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Hongkong Daily Press.

ESTABLISHED 1857,

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No. 23147. #DEĦAIZA BAÐƑÆPE HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5.1932. £## BGANESHOXTE Price

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

On and after MAY SNE, 1031, until Further Notice (all previous) Time Tables cancelin),

STATIONS

UP TRAINS - ·

[No] No] No. No. No No. No. No. No. No. No, No.

6 10 8 19 14 1822 1824 26 28 'A.KAN. NOW AM, A.K. NOON T.... TM. P.M. TM, YƏr

Kowloon Dep.6.40] 8.08) 8.28 Tanmati............Pop, 6.41 Dop 7.00

Shatin Tipo Dep 7.14

Taipo Markot....Dup, 7.10

Fanling

Shumchun

Sheungshal

MI

401

9.05

Dup. 7.80 Dep. 7.35 ...A.7.41 8.44 0.11

Canton.........................ATE. ... 11.34

Canton

•

***

15,03 15,558.00

5.15 0.08 8.78

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY (October 5).

4th day of Jemadi-al-akhir. Anniversary of the Proclamation

of the Republic of Portugal.

Reopening of Technical Institute. Lanmort's Sale, 9.30 p.m.

--Mantak Hockey Tournament: Varsity e. 20th Battery (U.S.R.C., 5.10 6.136.112.30 p.m.); R.A.S.C. 12th Battery 5.20 6.39 8.97 (Bookunipon, 4.30 p.m.).

9.15) 10.16 12,00 1,182,35) 409 4,41 5,35 7.40 2,34 10.21 £2.00 1.26)

(4.49) 5.43 7.48 9,87 10,80 19.20; 1.39] 9,52) 10.60; 12,83 1,61) ... 0.37) 10.54 12,37: 1.55) ... 10.09) 11.04) 12.47İ 9,03) ....... 10.1411.09 18.62 2.103.14 10.20 11.16 12.68 2.16 3.20

5.40

DOWN TRAINS

North

Did The Chinese Discover

Australia?

EARLY MAP OF WORLD FOUND IN

PEIPING

COINS AND POTTERY DISCOVERED

The discovery in Peiping of a number, we are told broke away map of the world, as known to the from the fleet when it reached the Whist Drive at Seamen's In-Chinese in 1428, raises the question stitute, p.m.

5.34 6,87 8,33 40 5.40 6.33 6.83

5.C.A.A. Aquatics nt Poine. 7 p.m.

+

7.25

| No. No. No. No.

STATIONS

No. No. L & 7 6 15 17 | 4,30,} A,3G| ALMO AM, AM, P, M.

No. No. No. No 19 21 15 23 FIX,* (PIL. P. PH.

Shamshus...

Shoung.bui

Fanlinge Taipo Market...

Dep

7,5

0.3

Dp. 7.17 8.03 0.3 .Dan. 7.21 8.10, 10.73 .Dap. 1,208,14 11.08) ...Dop.7.183 1118 Dep.7.138.30 13.22 Dop 7.388.43 10.36 Dop 8,11| 8,65) 10.49| www.bs .drv. 8.17 0.01 10.54 11.12

Shatia

pun cukup ter seurate Tsunati............ Kowicon,

• Sundays and Public Holidays only

ww

***

4.15*** 1138 3,88 4.236.10 701 7.11 11,45 3.49 430 {0.17} 7.18

11.50 2.10) 4,35

· 12,01) 2.38] 4.48 13.00 3,92 4.49

F14

6.32.1 10,72 .... ABO 1220 3.10 6.02 | 6,50 m. 1232 327 6.14701... 1218 2.38 6.207.07 7.0 7.4

• For First Class Passengers only. Will stop at any station on reques Further information may be obtained at the Railway Offices; Kow. loon or Canton, from Mastry. Tina. Cook & Son, Ltd., Hong Kong, The Amorcian Express Co., Hong Kong, or Tha Ulina Travel Service, 6 Queen's Road, Hong Kong, "

By Order,

R. BAKER, Manager, BRITISH SECTION, KOWLOON-Canton Railway.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY

NOTICE

Oa sad from Sunday Oct. 9th an additional fast train will - love Kowloon for Shum Chum on Sundays and Public Holidays

at 9.05 a m. ai follows:-

Kowloon...

8. Shul

Shum Chun

dop

AMA

atr. 9.40 am; dopi.

