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No. 22603. * A** HONG KONG, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1931. ·登拜禮日拾式月肆年登卅們玖仟登英 Price) KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY. DIARY OF LOCAL LOST CITIES OF CEYLON.

TIME TABLE.

Us and after AUGUST 23ru, 1935, until Further Noticao (ali provions

Timo Tablo cancelled).

UP TRAINS

STATIONS No. No.

A.M. AM.

No.10 No. 150, 11 a, 14 No. 18

AM.A.E. AM. F.M.,

Mo..NO.91 NO.10 290. 1 P.M. PM) FM,* FM,{FM.

Karloan.Dop 6,85) 8.00 1.94 9.05 10.00 12.02 1.18 2.84 3.00 4,90 B,407,45

Yanmati.Dop.j 8.44)

9,15 10.08 12.10 1.23

Bhatin...Dop 8,56

Taipe... Dep. 7,10

Tarket. Dep. 7.15 Fanling-Dop. 7,25 Bhoung-

shui ..Dep. 7.3

Sundays à 1

9.23 10,2012,22 1,88

9.48 10.33 12.35 1.512

948 10.37 12,59 1,58- 10,00 10.47 12.49 2,05

D.01)10.05 10.88) 13.54 2,10

Bhain-

chun...Arr. 7.28 8.40 2.07 10.17 10.58 1,002,10

4.38 5.48 7.58 4.50 6.00 8.03 5.04 6.18 8.17

6.08 8.17 8.99 -5,18 6.27 8.38 3.13 |6.23 6.32 8.37 3.19 3.40 5.39 6,38 8.43

5.49

7.34

DOWN TRAINS

STATIONS

No. 11 Bo. 1

Ho.7 Hə, 1

No.1 No.6 No. 17 No.19 18031 Nat A.K. AM,

AX. A.M A.M.Y.M.P.M. P.M. 1.X. P.M.

Janton

...Dep.

8.25

8.25

Canton...Arr.' — 12.34)

Shumchun...Dep.

Shoungahni..Dep. Forling

...Dep.

TaipoMarket.Dop. Тибро ...Dop.

Bhatin .Dop.

Yanzati...Dop.

7.18 7,59 10,84 11.41 7.20 8.08 10.41 | 11.48 2,25 8,10 10.47 11.52 7.88 8.21 10.57 12.08 7.40 8.98 11.01 | 12,09 | 7.58 8.39 11.14 19.98 8.06 8.51 11.26 12.35

12.19 2.95 4,89 5.47 6.53 7.19

7,00 | 2,42 | 4,48 | 5,54 (9.48 4:50 | 3.58 2.68 5.00 6.08 8,025,04 6.13 8.155.176.26 3.275,296.88 3,936,856.40

Kowloon ...Arr. 8.13 8,57 11.32 19.41 19.50

7.86 7.69

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Meeting of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, 2.30 pan.

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Hong Kong Cricket Club Tennis

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Queen's Theatre: "Whoopee." World Theatre: "Repaid Favoar" (Chinese Film).

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"The Great Majestic Theatre: Galbe."

ANARADHAPURA, AS BIG AS NEW YORK.

A RELIC OF EASTERN CHIVALRY.

I have seen in my travels uno, Anaradhapura, the capital of old stranger sights than those which lie Ceylon and now the Luxor of these hid in the heart of the Ceylon jungle; Writes Mr. Robert Bernays, in the News Chronicle.

Here are the ruins of temples and palaces and fortresses and gigantic cities. At a time when Europe was a dark forest they contained a

buried cities, we had several op portunities of potting jackals and red deer, and even an clophant who inenatiously came out to have a look at our car.

"A City Vory Much Like London.”

Anuradhapura was once a metro- philosophy, a religion and a struc-polis as big as modern New York. ture of government probably in adIt is now a struggling village in the vance of anything the world had

centre of vast sprawling ruins. It once contained six million people; seen. Then the jungle opened its jaws and swallowed them up: Their

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Holiday."

China Circus, Praya East Re- clamation, 8 p.m.

Tuesday. (April 21)

The Parricide's Stronghold.

as many as 90,000 houses.

