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ROBABAHOZ★#_\\##AKER HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8th, 1929. #1 ·

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

STATIONS NA IN

TIME-TABLE. ·

UP TRAINS:

010

AM AM AM AM, A930)| AMES[WOON] L.M. Į SK| PX|FX| FIG. FIGĮ PAL

Shatin... Dep.17.01

Taipo Dep. 7,15|— Tripo

Kowloon.Dep. 6.40| 8.05) 8.80 9.08) 9.1510,00 12,10′ 1.15 1.25 1,33 2,43 4,30 5,40| 7.36 Yarmat.Dop 6.49|

9.2510.08 12,18 1,93) -- |2.43, 4.88 5.48 7,44 9.3810.2013.30 1,3 - 153

4.50 6.00 7.56 5310.33 12.43 1.483068.04 6.13 8.09 9.3510.8712,471,59) --- 13.10) --- 5.08 6.17 8.15 |10.1010,47 19,67) 3,09 — | 3.20) — | 5,18) 6,27 8.33 3.25 3.945.23 6.51 2.97 510.58

Bheung-

Dem 7,50

[_shad"...Dep][7,35)

-

| 9.07] 9.45 20.15 10.5%). 1.02) 2,07

Sham- A 7.41-8.45 8.13 9.51 10.31.10.59 1.08 2.13 5.05 8.31 3.80 5.29 6.33 6.85

Canton". Arr.-18.05) -

STATIONS

5,45

DOWN TRAINS

0

6.90

3. 1 NO. ENG. 11, No.7 No. 5 No.15 Ma.17NGID NG SINAMİNƏ, 19 NEIES ANG AMAY, AM | AM. | 4.3. - 7.M. P.M.) P.M. |F.X., P.L. | FX.

8.10

8.945

Canton ...Dap. Shamakan Dep.7.18 8.06 10.07) 10.35 11.27,11.49 3.03 | 4,80, 5.47 | 6.38) 6.40 · 6.50 |- 10.45) · — [11,55) 3,15 | 4,45| 3,54| 8.25] 6,57 Sheangahai Dep.7.25 8.14 Fanling Dep. 7.30 8.16

Taipo Market Dep. 7,40 8.28

| 10,47 — 19.00) 3.31 | 4,50) 5.58

10.57 ||12,11| 3.31 | 5.00 4,08

Tripo Bhatin Formati Dep. 8.11 2.58 | 11.96) —

Dap.7.44 8.31 19.34 11.01 -1.168.36 | 5.04*6.13

11.14 ...Dep. 7.57 8.44

19.30 3.49 5.17 6.36

12,43 401 | 5,99 6.38

THE REAL CAUSE OF FAMINE IN

CHINA.

DEVASTATION DUE TO MILITARISM.

SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST GENERAL FENG,

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Less than five per cent. of the existing nation-wide famine in China is due to natural enuses, and almost the entire disaster can be traced directly to the cynical oppression of the War Lords and their petty politicians, both those Government and those who are not, connected with the Nationalist

according to a survey made by several members of the American Legation staff in Peping.

been United

ed from

in

for the upkeep of these idle soldiers, and to provide them with grain. If they have not given the grain willingly, it has been taken by force.

Troops No Protection Against Bandits.

soldiers have been quartered in In spite of the fact that idle

country-side has been over-run by this district by the thousands, the bandits, the investigator found, and the soldiers have done little or nothing to prevent them from loot ing the people who had been left with little to loot.

The results of this survey have

Three years of this sort of thing not been made public, but have has had its inevitable consequence, learned indirectly by the and when the crops, this autumn Press correspondent, in wore also bad, starvation for thou- Peping, Information was obtain-sands of these unfortunate people

was the result. American Consula

The survey indicates that very China and from young men attach little has been done by the Chinese ed to the Legation as language officials, military or civil, to meet officers, who were sent into the the famine crisis, and that on the most seriously affected districts by contrary taxes have been raised in the American Minister, Mr. J. many famine districts, and extort- corresporident has talked directly by cynical minor officials.

