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and Hong Kong at 5.30 p.m. on Friday, 26th December, 1981

4.30 p.m. on Eaturday, 28th Doceraber und 3.20 p.m. on Sunday, 27th December, 1931.

On SUNDAY, 17th December, 1931 Special Excursiou for Race Meeting

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and from Macadʼat 5.15 pm.

SPECIAL SALOON FARES.

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GOLFERS

FOR AN

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DIARY OF LOCAL A

EVENTS.

TODAY.

(December 21.)

Christmas Eve.

Golf

Royal Hong Kong Golf

Club Christmas Meeting.

Auction Sale of Ponies, Joskey Club Stables, Causeway Bay, 5.15 p.m

Contral Theatre The Texan," King's Theatre The Habits

Queen's Theatre:

Blcad.

"

Quick Glimpse

Of Manchuria.

INDESCRIBABLE MELANCHOLY OF

CHINA'S LAND OF SORROWS:

Girl HEALTHY AND Fertile, but infested

"Sporting

World Theatre; "Yu Tong Chun” (Chinese Alm).

Majestie Theatre; Cohens, and Kollys in Africa."

"Call of the

Star Theatre: Flesh."

Ten Dinner at Hong Kong

Hotel:

Carnival Dances at Lane, Craw-

ford's Restaurant, Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.

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WITH BANDITS.

Endless stoppes, almost as true- tiny and insignißennt, the guards lers as Australia's Nullarbor Plain, gave a great shout and galloped covered with rank graas, with fields ¦ hard for town, and the timber re-

of maize and beans around the sad 'mained (and probably remains) dh- little grey villages that is the im-sold.. pression of a traveller by train Signor Genaro Bonavita at Pen-through Mandluris, where China insula Hotel.

FRIDAY.

December 5.)

and Japan are soy fighting for the possession of a caipira in the making, writes Campbell Dixon in the London Daily Telegraph.

bandita, Manchuria would -ip saf Given roads and immunity from

sportsman's paradise. It is, some think, the original home of the tiger. It is certainly the home of the great Mongolian tiger, the largest in Manchuria' is healthy, it is im-

the world, judging by the gigantic mensely fertile, it should be one of stuffed specimens which were dis the happiest countries in the world. I played by Chang Teo Lin in his Why, then, does it share with Mukden yamen-with the idea, the indescribable malen malicious said, of creating the right atmosphere of ferocity. And the plains, with their rivers and awamps, are the breading-ground of myriads of duck, gecst, snipe, pheammt, and qunil.

Christmas Day, Christmas. Services at St. John's Cathedral, St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, St. Peter's Church, West Point, Union Church, Hong Kong, Union Church, Kowloon, Methodist Church, St. Joseph's Church, Gar-Siberia den Road. Catholic Cathedral and Rosary Church, Kowloon.

Hockey: Radio Sports Club 2, Corman Club.

Football: England . Scotland, Club ground.

Queen's Thentre: Sporting Blond,"

choly? It cannot be simply that bandits are many and life uncertain. The thing, goes deeper than that. There is something depressing about all north-eastern Asia, some thing sorrowful, something in the dull browns and greys and greens Texan,

Girl of these monotonous plains syn

bolie of monotonous livea. "Call of the

Contral Theatre: "The

King's Theatre: Habit

Star Theatre: Flosh."

Majestic Theatre: "Cohens and Kully, in Africa."

World Theatre: Yu Tong Chun" (Chinesa. Alm)..

I am speaking here, of course, of The great central plain through which the railway raus, on the way

Ten Dances at King's Restaurant north to Harbin. The remoter re- and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner gions are both more varied and Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Pen-more attractive.. In the south-east insula Hotel and King's Restaurant.rise the Long White Mountains in

European Mail:-Outward: Europe

Hi Sabz (Suwa Mara) plitees 9,000 ft. high, running from

Karen towards Vladivostok: in the! north soar the Hinguns, a magni- beent range aninhabited save for trappers, the home of fox, squirrel, deer, wolf, and bear:

NOON,

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SATURDAY,

(December 28.)

Boxing Day. Opening of New Pavilion, Civil Servics Cricket Club, Happy Val- ley, 3 p.m.

BANDITS EVERYWHERE.

But such places are hard to get RC (F.), a.m.; Hong Kong at. Roids do not exist in China: C.C.

Army (F.), am Crafbridges are mostly primitive affairs gongower C. Married Bingle. Indian R.C. seconds . University of rope or rickety timber. seconds (F), 11 .m.

there are bandits everywhere.

Cricket-Kowloon C.C. a. Navy

(F.), 11 a.m.; University r. Indian

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NO ANCIENT CULTURE.

It is important to remember that Manchuria is not part of China "proper, and in some ways has little in common with it. There is here no ancient culture in decay. It is all as hew and erade as an Oklahoma oj? town, without the bil town's ameni ties. The Manchurian village is a

huddle of clay kuts surrounded, by

a clay wall, with a tower at rach corner. The streets are unformed- a dust heap in the fierce summer heat, a hog in the rains, merci- fully frozen hard in winter, and at all times imaginably filthy.

I have suggested that Manchuria a China's fand of sorrows. It is also China's land of promise. Will

it see a great Chinese renaissance. or pass into the hands of Japan? One can prophesy only one thing that the present conflict can

Football. Sunday. Herald Cup: Wales » Portugal" (Club ground):

An ncquaintanes in Harbiu invit-hardly last very long. Winter is Chinese League: Chiness Athletic me to ride out to look at aapproaching, the great plains will "B" Yes Woo, South China A" Limber roncession. A guard of soon be under snow, and neither.

South China Chinese Ath. twenty adliers was provided by side will willingly keep the field the vendor. Alas, for bis pains. when the temperature falls to 201 Five miles from Harbin some horse below zero and blizzard's sweep the men åled across the skyline, very plains.

A. Sung Ching...

Golf Royal Hong Kong Golf Club Christmas Meeting.

Hunting-Fanling Hant Meet (Anandale); 2.45 pm.

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