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STATIONS No. 1 No, & No. 16m xa No. No. 19 No.14 36, 10 Wall a MaNm3 No.36 X6, 20Na3 AM. AM. &M, AM AM, AM, MOON) Y,M. | FX | PM, P.M. V.M.ŪPILĮ PAR

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Stabs. Dep. 7.01

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op 7.15

Marka Dep. 7.86-

2.43-

5,16 6.27 8.30

THE TOLL IN GREAT BRITAIN.

ABOUT, A MILLION POUNDS A MONTH,

700 CASUALTIES ANNUALLY.

Kowloos. Dep. 6.40 6.05) 8.80 9,08 0,1510,00 12,00 1,15 215 223 2.55) 4,80 5,40) 7.85 Tab, Def.49

92510.0 13.0 1.23 8.31. 4,98 5.497.41 #58 10.20 12.21 1,58

4.30, 8.00 7.53 9 58 10.39 12.34 1.49—9,565.04 8.138.00

9.10.57.10.58 1,52 —

5,098,178.10 3.00 10,10 10:47 12.48 2,02 - 3.10) -- sani.Dep. 735 (8.07 9.45, 10,15 10.52;12.59 9.073.159.14 1.23 8.89 8.24 chan Am 7.41 8.45 9.13 9.61 10.21 10.58 12.59 2.13 2.55 3.91 3.90 5.99 6,388.30

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First appearance of a 5-piece Imported Orchestra Syncopation and Pep.

Come and judge for yourselves.

Dinner Dance-8 to 12 p.m. Nightly. Tea

Twice a Week.

Orchestra Plays during Tiffin Hour.

REMINDER

Our Grill Room is open Every Night where the Best of Food can be. obtained up to 12 Q'alock Mid-night at the Unnal Popular Prices.

Fires re costing Great Britain two lives and, in direct financial Tex £20,000 every twenty-four hours. During August there were 10 fires in which the direct loss ex-

eded £1,000, and the total estimat ed fire bill for the month reached the figure of £1,104,500. lip to September 15th the September fire bill was. £542,500, ·

Losses are yearly increasing. The toll for 1927 was approximately £10,000,000, with 700 fatalities, ta which must be added the crippled and maimed. The cost of the established fire brigades for the same period was abou; £2,000,000.

Causes Of Firo,

The sharp rise in the number of serious fires is mainly the outcome of the increased commercial and domestic use of highly inflammable materials, a national tendency to be careless, and the failure, principally due to lack of understanding, off local authorities to equip their fire brigades with a sufficiency of up- paratus to conibat modern risks.

The facts that confront the busi

nras man are:-

The annual fire loss is increas ingy and it is an irreplaceable lose. Fire insurance does not re-create one single thing des troyed by fire. It merely serves to collect money from the nation as a whole, in the form of pre- miums to reimburse the owners

SERVICE TO NORTHERN SUBURBS DERANGED.

Five hundred People were marooned for no hear in a tunnel: twelve trains were cancelled; and 6,000 London workers were late in reaching their homes one evening recently following the derailment of a LN.E.R. engine outside King's Cross Metropolitan station.

Today.

(October 30th.)

Registered sa a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.

日拾叁月拾年八廿百九仟登英

Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.15 p.m.

Maude Royden Meeting, City Hall, 5.30 pian,

H.K. Football Association, Coun

cil Meeting, Scandal Point, 5.30 P.m.

Hockey Y.M.Q.A. Îst ̃XI, 4 The train, bound from Moorgate F.K.S.H.A. 2nd XI... 5p.m.

4th H.E. Troop Boy Scouts, to Elstree, had just left King's Cross when the engine apparently Whist Drive, Scandal Point, 8.30 fouled the points. The sudden app.m. plication of the brakes in the tun- nel caused momentary alarm to the 500 passengers.

After waiting patiently for half an hour air of the passengers left the train and walked the short dis tance through the tunnel to King's

ed

Was

Queen's Theatre: "The Thirteenth Hotte."

World Theatre:The Cat and the Canary."'

