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Hongkong Daily Press

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Registered as a Newspaper at the General Post Once in the United Kingdom

ESTABLISHED 1857

No. 24221.

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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1936.

Local Exchange Quotations

SPEEDY

OON

CANTON

RAILWAY

ECONOMICAL

SAFE

Ching Ming Festival 1936.

The following Express Train Service will be in operation between Kowloon and Canton in connection with the above festival:-

April 2nd and 3rd

Kowloon dep.

7.37 am.. 8.30 a.m., 12.85 p.m., 4.50 p.m. Canton arr.

11.03 a.m., 11.27 a m., 8.55 p.m., 7.47 p.m.

April 4th

Kowloon dep.---

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7.87 am, 8.30a.m.. 12.85 p.m., 3.00 p.m., 4.50 p.m. Canton arr.

11.08 a.m., 11.27 a.m., 3.55 p.m., 6.10 p.m., 7.47 p.m.

Trains in addition to those referred" to above will be run should traffic warrant doing so.

Joint Service of the Hong Kong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd. and The China Navigation Co., Ltd.

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SPECIAL SAILINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHING MING FESTIVAL

HONG KONG TO CANTON

CANTON TO Hose Kong

Friday, 3rd April

80A.M. LUNGSHAN 1100 P.M. FATSHAN Midnight SUL AN

7.00 A.M. SUI AN

4.30 PM. TAISHAN

Saturday, 4th April

8.00 A.M. TAISHAN 10.00 P.M. LUNGSHAN 10.30 P.M. FATSHAN

fi

8.00 A.M. LUNGSHAN 12.00 Noon FATSHAN 4.30 PM. SUI AN

Sunday, 5th April`

8.00 A.M. SUI AN

10.00 P.M. TAISHAN

800 A.M. LUNGBRAN

10,00 P.M. FATSHAN

8.00 A.M: TAISHAN 4.00 P.M. LUNGSHAN

7.00 F.M. FATSHAN

Monday, 6th April

7.00 AM. BUI AN 4.30 P.M. TAISHAN

EXCURSION TO MACAO:-SUNDAY, 5TH APRIL, .. "KINSDAN" will leave Hong Kong at 930 A M. and Macao at 500 P.M."

Note:-All vessels equipped with wireless.

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REPAIRS AND EXTENSIVE

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CARS PLAN “NUMURAL ONE” OVER * PINFANT ÄNG”

Hector: Car About Town Notorious Gossip

The main ballroom of the Ritz- Carlton was the setting for a large tea dance given yesterday, after- noon by Mr and Mrs.-to introduce to society their bottum ferns and tail palm trees daughter.”

Neighbor: "Oh, Mrs. Brown, we're going south for a

T.T. ON LONDON: 1/34 (nom.)

T.T. ON NEW YORK: -32.

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

伍拜 日卷月肄年卅佰玖仟安英 Price

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS

FRIDAY, APRIL 3

Anniversaries and

Holidays.--

Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.

Auctions-Crown Land, at Dis- trict Office, South, 11a.m.; House- hold Furniture, at Lammert's HK Sales Room, 2.30 p.m.

Cinemas

Kung'a:-'Strike Me Pink." Queen's:Collegiate." Central-Werewolf Of London." Oriental:-"Becky Sharp." World: Chinese Picture'

months. NEW FLYING-BOAT FLEET Alhambra "Remember Last

Would you mind feeding the cat unt we get back? But please don't put yourself out."

Servant (to Hon tamer in cage): "Sir, your tailor is here with his bel"

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Lion Tamer: "Tell him to come in."

Efficiency And Comfort

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First of the greatest commercial flying-boat deet yer put into pro- duction, a new four-engined mono-

Night?"

Majestic: The Phantom Empire.) Star:-"Call of the Wid.”

Exhibitions.-Wah Yan College Photographic Exhibition, at Glou- cester Hotel, 9 am to 6 p.m.

Lectures.-Rev. H. W. Baines, at Helena May Christian Fellowship Meeting, 10.30 am.

