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Hongkong Daily Press.

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No. 22943. ARTIKO WAL‡** HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1931. AĦN

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

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STATIONS

Kowloom.

UP TRAINS

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2 .0 "10 FAME] ANE; } AM. |

Dop: 0.40 8.05) 8,28 Dop 0.49

Dep] 7.80]: **

·· Yaumstij

Skatin

Taipo Market....

Dopa, 7.19]

134

Fanling

7.30...

Sheungshui

Shamahu

Canton

Canton

'STATIONS

Shengshui Fanling Talpo

Tai Taipo

Shatin' Yammail:

Kowloomi

13

14,10 29.

18:24

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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(October 14)

First Day of 1 Jemadi-al-nkhir. Intofport Lawn Bowls Hong Long Shanghai (squond" game) { Taikoo Recreation Club ground.

Hockey Club Jata, U.S.R.C. ground; 5.13 p.more on

0.15 10.10 12.00 1.18 2.85 400 441 5.80 7.40 Lectures Sources of Westert

9.24 10.24 12,09

8710.36 2.90

1.52 10:50:12.83 1.51]:...

· 0.67) 1054 12.87) 1.56) ... 10.09.11.04 12.47 2,08)"...

1.4.49) 5,43||$2,48

... 5.02 5.45 9.00

5.18 6.06 8:18

5.10 6,128.17

6.29 0.228.27 9,06 | 10,14/'11:00 12.82 2.10/3.14 ...5,846.27 8.89 7.41 8.449.11 | 10.30] 11.18 12.58 2.10 3.20 440 5:40 1,838,85

11.001

5,40

DOWN TRAINS

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*19 1317

21 18 20 18

AM. P.FM: FXIX. 13, LX. LX. AK-

Dep...

8-

7.30

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... 413... 10.84 11.38 2.36 428 8,107,017.11

4.30 (1,45) 3,42

7.18

Dep. 7.17 8.ca), 9.56 Dep: 7.24 8.10 10,08 Dep. 7.29 814 10.08

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L1.60 2.40 4.35.8.22)...

Dop. 7.10.8:25 1418 Den 7.45 8.50 10.33 Dop 7.59 843] 10.88)||

12,01 2.60

4:46 6,92

12,00 8,02 4.30 | 0.80) ... 12,908.18|| 6.02 0.49

Dep.118.5104812.32 8.37 5.14 2.01)...

ArT8.17) 3.01 10.04 1.13138888) 6.20 17.07 2.397.54

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Cultura, Father. D. J. Binu, S.J H.K. University Education Society, -9.30 p.mi, ka

Queen's Theatre the Moon."

*Jottings from a Journalist's Notebook, M. M. Koy, Sailors |and "Soldiers" Home, Wanchni, B

p.m

Reaching for The Soul of Liberty" (Chinese (film), «

Star Theatre Speedway." King's TheatreSpecial Per- fornialices in Aid of Yangtze Flood

World Theatre

Relief Fund."

{

Contral Theatre Romance of The Opera" (Chinese film), E Prince's Theatre: "Wonder of Wonien."

Majestic Theatre A Man from Wyoming.?

Ten Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Danes at Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel.

European Mail:-Ou tward: Europe via Siberia (D'Artagnan) 10.30 a.m.

Bogistered a Newspaper at the Gleasral Post Office in the United Kingdom.

日肆拾月拾年登世佰玖仟登英 Price

“DON'T BE TOO HARD

ON AMERICA

THE FEUDAL AGE IN THE UNITED

STATES.

PERIOD OF CESAR BORGIA, HENRY VIIL AND MACHIAVELLI OVER AGAIN.

