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Hong Kong, Jusz 28, 1937.
A NEW AIR ROUTE
Soviet airmen have achieved u
Depositors are therefore invited remarkable feat in crossing the to apply to the offices of the Bank top of the globe to establish a as soon as convenient. Cheques, direct air-route from Moscow to etc. may be presented, and depo-San Francisco: It is true that sits and securities withdrawn. bad luck compelled the airmen during usual business hours. to land at Vancouver, but by that The remaining Far Eastern pime they had accomplished the
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The charity swimming gala at the Chung Shing Bathing. Club concluded last night. Altogether about $2,000 has been collected, in- cluding donations by members, during the three nights of the gala. The money
for will be famine relief in North China.
HOLY COMMUNION FOR THOSE DIVORCED
BISHOP OF BIRMINGHAM'S DEFENCE
TEST OF “AN OPEN AND NOTORIOUS
·EVIL LIVER”.
The Bishop of Birmingham (Dr., Innocent or guilty, who had mar~ E. W. Barnes), speaking at the ried again. Would they raise the Birmingham Diocesan Conference moral standards of the community? on June B on the subject of mar- Would they adventage the Church?
A large gathering was present atriage and Holy Communion, sald that any circumstances that en- the Club last night, to witness the
dangered the stability of" family swimming events and are works
fe, were the concern of the whole display.
A "MEANS OF GRACE" As he saw the matter, the Sacra- ments were, in the old language means of grace. They hoped and believed that, by partaking of the Holy Communion they were en- abled to live better lives. Did they wish those Churchpeople whose first marriage had wrecked, to live soberly and faith-
Exibitions in the back stroke community. Christians would al- ways desire..to uphold, so far, as were given by the Interporter, Lau Po-hel, and
a sadly imperfect Lau Yuk-wing the was possible in Chinese National
world, Christ's ideal of the life- not Swimming
long ualon of man and wife. Champion.
A life-saving exhibition W&S given by three groups.
An exhibition was also given by Norman Lee over hundred yards. He swam against Ne Chul-ma and
Yueng Yul-kwan who each swam
By reaction against prevailing laxity they must expect to And, especially among the clergy, these who took a rigorist attitude. There were, in fact, some who would abo- Tish divorce altogether, though
been
not the might form? Should Church be willing to give them all. help possible? It was not that
fully in a new union which they
branches of the Banque Franco- unknown and most difficult part afty yards Lee's time was 60.4/5 there were few who did not realise they should be lax in their loyalty"
P. L. LORSIGNOL, Acting Manager. Hongkong, 23rd June 1937.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG
KONG
5976
PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of Henry Davies Morrison; late of 66, Anson Road, Tufnell Park in the County of Middlesex, deceased...
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has by virtue of Section 58 of the Probates Ordinance 1897, made
romance.
· secs.
After this a drill display was
given by members of the Club.
WATER POLO
that such a policy was impractic able. There were others who would go so far as to excommuni- cate for the rest of their lives all
innocent or gulity, who after - vorce should marry again.
to Christ's teaching. Their wite ness to Christ's idea of lifelong union was constantly worded in their reading of Scripture and in the marriage service.
NEED OF MOBAL HELP › "Further." the Bishop continued,
in a water-polo gaine the Royal Ulster Rifles drew with the Chung Shing Bathing Club, the score be- ing three goals all. Ng Lan-man est a list of some forty clergy of "does it harm me if I know that
scored all three goals for the Chin- ese. Jones, Hamilton, and New- man replied for the soldiers. As a memento the ball used in the game was given to the visiting team.
