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THE NEARER 1 APPROACH THE to be the method 'Japan has de- END, THE. PLAINER I HEAR THE IMMORTAL cided upon. And when we come AROUND ME
to think of the menace which SYMPHONIES OF THE WORLDS. WHICH INVITE ME. IT IS MAR- misguided agitation can assumeVELLOUS, YET SIMPLE-Vidor"
--indeed, the inenace which has Hugo. beon permittod to take firm rook in Britain-wo cannot help
The opening rate of the dollar)
thinking that tolerance can bojon demand to-day was 2s. 4.5/16d. dangerously over-done.
First-Aid for Police.
The French cruiser "Jules Micholet" has gone into dock at Taikqo.
In connection with the prosen- Capt. M.
Middleton, 5/2nd
tation of trophies won by the Punjab Regiment, has returned: various local Divisions of the St. from leave. John Ambulance Brigade which
took place in the grounds of The s.s. Takada left Singapore Government House on Monday on Monday, and is due here on morning. His Excellency thethe 20th. instant.
Governor displayed a keen per-
sonal interest in the subjoet of
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Four cargo beat masters were Brst-aid, and lot fall at least one fined $5 at the Marine Court to- significant phrase. He said that day for mooring inshore during he would sen to it that before prohibited hours. very long, more, mombers of the Hongkong Police Force
For having no license. the qualified to render first-aid thun master of a junk was fined $20 at al prosent, and we should, like, the Marine Court today by very heartily, in commend this Lient.-Commdr, G. F. Holo. " determination. Not ones but on
wore
several occasions during tho
Major E. J. Bono, S.R.E.S., has course of a lengthy residence assumed the duties of Inspector here, the writer has seen police of Works, Hongkong, in place of officers handling a street casualty Lieut. M. H. B. Scott, S.R.E.S.. case without the most olementary knowledge of first-aid, and if
The number of foreign warships anybody ought to be qualified in first-aid work surely it is the in port was added to this morning! policemen who patrol our streets, with the arrival of a small Chi- who are on official duty at fires, nose cruisur. The usual solutos at accidents and on the scones of were exchanged. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 1925, violent crime. First-aid should
The Telegraph
Home
Selling "Culture,"
Ac-
The B.s. Talamba arrived from Amoy yesterday with nearly two thousand deck passengers on bourd. They are emigrants to the Straits and to India.
Whilst being driven along Des Voeux Road West, a car was run into by a two wheel truck em- orging from Third Street. Some damage was done to the front fender of the car.
THE VOLUNTEER FIELD DAYT.
Photographs takon at the combined Voluntoor field opera-
tions in the Fanling district on Sunday. Top picture shows Volunteers moving up to positions for field firing; whilst below a detachment is seen at rest on the hillside during the meal- time hour. (Photos: Ming Yuen.
CORRESPONDENCE.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.1
collection, people calling them- selves Christian Scientists employ- ed the Faith Healing plea in the case I previously instanced.
Certainly
How-
come in the very fore front of a policeman's training and there THE JAPANESE WAY.should be encouragements in the way of extra pay for every pro- gressive certificate gained. The Details of the stand taken by proficiency badge of the St. John's
The Rev. G. F. Stopford, R.A.- Ambulance Brigade should be the the Japanese Clovernment in its proud possession of police in Ch.D.. CF.. has assumed the suppression of the Farm-Labour Hongkong just as it is in England, duties of Chaplain to Church of
In any case, there is no need Party were contained in an and we can assure His Excellency, England troops in Hongkong, in
to bicker about the name under if any assurance were needed, place of the Rev. R. J. Northcott,
which the sect works, rather is [article reproduced by as yester-that he will have the hearty R.A.Ch.D.
it the Cendamental principle in- day from the Osuka Mainichi, support and thanks of the general
volved which has called forth my The new political party was or community for doing anything!
