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THE SEVENTH DAY
· ADVENTISTS.
DELEGATES LEAVE HONGKONG
FOR BIG CONFERENCE.
FINE WORK IN CHINA.
The new N.Y.K.. liner Asania
HUGE FIRE AT A
GOODS DEPOT.
£200,000 DAMAGE DONE AT COVENTRY.
Between £150,000 and £200,000 worth of damage was done by fire; at the LMS. goods depot at Gos-i ford Green, Coventry.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FELL 60 FEET TO
DEATH.
THREE DROWNED IN SEA OF MUD.
HERO OF RIVER. Throo men were suffocated
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1930.
LONDON TRAFFIC IN 1940.
SIR HENRY MAYBURY'S ESTIMATE.
Sir Henry Maybury, consulting engineer on roads and traffic to the Ministry of Transport and chairman of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Com- mittee, gave evidence before the at House of Commons Committee considering the Charing Cross
in
So great was the heat that metal the mud of the River Taff Maru, which left Hongkong to-day goods were melted, ralls on which Cardiff, when a portion of the stag
the trucks were standing were buckleding, on which they were standing Bridge Bill. for its third trip across
of cranes Pacific, is carving a large delega- and massive steel arms
to paint the Clarence-road bridge, tion of Seventh Day Adventist were twisted right out of shape.
fell and they were thrown into te missionaries who are on their way
made to The premises wore locked up for river-bed. to attend the World Conference
Frantic efforts were which is to be held in the great the week-end, and the fire must Civic Auditorium of San Fran- have amouldered for some time, for rescue them, but the thick mud at
when the firemen arrived they the banks impeded all attempts. cisco from May 28 to June 12.
Some of the rescuers were them-j The Rev. C. C. Morris of Hong-found the interior of a great load- kong, who is heading the delega-ing, unloading and storage building selves immerseil to the neck and
were rescued with difficulty. tion from South China, says that like a vast furnace. this great Conference will he
BTC now
the
a
Traffic over the bridges, he men- tloned, was increasing by 5.2 per cent. per annum.
Trafalgar Square in 1940 would have, he estimated at least 40 per cent. more traffic than to-day, and that was one of the points the new bridge would relleve."
WHY KAYE DON
FAILED.
İ.DEJECTED WHEN BEATEN BY
THE BEACH.
TROUBLE DEVELOPS.
Kay Done "failed to come anywhere near the 281 miles an hour established by Sir Henry Segrave when he made his first attempt in the record at Daytona Beach.
fo let it out to Its full extent.
He was utterly dejected when he was finally forced to turn the car over to the mechanics and postponed any further attempts for the day.
The Traffic Advisory Committee had decided, he remarked, that the
Although he made six rups along scheme would effect an enormous traffic on both sides of the river. tain 186.46 miles an hour with his improvement in the fluidity of the course he was only able to at- "Assuming that Charing Cross 4000 horse-power Silver Bullet..." However, this slow time was due Henry added, I estimate that atto engine trouble, and it does not Bridge is completed by 1940," Sir The accident recurred when one the rush hours the bridge will be mean that the car is not capable of The brigade's efforts, therefore, of the men, who were all members used by 1,080 vehicles an hour greater speed. Owing to faulty attended by 10,000 members of the were directed to preventing any of gang of nine engaged in re- going southward and 920 vehicles carburation Kaye Don was unable church from all parts of the world. serious damage to extensive stacks
painting the underside of the an hour northward." Delegates representing 135 coun of timber. Hope of saving
bridge, lost his balance and, in try- trics
hastening to main building was out of the ques-ing to recover, dislodged a plank America's great convention city tion, and only after four hours' which knucked away the scaffold from the four corners of the world. hard work with three molar pumping, letting all three down 00ft into
The Rev. Mr. Morris, who has
did the brigade master the the mud below. travelled extensively over South
At the time the reeeding tido break. China during many years of ser
had left about Bit of water on vice in this field, and who is Super.
