CABLES.
EARLIER CABLEN.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS' COMMIS- SION MEETING.
Pans, March 22nd. President Wilson will act as Chairman of the League of Nations Commission meeting to-day, when all the proposed amendments will be considered and the plan will take definic Form-American
Wirelris.
AMERICA.
Q S COTTON CROP.
WASHINGTON. March 22nd
PEKING NOTES
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
NO PROGRESS,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 25TH, 1919.
PEKING, March 13th.
Up till to-day no progress can be re- corded in the efforts to remove the causes which led to the deadlock in the con ference at Shanghai and to induce the Southern delegates to resume their de liberations. It is quite true that both delegations are on the best of terms with each other, but that is all that can be said. The President, as distinguished from the Government, is working hard to appease the demands the Southern delegates, which are not regarded as an reasonable, the most difficult, perhaps,
ir view of Japan's ambitious plans for at free hand in this part of the world,
Japan's chivalry and good faith may not be questioned, but the other Power, aro now in a position to echo the famODE statement of the man from Missouri when he said "Show me."
ANOTHER LOAN.
Negotiations & said to be nearly completed between the Okura Company and the Ministry of War for a loan of one hundred million yen based on the security of the Feng-huang-aban iron mines and the territory fifty li around it
The plan is to organise a Sino. Japanese company, which will give the first call on its producte to the Okura Company, which should also have priority
LENTEN SERMON.
sright the heinoueness of duty left un- done that we realise the blessing of for THE SACRIFICE COMMEMORATED.giveness. Christ by His death won for
giveness for us.
The Sacrifice Commemorated "--the second of a series of Lenten addresses on the Holy Communion-formed the subject of the Rev. H. Copley Moyle's sermon, at St. John's Cathedral, on Sunday morning. Taking as his text 1st Cor., c 11, v. 26, the rev, gentleman said:
We were thinking last Sunday morn ing of the circumstances under which the Holy Communion was given by Christ
to Big followers. We saw that it was instituted at the feast of the Passover, at which the central feature was the eating of the flesh of a lamb which had
been offered to God and whose blood had It was the
The financ statistics for the 1918 being the demand that the offending in the supply of guns and the building of been poured out before God.
Shensi Tuchun be dismissed.
In an
ahips. The Company offers an immediate
sure is being brought to bear upon the Ministry of War to accept it. As ie
great feast which was held every year
Israelites from the bondage of Egypt.
cotion crop of the L'otton Bureau reports otheial statement the Government points advance of thirty million yen, and presin memory of the deliverance of the: that the ginned production was 11,808,118 bales and running bales 12,822,001, the
equivalent of 000 lb. leg exclusive of
linters. American Werefter. FLOTATION OF IS. BOND ISSUE.
WASHINGTON, March 22nd.
The Way Financial Corporation is con.
sidering floating a bond issue which will probably total $200,000,000 and be issued
in a few weeks, to providę funds for rail. roads and to meet other demands upon the Corporation. American Fareless,
LOANS TO U. S. FARMERS. Louns totalling $14,609,800 have been advanced to farmers 1]] the Federal
Reserve Banks American Wireless.
CANTUN NEWS.
CANTON, March 24th.
LOANS FRUM JAPAN
люго secret
A message from Peking states that two loans, which the Peking Government obtained about two ago from the Yokohatin Speeze Bank,
J'CBTN
through former Ministers of Finance, have been recently announced. It is said that altogether seven or eight big loans have been secured by the Peking Govern ment from Japan
out that both parties are pledged to the suppression of tujei behind their respec
tive military lines, that so far as the
Northern commanders are concerned in Bhensi and possibly also in Fukien, it in diffeuli on occasions to discriminate be
Iween
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regular Southern troops and brigands, but that, in order to remove all causes of dissension, the Government will order the Northern troops in Sensi discontinue operations against the local tujer, wible it is also explained that the armistice mandate may not have bo come known to the Northern zilitary commanders owing to the difficult comunti- sication in that province.
This is the situation to date. it is not satisfactory, but at the same time it cannot be regard. ed as altogether hopeless.
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natural, the Japanese are being criticised
fur
for countenancing further supplies to the Government
military рагровев. Japan professedly advises China no to use the seventeen million yen in the Bank of Chosed to her credit under the War Participation Lons, and at the same time makes an offer of a larger sum for equally objectionable purposes. UNIFICATION OF RAILWAYS.
It was the greatest forst of the Old
Covenant. The feast of the Passover always reminded the Jews of their privileged position as the nation whom God had chosen.
