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Hongkong Daily Press

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No. 23085. MOUNTAIN #LALATE HONG KONG, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1932.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY. Contrasts Between England

TIME TABLE.

On and after MAY яwn, 1931, until Further Notice (all previous Time Tables cancelled),

UP TRAINS

No. No. Na No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

STATIONS ม 6 10 8 12 14 122 18 24 36 28

ANG) AMYANG AMAM. NOON P.MP.M.) F.K. P.M. T.M. POW/

Kowloon...........Dep. 640 8.05 8.28 0.15 10:16 12.00 1.182.35 4,03 441 5,35) 7.40

Yanmati. Dep. 648

Shatin ............... Dep. 7.00 7.14 Talpo TEKNO

Dap. 7.80 Dep. 7.88

Taupo Market Dup.7.10

Fanling

TH

104

**

2,05

......Arr.{7.41| 8,45] 0.11

Sheungahul

Shumchan

Canton

„Arr.

11.32

0.94 10.24 12.08 1.20... 0.37 10.36 12,20) 1.88)

9.82 10.50 12.03 1.61... 0.87 10,54 12.87 1.55) ... 10.09 11.04 12.47 2.05)...

... 4.40 5.43 7.48

6.02 5.55 8.00 ...5,156,088,73 ....10 6.12 8.11

6.29 0.228,27 10.14 11.09) 12,62; 2.103.14.5.34 0.2718,82 10.20 11.16 12.59 2.13 9.90 4.40) 8.40| 6.83/8.88

5,40

DOWN TRAINS

17:28)

•

STATIONS

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No,

13 7 晶

10 1517

21 1923 A.H.A.M.A,H. A..A.... P.M. (P.M. (P.X. P.M.

Chator... Shuichan... Shoangshui

Fanling

Talpo Market...

Taipo.......

Shatin

Taumati.

Kowloon.

Dop....

7.11

Dojs 7.17 8.03 9.58 10.34 11.38 2.38 4.23 6,107.03 7.18 Dep. 7.316.10, 10.09 | 11,45244||| 4,30 6,17

7,208.14 10.08)

„Dep. 7,40 825 10.16 ap. 7.45 8.80 10.22 Dap.7.68 8.43 10,35 Dep. 8.118.53 10,49 A.2.10.01) 10.84) 11.19)

Sundays and Public Holidays only

(11,50) 2,46). 3,35 | 6,22

| 12,01 2,60||| 4,15 | 6,82| | ... 12,003.02 4.49 6.20... 19.208.16||| 5.09 | 8.40) ... 12.32 3,27 5.14 7.01 ... 12:88) 2,83) 5.20 | 7.07| 7.89₫ 7.04

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INCREASING CULT OF THE

NEWSPAPER.

BY PERCY S. BULLEN,

A trip from Loudon to New York (Charleston, and New Orleans, one will provide a study in contrasts place is very much the same as an and behaviour not to be found inother. other English-speaking countries.

There is a uniformity of city halls,

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DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(July 3.)

St. Jaimes.

Full Court Appeal, Supreme Court.

P.W.D. Auction Sale of Crown Land, 3 p.m

Hong Kong Art Club Meeting, Helena lay Instituto, 4.30 p.m.

Billiards-Final of Garrison's Billiards Challenge Cup,10 p.m.

Lawn Bowls:-Spey Royal Cup: Bowling Green . "Police, K.C.C. ground, 4,30 p.m. ; Open Champion. ship Singles C.- J. Tacchi r. P. T. Farrell, A. H. Oswick 1. A. K. Taylor (Kowloon C.C.), R. F. Luz

Basto . W. Mair (Craigengower) 8.30 p.m.

The study begins with children public buildings, and streets, which aboard the Atlantic liner. The Eng. muay Europeans find truly appall. A. Hyde-Lay (Police R.C.), J.-J.

lish children are invariably quieting. and well-mannered, the American

ment,

On the other hand, there is more

Central Theatre: "Murders in the Rue Morque."

Queen's Theatre: The Sin of Madelon Claudot."

-King's Theatre: "Two Kinds of Women."

cola."

"Abraham Lin-

World Theatre: "King of the Wild."

are less restrained; they are de uniformity of speech within the monstrative, often noisy, and ap-13,000 miles which divide the Atlan proach strangers without embarrasstic from the Pacific than will be discovered in the relatively short This trait, known in London as distance between the South of Eng. precocity, would be translated inland and the North of Scotland. Star Theatre: New York as cute "-just "cute." That speech may not reach English standards of perfection, but there and not to be repressed.

On reaching Washington or New is no dialect, and it is readily un

Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; York you find the big men are more derstood by all.

