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Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857.

No. 22912.BRIANA B¶¶я#*** HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1932.

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Per Mouth. $3.

NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

On and after MAY 2ND, 1981, until Further Notice (all previous Time Tables oancelled)..

UP TRAINS

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

2010 B 1 14 20 20 18 24 28

STATIONS

128

A. A..AM | Aat,

A.M. NOON P., PM. PH. EX: P,M,|T.M

"Kowloon Yaumati

Dep. 6.40 8.00 8.28 ...Dup.) 8.54|

+4

..Dup$ 7.00

400

9.16 10.103.00) 1.18) 2.35) 4,02) 4,41| 5,85 7.40 3.34 10.212,08 1.28 ... 4.49-5.43 7.48 -0.87) 10.30 12.20 1.38... 5.02 5.55 9.00

Dep. 7.14

92; 10.80 12.98) 1.41

+44

| 3.25 6,088,13

Macket.....Dop.7.19

**

1,67 10.813.37 1.851

Dep. 7.30

10.09 15.04) 12.472,05

9,06 | 10.14). 11.00) 12,52:103.14

5.10 6.126.17 6.29 4.23 5:27, 5.84 0.27 8.12

Shatin

Taipe

Tripo

Faniing..... Stergabu

Bhumchaa

Canton

..Dep. 7.36

Arr: 7.41 8.44 931 10.20 11,1512,68 2.10 3.20 4.40 5.10.6.888.89

11.8" 5,40

STATIONS

Cantt Shumehua. Shounganui Fanling

• Taipo Market.

Taipa

Bhatin

Taumati Kowloon

7.28

DOWN TRAINS

No. No. No. No.

No No 47 8 15 17

No.

No. No No, 19 21 13 23 M. PM. N. 12.

•Dupil

4. M. L.M. A...M...

****

7,50

Dop, 7.17 8.03 0.55 10.84 11.35 2.35

The 7.44 K, 2010.08| Dep. 2.268.24 10.08||

Dop7,458.80 10.23 Den. 7.68 8.43 10.30

Dep.) 8.118,65-10.48) Arr.8.17 0.01 10,6411.12

● Sundays and Public Holidays only

| 11,462,42)

11.602.16 12.01 2.60 12.06 3.0

8.107.01 7.11 5,17 7.18

*

***

4.3

356.22 15.6.32

4.40 0.38 12.20 3.16 0.026,40 ... 12.32 3.27 5.14701... 1238 8.88 6.20 17.0717.30 7,54

For First Clam Passengers only. Will stop at any station on request Further information may be obtained at the Railway Offices, Kow loon or Canton, from Messrs. Thios, Cook & Son Lt, Hong Kong, The Amercian Express Co., Hong Kong, or The China Travol Servicu, Queen's Road, Hong Kong,

By Order.

GEO. A. WALKER, Manager,

BRITIAN RCMON,.

· KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY

HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS.

JOINT SERVICE oF THE Hong Kong, Canton AND MACAO

· STRANDOAT Co., LTD., AND ÜHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

HONG KONG-CANTON LINE.

SAILINGS From HONG KONG-Daily at 9 am and 10 p.m. - (Sundays 10 p.m. only).

BAILINGS From CANTON-Dally at 8 a.m. aqu, 480 pim.

(Sundays 4.30 pm, only),

HONG KONG MAŬÃO LINE.

SPECIAL SERVICE, SAILINUS From HONG KONG-Daily at 8 am, and 5.30 p.m.

(Sunday 9am, snly). SALLINGS From MACAU Daily at 3 a.m. and 2.00 p.m.

(Sundays 4 p.m. only)

EXCURSIONS TO MACAO:- Friday, 1st January and Sunday, 3rd January, 1832 5.8. “*SUI TAI”

will stepart from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf at 9 a.m. and from Macao at 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. respectively.

88. "YUI AN”

will gail from Hong Kong at 4.30 p.m, instead of 5.30 p.m. on Saturday, 2nd January, 1982.

SPECIAL SALOON FARES.

WEEK DAYS- Bingler $3.00); Baturn's 38,00.. "EXCURSION8mbingle: #2350; "Beturn': $4.00.