Sir, I have been much interest-criticism. According, to Mr. Bér dered to be dissolved. by the which will make members of our police force more generally con
el in the correspondence regarding nard. Christian Seiener became an Minister, because its versant with firsts-aid.
the recent declaration by the Medi-established, creed in the year platform embraced obviously
cal Board at Manila that Christian1875. Am I then to believe that Science is illegal. Mr. Bernard has since the Creation, a loving God Communistic doctrines. Ap-
A requiem muss in memory of been at great pains to show that in has allowed makind to stumbl. parently the members of the or ganisation have had to agree, to
One cannot help noticing, in the late M. Paul Kremer will be certain State laws in America long in blindness and pain, when looking over magazines from held at St. Joseph's Church, Gar- Christian Science is specificially ex- the practice of faith up the appli this ruling with as good a grace Home and the United Stated, the den Road, to-morrow morning at empted from the requirements cation of spiritual belief would as possible and have accepted rapid growth of concerns which 9 o'clock, to which all friends of of Medical Acts, but it seems to me have conquered their bodily nil- that that does not really touch the ments? Can anyone gainsay that the early death of their new-born guarantee to "sell" culture to all the deceased are invited.
point at issue. That point is whe mankind owes an incalculable debt aspirations. But obviously the and sundry in a course of what
are termed "easy lessons."
Owing to the absenco of the ther the practice of Christianto medical und surgical science? the physical sick to forego prac-. Communists of Japan, a growing cording to many of the advertise-complainants, the claim for wages Science is contrary to the laws of And yet Christian Scientists urge body, are not as easily suppressed, ments, fifteen minutes a day will brought against Mrs. McKim by the Philippine Islands.
As to the origin of this declaratieal and proven aid in favour of un anber coolie and an amah, was this put the average man and this action by the ath-timate footing with the great morning dismissed by Mr. E. W.
tion by the Manila Board, I learn an inactive and mythical spiritua! orities might easily mean an thinkers of the past and so fortify Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis- from the Manila papers that the obsession!
To give a case in point. I wAN matter was taken up as the result of outlook the student who buys these tracy.
once urged to undergo an opera- added bitterness
of an enquiry addressed to the Sc- amung, the disorderly elements courses that he will make a short
out to success.. Possibly the Rough weather is being experi-cretary of the interior, who intion for appendicitis.
the pain was acute, and I have and further fanning of smoulder-growth in the number of such enced by all vessels from the turn submitted the query to the ing fires. For Japan has to face concerns is somewhat reflective South and in some cases the de- Medical Board, and the latter ruled since learned that it would have
the professional advice. the fact that outside influences of a state of mind which is all too lay amounts to two or three days. that the practice of both Christian been wise of me to have heeded prevalent at the present time,The German 8.5. Eva, which ar-Science and Spiritualism fell within
ever, remained obdurate, and have latterly found a fertile field the outlook which values things rived here in ballast yesterday, the provisions of the medical law,
their for sowing
poisonous chiefly as and when they add loft Singapore on December 4th. and, therefore, to practice either thanks to Providence and the ac- the one or the other, constitued aceptance of alternative human advice, I recovered. If, Sir, I had doctrines, and sooner or later the cash to the right sida of the led-
ger. We look to the time, however, The master of an unlicensed violation of that law.
chanced to meet $ Christian elements of unrest must make when people will learn that junk was fined $30 or three weeks Mr. Bernard may want us to Science practitioner, doubtless I' themselves more seriously felt. nothing that is really valuable at the Marine Court this morning. believe that Christian Science dif- should have thought about the The Japanese way of hipping can be expressed in terms of conts He was charged with failing to fers materially from what is term theory he or she propounded, and
and dollars; that all great litera-report his arrival, with failing to
my chance of recovery would Communism in the bud may be ture in the world is worthless of take out a license and with leaves faith-healing, and he would no
have been quoted as a definite compared with similar action it is studied merely to help one to ing without having taken out a doubt like to obscure issue by div
ing into deep metaphysical points.result of the acceptance of that taken by the United States of Am-"get ahead;" that the richness clearance.
But surely this is a matter which theory. I therefore fee entitled and bounty that are stored in erica, though on the other side of books give one a broadar and a
can be very simply disposed of, to belive that the so-called curés On enquiry from Mr. A. L. the Pacific purely Labour organi-fuller life than the biggest salaries. Terry, the Secretary of the Tole without the necessity of following or spiritual triumps over the flesh, sations have been pormitted to of themselves, can do.