As a grand finale a brilliant "fire works display was given from a dragon boat, within a few yards of the Club.
of their journey. In just over two days the Soviet plane has flown from, Europe to America across the North" Pole bald statement of fact which not so long ago would have found more suitable place in a Jules Verne It is proper that the Soviet Embassy should remind the world that the exploit is not the product of a sudden impulse. Two years ago an attempt to cross the Pole had to be aban- doned owing to the mechanical defects of the plane then selected. Apart from that the enterprise has involved ten years' intensive scientific research for its object is to establish a quick direct route of communication between Russia and America. Obviously this shortening of the air distance. between the Old and New World may well throw a different light
The Grammar School at Norwich on the problem of the Atlantic is first mentioned in 1240 in a crossing. Sir Henry Tizard, rC-
case appearing in the Coxford cently, Chuirmao
18
of the Priory Chartulary. It is suggested Aeronautical Research Committee
that the school existed consider ably earlier than this date. Though
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700 YEARS OLD
SCHOOL
Dates Back To The
13th Century
He had seen with much Inter-
the diocese who urged this course as against a decision reached with two dissentients' by the Bishops of the Province of Canterbury.
He would ask: Was such lifelong excommunication possible or de- sirable? Would it advantage the Church or the community?
11.
RULE OF EXCLUSION
He reminded his bearers that by the rules of the Church a pér- son could only be repelled from the Holy Communion if he were "an open and notorious evil-liver, or have done any
ta Wrong
his
neighbour by word or deed, so that
the congregation be thereby of- fended." and the Bishop ultimately should be the judge. Most cei-, tainly an innocent person who had remarried after divorce could not
be excluded, under such a rule.
He doubted whether a guilty party to a divorce su't who was subsequently ving faithfully with
a man who has done wrong" in the past goes to Communion with me? I am not so perfect that I Admission can condemn others.
to Communion is a confession of need of moral help, not a certi- 'ficate of moral excellence. Christ. came to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance.
"In repentance we cannot blot out the past or renew a union that, only too often, has been desecrat- ed All that is possible is to make of the new union a stable mar- riage in which children, if there be any, shall be 'Christianly and
virtuously brought up.
"To that end, if those who, after divorce. "had" remarried, sought God's help in Holy Communion, I could not bring myself to refuse them.
"I trust that those here who disagree with me will pardon me for having thus spoken. A policy adopted by an overwhelm- ing number of the bishops is be-
that I should make clear the grounds on which I support it."
an Order limiting the time for attempted to inake a guess at the it is doubtful if it is as old as the a new partner could be excluded. creditors and others to send in period likely to elapse before bishopric of Norwich, as is some. A public advertisement of any ing challenged. It is but proper their claims against the estate to the 15th day of 1937.
above
July,
commercial aeroplanes could fly the Atlantic regularly. He put it at a minimum of ten and a
times stated, it undoubtedly is one of the oldest grammar schools In England.
The present school is a re-
Intention of excommunication could carry the possibility of severe
egal penalties.
Supposing that they were free to munication of all divorced persons,
All Creditors and others are muximum of twenty years" but foundation of the time of Edward make a rule of lifelong excom
accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under CHANGE OF ADDRESS. signed on or before that date,
Dated the 21st day of June, 1937,
As from Monday, the 28th instant, our ADDRESS will be HONG KONG BANK BUILD. ING (3RD FLOOR).`
THOMSON & CO., Chartered Accountants.
waiting, licences may be forward 25th June, 1937.
ed to Police Headquarters through|
the post and should be accom- panied by a crossed cheque in favour of the Hong Kong Govern- ment covering the necessary fees. "The licences will be re. turned through the post.
Attention is drawn to the scale of increased fees published in Government Gazette dated 14th May, 1937.
(Sd.) T. H. KING, Inspector General of Police.
28th June, 1937.
NOTICE.
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On and after Monday, 28th June, our office will be located
5383
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
JOHNSON, STOKES &
MASTER, Solicitors for the Executors of the Will of the above. named deceased. The Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building,
Hong Kong.
5373
CONSULAR FINDING
Peiping Tragedy Echo
IN THE GOODS of James
Pelping, June 25. Bowyer Kidman Whittall, Stating that the
evidence was late of 18, West Hull Street, conclusive as regards the iden- tity of the murderer, the British Leonards on Sea in the Consul, Mr. FitzMaurice, to-day County of Sussex, Retired returned a verdict of murder by a Marine Insurance Manager, person or persons unknown in the deceased.
inquest on Pamela Werner, the 19- year-old British girl found mur déred in particularly ghastly cir- cumstances on January 10.
