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No. 22,241 號登拾肆百式仟式萬弍第日提廿月玖年已己

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

On and after rail 8th, 1929, until farther Notice (all previous

Time Tables cancelled.)

IP TRAINS

A.M. AM. 7.K. | P.X | P.X. 1,X. P.X. P.X| 1.X

STATIONS 34 * No #

3,10

56. 6. Lio, 14 Na is Na Na,18 No.3 No.2 No.

AMAN.

A.X.

་

Kowloon. Dep. 6.40 8.05

Yaumati. Dep. 6.49 Shatin...Dep 7.01

...Dep. 7.15

Faaling-Dep: 7,50

Bheung-

ahni...Dep. 7,25

Sham

chin. Ấn Cái 8,

Canton...dr.

12.05

Bana. & Holis. only

8.30 9.1510.00/12.10) 1.15;

9.25 10.08 12.18, 1,23| 9.38 10.20 19.30 1.33 85310.39 18.43 2,45

9.68 10.37 12.47 1.33- 10,10 10.47 12,67 2,02

[8.20) 4,80) 5,40) 7.85

[4.58) 5,48 7.49 450) 6.00) 7,55

*--* | 5,04) 6,138) 8.08

5,08 6.17 8.11 5,186,978.11

น

|9.07 101310.52) 1.02) 9.07 3.00$,03 6.939 8,23 · 9.13 10.21 10.58 1,08 2,183,15) 4.00) 5.59 6,39 6.38.

5.45

DOWN TRAINS

7.18!..

No.17No.11 | Maj1a 13 44.

· T.X. (P.M. | PM. | PM,

STATIONS

Ko. I

6. M. 7 A.M. A.M. A.M.

No. Xo.1 A.M. A.M.

Canton ...Dop.

8.10

3.25

7.17

1147

11.47 9.58 489 5.47

7,07

11.55 8.014.46 | 5.54

19.808.064,50

Shunchun...Dop..

8,03 10.34 1041 Sheangahui Dap. 7.85 8.11

Fanling...Dep.

TaipoMarket. Dep.

7.30 8.15 10.47

8.38 10,67 Dep. 7,483 11.01

Dep. 7.57 8,44 11,14

Taumati Dep. 8.11 9.58 11.28

·

19.118.175.00

12,168,325,04 | 6:13

12.308,38 517 6.28

12,42 | 9,48 (5,296.38

Kowlood, Arr. 8.17 9.03 11.32 12,07 12.48 | 3,545,28 6.44|7,227.49

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“DOPE” PERIL IN SOUTH AFRICA.

DRUG WHICH IS "HEMP AT BOTH ENDS!

HEMP SMOKED MURDER AND A ROPE!

HABIT SPREADING AMONG EUROPEANS.

CAPE TOWN.-In the "left lug gage" department of Cape Town Station, a small wooden trunk was a few days ago left to be called for. It had arrived from a backveld district in the north. It was addressed to a native and might have contained the hundred and one oddments which an African native counts as his sole worldly nosessions

No Action Taken,

Town dwellers usually acquire bultodic's born which holds water. The water deadens the burning the tabit as a result of unfavour

able environment and as most of sensation in the smoker's mouth.

The dagga smoker is responsible the big towns are honeycombed for nearly all the crimes of violence with stums-worse perhaps than in committed in the sub-continent. For any part of the world-the adop the most part the weed is smoked tion of a habit which brings every by nativos bus Dr. Mitchell, the briefest oblivion is not hard to Secretary for Public Health, has understand. startled the country this week by disclosing that is mioked also

Boys as young as 12 years have After a few days a native arrived by many European youths and

been known to meet in the slums ever school boys in some of the and learn to smoke dagga in the He was

large towns. The effect of dagga same way as tobacco. Those boys. smoking is at first to produce a have been traced to the reforma-

tories and prisons, sense of exhilaration and its con-i tinuntion leads to excitement and eventually to madness. A trian drank with dogga-smoking is a' danger to himself and to everybody in hie immediate neighbourhood.

and claimed the trunk.

alked to explain what it contained and hesitated to do so. The man who asked him disclosed himself as a police officer, The trunk was opened. It was filled with that looked like-and in fact was dried weeds. But the weeds had been put there with a defaite purpose. The police officer seemed satisfied that he had found what he was looking for. "

Town Dwellers Addicted. How grave a national danger the habit may become in disclosed by

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So far, no really drastic action has been taken to combat the evil-

be the magnitude of which ean gathered from the fact that last year, throughout South Africa, there were 4,143 dagga prosecutions and 3,903 convictions. Of the con- victions, 2,997 were alives.

means "noxious

Stops have been taken, however, He whistled to two men waiting Dr. Mitchell who has stated that in co-operation with the Customs outside. They entered and with the in a certain arratis practically Department, to prohibit the im Túwbat possible words" the matine every one of the European jamatesportation of dagga and it has beer was banduffed, and taken away ranging from 18 to 30 years of age suggested that daggn should be Next day he appeared in court on-

was a dagga smoker, and that in proclaimed a "noxious weed" and a charge of being in possession of certain quarters of one big town farmers required to eradicate it Dagg and the officer stated that and in certain schools gangs of lads from their land. the trunk contained enough of this between the ages of it and 16 years Bat, under the existing law, the deadly herb to realise nearly £500 daily smoked 3 or more cigarettes terin "noxious " when sold in shilling packets containing dagga. Those lads show only in an agricultural sense. To weighing a few pennyweights toed carly mental and moral de enforce its eradication therefore slaves of the drug.

generation, becoming untruthful would require new legislation. and unreliable,

That such legislation is urgently necessary can be seen when it is stated that the records of the Pretoria Mental Hospital show that during the five years 1903-12 17.8 per cent. of all the males admitted became insane through dagga smoking-and this hospital is only one of five similar ones in the Union.

As Bad As Opium. Now dagga is in reality Indian hear. It grows easily, is very hardy and when an inch or two high can easily be mistaken for young tomato plants.

"

It is grown in many of the small places in the backveld and ecat to the bigger towns where among the natives it is almost as great a curse as opium is in China

There is little doubt that dagga smoking has an important bearing on one of South Africa's greatest problems the poor white, for it is

among people of this class that the habit is most prevalent, excluding of course the native. Close investi gation has revealed that these un- fortunate white people have acquir It is sometimes smoked in an ordinary pipe but the real daggaed: the habit in boyhood whilst pipe consists of a bowl of soft associating with natives in herding sandstone or clay buried in a hole

in the ground with a length of cattle or in similar occupations in bamboo connecting the bowl to a the country.

The problem can, in the opinion of the best authorities, be solved in only one way-by the ploughing up of those patches of weeds which go to fill trunks' sent to station- waiting rooms and destined to send unfortunate men mad

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