THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934.
CHURCH IN
THE
LOSING GROUND
P.& 0.-British India ENGLAND NOW
Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
Disproportionate Desire To Be Amused
REV. B. BOURCHIER'S VIEW
Cape Town.
"In England the Church is losing ground. The whole mentality of the people has changed sincs
the {was They do not go to church.
"This is due chiefly to the dis-
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND), proportionate desire to be amused
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
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and to the fact that the Church doca not give that which satisfies."
The Rev. Basil Bourchier, former- ly rector of the famous London parish of St. Anne's, Saho, said this in an interview with Reuter.
"I am taking this brief holiday at the Cape before returning to take up one of three Ivings that have.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY been offered to me in England, but
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About
1934.
1*BANGALORE
15,000 10th May 4,000 26th May
BANTUA
RAWALPINDI **BHUTAN
11,000 2nd June 17,000 18th June 6,000 23rd June
KAISAR-I-HIND
*BERAR
RAJTUTANA + SOUDAN
RANCHI CARTHAGE +*BURDWAN
RANPURA
Destination.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Haure, London. Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
I feel that the time of service Jahead of me is very short," he said. "I cannot, with the injuries I sus- tained in Switzerland, have much time before me. I sustained in
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Switzerland, have much time before MORE THAN
me. I have said 'Good-bye' to the people I knew for 22 years at St. Jude's Church, Hampstead, and to my congregation at St. Anne's, Soho. South I do not think I shall see Africa again. But although I am crippled I do not feel entirely use- less, and what time is left to me I shall spend in working, I hope in
500,000 SMITHS
IN ENGLAND
Browns And Taylors Run High
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
DO- Bombay, Marcilles, Havre, London,
Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp &a country living in Cambridgeshire." SOMERSET HOUSE FIGURES
Hull
Bombay, Marseilles & London. 7th July Bumbay, Marseilles, Havre, London
12.000 10th June
6,100
17,000 14th July 6.700 21st July
17.000 28th July 35,000 11th Aug. 1,000 18th Aug.
The Rev. B. Bourchier is one of England's most famous preachers
London.
PERENNIAL WHEAT IN U.S.S.R.
Soviet Agriculturalist's Claim
FOUR CROPS FROM SEED
Moscow. Wheat which, it is claimed, yields Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & and has been a constant visitor to
The Smiths are still winning.
four or more annual harvests after Hull.
the Cape in the past few years. In
There are more of them than only one sowing has been produced the Alps a year ago he fell from a of any other "family" in Eng-y a young Soviet scientist, N. V. &rag while climbing and so hurt his land.
spine as to be robbed almost entire-
Mr. S. P. Vivian, the Regis-j It is a highly resistant species of ly of active movement.
trar-General, has just revealed hybrid obtained by crossing or Just before he sailed for South this and other facts in a lecture,dinary wheat with the weed known & Africa. Mr. Bourchier preached a He explained, for instance, as quitch or couch-bane of gar- dramatic sermon at St. Anne's, Soho, that the Smiths, Browns and deners because of its tenacity in the to one of the greatest congregations Taylors together number a mil. most unfavourable conditions.
Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp
Hull.
Bombay, Marseilles & Lendon. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London.
Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp
17,000 26th Aug. | Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Hull.
ever seen in London.
lion.
Schitsin.
The results of M. Schitain'e work, "I am passing into the shadow of death," he then said.
Foreign immigration, he said, have been communicated to a num- "It is my had doubtless introduced
ber of State and collective farms for doctor's wish that I should be brief. [would introduce
and new surnames, experiments with this perennial I cannot stay long, but I have no but otherwise we should be tend. wheat on a wider scale than has so fear. God may take me to-day or ing towards a concentration of far been possible, to-morrow. Let there be no sadness the population under a diminish Should his claim prove to be justi-] ing number of surnames chiefly fled a revolution in farming methods "The world is full of the greatest of the least individualised types. may follow.-Reuter. kindness for me," said Mr. Bour- His Indexes at Somerset chler, "but 20 doctors have given me House contained the names of little hope-Reuter.
persons whose births and deaths. had been registered since 1898.