9.42′′.

arr. 9,48 m. *(First Class only)

and will stop at any station cn request. The train which lasres Kowloon at 2.35 p.m.. will not run on these days.

4th October, 1932,

R. BAKER,

Маладет.

HONG KONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMERS.

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SAILINGS From HONG KONG—Daily at 8 am, and 10 p.m. (Sundays 10 p.m. only). SAILINGS From CANTON-Dally at 8 am, and' 4.80 p.m. . (Sundays 4.39 p.m. only).

HONG KONG-MACAO LINE.

SPECIAL SERVICE.

BAILINGS From HONG KONG-Daily at 9 am & 5,80 p.m.

(Bandays #rompted) --Daily at 3 a.m. & 2 p.m.

(Sunday's accepted).

SAILINGS From MACAO

SPECIAL WEEK-END SERVICE.

HONG KONG TO MACAO.

MACAO TO. HONG KONG

SATURDAY, 8TH OCTOBER

8.00 am. SUI TAI 1.46 p.m. LUNGSHAN 5.30 p.m. SUI AN

3.00 a.m. 8I-AN 9.00 p.m. BUI TAI 6.00 pm. LUNGSHAN

SUNDAY, 9TH OCTOBER -

9.00 ■m. SUI TAT 2:00 p.m. SUI AN

2010 xum 80I AN 4.00 p.m. BUI TAL. All Steamers love from Wing Lok Street Wharf, Hong Kong

́SPECIAL ́SALOON. FARES.

WEEK DAYS. -Blogis: $3,00; Réturn: $5,00, EXCURSIONS.—Bingle: $1.50; Beturní : $400,

Nors--All Steamboat Company's Stesimoru are filed with Windless.

ST. FRANCIS HOTEL Moderate Monthly and Daily Rates

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Grand Concert and Drainatic Entertainment at Kowloon Union Church Hall, 9 p.m.

Theatres

Central: "Night Work." King's: "Million Dollar Legs.". Queen's:

"A Variety Pro. gramme,"

Star: "Tell England,” Oriental: "Over the Hill,"

Tea Dance at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay Hotel and King's Restaurant.

Tides: High at 14.10; Low

7.10 and 17.30.

at:

Sunrise at 6.17 a.m.; Sunset at 0.10 p.m.

Principal Mails.

Inward:-Australia by Nellore

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in a serious form whether the Chi-waters of the Indian Ocean and. nese 'discovered Australia. The map sailed to the southward. No res beary this date, and represents the son is assigned for this, and great South Land in the shape of further reference appears to these a huge apple with a pearshaped vessels. The historians were to mass of land suspended from it..

It appears quite out of shape to much concerned with the glories ut the, modern abserver, but if com- the feet at Colombo. pared with the first maps of Euro- Then some twenty years later this. heap navigators will be seen to be map appears with a certain know- closer to fact, writes Dr. W. G.

Goddard in the Brisbane Courier.,ledge of the configuration of Ans It is a fascinating subject to tralis and a few islands of the Pa explore, and the more so on aceifig. It now remains for the re count of the discoveries in past searches of scholars to prove any yeare of Early Ming remains in

Western Australia, New South connection there may have been Le- Wales, Tasmania; and several of tween the vessels that left the fleet, the Pacific Islands. Near to the and this knowledge of the South Lands. It is not impossible that

Outward: Japan, U.S.A., Canada | site where Hobart now stands have and Europe via Ba Francisco been unearthed, from a depth of by Chichibu Maru at B p.m.10 feet, a box of Ming coins; and these vessels leaving the main fleet Australia and New Zealand: via Brisbane on Brisbane Maru, 3.90 of greater importance still a large sailed to the coast of Western Aus- quantity of fragments of Ming tralia and touched land at the porcelain bearing the hallmark of

£1. IT).

THURSDAY.

(October 6),

the Emperor Yung Lay who ruled spot where the ship-sign (the hori in Nanking in the opening years zontal and vertical lines of Yung of the XIV. Century. That mark, Lo on a circle of ivory, which was 5th day of Jemadi-al-zkhír,

consisting of three vertical and attached to the prow), was found Entries close, Macao Races, 4 p..three horizontal lines, in well Lanmort's Auction at 2. Inver-known to all students of Chinese years ago, Sailing south, they no ness Terrace, Kowloon Dock, 10,30

ceramice. These fragments were all ticed the strait which they took to Meeting of Legislative Council, belonging to food vessels, and there be simply an indentation, in the 2.30 p.m.

