THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.
'LET US KEEP THE
FEAST."
CIGARETTE AND
Bishop Lander's Christmas Sermon.
Yesterday morning the Bishop of Victoria, preaching from the text "Let us Keep the Feast," remarked that some might claim it to be not a timely message, Quoting from the Times' leader on the occasion of the Lord Mayor's banquet, his Lordship. mentioned the following passage:
"The shadow of the greatest war in history is over all hearts, and leaves our minde but little attuned to feasting. The flower of our manhood is at this hour wrest- ling in deadly conflict for, all that wo hold dear. All that the Wisdom and the valour of our fathers has wrought for one thousand years is at stake. Oar faintest bopes, our noblest an- pirations, hang upon the issue. The magnitude and the gravity
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1914,
TO-DAY'S
LATEST WAR TELEGRAMS,
HOSTILE AEROPLANE OVER SHEERNESS.
BRITISH AIRCRAFT HIT IT AND DRIVE IT OUT TO NE
[Reuter's Service To The Telegraph."]
Dec. 25. 11.55 p.m. The War Office announces that a hostile aeroplace was sighted 9.00 at 12.30 this afternoon dying very high east to west, bver Sheer Aircraft ascended in pursuit and engaged the enemy who, 77.00 after being hit three or four times, was driven off towards the sea.
Thousands of. Prisoners of War in Rassis,
Dec. 25. 6,35 pm. $143.04
It is reparted from Petrograd that the German prisonera in 81,079.08 Rassis on the 23rd. fast, amounted to 1,140. officers dad 131,737 men. The number of Austrian prisonera amounts 1 to 3,188 officers and 221,447 men.
of the struggle weigh heavily Mr. Gardiner's List. upon us all, yet it is well that. E. H. Beavis time honoured institutions should | P. W. Goldring be kept up.
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They had come there that day J. H. Kemp to keep an infinitely higher festiw. B. Hind..... val. The swful, cruel and un-sir W. Rear-Davies necessary sufferings of millions in E. J. Crist Europe, the madness of the J. E. Joseph. nations," the latting loose of J, H, N. Mody Blends of Hell, the sighing of P. J. Mason, broken hearts, and the nervous R. Ramos tension of anxiety for dear one at W. L. the front, should not silenas the H. K. Hang divine call to keep the feast. D. V. Steavenson These things emphasized it. For W. L. Wei never since the augelesang to the S. 9. K. Kwok Shepherds at Bethlehem has their B. P. Fang Bong of "Peace on Earth and good. Mrs. Quinn will to men" been more needed and Mrs. Lai Chi Chin never have the nations of the Mrs. Kang world been so anxiously longing Mr. S. H. Yong for it. Never had their refusal. L. Yang to let Christ reign over their Percy Law national relationship been ao Mrs. E. Rosser deeply regretted. Therefore let M.F. Yang them keep the feat, for it was v, O. the festival of their faith. "P. T. Au·· Dealing with the birth of H. Watkins Christ, his Lordship remarked Smoker that some stumbled at the Virgin F. Wheeler birth. He would not discourage J. Baokhones any honest doubter, or Bay A. G. Coppia
word to make him feel unwelcome, but he must bear testimony to his convictions. For so unique a person there was avery possibility of his having 30 unique a birth. In this connection
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FRANCE UNDER WAR CONDITIONS
News Notes Compiled From Latest Available French Newspapers.
The Figaro of September 28 publiekes a debree of the French
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Government prohibiting`.com- merce of any kind with Germany and Austria-Hungary. Article II declares null and void any agree ment or contract entered into by any French subject, or any one under the protection of the French Government, either in France or in any French colony, with any subject of Germany or persona Austria-Hungary, or residing in these states. Article III prohibits the fulfilling of all such financial or other obligations entered into previous to the war by the parties mentioned in article 11. The Figaro, in publish ing the decree, gives it the head ing Boycottage Legal."
SANITARY BOARD.
The orders of the day for next Tuesday's meeting of the Sanitary
Are:
CATHOLICS AND THE WAR
Stirring Letter from Blahop Pozzoni.
