MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1918,
FARLIER TELEGRAMS.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS,
(Reuter's Se.elce to the China Mall)
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) AMERICAN LABOUR TROUBLE.
THE SILVER QUESTION.
THE CHINA MAIL.`
"
UNION CHURCH.
foundation in the Colony given in the ever forget It was on Christmass made it a rule, however short mighå Blue Book in 1847, which would morning of 1018, when this building, to his stay in any one phos, to con- seer to show that this Church is was crowded in every corner by a dvot himself as though he were going SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY SERVICES.she oftest in the Colony. Who may congregation from the crew of the to be there always; to refrain from
YESTERDAY MORNING'S
to
theee
OUR LOCAL POET
work!.
stone.
MODESTY.
have been absolutely the fret to "Soburnhorst," which was then in no kind sot, to omis no duty, neglect offer a prayer or sing a hymn on this harbour. The car led by their no opportunity, though his sojourn INDIANPOLIS, November 19th.
island no one knows. Doubilees, own band, ring in one's memory still, were but tempomry. It is a whole Modesty is the Alma Mater, The miners' representatives have accept-
SERMON.
the army or navy brought chaplains and it is a melancholy reflection that some rule, and it would have been Loxnow, November 11th. ed the Secretary of Labour's invitation
here, and services must have been ere another Christmas came round wall for many in this place had theyIt is the cradle of successful in The Manchester Chamber of Commerce to confer with the employers in view of
I the grous strip and its whole com-made it their rule in church matters. Who in life fought and wor Ens passed resolution urging the negotiating a wage dgreement..
The Rev. J. Kirk Macchachie held at Stanley or elsewhere. Loxnox, November 19th.
Burled the Bea, Government, in view of the abnormally
may also be taken for certain that (pany by at the bottom
The point of fairness to the An official communique issued by the preached the fint of the special father ineelings for worship were bets after having indicted the e de churches therrefree I do not care Defeat into oblivion's unknown bigh cost of silver and the shortage of
Conference - at vices in connection with the Dia- copper coins, to withdraw from ciseula International Labour tion all coins of higher value than the Washington states that the general dis-mond Jubilee of Union Church, yes here or there. But the churches tatruction on our own good cruiser to labour, yes can hardly quite over Modesty my mudders
the Colony as we know them to-day "* Monmouth," which also had been look it. People come Borin, employing, if necessary. 34 notes cussion of the application of the printery morning, to a large congrega ta angment the reduced number of silver ple of un eight hour day or a 3 hour tion which included His Excellency must be presumed to date from the stationed here, and many of whose colonial settlements and expect to With it 1 brave the Bandsh
time the Government record signa dompany worshipped with us. find churches, maintaining worship my destiny, toins remaining in circulation, and week has been completed and the amended
them--the point is one of semi- The war we won, but the more diff-end encraments, ready at call to Usheeding worries and sorrow ricket instead of silver for all new coins draft referred to a Committee of 15, the Cloverpor, His Excellency the
the Government, employers and workers modore Guzzer, and the Hon. Mr importance, and if we have, natur, be achieved. There lie before the They would think it strange were That claim to bury my hopes. groups, which has been given general Cloud Severn, C.M.G. authority over the whole subject.
The interior of the Church was mentioned it at the time it is bunches of Jesus Christ, bere as there no churches available, yet if suitably decorated and, the service no means as casting any sort of chewhere, the opportunities and re-all were to tread the churches Modesty is the star that lifurado
reflection on any of our neighbours. Esponsibilities of a new time. It will meay do, the ordinances of the gui:" thought wa most impressive.
I need not follow in detail the not be an easy bime-no great period pel would cause out of the land." It In searching for what destiny
of those early years. "It is ever a, nor ought one to wish it for, I may be permitted sparting langu
between a penny and a silent values composed of five representatives each of General Officer Commanding. Cornmental interest rather than material cult victories of peace have still to meet their needs as obcasion ariser!
required in the future to
shilling.
HUNGARY.
COPENHAGEN, November 19th.
A telegram from Budapest states that!
the Supreme Council has sent an ultima
tum to the Premier, M. Friedrich,
form a Coalition Cabinet within 48 hours
or retire,
RUMANIA.
