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THE NEW AGE.
A LAY SERMON. [CONTRIBUTED.]
In reading over the admirable sermons Sunday at the various preached on Churches, a prcfound sense of uneasincas seized upon us. We began to look back aver the four years of warfare, and tried to recall the long series of hopes and fears that successively have been upper" most in our hearts during that period, "Now that our and the thought came: hopes of victory have been realised, ran we commence to put into practice our resolutions, made in the darkest days of the war? To many of us the war has meant a transvaluation of all values it has been a Day of Reckoning, of Judg ment, not only upon nations, but on institutions, and men, and women. The history of the past four years has been an epoch unsurpassed in the lives of the The thrills of joy and despair
nations.
have been beyond the power of mere words describe, because words, through
to resion, become next to meaningless. 1
It
for a time as if the And noblest and best nations of the were to be crampled under foot by the How one's heart bied German invader.
dering France, Italy, Russia and of Asiatic Turkey! It seemed s the dark night of civilization had arrived and that she was slowly draw
for
the
culture.
the blinds down preparatory to re tiring from the scones of men's activities. All that France had been to the world: appeared as a flash before our eyes, all the age-long services of Italy to civiliza tion, the ancient splendour of the nations that were under the heel of Turkey, the grent but immobile heart of Russia, whose the world began when the services to Ukrainians of centuries ago repulsed the encroaching Ottomans in their desire to conquer Europe, and continued until the the fresh. Nineteenth Century, when honest realism of Russian art, music, and literature gave new life to European We all regret that Russia is not with us in this hour of triumph; but let us not forget that Russia did a vast service for us in this war, and Hussin
Just
recently will rise again that wonderful book of Stephen Graham's The Way of Martha and the Way of came into our bands again. The Mary book is, no doubt, the work of an idealist. and Stephen Graham idealises Russia, but, nevertheless, the main facts of the book are true. Russia bas destroyed. herself because she has farsaken the Yet she will return to Way of Mary. her first love, for instinct is stranger than. resolution and when Russia recovers 15 life for Europe will mean a new era of and mankind.
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FGANG ROBBERS IN THE F.MS. EUROPEAN PLANTER MÜRDERED.
There has been a great increase in serious crime in Pernk, the centre of the tin mining industry in the F.M.S within the last three months, during which period no less than 10 murders have been committed by gang robbers. The latest crime is n particularly atrocious one. Mr. C. Van Curlenburg, planter, "was travelling to Kamfar in "es motor car when his car was stopped in. 50 broad daylight by, Chinese robbers. Mr. Van Cuylenburg, who wore khaki, was
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Alexander, WA. ................... Bander, S., Becke, F.G. Bell, F.N....... Borras,
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Bowker, G.H.
Bray, Rev. AR.
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CANTON NEWS.
- (BY COURTESY UP THE "CHUNG NOU!
CANTON NOTember 21st
A. TIMELY WARNING.
We are informed, that the Chinese merchants have been warned not to sign any contracts with Germans, as there will be nothing for the Germans to export from their own country.
PEACE
MOURS.
We learn from a reliable source that the Kwomingtang fenders, in deference
mistaken for a volunteer, and the robbers to warnings, have agreed to concluda 50 shot him in cold blood, no doubt imagin-peace, with the North. They have draft- ed the following conditions: (1) The ing that he was armed.
Commenting on the incidence of crime provinces of Fukien, Kiangsi. Han, and Eupeh should be included in, and the Straits Times says :---
Something like seven years ago, we controlled by the South-West leaders; pointed out the grave prevalence of gang (2) The Peking Government refund to robberies and warned the Government the South 20 million dollars; (3) The
President be recognised as a Provisional, that the ordinary police could not grap ple with the evil. Wo aceded a criminal President pending a new election when investigation department, and we needed things have peen settled; (4) The new a special force, provided with motor-cars, Senate be dissolved. It is reported that or horses, so that they might follow the North will accept the above condi- quickly in the tracks of any gang that made its appearance. Certain promises were made about a criminal investigation department, but in reality nothing has been done. Case after case occurs, until terror for anyone to it has become a travel on the roads. Generally the vie tims are Chinese, and there have been occasionally things that made us wonder whether the Government recognises that a Chinese who pays his rates and taxes and is a law-abiding citizen is as much entitled to protection as if he were an English peer or an American millionaire. We have heard that plans for an efficient eriminal investigation department, and
tions.
