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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY. TRIBESMEN OF INDIA'S

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On and after MAY 2, 1931, until Further Notion (álf previous Time Tables eaïcallad).

UP TRAINS

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 10 "10" 8 18 14 10 22 18 24 26 38 |AM. AM. AM. AM, AR. NOON F F.K. F.K. TX. TX FM

PO

STATIONS

..Dap. 8.40 8.08| 8,28

Dap. 4.48

8.18 10.16 18,00 1,38) 3,85

4.02| 443) 6.35(7,40

自省

3.96 10.24) 12.06) 1,20) (...

7.00

| 8,02) 5,556) 8.00

7.14.

959 10.50 12.28 1.01 2

та

17.19

...

7.80

Taipo Marka

Kowloon Yanmati ....... Shatin

Taipo

Finding Begagahul Shumshun

Canton

Dep. 7.85

0.37 10.88 12.20 1.88

0,37 10:58) 12.37) 185|

10.00 11:04 12.47 200) ... 9.05 10.1 11.09 1252 210 8,14 ... „Arr.§.7.41| 8.44 0.11 10.20 11:15 1268 2168.20

Arr... |11;32...

STATIONS

Canton Saumchun... Shoun shui Fanlinic

Taipo Markež.......

Talpo... Bhatiaj Yuga...

Kowloon

5.40

DOWN TRAINS

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

1 a T 6 1517| A. A.K.) A.ME, AM, AM, PO

Dep....

Don 7.17 8.09 0.66 10.84

Dep. 7.24 8.10) 10,03) .Dap. 7.80 8.14) 10.08)| Dep. 7.40 8.25 10.18

Dep. 7.45 8.80 10.22

4.40) 5.48 7,48

5,186,08 8.78

5,19 6.13 8·11

5.90 8.22 8.27

18.84 0.27 8,83

4.40 5.40 6.39 8,88

..

No. No. No. No. 10 31 13 23

1128 8.35 4.28 8.10 7.01 7.18 11,48 249 4.30 0.17) ... 7.11

| 11,50 8,48|| 4.35 | 4.25|

19,01 2,66 416 | 0.82| ...19.06 8.0 4.40 0.8

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.Đẹp. 7.58 8.4 1080 12.30 8.15 8.02 | 0.40 Dep. 8.118,55 10.48, 12.82 8.275.14 7.01

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OF THE VICEROY OF INDIA.

HOW THE AFRIDI CHIEFS SOUGHT FOR PEACE.

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Peshawar, India-There is in the with gaunt faces and Khajuri Plain, the land of roaming ions. Generations of tribal life tribesmen од the North-west have made them crafty and dis Frontier of India, a tiny military trustful of their neighboure. Con post called Fort Salon. It is versely, when their loyalty is given, situated on the summit of a low it is a stanch thing. hill and overlooks a sun-baked land. scape of golden plains rimmed in by khaki-coloured mountains...

On the occasion of the Viceroy's visit, the Afridis were on their best behaviour, for the elders of the

of

It was given to this remote spot tribe had assembled at Landhi on the Indian border in com- Kotal, in the very heart memoration of the Shropshire Regi-the Khyber Pass, to petition the ment which played a prominent Viceroy for a restoration of cer part in bringing peace to thetain rights they had forfeited by Khajuri Plain in 1830 when Afridi their 1930 campaign against India. tribesmen raided the district and

Restoration of Good Will

even invested Peshawar,

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(August. 29.)

Beheading of St. John Baptist. Auctions Lammert's Sale House- hold Furniture at 92, Peak Road,

10.30 8.3.

-Mestings: Creditors of Brown's, |Ltd., 12 moon; Hong Kong Football

Association Council, 3.30 p.m.

Fencing. Hong Kong Fencing Club Meeting, 3.15 p.m.

Lawn Tennis. - Kowloon 0.0.

Tournaments: Junior Champion- ahip; W. M. Gittins v. A. Philip- pens; Men's Doubles Handicap, S. A. Gray and G. C, Burnett v. P. O.. Dunne and D. S. Greon; Handicap Singles "A" Olass, E. R. Price F. Keuglebacher; Handicap Singles B Class, A., H. Dinnen v. F. Goodwin; Mixed Doubles Handi- cap, N. A. E. Mackay and Miss S. Dalziel v. G. A. White and Miss Griffiths, Mr. and Mrs. W. Old

C. J. Tacchi and Mrs.. G. A. Bland | ford.

Central Theatre: "The Common Low?"

King's Theatre: "The Outsider." Oriental Theatre: "Rich Man's

"Lovers

Fort Salop is one of a series of

The scene at Landhi Kotal was new localities that have been estab-| one of the most hovel that has ever lished on the Khajuri Plain during been faced by a Viceroy of India. the last two years, in consequence Hundreds of Afridia”

waited the of a policy of pepceful penetration Viceroy's arrival. In the main, they | Folly." that has been carried out by the were patriarchal figures, and their Queen's British authorities in India. The spokesman was a stately, bearded Courageous":" Hittle military stations are linked fellow, who held the respect of his by a series of roads, which has fellow clansmen opened up a territory hitherto ex clusively used by nomadic tribesmen from the mountains beyond.

