THE HONGKONG DAILY PBRES, MONDAY, JULY" 7TH, 1919,
AT THE R.C., CATHEDRAL, The best of human effort and achieve-
Uver swo thousand people attended the ment falls shout peretion, and there;
special service held at the Cathedral of is muet in this Peace Treaty which one
the Immaculate Conception, yesterday could wish might have been otherwise. We morning The Rt. Rev. Bishop Pozzoni euld wish, for instance, is had beofheiated, and was assisted by over 30 Fathers froin the French and Spanish posible for the delegates of China to Procurations and the Sanatorium at Fok "sign the Treaty, yet few of us out here, falam, the Jesuits of Chiu Hing and Rev. think will blan: them for refusing. Vergiglia, of Macao. There were pre
sent." their official capacity
France), ME
Conau for
TRADE REPORT.
EXPORTS
LARD. The demand for this article
continues unabated, and it will not b long before we reach the 450 mark. Old tins have been done at $15 for July/ August shipment and dealers are now pre livery. Now cins
are wanted at asking $47 for September/October de $18.50, and some business has already been rent to South America,
THE WEEK-END SQUALL. "
PEAK TRAMWAY BLOCKED BY FALLS OF EARTH,
SPLENDID WORK BY NAVAL LAUNCHES.
No less than 300 inches of rain were ensured at the Royal Observatory, Hongkong, during the 94 hours which
the the questions of Italy's claims ines (Consul for Italy done as these figures for September ship ended at 10 n.m, on Saturday, and 25!
J
F. VR. de Sousa (Consul for Por Adriatic, and the settlement of the new!
uza!) Mr. J. Alves (Consul for States in Eastern Europe, few of us pro-Brazil). Mr. J. F. Een da Silva (Consul ably are qualified by knowledge to have for Mexico). Major Bowen, and Insper
Bir d'Almada of the Police Reserva strong persanal opinions.
Wax
The service commenced with the render- But I do believe it cu sincerely
followed shortly after by the Ave claimed that never before did statesmen ins of the Gloria in Forelais by the choir,
Anime (hristi (Pozzolo) deliberate on the results of a great war FerS
sung as a solo by the Rev. Fr. Grampra. with a more genuine desire to secure what is just and right for all, to keep clear of The choir next gave 0 Salutaris Hostia Mere, vindictiveness-terrible as has been (Tamadin). The singing of the Te Deum hy the chair and the congregation brought the provocation- to consider the small nations to some other light than As spoils forth a great volume of harmonious of war to be bartered about amongst the sound. The car then gang the Tantum great to lay the foundations of peace, and the service concluded with a the National which. "being based on justice, shall dine rendering of
Anthem in, full. pend less and less as time proceeds upon
Pre Rahert preached the following ser toree and fear for its preservation. Our
on High.
and on Earth pence to ren -
tha that the greatest event in the birth of our Saviour, was announced to humanity tion and Peace Our holy Scripture books pronounce that word Pence only after having invoked the name of Ciod, because no real peace can exist unless it he given by the Author of
About A
Woop Oil-Abig business has been inches of rain fell in the following 24 dona in this line and the market closes hours. The rainfall. between 10 a.m, on strong at $27.50 per picul 15/20,000 cases have been booked, and the Friday and the same hour on Saturday was the heaviest since August 3rd last deniand has not yet been satisfind.
year, when 7:39 inches wero registered.
TEA OIL is quiet at $93. PEANUT OIL No. 1 has been done at $31.50 and the market is most likely to go higher. No business is reported in the No grade, which closes weak at $30.30.
ANISHED OIL 13 per cent, is strong at 8162. Present stocks amount only to about 350 piculs
CASSIA ÜLES-A inall business is de ported in so0:45 per cent. Be up There is no business in the lower qualities. The closing prices are:-70/73 per cent. at picul.
Considerable inconvenience was caused to residents on the higher levels on Satur day owing to the suspension of the Peak Tramway service from 11.30 am to 6.30 p.m. This was due to a considerable
quantity of earth-said to be about one hundred tons-falling on the line from the Findlay Path side of the cutting re
world in many respecta is in a parlor mon from the text "Glory be to God 800 per picul: 75,80 per cent. $10 per cently made to improve the gradient be
condition to-day, and causes of apprehen.. sien are but too many and too obvious,
My lord and my dear. Brethren: It was
history
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tween SAIGON CASIA-There is nothing doing.
The resont quotation for the 4/10/4 ns-
surtment is $38.
TIN. Prices remain practically changer.