INCREASE OF MILITARY FORCES.
Li has re-
Commander Li Lieh-kwan, the Chief Adviser to the Military Governor, has decided to recruit one more division of Yunnan troops in addition to the three divisions he has at present. quested the Tuchun of Yunnan to send a body of military cadets to Canton to he the officers of the new division. WANGSI LEADERS MOVEMENTS.
Commanders Tam Homing and Chan Ping-kwan, the Tuchun and Civil Cover- nor of Kwangsi, have recently returned to Kwangsi from the Hunan front.
They
for a corps of special road guards were have both gone to visit General Luk in submitted to the Government some years Nam-ning....
POSSESSION
CHARGED.
OF
OFFENSIVE WEAPONS,
about. And then came the war. It has TEN PORTUGUESE AND CHINESE
At the Magistracy, yesterday, before
The other day a young man, Mr. Carl Mr. J. R. Wood, ten men were charged van Caylenberg, weil-foown in Singa with being in possession of offensiva
held up several motor cats when he came & Grist) appeared for the first defendant,
200.00
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Friedrichsen, E.A.C.
18.00
Gaff, Rev, C.A.
20.00
Harris, H.P.
ago and that they were admitted to be
40.00
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excellent plans, but that the expense
Hogg, 4.V.
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Hooker, Dr. A.V,
40.00
serious thing." So nothing was done," or
really you know the expense is a ALLEGED
Hotson, A........
40.00
at any rate something was merely talked
Jamieson, J.W., C.M.G.
400.00
Johnson, Rev. J.
10.00
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large, but there are compensations in al things, and "the war
been a fearful calamity to the world.at.
has been a full
excuse for doing nothing for four years.
Luz. LE. da
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McEnen, D.R.
210.00
MeNour, Rev. G.H.
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pore and in other parts of Malaya, was
Mariel, H.F.
40.00
Marshall, G.N.
25.00
highway, by a gang which had already
murdered in broad day-light on a public weapons.
Mr. J. M. Hall (of Mesars. Wilkinson
Martin, A.
Matheson, R.T..
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Mehta, MIN.
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and all honour to the officers who have J. C. Castilho,
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Inspector Watt said that at 7.15
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Remedios, J. V. dos
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Shields, C.H.
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Smith, H.E.
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At a time like this a man's thoughts best find expression in Biblical "The night is far spent, That Day Day is at hand." and has been anticipated for thousands of years, but never so widend has this hope been, par so intelligently under stood, so tolerantly defined as to-day-Reynolds, Dr. W.G.
mean Why, this: Every
What does it mean
shall be
hed Valtalted."
You see those
of the Turkish Em
They pire-Palestine, Syria, Armenia
That is shall be made free nations. one phase of it. In Austria-Hungary, Germany and in the Balkan States, the world desires to sea the smaller nations in these groups strong and independent and living at peace with each other.
We must be chary of criticising the things of our ear country, perhaps, but it should not be so, if we are to be a free people, Prussianiem has taught us to dislike with strong intensity many Let us look into idols we once
Have we not Four little
often bower before the Mailed Fists of History, and said These be thy gods, oh, England 1" As a result of this war we have
of Horo-worshed all that. The cult inaugurated by Carlyle,
wanting
eighty orator.
S
T
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vivid and engaging and trenchant are the sentences The little translation by Principal
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E.C.T. Watson, C.E. White, R.J. Wilson, Alan Wilson, A.G..... Wood, E.M. «
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made them. They had little to aid them
in the pursuit. It was almost impossible on the 19th instant he raided No. 7, Rose to take them to the Lane, near Baiyingpun School, to search to get a car
WEE for arms, and found the defendants asleep
spot where the dastardly crime
in the cock-house and perpetrated. Government has had warn-on the floor with the exception of the last
past, man, who was ings almost daily for months and what Government does is to keep escaped through the window to the streets, by a constable who was was arrested bat its police force on starvation pay, at waiting outside. In a chasty were three leave it without the meaty of doing its knives and some cloth. He arrested the work. A patrol of special service cars; defendants, and charged them with being he in possession of offensive weapons as a judicious expenditure on rewards for information in short, resolve to protect could not proceed under the Arms Acts the public as the public has a right to be because the knives were ordinary butcher' protected, even if it does kuock a few knives. He asked for three days' remand odd thousands off the annual balances, as he wanted witnesses to come down from A number of the defendanta, would soon bring these gang robberies Macao.
