THE SERVICES
By The Air Mall, London Sept. 25) ROYAL NAVY
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NEW ZEALAND STATION H.M.S. Leith, Captain L. C. P. Tudway, D.S.O", D.S.C, turned to Auckland from a three months' cruise among the Pacific islands. and H.M.S. Wellington, Commander G. N. Loriston-Clarke. will return shortly after visits to Mangonul, Whangarea, and Rus- sell. For the rest of the year these escort vessels will be making short training cruises, principally to the Huurak! Oul?. The Leith began her first cruise on October
5 and
the Wellington will begin
un October 12.
TRAINING COMMAND Captain H. T. Balllle-Grohman, D.S.O... O.B.E., has reassumed com- mand of ILM.&. St. Vincent, boys" training establishment at Forton Barracks, Gosport, to which he was appointed a year ago. Since July he has been temporarily. reileved by Captain G. M. Warner. D.S.C., who was executive officer of the establishment unt!! promotion last December.
his
SURGEON LIEUTENANTS (D). The Admiralty „ announce
that the following have received ap- pointments as surgeon lleutenants D for short service:-W. H. Bain, L.D.S. (Glasgow Dental Hospital). R. W. Tis-Smith, LDS, and J. 8. Inverdale. LDS. (Bristol
University), and P. V. Peatfeld.
L.D.S." (Guy's).
THE ARMY
RELIEFS IN INDIA Further rellets are as follows:- 73rd and 4th Batteries, R.A.. Rawalpindi and Campbellpore, will exchange stations in February.
Ist. 9th, and 5th Mountain Bat- teries, R.A.. will move to Peshawer, Landikotal, and Nowshera On October 16 and 17.
tallons. The King's Regiment and The Dorsetshire Regiment will nove to Multan, Landikotal, and Nowshera on November 20, 22, and 25.
1st Battalion, The Duke of Corn- wall's Light Infantry will rellove the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots at Lahore on January 18.
#1 CHINA SQUADRON
DISPOSITION
The following is the disposition M."ships in North China;- Shanghal: Danse, Sandwich." Tsingtao: Duncan. Welbelwet: Folkestone.
cure.
Chefoo: Defender. Tangku; Grimsby. Chinwangtao: Decay. Hankow: Capetown Amoy: Cumberland. Foochaw: Dainty. Swatow. Diana.
Advèn-
WARSHIPS IN HARBOUR The following warships were in port yesterday:-
North Arm: Thracian, Daring. North Wall: Duchess, Medway. South Wall: Seamew.
East Wall: Parthian. Delight,
Rover.
Dock: Orpheus. Proteus. Pan-
dora
No. 8 Buoy: Lowestoft,
FOREIGN MEN-OF-WAR American: Barker. Asheville. Chinese Custoins Cruiser: Chun 4. Hsing.
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Chinese Customs Cruisers +17 Gunboats (2) Transports (2)
MOVEMENTS
The Commander-in-Chief, Ad- miral Sir Charles Little, who is making a tour of the coastal ports, arrived at Amoy on Thursday. He is expected here. to-day, aboard H.M.S Cumberland, Flag ship of the China Fleet, returning to Shanghai on October 38.
Masters of British ships, should 2nd Battalion. The Royal Berk-
report immediately by wireless shire Regiment. will relleve the telegraph to the Commodore. Hong ist Battalion, The Devonshire Kong, on all occasions of being Regiment at Lucknow on October stopped or delayed by armed ves 15. when the latter will move tü¦ sels, in addition to actual board- Rawalpindi.
ingi. Such reports should be con- 1st Battalions. The Royal War-firmed in writing as soon as pos- wickeshire Regiment and The sible. North Staffordshire Regiment, will
to Fyzabad 80
and Poona "-October 13 and 12.
on
1st Battalions. The Hampshire Regiment. The King Shropshire Light Infantry, and the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment w'll move to Kamptee, Karachi, and Shornclife on December 26. 18. and 23.