GALL-NUTS are quiet at $40. STARANISERD. About 300 piculs have been booked at 21, to 24.30, and higher prices are likely to rula in the future.
ncar
the top terminus and Barker Road station. At the time of the occur rence the descending car had reached May Road, while the ascending ear with be tween that point and Barker Road. The passengers, in the latter who, fortunate- ly, were few in number-had to con- tinue their journey on foot up the steep track fo the soaking rain. A gang of coolica was set to work to clear the obstruction as soon as possible, and, after possible to resume the running of the about seven hours' incessant tail, it was Barker Road and
Still an enormous advances to be r "gistered in this, as any rate, that the days are finally gore when a few ambas sadors and generals disposed of peoples and provinces as the mere spoils of victory, when Kingdoms were carved out
During five years our hands have been for scions of Royalty, and the life and hap piness of men and women were a matter raised in supplication to Heaven, and
CANTON CASSIA. There is a very fair our voices have repented Do perdentand for selected bundles. A large of exchange and barter across a council cable without regard their own wishes, Domink-God grant us peace.
business has been done at $13.50 to 84 interests and affinities. A new earth is learnt to appreciate pence by the suffer nus to be created by a single effort, andings we had endured in the midst of the. per picul, but bolders are now demand. no one need expect that the settlements horrors of war. that is to say, by the ing 14.30 to $15.
POONUT OIL. The market is bare of cars between arrived at to-day can all be ideal or that deprivation of peace,
supplies. Business could be done at $25 they will all prove permanent.
per picul if stocks were available.
The old world presents such a tangle.pl rates interests, prejudices crossed and re-crossed by boundaries geographical, his man with the best inten
We had
But what is peace? Peace, says St. Augustine, is the tranquillity of order, Order reigns when everything, is in its proper place Materially, order reigns when all physical laws are observed
all moral laws are strictly When
torical. linguistic, that it must certainly morallystic nad Charity, tho
pass the wit of his wimp lucely. But a
twin-sisters of
PRANETS. Unshelled can be bad small lots at $12.40 per picul. Shelled peanuts are higher by about 10 cents per picul
ANTIMONY 99 per cent. is quiet at $220. CANTHARIDES is quiet at $110. RICE-We have to report a strong and
beginning has been made. It is realised nations therefore, did Pence cease to rising market for all grades, Native im-
ut last that the world has shrunk had become ung.
exclusive interest.
Peare.
that we receive the blessing
tations:-
Road.
Yesterday morning, however, at about seven o'clock, there was another heavy fall of earth from the cutting, and, as A consequence, the service did not begin until 11.45 a.m.
+
The rescue work done by the naval launches in "the Harbour on Friday is worthy of special note. The sampana in the harbour were going about their ordin- ary business when the squall burst sud- Whether we welcome the exist? What was the cause of the up porters have received telegraphic instruc-derly on Friday morning. Most of them
benval of order amongst men 1 After a change or regret it the fact is there, and last consideration it is obvious, my dear tions from their shippers in Saigon not managed, by luck combined with clover there is no faith to be reposed in man if
brethren, that one thing alone could dis- to dispose of their holdings of No. 1handling of their boats, to reach shelter,"
Long under $14.75.
but a good number were not so fortunate.. the representatives of the leading nations turb that admirable equilibrium of peace have not, in the Peace Conference, ende-selfishness, which is the saures of all A fair number of orders, bave been It is estimated that at least two dozen voured at least to institute working the passions and the principle of every booked for shipment to America, and tho sampans were upset. Five launches from arrangements for the common good, rathervice, It is not necessary to retrace the demand from that market is still unsatis- the Dockyard, including two from the than gach to stand for his own nation's history of the bloody condict which has fed. The following are the closing quo-Tuninr, all manned by Chinesa sailors,
just terminated: that history is well-
and two steam pinnaces from the Kent. The ambition which
Siam Garden, at 818-50.
manned by British sailors, went out into We have reason to believe that that is known to you.
caused that terrible disaster has now r
Siam Straight, at $15.75.
the Harbour as soon as the wind rose. su upon the whole, with whatever qualiceived its chastisement; and it is because
Siam Usual, at $11.75
„A system of look-outs and signals was Beations, and that is the great offset to this chastisement has restored order by
Saigon Round at $14.95..
put into operation and the launches went the recalcitrancy and bad temper from ping the selfishness of misguid
Saigon Long. at $14.60.
out to sampang in difficulty of overturn- which our late enemies seem unabic E
There was some excitement ip, rice ed, and rescued the occupants; and when. yet to purge themselves, but from which We earnestly trust and pray they may Frace and Victory." Such is to-day circles early last week when a number of even possible saived the craft The risks goon, begin to tarn. The League of the cry of our hearts; the thrilling con-permits were held up by the Rxport Office, taken by some of the Chinese sailors were Nations may not immediately accomplish anlation that fills our souls; the overflow They were eventually granted, but a pro- considerable, and Naval men are warm all that can be hoped for; what ever does ing joy that the whole world re-echoes nouncement by the Superintendent of in their praise of the coolness and bravery Exports on the subject of rice exports shown, especially by the Chinese sailors in this imperfect world! But even the to-day in its songs of gladness.
