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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, AUGṛST, 19, 1936,
THE BUNGLING BISHOPS.
NINE years ago Lord DAWSON, addressing a Church Congress at Birmingham, said that birth-control was a question which had come to stay." It was, he said, an established fact, and for good or evil has to be accepted. Although the "extent of its application can be and is being modified, no denunciations will abolish it." Eleven years ago the Bishop of Birmingham declared that "moral-
on the question of divorce is con- The Northern coalition has not stantly changing. Some years ago interfered with these remittances, the Bishop of Ely wrote a book but recently they have been reduced entitled "What Did Christ Teach or altogether stopped. The high About Divorce?" in which he cost of civil war has prevented naively admitted that in the first Nanking from supporting educa
Evidence was given at a Kensing three Gospels we have nothing tional institutions any longer. ton inquest recently on the body of like an exact and verbatim report After two years of comparative Richard Martin Jones (38), an of what Christ said." Quite re- peace and prosperity, the univer- Army pensioner, that he threw hin cently grave doubts have been ex-sities in Peiping apparently face self from a District Railway train between Kensington High Street pressed by Christian scholars about another period of uncertainty and and Notting Hill Gate stations. the authorship, of the Fourth unrest. The Nationalist leaders at A shop assistant, who was, in the same coach, said that the man got Gospel, so it would seem that the Nanking did their best for educa-
un suddenly, opened the door, look Bishop of Ely's selection of a tion in Peiping. They spent muched both ways, and jumped out. A title for his book was rather un-
money there, and teachers received brother said that Jones had been very depressed because of injuries fortunate.
their pay on time, which is un
received during his war service, usual in China. Now salaries are when he was a lieutenant in the again in arrear
Machine Gun Corps. He was blow up on one occasion, and buried in a dug-out on another. In 1919 he was awarded a disability pension et £350 a year, and had been in and cst of mental hospitals ever since. Mr.. H. R. Oswald recorded a ver- diet of suicide, while of unsound mind.
* News and Views ⭑
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Mrs. Bousfield, the Nottingham cantonarian who recovered from serious illness, and is now as strong as ever, celebrated her 102nd birth-
day recently by holding a garden fete at Alexandra Park. She stil! addresses meetings, walks to church, ridea in motor-cars and tram-cars, and behaves as a hale and youthful maiden. Recently she spoke for twenty minutes, and disdains as- sistance of any kind. When the King and Queen visited Nottingham she was photographed with the Queen.
Those who like to point with pride to the progress along medical lines. in recent years may had it difficult to accept the comparison made by Clifton R. Wharton, of the United States Legation at Monrovia, Liberia, regarding some practices of the interior of that country which he characterized as voodoo customs. he said, "with needles and make "They prick their backs and limbs," special meeting from September 18 marks on their bodies to drive away bad spirits. We take blood tests to 31, next, under the honorary and are inoculated to drive away chairmanship, of the Chinese Minis-bad health. ter General Chiang Tso Pin. The be a matter of name." For is not The difference -may programme includes the reading of the analogy entirely apund? n number of papers on interestag Chinese problems.
The German-Chinese Association at Dresden has decided to hold a
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And so it is with the question of birth-control. The timid Bishops find themselves faced with a definite The Chinese universities are so social problem which has to be met closely allied with Governments boldly and without equivocation-a that politics plays an inevitable problem which does not permit of part in education. Executive beads their seeking shelter behind either of schools are political appointees, divine or ecclesiastical law. Poor and civil wars make refugees of people spend much more money on educators as well as politicians coffins för little children than do Chinese teachers and students are the rich that is a demonstrable hoping for the day when univer- fact, and a damning one. That sities may be divorced from poli- wicked waste of human life can be tics, but the dawn of that day has checked, and is being checked, not yet appeared. Naoking has thanks to the efforts of a few supported schools in Peiping as
Visitors and residents witnessed carnent social workers-men and long as possible, because they want
a daring precipice rescue of a lamb women of education and refinement, the sympathy of students, and they
In consequence of the. Austrian at Barmouth recently. It was re- and, many of them, religiously in have it. Probably a majority of journalists opposition to the Fress ported that the lamb had been ith- clined-who have gone on with work the students in Peiping want Nan-law which came into force hardly a prisoned for three days on a dan
year ago, the Austrian Ministry of gerous ledge at Graigfach Quarry, they believed to be good without king to win the civil war. Dis Justice has decided to submit to belonging to the Urban Council. A Waiting for the Bishops to bestow turbed by political interference the national assembly a new draft local contractor, Mr. Ivor Pugh, their formal blessing upon it. again, students cannot settle down which, it is understood will in most volunteered to be lowered down the respects follow the lines of the precipice 130 feet to rescue the lamb." When such names as Sir JAMES to their studies. The coming school Press law of the German Reich. Ropes were obtained and he was BARR, C.E.E., DAME CLARA BUTT, year promises to be another period This would also be in accordance then let down over the dangerous Sir W. ARBUTHNOT LANE, Miss of unrest in Peiping's schools, with with the policy followed by Austria ledges It took him an hour to daring the last few years to as reach the lamb, which he succred- MAUDE ROYDEN, Admiral Sir PERCY consequent evil effects upon the similate as far as conditions allowed in grasping, and both were ther Scorr (to mention but a few) are scholastic atmosphere.
