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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1923
ARMS EVIL.
MURDER SENSATION
SEQUEL.
GOVERNMENT MEASURES.
STERNER SENTENCES WITH FLOGGING,
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ABOUT BOOKS.
LETTERS FROM THE CHERUB.
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CHINESE GIRLS' NAMES.-
THE CHURCH.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SOME SEARCHING QUES-
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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Per P. & 0. es. Boudan” va August THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF 7 Mrs Cowling Mr Uhun Hung Kum, Mr Wang Man Chow, Me 0. W. Donaldson.
ARRIVALS.
HAPPY VALLEY COURSE,
THE COMPETITIONS arranged for Monday last have been post. poned until SUNDAY, August 19th on account of the course being still closed.
will be held on THURSDAY after The Ladies' Medal Competition
noon, August 16th. PERCY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING. Secretaries & Treasurers, Hongkong, August 9, 1923.
Among the many organizations in the world today, none occupies a position of leadership and in- Dear Belinda-Apart from the fluence comparable to that of the weather as a topic of complaint, Christian Church. In spite of the there is not much to excite the statement which is
Fes P. & 3. e. Sarpedon" He and sometimes feelings of the dweller in Hong-made that interest in religion isra A. G. Birneveld Master Jan Men J, Graham, Miss B. Graham. Mr and kong who has aspirations for lessening, the increase in Church Binneveld. Mr and Mrs H. Cromblo, Air higher things. A season of opera membership in many of the nations M. Erken Slaters. Mr H. G. Cooper, Mr stirred some of us, although if it is greater than the increase in J. 8. Keith, Miss E. Cromblo, Mr W. The local arms evil having behad not been for our Portuguese population. Each year shows a Cowell, Mr B. J. Birbook, Mr and Mrs:
friends, whose support was en- steady and substantial gain.
8 Martin, Mr and Mrs B. Whittaker, come steadily worse, culminating thusiastically consistent through
Mts F4. Lovegrove, fra E, A. Liley, in Tuesday's sensational murder in out
How do we account for this Burg. Liut, and Afra R. W. Nesbitt, Mr the thirteen nights of
steady drift toward the Church? It M. Karlsen, Mr and Mrs A. Boohanan. Queen's Road Central, the Gov. song, the effort would have
offers no material advantage; it Miss A. Buchanan, Msator A. Buchanan, an early demise. ernment has decided to take resulted in
As you know, things musically are one's social standing; it makes con-
contributes but little if at all to Mr and Mrs A. Huxley, storner measures against persons generally hard to sustain, so much
FOR SALE. found in unlawful possession of so that they say that artists of stant demands upon the time and
purse of its adherents, and the A despatch to the Daily These measures, which repute either avoid us, or or advised burden of its teaching centres August, 8, reads:-Mr. Kamelkichi FOR SALE-Deposit receipts on
Bulletin froni Tokyo, include ten years' hard labour to do so, in order to suffer about giving rather than getting. Yamazaki, vice-president of the
artistic and financial loss. We It must be recognized that some are Tokyo Business Men's Association, de Chine" for Eleven Hundred and the "French Banque Industrielle and flogging, are
outlined hope for better days. Things in the following letter the "China literary and scientific, in spite of actuated by fear of the hereafter, has been appointed by the cap Eighty Pounds Sterling. What offer. Mail" received this afternoon the fact that we boast a University; passport to heaven, but these con- International Labour Conference.
and regard church membership as italists as their representative at the Reply A.BC. c/o "China Mail" from the Colonial Secretary (the seems to be better off than we What then is the reason, for the Moscow to-morrow with the Busi- are almost dead things. Shanghat stitute, a very small minority, Mr. Yamazaki Is proceeding to Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, are in Hongkong, being well continual growth of the Church and ness Mission, whence he proceeds C.M.G., O.B.E):--
served in every department of life the loyalty of its great member- that seeks to elevate, eduacate, in ship? Simply this: While "all have struct and amuse. For instance, sinned and come short of the glory here is the Summer number of of God," there is in every human "The China Journal of Science breast a desire to rise above the and Arts" edited by Arthur De sordid and debasing things of life being the official publication of the is recognized that the Church holds Sowerby and John C. Ferguson, to a higher plane of living, and it China Society of Science and Arts. the key to the secret of true nobility
arms.
Sir, I am directed to state that the Government proposes to bring before the Legislative Council at an early date a bill which will in- crease very considerably the penal ties for the unauthorised possession
or carrying of arms.
a
of character.
I had occasion to mention a pre It is the intention to provide that vious issue of the Society's Journal,
The Church lays no claim to and set out to prove (it was not a all cases shall come before a Judge
difficult task) how fine a perfection, and its failures have of the Supreme Court, that the thing this Journal is. Its interest been many, but it is well to re maximum penalty shati be increas-is not merely local-by local Imember that while it represents the ed to imprisonment with hard mean China-but world-wide, for Divine, its visible representatives science and literature know no are distinctly human and subject to labour for a period of ten years, bounds. The summer number is a human limitations. It has never and that the punishment of flogging bulky production, well produced, been claimed that the Church is a with the cat shall be added.
and I found it engrossing reading company of saints, but simply When the bill becomes law, its for one night, in spite of the ordinary folk who believe in the provisions, will be enforced imme- one on
The opening essay is principals and ideals that Jesus
"The
war insect lived and taught and are seeking to diately and with the utmost rigour. pests which deserves to be make their lives conform to those Permits to possess and carry arins reprinted
and sent out ideals. It stands as the guardian of for lawful purposes are issued in broadcast. Its hints and advice are all classes of people, the antagonist the discretion of the Captain Sup-alike timely. A plate with a weak of every form of vice, the exponent
heat.