Kowloon Art, 8.17 0.09 11.00 11.32 12.07 12.49 4.07 5.86 5.44 7.00 7.20 7.82 4. MacMurray. The United Pressed from peeple facing starvation

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with some of the men who shared in the investigation:

While information obtained by several "of the Legations here and Military Men Responsible. ·

by large business concerns working The investigators found that in the interior show that the starvations is widely prevalens, estimates of the China Interna perhaps more so than at any time tional Famine Relief Commission since 1920-1921, but discovered that have been exaggerated, it has been conditions in practically every dis definitely established that several Lict could have been prevented if hundred thousand persons face the military authorities-in-control-starvation before spring. The had shown the slightest disposition death of these persons, the survey to take the most obvious precau- indicates, cannot be laid to an tions, and had permitted the act of God," but to very definite farmers to keep a reasonable share sets of very definite persons of their crops for the past three

Particular interest attaches to the report of one investigator who went to Suiyuan, a district in the northwest of Peping which is very hard-hit. It was found that this famine could be traced directly to Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang, the most powerful War Lord at Nanking to- day, and, a man who has taken a great interest in the proposal to raise $12,000,000 in the United States and Europe for famine re- lief.

PICCADILLY TUBE

MARVELS.

BURIED STATION FOR 50

MILLION PEOPLE.~

AUTOMATIC TICKETS.

At 2.30 to-day Londen, will be in- troduced to a new wonder of the world, says the Daily Express of

December 10th.

vaht

Registered as a Newspaper at the Genaral Post Office in the United Kingdom.

"Every three minutes as a train erosses the points at "K up comes the rubber stamp and records it at Piccadilly. If the service is work- ing to time, the stamp marks will all be at regular intervals.

Should there be delay or a break- down the stamp makes no mark. The public as well as the engineora can see what is happening.

The arena of this circular under ground station is greatly taken up with money-in-the-slot machines. Automatic ticket-taking is the rule. There are twenty-four ticket machines, each accepting, money and delivering tickets for long lists af stations.

Having secured his ticket, the Passenger makes for one of the five ing, where he is directed right or escalators which are working for him. He is taken below to a land-

left as the case may be to the Bakerloo or Piccadilly line.

..

120 Feet Down.

Two sets of three escalators each will be at work to take him to the Bakerloo, 50 feet below the surface, or the Piccadilly, 120 feet down. Should he be up from the country, and nervous of escalators, there is an emergency staircase.

will be closed as a booking office to The old Piccadilly-circus Station day at 2:30, but will remain open

an extra subway to the great booking and escalator arena regarkable. The booking-hall, the The lighting effects below are re- station levels below, and the escala There is no eye dazzle. tors are all lighted by reflection.

Standards have been erected with electric lights on top, shielded as viewed from below. The light beats against a white ceiling.and is deflected and radiated so that an impression of the softened light of a summer day is produced. mosphere is pure, and the subways It is delightfully warm. The ́st- open to foot passengers crossing the circus will doubtless relieve greatly the trafic overhead:

representing

Mural paintings

the Empire, shopping scenes, the "eountry served by "the Under- ground, theatres, and so forth form pleasing objects for the eye.

25,000,000 Passengers, When Piccadilly-circus Station As opened in 1908 it deals with million passengers per year. That number has been increased to twenty-five millions. The new 'ar- rangements will provide facilities for fifty millions. During the rush hours two trains per minute pass below Piccadilly-circus; normally 1,800 trains per day comprise the traffic

Wholesale Confiscation Of Property. When Marshal Feng retreated

This magnificent work of en before the Mukden armies from

sincering will undoubtedly be one Six subways at Piccadilly-circus of the show sights of London. It Peking in 1926, he settled down for will be thrown open, leading to as the largest underground june- a time in Suiyuan, and then con- tinued on to the further northwest. its circumference lined with show Romans, who built a road over the underground amphitheatre, tion in the world." What the But when he went away, he took with him, this investigator found.

