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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

UP TRAINS 010

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STATIONS 2 X 20.10 mada # 36, 137638A 14 NAJE FOLIGNO FE#6.3€ NOM NOM | A,M.| A.M. | ANG|43|AM. | 4M. [WOON V.M.; V.M.) TAKŲ PAK) FIG FIL.) FAL

Kowloon,Dap. 6.40) 8.05 8.30 9.09 9.1510.00 12.10 1.15 1.35 8.33 2.45 4.8 5.40 7.38 Yaxmat. Dep. 6.42

Bhatin. Dep. 7.01

Taipo Pop 7.15

Tripo

Market, Dep. 7.30

Fanling. Dep. 7.30

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1.2510,08 12,18 1,931.41,- P.381020 19.30 1,3-

58 10.33 12.43 1.48 -

9.58-10.87 12,471.53 --

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433.48 2.44 | 4.50) 6,00) 7,85 5.04 6.13 8.00

5.08 6.17 8.1 |5,18! 6,27) 8.23

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chan... Arr. 2,41 8.45 9.18 0.51 10.21 10,58 1.05 213 3.05 5.31 3.30 5.29 6.38 8.33

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DOWN TRAINS

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6.57

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|11.55) 3,15 | 4.47| 5,54 | 6,23 Fauliar ...Dep. 7,30 8.16 Talpo Market Dep. 7,40 8.26 Taipe

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11.14 11.26

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LONDON'S "PEA-SOUP"

FOGS.

MOTORS LOADED WITH MONEY,

HENRY | IRVING LISTENS TO POLITICAL SPEECHES.

London, December 20th.-"Pea soup is being served thinner, and later, in London this season, Novem ber lost its reputation for produc ing the thickest and coldest soup of the winter. Fea-soup" is the Londoner's name for London's own fog, the clammy blanket that re- sembles weak soup in colour, and tastes like the inside of an ice-plant, minus the smell of ammonia but plus a liberal portion of soot and grime.

EXMOOR HOUNDS GO OFF

BY THEMSELVES.

FOUND SURROUNDING HIND,

Minehead.-A remarkable inci dent in connection with a hunt of the Doron and Somerset Stag The Eounds met at Chilly Bridge. hounds was disclosed at Minehead.

a remote part of Exmoor, and it.. appears that some time after the hunt had killed one hind it was dis covered that three hounds bad broken away from the pack and on their own initiative. had pursued another hind up the valley of the River Barle. Search was made, and the three hounds were found holding a hind at bay in the Burle arrived the hind was pulled out of at Withypool. When the huntsman

the water and killed.

watches over bits of comedy and drama which never find their way to the stage, but are an integral part of London's daily amusement, The statue is dedicated to Heart Irving-Actor, and beneath it a ever-changing programme, ranging from political speeches to contor tionist acts, continues from morning until dark. At times a speaker ad- the theme interesting, London dresses only the statue, for unless

will not listen. The act in progress at the lunch hour always draws z Incidentally the hunt killed the good crowd, with the usual good-first hind on Winsford Hill allot- natured listeners who take sides ment, notwithstanding an intima- Changing climate conditions are with the speaker or the beckler, tion from the owner of the land credited with reducing the annual according to who puts up the best that he does not approve of stag. invasions that formerly paralysed allotted their time in the shadow of

demonstration. Street vendors are hunting. the city for days at a time. A Lon- the memorial to one of the greatest don fog is not what it used to we.. figures in English stage history. but it can still be bad enough to An unemployed Welsh inner who cost the city thousands of pounds does a modified Houdini "escape daily. The damage done by a real act is usually well received. Fex ONE ESTABLISHMENT DEFIES fog is estimated at £1,000,000 a day.in the crowd know, of care, that The health of the city's millions Sir Henry Irving was the first actor suffers seriously, extra lighting ever accorded the knighthood. Those who bekeve in spiritualism must wonder at times how Sir Henry gets any rest, if actora take their work seriously in the after-world,

Art. 8.17 9.08 11.00 11.32 12.07 12.48 4.07 5.888.44 7.00 725 7.89. and heat is needed, at least £130,000

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is lost in wages; the delay to goods in transit is estimated at a similar figure; the general throwing-out of gear of everybody's affairs costs ap- proximately £300,000. The total would make a fair-sized instalment on anybody's war débt.

Motor-Cars Full Of Money, Precious cargoes are carried through, the streets of London dur ing the holiday season in taxicabs times in the three wheeled affairs of ordinary delivery vans, and some propelled by a boy on a bicycle seat. The Christmas savings clubs are dis tributing their dividends, known took over £10,000 from a bank to locally as share outs," One boy the share-out headquarters in vehicle usually employed for de livering head. The money is al ways accompanied by armed guards, but a spectator would'not guess that the men were armed unless he tried to get some of the money. The in-

SIX NIGHT CLUB KINGS LEAVE LONDON,

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THE LAW.

London, December 17th.--Six pro- cters of night clubs in London have left for Paris in the past few days,

They will remain abroad for an indefinite period,

Only one night club was selling drinks after hours on Saturday might and in the early hours of yesterday.

These facts indicate the panic that has followed the drastic action now being taken by the police against such estabishmenta.

andesirable night clubs have been Many girl dancing partners at told that they need no longer at tend. There is no custom for them.

Police authorities estimate that the bogus night club will be killed beyond any question of resurrec tion by the early part of next year.

UNEMPLOYMENT, IN ULSTER.

OPPOSITION M.P.'S COME TO SEE MR. CHURCHILL...