"

Meetings Kow on Chess Club." 30 p.m.; St. Andrew's Girls' Guild, 6 p.m.

Religious. Lent Mission 込む Catholic Cathedral. 6 p.m.: "Sta- ttons of the Cross" at 5.30 p.m.

Whist Drive and Tombola, Queen's Social-H. Q. R. A. Sergts' Mess

Road, 8.30 p.m.

A candidate addressing his con-plane will take the air for the first stituency was surprised by a voice time towards the end of next which, calling from the back of month from the surface of the the hall, said: "Well, I don't care River Medway. at Rochester. There. what you say, I wouldn't vote for in the Short factory, the initial you if you were the angel Gabriel." batch of six of these large and Came the reply: "If I were the powerful aircraft, which have been angel Gabriel, you wouldn't be in ordered by Imperial Airways for my constituency.”.

the working of the Empire services, is well in hand. From the begin- Athletics-Diocesan Boys' School think-ning of dying trials of the first sports and Hobbles Exhibition. 2

machine, the production schedule pm.

Professor: "Do the quick ers become leaders?"

Freshman: "Well, he who hest- tates is bossed."

Lapidus, and Cohen, so the story goes, were two sheep-ranchers. They owned adjoining farms-but they disliked each other most cor- dially.

One morning, Lapidus rushed into the doctor's office.

"Doctor," he yodelled, "I got tar- rible trouble. I cen't slipp at night. Vot's de bast tink I should doink so dot I сел gatt slipp"

The doctor shrugged.

some

"The best remedy for insomnia,"

he advised, "is always the simplest

Puslifers

Sports

Is planned to complete successive. Boxing-Hongkong Area Novicss craft at Intervals of about three Teams Competition, Royal Welch weeks, which means that the en- tire fleet of 29 opucerned in the Shamshulpo), 8 p.m.

*East Lancashires order should be delivered before the end of next year,

Hockey-Hongkong. Eockay, club seconds v. Royal Weich Furliters

King's Part), 5 p.m.

Fanning in total value well

into seven firures sterling the contract, has obliged adoption of

Lawn Tennis. Open Singles. building methods neter previoussut Wal-pui v. F. H. Kwok or A ly attempted on a similar scale, V. Gosano: Club Championship, W. and the factory is a hive of in. A. S. Grant v. L. Goldman; Handi- cap singles, M. Pagh v, H. J. Arm- dustry which is given some re-

semblance to a shipyard by the strong; E. P. Buttress V. W. r. streamlined boat-shaped hulls of Lucy: Handicap Doubles. B. O'M the craft included in the first Deane and G. E. R. Divett v. R. H. batch.

McGilchrist and H. Tudor; R, H. Butters and D. M. Macdougall v.

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DUMMY SET UP 31 full-scale "mock-up" fr

one. You own a sheep-ranch. Why don't you count your sheep jump-dummy, showing the hull and part Ing over a fence each night?" of one wing and its two engines,

Lapidus groaned loudly.

T. J. and E. R. Price,

SATURDAY, APRIL 4

Anniversaries and Hollders. -

has been set up in an erecting St. Isidore, Bishop of Seville, and

"I tried dot," he howled, "batt shop. In it various methods of Doctor. it's no good. De sheep kipp jum-furnishing ang arrangement of the pink into Cohen's pasture!"

internal equipment have

been

Cinemas.

tried, and the technical experts are King's-Strike Me Pink.” 30w in

agreement on the form Queen's:-"Collegiate.” which the interior

EMPIRE AIRWAY shall take. Inspection

SCHEDULES

Criticism In House Of Commons

of the craft | Central:-"Dangerous Waters."

of the Oriental:-"Becky Sharp." "mock-up," which was permitted World:"Chinese Plcture." for the Arst time a few days ago. Alhambra: "Remember Last shows clearly that the boats will

Night?"

set a new standard in passenger Majestic: The Phantom Empire.". comfort, as befits craft. intended Star:-"Les Miserables.”

