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No. 23003. ***** #AMA*** HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1932. AĦ

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

On and after MAY 2ND, 1931, until Further Notice (all previous Time Tables cancelled).

UP TRAINS

STATIONS

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

2 8 10 Н 12

1 22 14

18 24 28 28

|4.30 AL | AM.

AK. NOON FX. P.M. F.M. P.M. TOM. V.M. A.K.

a

+

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9,15 10.10 13.00 1.18 2,35 402 441 8.85 7.40 0.24 10.24 12.08) 1.26 9.87 10.86 32.20 1.88) ... D.82 10.50) 15.33 1.51

| 4,40) 8,42 7.48

www

| 8,02 6,65 | 8.00

3.12.12

לדי

Kowloon sa

.Dop.) 6.40) 8.05 8.28 Yaumati....................Dep. 1.45 Shatin.............Dop 7.00 Talpo Dep. 7.14 Taipo Market......Dep. 7,18 Fanling....Dop. 7,30

0.57 10.54 12.37 1.55 ...

10.00 11,04 12.47 2,05 ...

9.05 10.14 11.09 12.53 2.10 3.14...

| 4,15] 6.05) 5.78

5.20 6.23

GOLD IN HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS.

HOW BANK OF FRANCE PROTECTS

ITS TREASURE.

UNDERGROUND FORTRESS OF

BY THE HON. FENELLA TREFUSIS.

According to the intest available Shagwan **** Arr. 71 6.44 8.11 10.20 11,16 12.58 2.18 3.204.40 6.40 888833 foures, the gold reserve of the

hai ...Dop 7.85

Canton.....ATE

STATIONS

Chato....19 Shumchun... Shoangshuizen Fanling......... Taipo Market..

Tuipo

Bhatin

Ykumatt.....

Kowloon.

11,92

6.40

DOWN TRAINS

7.38

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Yo. No. No, No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

1 3 7

16 17 19 21 19 23

P.M. (P.M. P.M.}RX. AMA..AM, AM, AM, FM.

Dep.:...

7.00

ww

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*.4.18...

7.11

Dop. 7.17 8.03 0.55 10.84 11.38 2.35 4.23 8.167.01 7.18 „Dep. 7.24 8.10 10.03. 11.46 2.49

8.17) 4.80 11,50 2.48. 4,86 | 032 13,01 2,56 4.46 0.82 12.00 3.02 4.40 0.30... 12.20 3,15 5.02 | 8.40 ... 12.828.37 5.147,01) ... 12938) 9,30] 6,20 (7,077,80|7,64]

Dop, 7.28.14 10.08

Dop. 7.40 8.25 10.18

Doj. 7.48 8,30) 10,23 ...

.Dop, 7.58) 8.49 10,38

Der 6,115,55| 10.49|

..

Art. 8.178.01 10.54) 11,12)

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AZIPALITINĖM

to

£656,797,008, against a note issue

Who, reading such a statement as the above, can picture in gold the mounting treasure irard of

France!

STEEL.

I had feared all through that the sight of the gold would some

how or other be denied us.

It

nearly was. For the director who conducted us over intimated, with apologies, that as there was no in- coming gold on that particular day, the key of the gold vault was not immediately availible ·Did we

think it, after all, worth while 1 Does it convey anything to the

We gathered that the key was average mind to speak of a hun-in the possession of a certain dred million pounds worth of gold-official who was at lunch. Natural real gold-fifty millions, nay, We

ly we elected to await his return, will say, oven one million?

and, to our great relief is was not long delayed.

Are we not, in this age of paper,

of credit, entitled to be just a, little incredulous when confronted by these gigantic figurest

I suppose that I, too, had thought of this gold as fabulous, until I was given, the opportunity to inspect the Bank of Franco quite recently.

Beneath a Lake.

Now, I have actually seen the gold, an experience for which in my heart I had longed,

This gold is nu betion. Deep down beneath Paris, beneath a

Vast

subterranean lake, in stcol cavern that would defy the aerial bombs and "Big Berthaa " of a modern siego army, it lies in ordered rows.

At last we were in the gold vault. To me it suggested at firet rather old-fashioned library.

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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(August, 3.)

King Haakon of Norway born," 1872.

Whist Drives at Seamen's In- stitute and Kowloon Dock, 0 p.m.

Teanis: Entries Close for Hong Handicap Doubles Competition.

Aquatics.-Y.M.C.A. Night Fete. Lawn Bowl-Spey Royal Cup: Craigengower C.C. r. Club do Re- creia (Kowloon C.C.), 4.30 p.m.:

wiek r. E. el Arculli (Taikoo R.C.), Open Championship: A. H. Or

L. de Romo r. J. G. Ozorio (Crai- gungover C.C.), F. T. Farrell v

It. d. Nichol (Club de Recreio), H. Nish . V. Petherick (Kowloon D.G.C.), 5.30 p.m.

Central Lane."

Theatre:

King's Theatre: With You."

Queen's Theatre: There."

"Park

"One Hour

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Star Theatre: "Trail of 98.." World Theatre: "King of the Wild."

