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LATEST CABLES.
THE HONGKONG DAILY: PRFSE, "WEDNESDAY. OCLUBER · 22ND
A LOTTERY LOAN.
DETAILS OF THE NEW PROPOSAL.
PARIS, October 18th Details of M. Lefevre's proposed lot BRITAIN'S COAL SUPPLIES, tery loan of £2,100,000,000 were tabled,
[THEOCON REITER'S · AGENCY.}
WITHDRAWAL OF EXPORT
LICENCES URGED.
LONDON, October 18th
Mr. Murray, the Secretary of the South Wales Conk-owners Association, has telegraphed to Sir Auckland Geddes that unless export licenses are withdrawn, some of the collieries must close. A pum "ber úỀ pita have already stopped.
CHURCH CONGRESS AT
LMCESTER
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A UNITED CHURCH DISCUSSED..
LONDON, October 18th. In connection with the Church congress a Leicester. which closed yesterday, a Christian reunion meeting, addressed by Anglicans, and Non-Conformists, was held last evening. Three thousand persons were present...
to-day, in the French Chamber. No in terest will be paid, but a premium bond of £30,000 will be drawn daily for two Fears, to which will be added weekly a premium varying from £90,000 to £200. THE WAR ON BOLSHEVISM. JUDENITCH'S ADVANCE ON
PETROGRAD
HELSINGFORS, October 18th-
A deputation of Petrograd workers met General' Judenitch, and seked him not to bombard Petrograd. Ther promised to help him against Bolsheviks.
IN TWO DAYS.
PARIS, October 18th. The Council has received messages that General Yadenitch is expected to
take Petrograd in two' days.
CAVALRY REACH PETROGRAD, STOCKHOLM, October 18th..
A telegram from an usually reliable The Bishop of Peterborough, presiding, source, which has up to the present not acknowledged the helpfulness of the Non-been confirmed, states that General Conformists to the Congress and prayed Judenitch's cavalry, have reached Petro- that the day would soon come when they grad. would be one. The spirit of the Chris- tians in this country had wholly changed: recently instead of the will to differ there was now the will to agree. ".
THE CAPITULATION OF KRONSTADT.
if
HELSINGFORS, October 18th. The Finnish General Staff reports that
The Rev. Carnegie Simpson offered the Kronstadt hoisted the white flag this Congress the greetings of the Presbyter-evening.
ians, and declared that if some practical step towards reunion was not taken with-
in a reasonable time, reaction night arise in the Non-Conformist churches.
THE AUSTRIAN TREATY.
RATIFIED BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY,
VIENNA, October 18th. The Assembly ratified the Pence Treaty, today. Dr. Beurer and his Cabinet then formally resigned The Assembly then
"BOLSHEVIK OFFENSIVE ON TSARITSIN FAILS,
LONDON, October 19th-
: 1919.
MOBILISATION IN FRANCE. THE REGENERATING POWER things are below it, for friendship de
DECREE OF 1914 ABROGATED.
PARIS, October 18th...
A Havas message says:— The official mobilisation decree of 1914 has been abrogated.
THE SILVER" MARKET.
"MESSRS. MONTAGU'S REPORT:
Logos, October 18th. Messrs. Montagu & Co.'s report states that the price inclined the same but the undertone was good owing to the demand
OF LOVE.
THE STRONGEST BOND IN
EXISTENCE."
The Rev. H Copley Moyle prouched aa St. John's Cathedral on Sunday morn ing from the text-
Then one of them who was a inwyer; naked Him & question, tempting Hin and saying, Master, which is the great com- mandment in the Law 7 Jesus said unto hip. Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy son, and with all thy mind. This is the
second is like unto it, Thou shalt love
sense, for it would be preposterous any one said that be loves Zeus,"
In contrast to such a philosophy our Lord chose to found His Kingdom on love, and fle proceeded to kindle love in the hearts of His disciples by showing love to them and by unfolding to them the love of God,
CIVIL AVIATION,
manda reciprocity, but relationship
The successful voyago to the United with God admits of no return of love and, States and back of the R34 has attracted therefore, of no love in the proper attention again to the commercial utili
ifsation of the airship
The managing. director of Vickers, Ltd, has made some interesting statements on the practical side of such schemes. Vickers are con vinced that it would be a practicable pro position to build a rigid airship to carry 50 tone of passengers and freight for a s non-stop voyage of 10,000 miles at so miles per hour. They are studying the possibilities of using steam engines for
are scheduled it is calculated that times
2 to 2 days.