To visit the remains is like seeing I visited' first the fortress of the Book of Solomon come to life. There is a rock-hewn temple by the Bigirika, a vast circle of rock tower-side of a marble pool at whose glories even to-day the Queen of Sheba would have marvelled.

There are the remains of a brazen

|ing 600 feet out of the jungle,

Two thousand years ago a king

Rotary Club Tiffin: Sponker Mr. | who had killed his father took palace. It consiata now only of R. T. Barnett on Journalism.

Poin Club Annual Meeting, Jar- refuge in it and made it impregn-sixteen laundred columns of granite, inble to all attacks. Even to-day their decoration it is not difficult but from the intricate beauty of dinn's Boardroom, 5.33 p.m.

Helena May Institute, pianoforte only the heaviest howitzers could to reconstruct the glittering ons

rench it. recital by Youra Guiler, 1.20 p.m.

Within the rock there storey building that they once sup Hong Kong Cricket Club, Tennis are relics not merely of the fortress ported. Tournament-C. A. L. Rumjahu but of a palace and a whole do. and J. A. Cassumbhoy 2 winners partment of government-audience of the tie : Kong and W. T. Les chambers, council rooms, guard- Tu Tak Cheuk and H. Lo. housos, bathrooms, gardens, apart Queen's Theatre: "Whooper." ments for the Queen, World Theatre: "Repaid Favour" (Chinese Film).

As we scrambled up the rock in the early morning the whole vista uf. King's Theatre: "Ingagi." the jungle came into view. As far Majestic Theatre: The Wilds the eye could see there was Party,"

mile upon mig of dense trees chok- Central Theatre: "The Devil's ed by pentrable undergrowth. Holiday PSP MAN BA

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Thero in a grass-grown mound fifty feet high that records n chivalry far in advance of the twen- tieth century. It was built by King Cable Address: “ VICTORIA.", Dutugemunu in memory of the in- vading Tamil Prince Elara whom he had defeated in single combat. As far as I know there is to Hindenburg in Northern France.

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A short walk into the jungle and we found almost buried in the grass fresh temples and palaces and swimming pools,

These were the irrigation works of the old kind. They once provid-teresting experience of all.

Then we came on the most in- In- ed the water supply for a thriving printed in some marshy ground were people; they are now the drinking the footsteps of an animal. Out of

places of wild bensts.

The contrast was even more strik+curiosity we followed them. In a fow yards we found they were join- ing when, later in the day, we

ed by other footsteps, obviously s Here are renched Polonnaruwa, relies not merely of fortresses and leopard stalking its prey. Then in palaces, but eight glorious temples the earth appeared the whole drama standing aide by side built to the of the chase. grent glory of the Lord Budkiha.

Lizards gli across the stones ni we entered. In what had once been a couwil chamber a group of man- Hong Kong Society for the Pre-keys were holding a round table con vention of Cruelty to Animals, Anference. nual Meeting, Jardine's Boardroom 2.15 p.m.

Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Annual Meeting, City Hall, 4.30 p.m.

Hong Kong Cricket Club, Tennia Tournament:-Open Singles: E. C. Fincher . M. W: Lo.

Queen's Theatre: "Whoopes," World Theatre: "Repaid Favour" (Chinese film).

King's Theatre: "Ingagi."- Majestic Theatre: The Wild Party:"

Central Theatre: "The Devil's Holiday."

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The Curse.

The statue of one Buddha here records a grim modern tragedy. A few years ago an impious inspector of roads tested his rifles by firing

Wo anw this spot where the pur. sued realised its peril and broke into a sprint for its life. Close be hind padded the leopard. That foot--| stope grow nearer and nearer to one another. Finally they met. There were the marks of a scuffle and a few yards further on a neat pile of bones..

It all seemed an cerie ayaibol of the triumph of Nature. Two thou sand years ago a great civilisation

it at the stone image. Having satis flourished here and now the only fed himself as to its accuracy, hearts and laws left are those of the walked a few yards into the jungle jungle.

and almost in sight of the outrageWith these grim meditations I was tramped to death by an ele returned in the gathering dusk to catch the mail train, leaving my phant.

companions to continue their shoot. ing expedition in the ghostly shadows of ruined temples and crumbling palaces,

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