It was at this feast that Christ in stituted the Eucharist to be the chief feast in the Christian Church, and to be for all Christians just as the Passover was for all Jews. Just as the Old Coven. am of God with the Israelites was scaled by the blood of the Passover lamb, so the New Covenant between God sad man
There
FRENCH
TREASON.
DYING DEPUTY'S CONFESSION.
[FROM THE "DAJŁY TELEGRAPH'S'' FINAN». CIAL CORRESPONDENT.]
Exactly how Christ's death won for giveness it is not easy to say.
It was reported that the Deputy have been many theories of the Atone-Turnel, who has been long under arrest ment but I do not think there has yet for his connection with the treason been found a satisfactory theory. Some affairs, and has just died in prison, had of the theories which have been pro
poonded by Christians have done much to alienate thoughtful mind, from Christ- ianity; as, for example, the theory, at one time widely held among Christians, that Christ's death was a ransom paid
carried with him to the grave the secrete implicating himself and others in the
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vast German plot to bring about disunion in France. Turmel, feeling the end com- ing after his remoyal to the infimary of the prison of Fresnes, called by telephone to the Devil. Perhaps the worst of all the to his bedside the Examining Magistrate, theories of the Stenement was that taught Captain Mangin-Boequet, to make by some of the Continental Reformers that statement in extremis, on the treason affair. As a highly placed peracringe the Atonement was an offering to pro-rearted, there is but one affair, only pitinle the Eternal Father, who who re one, not several. There was only one garded almost as one of the heathen of cards, in which Germany dealt on the hand to each partner in the game gudn, who needed to be propitiated by the chosen by her, for Germany directed the blood of innocent victims. Ye, we need play" The legal inquiry was already bringing home to the accused deputy the not give up our belief in the Atonement,
fact that be was too deeply implicated in the reasonable political and, financial because the theories about it are dis credited. As Mr. Balfour wrote in his combination to escape, and he already talked of making a clean breast of it, book, "Fountiations of Belief." "We de but the approach of death decided him not step over a precipier because we are to speak out. dissatisfied with all the attempts to account for gravitation
Bone many persona are there who because they dislike the theories of the Atonement, feel bound to give up the doctrine itself. Because they cannot compress within the rigid limits of some semi-legal formula a mystery which, unless it were too vast for our full intellectual comprehension, would surely be too narrow for our spiritual needs, the mystery itself is to be rejected.”
Ger-
On the principle, apparently, of asking more than they expect to receive, the members of the Chiaotung clique have passed a series of resolutions on the s to be sealed by the blood of Jesus Ohrist. Chris, looked forward to the subject of the proposed unification and Limo when He should die on the Cross,
of railways in internationalisation
and, knowing that the time was at band, Chine. These, after all, represent a con
He instituted thì, memorial of His death, cession, but not a great one. Political
Let us try to realise the significance To-day we do not claim to have any railways are under these resolutions to
of that. He knew He was about to die theory of the Atonement but we believe Last week, intelligently-informed uir- be redeemed by money borrowed from a
the death of the lowest of criminals, but that Christ's death won forgiveness for cles were chuckling over the intest story foreign financial group. Railways built far from being ashamed of that death, our eus and we lay stress upon the fact in connection with the Chinese delegation by foreign monies are to remain by thoy so far from desiring His disciples to that the value of His death lay in the at the Peace Conference in Europe. It are. Railways in course of construction, forget that death, He instituted a me- willingness with which He surrendered related to the receipt of a telegram pur- or to be built, by foreign funds, should morial of that death and ordered His His life and the fact that His life hadenfe in his flat in the Rue de Phalsbourg. purting to have come from Lu Tsang-be constructed by a financial group form disciples to keep it. All through is an infinite value because He was God baiang, China's Peace Envoy at Paris, ed by Chinese capitalists, who will invite
The Christian Faith is informing the Government that he had foreign capitalists to participate. Adlife Christ had looked forward to the as well as man.
day when He should be put to death. a whole; the rejection of part of it consulted with the British and American ministration is to be vested entirely in delegates, who had adviced that the the Ministry of Communications. Trac And He had regarded that death as the renders the whole untenable. If men
His life's work. "The Son of Man camte to give His life a ransom for many" Christ saw in His death the means by which God and sinful man should be reconciled. Christ regarded | kin as something which created a barrier between "God and man, as something which needed to be atoned for,
The Canton authurities deny that tirey Shantung question be not brought before Ju-lin and Liang Bhih-yi approve of this necessary and inevitable conclusion of reject the Christian belief in the Incarna
Particularly grave evidence was given on oath by a man of trust employed by the notorious Austre German banker. Bettelheim, the partner of the still more famous financier, Rosenberg, who
both fled from Paris at the outbreak of war, and settled in Switzerland, where they becasue valuable financial agents of man spying and propaganda. French justice is being logged in the Turmel affair, declared this emplage, and little suspects that the paymaster of Turmel is Erzberger himself, the German politi cian and chief of the propaganda cam
Turmel paign.