2nd Battalion, The Duke of Wel- lington's Regiment "and 1st Bat-
THE ARCADIANS''
ANNE WINTER NAMED
FOR BIG ROLE
It is understood that the im portant task of alloting the prin ripal parts for "The Arcadians" is at present engaging the attention of the Producer, Conductor and c special Sub-Committee of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society,
Anne Winter is sure to obtain one of the leading female roles with a preference for that of "Sombra" a part which requires a flexible Soprano voice.
The Transport Dunera does not leave Hong Kong until October 16 when military and naval personnel will be going on board on leave, retirement and transfer.
Submarlines of the 4th Subma- ring Flotilla will be exercising from to-day until Friday in areas to the South and East of the Colony. Submarines may anchor in Port Shelter, Junk Bay or Taltan Bay at night time during this period.
FROM THE
GAZETTE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, OCTOBER
CHARITY DANCE A|CALAMATIES NOT
GREAT SUCCESS
Substantial Cheque
Forwarded
The charity cabaret dance given by H.M.S. Parthian at the Caina Fæet Club on Saturday was an unqualified success.
The dancers began to arrive at 8.15 and from that moment until the playing of the National An- them at 1 a.m. there was not a dull moment. Many of the ladies been present had
issued with tickets by the Ladies Welfare Committee of which Mrs. N. L Smith Chairmen and the men
their of the Parthian expressed gratitude for the assistance of her committee.
Many ladies, however, came without passes and some of these absolutely refused to be admitted frce at the door, preferring to contribute sums of money to the charity. Thanks to the kindness of several of the leading business Arms in the Colony, as well as of anonymous donors, a large prize list for spot dances and programmes with lucky numbers was possible.
AMUSING CABARET TURNS
an
The danding, to the capacity of the hall, with music by Tohi and his Orchestra, with an occasional pause for cabaret turns. by two most amusing entertainers, pro- ceeded steadily until 11 o'clock when there was Interval of fifteen minutes for refreshments! during which Mr. George Butler, remembered by many Hong Kong residents As "Rinaldo" at the 1 Cloucester Hotel last Christmas and New Year. and Mr. George Bond, entertained the company with plano and accordion.
Although the dancers were meant to rest and refresh them- selves they found this music so good that they could not resist taking the floor. again.
The prizes for the first spot dance and those lucky programmes already sold were given away by: Mrs. Clark, wife of Lieutenant R H. S. Clark of H.M.S. Parthian. Many of the lucky programme numbers were not answered or claimed and Mrs. Clark very kindly consented to give away the prizes for the Second Spot dance and the remainder of the lucky numbers at a later hour.
The dancing then continued., with unabated energy until after midnight.
Many of the officials of the Refugee Committees visited the
dance including Mr. W. J. Carrie. Chairman of the Shanghal Re- fugees Committee.
FROM GOD:
Lessons To Be Learnt Out Of Them
In
bis sermon at St. John's.
Cathedral on Sunday the Rev. H. W. Baines referred to the calamities now happening in China.
Taking as his
third text the Verse of the 13th chapter of St. Luke: "I tell you, may; but ex- cept ye repent, ye shall all in ke- wise manner perish," the Rev.
Baines said:
This was Jesus's repeated answer to the repeated question, is calam- ty a judgment' on the sinful? First they point to those Galileans whom Pilate was alleged to have humiliated unspeakably by ming- ling their blood with their religi- ous sacrifices and secondly to those eighteen who had been killed when the tower of Siloam tell.
THE SAME ANSWER
Think ye. sald Jesus taking up the second case, think ye, that they were offenders above all men who dwell in Jerusalem? I tell you. nay, but, except ye repent ye shall likewise perish. Twice over he re- peated. I tell you, nay. So misfor- tune is not a 'Judgment." Cling on, to that.
