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No. 22070. MAGUITAKAN AGA✯¶** HONG KONG, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1931. 登拜禮 日叁廿月叁年登州佰玖仟营英Price

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

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TIME TABLE.

Da and after AUGUST 28ru, 1930, until Farther Notion fall previons Timo Tables cancelled)..

STATIONS, No,

A.M. (1)

Kowloon.Dep. 9.359.00

Shatin...Dep8.56

Taipo

Fanling..Dep. 7,25

Sheung-

shai...Dep. 7,80 Shauxi-

SAUP TRAINS

No.10 No.

A.MA.M. *K. P.M. T.MF.M. FX, P.X P.M.{P.M.

8.24 9,08 10,00 12,03 1.189.84 3.00 480 5,40 7:45

4.98-5,48; 7.58 4.60) 18.00) 6,08 |5.04 6.18 8:17

Taumat.Dep. 6.44

9.15 10.08 12.10 1,25

9.28 10.20 12.22 1,88

Taipo...Dep 7,10

9.48 10.33 12,35 1.51

Markot.Dap. 7,15

ohan...Arr. 736 9.40

Canten...Arr. ́ ́'-- 12.34

5,086,17 3,53 9.48 10.87 12.39 1.55 10.00 10.47 19,49 2,054 —

6.18 6.97 8.88

0.01110,05 10.591 18.54 2.10 8.18- 5.23 6.52 8,37 9.07 10,11 10.88 1.00 2,16 3.19 1.40 5.39 6,888.48

542

7,34

DOWN TRAINS

AM. AM. A.M.

Ho.15 No. A.M. AiM.

No. 17 No. 10. Na33) Na2) | No. 11 P.M. P.M. P.M. 2.M. 2.M.

Dep.

8.25

8.25

7.90 8.08 10.41 11,48

4.40 5.54

6.59 7.19 7,00

7,25 9,10 10.47 11.52

2.46 | 4,50 | 3.58

7,34 9.21 10,57 13,03

7,40 8.28 11.01 18,09

2.50 5.00 0.08 8.015.04 0.13

7.59 8,59 11.14 19.51

STATIONS Mn. No, Ka

Janton

Shumekan.Dop. Shounghai Dep. Fanling Dep: TaipoMarket.Dep. Taipo ..Dep. Shatin „Dep,

7.18 7.59 10.26 11:41 12.18 2.85 4.89 5.47

2.42

-3.155.176.28

Yaumati Dep. 8.06 9.51 11.20 12.85. 8.875,998.88

8.12 8,67 11,32 12.41 12.58 2,38 5,35 6.44 7.36 7.58

Kowloon ...Arr.

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St. Joseph's College, Priza-giving ceremony, p.m..

Po Leung Kuk Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony, 3 p.n

Rugger: Army v. Navy, Sookun- 100. 3 p..

LOVELY WOMAN IN RUSSIA.

A FEW FACTS ABOUT EMANCIPATION.

BRISK BUSINESS OF DIVORCE..

II.K.C.C. Tennis Tournament: Open Singles: A, L. Sullivan e Chiu Chu Chiu: Open Doubles: IL. D. and S. A. Rumjaha . Ho Wai Hing and In Tak Lam, T. Honda and T. Akiyama . F. A Redmond and T. Ride. M. W. L and M. K; Lo . A. H. Run in the Christian Science Monitor.showing women in what ways they juhn and A. 11. Madar; Club When they arrived they discovered can spend the time they have saved Championship Y. Segalen their superior officer was to be a from the housework, to become Goldinna; Handicap Singles "B": Watson "

women pilots of airships, engineers, Gordon, Dowley twenty-eight-year-old woman Ainger: Handicap Singles "A":gineer.

conductors of trams, chnuffeurs Low r. Anderson, Wade . Roger. The Americana didn't like it a of: 'buses and of private cars,

Theatre: "Madame Queen's

little bit," said the Communist mechanica repairing automobile en- Satan,"

Dress.

A group of American experts above which were two red sticks went to Moscow as employees of crossed, depicting the emancipation the Soviet Government to take over from housework which the revolu the administration of four big pro- ¡tion offered to the Russian woman.

A little farther along were posters ccts, writes Mina Marjorie Shuler

ел

World Theatre: "Grent Succose young woman secretary of the engines, etc. of Shylock Holmer", (Chinese gineer when she told me the incident film).

Star Theatre: "Cossacks." Central Theatre: "The Love

Tuesday,

Doctor."

(March 24.)

Trevessa Trophy (Bi-annual-com- petition).

Lecture: "Progress Conditioned By Law and Commerce," by Father, F. Byrne, S. J. Union Assembly Room, The University, 8.30 p.m.

Queen's

Madame Theatre: Satan,"

World Theatre: "Great Success of Shylock Holmes" film).

one day in Moscow, "At first I This now freedom requires its had to interpret for them and I town garments, and the exhibition tried to soften their remarks before included straight sports dresses and I translated them. But that was three months ago. Now, of course, of no great beauty, but recommend

conts, with little falt hats, things. she can speak English with them."

The sidelong glance which the ed on the ground that they are secretary gave me plainly indiented cheap, place no restrictions upon what sho thought of the superior the movements of the wearer, and attainments of the Russian woman are easy to keep clean and in re- while the American engineers still who had learned to speak English pair.

I saw some of the women who from found the Russian language a closed have been emancipated"

the home in a greau cotton factory, book to them.

"One day one of the Americans barefooted and in single cotton asked me to tell the lady some garments under the damp heat of (Cbineso thing," she continued..

the spinning rooma. Few Russian 44 But my chief interrupted and told me to women wear jewellery these days, Sia-inform the American that she was but the workers in the factors had strings of bright-coloured bends Love not a lady, but an engineer."

This remark cleatly indicates the above their single cotton garments attitude of those Russian women and some of the barefooted girls who have accepted this new "free-woro earrings. dom." I say advisedly, those who Among the 7,000 women employed have accepted it, for out of the in that factory, thirty-six are Annunciation of Blessed Virgin millions of women in Russin it is heads of committees, sharing in the administration of the factory along with the engineer and the "Red director," the dual authority which manages every industrial plant in Russia to-day.

ner."

Star Theatre: Exquisite Central Theatre: "The Doctor,"

Mary,

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Wednesday.

(March 28.)

Cambridge Lent Term Ends. Lammert's Auction of Household (Sundays

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Theatre: "Madame (Bunday

Satan,"

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World Theatre: "Great Success of Shylock Holmes" (Chinese film). Star Theatre: The Exquisito Sinner."

Central Theatre: "The Cohens and Kellys in Africa."

Thursday.

(March 26.)

Legislative Council Meeting. H.K. Development, Building and Savings Society (In Liquidation) general meeting at the Officers of Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming, 2.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: Satan."

natural that there should be many who have not done so, women in the far country districts, women in Asiatic lusting women who from personal inclination have chosen not to associate themselves to any great degree with affairs outside their own homes.

Workers.

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One of these, a squat. stocky woman, with broad, low forehead and. grey eyes of extraordinary keenness and gentleness, took me through the factory. She told me The Soviet ideal is for every that she first came into the factory woman to be a working member of in 1912 and remained during the society just as every man is, but "great hunger" of 1010, when only this is still a theory and not a fact, 250 women continued there. - Two as I discovered one day in Moscow | years ago she became a member of

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World Theatre; "House Terror" (Chinese film).

Star Theatre: „ Swim Girl other public exposition places, Brim."

The most significant, perhaps, was a deep bowl containing some tiny Pots and pans and a laundry iron,

Central Theatre: "The Cohens and Kellys in Africa."

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