Peace and Victory," and let us say tions would be greatly appreciated by from the Tamar. Over 30 lives were saved critics of the League pay it the homage
"Peace. Fruit of
The Allied local shippers..
by the naval launches The wet and due to a fine ideal, and so long as the
are Victory." nations
great festivit
frightened sea-faring tolk were taken on world is not destitute of ideals its inhabit.
Our own city vibrates in union the
with
board the Tamar. **Where may lift up their hearts.
and glory of our vi ants do risian the people perish," the trio of armies Pence has rome, that BANK RETURNS FOR JUNE Bible truly says, but there is vision in the world to-day, and, therefore, the bot greatest of blessings which God can grant
to nations as well as to individuals. And The returns of the average amount of tom condition of hue and growth is not thus, in our gratitude towards the Eternal bank notes in circulation and of specie wanting.
One, as on the great day of the birthin reserve in Hongkong, daring the of Christ, we repeat in the sincerity of month ended June 30th. 1910, as certified Glory to God and Feare by the Managers of the respective Banks A great lesson. clear and powerful, my
Chartered Bank dear brethren, stands out opposite these plain facts.
torioas
dur hearts: was
to men..
an absolute union.
For these things we Christians have not ceased to pray When the war waging we dared to pray for victory be cause we believed in our hearts that the cause committed to us was man's cause and, therefore, God's. When victory at last dawned we gave God the glory as the source of all the heroism and patience and readiness for sacrifice which under Him opposed strength to strength, and in Him "proved that Right in the end is Might and bas divine authority over Wrong. All during the sitting of the Peace Confer ence. it has been our unwearied suppli- cation that the paths of wisdom and of righteousness might he sought and follow ed, and peace established upon foundat tions which would stand secure.
It becomes us right, knowing that very much remains yet to be done, and mes suring soberly the many pitfalls and
The tictory which was to assure peace to the nations, if it has its prinesies in the law of order finds its, realisation in It is by the union of the Allied forces that we have been world; and able to restore peace to the tois union was not" less necessary than fotce, because force without complete not give us victory and would union did certainly never have given it to us. It was by the acceptance of the disciplina of unity and the obedience of all to one supreme command that we recognised the sovereignty of order of that order with out which the mos, heroic sacrifices would have remained sterile; of that order apon which alone depends the divine majcaty
in
won.
Are as follows:-
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sailor and Toi Seng, from the Zamar, A rescue carried out by a Chinese stands out amongst the brare deeds per formed. This man was in charge of one of the launches. Seeing a sampan in difficulties he steamed to it, but it over- turned before he could reach it. Tai Seng jumped into the sea, which was running very heavily, and swimming to the sam of India, Aus
pan, rescued two of the occupants in two tralia
and
trips. These two-one an old woman and Chipa
..8 7,172,699 ₺ 3,000,000* the other a girl of about 14-were under and Hongkong.
the overturned sampan for about ten Shanghai Bank-
minutes before they were rescued. Tai ing Corporation. 0,057,886 17,000,000 Seng's feat was, however, only one of Mercantile Back
severni. More than one Chinese sailor of India, Ltd. 1,151,238 550,000
and at least one British sailor from the Acat rescued Chinese by jumping into the sea after them.
Total ...830,381,796 $92,550,000 Sterling securities deposited with the Crown Agents vained at £340,060.
+ Securities with the Crown Agents £125,000.
It is feared that nearly two dozen lives must have been lost. There are five sam pans at the Naval Yard with uo claim- aats, and the only conclusion is that all the occupants were drowned, because they were not to be found. when these sampans were salved by the naval launches. "En- quiries from the Police, however, elicited the information that only one child, re- the Tamar, died as a result of immersion. Two launches were dashed to pieces on the sea-wall along the Praya East, and it is presumed the occupants found a waters grave.
The Police launches were out all Friday afternoon and salved several sampans with their occupants.
мого вет-
SHANGHAI AND PEACE SALUTE OF 10 GUNS. perils which ha abend, to praise God that of Peace glory, victory, in the triumph
Although it was a very wet day there formal and public peace will presently be declared, and our poor world begin to of Good over Evil order in obedience was a good display of hunting in thescued by a naval launch and treated, on
the Inw:
unity in disciplined Settlement in celebration of the signing adjust itself to demands which, indeed, to are testing, but which are accompanied by action-there have been the crowning of of the peace treaty.
our sacrifices, the reward of our efforts, At noon, following the example of opportunities unexampled, if the nations, which have experienced God's wonderful in the war which the Allied nations have Hongkong, three men-of-war in the Huangpu-British, American and Japan- deliverances have the faith and courage.
