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TIME TABLE.

"On and afbor MAY 2ND, 1931, until Farther Notico (all previous

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UP. TRAINS

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STATIONS

No. No. 3. E A.M. AM.

10

8

AM.

Kowloon

Taurat.......

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

12

10 22 18 24 28. 26 MAM. [NOɔN), ro, YM.Y.M. P.M. P,M.P.X.

Dep. 6.40 8.06 8.28 9.15 10.10 12.00 1.19 2.36 402 441 0.85 7.40

Dep. 0.43

0.34 10.21 12.01.20

Shatin

Dep.) 7.00

(9,37|| 10.30) 12.20) 1:38...

***

Taipe

Dej 7,141

9,5%) 10,00) 13,38) 1,51) ...

Tapo Markat

Dep. 7.10

13

Depe TAM

0.07 10.5 12,37) 1,50|| ... '10,09) 15:04) 12:47 2.05)...

0.03

Fanling

Shoungaani

Shunchun

Catton ...

.Dep. 7.B5)

-ATT.| 7.4|| 9,449.11

11.321

4.49 5.48 7.48.

114

· 6.02) 8.88);8,00 8.16 6,00 8,13

...5.196.12.17

6.29 6.23 8.37

10.14 11.0 12.52 2.10 8.145.84 0.27 8.80 10.20) 11.15 12.58 214 3.20 4.40 5.40 0.38 8,38

6.443

4.

DOWN TRAINS

7.28

STATIONS

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

1 8 I 5

19 16 17

21 13 29:

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ADE AMPX PAL, PM, PM}par?

Canton **** Shuruchun.... Sheungshui

Fanling

Taipo Market.......

Taipan qırı

•Dop

Dop. 717 8:03 0.85 Dep. 7.24 8.1010,08 Dap. 7.20 8:15) 10.08-

...... Dop. 7:40 8.25 10.18

Dup. 7.46 8.80 10.22

141

..

4,15....

0.8338 2.36 423 6:10 7.01 1.11 ['11,43) 2.49)=4,00 -0,17) ** 718 $11.500 4.85 0.9

154

12,01 2,30) 445 ('5.32)

2,063.02 440 | 0.80)

...

Kowloon.......

Arr. 3.17 0.01] 10.54) 11.12

12.30 8,16) 5,09 | 0:40). .... 12.82 3.27|| 4,16 | 7,01|-... 1-21881 8.28 5.20.1 7.071 2.89 7.54

Bhatin...........

Dap 7.58 8.43 10.30

Fawnati.......Dup. 811 8.55 10,48

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EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(Märch :)

1st Day of Zulkaidah.

Lecture by Capt" Holland on "Sailing Ship Daya? Sailors' and Soldiers' Home, 8.45 p.m.

Auction Sule "of Race Ponies, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Race Course, 8.13 p.m. `

THE MIRACLE OF EDGAR

WALLACE.

NEWSPAPER BOY-CABIN BOY--SOLDIER

JOURNALIST NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHT

Yourly Meeting of The Bong Edgar Wallace has died; as the Kong Telephone Co., Ltd., 11 am,

carly age of 58, at the height of bis Whist Drive at Soamen's In-fame and in the full tide of his

stituto.

tion.

dous onergy of the man causes the mind to real. For his colossal efforts were crowned by colossal success.

unparalleled activities. And with Hunting: Fanling Hounds Meet, his death some of the badgcainal. At his desk Edgar Wallace was a Hunters' Arma, 3.15 p.m.

seems, to have dropped out of the tornado; but he turned with equal Entries Closs for Annual Kow- Ho of London,

zest to relaxation. Racing was the [loon Marathon Race.

On the night of February 9, a supreme hobby of his life, and the Rugby Football: Proliminary London theatre audience informed important part he played on the rounds of Seven-A-Sido Competi❤of his illness only an ar beforo Turf is well-known to all connected the rise of the curtain, we a cor- with the Sport of Kings. It was Hong Kong Cricket Club Tennis diar reception to the last of his one of his proudest boasts that in Tourisment:-T. L. Iu or M W. Lo». C. C. Chin, Goldman v. Hyde, plays.. A few days previously his his racing play "The Calendar" Young. Valeatine, Nash v. Broadfertile, vigorous mind was planThis tochnical detail was so masterly ley, Worrall Folley, Williama ning a new scenario in Hollywood that not a member of the Jockay and Tood v. Ride and Harkins, It was only a few weeks sings his Club could detect a ilaw. Wood and Frost v. Lampard sad Clarke, Col. and Mrs. Locky v last novel was published, and an- Palmer and Miss Stevenson, Mr. other was already in the PreES.

