ANOTHER CANTON
EXPLOSION.
MISHAP AT TUNGSHIN
FORT.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.
CANTON, July 7
Another ammunition store Was blown up in Canton last Thursday night near the Eastern Furt below Tangshan. Large quantities of high explosive. cartridges and small bombs were exploded, shak ing the vicinity like an earthquake. No one knew how the explosion was eatsed but it is thought to have been data spontaneous roni- hustim, for necording to the official. in charge, Mr. Wang Kwan Soon, when the temperature get. uver Ba degrees, trouble is to be experteik The building where the high expics sive bombs were kept was shatter.. ed, the air being thick with steel The earth. joists, bricks and soldiers' barracks nearby was badly shaken and flying fragments made large holes in the walls,
Was
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1929.
THANKSGIVING SERVICES.
FOR THE RECOVERY OF H.M. KING GEORGE V.
WONDERFUL DEMONSTRATION OF LOYALTY.
THE KING'S MESSAGE.
In the course of his sermon at St. John's Cathedral during the thanksgiving service for the recovery of H.M, King George V.. the Dean (the Very Rev. A. wand) stressed the fact that King George holds his throne, not by military force or because of tradition, but because he is truly "enthroned in the fearts of his people! Because in the fee.ing of the public he fills the throne- the symbed of unity, peace and justice-adequately and admirably,
That the Cathedral was packed on a hot day in July with a ggregation which took a hearty part in the serviet, was the visible proof of the truth of the Dean's words. It needs a special effort to attend mattins during the hot weather, but that effort was gladly made is young and old in order that they might take apart is the nut.upa thanksgiving.
The service
IN THE CATHEDRAL.
THE DEAN'S SERMON.
were
Hot
was admirably ar ganged, inpressive, benügtal, add above all cheerie as cited the
The Dean of St. John's Cathe occasion. The cher entered by the Fire broke out but in view of the west door to strams of the psala began his sermon by saying
that the congregation danger of the exploding bombs, no will lift up mine eyes unto the one was allowed to approach the his. Following this is Excellene in their service of thanks
ley the Governor (Sir Cecil living. building. But in any case the place Clementi, K.C.M.G) representing! Within a few hours His Majesty a long way from any water the person of H. The King en himmelf would be joining with a supply and the fire brigade would tered and stood to attention by the number of his subjects in a simalar west door during the singing of the service in Westminster Abbey, and have taken a long time to get there. National Anthon Tan reedest throughout all the British Empire" Fortunately, there were very few by the Dean and Clergy and the people were gathered together for Cathedras officers, and attended by the same purpose. It was an extra soldiers on the premises and only his Aideg de Camp. II.E the Gove ordinary thing to imagine thousands two men were slightly injured. nor moved to his reas in the Nave of men and women of many races Penetically all the bombs, expls-while the choir and congregation joining together to give thanks for individual. At the close of the sives, rifles and other weapons eap-sang Praise my soul the King of an event in the life of a single Great War the whole world gave banks but in that case the majority were doing so because they felt paia. eleased from their Now the gathering together and the thanksgiving was for another's release, and there was very little that was srifish in the action.
Si
"A larger magazine, not very far away, was not damaged. "
Heaven,
"tured from pirates and bandits were The bymn ended, the Dean stood
kept there. All these were desat the Chancel steps and saich:
are come troyed.
Good people, we
the presence of together into Alaghty God in spiritual com, pany with our brethren in a parts of the World, to offer to fim thanksgiving for His nerey to our Beloved King, for i
severe illness deliverance tri and for the signs, live and loyalty of his prope made manifest in time of troulate. And that we may more truly join in fellowship with the King this day let us this
A THANKLESS TASK.
hear his own message people.
THE KING'S MESSAGE.
S:
Mr Chow Tin Pong, manager of the Canton Electric Light and Power Company, has resigned, and Mr. Siao Goon Ying' has been appointed by the Board of Direc tors to take his place. The new manager is now magistrate of the District of Sun Tak and is not ja Canton. But owing to incessant trouble with the workmen the past
H.E. the Governor thea is not one that is much sought.. the King's message - after and it is doubtful if Mr. Siao will give up his present position to take it. So far he has shown no inclination to accept the job. Mr. Chow Tin Pong, the outgoing man- azer has bitterly complained of the bad behaviour of the workmen.. He has been held up to ridiculer and his employees even went so far as to cut all the electric wires lead- ing into his private house. He is glad to he quit of a thankless task.
