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No. 22745,號伍拾肆佰柒仟弍萬式第 日肆初月伍年未辛 HONG KONG. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1931. 伍拜禮,日玖拾月年登卅佰玖仟登英 Price)

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

On and after MAY 2ND, 1881, until Further Notice (all previous

Pipe Time Tables cancelled)

STATIONS

Kowloon

Yaumati

Shatin

Taipo

Taipa Marke

Fanling Sboung hui Shumchan

Chatin

UP TRAINS:

Nail No. No. No. No No No. No. No. No. No. No), 2. В 10 9. 12 -14 || 16 | 22. 1824 26 | 28 AM AM, AM AK AM. NOON PKL TM. PM. EM VAMPIR,

6.40 8.068,23 Dop. .....

Dep. 7,00

Dep. 7,14

Dap. 7.19

Dep. 7.30

7.85 1.03 7.41 8.44) 0.11

#

9.15 10.10 12.00 1.18 2,88 (9,24| 1020,12,08 1,20 "

- 9.87 10.80) 13.20 1.88

.197,

402 4.41 5.38 7.40 JUAL "|4,49] 5.43 7:48

5.02 0.65 8.00 5.15 1.088.18 5.19 6.196.17

9:52 10.50 12.43| 1,51|| ... 9.87 10.54 12,87 1,65 1000 1104| 18,47 3.05 - ... .....29 8.22, 8.37 10.34 11.09 12.69 210 3.1.6.84 6.27 8.83 10.30 11.15 12.68 9.16 3.20 4.40 5.40 8,33) 6.88

6.60

DOWN TRAINS

STATIONS

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No No

1. 3

1915. 17 -12 21 13 23 A.M. AM. 4.M. AM. AM.P.M. P.M. (PMP.M. P.X.

Canton Shomahun. Shoungahul Fanllag Talpo Market

Talpo

Skatin

Yaumati

Kowloon....

7.50

་་་

•

718

78,03)°.9,56| 10.34 71.38 2.38 4.28 |6.10) 201{7.11-

8.10 10.03 11:45 2.42 4.30. 017 vas

11.50 2,46|| 480 | 6.2220 12,01 2,56 4.45 | 6,82) *** 119,068,024.40 6.86) **

13.20 8.15 6.02 6.49 19.33 3.27 14 7.01...

Dep. 7.19 6,14 10.06 Dop 7.40 6.2510,18 Dop. 746 8.30) 10,82) Dep 7,58 8.43| 10,86)

....AT. 8.17 0.01 10,54 11,19

• Sunday's and Public Holidays only,"

12 38 3,83 5.20 17.07 7.391 754

For First Class Passengers only. Will stop at any station on request.

E - Sundays and Public Holidays ercepted.

Further information may be obtainer at the Railway Offices, Kow. loon or Canton, from Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd., Hong Kong, The Amercian Express Co., Hong Kong, or The China Travel Service, s

· Queen's Road, Hong Kong.

By Order,

GEO. A. WALKER, Manager,

* BRITISH SECTION, AN KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY

HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS.

..

JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD, AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION Co.,Lzp.

HONG KONG-CANTON LINE.

Sallingsfrom Hong Kong:Daily, at8A.M. & 10.00P.M. (Sundays

10.00P.M.Only) (Bundaya

Bailings from Canton: Daily, at 8AM. & 4.80 F.M-14.30 F., only

HONG KONG-MACAO LINE. CURTAILED SERVICE-MACAO LINE. SAILINGS to and from MACAO on the 17TH, 18 and 197¤ JUNE,

will be as follows:-

A

3 ...

From HONG KONG at 2 p.m. sad 5.30 p m. only. From MACAO ap 3 am, and 8 am, only,

SALOON FARES,

WEEK DAYS.-Binglo: $3.00; Return: $5.00.

BUNDAYS and EXCURSIONS.-Single: :.50; Betara :34.09;

EXCURSION TO MACAO:-

ON BUNDAY, THE 21st JUNE, 1931- 8.8. "SUI TAI"

Will depart from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf at 9.A.M., and from Macao at 4.00 F.M.

Note-All Steambost Company's Steagier are fitted wita Wiralese.

APPROPRIATE.

The choice of

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has much to do with the pulling power of an advertisement.rm

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

in setting up advertisements aims at making them as effective possible by the proper co-ordination of type) "copy, and illustration.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

To-day.

*(June 19.)

Water Polo-First Division: Royal Navy Chinose Bathing Club, 6 p.m.; Second División : Victoria Recreation Club "B" vi Kowloon "B," 6.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Inspiration." World Theatre: "Wild Com- pany."

Star Theatre: "What A Mau."'- Central Theatre: "Balaclava." King's Theatre: "No Limit.!! Dances: Tea Davos, H.K. Hotel; Dinner Dances, Hong Kong Hotel

and Peninsula Hotel.

PEN PICTURES OF AMERICA

X.-WHERE COTTON IS KING AND OTHER

PRODUCTS MERELY INCIDENTAL.

CROP GROWN ON THE FEUDAL SYSTEM.

[By J. E. SEWELL }

The Mason-Dixon line, America's the price which it may be expected" far famed dividing line between the to bring when sold in the autumn. North and the South, is likewise By" gambling" I do not mean in the dividing line between the corn say literal sense but by inerens and cotton belts of the country.ing the acreage to the absoluto Dr.Visitors from the North, many of maximum on the assumption that

Lecture at the University by Magnus Hirschfield, 8.30 pm

European Mail-Inward: Europe via Siberia (Ranpura). Outward Europe via Siberia (Rawalpindi),

10.a.m.