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If you put the same question about your own sufferings or about the victims of the typhoon at Tai- po or of the irresponsible bomb- ing and bombardments on the China coast to the same person you will get the same answer;--T tell
you, ney.
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They are not offenders above all men who dwell in Hong Kong, or on the China Coast. It is blas- phemy to attribute "vindletiveness to God. He was, Jessus tells us, capable of neither jealously not anger in that way. It is faithless blasphemy to look upon any suf- 'fering of your own or of others as a Judgment sent from God or even as a discipline sent by God.
CALAMITY NOT A “JUDGMENT""
Christianity knows nothing of such superstitions. Prosperity is not the index to virtue nor disas- ter to voice. Calamity is not a 'Judgment.'. I tell you nay, but in is a crisis. That is to say we are judged by it. Twice over He re- peated, except, ye shall repent ye shall all likewise perisli
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HEALTH RETURN'S
Six cases of cholera, two each of diphtheria and dysentery and one In other words, unless we learn for enteric fever were notified to the our lessons from war and cholera local Health authorities on Friday. and typhoon, we shall likewise perish. Everybody knows that. If we do not take precaution of strengthening our houses and being inoculated or bringing the war to an end, one or the other of them will catch us. But it means more than that; it means that unless i we learn the spiritual inner lesson
We have been informed that asof disaster, unless we are brought a result of this splendid effort back to total depende, ce upon God the treasurer of HMS. Parthian's and recognition of His moral lord- dance committee is forwarding to ship then we might just as well fall Lady Atholl MacGregor a sum. victim to war or cholera or typhoon.
approximately, of $375
FAR EAST HEALTH
It is notifed for general in- formation that His Excellency the Governor in Council has, under section 122 of the Buildings Or dinance. '1935, appointed the hours of 6 am. to 6 p.m. as additional or further hours between which
Cholera-Calcutta 18 cases. blasts may be fired at Sai Wan | Madras 17. Halphong 120. Hanol 5.
The health bulletin of Eastern ports for the week ending October 2 is as follows:~~
Bay in connection with the sal- Hong Kong 24, Macao 9. Shanghai
vaging of the ș.a. “Asama Maru" | 513, and Kobe 1,
JESUS'S FATE
tolly, knowledge or ignorance, good ur bad. Hence the possibility of human evil. But that is much
more than the explanation of evil and suffering. It is a cry of rath in One" we may call Father.
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EXAMPLE OF THE CROSS To my mind it is the explanation of evil, though incomplete. Incom- plete both because it goes very ilt- the way towards explaining na- tural disasters, and because And Jesus's own fate vindicates have an incomplete knowledge of His words. He was not giving an the mind of God. But once that
answer to a academic
debating explanation is made, it involves me who make it and you who listen to question. If it were true that a
a controversy in the man's character could be measured it not in by his fortune, Jesus would come schools but in a claim made on our faith at the very heart of our be- nowhere on the list.
ing. Do you believe, can you be-- lleve, in the God and Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, or do you hold the Creator guilty of malice or in- competence or both?
The frustration of all His plans, the opposition He aroused among' some of the best men of the time, the fact that He seemed to stimu- late the worst from some men, be trayal and desertion by His friends, Go back again to the Cross. That The name of Mr. E. C. Stocker. "Small-pox-Bombay 11 cases. has been added to the 1st of Au- Calcutta 3. Madras 19. Hong Kong physical collapse, moral disgrace is as near to an explanation as we and personal dereliction would are likely to get. There you see thorised Architects.
show him among the world's most not so much Christ's answer about sinful men.
evil as Christ our proper man over- coming evil in the very act of en- countering it. For Christianity will have nothing to do with notions about the unreality of evil.
It is notified that at the expira- tion or three months. unless cause 18 shown to the contrary, the names of the Woo and Mok, "Ltd., and the Anglo-Chinese-Philippine Finance and Investment Corpora- tion. Ltd., will be struck off the register and the companies will be Home Government, the Hon. Mr. dissolved.