PARIS. November 11th.. The Supreme Council has decided that the Rumanians repay is unsatisfactory Although most courteous, it is extreme brasive The Ramanians are willing to retire te Theis het decline in respect of They the original Armistice frontiers to the
Later-Allied Cermission to compile the, value of the requisitions
THE PANCE'S TOUR. Ma WASHINGTON, November 12th. The Prince of Wales, in a speech at an official hangust, referred very symnathe- tirale to the illness of President Wilson who,
he said was revered far beyond the ahora of America,
E dwek on the similarity in the sentiments and democratic ideals of the fre sister nations forming the British Empire and of the United States.
Referring to the identity of aims of the Canadian an initab States qvitems of government, he emphasised that the
lived side by sidla was a Heine example
to the rent principles for which the
BRITISH CASUALTIES. IN RUSSIA.
Tassos, November 19th.
in the House of Commons. Mr. Winston Churchill announced that the British casualties in Russia since the beginning ut the campaign totalled 976, including
119) Eilled.
..
staff.
ANOTHER COMMISSION.
BIR EDMUND ALLENBY.
CARO, November 19th..
RAJAH OF SARAWAK.
OBITUARY.
41
more
Own
with dismay,
ces from me.
aight,
the les.
Modesty is my inspirer,
Mural, my gold..
I will never go netray fro
humble foldÏ
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FACCIDENTS ETC
A Chinese woman has been
feet.
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a
from the
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The preacher took for his text:— Your others, where are they and the prophets, do they live for ever?ren in the history which has been if easy times are parlors to the age this is scarcely cricket," and Its resplendent rays will pan (Zechariah c. 1. 3 Jesus Christ ed. and cutlined in the press world at large, they are fatal to the having said so much for the first is the same yesterday, and to-day, without some recognition of the faith spheres alike we are moving toward leave it. The white community in
But this occasion should not pass church. In civil and religious time in my seven year here I men in the depth of cave that yes and for ever." (Heb. 15, ad fine feeling of the fathers as seen larger integrations, more comprehen- Hongkong would get much more out 8). Ho said: In the Hitole English in the Catholic foundation on which sive fellowships, wider alliances of their churches if they put a little churchyard at Machio is the gate they established the work, free from tending in all to that federation of more into them-- little LENDON, November 12th. af Dr. Robert Morrison, the last. Lord Milner has appointed a Commitmaker's apprentice who did not stick denominational bias and the in-ankind in reveon and goodwill loyalty, enthusiasm, and I will add tee to consider whether the staffs of the to his last but Became the pioneer broadest sense! To-day this would impossible heal which holds the
terests of ernagelical truth in the which is the far-off but, surely, not justice. Departments in the
However, it is much more con- Hongkong, November 15. Agricultural
Protestant Missionary to Chins. Colonial Services are adequate, and, if
Fecarcely be remarkable. Union in heart and hopes of well-disposed and 'genis to acknowledge, indeed to pro-
Explanation. We sosed recessary to recommend increases of The spot is & place of pious prigrit the air; in many places it has come thinking citizens of every cred and claim; that in this place not a little interesting friendReani
are to such as reverence the heroes to solid earth, and, in certain others, kind. May the Christian Churches of faithful zeal and sincere devotion modesty. The Committee will. also, consider of the faith, for Morrison had the tutters, timid yet not unhopeful, in of every order, by whatever name have been shewn in Christ'e cause.
This is the fr whether the rates of salary offered to the heart of a hero, and prayed to be search of a safe alighting place, upon koowa among men. fulfil their
resolt. "Een in the depth of agricultural staff are adequate and sent where difficulties were, to all
In the we bere stand in a good that rawns the len we'd ris make recommendations for improving the human appearance, insurmountable.
uncertain wings.
divinely destined office of leading on Frecession, for there has never failed protest. But see what our arrangements for recruiting agricultural e bad is wish when the London
It was otherwise in 1843, the every the path which tends toward that line of devoat and earnest souls sarialist has to say about it. staffs for the Colonies.
a growing to whom God's Kingdom is a first turned him loose.--EL. C.M.T Missionary Society sent him to Carr of the great disruption of the transcendent goal, in
Scottish Churd, which shooks that unity of the spirit, amid sil needed consideration and who are alwaye ten, alone, and seemingly on £D
That was in country to its roots, with echoes, diversity of ministration! And may eager to extend its sway. almost forlorn hope.
