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China Mail
No. 26,029
DRUGS & DOCTORS
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE REVELATIONS
WHAT MRS. EDDY DID
Special "China Mail" Cables
OUR OFFER TO BOSTON CHURCH
Published
"Mrs. Eddy sanely used drugs, doctors numerous occasions.”- Christian Science Parent Church.
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BLISHED
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1928. PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
FOUR SEAPLANES DUE BRIDGE OF BOATS AT
CHUNG KING
:
TO - MORROW AERIAL SQUADRON YANG SEN ADVANCES
1,000 MILES FROM
OTHER LAND
BOUVET ISLAND
TO ALIGHT IN KOWLOON BAY AT LIU HSIANG RESTORES HIS LINE GREAT BRITAIN AGREES TO
HALF-PAST-ONE
NORWAY'S CLAIM
EX-INTERPORT CRICKETER
waters.
OF RETREAT.
WAR AFTER A SHORT TRUCE? | WANTED AS WHALING DEPOT
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to Bouvet Island
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KNIFE IN RIBS
THE OUTRAGE ON AN ARMY TRANSPORT
SOLDIERS' EVIDENCE
Sergeant Who Was Attacked Whilst Asleep
The "China Mail" learns officially That Genera! Yong Sex is again
London, Yesterday. that the British Squadron of four advancing westward, up the Upper
The Norwegian Minister in Lon- senplanes under Croup Captain Yangtze River, a belived to be
that the
PRIVATE DENIES HE STRUCK THE BLOW- H. M., Cave-Brown-Cave, of the the ease, because his neighbourdon has been informed the Royal Air Force, are expected higher-up the Efver, General Liu British Government is prepared to
Tenseness reigned in the police court this morning when soldiers "Mrs. Eddy's life was entirely consistent with her published to arrive at half past one to-morrow. Hsiang, is showing signs of activity. waive its claim
The squadron is to alight in Kow- According to a British Nava} |
the bridge of and will raise no objection to its who were aboard the Transport "Somersetshire" when a sergeant writings."-Christian Science Board of Directors.
loon Bay, opposite Kai Tack nero-wireless mesenge, drome and it will be necessary for boats which served as a line of re- annexation by Norway.
of the King's Own Scottish Borderers was struck in the ribs with a craft. to keep clear of adjacent, trent for Liu Helang, is again in Bouvet Is A small island Aval
position at Chungking, the Treaty miles by four in the Antarctic knife, allegedly by a private of the same regiment, told their stories. Commanding the second seaplane port 1,400 miles from the sea. This Ocean, one of the most isolated
The wounded man is Sergeant Kerr, and he is still in hospital at is Souadron Leader G. E. Liveck, bridge is placed across Little River, group of islands in the world.
one of the Yangtege's tributaries. R.A.F., who is well known in Hong
Within a radius of Liu Hsiang, it is thought, has put tical miles there is no other land,
1,000 nau- Colombo, near which port the outrage occurred. The accused is Kong. He was on an aircraft car his bridge of bests up again, on it was first sighted by the French Private Boyle. Both were in a draft coming to Hong Kong to join rler at Singapore some years ago account of Yang Sen's advance.
picked. for Malaya's and interport cricket team to play in a tween them the east of Szechuan notably by the Englishman, Cap-
These two generals occupy be man, Captain Bouvet, in 1739, and the Regiment.
has frequently been re-discovered, triangular tournament here and the west of Hupeh provinces. against Shanghai and Hong Kong. They have been at war several times
As wicket-keeper and opening but a truce was declared
Above are printed the gist of replies received by the "China! Muil" from the headquarters of both the Christian Science bodies. The full answers are reproduced below.
In view of the repeated conflicting statements published in the. Press the "China Mail" cabled to the Christian Science Board of Directors, Boston, asking for categorical denial or affirmation of the statement that the late Mrs. Eddy employed doctors and used
窳 few
tain Norris, in 1820, when the Bri- tish flag was hoisted upon it.
The island has never been in
drugs in the later years of her life. Not being satisñed with the first batsman, Flight Lt. Livock (astmonths ago and Yang Sen retired, habited and has been seldom ap
reply, a further cable was sent to the Deputy Leader of the Christian. was thon) created a very favour-j Science Parent Church, Washingtop.