· Letter from Government re- lative to she re-appointment of the The following is the text of Honourable Mr. E. A. Howest to letter of His Lordship Bishop bes member of the Sanitary Pozzoni Board:
Application for permission to
erect a water closet at the Jockey Club, Bural Building Lot No. 35. Application for permission to erect a water closet in a certain house to be erected on Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1280,
Limewashing return for the fortnight ending 15th December, 1914.
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Mortality return for Macao for the weeks ending 29th November, 6th and 13th December, 1914.
Rat return for the weeks ending 12th and 19th December, 1914.
To the Clergy and faithful
of the Vicariate." Dear Rev. Brethren, and Dear Ohildren in Jesus Christ,
Immediately after the outbreak of the War we ordered a triduum of supplication for the Restoration of Peace and that special prayamm be said daily publicly and pri vately and, when our Holy Father Benedict XV, wishing to re-echo the dying voice of Pine X" most earnestly addressed all the Catho
lics of the world and aside
while we ourselves with eyes
and handsraised to Heaven beseech God we exbort and even implore all the sons of the Church to continue, insist, and strive privately by humble prayer and publicly by repeated Bupplication imploring God *** that he may remembering his mercy, put down this scourge of wrath,
we caused the dis tribution of a prayer for the occasion asking all the faithfal aphers and and especially the teachers
The Guerre Sociale, the organ of the Socialist leader Gustave Herve, aontained recently what! was obviously intended us an article of his on the care of the wounded, which displayed is busy with this problem. curiously the vagaries of the Urgent work is given out to those French censor. In order to disarm seeking employment, namely the the suspicions of that fane-making of waistcoats and under their pupils to reoite it daily. tionary, the article began with clothing. Workmen, we know, We know that all of you have not the words: "I respect and there are in plenty, but how about failed to earnestly implore God honour the censor," and then material-wool and linen thread? to restore peace to the nations; followed, with scarcely veiled Even at the very beginning of the and we know that you have done 166 irony, a detailed enumeration of war it was difficult to procure so not only in spirit of submission 176 all the various hospitals and up sufficient linen for apldiers shirts, to the ecclesiastical authority In commenting on the claims
189 pliances for the care of the and for the care of the wounded. but also through your own 1.00 of Sir Stanley Buckmaster, "H,
185 wounded at the disposal of the Not even in the large Paris etores spontaneous desire. The in 1.00 W. M." in the Nation says:~~
162 Government, but which apparent enough was to be had. We really numerable and immense disasters 1.00 It is time for the country to!
185ly had not been brought to its owe it to the generosity of a few and the heart-rending sorrows 200
express what the Timer calls the
173 notice. What then followed in business men that the most both physical and moral of the 2.00 "profound misgiving” which it
183 the article as originally written urgent demand could be sup war must have convinced you 1.00 feels about the Press Censorship.
that there is nothing in the world can only be surmised, but evident-plied." 10.00 On this question the Government
ly the censor at this point took According to a slatement by better than peace and nothing 1.00 ought to understand that public
fright, and as it appears in the M. Ribot, the French Minister of more worthy of our supplication, 1.00
opinion is against it, and, 'divin- A professor of the university, Guerra Sociale, the article consista Finance, the amount of gold in and you will undoubtedly 1.00
ing the trae interests of the nation who is very popular among the only of a few introductory lines, the treasury of the Bank of respond with enthusiasm to the 1.00 better than its governors, calls students, was entertaining a long white space, and beneath France on October 1 was 4,002 call, enpported by His Majesty 5.00 for a change... But it is by no group of them at his residence it the signature of the author, million francs, almost exactly the King George V, to have a day of 2.00 mesne content to see the War one night. Taking down a mag. "Gustave Berve."
same as at the outbreak of war.united prayer and intercession 1,00 Offico use the censorship as a nificent sword that hung over The French Academician, Rene The silver coin on hand amount to attain peace. The day eng- 1.00 means of bringing free speech the fireplace, he brandished it Donraic, complains bitterly, ined to 319 millions. The bank gested as you already know 1.00 and free writing to an end. about, exolaiming:
the Gaulois, about the delay in had advanced to the state during from the press, is the first Sunday 1.00 In this matter the Govern "Nover will I forget the day the delivery of letters caused by the two months of war, up to of the year,anuary the 3rd. We 6.00 meat has
a special respons draw this, blade for the first the war. The entire postal man- October 1, the sum of 2,100 milere of opinion that, apart from the ibility. It is not a party organ; | time!".
agement seems to have been lions. The banknotes in circa-prayer which we are alread $77.00 it stands for the nation. In that Where did you draw it, sir?" thrown out of gear. Are there lation had reached the sum of saying, there is no better way o There have already been sent regard its first task is to bring an awestruck freshman asked;. not enough persons out of em- 9,200 millions, all but 412 mil. uniting ourselves in humble to the front 200,000 cigarettes the war to a victorious end.