Marak Hockey Tournament W

trace of any ornamental land and cruised round Tasmania, H. M.S Wishart r

HK.S.R.A.ase or dish. The inference from (First Battery) at Marina, 4.50 the circumstance is, of course, that entering the harbour of Storm Bay,

Theosophical Society Meeting: 6

these fragments did not represent possibly for shelter or food and a collection that had been brought water. Here were left the food p.m.

5.C.A.A. Aquatics at North from the East, but rather marked vessels and coins, which all bear Point, 7p.m

Badminton Club, Bleet at Sailors the site where food had been

p.m.

and Suldiers' Home.

Theatres.

King's: Million Dollar Legs." Queen's: Variety Programme.** Central: Night Work." Oriental:Cheaters at Play," Star. "Hold Everything."

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esten. Time had encrusted them the mark of that period, and which with thick layers of soil when ex-time cavered up for the examina amined by the present writer.

tion of a future age. It is to be noticed that porcelains of this pe. are exceedingly rare, and

ried

The render who is not acquainted with Oriental history will probab- ly be surprised at the suggestion that at that period the Chinese these fragments, if they had not were expert navigators. For while boen. so minutely broken, would it is generally known that from the constitute in themselves a valuable and. Their presence requires, at any rate some other explanation than that they simply were in a private collection.

Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Pensula Hotels and King's Restest times China had, bad in- taurant,

tercourse with Europe by laud, it Tides-High at 14.10 and 00.20 is not common knowledge that and Low at 17.30 and 8.33

from the XII. Century her vessels had explored the Indian Ocean, and carried on trade with Persia and Africa by water. Chinese ves sels carried from India to the East

Principal Malls.

Inward: Europe vid Suez on Rajputana.

Outward-U.S.A., Canada and Europe via Vancouver

Curious Chinese. Origina. Sailing up the Australian coast

and cargous of ivory, apes, peacocks, that part which juts out into the

Europu via Sihoria by Empress of silk, and gains as far back as A.D. sea may have been reached, and Russia, 5 p.m.

FRIDAY

(October 7).

6th day of Jemadi-al-akhir. Queen's College Aquatle Sport at V.R.C.. 2 p.m.

*་

Mamak Horkey. Tournament:- 24th Bat. A. R. Bigs. 2.4.30

p.m.

King's Million Dollar Legs." Central Night, Workin Vig Queen's: A. Variety Programmě. StarHold Everything

300; and the records of A.D. 807 tell of a wreck off the Indian coast of a Chinese vessel, when 190 passengers were drowned

A Chinese Armada Sets Bail.

again an entry made for food or water. Whatever may be the value of this suggestion, it has yet to be explained how in certain parts of northern New South Wales there are names atilf in existence which

are distinctly Chinese in origin. But where docs Australia possib. Even the blacks used these names.

ly come into the story at that pe. They were used by the aborigines Friendly Match: HK. Hockey iod? It is a fact of history that of Australia in that part in con- Club A v. Police.

in the year A.D. 1400 a large Chinection with certain ideas and as- Lecture: Queries of an Anti-: quary in Hong Kong" by Rev. Fr.nese fleet of 700 war vessels sailoit sociations, and they are not generic d. J. Finn, 8.16 p.m. in the Union to the siege of Ceylon. It is als to the recognised forms of the un Assembly Hall

n fact of history, preserved in both tive language. Nimbin, on the Whist Drive:-HI.M.B. Tamar, 8.45 p.m.

Chinese and Coylance records, Richmond River, is a case in point, Theatre

in that year the King of Ceylon, To the aboriginal, it suggests the Parakrama Baku VI. together place of the sacred man", but ma with his family was taken pri such it has no correspondences cisc soner and carried back to Peking, where in the language. When where he remained in prison for studying the native language years, five years. For a period of 53. ago I questioned natives as to the Tides High at 01.15; Law as year Ceylon raid, tribute to China origin of the idea, but the farthest 10.04

Principal Malls

Now in the Chinese records of this I could get was that the word, wak USA. Canada and struggle it is stated that of the 700 banded down. Yet It essentially Japan on Presidoat-Taft Europs

vessels vie: Biberiy (London 8th Aug.) on

Jeft China only au Carthage,

Freached ylon. C the others some “Ootylad 2 Straite and South

*Manjin - Maru, -10.30 am) - were lowb in a storm, and a large

Oriental: Cheaters at

the Chidsee resords relating to the Confucian Mount in Shantung.

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