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Hong Kong, Monday, Feb. 3, 1930.
On admitting that he had wasted water at a street fauntain in Sai Kung Road, a Chinese vegetable gardener, who said he was a new comer, was at the Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning fined $1.
A fire broke out at about 6.45 p.m. yesterday on the roof of 63, Third Street, but the blaze was extinguished by the occupants of the house before the arrival of the Fire Brigade. Little damage was i donc.
A pleasant Social Hour was apent by members of the congregation of St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, and their friends, in the Church Hall, after evening service yesterday. The Vicar presided, while Mr. Bates, Miss McGill and Mrs. Robson rendered songs.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1930.
SHAM SCIENCE OF
TO-DAY
CRITICS' FALLACIES
[By Sir Charles Marston, Lay Member of the Church Assembly]
THIRTY out of our
our THIRTY years ago one of our potumia (Irak) have improved our
mankind ancient languages, but the gaps are to his sister that at last
there was to be still enormous. And the results of knew about all known of the laws of Nature, and the excavations that have been made was 110 room left for are by no means favourable to there
Moderniam. "miracles."
We know now that The sctance of we-day rejects such the art of writing on clay tables cut-and-dried conclusions; it smiles was in fairly general use thousands. at them, and it more than hints at
of years before the time of Abra. the possibility of miracles. Two him, and that even shorthand pre- The next concert at the Helena quotations from one of the newest bably goes back to the time of our May Institute on February 6, is and most authoritative books on organised by Mrs. O. C. Womack science will suffice to Destrate and and will include "The Golden to prove these contentions. I select Threshold" an Indian Song Garland them from a book called "The for four volees. Music by Lizar Nature of the Physical World, Lehmann 2nd words by the Indian | written by Professor Eddington. poet Sorajini Naidu.-Advt.
Mr. I. H. M. McReady, of 521, Conduit Road, figured In a motor nccident in the city yesterday morn ing. He was driving his car out of Duddell Street into Queen's Road,, when he was struck broadside by another private car. Both cars were damaged by the Impact, but the drivers lucklly escaped injury.
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So far from his knowledge of the
laws of Nature being complete,
this Gifford Lecturer writes that
"we have turned a corner in the path of progress, and our ignorance stands revealed before palling and insistent."
119, ap.
And, again, after describing the scientific problems involved when one merely enters a Tonni, he re- marks, "Verily, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a scientifle man to pass through a door."
Thus to-day Sulence confesses that even the simple acts of every- or less inexplle- able, and so partake of the nature of miracles.
A fine of $3 was imposed on an unemployed Chinese at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for gambl ing at pai kuu in the compound of the Hunghom Market. It was atat-day life are more ed that there were several others who indulged In the game but they managed to run away. The money
confiscated.
decision in regard to the substan-collected, $1,53 was ordered to be tive post of Governor. The legacy left for His Excellency the Hon. Mr. Southorn is rich in every re- spect, with no "trape" and few pitfalls. As he has been given solid and
POLICE RESERVE
Week
concrete support on Orders for the Current previous occasions the Officer Ad- ministering the Government can ever rely on the fullest co-opera-
Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. G. tion of the Press and the public. Wolfe, C.M.G., Inspector-General of He has already gained the ut-
Police, states:-
most confidence and trust of
Flying Squad The weekly instructional patrol every; section. He himself would
of the Kowloon Section will take be the last to suggest staying the place to-morrow. Fall in at the "Government's hand under the cir-Taim-tsa-taul Fire Brigade Station cumstances under which heat 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress-Winter assumes the reins. The course is
uniform and cap with white cover.
The weekly instructional patrol A clear-cut one, with not the of the Hong Kong Section will take slightest need to mark time for place on Friday. Fall in at the
Central Police Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. Dress-Winter uniform and cap with white cover.
the mere sake of marking time.
It would be superfluous here to outline the most pressing de- Sharpshooters' Company mands for continuity of Govern-
Rifle Instruction. Rife Instruc- ment action. The Colony mustition will be given each afternoon at go on as if Sir Cecil Clement the office of the O. 1/c. Company, Fire Station Building, from 5 to were still here that, indeed, 5.45 p.m.
during the next four would be our departed Governor's weeks. All members not previously own wish. And that must be the attached to the Volunteer Defence wish of all who so heartily asso-Corps or any similar organisation For some reason. unknown to ciated themselves with the pacons ps out here no successor has yet] of praise bestowed on Sir Cecil's been appointed to His Excellency | regime at Government House. Sir Cecil Clementi,
A NON-STOP RUN
and
it looka As if the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn will
be entrusted with the task of ad-
News in Brief
The late Major Edward Bamford,
ministering the Government for v.C., of H.M.S. Tamar, Instructor
of Small Arms at Hong Kong, left £980, net personalty £984.
should attend with rifles.
