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MASON'S

DELICIOUS

Ο.Κ.

SAUCE.

Library, Supreme Court

Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857.

Registered as a Newspaper at the "General Post Office in the United Kingdom.

·號壹拾陸佰柒仟式萬弍第日叁廿月伍年未辛 HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1931. Я BRAKE¶EKSA

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

On and after MAY 2nd, 1831, until Fürther Notice (all previous

Time Tables cancelled),

UP TRAINS

STATIONS

10

AM AM

8 12:14 ‚18′| 23 {, 1824 120 28 A.K. AK, AM, NOUR FL FM FM. EM F.KTM

Kowloon

Dep. 040 806

8.25

Yaumati

„Dep.Į (4%)

'9,18 10,10, 12.00) 1.18) 2.35) 4,03) 4,43| 8,85) 7,40

9.24 10.20 12.08) 1.28

649 84B TAS

207

Shatin

Dop 7.00

987 10.30 12.20 1,88

Taipo

Dop.7.14

Tarpo Market.

7.10 7.30... 7.35

Fanling

Shoungshal

Shumosun

Canton

- 9,52 10.60| 13.38) 1.51| 122

| 9,57 1054|12.37) 1,58| ...

**

9,05 10.14 11.00 12,552 2.10 8.14

2.41} $.44|| 9.11 |1020|11.15) 12.58 2,16 8.30 4,40)|

11.02

DOWN TRAINS

| 5,924,55| 6,00 4.15 6.08| 8.13

196.12817

6.29 6.23 8.37

6.34 6,278,33 1,40) 8,88) 6:38

STATIONS

No. No. No. No. No. No. No,

13

16' 17 AX}AM. AM. AM, FAM" (FX. 11 ',

No. No. No.

21 13: 29

Canton

Sammohus Sheungahui Fanling.. Taipo Mar

Tairo

Bhatin

-You

Kowloon

Dop, ...

|

7.50

7.17 8.03 0.55 10.34| 11,25) 2.88| Dep} 7,84) 8.10.10.08] Dep.| 7,29| 8.14):10.08

.Dop] 7.40 8.25 10.18

Dep., 7.45) 8.80 '10.12)

„Dvp| 7,58| 8,49|| 10.30)|

„Dep. 8.118,55 10.49

4.256.107.01| 7.11

| 11,48| 9,42) 4,80 [6.17) 7.18

11.50 2.40

4.85 4.22

13,01 2,50|| 445

(7206|8,05): 4,49

-12.00 8.15) 5.00 0.49||'..

411,82 3.27||| 5.14 (703)

„Arr. 6.179,01) 1066 11,12 1988 8.83 5.90

Sundays and Public Holidays only.

For First Class Passengers only. Will stop at any station on request. Sundays and Public Holidaysexcepted.

Further Information may be obtained at the Railway Offices, Kow- icon or Canton, from Mosars. Thos. Cook & Son Ltd., Hong Kong, The Amercian Express Co., Hong Kong, or The China Travel Service, 8 Queen's Road, Hong Kong.

By Order,

GEO. A WALKER, Manager,

BRITISH SECTION, KOWLOON-CANTON Bailway)

A

HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS.

JOINT SHEVICH or tan HoxG KONG, CANTOM AND MAGÃO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD, AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO.LTD.

HONG KONG CANTON LINE Sailingsfrom Hong Kong:Daily, at7AM, &10.00P.M.

Beilings from Canton Daily, at 84.4.30 PM

Bundays 110.00 T.M.onl

(Bandays 480 .. only

HONG KONG MACAO LINE.

SPECIAL SERVICE. BAILINUS From HONG KONG-Dally at 8 am, and 5.30 p.m..

(Bundays 9 am, only). BAILINGS From MACAO-Dally at 3 am and 9.00p.m.

(Sundays 4 p.m. only).

SPECIAL SALOON FARES.

WEEK DAYS,-Bingle: $3.00); · Batúrn: $5.00..! SUNDAYS and EXCURSIONS.-Jingle: $2.50; Batura: 14.00.

EXCURSION TO MACAO:-

ON SUNDAY, THE 12T JULY, '1981 48. “Sul TAI

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

and from MAGAo at 4.00 PM.