I have been going through the re 1807, when no British subject, with the historian, which reverber this Union Church here in this place.
ntal around the civilised world perform its possible and appointed cerda of these past decades, so far Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby has the single exception of Sir G. F. Many possibly most, of the first part in that reconciling of men to us records exist, and find much that arrived bere."
Staunton, was believed to have any nequaratance with the Chinese langu. members of this church were Scola God, apart from which the hopes of is truching and not a little inspiring age, and the natives were jealous of Presbyterians, and among the this generation, like many more be, in what they tell of the desires and the Government Civil Hospital
other evangelical bodies also doc for it, will be but as the baseless doings of good and devoted mening from injuries LONDON, November 11th.. any foreigner acquiring their speech,trical and administrative difference fabric of a dream!
of а fall befort us.-- The Rajah and Ranee of Sarawak hare For years Morrison had to lead a
foor Easy the basis of the churches counted for more than they do now.
One entry on August 8, 1849, I spirit of harmony in which the nations sailed from Liverpool for Sarawak
furtive existence in Canton, or, not Tet here the fathers were able, in a never are, but at this time it may not should like to quote in closing. It Conduit Road, from a distance less so in Macao, sometimes for days renomble and tolerant spirit, to let heris to remark that they could is of a meeting of the Session," as An old man going up the sta without necessary food, his teachers
these distinctions Inpse, and stand be better complished if the fluid it was called in Presbyterian phrase a house in Queen's Road, and servants being compelled to together on broad common ground goodwill which many bear toward ology, and the subject of considers dentally fell backwards and t The death has occurred of Eart Brassey, are him. It was made a capital whist leaving to all full liberty of them were crystallised into deficite tinn was entitled," How we may down to the ground, rece The Prince of Wales called at White as the result of a motor accident.
urime to print his translations or Home to-day and had a econversation with
bencin what they contained in private preference. From that day co-operation. This is so especially, beat serve our countrymen in this severe injuries to his head sad Mr. and Misa Wilkon. He expects to Times Paris correspondent an- spite of all, he succeeded in produc without interruption. The records Hongkong. There is not a church. The church like its Divine master.
cpward this good spirit has prevailed in some respects, in such a place as place." Such is our question still. He was sent to the hospital. Bee Praxident Wilson Youmhar Bath. counces the ath of M. de Lanessan. ing a grammar, catecism, transla of the church indiente considerable in our Colony which does not deserve is among men as one that servetb. 35, has been sent to the Kay
The body of a male aged Addressing the National Press Club, the Prince rented
"thr
American prone THE EAST COMMERCIAL MISSION.
tion of the whole Bfole, rad, finally, ductuations in strength and prosper mare support than it gets from many Its one permissible ambition is to be Mortuary. It was found hat and expressed his pleasure a visiting the
Chinese dictionary, which the Eust United States, particularly after meets
India Company produced in Cik 15, but theee never arose from in- who reckon in the Homelanda to be of use. The fathers, having served to a tree in Yaumati. ing the American forces in Europe and
LONDON, Novermber 10th. cutta. After a few years Morrisonval of Dr. Legge's fostering care
termal dissersion. After the with. of its communion.
Men and women come out here, of God, have entered into rest. But their genamation according to the will A deputation, representing the Max has the help of a like-minded col-und the retirement of Mr. Lamont, with no neation of making this we believe in the communion of theThe J. C. J. L. 8.3. "Ri realising America's efforts during the
chester and the Blackburn Chambers of Commerce was received by Si Hamar League, W. Milne. He, being re-his first successor, a period of a place their Home, usually quite the raints, and know that, in ways we which is expected to arrive in Greenwood and urged the adoption of the fused permission to settle in China a discouragement scena to have contrary, and where people do not do not and need not comprehend kong this evening, carries ott proposal to send a commercial mission to
or even Macao, worked among the been entered upon. WASHINGTON, November 19th. the Far East.
