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No. 21,761 ERRENT¶Ã±A :±Â¶R HONG KONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 12th, 1928. 拜拜禮

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

STATIONS

TIME-TABLE.

UP TRAINS

No. 1 No.8 X 1 Na, ■ No. 13 No.34 No 16 ND No.16]Na. 24 No. 16 (No.35 AM AM. | KM) AM, "[43. XOON, P.M. | P.M.] PM} P.M. | P.M. | P.M.

Kowloon ...Dep. 6.40 8.05 8.30 9.10/10.00 12.00 1.15 9.38 8.00 4.30 5,42′ 7.50 Yazmati.Dep. 6,49 Dep. 7,01 Dep. 7.13

Bhatia Tripo

Taipo Market Dep, 720

9.2010.08 12.08| 1,2%) 9.33 10,2012,20; 1,84)

9,48 10,83,12,83), 1,47)

3/10,87|12,57] 1,51] 0,47|12,47||2,01)

52|12.52| 2,06 3.14)

12,58 219 3.90 8.40

1.

4.99 5.60 7.38 *4.50 6.02 7.50 8,04 6,15 9.09 5.03 0.19 8.07 5.18.6.80 8.17 5,93 8.35 8.71 5.99 6.41 8.37

19.07

Shamchan

Canton

AST. 7,41 8,45 0,13

[Dep.] 6,48

...Arr.] --- |11.50

11.10

5.38

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DOWN TRAINS *

STATIONS No.1 Mo. 2

4.M.AM.

Ma, 7 Mo, 1 AN. FAM,

ના No.13.17 19 No.3 No. 13o. $3 AS. ES F.M. P.X. F.M.

F.M.

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Canton Dop

·1-8.05

3.40

11.06

Bhamchun

Chiangshal

Fanling

1,30 9.18 10.47

8.36 10.37

7.18 8.05 10.35 11.09 11,38 8.18 39 5,49 1.25 8.12 10.4%

11.46 3.0546

5.56 11.50 8.10 6.00 12.01 3218,00 810 1208 8.26 15.04 8.15

7.01 7.08

:.12.20 8.89 | 617 6.28

12.79 3.51 5.29 6.40

12.38 2.37 5.32 8.46 7.04

7:44

Taipo Market Dep. 7,40 Tipo Dep. 2,448,31 11.01 Bhatin ...Dep 7,57 | 8,44 | 11,14

ATT 8.17 8.03 11.32 11.49

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AN ATTRACTIVE PERSON- WORLD SURVEY BY RADIO.

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NEW ERA OF ACCURACY.

READY ADAPTABILITY TO WESTERN WAYS.

A Queen who until three months ago bad never showed her face in |public will go about London in the few days as freely and naturally as any Englishwoman, wrftes Sir Percival Phillips in the Daily Mail of March 13th.

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To-day.

(April 12th.)

Registered as a Newspaper as the Genera! Post Offics in the United Kingdom.

Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotel's, Ltd, Ordinary Yearly Meeting Ex- change Building, noom,

Gaade, Price & Co., Ltd., Annual Meeting, noom

Football Portuguese Interport: Combined teams e. Rest of Colony, H.K.F.C. ground, 6 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: The Eagle of the Sea"

PARIS. During the months of November and December, 1998, an Intern tional Scientific Commission, aided by the observatories of all nations, devoted'iteclf to the task of verify- ing the world's longtitudes; in

World Theatre: "Robin Hood.". other words, of rechecking the Star Theatre: "Shipwrecked." world map in its main configuration Hotel Soxay, 4.30 p.m.; King Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel and It is difficult to realise that this and redetermining the relative con- Edward Hotel, 5. p.m.; Lane, charraing lady has, according to figuration of the continents and Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.33 our standards, been virtually a seas of the globe. For the first) P..

"Cheer '0" dance, 7.30 p.m. prisoner all her life. No man, advo time the use of wireless' had en- ber husband and immediate rela-abled something like absolute ac- tives, over maw her face. She lived | curacy" to be attäined. in the strictest seclusion in Kabul Yet from the moment she appeared unveiled among her fellow passen gers on the voyage from India the Queen has conforined to Western

ways as easily as though accustom

ed to them all her life.

London will be surprised to find "that her beauty is Europeia rather than Oriental. She is fair, with brown eyes and a complexion that needs none of the artificial support

universally adopted by Eastern women. She has an attractive per. sonality and a strong sense of humour,'änd she is very observant. It is no secret that she rejoices in her new freedom or that she looks

forward with regret to returning to the seclusion imposed on her by the religious conventions of her husband's kingdom.

A paper on the results of this large-scale world survey was read of Science by General Ferrie, who to-day before the French Academy |

was chairman of the International Commission. Fifty-two observa-

tories scattered all over the face of the globe and belonging to thirty different nations participated in this vast trigonometrical survey: 31 special radio-telegraphic signals on the average exchanged between 19 principal stations. each day during the two monthe

were

Amazing Accuracy.

Friday.

(April 13th.)

Hockey: Hong Kong Hockey Club "A" v. K.0.8.3. at King's Park, 5.30.

Japanese Warships Nagato and Mutan open to British visitors.

Hong Kong Realty and Trust Co. Ordinary Yearly Meeting, 2nd floor Exchange Building, noon,

Property Auction Rocha's Sale Rooms, 3 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Eagle of the Sea

World Theatre: "Robin Hood." Star Theatre: **Shipwrecked" at 9.13 the Banvard Company in *Hors d'OeuvrES.”