:
OFFICIAL STATEMENTS
The "China Mail" cable to the Christian Science Board of Dires- tora, Boston, reads as follows:-
"Statements have 'appeared that doctors attended Mrs. Eddy also that she used druga during her last years, Desire by tele: graph
or categorical denial affirmation from directora for publication."
"Entirely Consistent" The reply from the Christian Science Board of Directors was:-
"For present, our only state-
S.S. "VESTRIS "
FEDERAL INQUIRY INTO THE DISASTER
60 WITNESSES SUBPOENAED
New York, Yesterday. Twenty-two bodies were recover- ed from the wreckage and brought| in by three American destroyers.
Over sixty witnesses have been subpoenaed for to-day's opening | of the federal inquiry into the dis- pster.
The Japanese Victims 1 The body of Yoshio Inouye has been landed.
Madame Inouye has been taken to hospital seriously ill.
More Inquiries
the
Senator Fletcher has announced that he is prepared to ask for a Congressional Inquiry into wreck.
begun their own private examina-
ment is that Mrs. Eddy's life wus entirely consistent with her pub lished writings.”
The Other Side
Upon receipt of the above cable
able Impression. He made a cen- tury in the match against Kowloon,Į When the bat presented by Mr. E. Abraham (Vice-President of the K.C.C.) was handed to him, Squa! dron Livock said that he would have preferred the gift to have been a golf club! But he played in irst-class and
representative cricket when he got Home, though.
NEW CRUISER
IMPROVEMENTS
the "China Mail" wired to Mr. GERMANY TO MAKE GREAT Dittimore, of the Christian Science Parent Church, Washington, 28 follow
A 10,000 TONNER
Berlin, Yesterday..
"China Mail' requested Chria- tian Science Directors Boston! Muss. by telegraph categorically! Great improvements are to be to deny or affirm Eddy's use of drugs and doctors. Directors an- incorporated in the construction of swered: For present our only the new 10,000 cruiser. statement is that Mr. Eddy's life As described by General Groener, was entirely consistent with her Minister for Defence, published writings. China Mail,' Hong Kong, desires your state- Reichstag the cruiser, is the one ment for simultaneous publica- 'allowed under the Versailles Treaty tion."
to be built for high speed and fight- ing capacity.
She "Used Druga"
in the
SHOT DEAD !.
Bandits Kill English Missionary
proached by vessels,
Norwegians landed there a year or so ago, and it is understood they wish to use it as a whaling depot-British Wireless Service,
RYE DISASTER
AN ENTIRE BOAT CREW DROWNED
GRAPHIC STORY
London, Yesterday,
Evidence was given this morning by fellow-passengers who saw Boyle immediately preceding the affair. One, a sentry, asserted he heard the accused shout out, "You -- I have been waiting well long enough.”
J
COURT PROCEEDINGS
"You
This morning Mr. R. E. Lindsell clear of the table, Boyle got up Peking, To-day.
began the hearing of the case and darted forward and went The British Legation has re-
against Private James Boyle of the round by the hatchway where Ser ceived confirmation of a report
King's Own Scottish Borderers who geant Kerr was sleeping. The wit- that an English Baptist mission-
Is charged with the attempted mur-ness did not notice if Boyle had ary, Miss Grace Mann, was shot
der of Sergeant A. Kerr of the any weapon in his hand. dead by bandits on November 12
same regiment on board H.M. Tran- whilst travelling between Tai-
Witness last sight of Boyle after sport "Somersetshire" on the night The Rye lifeboat' went out this of October 19-20, whilst the troop- he went round the hatchway, and yuanfu and Sinchow. The usual morning in a very rough sea to ship was on the high sea between the next instance he heard the representations are being made rescue a ship in distress, but cap the Red Sea and Colombo. to the Chinese authorities-Reu-sized in the heavy seas and all the
sound of a blow being struck and ter.
Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, assistant at the same time heard Boyle shout crew of fifteen were drowned.-Attorney-General, prosecuted for out: "You, I have been wait- Reuter,
the Crown. He put in a seconding-well long enough." The wit- charge against Boyle of malici-ness then went forward, and saw ously and unlawfully wounding and. Private James, of the Norfolk, Re- Terrific seas were running at six causing harm" to Sergeant Kerr. giment, knock the accused off Ser- in the morning when the Rye motor This the Magistrate explained to geant Kerr who was lying on deck,
feboat put out to assist the dis-Boyle was tressed Latvian" cargo boat.