Chinese settlements in the East In-without a minister or any immediate uph to hold church ties but lightly, in our thanksgivings and hearken to for reinforcement of the M At the time, expect to make their homes they are they in the rent of glory may share 323 Portuguese troops from Pir Armistice Day was generally shaarved The
question was amicably discussed dies, centering at Maeda, where prospect of one, the Sunday services or not to form them at all. In the United States. The Prince of informally, and, as a result of the con Wales's brain en route for Washington, versation, further developments may be which Morrison had set his heart, couple of months. The fact appears sequences are more serioca to per of the living God, and the general was established an institution on had actually, to be intermitted for a This is an erra, and its con- unto Mount Zion. and to the church
our pledges here to-day, as we come garrison. halted near Baltimore for two minutes expected shortly. Apparently, Sir Hamar the Prince and his Staff standing at Greenwood strongly favours the mis-
viz., an Anglo-Chinese school. A
to be that there was not enough en-sonal character and to family life assembly of the Firstbarn which are vast amount of press work was also thusiasm in the Colony at that time than was ever anticipated by those written in heaven, and to the spirits vice, in our own time, of fellow carried on, books and periodicals to maintain a church on a self-sup-who incur them, though often they of just men mnds perfect, and to and women, of our own day, the being circulated in Chinese both on religious and general subjects. Dr.porting basis, and we can imagine are not perceived until it is too late Jesus the mediator of the new cover: the one all-sufficing Saviour
the soreness of heart with which the to repair the damage.
abides the same yesterday, to Mime died after only nine pears'
act, that we may consecrate our Ruskin says somewhere that he selves and our church life to the ser. Jea and for eiht. work, but in that brief time he link-responsible few announced their in- fability to carry on. But the London his same imperishably with the mission and its able agents came story of christian influence in once more to the rescue, and from China.
been one of progress, acknowledged that time the story on the whole has to-day by many grateful hearts. At no time has the church bad the Government Treasury behind it; at
Allies had sacrificed their best in war- time,
WAT
WASHINGTON. November 19th.
ARMISTICE DAY IN AMERICA.
attention.
A CORRECTION.
LoxBox. November 15th. In the House of Commons, the Rt. For. H. W. Forster said that the cost of the British forces in France and Flanders
End been £41.000.000 and not £1,000.000, as previously cabled.
+7
BULGARIA.
PARIS, November 19th Bulgaria has notified the Supreme Codiness to sign the Peace Treaty. It is expected that the ceremony will be arranged for next week. The Bul. gariaz Premier, M. Stambouliaski, has left Sofia for Pária.
PRICE DELEGATIONS TO LEAVE FRANCE.
FARIA, November 11th. The British and American delegations at
Conference have notifed their intention to leave France earls in December
LETTS' IMPORTANT VICTORY.
COPENHAGEN, November 11th. The Letts have gained an important victory over Colonel Bermondt's forces and have occupied all the suburbs ch Riza. They have transferred their entire front to the left bank of the Dvina.
Tha
LONDON, November 12th.
Losper, November 16th.
ex-Governor of Indo-China.
sion.
CHINA'S PLACE IN LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
LONDON, November 10th. In the House of Commons, Mr.. Luan asked what was the exact position of China under the Peace Treaty, whether China, which was named in the Cover ant as an original member of the League In 1834 Morrison himself passed of Nations, would take its place at the away. His life of extraordinary ce
rst meeting of the League, and if not, votar had laid-Western knowledge what were the reasons for China's with open to Chins in its own tongue, and drawal. China, having refused to sign the Treaty burn, was to open the treasures dunt carried it
Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, replied that six years later arrived the as who, of Peace with Germany, cannot take of Chinese literature to the West. though it has had many generous benefit or incur any obligations there. Thet was James Legge, who began belpers. But the enterprise and under, but if the Chinese Government his long career in charge of the col-charity in which the fathers initiated ratify in due course the Treaty of Peace lege in Malacca and closed with Austria, which was signed by her first Professor of Chinese at Oxford, events, and is we recall their efforts the work have been justified by delegates 021 September 10th, and where in the Covenant of the League of Nations having in the course of it, carried and their often discouragements we
same terta as in the on abundant missionary labour,
mastered Chinese as it had not been into their bu
can but pray to be worthy to enter
дау
figures in the German Treaty, the Chinese represents tives will be entitled to participate in the frst meeting or assembly of the League. China was not represented on the Countil of the Lengun.
