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No. 23153. MAKLASHAIXO BABЯR¶O‡ HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1932. HÆÐÅ£¶¶EX Price

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

On and after MAY 2ND, 1831, until Farther Notice (all previous Time Tables cancelled),

No. No. STATIONS 28

(AM) AM.

Kowloon...Dep. &.40 8.00 Yadmati......Dep. 5.41) Bhatin.......Dep. 7.00

OF TRAINS

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 108 12 14 1822 1824 26 28. AM. AM. A.X, LM. NOOS F. F.M. P.X. P.AL. P.X. P..

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DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS.

TO-DAY

(October, 19).

It day of Jeradi-al-akhir.. Lammert's Auction at Laichikok Installation of Socony-Vacuuta Corporation, 10 a.m.

Reception on board the 1.5. Juilandia, 2 pr. to p.m.

Hockey, Mamak Tournament, 5.03 8.65 8.03.A.SU. . H.M.S. Parthian and 5.15 6.08 B.7J H.M.S. Veteran. 20th Battery 5,19 6.12 8.1 (Navy ground), 4.30 p.m.; Friendly 5.20 6.22 8.91 match, Hong Kong Hockey Club 63% 6.27 8.88 seniors r. Jnt Regiment, 5.40 8,33 8.53

6,269.05 0.15 10.16 12,00 1.18288 409 4,41 6.357.43

9.24 10.91 12.09 1.26

4,495,45 7,41 9.37 136 12.901.38 9.83 10,50) 12.08; 1,5!| ... 0.67 10,64 1387) 1,35] ... 10,00 11,04' 12.47 2.00) .... |9.03) 9.42; 10.14| 11.00, 13.52 2.10 3.14 Shumdhan...AT. 7.41 8.64 0.11 0.48 10.20 11,18 19.38 2.16 3.30 4.40

7.291

Taipo. Dep. 7.14

Taipo Market. Dep. 7.19

Fanling. Dep. 7.30

Shaungehal Dop. 7.85

Canton .........Arr,' ... }11.3%) ...

H

5,40

DOWN TRAINS

STATIONS

No. No. No. No.

7

AM AN AC

AI

No. No. 28 17 AM. [PM

No. No. No. No

10 21

28.

Canton

Shwachun... Bheungehni

Fanting

Taipo Marke

Taipo......

Shatin......ALLERYENİD

Tanusti..

Dop

7.50 Dop, 7.17 8.03|| 9,55) 10.82 1138 285 Dep. 7.24 8.10] 10.03 ...

.Dep. 7.218,14) 10,08)

.Dop.: 7,40 8,25) 10.18)

Dop.) 7.45 8.80) 10,22

Dop.) 7.58 8.43) 10.30) Dep. 8.11 8.55 10.49

+

+4

Kowloo....Arr. 8.179.01) 10.64 11.18

O Sundays and Public Holidays only.

4.23 18,107.007.11 11,482,45 480 6.17 11,60246 4.35 | 6,39

7.19

13,01 2.50 4.43 6.13 13.00 8.02 4.40 | 0.36

12.90 3.18 5,08 | 6,40) 12,33] 3.21) 6.14 | 7,01|... 12 38 3.33 5.207,07 7.2

• For First Claus Pauungers only. Will stop at any station on- reguest, Sunday and Public Holidays excepted.

Further information may be obtained at the Railway Offices, Kow- loon or Canton, from Massrs. Thor. Cook & Son Ltd, Hong Kong, The Amorous Express C, Hong Kong, or The China Traval Service, 8 Queen's Road, Hong Kong.

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Ladies' Whist and Bridgo Drive at Helena May Inst., 3.30 p.m. ·

Lammert's Sale of

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Whist Drive at Seamen's In- stitute, p.m.

Theatres.

Queen's" Hell Divers" Central Radio Patrol." Star Sinners Holiday," King's: ainbow.Trail." Oriental: "Heartbreak,"

Tea Dances ot King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay Hotel and King's Restaurant.

Tides:High at 7.40 and 20.49; Low at 1.25 and 14.10.

Principal Malla Outward: Európe vin seilles, 2.00 p.m. bý Ajaż.

THURSDAY (October 12.)

