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9.25 10.08 12,19 123

938 10.20 12.30 1.33 953 10.33 13.43 1.4

2.41, 2.59 3.00

Yaamat, Dep. 6.49

Skatin. Dep. 2.01

...Dep. 7,15

Market. Dep.7.20

Fanling Dep. 7,30

Sheung

· 4,38) 5,42.7,44 450 5.00 7.58 5.04 6.13 8:09

shai Dep. 7.25 9.0719. 8am-

hun.A 7.41 8.45 9.13 9.51 10.2110.58 1.08 2.13 3.05 3 313.30 5.99 6.58 8,33

Canton ..Art,! - (19.05 —

OILFIELD IN KENT,

1,000 FEET SHAFT ON WAR OFFICE LAND.

"RICHER THAN U.S."

Kent, the garden of England, and the centre of the new coalfield, promises to be the scene of an Eng Lish oilfield.

"SHALL NOT LEAVE LONDON."

BISHOP'S REPLY TO DEAN INGE

"I BILL

not leaving London. That was the statement made by the Bishop of London in reply to opinion on Dean Inge a suggesties fa request that he would express his

that he should exchange dioceses with Dr. Headlam, the Bishop of Gloucester,

Extraordinary developments ar 9.59 10.37 12:47 1,533.105.09 6,178,19

"Dean Ingo did not hear the 10.1010,47 1957) 3,02 1-3.20 5,18 8:27 8.13 expected to follow the completion speeches which were made at the 0.15.10.52 1.02 2.073.85 8.24 5.23 8.33 8.270 negotiations between the War Synod of the London clergy," the

Offcé and the head of a City firm.

statement continues. A the An application is under consiness to obey my directions when speakers expressed their willing. deration by the War Office for per they are givea. They will be issued mission to sink an of boring or in January. Government owned land at Hythe The adverse vote of the Synod adjoining the ranges of the Royal was due to dislike of the 1999 School of Musketry. The applicant Prayer-book, felt from diametrie is Mr. Norman Dudzeon, seniorally opposite points of view." partner in the firm of W. Atkinson & Co., foreign exchange brokers, of Great Winchester-street, London.

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Mr. Dudgeon is convinced from the information he has received tha oil exists at Hythe. How great is the volume of oil, somewhere about 1,000 feet below the ground surface, can only be ascertained by a test.

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There is no question that flow. apak on this land at Hythe," said Mr. Dudgeon to a Daily Express representative. Therefore I am seeking a lease from the War Office. A partner of mine held a lease from the Government to bore during the war time, but owing to the difficul ties of those days the work was not pursued, and the lease lapsed.

"What I am seeking now is o renewal of that lease. I cannot, however, induce the War Office to make up their minds. The matter "gees from department to depart ment, and all the answer I can obtain by letter or interview is that the matter is under considera- tion.

Gloucester And Dean Inge's Suggestion.

GLOUCESTERL There is intense interest through out the diocese of Gloucester, and also in the neighbouring diocese of Bristol and Bath and Wells, in the suggestion made by Dean Inge in an article that there should be an exchange of biskupries between Dr London, and Dr. Headlam, Bishop Wissington Ingram, the Bishop of of Gloucester.

We have felt for

some time past," said Dr. Gee, the Dean of Gloucester, "that our bishop is destined to pass forward to another and greater sphere of work.

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Should Dr. Ingram reaign the near future, it would not sur prise any of the clergy in the dio- case of Gloucester it Dr. Headlam was called to be Bishop of Lon-| don."

PROBLEM OF THE HOME- LESS WOMAN.

THE SLAMMED DOOR.

Miss Margaret Bondfield, M.P. Mr. John Drinkwater, Mia Gladys Cooper, and Mr. J.-A. Cairns, the magistrate, were among the "stars"

DIARY OF EVENTS.

To-day (December 5th.) Fanling Hunt Meet, Sheung Shui Police Station, 2.30 p.m.

Toys

Cathedral Hall, 10 am to 8p.m.

Sale of Woolies and

Property Sale: Lammert Bros., No. 179 Queen's Road East, No, 14 Cross Street and No. 90 Main Street, Sai Wan Ho, 3 pm.

Football-Mid-week League: Hung Kui School Chinese, .W.D. Chinese . Ewo Chinese, South China . Police

Queen's Theatre: Ramona." Star Theatre: "Man Power." World Theatre The Jazz Mad." Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 p.m.; King, Edward Hotel, p.m.

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

Thursday.

(December 6th.)

St. Nicholas Day.

Kai Tak R.A.F., King's Park, 5 Hockey: Y.M.C.A. 2nd XI." *..

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Y.M.C.A. Ladies Night, 0 p.m. Queen's Theatre: "Ramona." World Theatre: Safety Last.". Star Theatre! Across the Pacific.

Tes Dance: H.E. Hotel, 4.30 p.m." Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel, 8 p.m.

Friday,

(December 7th.) Helena May Institute; 10.30 am.

Christian Fellowship Meeting.

Jumble Sale: Union Church Kennedy Road, 2.30 p.m.

Football Referees Lecture, Capt. Austin, Scandal Point, & p.m.

Queen's Theatre: Ramona." World Theatre: Safety Last, Star Theatre- Across the Pacific.

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, 4.17 am.; King Edward Hotel, 3 p... Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel 8p.m.

Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe vid Suez (Mantua). Outward: Europe ri Siberia (Mantua), 3 p.m.

Saturday.

(December 8th.) Annual General Meeting, Helena May Institute, a000.

Women's Guild Unicr Church,

Kowices; Sale of Work, 2 p.m.