the law codes of the countries. hauled up to safety amidst cheera.. found among those supporting the movement for giving birth-control instruction to the poor (the rich already had it) the Bishops cannot. successfully pretend that the move- ment is an atheistic and Bolshe- vistic plot against society in general and the Church" in parti- cular. Beuter tells us that the Bishop of Bloemfontein, being in great haste to clear his soul, bas written to the Church Times to say he conscientiously and vehemently objects to some of the statements in the "Encyclical Letter to the Faithful." There is nothing sur- prising in that disavowal. Among the Bishops are always found men conscientiously opposed to any re- based upon appeals to common-sense and humanitarian
form
* Local Notes and Events
A Chinese woman was fined $250 by Mr. H. R. Butters at the Central Magistracy yesterday for being in unlawful possession of 464 po più tickets. It was intimated that the tickets were worth $399.
Between 4.15 p.m.. on Sunday and the early hours of Monday morning some person stole from the premises of Madame Chiffon an eight-day clock and a small table clock valued at $180. A report has
1930 Edition, as well as eugenically, it was sentiment. There were Bishops who been made to the police.
OF THE
DIRECTORY
right of people in certain circum- bitterly opposed the abolition of stances.to use harmless means to slavery, the provision of education control the birth-rate." Now, in for the poor, woman suffrage, and 1930, by a majority of almost three every other social reform "accom- to one, the Lambeth Conference-aplished during the past century. gathering oner in ten years of Some Bishops are like the Bourbons Bishops of the Anglican Church-learning nothing and forgetting CHRONICLE has expressed guarded episcopal nothing and bungling every social
AND
The 68th Annual Issue
OF THE
approval of birth-control, "pro- problem they meddle with, but the vided this is done in the light of world does move, in spite of them. Christian principles." Precisely what that cautious qualification
A bricklayer named Weng Sheng was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday suffering from injuries in the back, inflicted with a dagger. His alleged assail ant has been arrested. It is under stood that the cause of the stabbing
concerned a debt "affair.
The sale by public auction of the B.8. Venezia has been postponed till
originally advertised to take place
Directory and Chronicle means we must wait until the mail EDUCATION AND POLITICS. 3.30 p.m. on Thursday. It was
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Tals Large Volume of approximate ly 2,000 Pages gives, in addition to the Usual Lists of Firms, an Alphabetical List of Residents in the Far East containing the
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On Sunday afternoon a Y.M.C.A. picnic party bad a bit of a thrill when the launch on which they were travelling went aground near Junk Bay Passing launches took off the pienickers and later the launch was refinated.
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Dames Ahoy,"
a hilarious
Universal comedy coming to the Queen's Theatre to-morrow, bringa to the screen a new leading woman of singular ability and charm. She is Helen Wright, who comes to pictures from the stage. Glenn Tryon is starred in." Dames Aboy," which depicts the amusing adven- tures of three sailors on shore leave. Otis Harlan, Eddie. Gribbon and, Gertrude Astor also have prominent parts in the picture
A motor accident in which two Chinese nurses were knocked down occurred in Queen's 'Road East on
A report appears in the Chinese. Press that telephone subscriptions in Hong Kong ara, to be increased
by about 810 per annum, probably to take effect from January next. Inquiries made by a Daily Press representative into the accuracy of this report were met with the state- ment that the rumour is quite un-
founded.
FF
Rarely are screen patrons privile- ged to see a film of such excellence City Girl," Fox Movietone talking picture, which opened on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre. It has a strong drama, a plenti- tude
of comedy, tenches the fallacy of narrowness in religion, "shows the triumph of love over all obstacles, and from the standpoint of direction and photography bas few equals and no peers. Charles
Farrell and Mary Duncan give very able performances in difficult roles, while the supporting players con- tribute generously to the excellence of the picture: "City Girl" tells the story of a country boy who marries a waitress in the city. Sunday afternoon. It was stated by Mr.. W. D. Bell, of the Taikoo father's raneh, the latter looks on that the car, which was being driven When he transplants her to his Dockyard, was nearing the Wan hey, as a tare in the sheat. He chai Market, when two girls sud- road and were knocked down.. Mr. Bell had the two victims, who sustained a number of arm and leg injuries, removed to Tung Wah Hospital.
Encyclical Letter than are at pre- AaITATIONS against absentee land at 12 noon, yesterday and a large denly ran out from the side of the remains passive until he sees his.
sent available, in the cabled sum-
mary.
crowd had gathered at the China Auction Rooms when the announce ment of postponement was made.
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A piece of land known as Kow-
The Love Parado" will be loon Inland Lot No. 2374, situated shown at the Central Theatre for
tries to root her out, and son father about to succeed, then steps in and wins back the girl he is losing, while incidentally the father sees the error of his ways and chastening leaves him a reborn in- dividual.