(Sgd.) W. KENT, A.S.P.
Adjutant.
Now the modernist attitude to- wards the Bible assunies that man- kind in general, and ho in parti- cufar, posacases a fairly complete knowledge of the laws of Natura and there is no room for miracles. But this is simply a reflection of the scientific beliefs or thirty years Unlike the physicist, the ago. modernist "has not yet turned a corner in the path of progress." He is seeking to Impose upon a generation cager for the truth con- clusions based upon assumptions regarding the laws of Nature which are to-day utterly discredited.
It is true that during these past thirty
years excavations izi Palestine, in Egypt, and in Meso-
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Lont.
Six thousand-year-old clay writings from Mesopotamia, which Dr. Langdon, of Oxford, found and deciphered, indicate that the carllest religion there was Monotheism, just as the Book of Genesis tells us.
Both Dr. Langdon at Kish, and Mr. Woolley at Ur-of-the-Chaldees,
declare that they have found evidence of the Flood. Professor Garstang has recently discovered important evidence In confirmation of both the Book of Joshua and the Book of Judges. Sir Flinders Petrie finds at Gerar. In South Palestine evidence that Genesis xxvi, and Judges vil, were written by contemporaries of the events there recorded.
The superb ornaments found in the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen In Egypt, which date back to within a century of Mosses, go to confirm all that is written in the Book of Exodus about the ornaments of the Tabernacle. And so it goes on.
I do not suggest that the whole Bible, as we read it in our au thorised version to-day, is correct word for word and letter for letter. Like Shakespeare's works, which are only 300 years old and written in. our own language, the Bible con- tains passages which we do not understand, and which
have pro- bably been either incorrectly tran- scribed or translated. But, as we contemplate mankind's present "ap- palling and insistent ignorance" of the law of nature, of ancient his- tory, and of ancient languages, es the confident and cut-and-dried methods and conclusions of modern- iam lose their effectiveness. They become wearisome, trivial, and ever childish.
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We need far surer knowledge than we yet possess before we can The rising gereration must not be misled by a sham science called modernism,
THE S.S. BRAALAND criticise the Bible.
Steamer Probably to
Be Abandoned
The Norwegian ship Braaland, on the rocks off the which went Paracels, is now believed to be a
total wreck.
Ten Years Ago
[From the "China Mall" February 3, 1920.1
The dollar to-day is worth 5/- On enquiry made this morning at | 594d. the offices of her local agents- The Chamber of Commerce or- Messra. Kartsen and Larsen - the ganised a meeting at the City Hall China Mail was informed that all last night, addresses being given by efforts to tow her off the rocks have members of the American Aerial proved fruitless, and It is quite Commission and by Sir Arthur W. likely that she will be given up as Brown. The result was that a pro- a total loss. Her offers and crew posal to form an aviation Club was are thinking of abandoning the ship. enthusiastically agreed to.
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
The Price Of A Suit: An All-Oxford Production: Repairs To Somerset House: Rain Spoils Spart: The Hospitable Greeks: Los Angeles In The 'Eighties
At to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board the President will submit a minute relative to the Savile Row or the City? offensive trade of feather dying at A law suit in London ralees the Kay Shek ML.
question of what the average man of shall we say?-normal For the theft of some clothing social position pays for suits of from a house at Cedar Street, a Chi-another kind. nese was at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning fined $5 with the
Some people will possibly be
that a Savile Row. tailor should
a comparatively long period. Of his ability to acquit himself most ably the community has not the slightest doubt, having had pre- vious experience of his worth in this same office. That being so, the Colony should not permit it- self to be influenced by that un- settled feeling that so often be comes so prominent hetween the departure of one Governor and option of one week's hard labour. surprised to learn from this case the arrival of his auc- cessor, With a few ексер-
Mr. Harry Odell, a member of make a lounge suit for as little In point of tions, which need not be laboured the local Stock Exchange, returned as eight guineas.
to Hong Kong bn Saturday by the fact, the usual prices range from at this juncture, the policies of
5,5. President Grant from Shang- ten to fourteen or even sixteen 3ir Cecil Clementi were policies hai. He was accompanied by his guineas, on which practical unanimity pre- wife. valled amongst all sections of the community. Indeed rarely has a Governor quitted office here with so. few "kicks" coming from the entire community which has ever been most cordial on its bestowal of "ha'-pence,"
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terested, is to be furthered shortly By Contrast Theatre, which will be of a rather by a matinee at the Haymarket
remarkable nature.
