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Hongkong Daily Press

No.22.243 號叁拾肆百弍仟弍萬弍第日登月拾年巳己

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

Os and after Arail 8th, 1929, antit farther Notice (all previou

Time Tables' cumcniled.)

TIP TRAINS.

STATIONS

No.1 Yo.

AMA.K.

No.36

X, No. 14 Xa. 18 Na

Kowloon.Dep. 6.40) 8.03

Yazmati Dop. Q

Shatin...Dep.

7.04

Taipo ...Dop. 7,15

Taipe

Market.Dep. 7.30

Fanling,Dop. 7,50

Sheung

shai"...Dep. | 7,35|

Sham-

ohun... Arr. 7,41 8.45

Canton...AIT

STATIONS

12.03

TRE

Sons. & Holis, only

•

8.50 9.15 10,00 13.10 1.15 2.31 3.20 450 5,407,85

9.25 10,00 12,19 1,93

4.88 6,48 7.48

9.88 10.20 19.30 1,35

$.50 6.00) 7.55

#59 10.33 12,48 1,48

5.04 2.138.08

5.09 0.17 8.12

6,186,27 8.49

9.38 10.37 12.47 1,59:- 10.10 10.4712.57 2,02

9.07 10.15 10.59] 1.03 2,07 3.09 —

5.23 8.32 6.26

8.13 10.21 10.58 1.08 2.13 3.154.00 5.39 6,38| 8.31

5,48

DOWN TRAINS

-

.-7.38!

No. 17 No.19'! Ba21}Mo, 12 44.13 7.30 P.M. PIL | PM.

F.X.

201 No.7

A.M. A.X.

No & No.1 AK. A.M.

Canton

..Dap.

8.10

3.25

Ahumchun...Dep.7.17

8.03

Bheangahul Dep. 7.23 5.11

10.34 10.41

1127 11.47 253 4,39 | 5,47 | 6.42 11,55 | 8,01 | 4,48 | 5,54

7.07 7.14

Fapling

Dap. 7,30 8.15

10.47

12.00 3.06 4.50-5.58

Taipo Market. Dep. 7.40 8.26

10,57

19,11 | 8,17 | 6,00 | 6,08

Taipo

....Dep. | 7,44 | 9,31

11.01

11.163,235,04 | 6,13

...Dop,?,579,44

Dep.9.11

13.14

9.58 11.26

Kowloon...Arr. 8.17 9.03 11.32

12.30 | 8,38 (5.17 | 6,36 12.42 8,49 1,09 | 6.38

12.07, 12.49 3.645.36 | 6.44 | 7.227.49

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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1929.

HIGH LIFE IN HONG KONG.

NIGHT IN THE CHINESE QUARTERS.

MUSIC AND SHARK-FIN SOUP: KAM LING CHOW-TIM.

WHERE EAST MEETS WEST IN FESTIVE MOOD.

[By HERBERT FIELD;

In the Shadows.

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Walking

"When myriads of stara bejewel the purple mantle of the Eastern The banging of the gongs and slowly through the back streets sky and the moon's silver crescent the walling of the pipes take on a entais great sare. Quite inadvert honga suspended, like a dit in arising crescendo the patrol antly, one may step heavily upon dark curtain veiling dazzling lights begund, then une encounters the mystic glamour of the "Orient and the Night becamés pregnant with mystery..

tou

Romance...

find

some tired sleeper, stretched full agth upon the pavement with the cudding clouds as his root over- head.

wings by. On the pavement op posite, the inevitable crowd of coulies and fokie stand gaping up at the lights, and craning their

"On "these occasions, the necks to catch the slightest possible aleaper may grunt" Hei-ya!" atir "From a nearby pagoda comer glimpse of one or other of the utensils, and then roll over again the plaintive wail of some weird party on the verandah. A number to court ready slumber.