An amazing accuracy has for the Tea Dances: HK. Hotel and frat time been attained. The Hotel Saroy, 4.30 p.m.; King selected geographical points ail Edward Hotel, 5 p.m. Last. over the terrestrial surface have Crawford's Restaurant 4.30-8.30 been determined in their relation p..

Saturday. (April 14th.) Cricket: University 2nd XI. v. H.K Electric C.CSBN

Shui, 243.

Fanling Hunt: Meet at Sheung

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to one another to an approximation Principal Mails:-Inward: {' oi ona ar two-hundredths of a Europe vid Suez (Kashgar); second of sidereal time; in other Europe vid Siberia (Zima Maru) words, the margin of error in these world-ranging measurements never exceeds a maximum of five or six yards. As usual in surveye, cer The Queen is deeply interested in ed; that, for example, enclosed be tain polygons have been establish CANTON LINE

every aspect of life in Europe, par tween the points Algieri, Bhanghai, ticularly the position of women in San Diego, and back to Algiers. social and business affairs Handi- has been fixed to a margin of error Bailings from Hong Kong: Daily, at SAM. & 10.30PM. (10.507 mly

capped though she is by her in-

of one-hundredth of a second over ability to converse freely in any the whole trajectory. "Smdays Bailings from Canton: Daily, at 8AM. & 4.30 P.M.-

14.30 PM only) language except Persian

Pushtu, she has acquired a great deal of information from the women she has met at the various European Courts. If the lot of the women of Afghanistan is in any way improved it wil. te due large

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Her Majesty is a great admirer of Paris fashions. Her new ward- robe is the envy of less fortunate women who have been pehmitted to view its many treasures. Before the royal party left Kabul a French dressmaker who had been in the service of the Queen went ahead to Paris to lay the foundations for this collection of gowns. The most elaborate, bave been kept for the visit to England. One dress for ceremonial occasions is said to be of gold tissue covered with precious stones.

all previous world surveys must be In comparison with this accuracy

regarded as merely approximate. Now that the relative configuration of land and sea surfaces has been fixed almost with absolute accuracy it will be possible for future inter-

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Construction Co., 6th Ordinary Hong Kong Engineering and Yearly Meeting, 11 am.

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Diocesan Boy's School "at Home" 3.30.

Queen's College Old Boy's A350- ciation 8th Annual Dinner, 8 p.m.

«Quéen's Theatre “The Engle of the Sea."

World Theatre: "Robin Hood."' commissions, repeating this process, to measure and check Star Theatre: "Shipwrecked" timental masses. That auch drift- the rate of drilt of the great con- Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King Tes Dances: H.K. Hotel and 18-is taking place has long been Edward Hotel, 3 p.m.; Lane, Cras an accepted cientiße hypothesis.

ford's Restaurant, 4.30-6.30,

Cheer 'D" dance, 7.30. p.m. simple proof of it is to compare

Principal Mails Outward the eastern shape of the two Ameri-Europe vid Marseilles (Mongolia), can continents with that of the 10.30 .DL.; Europe aiù Victoria, European and African shores of B.O. (President Pierce), 3 p.m. the Atlantic. The two will be found to fit into each other like the dovetail work of a joiner, pro-

eatery into gulf and gulf into promontory, showing that at some Americae and the Old World form remote geological period the

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Sunday. (((April 13th.) :-- Fanling Hunt: Point to Point, 11.30.

7th Extra Race Meeting, Macao. The Dances: HK Hotel nad Hotel. Savoy, "4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, p.m. Lane, the fiercy ocean of the globe's P. Theatre: "The Lady of Are the continentä still adrift on Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.39

undercrust 1 Henceforth the obj Queen's

crvatories wil be able to observe the Harem." and measure that drift even if it is caly to the extent of a fraction of an inch per onzum,

The other ladies of the royal household who have accompanied their Majesties to Europe are ed a single land mass from which Princess Noor-ul-Siraj (sister of

the double American continent has the Queen), and Regum (half-sister of the King)

Mlle Nadja drifted away. The first-named is married to Bar- dar Muhammad Hassan Khan, who is aide-de-camp to the King. The oyal party is in acte respecte a family party. The Foreign Minis ter Tarzi Kham, is the King's inther-in-law. Ali Ahmed Khoo, the Governor of Kabul, is marries to a sister of the King.

The King har as his personal bodyguard two powerful-officers in khaki who are never far from the royal presence. They are said to be fine revolver shots, and, although they speak only their native lan- guage, they have a fairly clear idea of all that is going on, and wherever the King is there they are also, hovering watchfully in the background

is

The little Prince. Rhumatullah is thoroughly enjoying the tour. He is in charge of a female nurse and a male attendant, to both of whom be is very attached. He is a slen der, rather delicate lad, very quiet, but with an absorbing interest in everything around him. SAN

Many mysterious bales and boxes have accompanied the royal party from Afghanistan containing pre seats for the Courts of Europe Four beautiful Afghan bounds were also passengers from Bombay, and it bas been rumoured that the will be left in England. The King per sonally supervised the selection of gifts for his official hosts He in- sisted on souvenirs of Afghan origin, and in addition to many valuable rugs and carpets, products of the Kabul, Herat, and Kandahar Tooms, he chose fine mecimens of the-work of native craftsmen,"

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Ultimately & diéres nisi- cost's was granted.

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