It might perhaps be interesting | My students at Princetowa were for English readers to learn the capable of following intelligently a things which, during a visit to lecture in French, and their read America, have impressed a Frenching was wide. To read the cutic man who knows and loves England, of the younger American authors in and who, seeing the Americans at, to be convinced that it could not be

could not help constantly the expression of an uncultured comparing them with the English, people. A novelist such na Hem writes Andre Maurais in the Lan-ingway, by his taste and his reg don Morning Post.

traint, heralds a great epoch."A First impression: You English, eritic like Edmund Wilson would like ourselves, are unjust to the do honour to any French or Americans. A certain number of English review. The cone of the commonplaces have firmly establish best rangarines indicates a true ed themselves-America has turnitaste for ideas. It might be ans ed the civilisation of quality, (ourswered that these magazines address that is to say) into a civilisation themselves only to a small minority of quantity; America, because of of highbrows and that the rest are her over-production, the fatal re vulgar. But is not that true of all sult of her industrial system, is the countries? cause of all our troubles; America is a menace to European cultura, These commonplaces have find Lawn Bowls Shanghai Com favourable and sometimes an en bined 2nd Division, Electric Re- creation Club ground.

*** |thusiastic reception in England, as Racing: Entries Close For Tanthin France. That is very natural Extra Race Meeting, noon,

Understanding in diffoult, eriti ciam is diverting, and to criticise a foreign people is the casiest dud surest form of humour

Tides-High at 11.33 and 30.40; Low at 410 and 4.29.

THURSDAY,

(October 13.)

Ping Pong-Men's Champion ship: Six Siu Ching Siu Siu

ย. Kow (Eastern A.A.)..

University Medical Society Meet ing, Prof. Shellebear on Sinan thropus

Helena May Institute, Concert; 5.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: “Reaching for the Moon'

World Theatre: Soul Liberty" (Chinese film).

of

Star Theatre: Bishop Murder

Case."

Central Theatre: Eagles."

the Arrow."

Americans and Serious Study

i.

For my part 1 think, like mos fellow countryman, Paul Morand, that we shall have difficulty in sav ing our Western civilisation during the next few decades, but that one of its sanctuaries, along with Paris, London and some of the great European Universities, will be the rocky islet of Manhattan,

My second point is that if the American civilisation is not an in- ferior one, it is, nevertheless, a pri- mitive civilisation. It is not a phenomenon of senility, it is a phenomenon of adolescence. The period in European history which comes irresistibly to my mind when

The facts are not go simple America hus created a civilisation of quantity 1 True. But who in vented that industrial civilisation if not England and France at the "Young end of the Nineteenth Century think of America is the Ranais- King's Theatre: The House of America threatens our culture sauce, the end of the feudal era, the After spending four mouths in an last years in the prosperity of the Prince's Theatre: Wonder of American University. I can allow Women."

great individual figures, before, myself to disagree. It is true that they wero tamed by States stronger in certain of her colleges America than themselves. caricatures true culture. Witness Professor Flexney's book or Mr. Eric Linklater's amusing and The truthful" novel.

"Charlie

Majestic Theatre: Chan Carrica On."

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel

European Mail:- Joward Europa via Newspatam (Kashgar), Europe a Siberia (Empress of Russia).

Tides-High at 14.25 and 1.25; Low at 5:41 and 4.51..

FRIDAY.

(October 16.)

Lawn Bowls: Shanghai. Happy Valley Clubs, Police ground,

Aquatics: Entries Close for V.R.C. Harbour Races. Hockey-Club A King's Park, 3.15 p.m.

But, in spite of this false cul-

A Country Bound by Convention.

The Chicago racketeer and the powerful New York banker are feu-

ture, the Americans are much given a lords who do not wish to obey

any other law than their own wills,

Lo serious study. The younger Roon, inevitably, the American

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that respect. I should like to meet the banker and the racketeer, but

in every European country women at the present time it is in the as truly cultivated as those whom I have seen in the great colleges of Recreio, the Eastern States-At Bryn Mawr, at Vassar, and at Smith..

United States the period of Cisar Borgia, of Henry VIII, and of Machiavelli over again:

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