Let us now transport the same prinese-fired a salute of 101 guns bringing to meet them bravely and steadfastly in ciples, the same tactics, and the same large
of foreigners and Chinese a la 6 The Bund in the drinle to wit Him. He who has brought the world thus strategy to another battle-Beld. Let us on fur and wrought for it such signal and apply these successful methods to stain in the boys of the Cathedral School were
the sight.
The monetary damage to junks taust surprising mercies has yet better things bat that each one of us must sustain for it in store. He who has inspired such this life in order to attain that end which at their work, when the booming of the have been extensive One Chinese junk- the Creator demands of his creature. guns was heard. To get five classes into owner has informed the Police that he had lofty hopes and filled the minds of men
We Catholics can realise fully the plan one room was the work of a few seconds, to throw over pig-iron to the value of $300 with such ardent desires for a truly
and to bring 70 British boys to the salute in order to prevent his junk from sinking, worthier way of living together in this which assured victory in the great com
This unity of command, without a shorter task still. The singing of the The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and earthly home of men and nations has not bats.
which the real
Godown Company sustained peace of
souls is im National Anthem and "Rule Britannia, " Our done so to mock us with a futility.
The tasks of the future are indeed stu possible, without which Heaven would be and an announcement that the long holi-ious lost by the sinking of a big lighter,
deaf to our entreaties, wo bare it in
days our
would
commence two days earlier, containing 500 bars of iron, in the Wes- perdous. Looked at in the light only of doctrine, in our discipline, in the dae brought an impromptu ceremony to a tern anchorage. human inability they may well appear trinal infallibility of our Chief.
A large junk, with a carrying capacity and pride bring Shanghai Branch of the Stof 130 picuis, became a total wreck in confounding. But the Providence which
about the ruin of
Selfishness, adividuals as well as George's Society sent the following tele- the castern entrance to the Yasmati re- directed the past will not be wanting to
Buckingham time colne. "God's arm is tot shortened that it cannot save, His faith souls as in the government of peoples, Palm Lord this
gram to Lord bccasion the fuge. All the occupants were saved hy fulness, written in the heavens, has been there must be unity of command and Royal Society of Saint George, Shanghai, A big junk capsized near H.M.S. reassuringly manifested to us in the re- obedience to one chief, because in, this respectfully request you to convey to cent triumph. He has wrought To Him only do we find discipline and order, by Majesty the following message of their fivern and the cargo of timber was loyalty and goodwill: a benith to our scattered all over the harbour. The crew be glory, and if that be not only ascribed is only do we receive promise of vic
King and a lasting pear Robert S. Ivy, are believed to have been saved by a in words but diligently pursued in life tory, and this only can obtain for us
passing launch, and work, His glory will be manifested that eternal peace which is the anjoy President.
ment of the Vision
of God to our children's children in a world And this Chief who is guiding us safely. where peace abides because goodwill pre on the agitated sea of this world is the vails and the nations of the carth have Pontiff of Rome. It is against this soli which has no end in that immortal glory Jardins. Matheson & Co.'s steamers were learnt to obey the Christ, Who alone is our tary rock that all divisions, schisms, and peace, and in Who only can be broken human contradictions have boen shattered of which Heaven is the habitation.
In Pace-bope, force, and consolation forced to dump 500 bags of sugar and 500 down the middle walls of partition which for the last twenty centuries.
Unumovic et aus pastor Christ in His of Christians words written on all bags of rice, respectively, overboard in Heparate so disastrousty man and brother
Church. by the voice of His
those on the battlefields of the great war. (ing. majestio autho Da pacem Domine-Grant us Victory, In strange contrast to the splendid, work rity which is given him by the
of the Eternal Father O Lord; in the combats of our faith, com done by the Naval and Police launches "Glory to
when day
Then will 1 was sung by the choir and congregation and Pence on earth to men of goodwill and the dead. Grant us that peace latter were even seen to ask for salvage judge the living launches in the Harbour. Some of the Mr. E. J. Chapman, who presided at the to those who seek God and His Kingdom. which consoles, that peace which fortifies, money from sampan occupants in the organ, played the "Hallelujah" chorus May all thore hernes who have won at that peace of the soul in God, and Anally. from Handel's "Mesalah," after which the price of their blood, this peace which that everlastica peace the peace of water, before they would attempt to take- the congregation dispersed.
Heaven and of Eternity.—Amen.
Jan.
this
af
In the direction of
#
we now possess repes in that other peace
Chinese in the vicinity.
A large cargo-boat containing wood sank between Wharves Nos, 2 and 3. All the occupants were saved
Two lighters alongside one of Mesars.
The sermon, was followed by the hymn earth, speaks with the presentative tombs, from those of the catacombs to order to save the lighters from founder.
the benediction, the National Anthem
Onward, Christian Soldiers."""After Ghost, God" the Anthor of Peacebuts which will end only on that erent was the attitude adopted by the Chinese
(Continued at foot of next column)
the overturned sampana in tow.
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