LOAN TO CHINA.
ال
ae the
no time has some munificent indivi- on his shoulders,
Our trust
mastered before, produced the monu-
rental version which is still the stan- neither was any distinction of race If no rectarian line was drawn here dard European edition of the Cunor nationality set up. fucian chice, and incidentally, deed specifies that services may be founded this Union Church in Horg-conducted both in the English and kong and ministered to it for quarter the Chinese languages, and up-to LONDON, November 10th. of a century. Like Dr. Milne, hie 1889 a Chinese congregation did meet The Times New York correspondent predecessor, Legge came from the in the Charali on Sunday afternoons. atates on high authority that the bankers Congregational Church at Huntly in By that date, however, the Chinese connected with the Four Power Consor GENERAL SEELY'S REBİONATION.
tium believe that it is inadvisable to
Aberdeenshire. His fellow-core-congregation had become strong make a lean to China until the United men called him "Chinese Legge enough to build its own commodious. LONDON, Nemember 12th. States Treasury has led the way with an and were justly proud of him. dburch in Hollywood Road. Tat Lobbyists state that Brigadier General advance to the Chinese Government of Among my earliest recollections is is occupied to-day by an overflowing Seely's resignation was due to friction twenty-five to thirty million dollars to that with the Cabinet on the subject of cutting enable China to demobilise her army,
a framed engraving in the congregation, which not only is en- down the Air Force Estimates and the re-
house of an uncle in that little town, tirely independent and self-support- The attitude of the Government to- organisation of relations with the Army wards a Treasury Joan is not clear. If representing Legge and his Chinese ing, but is responsible also for the Air Force.
the Treasury decides to make The Times says that General Seely probably no new legislation will be neces-learned. Professors, in their long gelistic work, such as the harbour loan, students, all of them looking like maintenance of a great deal of evan- crosses the floor and explains the reasons Ary; because ample reserve still remains rabes, hatted, pig-tailed, serious of mission, a church in Macao, and, in for the resignation from the front Opposi- of the amount authorised by the Congress aspect. At this I used to gaze in conjunction with ourselves here, the for advanoci to nations warring against chilish fascination, with dreams of extending nsion work at nine or LONDON, November 19th. Germany. In the House of Commons, Brigadier- General Seely explained that resignation WOR not the result of
•tion beach.
bis
4 hasty decision- It was due to
the unworkableness
of the system
fj
THE MONEY MARKET.
LONDON, November 19th.
Far Cathay which come nearer to ten stations in the New Territory und realisation at this moment than most the islands. It is good news that the ely imaginings; I trust the circum-Hollywood Road church is finding it stancea will excuse the personal necessary to contemplate putting up a still larger moeting-place; and we ✡ Hongkong became British conngt let this secasion pass without
of dual control whereby he, instead of frane and the Italian lira fell to the reference.
On November 12th, the value of the the Secretary for War-who was also lowest point touched during the war. It Secretary for the Air-presided over the is believed that this was largely due to posession in 1841, and two years offering sincere congratulations to Air Council, although the only man who speculation and to the American Ex-Inter, or perhaps less, the Malacca cur neighbours as they go from could preside at the Council effectively change; also, being adverse. The decline mission whe transferred bere on ac-strength to strength. was the Air Minister-
of prices on the Stock Exchange was
He emphasised that no personal ques- accompanied by rumours of a further count of the greater proximity to tion was involved, but the whole thing rise in the Bank rate,
able.
but financial China.
New York, November 19th.