THE NEW OFFICIALS. The newly appointed officials, of the Kwangtung Provincial Govern- ment are to be formally inducted on July 15.
General Chen Ming Shu con tinues to be the Chairman of the Provincial Council, but many changes have been made. Mr. Tang Chak Yu has been appointed to the Department of Reconstruction in place of Mr. Ma Chiu Tsoon, who is at present at Geneva attending the International Labour Confer- ence of the League of Nations. The accounts of this Department are being closed preparatory to hand- ing the portfolio over to the new chief. General Chen Ming Shu will concurrently be the head of the Department of Civil Affaire. Other new members of the Government in- elude Mr. Lin Wan Koi, Mayor of Canton, and Messrs. Lam. Yick Chung, Ean Ki Mo, Kin Trang Ching and Sun Hai Wan
THE CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY.
EARLY COMPLETION
INDICATED.
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In looking back on my long liness and recovery my heart is full of thankfulness of far deeper brigin than ang mere sense of relief.
I have been brought back from the danger and weariness of the past months by the wonderft. skill and devotion of my Doctors, Surgeons and Yurses. And hop has come from another source of strength: as month after month went by learned of the wide spread and loving solicitude with which the Queen and I were sure rounded. I was able to picture to myself the crowds of triends waiting and watching at gates, and to think of the still greater number of those who, in
!
מטם
Won the Hearts of His People.
THE UNION CHURCH.
“EVERYBODY'S, KING."
A STRIKING ADDRESS,
I have been told that during recent years there has been trade depression in the Cology. Can we realise that any fight success de pends not merely upon external things but on a spiritual fact. The hopes for the future are dependent upon fine courage, an inter- nationa! good will, a spirit of "unity.
The Committee of the St. An
The Matika Hospital's Gift. drew's Society attended the thanks. "This generation" is unique not giving service at Union Church, alupe in the challenge it offers to Hong Kong, which was condpeted nations but inila scientific pro- gress. It is a age of scientific but the Minister, the Rev, F. C. discovery and adventure. One of Young, who, in the course of his the treatments to which the King's address, mentioned the interestingllness responded, was that of ray
theraphy. fact that the trustees of the Matilda This fart is bracketed with the Hospital have purchased three appeal which has been made in grazumes of radium for cancer treat-association with the Thanksgiving ment, at a gost of £3,000. There service. an appeal for the double was a large congregation.
purpose of King Edward's Hos ital Fund and the Nationand Radium Fund.
At the beginning of the service the Minister read the King's mes sage to his people and this was followed by the singing of two vergess of the National Anthem introduced on the service paper by this appropriate sentenze from the Contripucary Retiew:-
The prevailing feeling has converted the National Anthem into à fervent prayer in which al classes of the King's subjects have joined with equal, sincerity
and earnestness."
The need for radium is great and urgent and the supply is altogether inadequate to test this need. Hanian life is at stake and with it a'nation's reputation."
The £250,000 has been secured. and the supply of the radium will
administered by a body" of trustees which it is understood will have the confidence of the Govern meat and the medical profession.
*
Through the interest and e chustusin of the Matilda Memorial There followed prayers for the Hospital, three granes of madiun, King and Queen and members of costing £3,000, will be available for the Royal Family, for the medical
the attack on this disease. Surely and nursing professions, for hes never was a £3,000 more usefully. pitals, and for the Colony of Hong spent. Honey could not have bern Kony. "now pusing through consecrated to more noble pur-
The offer pose. For time of special stress,
general use it will Tory was on behalf of the Affiliated Falleviate much suffering and pre- serve many lives. The Colony will Hospitals of the Londos Mission.
In his address, the Rev. F. C.
owe a debt of gratitude to the de parted benefactor, the Hospital, When this present year dawned, and the doctor, who have been the Young said:
ita nelvent was quietened and sub-medium of such a blessing, dued by the knowledge that the King was dangerously ill. As the days dragged past, a nation, an 1272 anxious world empire, and poised in a momentous hush, await ing the news from Buckingham
Palace.
