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STATIONS. I No,

Nu.10 No.-9

183,21 No, No.39

A FM.P.MP.M.° 7.X. PM° F.M., Z.X.

Kowloon. Dep. 4.85 9.00 9.21| 9,05 10.00 12.101.182.80 3.20 4.80 8.40 7.35

Yanmati.Dep. 8.44-

Shatin...Dep 3,56

Taipo...Dep 7.10

Taipo

Market.Dep. 2.15

Fanling Dap. 7.25

Sheung

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shui...Dap. 7.30

Sunday's à Halideyavaly

945 10.08 12,3 1,34

9.23 10.20 12.30 1.88) 943 10.53 13.43 1,51

9.48 10.87 13.47) 1,55)

- 10.00 10.47) 19,57 2,0%|*|

|9.01 10,03 10.59) 1.08 2.10

8.11

Sham-

chun...Ar. 7,35 8.40 9.07.10.11 10.58 1,09 2.16

Canton...Arr. -11.58

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4.88 5.48 7,48 4.50 8,00 7.85' 5.04 6.13 8.08

5.09 6.17 8.12 | 5,18 6.27| 8.23

6.23 5.32 8.26

8.17 4.00 5.29 6,93 8.53

7,18

DOWN TRAINS

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8.05

8.25

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12.00.444,30 5.58

19.112.34.5.00 6.00

19.18 3,00 5,048,13

STATIONS la 1 Xu, J No. 7

Canton

L.M. AM

A.30.

...Dop. Shunchan...Dap.7.137.69 10.24 11.2 Sheunghai Dap. 7.208.38 1041 Faoling ...Dap. 7.25 9.10 10.47 Taipo Market.Dep. 7.33.21 10.67 Taipo

...Dep. 7:40 9.38 11.01

11.26 8.06 8.51

Shatin ...Dep. 7.53) 339- 11.14 Yarmati...Dep.

12,309,136 176.2€ 12.4913 74 5.20 6.38

BRITAIN'S LURE TO THE STRANGER.

TRAVEL ENTICEMENT.

SIMPLE THINGS WHICH APPEAL TO VISITORS.

There was recently held in London of settlement which broods over the an exhibition of photographs col- English countryside as over no other | lepted by the Travel Association of in the world. Here is a man who Great Britain and Ireland for cir| knows that bridges were meant to culation" abroad, so that the pro-be leaned over, that Ludlow was spective foreign tourist may get a hint of the pleasure and beauty to be found in the United Kingdom.

not built in a day, that moving water against hown stone makes a holiday spectacle of infinito fascina

Travel Longing

After all, how many of us travel. for beauty rather than strangeness ! The earliest travel impulse I can remember was given to me by the queer, dusty smell of the hand of a Chinese doll: · I, rather disliked the smell but it filled me with solemn thoughts of far away, unimaginable places and things and a longing to and where the disturbing odour "belonged."

Once when we were walking on an almost incredibly beautiful Irish mountain, with the Atlantic roar- ing below and a summer sky foam-

One could wander very pleasantly į tiën. among these sepia scenes, recover- I think if I were either a tired or ing one's own good times and a curious foreigner I should feel patriotic thrills when travelling at drawn to a country where a man home, being reminded of, say, the might lean over a bridge like that.. irat sight of Ely rising above the I think if I were a settier or a marshes, or a binek kitten who made daughter of settlers where the tam advances to you in an Oxford Culing of the land and the wreating lege garden of the gaunt shapes of a living had been hard, I shoulding into clouds above, we had to' of Stonehenge solidifying at the coming of dawn, of the gurgles of an"amber stream hurrying to join the Dee above Balmoral.

Kowloon ...ASP. 3.13 957. 11.32 12.01 1248 3.333,85 3.44 7.22 7.43" loving, home-observing native, who

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has so much to add to the pictures, but I wonder (writes Edith Shackle ton) how much they will convey to the Dominion-born and to the for eigner.

like to come home to bridges that could be loitered upon...

Our Girls,

Were I Great Britain's advertis- Very pleasant indeed to a home-ing agent I would send out at least are picture of small children com- ing from a village school, remem- bering how well British children in Rome, who seemed "non Angli eed angeli," served as profitable lures to these misty islands more than a thousand years ago, And I should send out another picture of the office girls who hurry over London Bridge to the City every morning. and one of the shop girls who fill Regent-street and Oxford-street 2 cricket match, and another of law. closing time, and one of a village

era crossing Fleet-street in their gowns.

