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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1928.
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FIFTH ANNUAL DINNER ́AT LARGE ATTENDANCE AT THE
HONGKONG HOTEL:
FUNERAL.
away at the Government Civil Hospital on Friday afternoon, took place at the Protestant Cemetery yesterday evening, the Rov. H. V. Koop officiating?
Local Rationalists assembled. The funeral of the late Mr. F. for their fifth Annual Dinner at C. Coleman, head electrician of the Hongkong Hotel on Saturday the Kowloon Dock, who passed night when about forty members and guesta partook of an excellent repast. A now and appreciated feature of the evening was the dance which followed, for which purpose one of the new electrical- ly operated Columbia gramophones was kindly lent by the Anderson Music Company. To allow for this ontertainment speeches were limited as compared with former occasions.
There was a large attendance those present including Mr. R. M. Dyer (Chief Manager, Kowloon Dock), Messrs. D. Gow, J. S. McIntosh, C. Atkinson, S. Gray, F. Cullen, A. M. Simpson P. T. Farrell, U. M. Omar, W. P. Hedley, Members are asked to note that W. J. Rattey, P. G. Hall, W. an anonymous donor has offered Forsyth, D. Lyon, W. Wilson, N. a prize of life membership of the Drummond, W. Mackay, N. "Wat Association to the local member son, W. Brown, R. E. Hoare, A. W. who introduces the largest num-Bliss, J. A. Lindsay, G. Henderson, ber of new members during the W. Greig, T. Coleman, G. Duncan coming year.
and several Chinese employees,
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After the Loyal Toust had been Wreaths were sent by "Dear duly honoured, Mr. C. A. S. Russ, Mother," His Loving Wife in offering the toast to "The Dorothy Dear Little Son Guests" said that he had been on- Jackie,” Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Dyer, trusted with a very pleasant task. Mr. and Mrs. D. Gow, Mr. and Unfortunately he had not been ↑ Mrs. J. S. McIntosh, Mr. and Mrs. previously informed that he was W. Grelg, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Mor- required to propose the toast, orrison, Mr. and Mrs. G. Henderson, he would have prepared a proper Mr. and Mra, G. Duncan, Mr. and speech. He Humorously remark | Mrs. R.. G. Craig, Mr. and Mrs. ed that he would have bad ready Gray, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Bliss, a speech with sonorous sentences | Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Ford, Mr.,hnd which would have reverberated Mrs. W. Forsyth, Mr. and Mrs. through the roof. He would have W. P. Hedley, Mr. and Mrs. C. gone into the subject of Ration- Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. alam.
Hoare, Mr. and Mrs, J. Kempton, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Clemo, Mr. P. T. Farrell and Miss. Farrell, Mr. P. G. Hall, Mr. D. Lyon, Mr. A. M. Simpson.
- Replying for the guasto, Mr. J. Ralston remarked that it was with dismay that he heard he was ex- pected to roply on behalf of the guests. He was, however, relieved when he learned, that Mr. Russ had likewise been unprepared. On behalf of the guesta Mr. Ralston expressed thanka to the R. P. A for their hospitality.
Success to the R.P.A.
In rising to propose the toast
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Chairman and Directors, Hong- kong and Whampoa Dock Co. Ltdụ Government Marine Surveyor and Staff, Staff of General Electric Co., of China, Kowloon Dock Electricians, and Club de Recreio.
doctrines that required critical
for the "The Success of the Ra-andling, doctrines that would not. tionalist Press Association," Mr. be alive to-day but for the unert. G. E. Matthews said that he tical and unquestioning attitude thought he must be the most re- of those who accepted them and cently joined member of the R.P.A. passed them on to others. Re- Only three weeks ago he did not ligton was, in fact, the domain know that anch in association | par excellence of loose thinking, and existed in Hongkong. He Whs It was this that Rationalists op- none the less pleased to have posed.
been asked to propose the toast As an example of the kind of with which he had been entrust-thing he meant Mr. Forrest quot-
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FORGED NOTES.
$6,000 SEIZED ON ARREST OF CHINESE WOMAN.
ed & phrase which appeared re- Fake banknoten to the face value
A. P. C. BUILDING.
SERIOUS CHARGE.
CASE AGAINST INDIAN CONSTABLE COMMENCED.
