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Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1837

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

No. 22773. MANDATZAAN BA**** HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1931. D ⠀±†Ƒ¢¢œ|GATEA.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

On and after MAY SND, 1931, until Further Notice (all previouž Time Tables cancelled).

STATIONS

UP TRAINS

No. No. No. No. No. | No. | No. | No. No. No. No. | No. 20 10 8 12 14 16 22 18 24 |:26 | 28.. |AM (AM, AM|| 4M, | 4%. Noom x.M.V.M. TM, T., PE FR

..............Dop €40 8.05 8,28

Kowloon

Taumati.

.Dep, 6.40]

Shatta

7.00

Tsipo

·7.14

Tipo Market

7.10

---

Faniing

1.30-

***

114

Shounguhai ..... 7.30

9.15) 10.16, 12.00) 1.18) 2.38| 4.02) 4.42) 5.38 7.40 3,24 10,3412.08 1.26... 4.48) 5.49 7.48 8.87 10.30 12.20 1.08)

|5.02) 8.55 8,00 ...5.15.08 8.13 ...8.19

9.82) 10.50) 12.39) 1,61; ...

9.57 10.64 12.87 1.55) ...

| 10,09; 11,0% 12.47 2,06) ... 9.0510,14 11.00 12.53 2108.14 ... |5,36 €1,97| 8,83 Shumobun „Arr. 7.41; 9.44) 9.11 | 10,26) 11.16| 22.88) 2.16) 8.30) 4.40) 5,40) 6,38) 8,28

Canton......

Canton Shumchan Sheungahul Fealing...

Art.

STATIONS

Taipo Market

ghatia.... Tumbi...

Kowloon

11.45

6.401

DOWN TRAINS

Dop

7.98

|No. No. No. | Na. | No. No. No. No. No. No.

1. B 7 5 165 17 19 21 13 23 AMA.M. AM. A.DE. A.M. P.M. P.X. P.M. }P.M. {PM.

+04

***

7.50

་་་

416. 4288107.017.11 11.452,42 4.80 0.17

7.18

.Dep, 7,178,03 9.55 10.84 11,28) 2.35)

Do 7.24 5.0 10.08

. Dep.) 7.29, 8.14| 10.08)

.Dep.[7.40] 8,26| 10.18;

„Don. 7.43 8.80 10.22)

| 11,50) 2.48) 4,85 | 8.22)

|13,01) 2,66) 4,45 | 0.82

24

1-12,061 8.02): 4,49 | 6.80

+1

Dop 7.688,43 10.56) Dep. 8.11 8.53, 10,48 ...AFT.|8,17|9,01) 10.64 11.12)

● Sundays and Public Holidays only.

12.20 8.15 8.02 0.49... 12,82 3.27 5.14 7,01 1222Sİ 3.381 6.20 17.07) 7.35 7.64

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

Sundays and Publie Holidays excepted.

Further information may be obtained at the Railway Offices, Kay....... loon or Canton, from Measts, 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 Railway

HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS,

Janr BaRvION OF THE Hong Kong, Canton AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., AND THEÜHINA NAVIGATION CO.,LTD.

HONG KONG CANTON LINE,

CURTAILED SERVICE.

SAILINGS From HONG KONG-Dally st 10 and 10.30 p.m. only. 8 am, Sailings cancelled until further notice, BAILINGS From CANTON Dally at 8 am, and 4.30 p.m. (Sundays 4.30 p.m. only).

HONG KONG-MACAO LINE.

SPECIAL SERVICE.

·་,

SAILINGS From HONG KONG---Daily at 8 a.m. and 5.30 p.m.

(Sondays 9 m. only), BAILINGS From MACAO --Daily at 3 a.m. and 12,00 p.m.

(Sundays 4p.m. only), SPECIAL SALOON FARES.

WEEK DAYS.—Single: $5.00; 'Return: $5.00, SUNDAYS and EXCURSIONS.—Single: $2.50; Return : $4.00.

EXCURSION. TO MACAO:-

'ON SUNDAY, tux 26rá JULY, 1931 8.3. "SUI TAI"

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

· Norz-All Steamboat Company's Steamers are fitted with Wirelasa.

APPROPRIATE

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS.

To-day.

(July 22.)

Lawn Tongis:-" B " Division : South Chinn Army T.C.; M.B.K. *. Chinese R.C. "O"! Division: University v. Oivi: Service, Hong Kong, C.C. », Kowloon CC., Crai- gengower ". Club de Recreio. fixed Doubles: Kowloon C.C. v. V.B.R.C., Club de Recreio Ladies' R.O.

Water Polo - First Division: V.RC v. Kowloon, 6 p.m.

