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proportion of Catholica. And yet, although the organising secretary of the present exhibition in France is Robert Chauvelot, the son-in-law of Leon Daudet, a professor at the College of Social Sciences and
"NOT GREATLY DIFFERENT": certainly a Catholic, although other The latest of the very interesting moving spirits are the Comte de la,
Can Spiritualism be explained in Historical exhibitions which have
Rochefoucauld and the Comte terms of orthodox science? Sir. been organised by the Bibliotheque Michel de Pierredon, the accredited Oliver Lodge believes that it can, Nationale in one of its splendid representative of the Grand Master and in Forms in Mazaring of vin ele aid of the Order In France, the chairman before the Pociety for Parchical tury palace in Paris has just of the committee, is a Radical Research at the Central Hall, West- been opened. It is concerned with Socialist and therefore presumably minster, S.W., he spake both as pay- the ancient and sovereign Order of anti-clerical Senator, Justin Godart, chicist and as physicist, and at- the Knights Hospitallers of St. John who has even been a member of the tempted to reconcile the two points of Jerusalem.
Government of the Republic.
of view. The claim of the Order to call
So the old feuds are healed, and
Briefly, his contention is that the itself "sovereign" rests upon the all opinions can meet in the charit-recognition of ether as the tertium fact that for many centuries Itable work which the Order of the quid can correlate the two. possessed and ruled the island of Knights of St. John of Jerusalem problem of mind and matter." he Malta, just as, at an earlier period, does to-day, and can remember that said, "will not be solved until we Comprising:
it had possessed and ruled the if they are no longer very import-being the ether into account." Chesterfield Couch and Arm island of Rhodes. Its foundation art as monks and Defenders of the chairs, Teak Hatstands, Sectional dates back to the year 1048, and its Faith, they still do their work as matter direct; it acted through Matter, he said, did not act on WANTED-Ry Japanese, a position Glass and Teak Book Cases, Ceil members were three things at the Knights Hospitallers. * in an Hotel. An all round man willing and Table Fans, Desks, Car-same time-religious dignitaries; ing to do anything. Apply Box No. pets, Rugs, Pictures, Oil Paint-soldiers, and helpers of the sick. 800, c/o "China Mail."
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He admitted that the bounds of ing Utensils, etc.
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The Malta Days
Not Fully Understood We did not yet fully understand the phenomenon of weight and gra- vitation, he added; and yet we ac cepted them. Similarly, although exact knowledge as to the agency of psychical manifestations was lack- ing, that was not a reason for deny- ing their scientific existence. “Ask a scientist what is a magnetic field," he said. "He can talk a lot and write a lot, but he cannot really ex. If the method of plain it,"
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The question of a husband's right. to require his wife to live where be pleased was raised when John Bur- ton, aged twenty-eight, a butcher
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to the Southwark instructions to sell by Fublicary to represent him in his relations has made an oral report to M. just itself to new surroundings.” Board of Guardians.
with the Grand Master; and al-Zaleski, the Minister for Foreign Perhaps the next world was not The defence was that Burton in- though the importance of the Affairs. The members of the opera such a remotely dignified and con-vited his wife to accompany him to Knights of Malta as a national company have been required to tinuously religious place as we had Scotland but that she refused to do Power cannot be said to be great make affidavits.
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A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
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said to have run away and left his wife. If the wife's story that he slept with a razor under his pillow were true, she could apply for a summons for maintenance. The
to-day the Grand Master still has a The Municipal. Theatre at Kat-eace was that it was not very differ- Mrs. Burton, who lives at Nelson- Minister Plenipotentiary at Vienna towice, to which the Polish cor-ent from this. Whoever it was who square, Blackfriars, was called, and and another at Budapest, thus pany belongs, is shared with a Gar-produced that world, produced this. admitted that she refused to accom- carrying on tradition under
man company, supported by the "I see no reason;":
" he added, "to pany her husband to Scotland, says. which bis predecessors
had never German minority, which enjoys the suppose that any existence in the the "Daily Express" in mail week. ceased to be represented at the use of the theatre two nights in future will seem to us entirely dif She said in reply to the magis- Court of the Austrian Empire. Teak Hall Stand, Chesterfield
every week.
The Polish manage-ferent. In so far as we remain our-trate that her husband alept with a Couch, Chesterfield Chairs, Teak]
The present Grand Master, who ment of the theatre has declined to selves we may expect other things razor under his pillow and she was Cabinet, Teak Extension Dining
is the seventy-fifth, is Prince Galeas receive an expression of regret from to remain much the same too. I not going to Scotland to be badly Table, Dining Chairs, Teak Side-of Thun-Hohenstein, and it is he the director of the German company do not expect to be much surprised treated. board,
I think it will Mr. Sandbach, the magistrate, re- who has lent what are perhaps the and has deprived the Germans of when I get there. Waggon, Teak Deska, Curtains, Carpets, Electric These are the ceremonial sword, or ther notice.
two ziost Intereating exhibits, their rights in the theatre till for-be equally real and equally sub-marked that Burton could not be Fans, etc.
stantial, freer and less hampered, estoc de palep, and the ceremonial Teak Bedstead, Teak Wardrobe, cloak. The former is a fine two-through the streets
A procession of students marched but not greatly different." Teak Chests of Drawers. Teak handed sword, six feet long, of gilt loudly
of Warsaw Dressing Table Toilet Set, Teak and chiselled bronze, in form siml- of the Oppeln outrage.
denouncing the authors Ice Chest, Crockery,
Kitchen lar to Utensils, etc.