Area Visited by Viceroy, Fort Salop is no of a series of effects of this policy in the Khajuri Plain, the Viceroy of India, the Earl of Willingdon, recently visited the tribal aren.'

Theatre :

Majestic Theatre: Husband's Holiday."

Star Theatre," Politica." World Theatre: "Montada Moon"

Garden Theatre:

Ingagi "

Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels.

He asked the Vioray Le, overlook the "incidents" of 1930 and said that only 5 per cent of the tribe was involved. Why should the entire tribe be penalized? He wanted a restoration of the conditions of good will that existed before the war took place. He also sought the restoration of the tribal subsidy given by the Government of India,

Home Mails: Outward for which had been stopped as a result Amerien by Hiya Maru, 5 p.m. of the war, and pleaded for a cod-

The trip was full of dramatic implications. It suggested, first, that immense potentialities for tinuance of recruiting from the good underlie the occupation of this clan for the government services in plain, since it means the opening the Khyber Pass. up to modern civilization of an area where tribal codes hold sway with all the sinister significances

The Viceroy promised to look into the mattor, and appealed to the tribe to keep the peace. Then the

of a barbaric age. It indicated, tribesmen gave tangible proofs of secondly, that the tribesmen are their friendship. They offered rare amenable to the facilities of modern gift to Lady Willingdon. These engineering, for ronds and bridges included £vo sheep and five goats, hitherto azathema to them-are embroidered shoes and tribal now being appreciated

trophies. To the Viceroy they pro. Moreover, there were evidences sonted a. Syrian rifle, superbly that sound discipline was percolat- | chased. ·

ing into the moutality of the tribes- men as a corrective to tribal in

Striking Scenes pa Boute. Other striking scepes were wit

stincts. In the past, trips into this region were fraught with danger. nessed on the trip into the tribal

Tides:-High at 0.64 and 21.33 ¦ Low at 01 and 14.20.

TUESDAY,

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Sale

Lawn Bowls-Open Champion-, ship Final: L. A. Gutierrez and H. Nish (Kowloon C.C.), & p.m.

Lawn Tennis. Kowloon 0.0. Tournaments: Singles Handicap "B" Class, R. Ohl v. H. O. Huber, F. 8. W. Smith v. H. Lubesoder, A.. Philippens . J. S. Smith, F. E. Lawrence F. E. Skinner; Mixed Doubles Handicap, D. S. Green and Mrs. R. White v. R. S V. Capell and Miss 31. Kacker:

Lovers

Queen's Theatre: Courageous."

Oriental Theatre: “Rich Man's Folly."

Star Theatre i Politics." ,King's Theatre: "The Outsider."

Majestic Theatre: "Husband's Holiday"

On this occasion, however, the territory. Notable among them was Ladies Singles Championship, Mrs. tribesmen themselves policed the the glimpse of the immense cara G. A. Blandford . Miss O. Dal plain and the Khyber Pass, safe-vanserai at Landhi, Kotal, where ziel or Mrs. McCaw. guarding the Viceroy's visit from thousands of travelers were assem any untoward foray from dis bled. They were tribesmen and grunted dements of the tribes. traders from central Asia, trekking through the Khyber Pass on their Guarded Motor Caravan,

way to Peshawar to sell their wares All along the route, tribesmen Within the high walls of the cara- with tiny rifles guarded the caravan vangerai were gathered men, of motorcars and picketed the men, and children of all Asiatic na heights of the Khyber Pass These tionalities. They mingled with IGIL are known as khassadars camela, goats, sheep, oxen, and Thousands of them had trekked ponies to make one of the most down from their walled villages in dramatic pictures to be seen way the mountains beyond to do this where in the world. service for the King's representa- tive,

wo-

Central Theatre: "The Common Law."

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Garden Theatre: "Ingagi.".

to

Tes Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels, and King's

Restaurant,

From time to time fortified vil Inges were passed. These are "aur rounded by high mud walls and are Low at 1.08 and 14.06.-

Tides:High at 7.46 and 21:49;-

situated on the commanding

The journey across the plain in dicated the harshness that must prevail as the normal routine of these strange peuple of the moun- heights, or in the secluded valleys | tains. The plain stretches as far as of this strange pasa. At the gate the hills, and at another is down eye can see, save to the north ways of the villages, women and in glens so deep that the shine where the level country ends, against children-assembled, dressed in red rarely reaches them. Bide by sido the shoor walls of the Tirah Hills and, black, to see, the viceregal with the motor road runs a caravan It is within these hills that the cortège ride past

truck for the tribes, The respec Afridis live, in their fortified vil The journey into the tribal lands tiveronds are indicated by picture lagea at foud with one another, and reaches a climax with a glimpse of signposts-the motor road shown generally hostile to the outside Afghanistan at Michni Kadae, the picture of a motorcar, while the world,

the furthermost outpost of the caravan road is indicated by pio- Tradition says they are of Israel- British in India. The site is reachtures of a camel and a pony This itish descent certainly they are of ed by a highway that at one moment is to direct the illiterate tribes and Bemitic cast of countenance. is skirting the sun-drenched face of indicate the path, they may take.-- They are tall, athletic highlanders, retinued at foot of news column.) | Christian Science Monitor

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