Those early disciples were fired with love for Christ and so they gave them
In His name they went forth into all
for China remittances, and, possibly.ärst and great commandment, and the Belves wholeheartedly to His service. Jairships. When the great ocean routerr sympathetically with the prediction of Senator Pittman, the author of the Pitt- the neighbour a thyself. On these two fands, and so great was their success, that
tion of an Export Silver Association in man Act, that within a week of the fortia America, the price would rise to 120 cents.
per ounce.
Labour troubles in America may soon affect the output.
prophets (51. Matthew, c, v.1). commandments hang alt the law and the
they were spoken of os." those who have turned the world upside down." They were men filled with love and working for an ideal, the establishment of the Kingdom of God.
The rev. gentleman said:- Jesus-Christ came into the world to zeveal God to us And His revelation is that God is one, and that God is love. The fact that God is one had been grade ually realised by the Jewish people; they had emerged from the prevailing poly- Silver is quoted at 831d. spot and 6d. theism and had come to hold armly the forward. The market is steady.
The Shanghai Exchange quotes es. 4d. tacl
Lossos, October 18th
OBITUARY
GENERAL SIR JAMES WOLFE.
LONDON, October 18th.
James Wolfe.
belief in the unity of God, and on this belief Christ placed the hall mark of His approval.
Different ages of the world and different stages of develop. ment have been characterised by differ The death is announced of General Sirent thoughts. The dominant conviction of our own day is certainly that behing all things there is an underlying Baity. Modern discoveries have impressed this upon us. Science tells us that the con- itution of matter throughout the an iverse is the same! The fartfest star. contains the same gases and minerala ag exist on the earth. The further science is able to extend her knowledge the more certain she becomes of the fact of the unity of nature. And, this becomes an
GERMAN PROPAGANDA. IMPORT AND DISCOVERY IN"
BOHEMIA
PARTS, October 16th.
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A Havas message says:--: Le Temps states that there have been discovered in Bohemia documents of un- doubted authenticity showing that the
from London would be
New York San Francisco Cairo.
« Colombo
Perth (Australia) Nairobi
2.
Cape Town Rio de Janeiro
or
And as we look at the world today and
it seething with the results of the The cost of operation "for ‘a régular great war must we not acknowledge that service would be at a passenger rate of what the world needs to-day is, love td per mile, and a mail rate of 3d. per. Hatred, malice and suspicion are appas
with larger wirships, carrying great. er loads, lower rates might apply. rently everywhere in the neendant
By the use of a tuooring-must, Nation distrusts nation, and clase sus power, to which the airship could be pects class Not in one nation, bat in ored by the nose, the dirigible would be able to ride out in any weather clear many, civil war seems imminent. Science of the ground. The airship could early and elucation were expected by some to ber moored to, ur released from, the tower in any wind up to 60 miles an hour with- make this world a paradise, but they
eut dificulty. Passengers could get into have not done so. They have only made
ur out of the ship by means of a lift war more terrible and destructive than in the tower, so that there would be no ever before. After so much scientifeused to house the ship,, except for periodit overhaul and refit. Airships advance the human heart remains we would bare saloors rivalling those of the changed. What is needed in the world great steamships for comfort and luxury. As lightness is, of course, essential, it is today is a new principle of life and
probable that practically everything will action, and it just that new principle be made of aluminum alloy, which is as wtrong, as steel and only one-third of the that the love of God brings us.
weight. We have professed and called ourselves
Crae of the obstacles to projects re- Christians but too often we have negating to commercial dying has been the lected the two great commandments on
Lack of definite idens as to cust. As' a basis of comparison it may be of interest, nute that two regular
passengers are just being insugerated. services will be between the capitals. uf As a good many of the pioneer Aying adjacent States this basis may be possibly the best conceivable.
A War Office communiqué states that Berlin Government, intends to send 200 argument for the unity of the God of which our Lord made all the others therefore, to the Bolshevik offensive on a large scale German officers to organise Bolshevism Nature, so that we find that even people depend-we have not loved God and we London to Paris acroplane services for
against Tsaritsin, which began on October 11th; failed after two days, with severe
losses,
COSSACK PROGRESS. The Cossacks on the west of Taaritsin crossed the Don on a wide, front, taking 12,000 prisoners, while, farther westward. the Concka occupied the line of the
and foment revolutionary troubles in Allied countries..
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EARLIER CABLES
GERMAN SOLDIER ARRESTED IN.
