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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY, 23, 1933
YESTERDAY'S FREIGHT
RETURNS
During the 24 hours ended at 0 am yesterday a total of 13 shipa brought 8,295 tons of cargo to the Colony, and carried 11,296 tons for through ports. These ships brought 407 Aziatio deck passengers to Hong Kang. During the period under review 17 ships left the Colony
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BERNARD SHAW AND
THE BIBLE
A CHALLENGE TO FAITH
DARING FABLE FROM
SOUTH AFRICA
OF THE BLACK Tax ADVENTURES
·GIRL IN HER SEARCH POR Gop. By Bernard Shaw. '2s. 6d. Con- stable.
THE JAPANESE P. & 0., British - India
GOVERNMENT
Position Unstable
POSSIBILITY OF MILITARY
DICTATORSHIP'
Tokyo, January 19The fate of the National Government headed by the venerable, white haired Ad miral Viscount Makoto Saito was in doubt today as members of the sixty-fourth scasion of the Imperial Diet began returning to Tokyo from hot springs resorts where they spent, the New Year holiday, writes the United Press Staff Correspon. dent in Tokyo,
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During the 24 hours ended at 9 am on Saturday. a total of 10 ships brought 24,620 tons of dargo to the Colony, and "carried 18,304
In his latest and wholly charac. tons for through ports. Those ships brought 788 Asiatic deck passanteristic divagation, Mr. Bernard gers to Hong Kong.. During the Shaw puts his introduction at the period under review 18 ships left end of his story: "And now, the the Colony,
story being written," he explains, "I proceed to speculate on what it meane, though I cannot too often repest that I am as liable as any one else to err in my interprets tion." He wrote the tale, it seems, when he was in South Africa last
The attitude of the Seiyuksi Par year. He had intended to write aty, which has the strongest repre- play; but he found himself writingsentation in the lower house, conti the story of the Black Girl instead uued ambiguous and political ob and when he had obeyed the im-servers were watching closely the perious bidding of his demon, he maneuvers of Dr. Kinaburo Suzuki, Kowloon-Prominent, Prosper, permittted himself to ask what he leader of the Seiyukai and admit- Hai Hing, Scalaria, Limehow, meant by it. Such uncertainty tedly one of the strongest political Pronto.-
figures in the Empire Should the government he overthrown and leaders of the Empire decide to re- turn to the party esbinet aysten, Dr. Suzuki would be the logical | NALDERA".. choical for premier.
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WARSHIPS IN. PORT.
The following warships were port yesterday :—
Basin, Tamar.
was got surprising in the author of St. Joan;" for the story of the Black Girl is an unsparing assault upom traditional pieties. Whether he meant it or not, Mr. Shaw has, in effect, attempted to decanonise the Bible. He argues that "the rxtraordinary artistic value of the English translation has given it a magical power over its readers,' until it is accepted and worshipped "as a single book by a single author, the book being the Book of Books and the author being God." "In this confusion," he urges, "I venture to suggest that wo neither leave the Bible in the clouds nor attempt the impossible task of suppressing it. Why not simply bring it down to the ground in and take it for what it really is
... In plain words, as we cannot get rid of the Bible. it will get rid of us unless we learn to read it in the proper spirit.
South Wall.-Oswald and Osiris. East Wall.-Herald, Odin, Otus. North Arm.-Keppel, Witch. Wishart, Whitshed.
North Wall-Moth. West Wall-Modway and sub
marines.
Dock.-Cornflower.
No. 1 Buoy-Hermos, No. 3 Buoy-Cornwall.
No. 6 Buoy.-Devonshire.
ARRIVALS,
January 20
Many Gods. According to Mr Shaw, who is at least very rauch in earnest, and not just indulging, a spirit of mockery:
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The Minseito Party," headed by Baron Reijiro Wakatsuki, lank, "CORFU”. Lincolnesque former premier, apCOMORIN " peared less doubtful as all Baron Wakatsuki's statements have in- dicated he believes the present re- gime should be continued for some time.
Premier's Chief Oritio.
Observers thought the chief critic of the Baito regime in the coming sessions will be Dr. Kenza. Adachi, whose newly organized Kokumin Domei Party was launched just be fore Emperor Hirohito convened the sixty-fourth session on Decem ber 26. Adachi, it will be recalled, was home minister and "God of elections" in the Minseito govern- ment headed by Baron Wakatsuki
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year ago. He wrecked the Cab binet by resigning on the gold stan dard issue a year ago, favouring & The Bible presents in with a coalition regiune, while other Min succession of gods, each being scito leaders wanted to cling to the striking improvement on the pre-party system. It was freely charg No. 13 Buoy. Verity, Veteran,
vious one, marking an Ascent of ed at the time that Adachi was Foreign.--French river gunboat Man to a nobler and deeper con influenced" by speculators who Argus-and-US. gunboat Asheville.ception of Nature."
