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THOS FRYAN, S.-J. of European capitals with monar chical traditions-if not monarchsi
Hong Kong Monday, Feb. 26, 1936 are usually in the centre of the
house. ...
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
WHEN FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE
(By Dr. Julian Huxley)
But in a few years
THE London Zoo is now a litte season.
more than 100 years old. In Whipsnade ought to be deservedly that time it has much enlarged the most popular spot for an out- the area of its home in Regen?sing near London Park, it has constantly increased Equally recessary Its collection of animals, it for the modernisation of the is the need introduced new methods of keep gardens in Regent's Park Many ing and showing them, it has bay of the houses are 50, 70, even 100 There will be no meeting of the an aquarium, and it has broke years old; all such are unsuitably Botary Club to-morrow, on account quite fresh ground by establishir constructed according modem In certain larger film theatres of the Annual Race Meeting.
a new kind of zoo at Whipsnade ideas both as regards the health Discussions of the relations there are what are known as
It has grown, miil now of their inmates, and their ade
Their Last Legs
Spiritual Freedom In
The State Church
As a convert to the films, the Leicester Square Theatre has side boxes. But their usefulness has now departed
\!
between Church and State are Royal seats in the front row of The my, Javanese Prince, from visitors to Regent's Park annustuste exhibition.
almost as old as Christendom.the circle.
These, however, New York, sailed from
Los
Since the rejection of the Re-are intended only for members of Angeles on January 27 and is extwo important scientific Jozan their
rised Prayer Book in 1927 and the Royal family other than the pected here on or about March 1 1928 the question of reconciling King and Queen.
land
Inumber about 2,000,000, and the to Whipsnade 500,000. It publiski
In any case, some of them are-- carries out a considere house, giraffe house, parrot house, inst legs. Elephant the claims of the Church to If the Queen now becomes as The RMS Empress of Britain. What of the future of lat house
Jamount of scientife work spiritual independence with its interested in the films as she is on
lion house, antelope house, cattle her round-the-world established position has been in the theatre there will be
Cruise, which is now a truly nation these and a number ¡leaves Colombo
Wednesday stitution? How is the Loon ought to be pulled down and re- - we all acknowledge that in following the pre- After touching at Penang, she is zoo going to developt agitating the minds of all res-difficulty
of others ponsible churchmen. For six cedent set at The Ghost Goes due in Hong Kong on the morn- (years it has been under con- West"
built as soon as funds permit. No Prophery Įsideration by the Commission
Here I cannot pretend "tipro- principle is likely to
is the rebuilding, I think the be adopted
lappointed by the two Arch-IMPERIAL CRICKET POLITICS
bishops in 1930. Their report
ing of March 20.
02
The BMS. Empress of Japan/Pesy. The guidance of pop is that the aim in a town 200 with Before the Nawab of Patavin is due at Hong Kong from Yoko- the competent hards of unlimited space should not be of outstanding importance in who is to captain the All-India hama on Friday morning, and will el elected from ameng It Fel-attempt to give an illusion of na-
Essued last month is a document
the wide and bold view it takes cricket
testn this
the same
STIMMė,
Manila.
afternoon
for
the
lows, and the secretary notture that can be left to Whips- even if he wished, usurp their pace but the provision of sur- functions. I can howey roundings designed
to set
the
of thorny questions, and in its can play, in any of the Test insistence on self-government matches he will have to obtain
The two R.A.F. flying boats/dicate what seems to me the the animals off to the best advantage. for the Church. The bestowal the consent of the British Board
which had been delayed here by natural trend of events, direc as a stage setting is planted. of legislative powers on
the of Coatrol Church Assembly seemed for a A cricketer is always eligible to fog for several days, were enabled, tion in which the Zoo ishready.
A notable success in this direc- time to have provided an ad-play for the country of his birth.owing to the improved weather, to moving.
tion has been the penguin popi. In the first place, evene is which frankly repudiates any idea fleave yesterday for Amoy shortly
miral solution of a major diff-But it is laid down in the Imperial after -·-10 At Amoy they agreed that, where posse. bas of imitating the birds normal Any player who has once play.rejoin the third boat, which had should go and animals fexhibit home, but yet enhances, their in- ed in a Test match for any coun-gone there direct from Maria on ed across a ditch or bal, as oherent amusing qualing.
ry shall
not afterwards be Wednesday. From Shanghai they the Mappin Terraces. eligible to play in Test match continue on their goodwill fight toį against that country without the Japan
iculty, but the rejection by the Cricket Conference rules that
House of Commons of two suc- cessive measures for revision of the Prayer Book proclaimed that the Church was far from free to decide matters of doc- Itrine and ritual for itself and
on the basis of membership of rented England in Australia ic the Church. As long ago as 1932-33, and again at home in 1906 a Royal Commission had 1924
consent of its board of control. The Nawab, of course, repre
ESCAPE FROM FUMES
A family of eight escaped by!