NZ ELECTIONS SEVERE SET-BACK FOR THE
GOVERNMENT
MINISTERS DEFEATED
Wellington, Nov, 14.
Terrific Sens
Later,
Five minutes later news was re-
man vessel.
Unaware
of
charge.
only an alternate (with the "accused on top of hím,
Sergeant Kerr, the witness saw,
The reply from Mr. Dittimore. It will be vastly superior to exist- The General Elections have re-
ing 10,000 tonners, as it will ex-sulted in a severe set-back for the this, continued their journey and Beant Kerr in the witness box, he ment, took Sergeant Kerr to the
The returns are not struck a sandbank.
Mr. Fitzroy said that he was pre- when accused was removed, had a ceived that the latter's crew had ferring the alternative charge be- terrible gath in his stomach. Wit- been safely transferred to a Ger-cause the possibility was that when ness did not see any weapon. Ser-
the accused came to question Sergeant Jones, of the Norfolk Regi The lifebost men,
might be able to extract some ad-ship's hospital. mission from the latter which After a while, the prisoner cool- The boat capsized within half a would justify the dropping of the ed down and then Private James mile from the shore and in full view more serious charge of attempted took him down to the detention of relatives and other would-be murder.
cells, Witness added that there Case Outlined
was a lot of blood. on the spot Ithe 70-mile wind.
Proceeding to outline the case, where the scuffle took place and a practically the whole of the fishing goner and Sergeant Kerr were in pital. Afterwards the witness The dead crew numbered 17-Mr. Fitzroy said that both the pri-trail of blood led to the ship's hos- population of Rye.
The tempest in the Channel was travelled from England
a draft for the K.O.S.B., which made a report of the affair to his
Commander, on H.M. Guard
Sergeant such that the Hastings lifeboat
Transport "Somersetshire." The Soames and then returned to his (motorless) was unable to put out affair occurred at 1 a.m., on Oc-post. for the same wreck.Reuter. of
Further Detalls British wireless message
just received, reads:-
"Mrs. Eddy sanely used drugs caed the radius in heavy artillery Government. doctors numerous occasions.. Pre-of the old ships by 12 kilometres sent. Boston Church officials per-and fire thrice the number of shots mit official denials by distant re- per minute. Security against sink- presentatives but themselves con-ing has been increased by a new PIONEER PICTURES rescuers, who were impotent to face coal and evade facts. Will donate kind of armour and underwater thousand dollars any Hong Kong protection and weight have been charity if China Mall' can secure saved by using, firstly, light metal definite official denial her use wherever possible, secondly, electri- drugs from Boston Church execu-cal method of welding, thirdly, tives,"
modern motors which are five-sixths of the weight of machines used in 1918.
Groener's speech was in reply to said the hold was filling with water the Socialist motion of a cessation and the cargo had shifted. He had of construction on the ground of been baling all night long, with ? economy. bucket. Dana went on deck and,
The Reichstag is likely to reject
Topical and interesting is a fit- ting description of the pictures ac- cepted for to-morrow's number of the pioneer art supplement in the Colony.
How Hong Kong observed the 10th anniversary Armistice Day is realisti- cally told in
The an outstanding photo. Then there are also views of local celebrations in honour of
states:--
tober 20. Then the prisoner was seen by witnesses to crawl under
Could See Clearly Replying to Mr. Fitzroy, Private a mess table towards where Ser- Evison said that there were elec- The whole crew of 17 of a lifeboat Keant Kerr was asleep on No. 1 tric lights burning on deck all Then a Main Deck.
shout was night and one could see clearly saw the crew throwing the cargo the motion, although the Secialist the Japanese Coronation, the un-. last their lives to-day when the boat heard, and when assistance arriv- everything that was going on deck. overboard. A knot of men were Chancellor, Heir Mueller and other
usual effect of a large British war-
capsized in terrific seas in the chan-ed, Sergeant Kerr was found with The witness did not know either Messra. Lampart and Holt have watching them and looking very Socialist Ministers, have to vote in ship illuminated throughout and swering a distress, call from the whilst another man who was sleep- |ly, and could not say if there had nel as she was returning from an-a knife stuck through his ribs, Sergeant Kerr or Boyle personal- tion of the surviving officers and scared, some of them wearing life- accordance with the Party decision.