Rarely has there been an occasion when so universal a regard was shown for the Thrond" During that time, from the world's out posts, came anxious enquiries and messages of sympathy and hope. 10byeome evident that His Majesty was not alone the King of Great Britain and her Empire, but, as Mr. Baldwin said on Empire Day, The world wide extent of disia-Everybody's King." terested concern at His Majesty's lineas was due to admiration of his character. He had indeed won the hearts of his people and held his throne not by force or by tradition but by admiration of his character Throughout his reign he had de voted himself to the service of his people and exercised his great Tho power consistantly for good. King and the throne were symbols, but a symbol was only effective if it were adequate, it must truly portray that which it was intended to symbolise. The throne of Eng- land was never so secure as to-day, because in the feeling of the people His Majesty fills that throne ade quately.
Silence and Divine Law. They were met, the preacher con tinued, to express their gratitude for the King's recovery to health, They believed that the King of Kings was the author and giver of every good thing, and that lie had enabled. King George to command the love of his people, and had restored him to health. God was the source of all health and from Him cume the spirit which allows man to rise nearer to the divine character, and from Him also comes Disobedience to the laws of phy. sieni health was the cause of all iness. God willed health and de sired men to work with him, by It was an encouragement bekeeping those laws. Modern medi- yond description' to feel that my cal science had the wisdom to co Our debt to constant and earnert desire had operate with God. been granted--the desire to gain medical science was very great and the confidence and affection of my they had an opportunity of paying People. My thoughts have ear some of it that morning for the ried me even farther than this.collection was in aid of local po I cannot dwell upon the generous pitals.
ympathy shown to me by un
Our thanksgiving to day is for a lif given to us yet again, a life. which has revealed a willingness. for service, a patient self sacrifice for others.
Let us never forget the respon- sibilities Inid upon a King, but by our own conduct and character, in gratitude to God let us serve our nation that our nation may serve the world.
The King remains to us the First Gentleman of our land, not because he is the King but because he has given his all for the country end the empire, and the world.
A PARSEE SERVICE.
There was large gathering of Farsee ladies and geralemen at the special Thankacffering Service for the recovery of HM the King. held by the community at their Prayer Hall at Happy Valley at 0
To-day in Weguainster Abbey a thankful monarch and a grateful people praise God that health has returned after long weeks of illness. The Service of Thanks giving will not be a ceremony of State: no uniform or offcial dress will be worn. Begard a few placesa.m. yesterday. set apart, the Abbey will be open to the general public, and the ser- vice will be of the simplest possible character.
After the Jasan Ceremony and the prayers, the officiating priest, Rev. P. J. Aukhesari addressed the congregation. One of the grent teaching of the Zoroastrian re 1918gion, he said, was for every sub- feet to a loyal to his King and country and to love his fellowmen. in their daily prayers, the Parses always wish their ruler and the Royal family the best of health, strength and long life. This is but a special occasion for all to join together and thank the Almighty
A Personal Faith. Before the great advance of a war correspondent at the Front entered * wayside chapel, and he saw a french soldier upon his knees: it was Marshal Foch, who had gone to make his prayer to God. Let this generation never forget that in the secret places of their own lives the men upon who great responsibilities, täll have their personal faith. It is so with the King.
in Londen," writes a former member of Parliament, there, is a home within the paince which is as private as anyoiber Britisher's castle. 1 is in that home where the King and Queen breakfast alone that the Bible is read."
The journalist finds one positive of His Majesty, sonal influence
Some years ago the King allowed it to be stated that, as a boy, he had promised his mother to read the Bible every day, and that be had kept that promise."
for the wonderful recovery His prolonged illness and to wish him Majesty has made, from his recent. renewed vigour to enjoy years of
In continuous health and hopping.
times of need "members of the community have always come
WB made to forward to render faithful ser
ice, and reference some of the noble deeds performed
those assembled were enjoined to by great Passces in history, and
ancestors by continually loving and serving their King-Empror and his Empire.
every part of the Empire, were mental and physical heath, hint, one clue to the immense per live up to the name of their worthy
remembering me with prayers and good wishes. The realization of this has been among the most vivid experiences of my life.
When we bad learnt, concluded known friends in many other the preacher, the two great lessons, countries without a new and moy dependence on God and service to ing hope. I long to believe it others, which could not be separ possible that experiences such as ated, the Kingdom of God-"whore nine may soon appear no longer service perfect freedom-would exceptional: when the national come on earth. auxieties of all the Peoples of the
ship.