That
At a raffle," said she pro ployment, be aske, who might lions of which was covered by supplication than to have a Fro and 288 lbs, of tobacco.
help the helpless officials? Doumic. gold and silver in the vaults, plus cession of Peasace, which will be * Cathedral at 6 p.m. on Januar utive; virtually dispensing with Sic Stanley Buckmaster admit implores the French Beastors and the notes of hand and bills of held in the compound of the
Deputies to demand of the Min-exchange in the portefeuille. free Press, is an adequate instru-ted that he had out eleven out ister of Poste that an end be put The French Colonial Office calle 3rd. We invite all the faithful o ment for achieving it. Is that an eighty lines from a newspaper to the intolerable condition of attention to the increasing im the Colony to attend it and extreme etatement of the Censor's article. These lines," says the
portance of the exports from Ger- accompany in their heart wit
Not in his Sleep. :
position? I do not think so. Globe, dealt solely with matters
The assertion having been made many and Austria-Hungary to the utmost devotion the prayer "I do all my writing in the Criticism of the Government," which have been criticised by the
in his Homme Libre, that wounded official statistics published relate procession. We must remembe Mr. Hall Caire has been telling a week, "or of particular members many weeks past, the lack of Germans be less well treated then to the year 1911. In that year that in order that the Almight morning directly after I awoke," said Sir Stanley Backmaster, laat Press and by public speakers for that M. Clemenceau advocated, the French colonies. The latest which shall be recited during th Transatlantic interviewer. So of the Government, was a thing proper, provision for the new French, he now has sent a letter the total sum of such exports was may not despise us, and that F those unkind people are answered which he should never stop, Army." Butthe Censor suppressed who have been setting it about unless the criticism was of such them because, in his view, they to overal newspapera denying the 23 million fiance, as against 12, may hear our supplications the article," he asys, you will see reality, the influx of German contrite and humble heart and i that the world-famous novels are a obaracter that it might contained "etatements detrimental charge, "If you refer to my 600,000 five years previously. In must be presented to Him with written in his sleep. Globe destroy public confidence in the to ourselves" which might have that I said exactly the contrary of goods into French colonies has the name of Jesus. We therefo Government who had charge of been circulated abroad. Possibly what is ascribed to me. I dis been even greater than the figures invite all the faithful to approst in the ascendant in many
the conduct of the war, or oause it is" detrimental" for Germany. quarters, that Jesus Christ, bom sacrifice of pleasure and perhaps distress or alarm to the people by to know that all has not gone well tinctly stated that wounded Ger- indicate, inasmuch as in the official the Holy Sacraments and to he ever supreme as a religions of luxuries, because it brought
be treated is such. What I did to the port from which the vessel intention. genius, never out-stopped the with it, Hope. In this connection leading them to think that afleire with the organisation of the mans are "sacred guests, and must statistice the imports are credited Mass for the above mention limits of the purely human" is there was something wrong with were really in a very serious state: camps and the life of their recruits, complain of was that the military sails, and not to the country from On the 29th, 30th and 3
This is the claim, enforced, one theagh the Gorman General Staff (need it be said) to give up the any ustion if its married women Christ of the New Testament, the were unwilling to give birth to has to remark, by the delicate might, one thinks, have guessed hospital in a boys' lycee was which they originally came. Thus instant, there will be in
man hospital, in consequence of the goods are sent via Antwerp devotion of the "Qaurant-Ore Christ of history, the Obrist of future citizens, and perhaps it hint that a journalist who disput that our first great military in-turned into an exclusively Ger- Belgium stands for Germany if Cathedral the annual beautif sho Church, for another Christ was this tendency which was one ed it might find himself made a provisation would not work after which the ladies of the Red Cross, 1 he Colonial Office says that In addition to the public praye prisoner (under martial law) for the fashion of their own medhan-whose sons, brothers, and has French industry fails to adapt that are menally recited duri who might teach but could not of the cause of the awful judg: file. What does it smount to ? A ical model. The point is rands are in the field, were com- itself to the needs of the nativet, these three days, and on the redeem,