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong The question of politeness is larHotel, Peninsula Hotel and King's easy of access than men of the same degree in England. This is natur gely a question of what one means Restaurant. al; perhaps, in a country where the by the word. Americans are President sees newspaper reporters amongst the kindest and most hos twice a week at the White House, pitable of people. Nevertheless, and submits to examination at heir you can spend an entire day on hands which is far more searching business or pleasure in an American than any Minister experiences in city and rarely do you hear the qucation-tims in the House of Com-words "Thank you."

mons.

Courtesy or Curtness?

To-day, after a few weeks' absuutt in England, where the phrases, "It

Tides-High at 2.41 and 13.23; Low at 8.20 and 20.03.

:

Home Mails: Inward from America by Pres. Jackson; Out- ward for Europe via Biberia by Burdwan, e p.m.

TUESDAY,

(July 20.)

Hong Kong Stock Exchange Settlement Day.

Englishmen Seem Subdued. Natural also it seems in New York, where the heads of big banks you please," "Much obliged," or Rotary Club Tiffin: Lane, Craw.

"Thank you," appear largely in ford's Restaurant, 1 p.m.

and big business will frequently and readily chat with the repre sentatives of the public an matters of importance.

the verbal currency, I bought a Whist Drive at Civil Service straw hat in New York. "Thank Cricket Club, 8,30 p.m. you." I said on leaving the coun

tor.

Lawn Bowls:-Spey Royal Cup: Taikoo R.C. v. Civil Service (Police

It is remarkable that two peoples of similar racial origin in the main The shop assistant looked up in Green), 4.30 p.m.; Open Champion. are quite different in temperament. surprise, probably sympathised with ship: F. Cullen . L. de Rome, B. The British by comparison with me as a stranger using a new lan-w. Bradbury . W. Russell (Club Americans seem subdued Theyguage, and replied, "You are wel de Recreio), W. H. B. Muskett v. may think just as quickly, but are come." The assistant, on realising L. A. Gutierez (Kowloon B.G.C.), slow in speech and more inclined that he had received cash for goods 5.30 p.m. to weigh their opinions.

delivered, considered the transac Climate may be one explanation. tion closed, and more words a waste In the United States there are far of time!

greater extremea of temperature Chief of the differences between- thon in England. Extreme hent in the two peoples is the reading habit.

Orchestral Concert at Repulse Bay. Hotel, 8 p.m.

King's Theatre: "Two Kinds of Women."

summer and extreme cold in winter, In the same way as the average Central Theatre: "Murders in with a marked tendency to quick American business man regords ad: the Rue Morque." alternations, are probably influences vertising as the. life-blood of trade, World Theatre: "King of the which, count not only in the phy-so also the average citizen considers Wild." siological but also in the mental his daily newspaper as hardly less Star Theatre: "Abraham Lin

essential than his daily food. The coln."

make-up of a nation.

No one can dispute that in re-mass of Americans rend newspapers Tea Dance at King's Restaurant;' cent years Americans have become and magazines rather than booke, Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel and 'King's' "mass-minded." This is a product, For every Londoner who taken

Restaurant. perhaps, of "' mass "education, two daily newspapets there are o

Tides-High at 3.15 and 13.30; mass production, muss dis-dorea New Yorkers who take two Low at 9.51 and 20.10. -

tribution.

British's Mixed Speech.

Why is it that Americans gener- ally, more especially the plain folk, prefer to dour in herds--in a bunch,

:

or three:

Where Newspapers are Devoured.

Modof the world are interdependent, A few years before the Great War and that co-operation amongst them foreign affairs, judged from the is essential to the world's peace and amount of space devoted to them happiness.

as they any—when you find English by-the-nowspapers, possessed-only Americans today for the THE people exploring by themselves the smallest interest for American time in history, are studying for- either alone or in small parties randers. The United States in eiga affairs and news in the hope of The sightseeing car, holding a hun- those days was largely committed finding the key to unlock the door dred passengers, who listen con- to the tradition of isolation and to prosperity. This trend toward; tentedly to evoniferous guide, is independence. In the last decade, world mindedness and co-operation, an American institution and high and more particularly in the last as evidenced by the large amount of Jy cherished.

few years, the national standpoin space now given by the American has shifted considerably.

Press to foreign despatches, poli To-day there is no statesmanin tical and commercial, is in striking America who fail to recognise that, contrast with all precedent." It is future

A lack of distinctiveness and, variety is seen in the cities, town and villages throughout the United

Staics Wilding

ceptions,

a few bonourable ex- cconomically speaking, the countrice of very good omen for the hington, (Continued at foot of next column.) of international relations..?

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