APPOINTMENTS
Commission to investigate and "establish the facts in relation to the alleged sinking of certain fish- ing junks the survivors of which were brought to Hong Kong (on board the 84. Scharnhorst and 8.5, Keying."
Anne Winter
Other equally important parts are that of Crysea, the Arcadian girl, who grows to like London: Elleen, the girl with the broue: Mrs. Smith. of restaurant fame; of: and Jack Meadows with his friend! Bobby.
There are two master Comedians
In the cast Smith who turns Arcadian and becomes Simplicitas and the sad hearted jockey who never won a race which latter part it in capable hands will be easily as amusing as the former. His
song "I've got a Motter always Merry and Bright" is one of the funniest things in a piece which brims over with humorous enter- tainment.
The Commission named consists
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ROTARY CLUB
The speaker at the Rotary Club un Tuesday, will be Rotarian L. C. F., Bellamy;, and his subject,
Trolley Bus Traction."
The fact is that it is often the best people who seem to suffer the hardest. Certainly calamity is blind. It is clumsy as a bomber raiding by night. Any of those
I do not see how any man stand- Who attend our Special Services Ing at the foot of the Cross can during the next weeks, Doctors, say that evil is unreal any more Seafarers or Police and Lawyers, than that sin could there be called could tell you as much; so could simply malajustment or neurosis No, Christ did not get round evil any person.*
but met it, went through it, and overcame it. Here, teaching and
WHY DO MEN SUFFER? I tell you, nay, that is clear
risen Christ,
THE ANSWER
Mr. N. R. Knatchbull-Hughessen, Following Instructions from the eldest son of His Excellency the N. L. Smith, Officer Administerine British Ambassador to China, Sir enough. Jesus's words are vin- preaching must end and we must the Government, has appointed a Hughe, Knatchbull-Hugessen, who dicated by His life and supported point simply to the crucified and has been spending a holiday with by our own experience. It is tan- his parents until his father was tastic to suggest that suffering a
If, then, we ask the questions: wounded, passed through Singa-Uke a drawer full of thunderbolts pore recently on his return to Ox-
that God throws on the wicked. Why do men suffer? why is there ford to complete a post-graduate because suffering in its crude forms evil? why have so many calamities
is conditioned by our circum-struck this Colony and this coun stances.
try recently? it is there that our Unless God is really the god of answer is found. There we do see that the Commission shall report the wealthy, as we are sometimes how, through Christ the Mediator, His Honour Sir, A. D. A. Mac to the Governor-in-Council "at as told, it would seem that the man power to overcome evil is brought, and how by the same Gregor, Chief Justice;
who could build himself a strong to men early a date as possible."
The following Government ap-house in Hong Kong has an unfair mediation-blood transfusion, you pointments are notified in the advantage over a man who can may call it, men's sin and suffering.
afford only a matshed or sampan are met by God.
You see evil, hatred, stupidity when the storm come; but, H. we] Dr. Gwendolyn Ruth Nosh to be can ridicule the idea that God sends | met and transformed by limitless a member of the Midwives Board suffering, we cannot rid ourselves love by forgiveness, by patience. Be- for three years, in place of Dr. of ft por of the problem it raises. tween Good Friday and Easter you
order whereon Agnes Dovey, resigned; and also to It is not academic to ask why do glimpse the be an Inspector of schools.
men autter.
Tght of love cannot be extinguish- Christians are committed to the ed by evil but in the very act of E. E. Pratt, and J. A. M. Black, to belief in God who created men free. encountering it transforms evil and
That is, capable of wisdom or sows the seed of future" victories.
The Honourable Commander J, B Newill, DB.O., EN.. (retired), Harbour Master;
Mr. John A. Fraser, M.C., tem- porary additional Judge of the Supreme Court.
The Chief Justice will act as
chairman of the Commiselon, and Mr. John C. McDougall will act a Secretary.
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Misses R. E. Low. 8. Dempsey,
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