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race will always provide a good PULPIT POLITICS IN terms the rupture of Germany's
deal of laughter as well as excite.
ment among the spectators.
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Our.
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friend the Brighter British North Barneo Borneo Herald carries the following original contribution as regards the manifold attractions "of Jesselton:-
the
GERMANY.
DECAY OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH.
unholy alliance with Soviet Russia. A very prominent member of the Catholle party, always present in the congregation, and à Minister In the present Government, found it necessary to speak to him in při- vate after the service and request that such thingá be left unsaid in future.
RESULT ON RELIGION.
Religious conflicts in Germany are gaining in strength sufficiently to morning paper haa Intely pointed The most widely-read Republican warrant the decision of the out that Catholics who have deserved Lutheran synod to "reorganlse the well of their country in Germany mands of modern life." This move- Pope, in spite of the fact that the church in conformity with, the de-are accepting decorations from the. ment does not come any too soon. Republican constitution lays down The Lutheran church is in a bad that investitures by a foreign power way, and has awakened to the fact.. People are seceding in 'alarming numbers, but these are actuated on political grounds only.
The association of the Lutheran
Jesselton is considered as the second large town of British North Borneo. In this Jesselton town there are many estates mostly planted on rubber trees. Jesselton consists into many Departments; mentioning, Traffic Department, the Wireless, Church in Germany with the old the Printing Office, the P. W, D time proceeds, gains in ground hy regime, Instead of dying down, as and many others. The Railway-such pronouncements as have lately line starts from Jesselton up to taken place in Pomerania. Preachers there have from the pulpit proclaim- Melalap, but it is situated with ed sympathy with the Stahlhelm many Stations. Jesselton has and identified the church with this many shops of different kinds of semi-militarist movement. Such
forms, and in each shop they sell goods of many kinds, the owner are called Tawkays. Before these fifteen or twenty years passed, Jesselton has not so much motor- cars, bicycles, but nowaday they are so many travelling up and down, specially from Jesselton up to Tuaran and some other places. Jesselton has many roads stretch- ing into many directions, and many of them are chiefly covered with tar, which is more or lesa fourteen or fifteen feet in width and twenty to twenty-one miles away, from Jesselton to Tuaran.-- Good for Jesselton! But we have a City Hall in Hong Kong!
News in Brief.
sermons in country districts find their parallel in Berlin and other big cities, and foreigners
are often heard to declare with bewilderment that they heard a political disserta-
tion on Sunday.
Anti-Republicanism.
Pulpit politics are anti-Republican in tendency, because Social-Domo- cracy, bulwark of the Republic, is ominent members of the party in associated with free-thinking. Many
Germany own that it is just this unorthodox bias which prevents many familles from joining the party as full-fledged members.
There la a considerable dif ference between the Social- lat
and Communist attitude on these matters. While Communista make
savage
the at-
tacks on the Church and all connect- ed with it, the Socialists, moved by high ethical tonets, are dignified in their disapproval. This difference, though not immediately apparent to the uninitiated, forms a sharp con- trast between the two parties, in spite of the proportion of Socialist visitors during the past fortnight to, the "Ifa" exhibition of the "united
It is notified in the Government Gazette that, at the expiration of two months from date The Far | societies for proletarian culture." Limited will, unless cause is shown of Berlin, contains a room designed Eastern Public Hall Company, This exhibition, situated in the heart to the contrary, be struck off the register and the company will be solved.
to represent a church, in which are many pictures and objects intended to 'glorify the present Soviet attack upon religion.
the Open Singles tennis champion of the Colony, by virtue of his defeat of E. C. ("Teddy") Fincher, on Monday in the final by 6-3, 6-4, 6-8, 6-1. Honda, it will be recall- ed, was champion in 1928, when he defeated S. A. Rumjahn who, in this year's tournament, fell to him again. E. C. Fincher has done quite well as runner-up, for to obtain that honour he defented the 1929 holder, M. W, Lo, Nevertheless, Honda deserved his victory, as he appeared comfort. able throughout his, duel with Fincher, the latter making with obtaining goods by means of a Bernard Joseph Carnell, charged splendid recovery by winning the trick, and with uttering a forged 'third set after being two sets cheque, was brought before down, and 4-love in that particu-Grantham on Thursday afternoon Mr. lar set, which he won. The game for the purpose of a formal re-
mand. on Monday, which involved forty hearing next Tuesday.
The case has been fixed for sets before the end came, was n match of good tennis, filled with Two Chinese were arrested an masterly exhibitions of the finer the premises of the Pioneer Silk points of the game. Fincher's eight o'clock as the result of alleged Store on Thursday evening about serving, 031 the whole, was attempted theft.