The serious aspect of the whole, maybo, people will begin to be phone Company, this morning, we the intricacies and subtleties of are purely imaginary.
were informed that, judging from Mary Baker Eddy's claims. flourish. This has led to the really cultured, and the culture-present indications, the Com- me put the question: Do Christian thing. Is that misguided religious creation of a powerful pro-by-post" flms will be a thing off
pany's issue of shures is very Scientists profeas to be able to enthusiasts should be allowed to letarian party which, to the the past.
likely to be over-subscribed. The fect the care of physical ailments persuade weak-minded, people to list closes on or before the 31st without the aid of surgery or medi-ignore medical science. Imagine chagrin of all agents of pl
eine? If so, do they ever receive the risk we should run in Hong- instant.
payment for the "eure?" Further,kong if two or three people suffer- shovism, declines to associate itself with the "Red" doctrinos
Last week's health roturn shows would they advise sufferers not to ing from small-pox, refusell to: three fatal Chinese cases of ty- place their trust in physicians or notify their disease or to obtain of the agitator. Then we can'
These queries strike at medical advice. Imagine the dan- phoid fever: two cases of diph-surgeons? contrast Japan's method with
therin fone British and ono Chi- the root of the whole malter, and ger if such people persisted in Britain's easy tolerance
nese), of which one was fatal; one they ought to be answered without carrying on" as long as they of
could in the belief that faith along fatal Chinose occurrence of small-equivocation of any kind.
I say again rampant Communist activities.
If Christian Scientists place would heal them. pox; and one non-fatal Chinese It is only when these agents of
Rangoon, Dec. 15.
Christian A small offlerat expedition has case of puerperal fever. There themselves above medical science, that fanatical pleadings such as provocation considerably over-
when they are told that their teach-Scientists, Faith Healers, or what-. stop the hounds that action is been despatched to effect the re- was also one Chinose death from then surely they cannot object those employed by
lease of all slaves in the Hakawng.
ings are in direct confllet with laws ever other names such folk may taken, perhaps to the extent of Valley. Arrangements will be The Garrison Command Orders designed to fasten due responsibil-be known by, are a source of dan-
police court
prosecution. made generously to compensat state that the sum of $525.26 was ty on those who profess to be ableger to the community, and as such, Otherwise, men who deliberately the slave-owners.
realised by the sale of Popples by to cure physical ailments. Yours should be vigorously exposed.-
Yours, etc.. The expedition will meet the units in Garrison, including an etc. declare themselves Communists
Naga chiels and express the In-amount of $108.46 collected by the! to sit in dian Government's abhorrence of 1st Bn., East Yorkshire Rogt., on Parliament, and Though our hunian sacrifices. It is anticipat-tho H.T. Derbyshire, on Armistice
Sir-While I should like to take neighbours acrosss the Atlantiefed the expedition will result in Day, for which a cheque has boon
this opportunity to thank Mr. D. refuse thon admission, as being supplies of victims for sacrified forwarded to the Treasurer, Hong-
Poppy Day from this side of the frontier bekong
G. M, Bernard for his obviously RUSSIA AND NORWAY. undesirable aliens, we permit ng completely cut off.--Reuter,
mittee, 1925.
sincere attempt to justify the prac them to be at large and continuo
"The region mentioned lies in
The port of Quebec is to be the tice of Christian Science, nothing their openly seditious declara-Northern Burma, near the Naga
desirable or viso. tions. An old saying deals with Hills, of Assam. It is a densely Canadian terminal for a Canada. he has written has convinced me
Oslo, Dec. 15. tho probabilities of a person hang-forested area, peopled by tribes Cuba steamship passenger and that this particular ereed is
of hill folk many of whom live in freight servion which is to be either
inaugurated next spring. Four Although Mr. Bernard differen-
The Russo-Norwegian commer- |ing himself if given enough rope, a savage state, and attention was steamers are to be used in the tiate between Christian Science
bo and Faith Healing, I can assurocial and shipping treaty, has been which will That seems to be the British way. recently drawn to their practices service,
him that, to the best of my re-signed in Moscow-Reuter.". On the other hand there is the of human sacrifice.")
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MODERN SLAVERY.
HUMAN SACRIFICES TO BE SUPPRESSED.
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Hongkong, Dec. 16th, 1925.
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Hongkong, Dec. 16th, 1925,
COMMERCIAL TREATY CONCLUDED.