- METZ.
PARIS, October 16th.
A Havas message Boys:~
have not loved our neighbours. And if who do not accept the Christian revela to-day we have to lament that the "Christ tion yet believe in the unity of the fan Church has not the influence in the power behind nature, as e. Herbert world that the ought to have, it is be Spencer who wrote of an infinite and cause she has neglected these two end- "eternal Energy from which all thingsmandments, it is because we Christian
proceed,"
people have not loved God and have not loved our neighbour. It has been truly
slowly into the mind of Jesus. First it as the agnostic describes God,
clung to legalium with St. Peter, after that this is Love. That is a revelation ofwart's it learnt faith with St. Paul, and a truth, which it cannot be said we should ever have learned from nature, for though at fast it entered into love with St, John, i 2s. 6d. per lb. for parcels. The route re-
Bat Christ revealed to us the fact, that the power behind nature, the "Ulti-
elected Dr. Retiner State Chancellor and River Ehoper from its junction with the German soldier was arrested in Metz mato Reality, the "Inscrutable Erint. I said that the Christian consciousness grow
Foreign Secretary. The other Ministers were re-elected.
AFGHANISTAN.
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MOSCOW'S WELCOME TO THE AFGHAN DELEGATION.
Moscow, October 16th. The speeches at the welcome to the Afghan Embassy promised that, Soviet- Russia would support Afghanistan "in fighting for her emancipation from her age-long, oppresso-é in the East, namely, British imperialir."
Vali Khan replied that the Afgbans strongly hoped, with the assistance of
Soviet Russia, to succeed in emancipating Afghanistan and the rest of the East." PASSAGES TO THE EAST RELIEF SHIP'S BEING ARRANGED.
LONDON, October 18th.
It is understood that the relief ship Egypt will mail for India on October 30th. with 500 male passengers, half Govern
ment and half private.
It is suggested that the P. & O. 6.5. Kalyan which is due at Leith from North Russia on October 17th., should be em- ployed as a relief ship.
WORLD'S COTTON
CONFERENCE. GREATER CO-OPERATION URGED.
Don to Tishanskaya. They also captured yesterday, wearing a French uniform and Kalach and Pavlovsk, "taking 2,000 primaking revolutionary speeches. scners A entire Red regiment was destroyed.
THE PEACE TREATY. OFFICIAL RECORD OF RATIFICA- TION.
PARIS, Uctober 16th.
A Havas message says:--
FRENCH ELECTIONS. THE FIRST OF THE BALLOT BATTLES.
PARIS. October 15th.
A Havas messago Bays:~ After debate, in which M. Briand shared, the Chamber of Deputies accept
ce
there is much in nature which might lead as to believe in a loving power, yet there is so much that seems to contradict thas tritu bat, without a revelation, it is doubtful if we should ever have come to believe in God as Love...
Our Lord has taught ny that fod is
who was the final interpreter of the life of Jesus Time and again men have gone back to mere legalism, they have regarded Christianity as a philosophy, as a creed, a system of ethics, but they have "overlooked the mence of our
religion, which is love, and so they have
"The copy of the Peace Treaty signed by ed yesterday, by 324 votes to 132, the Lessentially Love, and that the first thing deprived it of all power and vitality.
H. M. the King, constituting British rati fication, arrived in Paris yesterday.
Signor Tittoni is expected in Paris to morrow with the Treaty ratified by Italy.
the three ratifications--by Great Britain, The final ceremony of putting on record
France, and Italy-will take place some time next week at the Quai d'Orsay
Su
Our Blessed Lord realised that the tin
The distance betwend London : and Paris is 225 miles, and will be covered normally at 100 miles an hour.
The charge by one of the services (the Air- eraft, Transport, and Travel, Ltd., who use Airco'machines) will be £91 for the single and 43 for the return journey. small bag, but parcels are generally Each passenger is permitted to take a charged at 78. 6d. per lb.
The rates advertised by the Hardley Page, Ltd., are 15 15 each way, and a charge of
ferres to will, without doubt, be the lost popular in Europe. and, if the iraffe warrants it, some reduction in the charges may be possible.
As an indication of the range of rim of aeroplanes now being put on the market, catalogues received in the De- partment of Overseas Trade indicate that tainable for about £500, while for a large. a small one water aeroplane will be ob machine. capable of seating 24 passengers, 20,000 is mentioned as an approximata price without engagement. As the prices
when He was asked by this lawyer which which binde men most, sincerely together all, materials used are liable to great
Clemenceau Bill fixing the elections, The we must do is to return His love, frst of the ballot battles will begin November 16th.
en
FREEMASONRY.
Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England and Wales and the Colonies
was the great commandment in the Law,
He at once 6xed on the command to love God as the first and most important, and the second commandment was to love one's deighbour as oneself. “.
| Our Lord very plainly showed as that
is not forged in the intellect bug in the heart. It is love which is the strongest tond inexistence, which conquer die taner and outlives tim, and so He founded His Kingdom on love. And we who are Christinna must love. But
Among the measures that will follow and Dependencies of the British Crown He meant His religion to be a positive perhaps someone will say that love i
this step will be the realizing of the Agreement of 1902 concerning the Chinese Customs Tariff and the Agreement of 1900 concerning the Whangpco.
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. FRENCH REPRESENTATIVE ON.
THE COUNCIL
PARIS. October 16th
A Havas message says:→
M. Leon Bourgeois, the former Premier, who took such a prominent, part for France in the drawing up of the Coven- ant of the League of Nations, has been At the Cotton Conference, the apenkora formally appointed the French repre-
sentative on the Council of the League.
FRANCE'S WAR MATERIAL
NEW ORLEANS, October 16th.
urged greater co-operation between the cotton-producing and cotton manufactur
recently adopted an important course in connection with the Benevolent Fund of the degree, in deciding that its benesta should be available for the relief of those not actually associated with this parti cular section of Freemasonry. The first grant has just been made in this direc: tion, scholarship of £80 per annum for three years having been given to Doreen Seppitt daughter of a former member of the Lancashire Crait Lodge, No. 2,528, who was born in 1901, and has been edu for Girls, and is taking up her residence cated at the Royal Masonic Institution in September at Universty College,, Read
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true.
Auctuation, these figures are the best approximations that can be made by the manufacturers.
As an indication of running costs, the patrol consumption may be taken as gallon an hour for every 18 h.p. Depres ciation and ground charges are too indefinite to warrant any estimate, how ever rough.
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An invention which, it, is stated, rang in future equal in importance the ordi- nary telephone was mentioned before the Royal Commission on Awards to Inven tors at Westminster recently. The claim was in respect of Major Tucker's inven tion of the hotwire microphone.
spontaneous and cannot be forced. And to the amount of £84,000 in a competition The Air Ministry intend to offer prizes and not a negative one. The Jewish
to a certain extent, of course, that is which is to be framed with a view to religion in Christ's time had become, to
stimulating the design of aeroplanes. But love cannot ariss towards one suitable for commercial purposes. a very large extent, a religion of neg tives. This, that and the other thing stranger to is we cannot expect to love whom we do not know. If Christ is 4
were forbidden. Thou shall not" wiss
Him. We do not love"strangery II A RIVAL TO THE TELEPHONE the old formula. Christ changes this. His religion is
we feel that Christ is a stranger to us be positive. He
PATENT ASSIGNED TO THE it is our own fault It is because we And founded His Kingdom on Love
INVENTOR yet to-day we every often find people who have become His friends, His love cannot
have not tried to know "Him, but if wel think of Christ's religion as a religion fail to arouse some answering love in us.
the Christian faith if they have kept free they are His, and so the second command- of negatives, and believe they have kept If we have learned to luse God we must love all God's children just because from great sins. How often one finds a ment is a consequence of the first.. mas on his death bed who say, he has This gratifying extension of Masonic done no great barm and so he hopes, all from which love radiates to uplift the Every Christian ought to be a centre benevole.ce is rendered possible by the will be well with him in the next world. world; but how far short of this the nward of £4,000 was made in March on Mr. Romer, for the claimant said the contined access of the Mark Benevolent That is a feeble idea of the Christian average Christian falls! Right conduct the undertaking that the paient should be Fund, which this year celebrated its fifty religion. It shows that such a man haa necessarily Hows first anniversary, a total of £6,327 being
[rem the essential handed back to the inventor. The award- not realised that Christianity is founded righteousness of love which will not allow announced at the festival held under the
had not been paid, and a letter had been chairmanship of the Provincial Grand God and to our neighbour
on love, and requires love in us, love to the highest interests of either self ur received from the Treasury to say that divided into three branches-benevolence, teachers of Christianity have so far de is not more learning or more wealth but claimant desires to have the patent, for Master of Monmouthshire. The fund
neighbour to be overlooked, What is the Government deaired to reassign the There have been times when professing needed throughout Christendom to day patent absolutely to the patentee. The annuity, and educational—and has beec able to relieve all applicants on either
parted from the first principles of more love, and the only lasting bagia of his own usé. Christ's revelation as to make Chris-love for men is a real love of God, for section throughout its career, without the tianity a religion of fear instead of love, men are not always lovable but God is asked if there was any reason at present The Chairman (Mr. Justice Sargent) necessity of a contested election.