casca each the size of a small shop.spot in A.D. 200 to epnnect the On the walle is an arrangement castern approach to the City with every farmer's cart, every head of

of peculiar clocks one for each the western, would think of it only livestock-work-and milk animals

tube" under the control of the imagination can conjecture. and every bushel of surplus grain Underground Railway These When Nash built Regent-street which he could get his hands on..

clocks are not for telling the time; (1813-21) a maze of mean streets As a result, the farmers had so they record the progress of the trains and alleys was swept away to form work-animals left, no carts to carry that burrowing their way the circus, then called Regent- their crops to market, and no seed beneath London and the suburbs. circus, a title altered, to the pre- grain to soW The district bas At regular intervals if all is sent one in 1880. never been able to catch up.

well rubber stamp pops up and The burrowing for the

are

new

At the same time, in addition to makes a mark on a clock face station, carried out with diffiealties this crushing blow, troops have That shows that a certain train almost superhuman, the atce} been quartered in this district con has duly passed over the points roofings, the laying of the girders tinuously ever since, and as they at the particular station for which which form the breastwork of Pic- have received no pay and no money the clock is set-Chancery-lane, the eadily-circus, the conveying of for food, they have lived on the Elephant, or what not.

the great masses 01 material farmers and villagers. Sometimes Say a three minutes' service is beneath ground vid, one narrow 4,000 soldiers have been quartered running between A and Z. The aperture are all triumphs which on a single village, and the village clock is set for station E, about only skilled engineers can appre-

ciate. people have been compelled to pay half-way along the route.

The Week's Coming Events.

To-day.

(January 8th.) Sanitary Board Meeting, "4.15

P.12,

Hockey: Y.M.C.A. 1st XI. Recreio, King's Park, 5 p.m..

Macdona Players: "Man and Super Man," Theatre Royal, 9.15

p.m..

Recreio Amateur, Players: "What Happened to Jones," Star Theatre, 0.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: Rookies."

Wednesday. (January 9th.)

Land Sale: Lammert's Auction Rooms, Property in Princes Terrace;" Kwong Wa St., Waterloo Road, Conduit Road and Tung Sing Road, ap.m.

Chinese Chamber of Commerce Meeting, 2.30 p.m.

H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi lands Pier, 3 p.m. from Empress of France Statue

Cricket: R.A.8.C. v. Royal En- "Circusgineers (L)

World Theatre: 5.10 and 9.13, "Topsy and Eva" 9.30 and 7.15, Chinese picture "4 Emancipators." Star Theatre: On Your Toes." Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsular Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Football-ist Division: Small Enita . R.A Mid-week League: P.W.D. Chinese . C.A.A., Police Hung Kui School, Lam Long Wan v. South China.

The Macdons Players: Theatre Royal Candida," 9.15 pm..

Queen's Theatre: The Way of

Dinner Dances: King Edward Hotel, 8 p.m.; St. Francis Hotel, 8 all Flesh.

p.m.

World Theatre: At 5.10 and 8.15 European Mail:-Inward:The Escape"; at 1.30 and 7.15 Europe: bid Hiberia (Altai Maru) | Chinese picture 4 Emancipators." and (Perseus). Outward: Europe Star Theatre: Tess of the! vid Marseilles (Perseus), 2.30 p.m." d'Urbervilles."

Tea Dances: HK. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.

B

Dinner Dance: Et Francis Hotel, p.m.

Europe rid Vancouver, B.C., and European Mail:-Outward

vid Siberin (Empress of Russia), 18

Thursday.. (January 10th.)

Hockey: Y.M.C.A. 2nd XI. . University 2nd XI., King's Park, 3 p.m.

Helena May Institute Concert, French Modern Music, 6.30 p.m.,

The Macdona

Players, Doctor's Dilemma," Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.

The

The Recreio Amateur Players? What Happened to Jones," Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Way. of“ all Fleah.

World Theatre: At 5.10 and 9.19 The Escape"; at 2.30 and 7.15 Chinese picture" 4 Emancipators" Star Theatre: "Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

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