for night and day travel No.com- Entertainments.-Variety Concert mercial fiying coat yet in com- by H.M.S. Diamond, at Ambulance mission in the world affords equal Headquarters, 9 pm.

space and headroom. The after Miscellaneous.-S. P. C. Street cabins promise a freedom of move-Sale of flowers; Claims against the. London, Apr. 1. ment and amplitude which is alto-Estate of Fred Normington due; The cause of Imperial Airway's gether, new in aeroplane travel Wolf Club Rally at Volunteer failure to adhere to its published Space, indeed. has been allotted Parade Ground, 2.30 p.m. schedules on the London-Singa- more than lavishly in the two after pore flights was "sought by Sirsaloons to provide plenty of room Frank Sanderson in the House for passengers and also because Commons to-day.

some reasonable proportion must

Sir Philip Sassoon, replying, said Imperial Airways allowed for the trip from London to Bingapore 189 hours, compared with the KLM *144, and from Bingapore to London 204 hours, compared with the KL

M's 148.

Religious. Lent Mission Catholle Cathedral, 6 p.m.

at

Social, -- Craigengower Cricket Club Whist Drive. 8 p.m.; Kowloon be maintained between the number Union Church Whist Drive, 8.45 of passengers accepted for daylightp.m.; Oxford and Cambridge Bo- Journeys and the number of seats ciety Annual Dinner, at Gloucester and sleeping bunks available for Hotel, 8 p.m. through passengers. Plainly, if the space

were unllized for the

Athletics.

carriage of "day" travellers to the

Sports -Hong Kong Univer- Sir Philip added that under the the booking office would be faced 1.30 p.m.

extent possible without cramping, sity Sports Meeting (Pokfulam), new Empire scheme it is contem- with some difficult problems. Ал Boxing-Semi-finals Hong Kong plated reducing the London-Sin-it is, the number of "day" seats is Area Inter-Unit Teams Competi- gapore time progressively to under limited to 24, replaced at night by tion, Royal Welch Fusillers v. Royal ave days.-

16 sleeping berths,

Ulster Rides (Murray Barracks), (Continued on Page 11.)

The loss of the Sylvanus by fre last November necessitated the

Football First Division, Royal use of lower speed to Calcutta,

Artillery, Lyemun v. Bouth China' and this, coupled with exception.

"A" (Bookunpoo), 445 p.m.; Club ally bad weather in the Mediter-v. Royal Navy (Bookuzipoo), 3.15 de Recreio Royal Artillery, ranean and the destruction of the p.m.; Royal Engineers v. Club de Stonecutters (King's Park), 4.45 slipway at Alexandria, dislocated Recreio (Chatham Road), 4.45 pm.; p.m.; Kowloon v. Police (Kowloon Imperial, Airways' repair and over- Third Division, Liga Portuguess. v. Ground), 4.45 p.m.; East Lanca- haul programme, causing uniavold- East Lancashires (Chatham Road). shires v. Chinese Athletic (Cause- able variations in the time-tables. 3.15 p.m.; St. Joseph's v, R. A. M. O. way Bay), 4.45 pm.; Royal Welch The average delay in the last (St. Joseph's Ground); 3.15 p.m.; Fusters v. St. Joseph's (Prince Ed twelve tights was under one day. Chinese Police v Royal Ulster ward Road) 445 pm; Bouth Bir Frank Sanderson drew at Rifles (Railway Ground), 3.15 p.m.; Ching "B" v. Royal Navy (Caroline tention to the adherence by the European Police v Hallway (Kow Hill), 4.45 p.m.; Second Division, KLM. to its time-table in seven loon Ground), 3.15 pm. Royal South Chinsy Eastern (Caroline outward, voyages in February, Welch Fusiliers v. Royal Air Force Hill) 3.15 p.m.; Royal Ulster Rudés (King's Park), 3.15 pm. Radio Sports Club (Causeway Racing-Fanling Him and Race Bay) 3.15 p.m. East Lancashires

Viscount Astor asked if it were not a national disgrace that we were so far behind other quarters Club Cross Country Races, 3.30

Beuter.

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