Norz-All Steamboat Company's &tomers are itted with: Wiralous,

WHEN

YOU REACH HOME

You will be wondering

how things are going

out here, what all your friends are doing, who won-the-tennis league.

THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS.

will give you all the news and keep you in touch

ith things out Easte

Don't forget before you sail to

Six Months

sent to you.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

(July 8.)

Slight Heat (Hsino-shu).

Lammert's Auction 11 .m., Duddoll St. Furniture and Miscel Tancous goods.

EXPLORING SPACE.

DREAMS OF JOURNEYING TO THE MOON.

AND THE COLD FACTST

Lawn Tennis:"B" Division Professor Piscard's achievement second, in fact This comparative Chinese R.C.e. Indiza R.C., in rising to a height of ten miles y low verocity is of the order of t Craigengower v. Kowloon C.C., in a balloon has turned speculation that at which a shell leaves, the Army Tennis Club. M.B.K.again on the possibility of explor- muzzle of one of those big guns South China Hong Kong 0.0.ing not only the upper air but the which shelled Paris during the wor, Nippon Club . Civil Servicespace beyond, the regions between As tho moon has no atmosphero, "Division: Hong Kong C.C. r. the earth and the planets and the one of these guns if mounted on its Y.M.C.A., Civil Service v. Craigeon stars Men have already visited, surface might well fire shells which gower, Radio Sports Club Chi with the assistance of the imagina would leave the moon for ever, nese .C., Kowloon Indians v. Club tions of Mr. HG Wells and other entering a long life as satellites of de Recreio, Kowloon C.C.. South novelists, the moon and the planeta the moon, and revolving round it China, Deutscher Clube Indian They are anxious to follow up these until disturbod from their course by R.C. Mixed Doubles: Chinese R.C. imaginative visita in person. The some external force. To fling a pro e. University.

fascination of interplanetary visits i jectile, off the earth a gun with

Crnals

THE SALES

"General

Ge

CHOP STICKS"

AGGREGATE 1,000 Copies Monthly.

Water Polo-First Division: is demonstrated by the existence of "muzzle verocity of at least seven V.R.C. Royal Navy, 6 p.m.; monthly American magazine main-miles per second would have to be Becond. Division: V.R.O "A" e.ly made up of such stories. The constructed-ie, a gun with Kowloon "B"; and V.R.O. "B" v. issue I once happened to see had muzzle velocity at least five and Kowloon "A, 6.30p.m.

several stories about giant rockets, probably ten times that of the Queen's

and about pipes from the earth to German gun. the moon on the principle of thinne World Theatre: Hell Harbor." pneumatic tubes stores nse to trane Star Theatro: "Sunny Side Up." mit bills from the counter to tho Central Theatre: "Phantom of cashier. One slipped into the tube The Opera."

at the earthly end and shot out on the unattractive moon meadows, where one usually met boings of aadistic tendency.

King's Theatre: "Tan Dancers Majestio Theatre: "The Singing Peony (Chinese film).

European Mails:-Outwardi. Europe in Siberia (Tatsuta Maru) 8.30 a.m.; Europe via Marseilles (Patroclus) 10,30 am.

Tes Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel.

Tides-High at 3.63 and 1.40; Low at 9.04 and 8.10.

Thursday, (July '0.)

Chinese National Holiday, an- niversary of Northern Expedition.

Quite Beyond Present Possiblities.

gineering problem quite beyond pre- This is a metallurgical and en- sent possibilities. New knowledgo of which there is as yet no sign would be necessary for its solu tion. If there is no suggestion in In order to overcome gravits the light of present knowledge of tional attraction and leave the earth how a mere lump of inanimate a particle must set off with a vola-matter could be flung away from the city of at least seven miles a.earth, how much more remote, is second. That is, assuming there is the possibility of a living being, not no atmosphere to resist it. If the to speak of a man, with its delicate particle has to penetrate an atmos structure surviving ejection from a phere it must set off with a velo-gun enormously more powerful than sity of much more than seven miles the German gun! The pilots in a a second From the moon the de- | Schneider. Cup raca tend to swoon parture is easier, for the velocity if they swerve at 300 miles per hour, of escape is little more than a mile or nt 440 feet per second. What a second-about 8,000 feet por "Continued on Page 3)

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TIFFIN $1.50.

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Wednesday, July 8th

and

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