In this church, I may add, we
Its first institution was, I believe, generally have a few Chinese mem
a hospital under Dr. Benjamin Hobbers to whom worship in English is A rise of money to twenty-five, the
匾 devoted physician and congenial; the building is used peen
600,
was impossible. The War Office and the writers declare that this is moet improb- Air Ministry were each whole-time jobe,
The present system involved inefficiency delay and waste It excluded the Ad- miralty and made the Air Ministry, an higher since the panic of 1907, cu evangelist, & work which is continued orally for the solemnisation of mar- annexe of the War Office which would be severe break towards the end of an arcit in the Alice Memorial group of hosringes, azd, if need arose, would be inimical to the country, mean waste of ing day during which there was demora pitals to-day. A few months later recly available for other purposes, commercial possibilities, and neglect the lization of foreign Exchange, also an in-came the College, which remained is but fitting, in a church whose new powers which the air had given us.
Mr. Bonar Law regretted his resigna Italian Exchange. In the recorded new
Italian Exchange English, French, and for some years the main part of Mr. origin is so intimately connected tion, which, he said, was due to a differ- low rates, sterling is quoted at only 4.13 Legge's work.
with the first effort to bring the ence of opinion with the Government dollars for demand. Leading shares re- He promised & discussion of the whole corded the extreme declines of from five mission held meetings open to others ledge of the Chinese race.
From the first the members of the evangelical faith within the know- subject, if the House desired it.
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN.
I may be impossible to prevent an accident. but it is not impossible to be prepared for it. Chamberlain's Fain Bali is not beyond suyone Dur, and with a bottle of this liniment you are prepared for almost anything; For sale. by all Chemists and Storekeeperz
to
almost thirty points.
42
Jo Aovember 11th,
of the European community. This Less gratifying is it to refer to the The rise in the
led, in the most natural way, to the extensive use made of the church by price of silver 50.
the German community before the 6814 yesterday was due to the demands building of the first Union Chapel. from China.
The Government Blue Book gives r for weddings and special ser It is pointed out that the rise in the the date as 1844, and that, confirm vices. We do not regret our post forward price to 878 means that it is ed by our own records, Axes the pre-hospitality, and only deplore the worth while for dealers to take steps to sent as the 75th year during which grievous happenings which put encourage the melting down of coin and the Church has had a local habita sudden end to courtesies of that plate in order to fill their orders. It ap- tion and the name it still is known nature. The last such occasion zone pears that the melting down of plate has already begun
by. The next date of a Church of us who were present can, alas,
"The New Ship of the Desert"
Rocks little pebbles which work havoc with the soft surface of a motor car tire, and great boulders too large to drive over and nearly too numerous to drive about
Rats: negligibly small ores, and others so deep that the differential casing of the bick axle frequently hits the road-
Saad: blistering hot, which scorches passengera and tires alike-
All on a road which runs through a dried-up river, elsewhere along smooth plateaus, in still other places up mountain sides so steep that one rises a foot for every three travelled such are the obstacles to travelling in the great Gobi Desert, in northern China.
For years, back through the centuries, this great glaring expanse of sand, almost devoid of vegitation and huna ble, has defiantly spread its waste sres across the path of advancing civilization, forming a barrier penetrable only with oxen and gimel.
Few Lave ban the adventurous spirita who dared make the thon and mile journey from Peking to Irkutsk. for the tales told of the perils of the trip were too thril ling to tempt any but the most foolhardy, Wandering nomads, with their warliks appearance and peculiar
Exile:
Customs, great herds of antelope, often a thais l herd, travelling in long single columns, wolves whose harrowing howla broke the stillness of the night, and sudden changes in temperature from the greatest hent to the most frigid cold all added colour in the thirt day journey-and prevented all but the most incrspit of travellers kom making it.
.
But, recently, the Chinese Railway Com n' sion decided to experiment with anto.nobiles as a rifini means of crossing this great glittering blotch et ralts, The results of the first trails are seen in the wk metr za of cars left stranded along the road 4 HILA reminding one of mechanical companions of the bleached human bones which dot the trail.
Difficulties without end were encountera i tak constant experimentation was necessary before'n cir was found to successfully displace the pioturaqite camill was a bag and discourging taak.”“” but when the outlook wai mat forabiding, a car was "found capable of performing the disealt task Noor
after ages, a camel of modern standards has been Louad, ond already is has been appropriately titled
"The New Ship of the Desert
Garage.
B
Des
Voeux
Road