It appears that more forceful, but this was often one of the mon entered the shop avenged by Honda's master and under the pretence of wishing :ful cross-court drives. H.E. the to make a purchase enge-ged the at-with religious feeling.
tention of the attendants while bis Officer Administering the Gov-confederate attempted to push silk ernment (the Hon. Mr. Wilfrid under his jacket. He was, however, T. Southorn, C.M.G.) after the caught in the act and was found' to have obtained about 40 yards of silk match congratulated Honda on his success, and paid a similar
worth $48, it is alleged. tribute to the runner-up, E. C. Fincher.
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The fact that the Supreme Court lately revoked the appeal which pro- "Christ. With the Gas Mask," to be nounced George Gross's picture,
put down to the fear felt In orthodox innocent of public offence may be circles ("reactionary" they are call, ed in Germany) because such an exhibition is permitted at all.
A Cleric Reproved. But the police raid on this “Ifa” collection, which resulted not only in picture, and an effigy of Pope Pius the removal of a copy of Gross's
the Eleventh with a revolver in his outstretched hand, is associated in German eyes with political, and not
are not permitted.
CAPE FLIGHT,
Duchess of Bedford at Broken Hill.
SEVENTEEN DAYS OUT.
Broken Hill, Rhodesia,
Yesterday.
The Duchess of Bedford
has
left for Palapye and expects to arrive at Capetown to-morrow.- Reuter."
[The Duchess of Bedford and Captain Barnard left Croydon Aerodrome on April 9 in a Fok- ker
Jupiter monoplane for Lympne whence they started at dawn the following day on an at- tempt to fly to Capetown and back, a distance of 18,500 miles, in 18 days. Mr. R. Little as- companied them 28 auxillary pilot.
Last August the Duchess and Captain Barnard made a record fight to India and back In seven and a half days. On that flight the Duchess, who is 61 years of age. took her turn, in control of the 'plane while Cap. tain Barnard slept, and she also relieved the pilots at the controls on the present flight.]
Ten Years Ago
(From the "China Mall,"
April 19, 1920.J
To-day's dollar is worth 4/- 740.
* * Following is the text of the official notification by Mr. Hallifax -
A meeting of employers was held at the offices of Messrs. Jardine. Johnstone presiding. to meet the Matheson and Co., Hon. Mr. J.
been elected and sent to Hong Kong representatives, of the men who had by the Fitters and Turners' Guild
in Canton.
The representatives-four in number stated thoy were fully em- powered by the whole body of the men to discuss and settic final terms.
After preliminary discussion an offer by the employers of a graded percentage Incease varying from 35.7 per cent, to 30 per cent. "for
en on present salaries of from 70
ing to 20 per cent. only for the few cents to $1.25 per diem., and, fall-
highest paid men, was rejected.
understood when it is considered This may be all the more easily
that but ten minutes away from this exhibition in the chief Catholic The men asked for a flat percent- church of Berlin a priest demanded age rate of increase, and set their from the pulpit in impassioned figure at 37 per cent.
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
A Great Sporting Figure: General Smuts' New Scientific Theory: The Death of CoL Barker: Woman
Barrister's Appointment: Taming Wild Wolves.
new Harold Lloyd "talkie" which presents the Chinese in a disparaging light suggest that Hollywood will have
A t the St to look elsewhere for its villains..
A Novelty Stephen's College Not only film magnates, butj
at Races. sports on Satur. novelists and dramatiata, have
day, last, a novel been too apt to fall back on Chinų when there was dirty work to be
the programme of done. The plays and novels do 27 series was the obstacle not matter much; but China holds race. It was a novelty because it The Late Lord Coventry.
was different from the usual The death of Lord Coventry ra- millions of potential cinema-goers
moves from our midst one of. obstacle race, where and the loss of that market is a
one goes the most interesting figures in possibility which the trada must take into consideration.
event on
Another five
That
A Loss to Flying.
e.
The latter snys that Colonel Barker was the one man to whom he would willingly have handed over sole control in a moment of omer- gency. That is no small tribute to his, courage and skill.
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Woman Barrister Honoured.
Ivy THE appointment of Dr.
Williama as Technical Adviser to The Hague Conference on Inter- national Law has naturally been the causo of no little rejoleing among wemon barristers.
..
of Honour, which exempted her from keeping her last two terms at the Inner Temple. That fact placed her “ahead of 'zoveral women rivals.