Only Oxford men will appear-and the number of professional actora who are thus qualified' is now very large and not word will be spoken, nor a bar of music played that has not been written or com- posed by an Oxford' mani
Д
Repairs to Somerset' House
at present SOMERSET House is
smothered in scaffolding on the Strand alde. But there is no cause for alarm, as there was some years ago, when crack were found to exist in the southern front and the whole edifice was supposed to be slip
The price alters according to the types of material chosen, and Telegraphic communications be many firms allow a surprisingly tween Peking and Honkow, which large discount for cash-or adding into the Thames. have been interrupted for some time, an equally surprising amount for were resumed on January 31, says long credit.
a Canton News Agency message from Peking.
IN contrast with our own depress. Ing weather, It was cheering to rend A lettor from
on a business visit Athens, who says that he was sit
now
€
ting in his shirt-sleeves on
friend to
the
verandah of his hotel as he wrote, and that the heat, was almost exces sive.
Lacky, indeed, are
those whose, businesses take them on such trips!
Incidentally, he remarks on the wonderful hospitality of the Greoks, which, in its most popular variety, apparently takes the form of tem parties, which begin' at 4.90, subse quently passing through the phases of aperitifm and elaborate hors d'œuvres, and thenco to dinner, the whole affair lasting until 10.30 or 11 p.m.
The scaffolding is only for miner repairs, and, incidentally for cleans- ing purposes for the old building presents a dingy appearanto in the "The Mikado" in Los Angeles very aspect which is seen by most accustomed aro we nowadays to But since the war plenty of people.
Those who are hoping that Somer-lest word in civilieation and luxury look upon Los Angeles as the set House may suddenly collaps in that it is difficult to imagine what Seen taking some clothing from men, whom one would instinctive-
ruins, and bury all traces of income it was liko in the eighties, when These being what the legal the back lane in Woo Song Street, associate with Savile Row, 6 Chinese was arrested, and at the either buy their clothes from firme Bond Street or Conduit Street,
tax owing have no grounds for ups Sullivan visited the place for the fraternity would describe as "ad Kowloon Magistracy, this morning in the City or get a little repair sold and secure mansion."
timism. It is one of London's most
production there of The Bilkado mitted facts" there is nothing to was fined $10 or, two weeks hard ing taller: to fix up a sult for
(revived at the Savoy). The humor-
Intimate hinder the Government con-labour in default,
ate relationship between them at anything from six to Shootings Washed Out
criminal, and executioner la tinuing on its non-stop run of pro
the play found a counter-part in nino guineas. Charged with being cruel to two
real life while the pices was, being gressive policies in the real fa pigs, a Chinese coolie failed to ap
Several repairing tailors have
played there. A man had committed terests of the Colony. There is pear before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith been previously employed by first
tenced to death. The judge, sharif,, A murder, had been tried and ben- much to be done in, every Govern- at the Kowloon Magistracy this class establishments, take infinite ment Department. There is work morning, and subsequently had his care with a customer's order, and.
and executioner were one and the ball of $10 estreated
sama mana Pooh-Bah figure,
When It was time to die the mare' to be completed. There are new
derer was playing a game of unchre programmes, to be initiated when
and asked the judge &c. if he might permission but took a hand in the finish i "Poon-Bah" not only gave finances permit, nothing can be permitted to come even to a tem
game, and when it was over daly porary halt unth such time as the
får more often than not, maké za thoroughly good job of it.
The evidence against him bóing: insuficient, a Chinese who was A Novel Mátines : charged with the theft of two nieces Tire work in aid of the Oxford
of woosh at Tal Nain Street, was at preservation Trust, in which the
ONE effect of the recent heavy
rains has been to render it in possible for the majority of sport ng landowners to shoot over their coverts, although, in many cases, these were well stocked with birds Iast year
A typical example is that of the Earl of Fitzwilliam, who annually. rents, a first rate shoot in Yorkshire off which he may justifiably expect to get 6,000; pheasants.
His lease has almost expired, and
as the the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- Vice-Chancellor of the University and up to now, he had not been able to
At Home Peaches at the discharged by Mr. White-Smith. Sir Michael Sadier
etively me have a single day's shooting
hanged ble man,
Bie Arthur often used to tell this «torý,