Beyond Capture. England, Scotland and Ireland are not easy to advertise adequately. That photograph of the Royal procession at Ascot, for example, I do not think it would stir me, as a foreigner, to take, tickets for Eng. "land right away; but how is one to convey the exciting furry of that procession, the rare sound of wheels nn grass, the oreak and jingle of harness, the bright liveries, the rear of the crowd! And what do these timbered cottages mean to poople who do not know what the pinks of the garden borders smell like, or these churches to those who cannot remember that the rooks would be conversing in the elmsl

stop to allay the polite curiosity of an old peasant who rarely saw. a stranger and had probably never beer outside ten mile radius of his cabin..

We were surprised by his show of interest when he heard that we were from England, for the Donegal, Peasant looked out to America thep Father than eastward into Europe. but then he said, with all the wild longing of which Irish voices ark capable, I would like to go to England to see the machinery.". There was your potensial traveller, whom no picture of Sipkesay Castic or Malmesbury Abbey or the Lang- dale Fikes could have moved at all.

Unknown Reasons......

And how should we know which

But it remains for us to cherish the known attractions we have We

Also I should consider the fact that of our own little oddities most most people in these days get their delight the visiting foreigners? first impulse to trapel through read-Some of them decide to come, back to England because the bus-conduc- ing. Countless hard working Ameri- cans of modest incomes have saved fors so unnecessarily any Qa up for a trip to England not be thousand times a day, some because cause they wished to see the back of the boiled beef and carrots. As ground of the history that is partly often as not the urge to achieve their own but simply because they these shores will have been inspired have read Dickens and want to see by something that no travel associa- such inns as that in which Mr.tion could have dreamed of supply- Pickwick was disconcerted by the ing. sight of the lady doing her back How could one arrange a travel hair, and chophouses such as were

frequented by David Copperfield. enticing exhibition which could be

This class is not badly catered for supplied with the scent of the bean in the present exhibition, for there fields and the honeysuckle and the is a good deal of the quaint old cut grass, which fall like a benedic worldery in whose name so many tion even on the hurried motorist modern architectural sins are com who roves through England to-day?mitted, but little or nothing is done I should for the Meredithians. Brooding Content.

provide one of those serene Genr- I think my own hypothetical for- gian houses, calmly gazing out on eigner mould, be most stirred by a rolling park, euch as were once small two-toned smudge which repainted on dinner services. And presents the back of a man leaning remembering the "wide range of over Ludlow Bridge among all effect the Bronte sisters still have items in these pictures. As much as I should include a photograph of any rock or hill or cathedral spire, Haworth Moor, which is as lonely as much as the picture of the an- now as on the day when Charlotte cient Long Man cut in the chalk searched the hollows for a sprig of at Wilmington, he conveys that sense heather for the dying Emily.

should all be aware that these sets of photographs have gone all about the world, as yet making no falec promises or, indeed, telling the half of the enchantments we can show.

Then we might be a little more actutely conscious of the advertise. ment hoardings; round about some of our best monuments, of the threat to Oxford from a tide of commonplace building, of the im minent disfiguring of the downs and the striding of pylons across the Lake district.

Like the child who has been shown her fine frock in the mirror, we must now remember to keep tidy, lest we break faith with the stran gers lured by so lovely a show.

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day,

(July 30.)

Queen's Theatre: "Romance of Rio Grande,"

World Theatre: Eternal Love." Star Theatre:- "Good Naughty."

To-day's Tiffin-

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Majestic Theatre: Faces."

European Mails:-Inward: World Theatre: Eternal Love,"

Europe vid Siberia (Kalyan): Star Theatre: "Shakedown."

Outward Europe" via Siberia Central Theatre: "Canary Mur-(Kashmir), 10.30 am. der Case."

Band Concert, E.K. Cricket Club, (and 5.30 p.m.

Tennis:-"A" Div., K.C.C. v. Canary Mur. I.R.C. ·

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European Forgotten Europe vid Suez (Kashmir). Out ward: Europe vid Siberia (Chichi- bu Maru) 8.30 a.m.

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Lammert's Auction of Leasebold Property, IL No. 787 (Nos. 2, 24, 4 and 4, Kat On Street), at Sales room, a. p.m.

Tennis:-Mixed Doubles: U.S.- R.C. . Recreio, K.0.0. v. C.R.C.. Water Polo-1st Div. V.R.C. v. Royal Navy 2nd Div.-V.E.C.'». University.

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