Star Theatre: "The Fall of Babylon."

Tea Dance: E.E. Hotel, 4.30 p.m. Dinner Dances: King Edward Hotel, 8 p.m.; St. Francis Hotel, s

Principal Mails-Outward: Europe vió. Siberia (Tenyo Mars). 10.30 a.. Europe vid Marseilles (Patruches), 3.30 p.m.

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The plight of those who remain- distinctly unpleasant. Clouds of smoke rolled into the carriages, and the atmosphere be- | P-m. enme as oppressive as that of a Turkish bath. Many people began | to fan themselves with newspapers.

After three-quarters of an hour a workman appeared on the line and was bombarded with questions as to what was the matter. His Every- non-committal reply was thing and everybody."

. Passengers Cheer. Hali-an-hour later the, train be- gan to move backwards, the pas- sengers sending up a cheer. Those bound for North London directed to the suburban station at King's Cross, and from there they had to complete their journey.

were

A breakdown gang wan sent to

lift the engine back on the line, of the fire-destroyed property. but it was a considerable time be 9. Fire insurance does not cover fore the road was cleared...

the indirect loss, namely, the up- The derailment afected the work- fulfilled contract and the dixing of twelve train scheduled to placement of labour." The work-run from the City to northern ers, berefs of employment, go on suburbs, and it is estimated that the dole and become a national 6,000 City workers were temporari- charge: the local authority in ly held up. whose area the destroyed works are situated loses its rates from those premises, and this deficit must be met by the ratepayers as a whole,

3. The loss of 700 men, women, and children yearly by fire, with probably thrice as many crips pled and maimed, represents n national economie lass running into hundreds of thousands of Found

Britain's inordinately heavy an- nual fire bill has not escaped the notice of the leaders of the insur- ans world. Mr. J. J. Atkinson, hairman of the Liverpool Salvage Association. has publicly stated:-

"If anything can be done to re- waste in Great duce the fire Britain it will be an act of nationał | benefit, and if the fire brigades can only reduce the loss in one year by £1,000,000 they will be doing good work.

The mishap caused considerable confusion at other stations between Moorgate and King's Cross. Far. ringdon-street Station in particu- lar was crowded with anxious City workers, who harassed the officials with inquiries.

Wednesday:

(October 31st.) Cambridgeshire, Newmarket. The Trevessa Trophy Race, 4 p.m. Annual General Meeting, A.B.S. F.P.A., Central British School, 5.30

p.m.

24th Annual General Meeting, R. H.K. Yacht Club, 5.43 p.m. Hallowe'en Dinner and concert, 8 H.K.V.D.C. Scottish Company,

p.in.

City Hall, 8.15 p.m.

Maud Royden, public address,

Queen's Theatre: The Thirteënth Hour."

World Theatre: "The Cat and the Canary."

Star Theatre: "The Fall of Babylon."

Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 3 p.m.

Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel, 8 p.m.

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Thursday. (November 1st.)

'Golf: Entries close for champion- ship. Jasper Clark Cup, Gover- nor's Shield, and G.M. Young Cup. Hockey YM.C.A. 2nd XI. Kai Tak R.A. F., 5.p.m.

Y.M.C.A. Ladies Night. Queen's Theatre: Knockout

SEARCH FOR SUNKEN DIAMONDS. ITALIAN SALVAGE WORK AT Reilly,"

DELLE-ILE.

steamier

The Italian salvage ship 4- tiglin, which was engaged during the summer in operations on the wreck of the Belgian Elizabetheille. is still at Belle-Ile, and has nearly finished the work of removing a cargo of ivory tusks from the wreck. This has proved a tedious and difficult task, owing to the inaccessibility of the powder magazine, in which the ivory was'

World Theatre: "We're in the Navy Now"

Star Theatre: "Honour Bound." Dinner Dance: St. Francis, Hotel, 3 p.m...

Tea Dance: H.K. Hotel, p.m.

Friday.

(November 2nd.) Christian Fellowship Meeting,

Helena May Institute, 10.30 a.m.