on
erintendent of Police, and ali formaldehyde solution in it on the
SIX WEEKS' JAIL.
of the highest ideals, the advocate
members of the Community are table, will attract flies who drink a of social and civic justice, and the warned of the most serious, con- little and then crawl away for a voice of God calling all men every- sequences which will attend the few inches and die. Cats and dogs where to repentance and fellowship possession or carrying of arms for bring insects in and the minute with Him. When we add to the any purpose whatsoever, unless a white eggs of the latter are scatter-regular work of the Church the permit has been granted.
ed over the floors, getting into dusty tremendous accomplishments of
and crannies, where those
agencies which bave This letter phinly indicates that cracks
hatch out." Europeans are also liable to the in-they
Food of sprung from the Church and are creased penalties, for it distinctly any kind should not be left more or less connected with it-- states that all cases shall come be about as they attract cockroaches. practically all charities, settlement These may scem mundane house and welfare organizations, fore the Criminal Court under the matters, but out here they are as asylums, orphanages, the Y.M.C.A., new jaw. |
the plagues of the Israelites. IY.W.C.A., Red Cross, Boy Scouts, must confess that the paper which Salvation Army, rescue missions, interested me most is the one by soldiers and sailors'homes, schools, L. C. Arlington on The Chinese colleges, universities, and many Female Names." No-one interest-others-we begin to realize the ed in things Chinese should miss great outreach of our Christian this. It is the result of much re-programme of which the Church is search, and is of a fascinating the centre and for which she is Six weeks in jail was the sen- character. A girl, the moment she chiefly responsible. tence meted out to a Chinesec who is born is given a "milk" or "pct" Are you a member of the Church? claimed to be a subordinate of a name, taken from some incident If not, why not? Granting that a Chinese military officer this morn-connected with her birth. man may be a Christian independ ing by Mr. C. D. Melbourne.
ΕΓ the girl is born in ent of the Church, it is inconceiv the first month of Spring her pet name would be, in all-
"First Moon in probability, Spring." When she is grown up. she is given a Big name" which may be "Precious Pearl." Should
THIS MORNING'S CASE.
The man was arrested when he arrived on the s.s. "Honam" lost night with a number of rounds of Mauser ammunition his posses- sion.
In court he pleaded that his she enter school she is given a superior had given him the rounds school name which may be "Pure
to carry.
CLOSE THING.
HARBOUR COLLISION
AVERTED.
jade." You will see from this how the writer beginning from the first days of the girl-child leads us on through the maze of her life, giving us the various names she acquires, It is a long essay butnot a word tod long, so interesting is it "Evensons" he says 'are given girls' names in the belief that the gods will really believe them to be girls, and not bring sickness, injury or death Having narrowly missed a colli- on them" I am afrid I shall ex- sion with No. 10 Police Launch, in haust much available.space if I go which Mr. L. H. Booth, A. S. P.on quoting at this rate, but I think was patrolling the harbour on I have said enough to prove that August 1, the master of the steam the Journal is one to keep, road, launch "Lee Ha" was fined $20 and recommend. This particular by the Marine Magistrate (Cor-number contains a 'continued" mander Beckwith R. N.) to-day for essay on "The Chinese Idea of a failure to observe the rule of the Garden" by Florence Ayscough, book reviews, a travel in the Mr. Booth said his launch was Yangizu Gorges, well 11- proceeding westward through ustrated, and scientific essays the southern fairway on the on Fisheries in China, starboard side whe the "Lee Ha" Migration Notes, The Role of came up on his port side and at-Bacteria in Nature, The Aboriginics tempted to cross ahead. Seeing of West China, The Mud Skipper, that there was likely to be collision etc. I am sending you a copy of he stopped the police launch and the Journal for your own persual. weht astern. When the "Lee Ha" I fully expect to hear that you was close up she went hard astar enjoyed it very much. board, damaging the stern of the other launch,
road.
The defendant pleaded that he was sick and left the bridge in charge of a scaman. Five previous convictions were mentioned and Commander Beckwith decided to make a month's jail the alternative 10 payment of the fine.
TYPHOON WARNINGS.
The telegram quoted below was received from the Manila Observa tory by the local American Con- sulate General ;—
7 p.m. August 8.
Your friend,
THE CHERUB.
THE STAR
"BOB HAMPTON OF PLACER."
The Star la showing "Bob Hampton of Placer" commencing to-day. Bob Hampton of Placer" is an historical film. It is a pôr- tayal of American frontler life in the old days, when the Redskins were on the war path. One of the mostspectatutlar scenesis that show. ing General Custer's fortious stand against the Indians. The producer,
1. Typhoon in about 127 degenilated the services of a tribe of Long. E. 19 dog. Lat. N. direction Blackfect Indians for this episode. unknown,
With the Indian hordes, the scouts, Cycleno artyphoon W. of the the horses and the wargon-trainer Lairong or Mariana Islands moving it is a vivid picture of an oldtime AL N. East.
frontier fight. The title role is taken
12:11 am, August 9, 1923.
by James Kirkwood,, and another
Typhoon in about 125 deg, Long-favourite in the picture Is Wesley
20 deg. Lat. N, moving W.N.W.
*Freckies” Barry,»
to Geneva.
dated
able that one who is in sympathy regard it as a high privilege to be with Christian ideals should not associated with those who are fighting the forces of evil and are emplified in Jesus Christ. striving, for the ideal life as ex-
From "Hongkong Young men," Chinese Y.M.C.A.
TO SECRETARIES OF CLUES AND
OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
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