Cricket:-Division I. Chinese . Indians (L), Craigengower . Navy L), Kowloon v. Bong Kong C.C. (F) Division 11.: Indians v. Re- creio (L), "Navy. Craigengewer

Civil Service v. Royal En gineers (L), Palice v. Hong Kong Electric (L), University v Kow loon (F), Hong Kong C.C. R. Diocesan Boys' School (5)

have pointed out the immense national-importance of a discovery of oil in Kent. The officials at the War Office admit. my contention, but they will not burry their | decision. The machine must move in its slow and accustomed way. who appeared on the stage of the All I am asking for is funds for yet another of the Cecil New Theatre, London, to appeal for mission to sink a hole in a piece Houses: Presumably that was why of land that is unused. I am un dertaking to pay the Government 5

the theatre was packed from gallery per cent. royalty on all ail which to stalls with an audience that, as comes from the borings and is sold. Miss Rondfield suggested, had prob-. Immediately I am granted a lease abiy never known what it was to be the work will be put in hand.

stranded in the streets of a town It will take from three to six without a chance of finding a ladg months to sink the Lore, according ing for the night. to the depth before we strike the She told of her solitary experi oil, and then we shall know what ence of such desolation when, arrive lies below this derelict Governmenting at Coventry very late one night and by the side of the Kent sea- and asking a policeman if there was any place where she could sleep, Expert's Discovery.

she was directed to a hostel for girls. She told how the door was An expert geologist, who has at last opened in response to her. hand experience in all the principal knocking and the matron appeared, Queen's, University u. Royal nilfields of the world, definitely but when she asked, "Can you take Incated the oil for me at Estheme in the matron son, "Certain He found evidence of greater oil resources at Hythe than ever he her face.

ly not" and slammed the door in has found in the oi lands of low to me," said Miss Bondfeld “It was a "staggering Rumania or America.

"It had never occurred to me that "Mr. Dudgeon claims also that he any woman could be treated like and his experts have located an oil that in the middle of the night. belt in Sussex, of which the centres, But it is not uncommon for womer are Heathheld and Mayfield, where when they seek lodging late at night

hward.

the oil is under the town street.

to be treated brusquely on the as

Football:-First Division. OSB Recreio, Chinese Police, Queen's Kowloon, Royal Artillery. Club, Navy. Small Units. Second Division: R.A.F Artillery, Navy, Small Units. China R. Eastern, South China Chinese Athletic » K.O.S.B., South

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7. St. Joseph's, Kowloon ".

Queen's Theatre: Ramona." World Theatre: "Safety Last. Star Theatre

Across the Pacific," Europe vid Marseilles (alwa), Principal Mails: Outward.

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10.30 a.m.

Sunday. (December 9th.) Golf: 1st and 2nd rounds of the championship, Fanling.

It has been known for many years sumption that they are undesirable that there were oil reservoirs in the and that they ought not to be ciny of the Sussex Weald.

there." The natural gas whith wells up The Cecil Houses which exist for through a pipe at Heathfield the homeless women were, she said, originally sunk to strike water-is in the nature of a pionery experi- held to be proof of oil deposits.

This gas is used to light Heath come an integral part of all hous- ment. She hoped they would be. feld railway station, and is a far ing schemes in all areas, for inevit hetter illuminant than coal gas.

ably the number of women who were Swim's Theatre: "Swim Girl .cntirely dependent on theinselves World Theatre: "Brown of

for a livelihood and had no inan to WHAT THE DUKE OF YORK the larger scheme would retain the lean on would increase. She hoped

IS NOT.

friendly, welcoming, helpful spirit of the Cecil Houses and make the JUDGES: BENCH BARRED TO Wanderers feel they had reached an

HIS.

atmosphere of home.

The Cecil Houses had been very fortunate in The Duke of York speaking at their matrons, women who were the Hardwicke Society dinner, willing to show the lodgers of said: "I am

night how to darn their stockings and mend and clean their clothes:

President of hospitals and socie-

tics of every kind;

A Maaři chief;

A Boy Scout; Dennery

Officer in all three Services; and Bencher of the Inner temple; but I am not a judge..

Fanling Hunt, meet at Lok «Ma Char, 10.30 a.m.

St. Vincent de Paul Fête.

Harvard."

Star Theatre: "Behind the Froot."

Tea Dance: H.E. Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Miss Gladys Cooper's appeal was on behalf of the babies, 3,000 of with their mothers in the Cecil whom have already been received Houses. She asked for cots, and several members of the audience afterwards promised sums of £11, enough to maintain a'baby's cot for a year

Case Of The Babies. Mr. John Drinkwater said he had never known what it was to fuck my Atry. Cecil Chesterton announced for bed for the night, but he had lived that it was three years to-day sinco year, on twenty pounds, so the first meeting in aid of the first that he knew what hunger meant Cecil House was held, and since and the despair of losing grip and then beds had been provided in the three houses for 38,000 women, and 200 women bad had work found for

Not long ago. I read somewhere energy. He made a strong appeal that members of the Royal Family for the funds required to build a were obvious" persons. I was not fourth Cecil House. Once founded them. She begged for clothes, quite sure what this expression these houses were, self-supporting. meart, so I thought I would look They could carry on on the shilling up the word obvious in the a night which paid for tea and bis dictionary, and one of the defini-cuits, for bed and bath, and faci tions given was goes without sayities for laundry, and for another ing. I have attended many dia- cup of tea, and biscuits for the wan ners at which I have wished to be derers before they left in the morn- Lobvious “and go without "say-inga

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Mr. Gairng echoed the appeal for the £5,000 required, for the hostel, and then Lady Lovat and Sir Gerald du Maurier took the stage as beggars, They suçverded

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