Mr. Hail then applied for bail in the case of his client.
Inspector Watt said he had no objëc- tion
to an end. We had one or two articles also, were wanted by the Macao Polies recently which were intended to make the Authorities. Government realise that it is expected to govern, and they were not without effect They produced a burst of energy which spent itself upon the devoted head of the article writer-and that was all. The Government goes on counting the cents and the dollars of its balances by tens, hundreds. thousands and even millions, and the gang robbers go on terrorising and murdering, and our greatest indus
is still made that wo governed.
are efficiently
*
and it has it not.
ture.
tu
Mr. Wood remanded the defendants in Police custody till Saturday, bail being allowed for the first defendant at $250.
SPORT.
CRICKET.
HONGKONG C.C... CHINESE R.C. The following will represent the Club
HONGKONG-F.O. «. L.E.
has been banished, and most of Carlyle's works have been pitched into the waste That is not exaggeration, it is fact; and paper basket. The Prussian strain in it is true not only of Sectland but of
of the
high holding literature any, in such types as Samuel modera tendencies everywhere. Criticism, try is losing millions, and the allegation Jahnson-We are not so willing to excuse serionsnes,
It is about time to have done with as formerly. Even our religious gods standards in ideals are scorned every- have not excaped. Protestants remain where. There was more real love of the Protestants, for a reformation should subline and beautiful in the Renaissanchildish things and with the unctuots have come, and perhaps a truer one, period in any village in Italy than there fatuities that are talked at meetings of without such men as Calvin and Luther. now is in most of our great commercial Legislative Councils and in other places
We know perfectly F. J. de Rome, D. E. Donnelly, Capt. Even Presbyterians have long ago found cities. The world is full of inexpressibly Malaya has a right to adequate and eff on their ground to-morrow at 2.15 p.m. but recent doubts have led us to investiil and Doble things, which seca cient protection for life and property.-T. E. Pearce (Captain), R. M. Austin, out the impossible character of Calvin, to be accounted us nothing beside that if there had been the will E. H. Gray, P. Jacks, M. M. MAAS,
once more the credentials of Martin tawdry sensationalism or material com: pay adequately for eficient service it Luther Ms. Ellis Barker has shown us forts.
We The whole world needs the breath of could have been obtained in a sufficient Capt. H. E. Murray, F. Sutton, F. Syma
FOOTBALL. that Luther, even with Protestants has
It is, perhaps degree to make the almost unbridled Thomson, and E. Thoma been weighed in the baisnon and found a resurrective Power.
have heard it said sometimes that the These words are not said not quite true to say, with Ober- license of gang robbers impossible.
Imperial authorities will not permit in- Luther was a great man, a mann
His Table Your creeds are dead, your rites are dead, creases of salaries and of other expendi
The following will represent the Hong- That is all mere rubbish. A Gor Your social order, too, Where tarries He, the Power who said;
ernment which insists upon efficiency is encouraged to establish. it. What we need kong F.C. in the United Services League p.m. to "See, I make all things new!!
Laodiceanism here is a more vigorous public sentiment, Yet it is largely true.
morrow, on the Club ground:-G. Ger- Rainy's daughter of Luther tion in serious matters is the curse of life. an occasional threat to stop paying taxes against the Royal Engineers, at 4 of St. John's Gospel valuable exposition of the tenderest Yet it is not well to think too darkly if public services are not kept to the pard; F. W. Black and J. McCubbin; W.