NOTICE is hereby given that in “Holland House,” 9, Queen's | the Court has by virtue of Section Road Central, 1st Floor.
ELLIS & EDGAR.
5386
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Natice is hereby given that on account of transfer to other duties the Power of Attorney limed to Mr. Jesse Caleb Williams as Assistant General Manager for The Texas Company (China), Limited at Hong Kong has been cancelled and recalled.
THE TEXAS COMPANY (CHINA), LTD.,
F. LE FEVRE,
Managing Director. Hong Kong, June 28th, 1937.
5997
No witnesses were called at the
58 of the Probates Ordluance resumed inquest this morning.-- 1897, made an Order Umiting || Reuter
in orde
1. It occupies a range of bulld- ings, including the fourteenth- century chapel, between the Erp- ingham Gate and the west door
of the Cathedral facing the Close.
BIRTH CONTROL
The Ethical View
added that acroplane experts would call um pessimistic and airship enthusiasts would call him optimistic. Whether the route by way of the Pole will
CRYPT USED AS CELLARS eliminate the need for taking the
Originally the school was entire- longer way across the Atlantic ly contained within the chapel, must depend on factors of which formerly the Carnary of the mon- at present little is known. The astic attendants who lived within the precincts. It was founded in Soviet airmen have undoubtedly 1316, and taken over by the Gram-for the nrst time, has recognised discovered some of them. It re- mar School in 1553, six years after mains now for the discoveries to the Royal Charter of Edward VI be submitted to the test of strictly was granted. scientific examination.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL PRIZE GIVING
While the school occupied the greater part of the Carnary, or chapel, the crypt beneath it, where the bones of many well-known people had reposed before the Dis- solution, was divided up and let as cellars. They were used by the Thirty-six scholars of the Kow-shopkeepers, who had their booths loon Union Church Bunday School, and stalls running down the edge who headed the attendance list of the Close to the west door of the during the past 12 months were Cathedral. each" awarded with a suitable prize yesterday.
News from New York states that the American Medical Association,
the medical practice of birth control, comments the "Malaya
Referring to the Church Exten- slon Appeal, the Bishop said that $99.000 had been raised, leaving only £6,000 to raise..
NATIONAL
POLICIES
Situation Well In Hand
"The Central Authorities have the internal and external situation well in hand, and national policies are being carried out smoothly in Nanking," declared Dr. Chou Lou member of the standing committee of the Kuomintang Central Execu tive Committee, in an interview with foreign, correspondents in
Tribune." The United States is al- ways a pioneer of reforms 'and new Her experiments.
traditionally democratic aria liberal outlook nas enabled her to adopt measures which other nations would consider premature. In most countries to- day, contraception is still regare Canton on Saturday. ed as a criminal offence and many of its' exponents have found them- selves in gaol for the propagation
of such methods. However, this question can be approached from two points of view-tire economia and the ethical.
This curious arrangement per- sisted for more than 200 years, The prizes were presented by until the school claimed and found Mrs. G. R. Leib who has always use for the crypt. first as a gym taken a great interest in the wel-nasium and, then as a library. F1-mics, if the present rate of birth fare of the Bunday School.
RACING DRIVER'S
CRASH:
Mervyn White Badly Injured
C. Mervyn. White, the English the time for creditors and others It will be recalled that the terracing driver,
was seriously In to send in their claims against ribly mutilated body of Miss Wer-jured at Cork during a practice the above estate to the 15th day, who was the daughter of Mr run for the International Car
E T. C. Werner, formerly British Race. of July, 1937. --
All creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their claims to the under- signed on or before that date."
Dated the 21st day of June, 1937.