Saturday,

(June 20.)

Dragon Boat Festival,

whom have never before seen cotton growing, are instantly impressed with the magnitude of the cotton acreage when they suddenly dis cover that the vistas opening to them as they speed southward by rail or motor are no longer fields of the familiar core of their own be

Lawn Bowlà-First Division:tion but have, almost as if the Police v. Taikoo, Kowloon C.O.. Craigengower, Kowloon Dock Kowloon B.G.O., (Oivil Servicö. v.

Recreio. Second Division: Taikoo Civil Service, Rébraio 1 Yacht Club, Kowloon (B.G.C. . Kowloon G.C., Craigengower t, Hong Kong Electric..

Lawn Tennis:-"A" Division: M.B.K. . Hong Kong C.0 Indian RO South China, Kowloon C.C. v. Chinese B.C.. "B" Divi- Bion: Recreio 7. Nippon | Club; Hong Kong C... Indian R.O Kowloon CC Bouth China, Craigengower 2 Army T.C., Uni- versity U.S.R.CC Divi- sion: Y.M.C.A. v.-Deutscher Club, University v. Craigengower, Chi- nese R.C. Army TO, Recreio v. Civil Service, South Chinn v. Hoss Kong C.C., Radic Sports Club v Kowloon Indians

Cetton is King,

Here indeed, Cotton is King. It is not, unusual to find a farmer with enormous acreages in cotton who is forced to ruzuese farm products which he might equally well raise upon his own land. This situation reaches to the extent of his being forded to purchase food for his stock; which is very bad manage ment when it is considered what a Kowloon Football Club, Smoking | small portion of a large farm would Concert.

be necessary to provide hay and) grain for the animals necessary to cultivate the farm.

Queen's Theatro: "Inspiration." World Theatre: "Wild Com papy.'

Star Theatre: "What A Man." King's Theatro: "No Limit." Dances:-Ton Dance, Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels.

European

Mails: Outward: Europe via Suez (Ranpura) 10.30 a.m.; Europe via Siberia (Emp. of Canada, 10 8,15.

Sunday,

(June 21.)

Third Sunday After Trinity. Queen's Theatre: "Reducing."" World Theatre: "Arizona Kid." Star Theatre: "Camed Kirby," Dances: Tea Dance at Repulse Bay Hotel.

European Mail:-Inward: Lon don and Straits (Antenor).

the price of cotton will more than make up for the expenses of pur- chasing other farm products,

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Methods of Cultivating. The methods of cultivating, such

farmers but the two accepted large acreages vary with individual

methods are by hired labour and by share-eropping." The latter dividing line were sharply drawn method is by far the most popular across the landscape, changed to l fields of an entirely new and un-of the two due to the fact that it farailiar plant growing in straight requires a small outlay of capital rows, acre upon acro and stretching and insures the owner that every away to the horizon in overy direc effort will be mado to produce as much as possible. It might well be tion,

compared to the European systemn of serfdom, in that the owner of the land furnishes his tenant with a place to live-in; (often nothing more than a hovel); implements for tilling the land, the necessary live- account for him at some general stock, seed and establishes a credit

store where he may purchase pro- visions and clothing to a limited. amount. In retura. for this the "abure-cropper prepares and seeds the land, tends the crop and prepares it for market for a frac tion or share to be disposed of as he sees fit. The ordinary share of. Experience has taught these a

"share-cropper" is about one people that cotton is their profit-third of all that the land pro- able crop if the price of cotton is duces. good at maturity of the crop. Dur- ing the past few years the South- erner has had the fact forcefully Throughout the section of the demonstrated that the if of the country are to be found cotton gins proposition is the stumbling block for cleaning the lint from the seed, and he has many times been forced removing husks, leaves, dirt and to get heavily into debt to recoup, other foreign matter from the lint the losses sustained through fail and baling the cleaned product ing to raise the necessities of life under pressure in bhes of 500 to on land which had been taken up 700 pounds cach. The name "cotton by cotton. Despite the hardships gin" is taken from the original incurred by making a mistake of machins invented by Eli Whitney this sort, the average Southern for separating the lint from the farmer goes on, year after year, eced. This machine was called a gambling in the carly springtime," cotton engine" but has since been' when the cotton is planted; upon · (Continued on Page 0)

Cotton Gins...

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Fish Chowder Soup-

Grilled Fish, Fareley Sauce

Hamburg Steak and Poached Egg

Fricassed Chicken with Macaroni

Roast Leg of Veal and Stuffog Madena Curry

Roast Potatoes Boiled Potatoes

Marrow

Apple Charlotte Russe

997-00) 30 1977:

THE MIDGET GOLF COURSE REMODELLED, 18 NOW OPEN.

TIFFIN $1.50,

Tea Dance

Sunday, June 21st

From 5 PM to 7 P.M.

Grill Room

King's Restuarant,

King's Restaurant

King's Theatre Building.

Vegetable Clear Soup

Fried Fish, French Potatoes

Minced Chicken and Poached Egg

Veal Catlet, American Styla

Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding.

Lobster Curry

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Boast Potatoes.

Boiled Potatoes

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