Mar-

OUR UNHEALTHY HODE

OF LIFE

SLIMMING, COCKTAIL PARTIES

DINNER-DANCES

AND

in Genot, just before the last journey to Missolonghi, reporte that "Lord Byron had grown fat, and that his hair was grey."

When Brience and Fashion compost, like most middle-aged men, bine against corpulence, I'm grow careless of his beauty. Lady afraid the fat man, to say nothing Blessington, who went to see him of the fat boy, is doomed, writes A.AB. in the Evening Standard.

Lord Dawson of Penn and Sir William Arbuthnot Lane are join ing in a crusado against obesity, and I gather from the Court and Society columns that slimming is to be imposed upon the smart male by his emaciated sister.

Are Angles Beautiful?

The Prince Regent was notorious- ly sensitive about his figure, and Leigh Hunt got a year's imprison ment for describing him in the Examiner as "that elderly and obose Adonis."

It is largely owing to the spread That men, cowardly though they of knowledge by physicians nad have become will submit to slim-surgeons like Lord Dawson and ming I doubt. Men are far too Sir Arbuthnot Lane that the swil- careless of their dress and appear-ling and stuffing of the two pre- ance in these days. It was not ceding centuries have disappeared, always so. Before the species with the gou Danby became extinct, stayi were not unknown in the Brigade, nud in history, will be found heroic and unheroic alimmers.

The most famous and the least heroic of slimmers was Lord Byron,

***Absurd". Modern Ways.

But if men are no longer allowed to get drunk at dinner, the moda of life practised by the present generation of both sexes, is reveal

In his early days in London theed by themselves, is absurd and 12th day of Jemadi-äl-akhir. Entries close for Twelfth Extra poot was terrified at the idea of unwholesome that I can only ex- Race Meet, noon,

growing fat. To keep himself from plain it by a late Poet Laureate's Lammert's Sale of Leasehold

patting on fleah Byron would box description of Society dinner Property, 3 p.m.

fence for bayre, with Jackson, where "the half-drunk lean over- Hockey Mamak Tournament!

Thers is this 241k Battery H.M.S. Veteran the Sandow of his day, and forthe half-dressed,” (Navy ground), 4.30 p.m.; B.4.8.0. weeks he would confine himself to excusé for the poor dears, that their 1st H.K.S. Battery (Marina dining off biscuits and soda water homes have been destroyed by post- ground),. 4.30 p.m.

JOHN HAIG

HARNINGH

Managing Directuri

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land Highlanders v. Lincolnshire pany, as may be imagined, whilst servants. When you are obliged to Regiment (Y.M.C.A. Bath), .

Opening Concert at Helena May slimming, and would sit silent at dine at a restaurant, the tempta- Institute at 5.30 p.m.

table with his oyes closed, pretend-tion to finish the evening anywhere "Power Economy to be reading to be saleep. But though you but in your stuffy flat is strong at Institution of Engineers, and expel nature with a pitchfork, sho Onp of the objection to cocktail Shipbuilders by Geo. Buchanan,

always roturas, When the poet ! partier is tact they ára úñáõćom- 5.13 p.m.

could stand it no longer, he would panied by food. In Sweden, and Theosophical Society Mesting,. 0 |

repair to the Alfred or the Cocos in Romia formerly, the company Badminton Club Meet at Sailors Tree, and deliberately make bofore dinner stood at a buffet, and

beast of himself."

até caviare dad smoked salmon

p.m.

and Soldiers Home.

Theatres

་

King's: Paid to Love." Stari Sinners Holiday.” - Queen's: Hell Divers. Oriental Heartbreak." Taiping: "Merely Mary Ann."

Of one of these Gargantuan feasts, sandwiches together with vodka. I he has given pleasant descrip with the medical roctors of our. tion in his letters. Byron, Sheri-daily rioting would impress people dán, Colman and Douglas Kinnaird with the danger, na well as bar- dined together. **Like other par-harity; of jumping up between ties of the kind, it was first silent courses, to dance a jazz, which Lord then talky, then argumentative, then Balfour described as “going out disputatious, then unintelligible, for a country walk, impeded by a then altogethery, then inarticulate member of the opposite sex. then draak. To crown all, Kiphird As for the particular method of and I had to conduct Sheridan slimming,

themein the patient down a idamned corkscrew stair-must minister to himself." To case, which had certainly been con- ; avoid gépletion I hävs found eat- Sunrise-0.10 am.; Sunset, structed before the discovery of fer- ing often and eating small the best

mented liquors."

way. I eat five, and often six,

Dances-Tea dance at King's Restaurant, dinner dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels and King's Restaurant.