deep bed of mud Five other intendent of the South China
Navigation Difficulties. in The scene after the fire was re-workmen at once made an effort to headquarters Union, with Hongkong, states that the enlarge-markable. The unloading dock had launch a punt towards the
Questions in regard to naviga-ed. ment of the work in his field will been well filled with merchandise, struggling in the water, but owing!
the shallowness of the water tion difficulties were raised earlier be one of the considerations of while seyen fully-loaded trucks had to the conference. Great progress in been drawn up alongside the plat- this took considerable time, as the in the proceedings, when Mr.
boat had first to be dragged Frederick Palmer, one- educational and medical work has form.
through the mud.
engineers consulted by the London
Council. Was been made in this field during the
Ropes were attached, and it was County past four years.
and only the charred remains of only after an hour's hard work that amined by Mr. Tyldesley Jones, the trucks were left. The span the men were able to reach the K.C., who represented the Fort of roof of the building was reduced to victims of the accident, and they London Authority, the Association of Master Lightermen and Barge few smouldering beams. Heaps were draggel ashore. of ruined confectionery, groceries One of the men could have saved Owners of the Port of London, and stacks of oats and other per his own life, but in his endeavour and the Thames Up-River Users' ishable goods lay about.
to keep his two comrades above Association. water he, too, was dragged to his death.
"Mr. Morris saya:--"Our schools have enjoyed a large, attendance during the four-year period. One new hospital has been established. We are now conducting medical
It is stated that the Far East will be represented by more than sixty delegates at this World Conference, men and women who have laboured in many instances under most trying conditions in all parts of Chinn and Japan, Korea, Mongolia. Siam, Malaya, and the Philippines,--in fact, part of the Far East from Harbin to Singapore, and from Tokyo to the borders of Tibet.
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Ruined Building.
All these goods were destroyed,}
men
Officials of the company directed
He was George Robb, of Church their efforts to removing the book und valuables from the office. The
road, Dundee, who was the only cause of the outbreak is a mystery.swiminer among the party of work
men.
The other victims were Leoniaed 1901, when a great missionary Buley, 29, of Corporation-rond, revival took hold of this denomina Cardiff, and Sidnes Robb, 23, tion through the far-seeing cousin of George Robb. energies of its President, A. G. Daniells, steady and rapid pro-
faith.
The
mole-
The
with the
in
of the
cross-ex-
When he first tock the 'car out shortly after 1 o'clock he said that he was determined to "open her wide," and when engine trouble developed he was very disappoint-
Incoming Tide. Although repairs to the speed monster would not take long, the tide was starting to come in when Kaye Don had completed his sixth run, and it was dangerous to at tempt any further trials.
The course was by no means perfect, being uneven in several places, but it was considerably better than it had been for the past week.
racer
Mr. Jones--Do you know that the closing of several arches of Waterloo Bridge by the temporary In his first preliminary run, Don works there has so increased the reached 178.63 miles an hour. The difficulty of navigation that tug-machine bounced much less than owners have had to reduce their on previous runs, and the tows from six barges to four?- announced that he would attempt to open her up on the northward No.
Can you say why it should not run. be made a condition that the work on Waterloo Bridge should be: finished before work is began at Charing Crass? It would make it
greatly Bridge at River Bottom.
which this
Mechanics' Rush. However, as he flashed by the measured mile the judges only re- atcorded 181.7 miles an hour.
that
Kaye Don announced that his engine was spluttered somewhat, but said he would have another try. Starting on his second south- ward run, the racer roared past in the measured mile at what seemed to be a much faster speed than the previous run, but it was found that he only attained 186.46 m.p.h.
When the car came to a stand-
Watching the Sta.
A service car was rushed up the beach and the mechanics im- mediately went to work on the en- gine. All the time they were work. ing Don kept turning his head from them to the waves of the incoming tide.
