NORTHERN CAMPAIGN.
SUGGESTED AID BY THE
SOVIET.
It is reported from Canton that General Fook-lum, General Officer Commanding the 5th Army Corps, has been recommended by M. Lugarkoff, high adviser of Mill- tary Affairs to command the van- guard in the forthcoming Northern campaign.
As the 5th Army haa. not yet been brought up to the required strength, M. Lugarkoff suys he will undertake to obtain the as- sitance of the Soviet to supply full equipment for one Division of men In consequence, it is stated that when the Army Corps is · brought up to the required strength and fully equipped, it will be sent on netive service to Fuklen. ".
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1928.
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The returns of the averago amount of bank notes in circuja- tion and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month end- ed 28th February, 1926, as certi- fled by the Managers of the respective Banks are:
Banks
Chartered Bank
of India. Aus- tralia
China
and
Hangkong and
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ing Corpora-
Average Specie Amount In Reserve.
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tion51,058,714 41,000,000+
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uk
India,
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Total:38,188,928 46,850,000 In addition Sterling Securities de posited, with the Crown Agents valised at £1,197,700
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Arrosted in the act of breaking open the window, showcase of & printing shop in Hollywood Road, a Chinese was sentenced to one month's hard labour by Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy this morning.
Grey Morn, winner of the Chater Cup, being lot in by Mrs. B.D. F. Beith. The jockey is Lieut. Comdr. Thompson. (Photo: Ming Yuen.)
His Excellency the Governor, Lady Clementi and Sir Paul Chater Photo: Ming Yuon.
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By the Rev. G. R. Lindsay, M.A.
In Puritan days the spiritual value of fasting from food was fully realised, and in these more. or less luxurious days for most of us in the East, 21 form of
The keeping of a fast before Easter can be traced back to the Fourth Century, but it was not until the Seventh Century that forty days were fixed as a period for this, form of self-discipline. abstinence might well prove. These forty days are sometimes check to the increasing encroach- | said to be in memory of our ment of materialist. Christians Lord's fast in the wildorness.need to bo on their guard. We This was not so at first, though it have renounce the false. may have been later on.
"asceticism of a past age, but the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. Lent is not recognised in vain, if it calls a halt to many, not for forty days only, but for life"
In the book of Common Prayer, which was drawn up in 1662, Lent is included in a list of days of fasting. How the fast is to be observed is left to the individual concience, and very wisely, be- cause Christianity is a faith not of rules, but of principles, which each age and each individual must apply to the conditions of the time.
"This view of fasting is true as it goes, but it has a much deeper significance. Fasting is # symbol of tremendous import. It
represents
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attitude un detachment from the things of It is a remarkable fact that time and sonse, What we need even the highly legal code of concerning food and drink, and Judaism enjoined, but one com-pleasure and business, ie the re- pulsory fast. Our Lord certainly soluto determination to be above sanctioned the custom, and laid them, and not to be in bondage to down certain principles to guidothom. I will not be brought us. Fasting was to be observed under the power of any", suid St choorfully, unostentatiously, and Paul. The Bible always links was appropriato at certain periods fasting with prayer, only. He was no advocate of asceticism. He came "eating and
drinking."
4:
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"Hero from the world wo
turn.
Jesus to sook."
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and from certain forms of pleasure nothing of detachment without that appeal to the sones. It is attachment. Lont, is therefore a believed that by subjection of the wall to prayer, definite, pains. body, the spirit is strengthened. taking, regulár prayer.
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