, Y.M.C.A. Kow. leon, 9 p.m.

Mails Outward: Europe via Siberia (Porthos), 1.30 p. Inward: Europe via Suce (Mangolia), letters and papers.

Ten Dances: HK. Hotel and King Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.; Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, L30-8.30 p.n.

Queen's Theatre: "The Scarlet Letter."

World Theatre: "The Confession of a Queen."

"Star Theatre: "Introduce Me."

Friday Ember Day: Helena May Institute Bible Study Study Circle, 10.30 am.

Sir Miles Lampson leavi 00 .4. Franconia

Principal Mails: Outward: Australia and ports (Tanda), 2.33

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Hockey H.K. Hockey Club "A"

K.O.B.B., King's Park, 6 p.m. Tea Dances: HK. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King p.m.; Lane, Edward Hotel, 5 Crawford's Restaurant, * 4.30-8.30

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Cheer 'O Y.M.C.A. Musical Even- ing 7.30 p.m.

HMS. Titania dance at Lane, Crawlond's Bestaurant, 8.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: The Searist Letter."

World Theatre: "The Confession of a Queen:",

Star Theatre: "Introduce Me"

Saturday. Fanling Hunt: Spring Steeple: Chase Mig, Kwanti

Hotel Launch meets all Steam-

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