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No. 23171. WIKEASTA4X¶ IGÐAFE HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1932, A#

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No. No. No. No. ur No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 2 0 10 110 8- 12.4.M. 14 16 2 18 24 36 38 (AM) A.M.) AM, ACM | A‚M, | A.M. [Mixed; F.M. P.M.; F.M.] Y.M. TM) 7,M{T,M.

Kowloon.Dop. 6.25 8.15 8.37 0.06|| 9.15) 10.12 11.80 13,12 1,30 1.20 485 4,85) 6,06) 7.40

Yaumati Dep. 6.39

Shatin...Dop. 6.45

Taipo...Dop. 050)

Taupo Market.

Dep.17.01

Fanting Dep.7.15)

Shoungshal...

0.24 10.18|11,41) 12.19 1.2||||... 0.86 10.31|11.03) 12.81| 1,89|||...

... 5.036.167.48 5.15 0.17 8.00 5.256.47 8,14

6.396.48 8.19 ...5.42 6.57 6.29

1.60 10481208) 13.45 1.825

+19

Shumahun...!

Arr. 7.20 9.53

Canton...Arr.... 11.25 ...

9.73 10.00 19.10 12.40 1.837. 10.00 11.01 12.32 13.602.06.

9.149.42 10.11 11.0612,37 1.04 2.11 2.09 ... 0.21 0.48 10.17 11.1212.43 1.10 8.17 8.05 5.1

5.30

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5.47 7,098,94 5.68 7.06 8,40

...... 17.45 ... ! « !

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Dep.7.20

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Cantón ......................Dap Shuruchu.........Dap. 7.02 7.00 10.30 Sheungchai ......Dep. 70 7.57 Fanling......... Dep. 7.14 6.02| Talpo Market.....Dop. 7.23 8.13 Talpo......

Dop. 7.80 8.18 Chatin..REZ14

Dop, 7.43 8.30 Taumati....

Dop. 7.56 8.43

Kowloon...... „Art. | 8.02] 8,49| 11,08) 17,47] 1.163.43 8.10 6.82 0.487.117.28)7.82

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DIARY OF LOCAL A LONDON TRAGEDY PRIEST REFUSES TO

EVENTS

TO-DAY

(November 2).

3rd day of Rejab

All Souls Day.

Football:-HK. F.A.

V.

Army

SHANGHAI CALLING-BUT OPERATOR OBDURATE

10,000 MILES BUT NO

·FURTHER

Any's 2

Our Shanghai Correspondent tells this morning strange story copy to hand of the London Timer. At midnight on Wednesday he put a telephone call through from Shanghai to London, and clearly heard the voice of the operator. When, he asked to be put through to the office of this journal,

TELL

MAGISTRATES LET HIM KEEP A SECRET

"I CANNOT ANSWER **

The claim made, by the clergy to immunity from the duty to repent statements made to them in the course of their professional duties was upheld in Nottingham Polion Court by a Roman Catholic priest.

The Bench of magistrates who were confronted by this defiance decided not to say anything fur-

XI. at Sookunpoò ut 4 p..

Lecture by Mr. F. Edwards, En- gincers Institute, 5.45 p.m.

Committee Meet, H.K.V.D.C., Sergeants' Mess, 6 p.m..

Mixed Whist and Bridge Drive at the Gymnasium, Police Hosd.), quarters, 8.30 p.m.

Whist Drive at Seamen's Institute he was told to wait n, minute.

0 p.m.

Then there was silence. Further inquiry draw the statement that the operaton had done right not to

With those words the priest, connect him. Shanghai is not "on Father John Toomey, declined, on the tariff." Therefore no telephone grounds of conscience, to ̈give hvi: | talk could be bad between Shang-dence in Nottingham Police Court.

The ease was one in which a girl was suing a 'man in respect of her

Theatres

Central: The Lost Squadron." Star: Lyons Mail." Oriental: "The Man I Killed."

ther about it."

"I cannot answer! I cannot belli"

ebildi.

Queen's: "New Morals for Old."hai and London without leave from "Downing-strect." The call had King's: One Heavenly Night."

travelled ten thousand miles, to be stopped by the Post Dice within

Father Toomey, after being Dances:-Tea Dance at King's a few yards of its destination, And

sworn, told of becasions' when the Restaurant and the Gloucester; there is worse to come. Our Corgirt and man visited the presby Dinner Dances at Repulse Bay and respondent made the call by way Hong Kong Hotels, the Gloucester of Rome, using the very earphones tery at Carlton, near Nottingham The girl rane alone," he said, and King's Restaurant.

through which Count Galexthen the man, and afterwards Ciano, the Italian Chargé d'Affaires

Principal Malls. Outward ----Australia and Zealand by Nellore, 9.30 a.m

THURSDAY

(November 3).

New

4th day of Rejab. Concert at Helena May Institute,

Bilence...

