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Hongkong Daily Press.
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SPOTXO BUAH* HONG KONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1931. #1 8±*}***ATEX Price
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE:
On and after MAY 2ND, 1931, until Further Notice (all previous
Timo Tablo cancelled);"
Kowloon
•Taumatis.....
Shatin
UP TRAINS
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28 10. &
2:14. 10 29 18.24 28 28 AM ANGLICK A. NOUN r..].X.X] P.M.] V.M. FM, TM:
9.15.10.10 12.00 1.18 3.35 4.02 4.416.857.40
STAT
Dap. 6.40 8.05 8.25
9.24 10,21 12.09 1,25] ....
+49 5.43 7.48
1.67 10.36 12:20 1.38] ***
6,02 5,55 8.00:
Talpo
́9,52] 10.50)12,38] 1,51|| ...
Talpo Mar
: 9,57) 10,54 12,87) 1,56) .......
6.16.08.18 5,19 £12) 817
(*6.29 6.23 8.27
9.08 10.14) 11,00, 32,52 2.10) 38.14
6.84 0.27 6.82
5.40) 0,88) 8,38
Lear
Fanling
Bhansgahul. Shimaban
Canton
STATIONS
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5,40
| 20.09) 11.04) 12,47 2,08) ....
7.85... 7418,44 9:11 (20.90) 11.15) 12,58] 2.18) 3.20) 1.40)
DOWN TRAINS
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Depok Dep. 7.17 8.03) 9.58 „Dop. 7.24 8,10 10,08 Dop, 7.39 8.14 10.08
Dep. 7.40.8,28|| 10.18.
Dop 7.45 1.20 10.23
Dop. 7,58 8.439) 10,30|
Dop. 8.17 868 10,48
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10.34))1.38 2.35 4.236.107.017.11
| 11,45 242 400 6,17,... (7.18.
11.50 2.46 4.35 6.92
12.01 2.50 $45 | 0.30) ...
12,08 3,02 4,40. (6.86), 44
12,20 3,15 BLVS |6.49]
(12.82 3.27; 5.14 7.01....
.....Art. 8.170,01) 10.54 11.12/1988 1.87 6.20 17.077.39 7.59
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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.
TODAY.
(October 19.
Michnolmas "Law Sittings begini. Lawn Bowls: Shanghai v. Vio-. toria, Craigongower Cricket Club ground.
Hong Kong Fencing Club Meet, 5.15 p.m..
Hockey Club 2nd XI. Police (King's Park), 4.38 p.m.
M.C.L, Sale of Work, Penk Club, 3.30 p.m.
MAN'S PAST AND FUTURE?
SIR ARTHUR KEITH LOOKS BACK AND FORTH ON THE HUMAN RACE.
MACHINERY OF MAN'S EVOLUTION, AND CERTAINTY OF HIS PROGRESS.
The British Association nasem University Law & Commerce Sabled in its thousanda on Wednes ciety Meeting, 8.30 p.m.
day, September 23, in the heart of the Empire, with General Brouts
F.W.D. Auction Bale of Crown Land, 3 p...
Queen's Theatre: "Reaching for. the Moon."
World Theatre; "Soul Liberty" (Chinesa
The Machinery of Man's Evolution.
That man has made this exodus,
we have full ovidence, but it in our successors who must determine the
ne its president, to calcbrate the exnob, time at which it occurred; ofcentenary of its birth, writes: Sir the stages by which it was accom- Arthur Keith in the London Neus plished, and the nature of the
Star Theatre." Central Theatre: "Romance of The Opera."
King's Theatre: "A Connectient
Tankoo.
Prince's Theatre They Had To
Seo Paris."
Majestic Theatre: "A Slave of Passion" (Chinese film).
Dinner Dances at Hong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel
Tides-High at 9.49 and 9.45; Low at 3.10 and 3.30.
TUESDAY,
(October, 13.)
Chronicle
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HONGKONG
PENINSULA HOTEL, HONG KONG HOTEL), REPULSE BAY HOTEL
·PEAK" HOTEL:
SHANGHAI
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PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS,
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IN ASSOCIATION WITH
LITS, PEPING.
"pillar of cloud by day and pillar | GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONE, Its members may legitimately of fire by night" which brought pride themselves in what science man out from the bondage of the has done since the first meeting was jungle,
its appeal to through them to the outside world, but by sober announcements of what it hopes to do before another century is over.
held in York a century ago, but it That those problems will be re- was not by trumpeting past achie-solved by the time our great-grand- Konyvements that the Association made children are in control of affairs I Londoners, and have no doubt. My confidence is based on the rapid rate at which our knowledge of the living, grow
news body s
is now being' advanced. We are finding out the factors and forces which control the development of the human embryo and which regulate the growth of the child's body.