Seeking & Oriental atmosphere, musicut instrument, accompanying of huge paper lanterns, decorated the rhythmic chanting of priests chairs, devil-scarers, and other ones stepmay turn in the direc whose voices rise and fall upon the paraphernalia common to wedding tion of the Kum Ling Restaurant As we do not evening breeze which brings the festivities lie dumped in the gutt at West Baint perfume of a thousand spices to looking unspeakably tawdry in the savour of the sight-seeing tourist. the nostrils.

Amillion coloured brilliant glare of the lights of the we ascend tejho third floor, taking lights flicker and gleam over China-restaurants.

note ere wtep into the lift of vi the nói là Gouttin) which phiya Night the Bast ... Turning the corner, the pose merry in foyer, ita scintillat- themselves in comparative ing spray camogly illumined by I cull the above passages from darkness, the wan and sickly Ba concealed Jigs ever changing the pages of one of the "best-lamps on the pavement serving to sellers" of a well-known writer of accentuate the shadows rather than r, so that a minute we are Eastern mystery stories. It is his to dispel them. Indeed, for the dazled by acusende and the idea of the Chinese quarter of moment, one could even visualiso

next, are abtrigued by rays” of Hong Kong after dark and, in con- some armchair writer penning, the emerald green of seductive, belio. mon with other imaginative "home words "while, dark figures, fit As we leave the lift we are asked

fropa side

writers, it is possible he furtively among the shadows." if we need the services af, a would receive a shock if he mado

Unfortunately for the professorefcheung kenk or sing song girl. We of journalese, the people of the reply to the fifmative and take or Yaumati after dinner.

darkest streets of the Chinese our seat at table in a private The Real Thing.

quarters are usually honest, haid toom. One gives the order im With a European sergeant at working artiznes, and oven those mediately for time has no value their head, a posse of Indian of the coolie type, who never in Chips and we may be lucky, or and Chinese police tramp slowly Possase a rool over their heads otherwise, to have our orders through the crowded, narrow, gas-squat contentedly in customary executed within half an hour of it streets and turn into the garish doorways, waiting until the making them to the thu to ly illumined restaurant quarter.

tenant of the house has chared ija Beranno vodeni un festige mood. Even without their heavy revolvers, the spread out their tasten we order, among other things, which swing from their belts, they mat or piece of sacking upon the kei tea (marrom seeds, cheux would be & formidable party ta pavement and, with a brick for tow tong (birds nest soup), min oppose. But the Chinese in Hong pillow, close their tired eyes in (noodles), y si (thark's fin). Jap Kong are a law-abiding people in sleep until dawn awakens them tochni (a small fish cooked complete the main, are used to their pre-a fresh day of hard toil for a wage with head and tall in a manter sence, and pay little heed to the passing of the posse.

the journey through Kennedy Town

of a few cents.

Although it is past ten o'clock the rattan chair and basket makers

than

to please the most epicurean taste), ho 28- (large oyster), and sam ching (Chinese wine which more are still busy the whole family in addens the head and heart of

Further, spurning euch narrow ill-lit workshop hurry-man).

such

and

Open the verandah of one of the most palatial of the restaurants in Shanghai Street a wedding party is holding high revel, an orchestra ing to finish the chair or settee banal implements "as kaives of about half-a-dozen performers which has been ordered by some forks, we ask for and are immedi- producing laud and discordant, oi-yan or other. Shortly, they ately given an ornamental as well music upon reed. instruments, will hik-fan (eat rice) and then useful pair of fai tai (chop- strings, gongs and rattles, more men-folk will play mak-chenk sticks)... with the idea, apparently, of scar. (sparrows) until two or three

Ngoh 01 Nei," ing away atray devils than of o'clock in the morning, the rattle The swing doors open suddenly charming the ears of the guests. and clatter of the rapidly shuffled and carrying a kuma musical in- The Chinese are intensely fond ivory sad bamboo "cards" canstrument not unlike a zither-under of electric illumination, and their tinning ecaselessly until for her arm, the sing-song girl arrives. decorative schemes in this respect rounds of the winds, or more, haye Brandishing deftly a pair of hum are certainly unique. Restaurant been played. proprietors in particular have deve- loped this form of decoration to a very fine urt Indeed. Their pre- On the Island, once cue gets be:To the unintiated the song is mean- miscs are usually adjoining, and yond the Central district in the ingless but, if one cares to pay their concerted decorative efforts | direction of West Point, one en-

are striking in the extreme.