Ho played bridge, but preferred conversation. and Mrs. Mackie v. Monaghan and

He was the most. Miss Stephen.

While he lived he was dynamic urbane and likosble of men, and his ally aliye. "Into a span of years, talk was always witty and full of short as we judge a man's life-common sense. As an after-dinner time, he crowded prodigious speaker he had very few rivals, and achievements. And, the shoer he had to an equal degree the gift volume of his work is not more of effective platform spooch. His staggering than its variety and, overflowing energy carried him into within the limits which he set. bipolitics, and having first nursed: a

King's Theatre "Dr. Jeykl} and Mr. Hyde."

Central Theatre: All Quiet. On The Western Front."

Queen's Theatre: "Son of India,” World Theatre: "The Mysterious Person in Black (Chinese filmi).

Star Theatro Pardon Us! “Lai Aloha Troupe" at the Pan-self, its consistently high quality, insula Hotel

Tea Dances at King's Restaurant. and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Pen- insula Hotel and King's Restaurant.

THURSDAY,

(March 10:)

Annual General Meeting, Row. loon Godown & Wharf Co., Ltd., Jurline's Boardroom, 12 noon.

Annual General Meeting, Victoria Recreation Club, 8 p.m.

Meeting of the Hong Kong Nudists Club, Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, p.m.

Hong Kong Cricket Club, Tennis

NO PADDING.

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Buckinghamshire constituency he stood as a Liberal candidate for Blackpool at the last general elec- [tion.

He bad his rare failures; it would have been miraculous if he had not. NO ADVANTAGES,

But a Wallace novel has no pad- dug: a Wallada play has no loose ends; a Wallace scenario is tersely vivid; his newspaper articles were always crisp and pungent.

Such a record of strenuous endoa- your would entitle a man born to every advantage to lasting respect. But Edgar Wallace started life with no advantages; he began with quite definite handicaps.

| Tourisment :- Segulen and Wal- He arranged with the Daily Mail their doorsteps, and whose horror is

...

He always maintained that the

When nine days old he was ro- Daily Mail launched him on his phenomenal career as a popatarsued from the workhouse by foster writer, and after he ceased to be parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Free- staff writer for this newspaper be man, whose name he bore for many Ho lived among the very continued his close connection with years.

poor who dwell in shabby strecta it as a contributor."

and cloan their windows and whiton "sham . Owen Hughes und Marion, on the eve

of his departure for charity. Tufton . Green, Holines . B. E. Hollywood to describe his experi- Green, Hyde . Evans, Price .entes in a series of articles, The . He had next to no education, but Divets, Puncheon and Railton . frst was printed on December es his life supplied the lack, A caps- Sewell and Wright, Henderson and under the heading, On the Spotcious mind, swift to comprehend, Meaghan . Scull and Stark. in Hollywood," and the fourth- and a varitable passion for informa- tion enabled him to educate him- Queen's Theatre: "Son of India."Fanning the Film Folk"-as ro-

self. Central Theatre: "All Quiet On gently as last month.

Whether an academic train- The Western Front."

ing would have hunted his alert and robust brain or given it yet. greater range is a barren though tempting question.

King's Theatre: "The Yellow

Ticket

World Theatre: The Mysterious“ ¡Persau in Black" (Chinese film).

Tea Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Panin sala Hotel and King's Restaurant.

European Mail:-Outward: Europa vía Siberin (Corfn) 2.30

pm.

COLOSSAL OUTPUT.

When it is remembered that he way the author of about 150 books. that he wrote about 20 plays, that for the greater part of his life he was a prolifle journalist, and that when he invaded the film world he not only directed his own film cor- poration but also wrote and pro- duced his own scenarios, the, stupen-

As a boy he sold nowspapers at Ludgate circus, almost under the shadow of the newspaper offices which later sproud his name to the ends of the earth and which, he served with unsurpassed skill, ver- satility, and courage.

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