But Luther did n the present state of affairs. It is not mark, an occasional appeal to Cesar'
H. McTavish and C. Jennings. chapters in the Bible.
well to say always to the watchman in the form of questions asked in the Hamilton, J. Stewart and J. D. Carriere; not practice what be preached; he was
What of the night!" for assuredly, House of Commons The scandal of the Reis 4 H. Clark, D. Riechelmann, as ruthless as any Hun that ever lived, The morning cometh 1" With the com gang robberies is his
miles of this country over and his politics were Machiavellian ting of the Angel of Fence we might
almost say that we can bear, also, the which bandits can range as freely as if
There are regulations murdering revolutionary, he passes-him- Aderent self off as a coolie seeking employment But to turn from individus men to approach of the Spirit of Morning, a ne law existed
posscusion of arms general tendencies. What a best of joyous figure, scattering the clouds of about the
European or Chinese may find himself in in Malaya, and finds no dificulty in com changes the war has made in our every darknese before him, and sprinkling the the police court if he accidentally forgets ing here. On arrival he goes to mine or day lives. At one period of the war, desert places with flowers, and the about a year ago, the papers were fullnesses with glad young life.
with men of his own kidney, and then he To think
of of what women were doing.
the restitution, the re-paying back to the deserves to be summoned there. But the rabber estate until he can get in touch The bettering object of the law was to prevent imports censes to live upon the proceeds of honest
These men have two ways of women does not only mean to recall world of all it has lost. what they have done, but to recall
the bandit type of creature from sending discovery-by terrorism, and by conditions, the consideration of each man keeping himself. With deadly weapons bribery.
We venture to say that there weary days of waiting entailed by the of education, the improvement of housing tion of arms indiscriminately, and to res
scores of Chinese who could help the war. How many & dear old mother, by and woman's happiness-i hopelessly it has accomplished nothing to that enda to trace the bands, but some of waited, day in, day out, for news of her Utopian programme, you will say. Let
guns Our duty is to These gang robbers have rifles, shot only son, only to find that when news time give the verdict.
have the fear of death put upon them. that it was of death! Or to recall see that, all those reconstruction schattice and revolvers by the dozen Possibly them can be silenced by cash, and others the eager faces of young wives at the are carried out which we planned so are they steal them. More probably there
the core.
came
the
There are
That is to renew his license, and of course
he
to
full of courage and patriotism fully in the dark days of the war. There some secret agency at work importing. If there is no other way of suppressing hope, watching some company of sol is one thing we must bear in mind-that and it is the duty of the Government to the gangs the whole of the respectable diers march past. Not all, perhaps, but all effort that is without a lofty aim is discover the source of supply and to seal population would support a scheme of nearly all the women of the Allied races vain. Without recognition of the noblest it up. This business of importing arms registration under which every labourer have been magicent in spirit and our and holiest things, material welfare is for gang robbers might easily develop into in the peninsula would be known and his
movemente accounted for from weak do week
It means organisation, and it appreciation has been so aroused that we worse than useless, for it breeds selfish dangerous factor in our local life
timple, truth is that the authorities
Also it means a little are willing to share in all things with mess. The present is the most opportune not know what secret societies exist, what means expense such splendid helpiests. May we never moment for reconstruction in national objects they have or whenos they draw work for employers of labour, but if Gov forget women's sacrifices of the past four and individual life over offered for thon-
supplies. their
But thousands of ernment will do its part we venture to years!
Bands of years. It is the period of * But it would be very foolish to pretend years. It is the period of ringing out follars have been stolen by the gang rob- any that the public will not fail. In the
bers that all is well. Millions have till learn the thousand wars of old" and ringing been broken into: travellers have been this matter. It is a pitiful demonstra daring the past year. Houses have name of the public we claim attention to ed very little, individually, from this in the thousand years of peace' Mar. A recent writer on Scotland, G. B the time for discarding the falle idols at stopped on the bighways, people have tion of administrative inefficiency when Blake, says: "Briefly, young Scotland our hearts and lives, in individual and been msimed and murdered. What are such things are tolerated, and the duty tends to the poorest brand of frivolity, national affairs, Bod in heralding the these gangs? One theory in that when of the heads of the Government is to frivolity that is almost knobbery, Christ that is to be. Let us grasp the China becomes too hot for a waranding, so that respect for the law is rigorously
(Continued at foot of next column.) enforced, cost what it may (Continued at foot of next column,)
opportunity while we may
It is