JOHNSON, STOKES &
White had just taken over from an auxiliary driver. After hitting
nally, as the school extended and new buildings were erected, the ancient Carnary of the monks re- turned to its original purpose and became the school chapel, and a such it is still in use:
- CROWNED QUEEN ANNE
The records of the school are remarkably complete and contain many noted names of headmasters and scholars over long period Thomas Tension, who was a schol- in the seventeenth century became vicar of St. Martin-in-the-
From the point of view of econo-
allowed to continue, with the death rate remaining about the same, a time will come when the world will be threatened with the danger of over-population. This in turn will accelerate the unem- ployment problem, affect the mar- inal utility of money, lower the national standard of invelihood, and above all, dislocate the whole present-day economic structure. According to Malthus theory on population, the world would have long become an intolerable place
As chancellor of the National Sun Yat-sen University. Dr. Chou came back to Canton to adjust the affairs of the university, which was handed to his charge in 1925 by the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen!
The Kuomintang leader, stated at Kuling he met General Chiang
Kai-shek, President of the Execu tive Yuan, who is fully restored in health. General Chiang called the Kuling meetings to acquaint the visitors with the achievements and policies of the National Govern- ment and to seek the views of the general public on national pro- blems.
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The National People's Assembly will be held in Nanking on Novem ber 11, Dr. Chou said. -*-
In spite of his devotion to Sun Yat-sen University Chancellor Chon regretted that his illness
to live in, if it were not for the prevented the enforcement of his Fields, their Archbishop of Canter- Consulat. Foochow, was discover-
bury and crowned Queen Anne presence of certain destructive second phase of the six-year plan, and George 1
forces such as war, pestilence The first phase devoted largely to ed only 250 yards from her home.
Nelson attended for about a term famine, plague, and other disasters, the construction of new buildings Miss Werner was on her way
a ditch near the pit bend the car before being transferred to another
From the ethical point of view, in Shek Pel is completed, he said, home by bleycle but never arrived rebounded, struck the opposite Grammar School at N: Walsham. It is argued by the humanitarians, thanks for and swangtung au there. Her body was found in a kerb, and came to rest beside its fohn Crome, the painter, was a chiefly those belonging to dinerent the Central and Ewangtung au- wide ditch at the foot of the to- unconcious driver, who had re- pupli towards the end of the eigh religious sects, that birth control is thorities wering nifty-feet high city walls. ceived extensive head injuries. He teenth century. Under the head- direct violation of the law of Improvement of the academic The case took a sensational turu | was taken to hospital, and mastership of Edward Valpy, be- nature, and that it should not be standing of the University is the with the detention by the police it was stated that he was still tween 1811 and 1829, James Brooke, used except where medically order present objective of my adminis for several days of an unnamed unconscious; that his akull who became the Rajah of Sarawak, ed. Masquerading as a family tration," the statesman continued. fractured but that and George Henry Burrow, the friend, they say. It has done more I shall remain in Canton for some It as allered that in his home he had severe scalp wounds and the povest, werk contemporary harm than good, it is the cause of me to look into the affairs of the were found a dagger, a plece of a concussion. His condition, it was scholars
the degeneration of the human University before I go to Nanking handkerchier and a pair of shoes, added, was "very critical""
This was the period in the his- race, bringing in ita train”” a It was at the sante spot in last tory of the school when great stackening of morals. Consequent year's 'race that White had a nar- revival took place, and from eight ly people have become more There is truth in both views and row escape, when his car hit the scholars in 1810 the numbers licentious Just because of the fact the argument may go on for inter released by Captain Botham, ditch after skidding double steadily rose under Valpy to nearly that vice can now be protected It is left to the discre of the Tintain police force, who somersanited, righted itself. and 300, he school has progres
ressed from detection simply by the aptrdividual to adopt
which he thinks is right, 5372 | was in charge of the case. adise plunged" forward on the course ever since.
MASTER, Solicitors for the Executors of the Will of the “above- named deceased.
The Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building,
Hong Kong
foreigner.
all stained with blood.. she
The
he articles were examined by
a pathologist but the foreigner was
as not
plication of contraceptive methods
aratu.
of the
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