Queen's Theatro:" "Parlour Bed- room and Bath."

World Theatre: "What A 'Man." Star Theatre: "Dancing Sweeties."

SAFETY AT SEA IN

WAR TIME.

PROVIDING A BETTER NAVAL CONVOY

SYSTEM.

CAPTAIN ACWORTH'S PLEA FOR CRUISERS.

Convoy as a means of securing trado is a principle as old as the Navy itself, writer Capt. Bernard Acworth, RN: (retired), in the London Morning Post. There is

Lord Jellicoe, in a recent letter to the Morning Post, asserted that “the institution of Convoy, was en- tirely dependent. on "the "provision of an adequate escorting force of

no obscurity about it, embodying fast vessels as an anti-submarine as it does such ordinary good sense protection; the matter was entire- as it to be found in the schoolmis|ly_technical." But surely Lord

Central Theatre: "Call of Thero who shepherds her crocodile of Jellicos, and a great body of

West,"

King's Theatre: "Skippy." Majestic Theatre: "Just Im- agine."

Ten Dance at Kingia Restaurant;

defenceless young ladies through || naval opinion, is incorrect in main-

the streets, or a mother, her childrenly attributing to the escort vessels. from a Christmas Party. Should the defeat of the submarine.

we not suspect the sanity of either

if they scattered their flocks while

As I have shown in my book, a

Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel they themselves rushed hither and group of-say-40 merchant ships

and Repulse Bay Hotel...

Thursday. (July 23.)

thither about the streets? Do wo runs little more risk of being sight- protect a treasure crossing a deserted on the High Seas than docs & with an escort, or do we scour the single ship, thus reducing the desert looking for raiders↑ .

chances of action by a submarine. Homely as such 'analogies may to something approaching one in Feast of Ab.

appear, they are perfectly sound forty—a strategical fact emphasis- Entries for Motor Cycle Re- none the less. Had seamen in the ed by Mr. Churchill in "The World liability Trial Close.

late war not postponed, then re- Crisis," but unfortunately over-› Queen's Theatre: "The Easiest sisted and, up to the very end of looked by the War Staff and by Way."

the war, mistrusted at sen what iï himself, as he admits with his World Theatre: "What A Mac." so universally understood and prae characteristic magnanimity. Star Theatre:: "Dancing tised ashore we should have been Sweeties."

pared the darked page in our Central Theatre: "Once a Sin-naval history, "

ner,"

King's Theatre: "Skippy." Majestic Theatre: Carto."

"Monte

"

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong

and Peninsula Hotele.

Tides-High at 3.22 and 3.50;

Low at 10.02 and 9.44.

Friday.

(July 24.)

Great Hent (Ta-shu). Queen's Theatre: "The Easiest Way."

World Theatre: "What A. Man." Theatre: "Dancing

Star Sweeties."

No excuse need be offered for considering very briefly this means of giving security to trado, because it is upon the Convoy system that

Again, against a submarine at- tacking submerged with the torpedo. the escorts provide no immunity, being, indeed, more liable," as the war proved, to unseen and success- fal attack themselves, if cruisers, than were the merchant ships they were escorting equipped with depth

the safety of the country depends, charges may harass a submarine if and it is a complete Convoy system is discloses its whereabouts after that must determine in the coming firing a torpedo, but so far as the years our cruiser requirements, as merchants ships are concerned, well as the nature of the ships them their liability to attack by torpedo selves.

is not affected. A powerfully arm. cd escort can ensure that the sub-

In the event of a future war the vast fiects of merchantmen that cargoes will be subject, as in the carry our oil,, food and general

late war, to two perfectly distinct thrents from hostile cruisers and 'King's, Theatre: "Skippy." Central Theatre: "Once A Sin-submarines. The submarine threat looms largest in the public mind Majestic Theatre: "Monte because of the terrible memories of Carlo."

1017 and 1918, and yet it'ia the sober truth to say that the measure

Der,"

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels.

marine is confined to a "browning.

but if each convoy includes one or shot" with torpedoes, and cannot attack on the convoy by gunfire,

more well-armed merchant ships the' submarine cannot hope for any large success.,, as the war again abundantly proved.

In the late war, while part of of the submarine has been taken our Merchant Marine was railing European Mail:-Inward: Lon- once and for all if inerchant vessels in groups, and part singly, the don (Hector); Outward: Europeal in company, and a proportion triumph of group sailing was im efa, Siberia (Hakozaki Maru).

Tides:-High at 4.14 and 18.20; of these vessels is defensively arm.

Low at 11.39 and 22.29.

ed.

preasive. Out of over 17,000 vessels (Continued on Roga 4.)

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