Across the Harbour,

counters the same more or less

chuk she commences a weird bar- barie song in a volca· singularly deroid of Western ideas of tone.

(Continued on Page 9.)

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day.

(November 1.)

All Saints. Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 4.12. Hockey Club" "A" v. Hong Kong S.RA, Marina ground, p.ui.

Golf: Entries close for cham pionship, Jasper Clark Cup, Governor's Shield, and G. Young Cup.

Auction: Laminart Bros. House hold furniture, 2.30 p.m

Queen's Theatre: "The Marks of the Devil.".

World Theatre: **The Bells." Star Theatre: "One Round Hoga

Ten Dances; Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel, 8 p.m.

Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel; 8.30 p.m.

HM.8. Titania's Grand Fare well Dance, Lane Crawford's, s❘

p.m.

Tides: High, 0.45 am: and 9.11 p.m; Low, 2.11 am. and 3.08 p.m. Mails:-Inward: European Europe via Nozapatam, letters, (Malaya).

Saturday,

(November 2)

All Souls.

Captain and Officers of H.M.5. Titania At Home," 11 am.

Sunday. (November 3.) Twenty-third Sunday After

R.HK Yacht Club, Opening, cruise, First Ladies' Race, 3 p.m.

Golf: Captain's Cup, Fanling. Footbal: Div. E. Chinese 7. ery, Recreio r. South China, St. Somersets, Navy Royal Artil. Trinity.

Golf: Captain's Cup, Faoling. Joseph's v. Poliés, K.O.S.B. Cricket; Kosloon C.C. «. Volun Kowloon. Div. II: Somersets vers Eastern, K.O.S.B.

Becreio, South China "A" r, Navy. Royal Artillery v. University, Kowloon RAM.C., St. Joseph's Ewo, Chinese "A". South China "B" Chinese "B" r. Club.

Cricket-Interport Trial Hong Kong C.C. ground, 2 p.m.

Boya'

Queen's Theatre; "Cameraman." World Theatre: "Love Thrill." Star Theatre': "Beyond the Sierras,"

Tes Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel,| 4.30 p.m.

Tides: High, 11.28 am, and 9.36 p.m; Low, 4.35 ap and 3.33 p.m.

Honday. (November 4.)

League Cricket:-Division II.⠀ . Recreio u KRCA, RAS.C. K.C.O... Friendlies: C.8.C.C.#.. Navy, LR.C.. Army C.R.C. | First day of Jemadi-al-Akkir. C.CC., University . C.B.C.C. H.K, and Canton Ice Manufac

Diocesin memoration Day, 3.3 The Marks of

School Comtaring Co., Ltd, extra-ordinary

mecting, Lower Albert Rd., 11 Devil,"

Ruth Van Valey Co. Star Theatre World Theatre: "The Bells" 9.13.p.m. Star Theatre: "One Round Hogan."

Queen's Theatre:

St. Peter' Young Men's Club: "The Dandy Coons," 6p.m

Tea Dances: Hong Kong Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m.

Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and

Queen's Theatre: "Cameraman." World Theatre: “Love Thrill.” Star Theatre: Beyond the Sierras

Tea Dances: HK Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel; p.m

Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels Tides; High, 10.37 am and 0.342.30 p.m."_ p.z; Low, 3.63 4.m, and 3,29 poi Tides: High 12.20 p.m. and 10.00 European Mails:- Inward: p.m.; Lov, 5.18 a.m, and 4.14 p.m. Europe vid Negapatam, papers. European Maile Outward: only" (Hong Kherg). Outward: Europe vid San Francisco, 5 p.m., Europe via Marseilles (Katori and via Siberia, 0 pm (President: Maru), 9.30 an

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