But when Father Toomey was asked if on the occasion of the joint visit anything was said as to

silence.

Eventually he gazed at his ques tioner and said firmly:-

at Shanghai and son-in-law of both together. No part of the con- Signor Mussolini, had just been versntions was in the Confes

sional.' talking with his father, the Italian Minister of Communications, in. Rome," and "with his mother and sister at Bolzan, which, for tele phonic purposes, is a remote town on the edge of the Dolomites. The the condition of the girl, there was. Italian diplomatic might talk with his relatives in Italy, but our Shanghai Correspondent might not speak to his head office in London. It looks very suspicions.

What could be the explanation? That not for the first time in its long and stormy history-this "journal was being rovengefully treated by Oriental; "The Man I Killed." Queen's: "New Morals for Old. Departosent which it has neror feared to criticise, Or simply that King's: Amateur Daddy."

our dear old Post Office had made Star: "Possessed." Central: "The Lost Squadron."one more of those blunders by which ite long-suffering customers are about equally exasperated and favour of the girl.

5.30 p.m.

Theosophical Society Meeting,

p.m.

Theatres.

Dances:-Tea Dances at 'King's amused? Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner Dances at Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels and King'a Bestaurant.

Comorin.

Principal Malls

41

"That question, with respect to the court, I cannot answer; }} cannot tell,"

The astonished magistrates con ferred for a few moments: · Then the emirman said:

"The Bench regret the attitude Father Toomey hus, taken up, but we have decided not to say any thing further about it."

The magistrates made an order in

"The elain made by priests and doctors to such immunity has no foundation in English law,” said a legal authority,"

Shanghai was mechanically pre- vented from being heard by certain cara in London. As a pioneer in radiotelephony the Post Offee bas a very high reputation to préserve and is careful to preserve it. Its tests are no light nor perfanctóry affairs; and in the interests of the

The Explanation. Neither of those explanations is right. A journal which, thanks to the Post Office, receives every even ing some ten thousand words by telephone from various places on Inward: -- Europe vid Suez by the Continent, and converses casily by transoceanic wireless, with cities Outward:-Chanda, U.S.A., Cin North America, South Amerien, and S. America and Europe ea and Australia, is not hasty to ans Vancouver and Europe via Biberia pect the Post Office of any inter by Empress of Asia. 6 p.m.

tion to obstruct it. And, absurd though is seems that a voice should be carried round the world and then stopped two streets away from public it derlines to put any its goal, the übhorred shears (or place on the tariff until its switch, or whatever it is) that slit standardized tests have all been satisfied. Our Correspondent's call, 5th day of Rejab.

the thin-spun sound were not Hockey-Mamak Tournament: wielded by a blind Fury nor by a therefore, had, in a sense, nothing 12th Battery First H.K. Bat-dunderhead. It was not even red to do with the English teleptione tory. (Bookunpoo), 4.16 p.m.; Triend tape that strangled the weary service. He spoke to Rome by ra ly match: Hong Kong Hockey-Club traveller within hail of home. The wireless telephone from a Marami "A" & Radio Sports Club (King's explanation is that the Post Office installation on board an Italian Pärk), 5.13 p.m.

d-not-tested any telophonic com.liner, and from Rom the call was Lecture: "Six Twentieth-Century munication between Shanghai and sent on by the ordinary land line. Poets" by Mr. R. R. Campbell, Londen. Therefore Shanghai is not But the Post Office, as a technica! M.A., at University, 8.30 p.m.

yot on the international switch Department, could not make it its Hallowe'en Dinner, H.K.V.D.C., board and it is not possible, yet duty to attend to a service based

a p.m.

FRIDAY

(November 4).

for the public to get a direct call only on a foreign experiment. The between the two cities. The tele liner was in the Whangpoo at the fillones between London and Ottawa time; in three weeks it might be London and Melbourne, London | at: Valparaiso or at Vancouver; -Queen's:-"-New-Morals-for-Old."-and-Buenos Aires have been tested and in any case independetit-of-any-

11

Theatres

Kiig's: Amateur Daddy." Star: Possessed."

Oriental "The Man I Killed.* Central: The Lost Squadron."

-Britain's Post Office.

and approved, and therefore the public can talk to those and to test that the Post Offee might all the other distant places, which make. The episode therefore offers All some fourteen pages of the Post nothing better for crities of tho "Post Ofise than two.comparatively Office Guide.

mild abjections: that the songer. Shanghat is "od the international switchboned the better ; and that it Dances--Ten Dance at Hong

It is, indeed, largely tlue to the would have been more, in keeping Kong Hotel, Gloucestor and King's Post Oflec that the world may see with the daring, character of ita Restaurant Dinner Dances at this very marvel, as our fathers pioneer work if the Department *** would have thought it a com: had heen sporting enough, in-do- Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels mint that a voice speaking inference to the Kalian Minister of and King's Restaurant,

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