Belfast, December 13th.-Mem-

In the good old pea-soup" days Londoner could get lost walking from his home to the corner public house. A fog is a good excuse at times. People feel their way along lences, poking and tapping through the dark and wet blankes with um- brella or stick, just as the blind beggars of Piccadilly normally feel. their way through the traffic. In a deuse fog the police light flares at street intersections, creeping traffic makes up for its alowaess by a con- tinual honking and changing, pedes- trians hug the inside of the track formality with which the money is and wonder whether they are step deposited during the year is marked ping down a curb or into a coal- hole, while the fog creeps down

in its distribution: The London throats and beneath clothing, mak-banks employ the same informal ing a thorough job of the process of

customs all the year, and any ordi- chilling

nary saloon car picking its way Lights and shop windows along through the City traffe may contain Haymarket become only dim ben-

a fortune, Steel strong boxes con- cons in a pea-soup sea, Leicester Lining & King's ransom are de- Square's theatres, and restaurants posited in the interior of the car,bers of the Opposition in the Bel- are blotted out by the blanket. A which is divided into two sections, fast House of Commons left Belfast dark mass in Charing Cross Road with a locked screen between them. last night to interview Mr. Chur- is the National Gallery, with the An armed guard sits by the driver, chil. For some time past there

beco lights of the famous Alhambra and one guard is placed in each

grave dissatisfaction part of the strong-room section. amongst the Opposition at barely distinguishable half a block Other guards occupy the rear of the weakness of the Government in in-the-Fields are lost in the yellow car, and are responsible for the dealing with the acute poverty due

to the widespread unemployment. haze A stranger. in the Strand transfer of the strong boxes to and

all over the Six Counties. The per would have more than the usual from the car. The motors have no difoulty in progressing from one regular schedule for leaving the centage of idle for the whole of har to the next, say from Romano's garage, so that there is no certainty Northern Ireland is roughly 18. to the Savoy. The most distinguish regarding the movements of the against 11 in Great Britain. This able things in a fox are the glaring too heavy for an ordinary car sible for the scenes in the House of

treasure carriers. Gold bullion is dissatisfaction was mainly respon electric signs, which remind the lost! pedestrian that one brand of whisky 1 which accounts for the arrival at Cominons a few weeks ago, when is better than another for warding the Bank of England of an ocen seven members of the Opposition of a cold and the fa. And even sional whisky truck or grocer's van, were suspended. the signs are eventually engulfed

after a drive through the East End" and fade away,

away. The towers of St. Martin's

from Tilbury Docks. In strong contrast with the activity of Ameri can bandits, there has never been an attempt to rob agy bank car in

Open-Air Entertainments. The statue of a famous actor, creeted just off Leicester Square, i London.

ha

the

Mr. Joseph Devlin, Nationalist

The party from Belfast included

Messrs. T. Henderson and J. Gyle, Independent Unionists, and Messrs. S. Kile, J. Beattie, and M. McMul- len, Socialists.

Diary of Coming Events,

To-627. (January 15th.)

Hockey YM.C.A 1st XI. .. Queen's 2nd XI., King's Park, -5

pim.

Helena May Concert, Local

posers, 9.15 m.in.

Macdona Players: Pygmalion," Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatre:"Love Hungry." World Theatre; 5.10 and 9.15, The Humming Bird"; at 2.20 and 715, Chinese picture "The Spiders." Star" Theatre: Dangerous Money."

Ten Dances: H.K, Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 pim.'"

Dinner Dance: King Edward Hotel, 6 p.m

European Mails:-Inward: Lon don vid Straits, parcele(Ningchow). Europe vid-Siberia (Athos II.). Outward: Europe vid San Fran cisco and vid Biberia (President McKinley), 10.30 a.m.; Europe tia Marseilles (Athos II), 2.30 p.m..

.Wednesday.

(January 18th) Football:-First Division: BL.A. Queen's; Police . South Chins. Macdons Players:" "Getting Married." Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatre Are Aungsfle

World Theatre: 5.10 and 3.15, "The Humming Bird"; at 2.30 and 7.35, Chinese picture "The Spiders." Star Theatre: Dangerous Money."

Ten Dances: HK Hotel and

Queen's Theatre: "The Enemy.". World Theatre: 5.10 and 9.15, Dangerous Money"; 2,30 and 7.15, Chinese picture" The Spiders."

Star Theatre: "Prond Flesh." Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and

Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.; King Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.

Symphony Orchestra (H.M.S. Edward Hotel, 5 p.m. Hermes) Selections of Classical and' European Mails:-Invard: Europe Popular Music. Lane, Crawford'svid Suez (Kashgar). Restaurant, 3.15 to 7.15 p.m.

European Mails:-Outwardi Europe vid Siberia (Hupeh), 1.30 p.m.

Thursday. (January 17th)

v.

Hockey Y.M.C.A. 2nd XI Recreio, King's Park; & p.m.

Macdona Players: "You never can tell," Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: The Enemy." World Theatre: 5.10 and 9.15, "Dangerous Money"; 230 and 7.15, Chinese picture "The Spiders."

"Star Theatre Proud Flesh."

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Pen- Tea. Dances: HK. Hotel and Peninsula, Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Friday.

(January 18th.) Christian Fellowship Meeting,

Baturday. (January 19th.) Fanling Hunt: Steeplechase Race Meeting, Kwanti.

K

Cricket-First Division: Royal Navy . L.R.C., Craigengower v University, Second Division: Navy I.R.C., Craigengower v. University, Hong Kong C.C. v. R.A.B.C.

Queen's Theatre: The Enemy." World Theatre: "Hot Water.* Star

Theatre: "The Loves of Pharaoh."

Tea Dancea: H.K. Hotel and Peninsular Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Dinner Dances: Lane, Crawford's Restaurant and King Edward Hote!

8 p.m.

European Mails:-Outward: Europe vid Marscilles (Kalyan), 10.30 .m.; Europe, vid Biberin

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