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Hongkong Daily Press.

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NG. 21,940 ARBATULAS BA★EL HONG KONG. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7th, 1928. A ¤#ƒØBEA+TAF PRICE: $3 PER MÖNTH KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

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CHEAPER PARES AND HIGHER REVENUE.

This increase follows on the policy of cheaper fares and better travelling facilities which was intro duced at the beginning of the

SHANGHAI MURDER'

MYSTERY.

PERPETRATED BY CHINESE.

MR. LAW'S CONDITION IMPROVING.

DIARY OF EVENTS.

To-day. (November 7th.) Bhanghai Races. Whist Drive. Beaman's Institute, Licensing Board Meeting, pou Sale of Work: Helens May In- stitate, 3 pro

Land Bale: Inland Lot No. 438 and Inland Los No, 1947, Lämmert Broa, 3 pm

Opening of New Club, Chinese Coy. Police Reserve, 17, Queen's Road, 5.30 p.m.

SHANGBAL TE "We have good reason to beliawo Railway passenger receipts of the that it has definitely been ascertain. four great British companies in theed that Miss Dorothy Thomas murdered and Mr. H. D. Law Was thirteen "peeks" ended September grievously wounded by Chinese, China Daily the North 27th last were more than six million sayı

News.

Although the condition of pounds more than in the correspond Mr. Law still is such that a complete statement of the events ing period of 1927.

which led up to the tragedy has not been possible to obtain, Mr. Law has been able to say that his assailants were Chinese. For days after the terrible occurrence, Mr. Railway officials who have closely Law remained unconscious and his studied the public response to new head swathed in bandages after the efforts to revive the habit of rail- delicate operation performed by way travel believe that they have Dr. A. D. Dall. Last week, it was succeeded, at least in part, in meet-pcuible to remove the greater partdise ing the competition of road trans- of the dressings and only one was port.

deemed necessary. Now, the wound has almost healed and only small plasters remain.

summer.

The additional excursions which we bave introduced in various locali. ties have been very popular," said an official of the London Midland and Scottish Railway to a Daily Express representative.

Piecing Things Together. Mr. Law is taking food and sleeping well but still finds great difficulty in pressing himself. "Boon To The Public."

Eren simple wants are only under The travelling public has, of standable by his attendants with course, increased during the year in difficulty. At times he speaks fair- all branches of transport, but, allowly rationally and an other occasions ing for this fact, it can safely be he is only able to articulate and said that the increased facilities express his thoughts with the have not only been a boon to the greatest difficulty. public, but also a profit to the com

pany.

A large proportion of our in- creased receipts is undoubtedly due

to

the improved facilities and cheaper fares. It must be borne in mind, however, when making a com- parison that bad weather greatly restricted all kinds of passenger traffic last year.

and

The police, however, have by de-

Schubert Centenary Recital, Mr. H. Ore, City Hail, 5.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Drums of Love"

*The Telephone World Theatre: Girl."

Star Theatre: "Paths to Para

(1.30-8.30 only) at 8:15. Jack Carter's "Serenadera."

Tea Dances: H.K. Hoel, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel; 5 p.m.

An official of the Southern Rail.licate methods been able to obtain certain facts from the wounded way said:"

man, and together with certain in formation obtained from other sources have pursued inquiries which have, it is reliably reported, resulted in arrests. Information has been obtained from a delivery. coolie employed by a dairy, who was in the vicinity of Reswick Au oficial of the London, the crime was commated This 8

Road on the night in questie when North-Eastern Railway said! great increase in the number of speculative trains which we start- ed early in the year has been gen- erally appreciated. The public still do not realise, I think, the number of trains we now run compared. | wth a short time ago. Races, con

ferences, football matches, many other special occasions are all supplied with special services at cheap rates.

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Excursions.

and

man has said that he saw & number of Chinese, four, he thinks, accost $ foreign lady and gentleman at the time when the murder was committed.

&

Another witness, Chinese workman employed by a painting company, who was return- ing from the Fahwa village, states that he heard shote and saw in the distance a sort of struggle between Chinese and foreigners.

Marvellous Recovery.

Mr. Law is attended' day. and "We find that we can fill trains with excursionists who wish to visit night by special nurses and has been allowed to see friends for very Atlantic liners at Liverpool or Southampton, or with people who short periods. He seems cheerful wish to visit the great industrial and although unable to peak ex- towns. Other excursions have been cept in a low undertone is able to run to Cardington for people who grasp what is being said and thanks wished to see the giant airship Rion his visitors for calling to see him. in its banger, and to railway works His recovery, however, in view of where they may see the latest types the seriousness of the wound which was exused by the bullet geing como- of locomotive under construction.

These and many other diverse pletely through his head and splin- interests have been successfully ex-tering the bons, fragments of which ploited to induce the public to travel had to be extracted from the brain, by rail. They are innovations, and is considered nothing short of mar. it is by such new ideas that profit able passenger traffic will be cap- tured. There" is, no doubt, a re- vival in the railway travel habit taking place."

A Great Western Railway official said:

vellous.

CHINESE MURDERS HIS

MOTHER.

WIFE AND CONCUBINE ALSO IMPLICATED.

"Excursions, week-end, and cheap day tickets can claim to have shared with the glorious weather the res

A callous murder case is report- ponsibility for the increased passened in the columns of the Shumpaa

We cover a very ger receipts. popular part of the country, and the facilities we have offered have been eagerly grasped by the public.

CHANDHI IN FAILING HEALTH.

INDIAN LEADER GIVES UP TRIP TO EUROPE.

from Changshu, a town on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway.

It appears that a young Chinese was reproved by his mober, who declined to allow him to draw any further funds from the family treasury, for smoking bpium, the mother saying that he bed already spent more than his chart Anger- ed, be took the matter ap. with his wife and his concubine and, it is said, all three thought that it would be better to put the old lady

· Mahatma · Ghandhi, says

the out of the way and get hold of the United Press, the "great soul" of family fortune. India, has not been in the best of They are said to have scured the health He is in his 60th year and services of a ticha coolie and to Unfortunate spends much of his time in medita-have murdered the

woman in a most brutal manner. tion and quiet, /-"

Native doctors, the only kind he The case was brought before the will permit to attend him, confess district court and the confession of themselves anxious about him. He the ricsha coolie led to the arrest has had to abandon & proposed of the othera ̈ trip to Europe.

In court, all pleaded guilty and Nevertheless, although his vigor the Court imposed the death een- been impaired, Ghandhi's tences on the son and the ricaha spirit burns as strongly de ever. coolie and sentenced the wife and The man who is often described as concubine of the son to life impri- the Tolstoi of India," declares sonment. Ail were deprived per- he has not shifted his ground in manently of their civil rights. the slightest.

has

Close followers of Indian affairs

déclare that Ghandhi can never re- Nevertheless, Ghandhi still has turn to politics. The Ghandhist a mission in the role of peace Non-co-operation party has, they maker between the two great forces Bay, virtually ceased to exist. The in the community-the Hindus; and Swarajists are split into many fac- the Moslems. tions, and there is no place for the This work, from his place in the Mahatma

little town of Porbandar, Ghandhi (Continued at foot of next column.) continues to pursue.

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