The Duke of Portland, a Provincial There have been many professing to be Christ, so that love for our Lord is the
but perfect love casteth out fear." And God is revealed to us in Jesus for the invention being kept secret. Cirand Master of Nottinghamshire, has Christians who have seemed to take a driving force of Christianity, and the used by a great many people, and had Mr. Romer said there, was not. It was made a point in recent years of recognis ing war service bestowing grand delight in depicting the horrors of future only power which can regenerate the been captured by the enemy. honours in his district. On different
torment,
and have believed that God now world. Let me conclude by quoting some Mr. Trevor Watson, for the Treasury, occasions he has selected members who tends the most horrible sickness and dis noble words of the late Ian MacLaren aid it was impossible to say at present ease to make. His children miserable We ought to discern the real strength the probable extent of the use of the senting the possibility of carrying on an cularly distinguished themselves.
in this world. But Christ, who taught of Christianity and revive the ancient pateat by Government Departments. The intensive warfare for eight months.
year he felt honour should be paid bes with which He came in contact and our religion; it is the guarantee of its sound-ranging. to brethren who, by their signal He has taught us to look upon God as triumph. Faith may languish; creeds Post Office was mentioned as one of its and devoted service to the country, had, Father who is anxious that our bodies may be changed; churches may be dissol- commercial possibilities,
Its prchable use by the contributed to the victory achieved. He Recordingly appointed Major G. A should be healthy as well as that our ved; society may be shattered; but one Robinson, Part Provincial Senior Grand spirits should be free from sin. The cannot imagine the time when Jesus will should be signed to Major Tucker, The Chairman suggested that the patent Warden; Major E. H. Spalding and cod Pre tone by God the ten not be the fair image of perfection, or with a licence to the Crown to use it as Lieutenant Ernest Brooks, Paat and disense as sent by God for the in the circumstances wherein He will not be they thought fit. Major Tucker would Provincial Benior Grand Deacons; Major Drovement of the sufferers shows how.com loved. He can never be superseded. He has get the commercial use of it, but
Past Raynor, D.8.0.
pletely we have failed to realise that God can never be exceeded. Religions will the State would get the commercial use Grand Deacon; and Captain E. C. James, is love. In fact we may say that any come and go, the passing shapes of an so far as the Post Office were.concerned. Past Provincial Grand Director of Cera Christians' ides of flod is pagan rather eternal instinct, but Jesue will remain monies, In conferring the different hon than Christian. The heathen ours his Grace briefly referred to the taught that the Gods are as much satisfaction of the heart, whom all men
An arrangement on the lines wan Grecks the standard of the conscience and the come to, and the Chairman, expresseff special services of the recipients.
above human allection as inanimate seek, in whom all men will yet meet."
the hope that the £4,000 would be paid very promptly by the Treasury.
ing nations in order to secure better co-SUFFICIENT FOR ANOTHER EIGHT prdination in shipping-and-the-war-hous
ing of cotton, keeping in the track of for eign credits, and the creation of a cumpet- ent statistical system covering the cotton industry of the world.
THE MARSEILLES STRIKE PASSENGER STEAMERS ABLE TO
PROCEED
MARSEILLES, October 18th.
MONTHS WAR.
PARIS, October 18th.
A Havas message says:—
In the French Chamber of Deputies, it Was stated, yesterday, that France now had an immense amount of war material,
to the value of about £600,000,000, repre- sons had lost the lives, or pahat God is love, always cured all sick passion for Jesus. It is the distinction of invention during the war was used for
A compromise in regard to the pay of
BREST ARSENAL STRIKE. dockers is being arranged.
Passenger SITUATION SHOWS CONSIDERABLE ships will be able leave to-day for India. STRIKE TS OVER.
PAR, October-16th--
A Havas message saya:--
IMPROVEMENT.
PARIA, October Jeth.. ▲ Havas message says:- The situation in regard to the Brest The Marseilles shipa' engineers' strike arsenal strike shows considerable improve. is over...
ment. A large number of strikers have returned to work.
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