At the time, however, it was understood that Dr. Williams did not
General Smuts, Scientist. THE nomination of General Smuta as President of the British Asso- ciation at its centenary meeting in under canvas sheets, through the sporting history of Britain a delicate compliment to his serviços London next year may be taken as barrels, and so on. But in this during the past century.
in the advancement of science when particular race,
A special glamour must always the B.A. met. the runners' *.*..
in South Africa be associated with any man who, 1929. started from a drawn line, ran with memory unimpaired, supplies nid in making the raceting a success, Not only did he render valuable But if the Chinese Filling the are not to be for about 20 yards, and scrambled a direct link with events, which, but he made a solid contribution to
Gap.
held up to hatred, under three nets that were laid to the present generation, seem to scientific thought by opening the dis ridicule, and con-
flat on the ground. After this, the belong to the dim and distant cussion on the nature of life with
int which he developed the paper past,
: .* theory to which he has given the
Dr. Williams was the first woman tempt," who are? It is incon-runners continued for a few more
Some reference to this aspect name Hollem
to be called to the English Bar. Sho ceivable, says a Home paper, that yards, when they had to pick a of Lord Coventry was made when
la the daughter of an Oxford solici- new theory was sufficiently tor, and is tall, dark, and good-look- a film should be produced without copper coin out of a plate of water, It was announced that he was
to win the approval of clear-headed
ing thinker, gravely ill
Dr. Haldano, who declared that scientific
That she has a fine legal, brain that appeal. Is there any South with the use of their mouths only,
phyatology was impossibio apart from when she was awarded a Certificate Was shown at her final examination, Sea island so unfriended that it and not hands.
He had had many, narrow es-
the conception of holism." can fill the gap? Will the film yards, and the runners had to do capes from death. Among his villains of the next decade come
the same with a coin which was first was at a race meeting at from Tristan d'Acunha or
mixed in a
Cheltenham In 1867, when he was plate of flour.
on a grandstand which collapsed. Spitzbergen? Perhaps some un-
involving the deaths of many With two coins | people. named Ruritanis would be safer. Or we may some day see treaties
Balancing on in their hands Nearly sixty years later he was
Lord Auckland as Animal Trainer. which will arrange a amutual
a Beum. the runners con watching, some members of his
shooting party in a light car, ing of fear.
He simply did not know the mean MANY frequenter of the Zoo have tolerance in these matters, 50 per
tinued, and on which he used for this purpose, mind which could work with light-Sheikh, wolf
Dossessed, too, a
made
acquaintance of as tame and......as cent. say, of British, and 50 per arrival at a pinte, placed the two when a gun went off, smashing ning rapidity in moments of crisis sweet-tempered as any dog. Both cent. of American rogues accord cents in it, and then they had to the windscreen, the shot missing to which the American adjective trained by. Lord Auckland, who gavo and, though essentially of the type Sheikh and his mate, Helen, were ing to an official comparative
walk for about 10 yards balanced him by faches only, "tough" might be applied,
10 yards balanced Lord Coventry always declared very lovable feilowed, he, Anims will on its second fending a strong support to the Performing on a beam. This over the run that the finest racehorse ho ever After the war achievements-most the House of Lords. schedule of murder, forgery, smuggling, and, flirtation nera proceeded to a series of thw was Captain Cuttle: "In ac ly accomplished on: Use Italian: front Stoikh remalus as tractable as looped ropes, fastened to a goal tión, form, and gymmetry" he which won for him the V.C. and ever, but Helen ja no longer safe
many other distinctions, Honda, the post. After succeeding in getting a saying he beat any civil aviation te nemen he took up with anyone except the keeper and
In this of the old Derby winners. was associated with another Can
Zie Lord Auckland himself, methane Tennis Japanese through these Champlon player of many ran back for 50 yards, changed and it is a terrible loss to our Bisho and Delonel Bishopined to of him when he arrives is the best loops, they He was the Horse of a century, dian flying: V.O. Colonel Word Auckland can frequently be scon in the ages on Sunday morn- with wolves. Their welcome years experi-into second pair of shoes, and..
bloodstock that Captain Cattle Ro ence, has again carnod the title of then ran into the tape, Sucha out of the country
shoulde have been allowed to pilota dual-control seaplane, so evidence that he is one of those heavy in hand that the efforts of who believe in kindness as the best both were required to ay it
method; of "training"
Sing
COLONEL W. G. Barker, who has contemplate professional practice
just been killed whilst trying the Bar. out a now aeroplane in Canada, was one of the bravest men who has over drawn breath
'tho'