himself said so to the witness Erzberger was one of those whom Bole frequently visited in Switzer- land. Later Turmel admitted having been in close relation with Bolo.. can- trary to his former assertions. He was introduced by M Charles Meunier, de-
Turmel Puty of the Côtes du Nord signed the statement, and added the following to the magistrate:
TURMEL AND CAILLAUX Bolo lod hin one day to an enormous
You see this," said the Pasha “It doce not belong to Bolo Pasha, a you may think, for M. Caillaux has the manipulation of the gums contained therein." Afterwards Bolo promised him the post of director of a copper mino belonging in the Paals in the South of tion, they will ûnd the Christian belief France Turned was, confronted on this with M. Charles Meunier and afterwards in the Atonement impossible. It all hangs together as
with M. Caillaux, who few into a vio a perfect whole. At lent passion, and vowed that he never the root of all ideas about the Atonemeat knew Turmel. He had nothing to do lies the belief in the holiness of God. delirium in the prison cell Turmel was with that person. During his fits of
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold heard to exclaim, Surely I could not evil." It is because sin is abhorrent to refrain from speaking again. If the event had happened they would have God and a contradiction of His whole come here to fetch me and would have And lot a remember, as we were think
bature, that the Atonement is necessary killed toe. Now 1 must spent and tell ing last Sunday, that Christ attributed And from His birth, Christ was pointed possible that those who fought against everything." He said further: "I, it the greatest importance to neglect of to as the Saviour from sing. Thou the Germans and did their duty should duty or, as it is often called, the sin of shalt call His naine Jesus, for it is Hebe obliged to-morrow to fight against their brothers, Frenchmen like them- omission. Yet this is a class of sins that shall save His people from theirselves? which many people are apt to forget. sins," was the Angel's message to How often one comes across a Christian Joseph," "There is born to you this day person at death's door who says he has in the City of David a Saviour," was the done no great sin, and so he hopes all message of the Angels to the shepherds. will be well with him in the next world. Behold the Lamb of God Which taketh Burely to say such a thing show, a totallyaway the sins of the world" were the
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Japanese merchant for the tramways by offering him the contine for the construction work,
TRO TE YEAR PUBLIC LOAN.
the Peace Conference for settlement, but should be dealt with by Japan and China in the East. Naturally, the Government, according to the report, asked for moro information, and was informed by Minis- ter Ly that he was unaware of what they were referring to, as he had sent. no such telegram. This story has been denied, and another version given, but at the moment of writing I am informed The foreign banks have also made a
that the story of the bogus telegram is similar protest. The Provincial Assen not altogether without foundation. How. bly of the Anbui province has formally informed the Peking Government that ever, I must give the corrected version as
The British, French, America and Italian Ministers have sent protests to the Peking (Government, protesting against the surplus of the salt-revenue being given as security for the 8th year public ivan.
the bonds of the 5th year public loan it was imparted to will not be allowed to be sold in that province.
A PRESIDENT FOR THE CANTON GOVERNMENT.
It is reported that the M. P'a of the Capton Parliament, owing to the dead lock in the Shanghai Conference, pro pose to elect a Provisional President of the Canton Government.
scheme. And well they might. Foreign, era are to provide the money and Chinese are to administer it.
AN INTERESTING CEREMONY,
As interesting ceremony is to take place at Changich this week, when the late Yuan Shib-kai's widow will be buried. Tuan Chi-jui and party are proceeding
tbere.
A HITCH.