Those Present.
Worki shall be feit as a common Besides II.E. the Governor, there source of human sympathy and a common claim of human friend were present in an official capacity members of the Hong Kong Goy! I am not yet able to bear the erament, oficers of His Majesty's strain of a public ceremony, but Services, of the Consular Body, I look forward on some appoint and representatives of many of the ed day to joining with me People big business frms of the Colony.
at bone and overseas in thanking! Almighty God, not merely for my own recovery but for the new evidences of a growing kindliness significant of the true nature of Men and Nations.
In the meantime I hope that "this message may reach all those, eves in the remotest corners of
AT ST. ANDREW'S.
J.
THANKSGIVING FOR PRAYERS THAT WERE ANSWERED.
"
the world, from whom I have re-ed for the Thanksgiving Service,
eived words of sympathy and good will
St. Andrew's Church was crowd. which took the same form as that at the Cathedral. The King's mes (Nam Chung Pa
GEORGE, R.I. ange was head by the Hon. Sir Suitable prayers for the King, the Heary Pollock, K.C., and the Rev. Shana and Mr. P. Sunds, According to the scheme drafted Britisk Empire, the sick and thore. B. by the Ministry of Railways for the who minister, to them, and for M.A.. took the Servier.
The local Scouts, Guides and completion of the Canton-Haakow international brotherhood, with Railway, the section of the railway-pealing and hymns and lesson from Cubs paraded before the service between Bhiukwan and Lokchang Rev. XXI. and XXII. with the and, were present in uniform.
The Rev. C. B. Shana in the in Kwangtung is to be constructed Dean's sermeo, completed a most in the near future:
memorable and impressive service, course of a very cloquent, serinon mom will be yet which concluded with the official lanske gi thiy-world-wide service of aside from the Belgian share of the peace version of the National 4719 and Yanksgiving though Boxer Indemnity, for the purchase them and the hymn "Praise the out the King's long illness the (Continued at foot of next column) of railway material.
Lord, ye heavens adore him.'
The Service of a King. Since the King came to the throne in 1910 he has served the nation generously and with little regard for his own confort. It is by hard work and sheer merit that the Throne has secured an unshakeable place in our national life. The King has stood for all that is best. in British character and conduct.
We cannot but be grateful to one. who has shown so real a patience and so kindly a courage. Through out the anxious times of the past
His Majesty has displayed a fine example, and through difficult days of war and peace has shown u
any a fine virtue.
Peace in Our Time," We are thankful for the King's recovery, since it is our hope that he may be spared to share with his people the more peaceful years that lie ahead. It is our prayer that the closing years of so strenuous and useful a lifetmay be spent in quietness, surrounded by a nation and a world at peace, deve ua- touched by shadow.
(Continued on next Columa).
prayers of his subjects, Christian and non-Christian alike, had been offered for his recovery and it was the granting of thore prayere for which we now offered thanks:
Prayer was a thing about which we knew and understood very little. Like the work of the "surgeon's knife, it held something of the ex
But perinental and the uncertain. the human men now as always had deeprooted belief prayer hellef founded on the teaching and the example of Our Lord.
Mr. D. K. Kharas, President of the board of trustees of the Parsee Charity Fund Association, express- ed the general feeling of thanks to find HM the King completely restored to health. He hoped that Almighty God would spare His Majesty long to rule over his law. abiding and loyal subjects.
THANKS OF, A NATION.
Only to say "Thank God!" The age-old about of Creation! Only to raise from the homeland
sod,
From the wide, wild westes where
our ships have trod, From the lands where paths are
of gleaming snow, Where the spicy breaths of the
tropies blow,
The thanks of a nation! Only to low the head
In reverent, glid elation! With praise that echoes in anthem
loyal,
With never а
spoil
jarring note to
from high and from lowly, from
hut and hall,——.
We are humble in gratitude, each
and all,
In thanks of a ration!
No matter what the creed,
Or trifles of rank and station,——— We are one in the song that awelle
above,
In honour, and, grester thin all,
in love
For a King who has earned a
great world's trust,----
The King! God bless him ! ”
(Aye, pray we trust!) "Who is friend and monarch,
revered and just,
Beloved of the British
GLADYS JACKSON.
Hong Kong..
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