Jerde" have been common to many countries, but China appears to be the first to start a movement against Bishops are never a very happy
absentee University Presidents:" fraternity when called upon to deal
Such a movement has been started. in a practical manner with current
in Peiping this summer. The social problems. They enjoy argu
at Prince Edward Road, was sold the last time to-day after a total Looking Back 25 Years. ing on, around, and about matters executive heads of the three most of ritual of doctrine, but when are spending most of their time in day to Mr. S.. H. Tong, 13, Love Parade." It is humorous. It supposed reason why the Chinese important Universities in Peiping at the Crown Land Office yester-run of nineteen days. A thoroughly A representative of the Daily delightful talking picture is "The Press was informed yesterday of the faced with questions calling for the South, holding other posts at Minden Villas, Kowloon, for is risque, but delightfully so. It is billposters have so far evaded the positive action are inclined to seek the same time, Students are now $12,600. The upset price was 87,765. tuneful. It is clever. It is excep. detectives whilst posting up boycott safety by "hedging," realising the demanding that their Presidents The land has an area of about ed by fascinating Maurice Chevalier carries along with the cartoons tionally well-acted by the cast head- cartoons. The man with the brush ineffectiveness of pay attempt to spend at least some of their time 18,530 square feet and its annual and Jeanette MacDonald, whose other posters advertising business exert authority. Take the question in the Universities they are sur rental is $105.
ability equals her charm. Lupino or goods. The boycott cartoon is Lane and Lillian Roth are splendid first posted on the wall, then paste posed to be controlling. At the
in their comedy parts.
is put on the four corners of the same time, students are protesting
advertisement poster which is stuck.
of divorce, The Lambeth Confer ence just concluded-which may be
Among the traffic summonses
Arranged, with the initials as well taken as expressing the official against the ill-effects of teachers mentioned before Mr. Whyte-Smith Hollywood will not forget that over the cartoon, and the billposter, as Surnames in strict alphabe attitude of the Church of England working for several schools at the at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, Nancy Carroll was once a musical passes on. There next appears
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actress is now playing the part of brella, presumably a member of the Anti-Exclusion Act Society. The releasing those who and the bonds we teachers held four full stated that the car was found in a dancer and entertainer in its umbrella is run in behind the ad-
all-talking production of Arthur of matrimony irksome. If Beuter time jobs at the same time, and front of the Star Ferry Wharf, four Train's novel Illusion. Her role off, leaving the boycott cartoon in vertisement poster, which is ripped accurately reflects the spirit of the get salaries equal to those of feet outside the parking spaces is the feminine lead opposite full view-Hong Kong Daily Press, Conference, the timorous Bishops bankers and heads of Governments. Mr. Bulakeinikoff admitted the
Charles (Buddy) Rogers, who has August 19, 1905. the most important male part." are still afraid to venture very,
Peiping is still the educational offence and was fined $5.
Previous to being cast in "Illu far along the road of reform. They centre of China, and is likely to
sion," Miss Carroll played trouper are helpless to prohibit divorce, remain so The Government has When the Eat Hing, a Norwegian roles in "The Dance of Life,
Close Harmony," "Manhattan," but recommend that the marriage spent much money and effort steamer, arrived in port from Singa and The Shopworn Angel. Born of a person whose former partner upon building a national Univer- pore on Saturday, eleven Chinese in New Work, she went on the stage is living should not be celebrated sity in Nanking upon the founda were handed over to the police and at an early age as a chorus girl. with the rites, of the Church. tion of the former South-Eastern subsequently charged before Mr. talents, and her histrionic ability Her beauty, her dancing and vocal
Now what exactly does that mean
Looking Back 50 Yeats.
Referring to the dispute of Bir John Pope Hennessy and General 27th Inniskillings playing at Gov- Donovan regarding the band of the ernment or Headquarter House on the last Queen's birthday, and the Hong Kong and London, concern telegrams which passed between
Lidio pin chinops are resiko lite kent much money to Magistracy yesterday on charges or born and into spefully synchronaveral lobata
such production as "The Topics of telegrams passed between Hong compelled to approve divorce but the higher schools in Paiping.stowing away. It was stated by 1993 and The Passing Show of Kong and the War Office on this not re-marriage? Perhaps when Siuce the break between Nanking Detective-Sergeant Humphrien that 1024 Followed leads in Broadway | trumnery abject, and it may be we get the full text of the and the Northern militariste last the defendants were discovered musical comedy productions, and asked, not without profit perhaps, Encyclical Letter we shall know March, the extraordinary spectacle three days after the boat left then she came to the Pacific Coast who is to bear the cost of their Singapore The usual sentence of where she was cast in the washing transmission, such com being equal more precisely where they stand has been presented of money being one month's hard labour or a fine dramatic bit Chicaga." The pic to the pay of the band for a on this subject. The official at sent from Nanking to support of 850 was imposed on each of the ture Illusion comes to the Cen-month-Hong Kong Daily Press,
tral Theatre. to-morrow." defendants. titude of the Church of England universities in enemy territory,"
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