ment upon the European natione
newspaper must not (a) destroy whether it is better to let The festival was one of hope; of today. they were saved by hope and After making a special appeal confidence in the Government, or abuses go on, for fear that pelled to care only for German while German trade in over alert, and 2nd January, the Litanies they have the right to devote such countries as Indo-Ching, p.m. before Benediction as a p the people who ceased to look for help for the Diocemn Girls (b) distress or alarm the people Germany should hear of them, patients. All I claimed was that and hence gains the markets of the Saints will be sang at (7 future School, for which the offertory by making them think that off till they check recruiting or themselves also to wounded Annam, and Siam. paration for the day of a spes forward and had no
The Bordeaux correspondent of united preyer, and we confides airs were in a serious condition, emaseplate the serpics o
service or to Frenchmen, and as now in the use for life must be the was taken, his Tordship exhorted most miserable of men. Look them to keep the feast-by united Apply these cases to the existing criticise them (in measure) till back in thought to Bethlehem; Christian worship; by praise and embargo on serious correspond they are put right. Here the hospital I speak of only one-third the Paris Journal quotes a well- call on all our faithful to
satisfied."
that France was not sufficiently Blessing you all in Jesus Olu there was no pomp and no adoration; by partaking of the ence at the seat of war, and see man in authority is really in are German wounded, I am known French aviator as eaying part in these devotions
Vicar Apostolio of Hongko #plendour. Omaar reigned at Eucharistic Commemoration how they work out. A perfect danger, for he is apt to confuse
Another Danger,
"Baya: Every various flying machines are de-
Catholic Mission, Rome, Herod in Judas, tyranny which Our Lord himself appoint state of freedom is, one admite what is good for the enemy with Le Matin, under the caption of prepared for the role which the
D, POZZONI
and oppression, sorrow and saded; by timely salutations to one out of the question. But these what is bad for himself. It is derman carries in bie knapsack atined to play in warfare. Gor ness reigned and might was more another; by banishing all hard conditionsmake it possible for the got the business of the governors pair of woollen Backs and warm many organized her air fleet in a Hongkong, 24th December, than right. Yet the angels, the thoughts even of our deluded Censor to stop all effective of England to strive so that only gloves, not to spesis of cloak and wonderful manner. There were magi, the Shepherds, Mary and enemies, by praying for all men; criticism both of the conduct comfortable thingseball bespoken woollen blanket. The reason more German aviators in the "I was outspoken in my Simeon, by the birth of a little and by resolving to live more of the campaign (supposing that to a nation in an hour when its of this seems to be that the Ger field than had been assumed, mente at the olub to-day, Child, were all inspired by Hope. Christ-like lives. The result would it is not uniformly successful) and qualities of endurance must be
the French as rapidly as possible, they rendered from the beginn: the other evening. Why was the birth of a child so be a firmer faith in our Divine of the home preparations for put to a long and emoting test. mans in end, after disposing of Their apparatus worked well, and Mrs. Garraious to her welcome to every family? Every Redeemner, brighter hope in his sustaining it. Unless the Globe They must trust it to have stomach to go to itussis. At any rate, ing good service in reconnoitring of astonishment he replied right-minded wife welcomed a coming Kingdom, and stronger grossly inaconrate the latter for the struggle, and judgment to when winter comes, the Germans However, the expert quoted does I can't believe it my Hitle child; it was worth love for Him, and, through Him, kind of criticism has already been hear from faithful witness when be prepared. And we not believe in the future of large Who outspoke
Monthly. Beyond doubt our Administration all the for all mankind,
he quoted from Canon Strobelief bad often proved, and will often MATo part with this prove a first stop in the progress of thought which ends in denying the redemptive work and character of Jesus Christ-
Pro set in motion, finds its logical process of thought which, when onclusion in the ethical form of Christianity, from which all that is miraculons and transcend ental has been eliminated. To maintain with the theology now
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