Oriental Theatre: "One Hour

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SOLE AGENTS:

Garden Theatre: "Romaner of GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.,

the Opera."

Majestic Theatre: Star"

!

Happy

Tea Dance at King's Restaurant;

It was divided into long corridors by ceiling high casos, all of them protected by white-einmelled wire netting. Each case was locked,Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay and each was full of reld.

The guardian the treasuro opened one case and took, put what appeared to be a brick. I noticed then that all the cases were full of bricks, gold bricks, of between twelve and fourteen pounds. This one was of Rand gold-the reddest gold there is. Like all the others, it was 'marked with the name of It glitters, it is gold, solid, hun- the gold refiners (in England, dreds of millions of pounds of it | Rothschild's) and the assayer's Except for that breath-taking name and the exact weight. Every gleam, it might be bales of mer- brick had a chip cut from a corner chandise in a dock warehouse. to test the quality, and overy com- But the must incredible thing of partment full of bricks and its own all is the great underground fortininiature brick made from the cut- ress in which the gold hoard is off corners. guarded. For three years work- men blasted and mined the solid rock until a space of 2 acres was made clear to house this great steel city.

Above it is a layer of 38 feet of water and rock. Its roof is sup. Iported by 750 concrete pillars: its walls are 50 feet thick. An army of 2,000 employees could live in His fastness without discomfort for a period of three months.

Hotel and King's Restaurant.

Tide:High at 9.30 and 23, 33; Low at 143 and 16.40.

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THURSDAY,

(August 4)

1st Day of Rabi-al-akhir. Weekly Meeting of the Hong Kong Theosophical Society, 6 p.m.

Whist Drive at Police Recreation Club, Happy Valley, 8.30 p.m.

Lawn Bowls: - Open Singles Championships of the Colony: A. These bricks, or rather ingota, W. Girimmitt r. W. Russell; J. J. have lately. been arriving at the Basto r. L. A. Gutierrez. Both rate of 2,000 a day," the director matches to he played on the Club told us, "and only by using all de Recreio ground, 3.30 p.m. that part of the vault intended Queen's Theatre: "Leather-Neck- originally for documents have we ing." been able to house them. The King's Theatre: "Reserved For utmost that can be accommodated Ladies." is 40,000,"

He seemed depressed. I noticed that space was getting short. "This stream of gold is ruinous,” The garrison would be fed from said he, "but what can one do 1" its own electric kitchen; it would I had never realised before the breathe air electrically pumped sheer beauty of gold. There was and heated, and as pure as that boundless opportunity, here to up-

of the world outside. This citadelpreciate it. One's eye met vista

in the very kernel of Paris-it is after vista of gold. not very far from the Palais Royal-would be as impervious to siege artillery, air raids, civil riots, or criminal attack as Mont

Blane itself.

Could there, one wondered, be a more beautiful decoration? In bulk it has a charm, a loveliness, that no other substance possesses, awarinth of colouring that gives The privileged visitor, under an illusion that it is actually exud escort, drops in an elevator ing light. Were wo-suddenly. three floors, then

plunged in darkness, we imagined that a soft glow from all round would have illuminated us. It was & wrench to leave.

enters an

arinoured electric car, which, by the intervention of seerst machi nery, is permitted to pierce the massiva steel walls of the fort-

-ress:

Fortress of Steel,

Central Theatre: "77 Park Lane."

World Theatre: "King of the Wild."

Star Theatre: "Just A Gigolo." Majestic Theatre; "Happy Stars."

Ten Dance at King's Restaurant Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel and King's Restaurant.

Tides:-High at 10.13 and 23.53; Low at 3.28 and 17.16.

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COMING SHORTLY

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KING'S THEATRE

"THE CALENDAR"

derful boiseries, is the largest A BRILLIANT RACING PICTURE

Fragonard in the world. It was too large and too delicately paint- But the tour was not yet over. ed to be sent to London for the We were presently taken upstairs, French Exhibition. There are also where the Governor of the Bank to be seen two Bouchers, a Nattier, of France very kindly showed us and some fine tapestries.

On the same floor is De Cotte's

over his private apartments. Herd famous "Galério Dorée." Its

priceless gilded wood-carvings and

culous escape during the Revolu tion to some loyal workman, who draped thick paper iyer the walls and saved it from the wanton de- struction of the mob.

It displaces, in doing so, a plug of steel, weighing some forty tong. was beauty of a veatly different A-tramp-down-long corridors, alter order. For the Bank buildings in-classical pictures owe their mira- passing through the great steel corporate part of the old Hotel de doors, took us to the main room, Toulouse, which had been the with its hundred of pillars. Hers magnificent mansion of the Comte the clerks will eat and sleep da Toulouse and at one time the in time of crisis. The kitchens and home of the Princesse de Lam

balla; the plant were there for our in- spection.

But even the Galérie Dorée setin- od faded that day to even that had In thesp, apartments, among won-feased themselves on real gold.- (Cuntínued at foot of next column.) Lovulan Daily Telegraphi

THE SCREEN'S FINEST DRAMA OF

THE TURF FROM THE PEN OF EDGAR

WALLACE, WITH BRITAIN'S FAMOUS

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