Rotary Club Tiffin. Lang, Craw ford's Restaurant, 1 p.m. Speaker Mr. F. Forster on "Education, its International Aspect."
And yet, if we are to forecnet what Science in likely to accomplish for mankind in the coming cen-
Hong Kong Football Association,tury, wo must keep an eye on what Connell, Meeting, 3.30 p.m... it has succeeded in doing betw’con-
Lawn Bowls. Shanghai . Billy-1891-1931, cocks, Yacht Club ground.
Ping Pong-Men's Champion- ship: Lee Chun Kai . Chui Fook Sheung (Eastern A.A.)..
Queen's Theatre; "Reaching for
the Moon."
World Theatre The Soul Liberty" (Chinese fim)."
The Unravelling of Man's Past.
It
The uninitiated would never. quean that the cause of cancer and the cause of man's evolution are parts of the same great problém-- the problem of growth.
The transformations which will be effected in the world out great grandchildren by fitulo Fa Yet, they are. Canoer represents ofradays, Kelvina, Parsons, JJan anregulated growth of a
a part of Thomsons and Rutherfords I shall not touch on, but confine my fore cast to that branch of knowledge I am most familiar with that which deals with Mankind.
What is man's past ↑ Fhat is his future There are the ques
Star Theatre: Speedway." Central Theatro: Romance of The Opera" (Chinese film).
King's Theatre: A Connecticut Yankee,"
Prince's Theatre: "Wonder of Women,"
Majestic Theatre: "A Man from Wyoming."
tians ishich interest me
In 1831 it was generally believed that man had no past. Since then Dinner Dances at Hong Kongwe have succeeded in building up a Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.
Tides:High at 10.40 and. 10.15; Low at 3.58 and 4,00.
Europena Mail:-Outwardı Europe i Suez (Perseus) 2.30 9.m.; Europa vin Suez (Chenon- cenu) 1.30 p.m.; Europe superscrib. edvin Siberia: Air Mail Shang bai-Manchouli" (D'Artagnan)
p..
WEDNESDAY,
calendar of the prehistoric past which carries human history back over a period, not of 6,000 years; but of 800.000 years or more.
•
Our prehistoric calendar is as vek a mere outling, but if knowledge accumulater at the present rate it will be, a century hence, as detail ed and exact as the time charts of historic England. We have search: ed only a small part of the earth as yet, und have found the fossil remains of a few of the strange human beings who lived in long past times; we have also discover
the body; evolution representa an altered growth of the whole body- an altered regulated growth spread. over thousands of generations
The day will assuredly come when we shall be able to regulate growth. -both malignant and benign-so efficiently that cancer will be pre- vented and evolution will be con. troiled. Such is the goal" towards which we work; and at no distant century our successors will attain this goal.
Such optimism is justified "by n survey of the amazing progress science has made in the past cen- tury. In 1831 the compound micro- scope was being invented. The ap- plication of that instrument to the human hody revealed the fact that wo art made up not of "textural,” as our great-grandfathers thought, but of microscopic living inits,
The human body is a huge co lony; we have just finished the first
(October 14.) Interport Lawn Bowls. Hong Kong. Shanghai (second game) Taikoo Recreation Club ground."
Hockey Club Jals, U.S.R.C.ed the crudo tools they fashioned, rough survey of the units of this ground, 5.15 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Reaching for the Moon.'
World Theatre: The Soul of Liberty" (Chinese, film).
Star Theatre: "Speedway:"" King's Theatre: Special Per formances in Aidaf Yangtze Flood Kelief Fund."
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ST. FRANCIS HOTË
ANNOUNCES
THE RE ENGAGEMENT OF
MIVAN MARSHALL
FAMOUS TENOR ROBUSTO
FOR OCTOBER, NOVEMBER
AND DECEMBER.
Mr. Marshall will Sing and
Entertain Our Guests Generally Every Night.
REINFORCED ORCHESTRA
A hundred years hence, when vast colemy by the improved micro- NO INCREASE IN PRICES.
stealogista, will have ransacked scopes of our time. A hundred avory part of the earth, we expect years hence it will have been re- our successors to be in possession surveyed by ultramicroscopic of an array of fossil forms guffici methods, and much that now seems. ently complete to reveal the exact to us so mysterious. and inexpli manner in which Man made his cable will be explored and explain- Erodus from the kingdom of theed. brates.
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Fuller's Chocolates
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