The series of agreements concluded be tween Japan and China last year in connection with military matters were to have been published simultaneously in Peking and Tokyo on March 14th, but a hitch bas occurred in reking owing to the fact that the Diplomatic Commission bar objected to the decision of the Cabinet
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Turmel confessed to the magistrate the funds in his possession was untrue. that his previous statement concerning Here comes in the whole history of the German money in Switzerland and funds, and the whole financial operations America, banking operations, transfers of of the "Madia,"
The clection American Ministers in Peking had advis. regarding publication. A meeting of the inadequate conception of what Christ words with which John the Baptist mules was a myth. Turmel never bought
nego i tried out as soon as the peace negotiations in Shanghai are broken off. THE PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY.
mc. Apparently Minister Lu had learned that there were reports circulating in Paria to the effect that a certain Minister in Peking telegraphed to his national delegatca 4- forming them that the British and ed their respective governments that the Shantung question should not be sub The Civil Governor has ordered all
mitted to the Peace Conference in Europe, members of the Provincial Assembly to bo
but should be settled by China and Japan in Canton before April 5th, as the new themselves in tho Far East, The session of the Assembly is to be opened Minister asked that this report be in- vestigated. The two stories are very More than 50 commercial chambers different, but they agree in having the bove wired to the Peace Envoys in Shang-same subject. I am not attempting to hai requesting them to resume negotia- Lions, and threatening to organise explain them, but, I give them ag an strikes in various places in case of delay. indication of what is proceeding both in The Peace Envoys are, therefore, propos- Paris and in Peking. ing to resume the conference within one week's time.
on that date.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE IN BHANGHAI.
DEPORTATION OF ENEMY SUBJECTS.
AT SHANGHAI.
THE WAR PARTICIPATION LOAN.
The alleged speculation in Spanishi pointed out Christ to two of his disor sold any. Probably the speculations Cabinet is to be called, and, if it reaffirm lanity is,
Christianity is the leaven which is ciples.
were the same. A fresh confrontation its decision, publication may take place a
with M. Cailleux was decided on. Turmel It is clear from Our Lord's words about wrote the statement he intended to make day later than originally intended. meant to leaven the whole of human- Nearly a round dozen of scorot agresity. Every Christian is meant to be a His death that He saw in it, not merely on several sheets of paper when he should ments are to be divulged. We may expect faithful soldier and to fight manfullya fate in store for Him but a necessary be, face to face with the ex-Prime Minister. But his condition became one almost daily for a fortnight. An under Christ's banner. What would you fulfilment of prophery and an essential rapidly worse, and the confrontation was think of a soldier who claimed to have means for the salvation of mankind. abandoned. The magistrate has the slips interesting point is being made just now.
of paper. At last, when rapidly losing It is that publication of such agreements done well because he had not fought "God was in Christ reconciling the strength, the dying deputy whispered his in the Government Gazette pute upon against his capinin? Would you not say world unto Himself." The death of confession into the attentive enr of Capt. them the stamp of official approvala that he had failed, to realise that the Christ is the ground of our reconciliation difficulty, in almost imperceptible mut- Mangin-Bocquet. The words camo with result which many do not wish, especially object of being a soldier was to fight with God, and it is that death which we terings. Finally he murmured Now in regard to unratiñed treaties and against the enemies of his country, that plead in the Holy Communion, "As often you know all the whole truth” The others which, it is hoped, will be cancell it ho had failed to fight against those as ye cat this bread and drink this cup, magistrate came orice more with his ye proclaim the Lord's death," proclaim affier" to Fresnes. Turniel could ed under the advics of the League of enemies be had been untrue to, bis pro-
greffier it before God, and proclaim it before the only gasp, I told you all yesterday, Nations.
fession, and he was not worthy of the world. The Sacrament is the means of yet, he wished to add something, and MISCELLANEOUS,
name of soldier? The world would not self given us. It is the pure offering fell powerless. He glided into coma, pleading Christ's death which he bag him beckoned for pen and paper. His arms It need not occasion surprise if the be in the terrible condition it is in to-day, foretold in the book of Malachi. When and now brie more of the conspirators bax
we take part in the Holy Communion, gone before another judge, British Minister here be called to Paris if every Christian had done his duty. in the deliberations upon Far Eastern But so often Christians fail to see that forgiven and accepted children, because We do it not ng trembling sinners, but ná His knowledge and ripe the profession of the Christian religion the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross has questions.
won forgiveness, and we become parta-
SERBIA'S LOSSES, experience of Chinese affairs are un-necessitates action on behalf of the cause
kers of the virtue of that sacrifice when rivalled, and bis attachment to the of righteousness and justice, which is we communicate As our Church cat-
TREMENDOUS TOLL AS RESULT
OF EPIDEMICS. British delegation would immeasurably God's causa. Too often we fail to realise ochiam puts it: "Why was the Sacrament. strengthen it, especially as there fe mo that we are called upon to act, and wo of the Lord's supper ordained -For the
The following is a statement issued by Sinologue connected with the British content ourselves with a sigh of regret the death of Christ, and of the benefits Barbin's war losses:
continual remembrance of the sacrifice of the Serbian Minister of War, showing delegation.
which wo receive thereby.” Christ docs.
and pas by on the other side,
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be
The Superintendent of the Deportation
No doubt you have been telegraphically Bureau has reported that the deportation informed that on Thursday afternoon the of enemy subjects lus been carried out in a satisfactory manner. Altogether 61 Japanese Minister called upon the enemy subjects, including, women and Waichaiopu to advise that the Chiness children, have been deported.
