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IN CHINA INTERIOR
SOCIETY REPORTS"
GOOD YEAR
"A very satisfactory regr WES recorded at the annual meeting of the Hongkong Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society held at St. John's Cathedral Hall yesterday evening.
The Rt. Rev. R. O. Hall, Bishop of Hongkong, President of the Society, was in the chair, support- ed by the Rev, Frank Short, Secretary, and Dr. K. L. Reichelt. The meeting commenced with a ahort prayer, hymn and a
I address by the. Bishop...
Following the adoption "of the annual report and statement of
accounts. Dr. Carleton Lacy, of
re-
the China Bible House, who cently came to the Colony from the interior, spoke on the spread of Christianity in China and the great increase in demand for the Bible in the country.
SECRETARY'S REPORT The following was the secretary's report:
THE BALKANS
The threadbare safety curtain of "strict neutrality" still hangs over the Balkan stage, båt diplomatie and milltary · car- penters are tumbling over each other to prepare for the drama which seems likely to begin at any moment.
Facts which South-East Europe have to face were these: Germany's air force might soon be unable to leave the ground without Rumaniaă petrol, German people would soon be getting hungry it deprived of Balkan larders,
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To guarantee these supplies But in Belgrade, Budapest and ruight not Adolf Hitler stage an Bucharest it was officially, denied carly march? He had already in- that such a demand had been vaded two Scandinavian countries made. Yugoslavia has good rear Mail by "Imperial 'Airways Direct in a desperate effort to secure the son suppose that Germany Swedish iron-ore route for the would not move against it except Saigon. Ruhr arms lactories. Sweden it- by arrangement with Its other self was far from safe..
ALLIES PREPARED
:
Great Britain and France were prepared for a Nazi adventure in the Balkans. In London. Viscount Hallfax was discussing moves with his representatives from South- East. Europe.
to
powerful neighbour, the Duce. But citizens were alarmed when a
and the occupants, believed to be car tore through Belgrade's streets
members of a touring German opera company, hurled 'out leaflets warning people not to resist Ger- many. Similar leaflets were also reported to have been dropped While the Allied War Council from an aeroplane which appeared talked over the military situation; over the capital.
and
its Commander-in-Chief in the Secret police rounded up Near East, General Maxime Wey-arrested a big German spy ring gand, rushed back to his Syrian in Northern Yugoslavia. Among headquarters from urgent con- the prisoners were 50 "oll men' ferences in Paris with the wary who had been given permits by council Paul Reynaud and the former Premier, pro-German
of Generalissimo Gamelin.
Milan Stoyadinovitch, to explore British warships were reported | certain sectors of the hills for oil, to be moving in the aegean, when ! They Had since been caught the Italian fleet put fussily to sea | photographing and mapping to stage Spring manoeuvres, bridges, roads, railways and other These were launched earlier than military objectives. usual to be ready," as Rome put
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The last two years have been years of unprecedented dimculties and unparalleled opportunities. A book could be written of the difficulties of circulating the Scrip
Print- tures in war-tor China.
ITALIAN PRESS. ing difficulties, shortage of paper "Italian newspapers were raising and of leather bave had to be
a, dust, cloud overcome; new routes into the in-many's action terior have had to be found.
There are many appeals in Hongkong which rightly appeal for support. It is with confidence in your response that your Committee appeals to you to continue and Increase your support of the Bri- tish and Foreign Bible Society. The Bible, too, marches and must march on,
Mr. Short added that there had been an increase in sales of the Bible of about 110,000 copies China, since 1937. "
FINANCIAL REPORT The financial report of Society was as follow:-"
in
CAROL'S STIFFENER
Feeling closer to the long arm of Allied protection, King Carol of Rumania stiffened his back to
of praise for Ger- wards a new Nazi attempt to bully
the" in
North. him. Giovanni Ansaldo, Count Galeazzo He has had his army in a state Ciano's co-director of the Tele-ot. semi-permanent mobilisation grato, announced that Italy would | since. Wor began. By selling a not wait for war to spread to its good deal of his oll to Hitler, he shores, but would choose a con-has. been frantically equipping his venient moment.
troops with arms from the former
the
Nevertheless, Rome quietly de- Czech works of Skoda. The Ger- clared that it was still remaining mans have repeatedly demanded "non-belligerent." The manoeuvres that the army be demobilised would not be provocative."
and put back into industrial pro- duction for their OWN benefit. Germans are well rehearsed in
Now they sent Carol s list of art of staging Incidents.
goods, presumably arms," which Their diplomats and agents put would no longer be made available on a little drama which could
to him. the easily have been the prelude to full action, and was a curious, parallel to what was happening in the North.
This year the statement of ac- counts covers two years, for un- fortunately during the year 1939 no annual meeting was held.'