• Cargo only. ↑ Calls Camblanca. ‡ Calis Tangiers Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargn to Con-as I embark." nautinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Porta by ateamers of the Ebedivial Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
1974.
•TALMA
10,000 13th May
*TILAWA
10,000 27th May
6,000 10th June
• Calle Rangoon
SANTHIA
S'pore, P'ang, Rangoon & Calcutta Singapore, Penang. Kangoon
Calcutta.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
GIRL WHO LOVED
TOO WELL
Died Rather Than Risk Separation
Sofia.
Here is a little tragedy of high
B.l. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for politics, of a girl who died because 1st and 2nd class passengers.
In 1863 the commonest Bur- names were Smith, Jones, Wil liams, Taylor, Davies and Brown. The percentage of Smiths and Browns had increased since that
time.
"The 1930-31 figures connote an actual Smith population well over half a million, and the po pulation of Browns and Taylors of a million each," he added. a little above or below a quarter)
DOGS EXECUTED BY POISON NEEDLE
Four Mongrels Which Attacked Girl
SENTENCE PASSED BY J. P.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South Act 1-Relations Improve. "The earlier findings may in-tacked and crippled a six-year old
1934.
TANDA NANKIN NELLORE TANDA
7,000
2nd Joze
7,000 80th Junn
NANKIN
Militza.
A
to
Carland, New York. she feared strained relations be tween Bulgaria and Yugo-Slavia:-
The four mongrel dogs which at
Yugo-Slav choir comes to Sofia
eline us to surmise with interest schoolgirl here have paid for their show friendship. In it is pretty those living to-day must still run.
and pleasure in how many of crime with their lives.
Sentenced to death by a Justice of, She falls in love with the blood of any famous or emin-the Peace, after the combined testi- Bulgarian singer. They become ent character of a long past mony of 12 witnesses had built up 7,000 3rd Aug. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & engaged before she returns.
Jet Sept.
Melbourne.
epoch. 7,000
Act 2-Rumours of Tension.selves that this may be an
But we must warn our-an insurmountable case against 7,000 29th Sept.
Militza heard a rumour that rela-lusion.
il-them, they were taken from their tions between the
'cells' shortly after midnight and two countries were not so cordial. She feared it from the introduction of new the County Veterinarian carried out! "We should be tending, apart led to an animal hospital. There her foreign blood, towards an In-the death sentence by plunging the creased population concentrated poisoned needle into each animal.
among a diminishing number of Act 3-Finale. They found her stocks, as well as diminishing liberated from the 'cells' In which The dogs. leaped with joy at being hanged.-Reuter.
number of surnames."-Reuter. (Continued at Foot of Next Col.)
Begular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan might come between her and and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney 10 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom riu New
Zealand, Vancouver, San Franciaco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & 0. Branch Service of steamers to London via Bucz.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and
· London via Panama Canal,
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
1934.
lover, and she could not bear thought.
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This is the tramp steamer "Mafotis," which became the private yacht-of, Samual Insull,. Engią? tive Chicago atillties gear, as he sought to escape U agents by flight from "Gresca in dlaguiss.
In the inset he is known as he appeared with guard when he was returned to Athena and film Bight temporarily interrupted. Hangwan later arrested in Turkey,
they were confined since the attack, FILM TEACHING
but their happiness was short-lived,
They fell into a sleep from the effect.
of the polson and died qufeily.
SOVIET.
IN
The executioner, Dr. E. V. Moore, Abstruse Topics Chosen.
declared that this method of execu- tion was approved by the Society! for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals no the “most human."
While the execution was going on, Hittle Joyce Hammond, the victim of |the attack, lay asleep nearby at her home. It is said she may never ré- cover the use of the arm which the 'dogs mangled-Router,
Moscow.
Children in Soviet schools are [being" taught by means of Ålmu. *
Here are the names of three of the films shown to children;
"Electromagnetic Phenomena," "One-Collad" Organisms," and "Unconditional and Conditional Redoxes."-Reuter.