found that the law of public In this case the permission of worship was too narrow for pre-the board will be a welcome for sent needs, and the proposed mality. The Nawab's batting an outside ledge from their flat in revision was the direct outcome should go far to provide the Cambridge-road, Kilburn, when it lof the Commission's recom-stability previons Indian
teams was filled with ammonia fumes mendations. The action of the have lacked. House of Commons precipitated
The great obstacle le is ex
Better Lay-Out Another urgent need is a better pense: an animal-prooftch costs many times the amouecessary on the whole, "just growed" like lay-out In the past the Zoo has. to build a fexe or jage. But Topsy. It could gradually achieve we shall push ahead jadily.
Then everyone Is elly agreed
la fine plan, with noble vistas and handsome that Whipsnade shd be fally
baildings properly spaced developed as quickly possible.
Infinite Possities
One point that it always Crop- ping up is the question of Sunday
Animals are as exhibited on opening. only about hair theta. The op- Why should not the Zoo be open portunities are at infinite-to the general public on the one big open-air enches for apes day in the week when they could. or baboons; lakend streams: best take advantage of its hage Aying cageshore paddocksi
There are two for more kinds animals-elk, answers.
very good on the morrow of defeat, of the Highrew (half-heartedly
A can of petrol exploded in an roedeer, camels, finalo, Barbary Com
One is that the Zoo belongs to Church's "inalienable right" to gratulating her friend who has be-office basement as Essex-street, sheep
the Fellows, and Sunday is their
janew
the whole question of Church and State. Archbishop
Your Daily Smile!
Davidson's soleinn declaratión.
The Reason
OFFICE EXPLOSION
If the Zoo were (Continued on Page 11)
formulate its faith and arrange come engaged): "All the same, Strand recently and a plumber Once more imiting factor chief privilege. The other is sim- the expression of its worship, don't know what you can see in him who tried to extinguish the flames is expense. One or two imply space: had the ring of a challenge.
He doesn't like Tolstoy, or Ibsen, or was partially overcome by fumes.provements can effected each Pirandello. What does he like?" There
were Dot wanting voices to affirm that the only way out was disestablishment, and most eloquent of those
Fiancee: "He Hices me.".
* * +
Misunderstanding
-What happened to your nice. Jod-
voices was that of the Bishop ser. Mrs. Murphy
“Oh, I had to get rid of himi, He
of Durham. The Commission-told me he was a Bachelor of Arts ers, of whom Viscount Cecil from Cambridge, and I found out he was the chairman, frankly ack had a wife and family in Notting nowledge that the case for disham."
establishment is strong but
there will be few to gainsay
DISCOVERED
"Did your friend, Miss Smith, get
their warning that the separa-her good looks from her father of tion of Church and State in her mother?"
England, whose history has so "From her male; he keeps a drug ¡closely intertwined them, could store"
not be effected without injury
to both. The extent of that;
272.7
injury could neither be foreseen all the fleas in the winter?
Weary Willie "What becomes, of
nor forestalled. These are cer Dusty Phoades "You kini search
tainly not days in which men of me.”
good will would lightly contem-
that
else
*g* the
Church
the in-
plate England seeming, by dis-proved by not fewer establishment of the Church, to three-fourths of the Diocesan become nentral in the fight be Conferences - once before re- tween faith and unfaith invision of the measures by the Christianity. The Commission-three Houses of the Church As ers state unequivocally that sembly and once afterwards. such an occurrence "would be a There are also to be guarantees calamity for our own people that there is no departure from and indeed, for the whole fundamental doctrines and prin world." None the less they see ciples as set forth in the in the subordination of the Church's existing formalaries. spiritual society to the secular There is wisdom in the primary power a worse evil Like Dz. recommendation of the Commis- Johnson, they would at least sion that before metaphorically, "stand before a is done ag battery of cammon" for the prin- various parties ciple of the Church's right to should be sough self-government in purely spiri-ternal differences tual matters.
tributed more than anything! The solution which the Com-else to the
of the missioners propound is ingen-attempts at Prayer Book revi- ious. They propose that Par-sion. Agreement will, we fear, liament should be asked to be hampered by some who still grant new powers, by which cling to an Erastian philosophy entirely spiritual measures of which forces the Church into the Church Assembly certif an intolerable position But as such by the two
given gennine and substantial bishops, the Lord Chancellor unity the Chann and Mr. Speaker, may be pre-able to go with Isented to His Majesty for the Partisment for a
Royal Assent without going to dom which has long Parliament. A requisite com tion would be that such sures should be approved both Convocations and twice
possession of the Church of Scot held by a Church' fulth its mission to
“BELIEVE IT ORPT" by Robert L. Ripley
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