During the year 1938-1939, our Hongkong Auxilary paid $1,050 to the British and Foreign Bible Society, the same amount as in the previous year, but to do that the balance in the Bank at the end of the financial year was re- duced from $92.55 to $28.30, 50 that actually we did not do so well as in the previous year though we handed over the same amount of money.
During the year 1938, only two Non-Chinese Churches subscribed as Churches to our funds. Letters were therefore sent to the Clergy of all the Non-Chinese Churches, with the result that this year eight Churches subscribed a total sum of $466.19.
The Chinese Churches subscribed exactly the same sum each year from their Bible Sunday Collec- tions, namely, $360.72.
MISS DRURY
RIVER RIPPLES
In response, the slippery sovereign temporarily suspended the loading of all ol barges and rallway waggons destined for Ger many. This week he sat back to Running from Germany and awalt Berlin's reactions, while in Austria through three key Balkon | neighbouring Bulgaria the Sofla, States, the Danube is as vital a somewhat pro-German commercial waterway fcr the paper. tritely but accurately de- Reich ая was the Norwegianclared, "No one knows what may coastal corridor. Up it go streams happen tomorrow, apparently of small steamers and barges there are strenuous efforts. carrying Rumanian and Russian spread the fire of war", oll and Balkan produce.
news-
In Bucharest recently it was reported that three of these river
LONDON, May 20 (Reuter)—– craft, the 70-ton steamer Gheorghe | The Admiralty announces that loaded with wheat and two barges the trawlers Melbourne and Cape with 700 tons of oil had been sunk Passaro were lost in an enemy
on their way to Germany follow-bombing attack. Four ratings of ing mysterious explosions in their the Cape Passaru were lost. There holds.
were no casualties on the Mel-
LONDON, May 29
This was followed by rumours boшné.' that to prevent such "Incidents" Germany had demanded from Yugoslavia, Hungary and Rumania the right to police the whole of the Danube and that four strange looking vessels had sped down- stream through Budapest with searchlights full on.
(Reuter)-
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The Government has decided to Manila, Straits, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles. remove evacuated children from Saigon, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa. areas, whether rural or urban, within
miles approximately ten from the coasts of Suffolk. Essex. Kent ang part of Norfolk, No The Committee" and "Treasurer desire to thank each Church and To back this request, which in more children will be evacuated to every "donor for their gifts and volved sacrifice of territorial rights these areas. Children who were also each Lady Collector for the'r by the three atates, seven Ger evacuated from London, and dis-. efforts on behalf of the Auxiliary. TILAZI divisions were said to be tricts, numbering about 8,000 will Special mention should be made massed on the. „Austro-Hungarian be moved to the Midlands and of Miss M. Drury's services to the frontier and three at Cracow, in South Wales. beginning on Sun- Bociety.
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It is also the earnest kobe of the Committee that by a united effort on the part of all the Churches both Chinese and Non- Chinese, and with the assistance of more Lady Collectors, the year 1940 in spite of war conditions will be a record one, with - h- creased funds to meet the incress- ing needs and opportunities of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Hongkong, Kowloon, the New Territories and South China,
I wish to record my thanks to the Mr. S. V. Boxer for kindly auditing the accounts.
I wish to record my thanks to the Mr. S. V. Bozer, for kindly auditing the" accounts.-
OFFICERS ELECTED The following Oficers elected:-
were
Vice-Presidents:-Hon. Sir Henry Pollock and Dr. K. L Reichelt; Hon. Treasurer-Dr. J. H Mont- gomery: Hon. Secretary Rev. Frank Short.
German Propaganda In
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BRITISH NAVY "CRIPPLED"! LONDON, May 7 (By Air Mall) Germany is conducting an in- tense propaganda campaign, de- signed to convince neutrals that To counteract the effect of this the British Navy has been crip- persistent propaganda, Captain pled by German air, attacks, and Tufnell, R.N., the British Naval It is apparently intended that Attache, tonight received
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ot Germany. Though it is alm- The German Air Attache has celt to dispel the effects of the informed the Japanese Press that systematic German falsifications, since Germany has secured all Captain Tufnell's facts and figures
at least important af bases in Norway, will
show Japanese the British sea blockade has be readers the hollowness of German come useless, and the assertion claims that they have demon- that one, perhaps two, British strated the superiority of air battleships had been sunk by a power over sea power, bomb is persistently repeated. Needless to say, the Japanese Local campaigns are reinforced Navy is intensely interested "and further £2,000 from the Jamaica by telegrams from Berlin, the somewhat impressed by the In-Printed and Published by Henry Lloyd Murrow, for the Hongkong War Assistance Committee, oring- latest of which reported that Erl- cessant repetition of Germany's ing their total to £24,500,
tish naval superiority had been false claims.
LONDON, May 29 (Reuter) The Lord Mayor's Red Cross Fund for the war sick and, wounded has reached £1,500,000, the latest contribution including #
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