"At Home," Helena May In-

5.60 p.m.

"Imagine what the saving of that million a year would mean attored and the work has been far-stitute, Address by Maude Royden,

the end of, say, twenty-five years. At compound interest it would be roughly 450,000,000."

In Other Countries. President Calvin Coolidge has ad- dressed a manifesto to his people calling on them to exercise greater care and thus to reduce the national fire losses,

President von Hindenburg has re- rently sent for Chief Gempp, of the Berlin Fire Brigada, and conferred with him on the subject of reducing Germany's fire losses, and especially in the rural areas.

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p.m.

Star Theatre: "Honour Bound." Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 pan King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.

Dinner Dance; St. Francis Hotel, 9 p.m.

Principal Mails:-Inward: Lon- don ri. Nezapatam, papers and parcels (Kashmir); Europe ria Negopatam, letters only (Tilawa).

Saturday. (November 3rd.)

St. Peters Young Men's Club Garden Fête, West Point, 2.30–11

the retarded by bad weather. There is still about a ton of ivory Police Branch. H.K.WL and in the Elizabetheifle and this may M.C.L., Dance: City Hall, 3.18 p.m. have to be abandoned.

The principal interest of the onl Queen's Theatre? "Knockout rage was centred in the consign-Reilly," ment of diamonds which the

World Theatre: We're in the Elizabethville carried. No trace Navy Now" of these was found at the first"at- tempt either in the ship's mail room or in the captain's safe, and it was at one time, doubtful whe ther the diamonds were really on board when the ship was snak. But definite evidence has now been M. Sarrault, Minister of the obtained that the diamonds were Interior, is meeting the fire chiefs placed in one of the mail bags, and of France at Vichy for a similar there is a good chance that they purpose, and the French Govern may still be found. The mail room ment have recently ear-marked a of the sunken ship was emptied in considerable sum for fire prevention. August and thoroughly explored by

-Undermanned..

the divers, and it seemed certain that no mail bags were there. But The majority British fire the after part of the wreek, which briandes undermanned and contains the mail room, is lying under-equipped. Fire prevention on its starboard side and is very and extinction in Great Britain are much distorted by water pressura, not regarded by the Government as A farther examination has reveal- an essential service. They are ined the fact that part of the col: other lands."

lapsed deck plating is lying flat against the starboard wall of the

Golf: Captain's Cup, Fanling' Cricket: First Divsion: Crai- mail room and covering the door

gengower . L.R.C. (L). Second in such a position that it was at first taken to be the wall of the

Division: University v. RE. and mail room itself. In fact, it forms Recreio (L), Craigengower . TJR.C. R. Signals (F), Royal Navy 8. a closed pocket about 2ft. wide I spend £5,500,000, or more than the along this side of the rail

| (1). room, combined Budget of any two Balkan and it is thought quite likely that

Queen's Theatre: "Knockout Stater, on the fire department alone all the mail bags, of which there

Reilly," The total annual cost of all

World Theatre: "The Cat and were about 20, are trapped in this

the Canary,"

Star Theatre: "Honour Bound." Tea Dance: IK: Hotel. 430 p.m Dinner Dances:Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, King Edward Hotel, and St. Francis Hotel, 8 p.m.

Principal Mails:-Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (akuran

are

The largest brigade in the Empire is that of London, with a personnel of abuot 2,000 of all yanka. New York City has 6,280 professional fire officers and firemen, located in 394 stations, and will this coming year

Britain's established fire brigades space. The divers intend if pos- is £9,000,000 or less than 50 pertible to open it up as soon as all cent of that of New York City.

the ivory has been recovered.

By co-ordinating established fire brigades Whitehall can do much to reduce the fire losses. If a local authority neglects its sanitary or Health or the Home Office, But, at. police services it quickly hears the moment, it is possible for any nhout it from the Ministry of local authority to decline to main (Continued at foot of next column.) 'tain a fire brigade.

p.m.

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Arts Association H.K. Univer-

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H.K. Boxing Association

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