The hearing was commenced
He was very pleased when told cently in a London paper regard- of $6,000 were seized in the posses-before Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jonos at that the R.P.A., which had onlying the recent excavations at Ursion of a Chinese woman in Yau- exlated for five years, had flourish of the Chaldecs. An illustration mati on Friday after detectivea in the Kowloon Magistracy on Batur ed so well. He had learned that of a private house of that anclent disguise had carried on negotiations day in the case in which an Indian when the Association was formedelty was described as "a house for the purchase of the spurious constable attached to the Kowloon five years ago it consisted of five such 33 Abraham lived in." money. Several other raids follow-City Police Station is charged members, whereas the member. There was not a suggestion, Ited the arrest of this woman.
ship now was 30 strong, which meant that it had doubled each year. To maintain that rate of
would be noticed, of the difficul ties involved in supposing that the Abraham of legend was a his progress it meant that every mem- torical person, to say nothing of ber was to introduce a new mem-those which arose if they attempt- ber. He hoped that 1929 would be ed to understand all the stories just no successful as the previous told of him in the Bible. The writer doubtless intended merely to interest his renders by relating
years.
Continuing Mr. Matthews and that then was hardly the occasion on which to dwell on the aims of the E.P.A. in China but he thought na a foreigner in Chinn, he might express what appeared to him is chief aim. Foreigners could not do very much except form a link between Rationalism at Home and Rationalism in China. He hoped, he said, to hear the views of some Chinese member of the Rationalist Press Association.
Mr. Matthews coupled with the toast of the R.P.A. the name of the President of the Association, Mr. Forrest, and those members who had rendered assistance to the local branch,
What Rationalism Stands For.
now discovery to thinga pre- vlously known, but the phrase, and it had many parallels in popular writing, was unfortunate as it tended to confirm in the minds of those uninstructed in biblical criticism, out-of-date notions of ancient history.
The hotes were of the $50 de- nomination as issued by the Hong- long and Shanghal Banking Cor- poration and were dated 1923,
One other arrest has since been made, that of a man, but after vestigation he was released.
enough to suggest that his dis- coverica corroborated Homer's theology.
with assaulting a young Chinese girl.
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Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy pro- secuted on behalf of the Crown while Mr. Leo d'Almada, jar., (in- instructed by Mr. Loo d'Almada, snr.), appeared for the defence Mr. F. H. Losoby held a watching brief on behalf of the complainant.
The Assistant Government Bac- teriologist, Dr. W. E. Duriscombe, gavo ovidence of discovering In matters of religion, however, certain stains on the girl's gar after which Mr. H. Q. as the chairman had said, any loose monte
Buperinten thinking seemed to be good enough Calthrop, Assistant to retail to the general public, and dent of Police (Kowloon) tortified while Mr. Leonard Woolley doubt to the identification parade. He less regarded the discoveries sober- said that 18 Indian constables in ly, a popular Idea must suggest uniform minne their numbers were that they confirmed in some ob parade, the defendant electing which in turn proved the reliabili- what was required of her, hut scure way the Abraham legend, to stand No. 1 in the row,
The complainant was informed ty of Gencats, that the unbelievers being douf, sho one possessed of a little reading frightened. After
and seemed extremely on the subject those results would she walked down the row
60m0 difficulty
might be confounded. With any-
witted
was very slow
and
A Pardonable Error,
Similar things occurred in other lines, but, the chairman aaked the gathering to note the difference. Schliemann in 1870 opened up the site of ancient Troy and Inter on excavated at Mycenae on the Greek mainland, at both placen making remarkable and valuable not follow, but that such loose stopped on reaching the defendant, discoveries. In his enthusiasm statements appeared in print whom she accused, through, the he assumed that he had discover showed that a public existed which interpretation of her mother, of Mr. Forrest, In reply, said thated the tombs of Homeric heroes had still to be informed of the being the man who had committed and about the and proved the historicity of findings of history and science on the assault On several occasions R.P.A. by the speakers and he Homer's tale, a perhaps pardon- | those questions, and still to be the girl tried to break away and
able error. It was not long, how-taught to weigh evidence and to refused to do ever, before critical research prov- suspect any attempt to belittle this was apparently because sho Ba requested, but ed that the discoveries did not the effects of criticism on the was frightened. When she confirm Homer's account except in Bible. Therein lay the work of to the defendant she pointed him the most general way, so far, that the Rationalist Press Association, out without hesitation. was, as to show that Troy and which in the opinion of Sir Ray In reply to Mr. d'Almada, wit- Mycenae were indeed towns of im | Lankester had "done more for in-ness said that the Indians were portance. No one to-day would tellectual progress" since its in- more or less of the same build. non are a show,and not even in Britain." nssert that "the bones of Agamem-ception than any other institution The esso was adjourned till next Schliemann hinwelt was
Friday afternoon.....
much had been
would take it that all their friends gathered at the dinner knew in a general way what the Association stood for, that was to say, a criti- cal attitude to all doctrines, offer ed for their acceptance. "
If they seemed to be primarily an anti-religious body, that was because in the domain of religion they meet so great a number of
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