Latvian steamer “ Ålice,”
ing next to the Sergeant was been any quarrel between them. The whole of the male fishing wounded in the left arm. The population of the tiny hamlet of prisoner was knocked down by crawl under the table, but the wit- Boyle suggested that he did not. Rye Harbour has been practically someone and then taken to the de-ness maintained that when he first wiped out by the disaster, which tention cells whilst the two wound-saw Boyle the latter was on his fa the worst in lifeboat history for ed men were removed to the ship's hands and knees. 42 years.
men.
THE SERVICES
MOVEMENTS ON CHINA STATION
bells. The offleers were cheery-Reuter. but very reticent.. He did not: Federal Inquiry
know till the "Vestris" foundered The principal points in the in-that an SOS had been sent out. vestigation of the Federal Inquiry | The women and children werel will be numerous reports from sur- brought up at 10,30 and told to don vivors of the crew that the door lifebelts. The women were won- leading to the coalbunkers wae derful, some crying quietly bat found open and that the sea poured there was no hysterics. The crew
CRUISE IN JAPAN through with such volume that it atarted to launch the lifeboats on could not be shut, resulting in fatal the port sidé at 11.80, a task which H.M.S. "Concord," one of the flooding; stories of shifting cargo, took two hours owing to the boats smaller cruisers, leaves Portsmouth weak bulkheads, Ineffective launch- catching on the side of the ship. to-morrow with Royal Naval reliefs ing of ill-equipped lifeboats and al-
Boat number eight, to which leged delay of the SOS.-Reuter.
Dana himself was assigned, was for the China Station. She is due Graphic Account
holed as it was lowered. The holato arrive here on Jan. 9..
A graphic account of the sink ing of the "Vestris" was given in hospital by Paul Dans, the South
1
"Heeled Over"
་
was patched up with a piece of tin) H.M.S. "Serapis," the destroyer' but the tin did not hold.
which captured the "Hsin Chi" pir- ates, has arrived at Foochow. American representative of the The ship heeled over and sank)
H.M.S. "Cornflower, a sloop, has Radio Corporation of America, who three minutes after they pulled left Nimrod Sound, in the Mid-China was picked up with a stowardess, (away. Forty men left aboard rac Const, for Hong Kong.. H.M.S. Mrs. Clara Bell, after floating in ed down the side of the ship and "Seraph," a destroyer, returned to dived off as she sank with one boat harbour yesterday as did H.M.S.| the water for 22 hours.
night of November 10 was the
"taken" by night, of a rugger match at Happy Valley, of Dr. A. Cannon's travels in Kwangal, and a portrait of a Hong Kong stage Idol whose salary is $60,000 a year. Two splendid snapshots of Mar- ines leaving Shanghal for Home will also be included. Pictures of the memorial grected to the late Pte. Soares at the Club de Re- creio, Kowloon, which was un- veiled by H.E. the Officer Admin- istering the Government on Armis- tice Day, appear in another part of
to-morrow's issue.
Ten bodies have, so far, been re- covered,
hospital.
Witness, how- ever, quafiffed his earlier state- Speaking about the knife, Mr.ment by saying that Boyle was The tragic aspect of the affair is from No. 7 Mess at 4 p.m. on Oc-S and 5, and not underneath a Fitzroy said that it was missed crawling between mess tables Nos, that five minutes after the lifeboat taber 19, so that it appeared that table.. had put to sea a message was re-the prisoner had not been possess ceived that the crew of the "Alice"ed of it suddenly, but either he of the 1st Norfolk Regiment, said Private Alfred William Impey. had been taken aboard the German or steamer Smyrna" and that no knife from No. 7 Mess many hours night in question, his post adjoin- someone else had taken the he was also on sentry duty on the assistance was required.