Government do not touch the sevenices million yen deposited to ite credit in the DEATH OF MR. R. A. GOOD Bank of Exchange, being the unpaid balance of the War Participation Loan, Although many of his intimate friends and that the following afternoon the know that Mr. It. A. Good was seriously British, American, French and Italian ill with pneumonia, following an attack Ministers also called upon the Foreign of influenza, anys the NC. Daily News, fow were prepared for the shock received Minister with a like object. Mr. Chutn by the news of his death, which occurred declined to form one of the party on early on March 17th, after only a brief
liness, at the leolation Hospital,
The late Mr. R. A. Good was born in
Friday, professing to be quite satisfied
He was
nduented at Highgate and the Foreign Minister, but if he hoped to Borkaupsbed into business joined,
Blood and on entering deter the other Ministers from making
first the China Traders Insurance Co., and afterwards the assurance doubly sure (ne mo doubt, the London Institute of Underwrlers. he did, according to foreign belief) be Whilst in London he was an activo mam bor of the R.N.V.it. He cung out Bast must have been disappointed. Thọ intor. in 1910 and shortly afterwards took up eating feature of this incident in that it movement for. independence, addressed omission ? Let us face the question anew is considering seriously the pinoing of its the Managership of the China Eranch of demonstrates that Japan is no longer as the members of the newly-inaugurated this Lent, Are wo, to the utmors of our woman dietks on the permanent staff to losses of troops of voluntary Tubo the Yorkshire Insurance Co. Ltd., and
In this number there are n
ance eireles, He was nino
prominent member of local neurociated with the other Power, in roepset International Press Club thila ovoning, power, doing our duty to God and to our Hitherto they have Biled the men a peal. Binya, which were also leveral brid tabor of the Bhanghai Club, tire Oricket of the common policy in China. They nfirmed that the movement, was neighbour, or are we living for ourselves capable of doing the work isfactorily,
well-known
tions temporarily, but they have proved hair loss having excoded 70,000 joon and Football Clube, and the Bwimming proves much more than I am at liberty widespread and was not based upon and seeking to soothe our conscienes by and the directors have decided to tako Bath Club, all of whose fings wore half masted on ruceipt of the news of his, say it print, but which, intelligent force. Their sparks were very convine saying wa hays done no great sin It is this stop. This will not adet the male
readers may doubtloss have anticipated |
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only when we have learned to extimatemployees who are in the Army as thole
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Dr. Reinsch has boën élected president If only overy Christian had done his of the Peking Club. This is the first duty the world would be a very different scension on which the honour has boon place. There would be no slums, ne with the assurance ko had received from conferred upon an American Minister. swanted industries, no excessive child 2 cat and drink the brend and wine suffered during the last BTC
Mr. W. R. Giles, correspondent of thọ, labour, no commercial dishonesty, no clase
dies, will proceed shortly tomtred, no audial ovil. All these civila aro Korea to make an independent survey of in the world because Chrisians have fail. the conditions in that disturbed land.
ed to do their duty. In view of that, can Two Koreans, prominent in the Korean we dare to speak lightly of sins of
The total of offectiven mobilized by not require us to understand some dif Serbia was 767,343 men; soldiers killed.
cult theory of Atonement, in order to on the
or illness or dead as the result before the last offen- partakers in the benefits of His death, of wound of battle He only bide ue, in humble, loving faith, sive in the Balkans, 320,025. The losses which which have been consecrated to be His bad for its result the capitulation of Bady and Blood. De this in remom Bulgaria and the liberation of national brance of Me
Boll, have not yet been computed, but they will juorense Berbinn losses by some tons of thousands, so that the total figura of Serbian loses will be from 335,000 to 340,000 inen, which represents one-half af the male population of the of Barvia
not included
GIRL BANK CLERKS
At least one London bank, it is said,
ald
the result of epidemics, of persecu
number of civilings, who have disch tions and of famine, amount to several Lundreds of thousands
The material din is oisted of
alx tilllinror of Frenc