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SEATTLE AND VICTORIA Via Kobe & Yokohama
S.S. PRESIDENT JEFFERSON Sails Friday, Jan. 28th. — 8.00 A.M.
NEW YORK & BOSTON
VIA MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO, BOMBAY SUEZ CANAL, ALEXANDRIA, NAPLES, GENOA &
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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 1938.
SWIMMING BY
BRITAIN'S MISSION--[AMAZING TEACH THE WORLD MISS HVEGER
COMMON SENSE
TWO NEW WORLD'S RECORDS
"The mission of the British peo- ple is to teach the world common
Copenhagen, To-day. sense." That is what the late
Miss Ragnhild Hveger, President Masaryk, liberator
of Danish wonder swimming Czechoslovakia, often told Sir smashed another two world's Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, cords among women's events when who befriended Masaryk when he she covered the 300 metres in mins. was a refugee in Loudon.
48 8-10 secs. and the 400 metres in The Home Secretary, Chancellor 5 mins. 8 2-10 secs-Reuter. of Reading University, told the The Colony and Interport swim- students:-
ming record (men) for the 440 "Never in our memory has brute Yards free style, which is almost force held such wide sway.
equivalent to the 400 metres mark, "Would ": our fathers and is 5 mins. 26 4-10 secs, held by mothers, brought up in the more Wilfred Lawrence (1935)! liberal and spacious days of tolerance and humanity, have be- lieved that in 1937 we should be forced, in self-protection, to pro- vide gas masks for babies?
“
"Liberty has in many places been destroyed, justice travestied, in- tolerance tricked out as a virtue.
:
If it is said that these calamities
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BUSINESS MEN'S DUTY TO READ NEWSPAPER
Berlin Court Decision
have left us unscathed, it must re- gretfully be admitted that life has
The Berlin Supreme Court has in many of its aspects become for- biddingly materialised even in this ruled that it is the duty of every country of sentiment and tradition. business man to read a newspaper
"On the other hand, there is the startling contrast of a great and growing body of idealism.
regularly.
was A business manager who charged by his firm with having us- ed the firm's money to pay
a.
SEEKING NEW JERUSALEM "In spite of the world's brutali-newspaper subscription was ac- ties, perhaps because of them, old quitted, the Court declaring that it and young are thinking more than was in the firm's own interest that ever before of a New Jerusalem in the manager should subscribe to a which life will be fuller and freer newspape and the obligations of citizenship more universally accepted.
"If the censors of morals are right in saying that our private consciences have become less sensi-i tive, it cannot be denied that the public conscience has grown de finitely keener than it was in the years before the war.
THE WING ON BANK, LTD.
Head Office: Hong Kong. 26, Des Voeux Road, Central. Authorised Capital $10,000,000
LONDON BANKERS; "Patience is essentially one of
Westminster Bank, Ltd. the qualities that the British Em- Foreign Exchange and every des- pire should teach the world, and cription of banking business transacted. it is one of the qualities most Current Accounts and Savings Ac- counts opened. - Fixed Deposits re- needed in a world still stagger-ceived at rates which will be quoted on ing under the blows of the war-application, an
He agreed with Masaryk on the Trusteeship & Executorship under.
takeri. Safe Deposit Boxes for hire. quality of common sense.
PHILIP GOCKCHIN,
Chief Manager
"It is the very quality that pre- vents the intellectual from losing touch with reality.
"Masaryk, himself one of the greatest intellectuals of our gen- eration, never lost touch with realities.
"Let other intellectuals note the source of his strength and let them Victoria note in particular the weakness of the idealogues who flutter ranger- ously and vainly in the air.”
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RESUMPTION OF CALL AT SHANGHAI
Commencing with the Empress of Russia from Hong Kong January £4, 1938, Canadian Pacific “EMPRESSES” will call at Shanghai on
eastbound voyage.
MINERSSTRIKE
Paris, To-day.
Three hundred coal miners ̈ ̈in the brown coal mine in Valdonne, near Marseilles, went on strike on Saturday, demanding that they be employed on week
-Trans-Ocean. days only
Empress of Asia from Vancouver will call at Shanghai on should January 24th, en route to Hong Kong.
SAILING TO MANILA
Empress of Canada on February 11th.
Canadian Pacific
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