Hostile Crowds really used by the earlier crusading
According to accounts of their Knights, and can also be seen in experiences given by membera of the exhibition, and the other is the opera company, they found on June an enormous cape of red velvet, em- arriving at Oppeln that the streets broidered in gold. Both were given were lined by hostile crowds. At to the Order by the Pope, the entrance to the theatre, Ger There are also to be seen the swordsman Nationalist roughs were mol and daggers presented in 1665 by esting persons who sought admit- Philip II. of Spain, the Philip of the tanCE, In the theatre stink-bombs Armada, and removed by Napo were thrown from the gallery, and leon who is said to have carried the the police had to |daggers with him as talismans.
also. One Piano, One View from Thursday,
27, 1929.
Catalogues will be issued. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
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the swords which
The "Langues"
were
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ed outside
acter,
con-
"BLACK WINTER" present charge was not proved and
INFLUENZA'S. HEAVY TOLL
London, May 27. The first three months of 1929,
with a bitterly cold spell and an in- fluenza epidemic, represented the second worst period on record- this century, so far as deaths are con cerned. 2
of 1928.
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it must be dismissed.
Burton was then discharged.
LONDON'S POLICE
IMPOSING CENTENARY REVIEW
IN HYDE PARK
London, May 25. Exactly a century ago Sir Robert Peel established the Metropolitan Police Force.
Park
columna,
intervene and
According to the official returns. several arrests before
for England and Wales, over 204,000 performance could.
persons died, being. 88,000 over the tinue. As a large crowd wait total for the corresponding quarter These records of the glorious past of the Order may perhaps draw
the theatre, the
The centenary was celebrated to- publle attention to the fact that it performers left by a side door in
The death rate was 21 per 1,000, day, when the Prince of Wales also has a present, which, if not so small parties and followed a cir-for 11.63 of which it is claimed inspected 13,000 "Bobbies"" in Hyde glorious, is at least sufficiently cuitous route to the railway station. influenza was the immediate, or a Rourishing.
H.R.H., who rode down the ranks, At the station the company was contributory, cause, In the old days the branches of the Order in various attacked by a mob of German Na-
This rate was only exceeded in was followed by Viscount Byng of countries were called "langues.tionalists who belaboured them with the first quarter of 1919, when in. Vimy and the Assistant Commis Of these "langues, the Austrian sticks. All of them were bruised fluenza was again responsible for a
sioners, mounted on white horses. and the Italian have never ceased and bleeding and in several cases death rate of 21.3 per 1,000.
Subsequently, with drums throb- to exist since their ancient founds the injuries were of a serious char-Deaths exceeded births by 44,112, bing and bands playing, the huge tion, nor to be directly subject be being cut about the face, was births than deaths in the first three marched to Buckingham Palace, The stage manager, after whereas there were 31,611 more Specials and 50 Superintendents, which included 3,500 the Order, though certain sections of the Italian langue" were sus pitched down a flight of stairs head months of 1928. pended, but not abolished, during foremost. The director of the com- The last quarter of 1928 82W The following unclaimed tele
Government and Admiralty Coal the early years of the nineteenth pany and his wife, were knocked 10,000 fewer persons, married than Fosite Glarence House en route. gr2m3 are lying at the EE.
Contractors. Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kòng:-|-
These two "langues" of over the head with sticks. A mem-
in the corresponding quarter of HOUSE COAL.
the Order alone include two Grandber of the orchestra had an arm
1927. Saigon Bank, from Saigon... Peak at $23.00 per ton. Priories. There is also another broken and was wounded in the "Torp, care Kluver, from Delo,
head and knee. A member of the ancient "langue," that of Spain, ballet was struck with some hard Upper Level $22.00 # Captain Cripps, from Bourne- Middle Level, $21.00
which, after having been detached mouth.
Central Office
from Order by a royal decree of instrument in the small of the back 1802, returned to it in consequence and is suffering from serious inter- nal injuries. Several of the of another decree of 1885, and is part of the Order to-day.
women singers were taken to the Apart from these ancient sur-train in a state of collapse. The vivals, there are to-day flourishing instruments belonging to the or- associations of knights belonging to chestra were destroyed.
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Hong Kong, 20th June, 1929.
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OF DENMARK::-
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Fujibun, from Osaka,
H. Kong Kwok, from Osaka. George Lynott, from Shanghai Peak, from Shanghat. Stiebel, “Changte”,
hint
from Har
EV. JESSEN
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Hong Kong, 20th June, 1929,
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Thousands of Londoners and hun. dreds of Provincial and foreign visitors lined the route.
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