17.10.

Tides: High at 8.35 and 21.19; Low at 2.09 and 14.5.

FRIDAY

(October 14).

13th day of Jemadi-dl-akhir.

King's College Annual Aquatio Sporta, 230 p.m.

Iaterport Polo Match:-Hong Kong. Shanghai at Causeway Bay, a p.m.

Trevessa Trophy Raca at North Paint, p..

Hockey-Hong Kong Hockey Club A. South Wales Bor- derers

Football: Lincolnshire Regt II. v. Argyll & Sutherland High landers II, at Chatham Road: -

Hong Kong-Shanghai Interport Polo Dinner, Gloucester Building, 8.15 p.m.

H.M.S Tamar Dance at Garrison Lecture Hall, 8.30 p.m.

Queen's "Hell Divers."

14

King's Paid to Love.! Oriental Heartbreak." Star: "Life of the Party)

no

Dances: Ten Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dance Hong Kong and, Peninsula Hotels And King's Restaurant.

... Moon: Füll at 4.19 p.m.

Sunrise: 6.39 am:

p.m.:

Sunset::"6

Tidos: High at 9.16 and 21,38; Low: at:2:40, and · 14:58,

Principal Mails...

In after years, withdrawn from times a day. But every man must the critical eyea of London, inauit himself, for after 40 he is Venice, Ravenna and Genoa, the either a fool or a physician.

LA NAVAL OFFICER'S 'DUTY" TO INVENT

"

WHY HIS CLAIM TO REWARD WAS REFUSED

Commission on War Inventions, but

got no award.

"They recognised it as an inven- tion,

ho cxplained, but the general view was that it was my business to produce the article. It was considered that a person serving in the position where I was where such articles were pro- duced, was not entitled to an award. There was no "question about the ownership of the title-to- the invention.""

Duty..

A British naval officer who was refused an award, by the British Royal Commission of War Inven- tions because" "it was my business to produce the article, appeared Mr. K. E. Shelley, for the Tren- before the commission of American sury, said that the sole ground on experts who are sitting in London which the Royal Commission refin to decide claima by British invened the award was that the Com tors of devices used by America mission strongly took the view that during the war.

an officer in charge of an experi The officer was Commander A. L.mental department had a duty not Gwynne, of Esher. He and Mr. Hmerely to produce an article, but J. Taylor, of the Mine Design Staff also to put forward useful sugges of the Torpedo School at Ports tions, and mouth, presented a joint claim for "The view was taken that Com a primer safety gear and a bail: mandar Gwynns was acting within release device, both used in depth the scope of his duties to the British charges.

Crown Had he been a private in- Commander Gwynne claimed to be ventor there would probably have responsible for the invention of the been a substantial award, because. Balety gear and Mr. Tapier for the the merit of the invention was re invention of the release mechanimoognised."

Oritislam,

On His Own Initiative,

After a few claims had been heard. Questioned by Commander Laven- the chairman, Lieut, Colonel Mo der, of the U.; Navy, Commander Müllen, said that the Commission Inward Cadiaca and U.8.4. Gwynno said that he invented the had been impressed by the sketchy. by Empress of Japan.

primer safety gear while in charge meaner in which cales had been" Outward ----Canada, U.S.A., Q. of the Design Section of the Tor- presented, and pointed out certain Land S. “America and Europe via pada Bahool, Portsmouth. If wis details of Information which must Victoria, B.C., Rnd. : Kurope - piar conceived an his own initiativa -- be presented in support of claims. " Biberia by President Taft-Reg. 6 Comidindar Gwynne said that he | Mr. K. E. Bhelley, for the Crown, p.m. --Letters-6.30 nm-on 15th-Inst, put in a claim to the British Royal Auggeste -adjournment.:

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