wanted the government to abandon That is the theme of the Black the gold standard. Adachi Is con- Girl's adventures-a girl who, hay- aidered: the clererest political or ing been converted by the woman ganizer, in Japan but the vernacu missionary, took her knobkerrylar press so far has been lukewarm and strode right off into the towards hin party, which is pledged forest in search of God." to overthrow the Cabinetsystem Capt. R. Bolt, from Bangkok, sophisticated aimplicty. Though compact body which would be a buoy No. B16.Thoresen & Co. she wore no clothes-a circumstance sort of State Council
January 21,
which the clever and original illus Fushimi Maru, Japanese str., 0,640 trations throw into high relief she tone, Capt. T. Araki, from had an intelligence as soute and Singapore, buoy No... Animble as Mr. Shaw's itself, and When the Diet recessed December N.Y.K.
she could easily confound in argu-27, to reconvete January 21, the Hydrangea, British str., 581 tons, ment all the gods, prophets, and political situation admittedly was Capt. P. W. Grierson, from philosophers whom she was for not stable, The Saito Cabinet, Swatow, Chiu On Wharf.tunate enough to meet in her forest organized as a national "regima Chiu On & tôi
wanderings. And she had soms with support of both the Minseito Kaitangata, British str. 1,202 tous, strange encounters Noah's Jeho- and the Seiyukai parties following
Croathwaite, Capt. J.
frosu
vah, Job's Jehovah, Micah'a Jeho- the assasination of Premier Tauyo- Samarinda, Yaumati Anchor-vah, Christ, Mahomet, an Athenian, shi Inukai on May 15 last, faced age-Sze Wai & Co.
and 20: experimental biologist. fire from several quarters and there Luchow, British str., 1,221 tons, She also met a Caravan of the was no indication the activities of
Capt. O. Fox, from Canton, Curious-Mr. Shaw's familiar extreme nationalists, who engineer buoy No. B3.-B. & S.
satire upon the British ruling caste ed the Toukaj assasination and the in a new guise. Finally, the Black bombings of May 15, had heen Girl meets Voltaire, who proves a entirely eradicated. Strength of congenial spirit, and whom she as the Cabinet rested pirmarily odCORPUR sists to cultivate his garden, in the government-maker the which she finds a red-haired venerable Prince. Saionji, last of Irishman labouring in the back the genro, who called Admiral Sai-
BANKIN garden where they grew the kit to to head a national regime rather
BANPURATM* chon stuff." The illustrator plain than acrept the demand of the ex-
BHUTAN Phasianella, British str., 393 tons auggests that this red-haired tremists for a military dictator: **CHITRAL.
Capt. J. Y. Lee, from Tamsui, Trishma is to be identified with ship. Prince Saionji, who always +BELLORE Taj Kok Tsui, A.P.C.
Mr. Shaw himself, in spite of the advises the Emperor on Cabinet Promik, Norwegino str., 7, too, fact that the story ends with the matters, so far has given zo indice
Capt. Hotvedt, from Bangkok, Black Girl's marriage to the Irish- tion as to whether he feels the time buoy No. C1.-K. Lamen & Ca. Protesilaus, British str. 6,118 man, and the dedication of her has come for a return of a party tons, Capt. Reyvard, from life to the rearing of a dusky, alien government or whether he is vicid
brood. Shanghai, buoy No. Ad
An ironic conclusion, one may mists who still want some form B. & S. Santhia, British str., 4,841 tome, say, to, & search for God, though dictatorship.
Capt. P. V. Cotter, from Kobe, Mr. Show himself, no doubt, would Kowloon Wharf.-M.M. & Co. refuse to admit it. That conclud Szechuen, British str, 1,50 tons, ing touch of farce mars the effect
A number of issue face the Ca.. Capt S. Barling, from of a narrative that is mostly on a finet when the Diat reconvency Swatow, buoy, No. B20- high plane of serioumes and is January 21 which might cause the B*&*6.
told with unfailing wit and skill. Gabinet's downfall. Chief of the Tchekam, Chinese str. 806 tona, and though its incidents and argu probably is the tangled question of Capt. Lai Yeo, from Hoihow, monte: are startling, they bride Zarm reliat in which the Beiyukai, Weat Point Wharf-Woo On deliberately irreverent; they do not readitional friend of the agricula & Co.
offend as do some of the phrases turists," and the Ministeries of Yatahing, British str., 1,424 tone, in which Mr. Show has cast his Agriculture and Finance are at
Capt. Hopkins, from Chefoo, epilogue. There, in places, he odds. The Finance Ministry con buoy No. B1-J.M. & Co.. seems to have studied how to shock Yuen Bang, British str., 1,883 tons, susceptibilities. The final impres tends the resources of the Empire Capt. R. Hughes, from Osaka, sion of the render is that Mr. Shaw will be strained to the utmost to Kowloon Wharf. JM. & Co. would, after all, have been better carry through the huge, budget
Janere. 22. tura di employed in writing the play that perp Anhui, British str., 2,060 tons, he meant to write at least, that which the Diet must adopt in the Capt. D. Lupton, from Canton, would be the impression of the next few weeks. The Seiyukai buoy No. 821.—B; & §.
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