before the affair. Watchers on cliffe, who saw the
ing that of Private Evison on the Sergeant Kerr, Mr. Fitzroy said,No. 1 Main Deck. yet complete, but they indicate that lifeboat capsize, raced to the little the state of the parties in the House village with the dread news and had to be taken ashore at Colom- that he did not know Sergeant was so seriously injured that he Replying to My. Fitzroy, he said of Representatives will be as follows: doctors, nurses and first aid men bo. He appeared to have been Kerr, and would not know him now
Government'... 27... raced to the gap in the cliffs lead-asleep when he was attacked by if he saw him again, United Parties .....27 Ing to the shòre. Labour Independents
20 6
A human chain was formed and, jup to their necks in the boiling Among those defeated are the surf, volunteers, fought to rescue the
and Justice. Reuter.
grave,
Dana said that the storm on the still on deck. The boats on the "Hermes," the aircraft carrier, after Ministers for Land, Agriculture floating dead bodies from a Channel
starboard side were cut away and exercises. worst in his experience. The "Ves. rowed round and picked up a lot Three of the new tris" struck two big waves simul- of swimmers. taneously at midnight and quiver-
Dana's boat began to fill and
10,000 tons county-class cruisers are now in Jap
SHELL CO. DIVIDEND anese waters. H.M.S. “Kent" (flag- ed from end to end, and it is be capsized, one woman being drownship) arrived at Kagoshima yester
The Chartered Bank of India, od. The others righted the lieved that this started the leak.
climbed in but the day from Shanghai. Sufall" left etc., has received the following from boat and Sunday was still rougher and most waves pounded the boat to places. Nagasaki for Beppu, Berwick" the head office in London: Shell of the passengers were very sea The children and women then left Karatsu to-day for Miyajima. Transport and Trading Co., Ltd., de- sick, The ship developed a bad disappeared except for Mrs. Ball. H.M.'s transport. "Somersetshire," clared dividend at the rate of 25. per list, and the furniture in the din-She and Dana swam to a piece of with the 2nd Batt. the Welch Regt. share free of Income Tax (payable Ing room and smoking room alid wreckage and clung to it. The on board (from Shanghal), lelt January 5. Bearer Coupon to be to starboard and crashed around. water was warm but great waves Hong Kong this morning for Singa- presented No. 52. When he woke on Monday morning crashed down on them, almost pore.
the water was level with the win-knocking the life from their bodies dowa and his cabin floor was under and smothering them in foam, but water.
Mrs. Ball was wonderful and show-
Cargo Jettisoned
ed an iron perve. They tried to His steward came in groaning hall the lifeboats but they were not with his shoulder wrenched ́and (Continued on "Page® 4.) ̧.
Brussels, Yesterday-The Bel- glan minister at Paking has been created a baron.-Reuter.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR
Later, the lifebont itself was hurled ashore by the waves with two
of the dead crew beneath it
ADMIRAL STARCK DEFENDER OF PORT ARTHUR
AGAINST JAPANESE
DEATH ANNOUNCED
the prisoner.
Proceeding to give evidence of Evidence Called:
the affair at 1 a.m., on October 20, Evidence was then called, the witnesa said that when he was The first witness called was Pri- about four yards from his post on vate Albert Edward Evison, of the the port side of the ship, he saw 1st Battalion The Norfolk Regi Boyle crawling under a mess table ment, whose battalion was also on deck and then run forward travelling on the "Somersetshire." round the hatchway. Looking He said that on the night in ques-through the batch rails the wit- tion, whilst the ship was on the ness saw a struggle on the deck. high scas between Aden and It looked like a “rough-and- Colombo, he was doing sentry duty tumble" between two or more men, at No. 18 post on the No. 1 Main Then the witness saw Private Deck of the ship.
James of the Norfolk. Regiment About 40 yards from the wit and Boyle get up. Witness did not ness' post Sergeant Kerr of the see a wounded man. K.O.S.B., slept on the deck by the
Wet Canteen"
Helsingfors, Yesterday hatchway. At about 1 a.m, on Replying to Mr. Fitzroy, witness The death fs, announced of Ad-October 20, witness-saw Private said, that he did not see anything miral Oscar Strack, whe command Boyle of the K.08.B., crawling in Boyle's hand. There was a wet ed the Russian Navy defending Port under a mess table on deck in the canteen en bused the ship but, he The closing rate of the dollar on | Arthur against the Japanese attack fore part of the skip, in front of demand, to-day was 2/0 5/36; In 1904-Reuter;
Continued on Page 7)
the witness post. After he got