Nor-All Steamboat Company's Steamers are fitted with Wiralsan.

A PLEA FOR "MERRY ENGLAND" ONCE MORE.

TRY TWO COUNTRIES "MERRY» ENGLAND” AND “PURITAN

ENGLAND," SAYS MK, J. B. PRIESTLY.

T'is no longer Merry England, now that Cardinals rule us," says a character in the play Henry VIII. But the author, one William Shakespeare, was thinking fees of Cardinals than of spoil-sports generally the type of that pertentous asa Malvolio, and Charles Dicken's Chadband. Thus does a modern author, Mr. J. Priestly, pillory those who would donty us good theor during the Christmas sea son:

The waiter, who had been casting: And I put this artling revolu-(queur brandy, and they all beloury anxious glances as my table, finally tionary proposal to the new No me. Yet strange as it may sel came up, muttered something about tional Governagh high, if it re the time, gasped an apology, and ally is a nationment, am ac feverishly opening bette picked up my bottle and glass and should begin by considering the na after bottle, pouring cut glass after whisked them away. I was drank, I was an adult citizen think, been dictated to long enough I am not, at the moment, touching fot. tional temper a little. We have, glass, drowning myself in the stuf quietly digesting my suppor: but by deacons and elders.. the hour had struck, curfew had: rung, and my battle and my glass, England and a moral England. Let when a man wants to sit up very

There are two Englands- merry:

any of them. But there are times liko two Cinderellas, had to leave.us divide up the country and so late in pubite with his friends w It was midnight, and prohibition parate the merry England from the celebrate something, and he has had set in for the next twelve hours, oral one

The waiter did not want to take! my bottle away; the proprietor

The metal one should have a right to satisfy this ancient human didn't; the man at the next table capital of its own, and because of need. didn't; and I didn't. The policets Cockney traditions and its hos Yes, but only as public agents. The pitality to visitng's of every kind public, then But what public? London is civiously unsuitable. Not myself, not the proprietor, nor Loudon should be the capital of the the waiters, nor the other diners merry England, a place in which And we were the people meat con- you can do what you like so lens de you do not make a real nuisance No doubt there are all manner of yourself. The other Englan of Chadbandish gentlemen who could have, say, Birmingham as its strongly disapprove of drinks aftor capital.

cried in the matter.

would be exciting to find out whit If we had this merry England it would become of us.

We should, you pust remember, be entirely apart from keeping order, would The. unprotected

Government, not look after us.

"

FRIGHTENING.

for th Liberty, I admit, frightening continental cities, realise what of us who know freedom has done for them, just making life there one long orgy and perhaps it would be too much be able to atch everything-dancing, for us. Perhaps there couldn't be being. kissing in cars, Sunday performances,

merry Englaid even washing and eating and genial adult life. But it seems cigarette smokingEnglish could never. reach, a everybody would be virtuous to me worth trying, just for once.

midnight, but I could not see that! There all these repressive people these people were any mere entitled caski pass all the laws they pleas to make the laws than myself and ed no drinks at any hour no mixed my friends. This, I told myself, is bathing. no bare legs, no wicked a piece of tyrannical humbug, books and plays, curfew for every For years now we have been co-body at nine o'clock. They would pelled by Chadbandish gentlemen, with loud voices, to stop doing this and that. Suppose we compel then, for a change What about a law making every citizen sit up at lonst ane night a week and drink a battle of wine in public after twelve? It would be only fair.

NO BULLYING.

That would be only fair. But. then, I am a tolerant man, and don't really want to compel Chad handish people to do anything they don't want to do except to mind their own business.

Then the other England, in which would instantly propose to live, could go to perdition 2 its own sweet pace. The primrose would be open for all.

WE SHOULD LEARN..

way

In a sideboard, facing me aa write, there are battles of whisky, gin, vermouth, port, sherry and

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the morry, not the moral. Eng- I wish it would try some of us lib-with a latchkey and a little money of our own to spend as we please. That teetotal, non-smoking. unmusical, woman-hating killjcy who seems to have slipped in dozens and dozens of laws while wo wore enough. Let him go to Birming not looking has had his way long. ham!

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