He was like a leashed tiger, and when warned that the tide was beginning to come in angrily said
he was determined to have another try before it became dangerous, "I am convinced that the 'Bullet is capable of 250 miles an hour, and I want to prove it now," he on yaid.
However, shortly after he start-
gress has been made into the up there is only one solution to the entered regions of the worli. This denomination though small difficulties in which the world new quite impossible. The work
finds itself. Though it is greatly Waterloo Bridge may last a very humani-long time. Nobody knows what in numbers is one of the greatest:
Chris- sympathetic missionary agencies that
tarian and social movements for work will have to be done there tianity has witnessed. Their
the relief of suffering and ignor-yet. slogan is "The Gospel of the
though it and ance. Kingdom to be Preached in all the respects those sincere
men whol World in This Generation." Tho are working hard and long for Will not the double obstruction stand undaunted before this
world betterment both politically at Waterloo Bridge and Charing tremendous task. They believe
and socially, yet it cannot but Cross Bridge make very great and act upon the oft-repeated believe that these movements, difficulty indeed at what is already words of the great missionary commendable
themselves the most difficult reach of the Rev. C. C. Morris,
Carey :-"Attempt great things though they may be, will fail whole river?-We are willing to still at the lower end of the work in three centres where more for God; expect great things from fundamentally as all such move-undertake that no work shall be course. Don said that he was hay- than fifty thousand casen have God." And they are proving their ments have failed throughout the done on both bridges on the navi-ing trouble with the carburetter past belief by actually attempting the history of the world. Our only gable side of the river at the same and asked for the mechanics to be been treated during the
rushed to him. quadrenniumi.
impossible. In spite of un apparently
hope is in the return of Christ time.
Pointing to Waterloo Bridge on our cal results of the past thirty years who is bath Lord and Saviour. favourable conditions,
of the scheme, Mr. porteurs have distributed-more have greatly strengthened the The message of preparation of the model
heart and life which this move Palmer said: Some time or other- than $114,000 worth of literature."
ment has to preach is for all these arches will have to be done, Huge Sums Raised. Sixty Delegates,
people of whatever race or belief for Waterloo Bridge will be at the The financial burden of this It is an erroneous idea that this bottom of the river.
might be well-nigh denomination has set and is set. Mr. Jones--But I am asking you great task staggering to a people with less ting the time for the world to end to finish Waterloo Bridge first, zeal, yet they most willingly con- It has, in fact, never taken part and you are anxious to get on with tributed $11,000,000 gold in tithes as a denomination in such time new works there.-I: I tried to
work before and offerings during the past year, setting, neither has it counten-finish every one which represents a per capita of anced any one in its midst whe started another I should be in the
workhouse. $44.21 gold. Since the beginning holds such views.
(Sir The Chairman message
Henry every of this great missionary
the members of this denomination has to preach ean Cautley)-It is obvious that we ment.
develop wholesome, en cannot accept the position denomination have donated nearly only $119,000,000 gold in order to seal lightened, true-hearted citizens of Charing Cross Bridge should not Practically all the 600,000,000 the good news of salvation to any country who believe that they he started before the work
should live soberly, righteously. Waterloo Bridge is finished. That peoples of the Far East will be earth's remotest bounds, represented at this great World
Activities are carried on in four happily, and peacefully in this might be 20 years.
the present world, while they wait for Sir Henry further remarked that ed his second northward run he divisions wherever Conference. Those places yet un main
and the question of how the work slowed down, and it was apparent entered will be the first considera- missionary takes up his abode the return of their Lord
Master to establish continued should proceed, in order to cause that the engine was again splut- tion of this session of this de
the evangelistic, the publishing.
permanent and
peace the least interference to river tering. Just before reaching the nomination which has known no
the educational, and the medical equity
the world. Contri-] 1.ffie, was obviously an engineering official mile he started up again, retreat since its first missionary Through the activities of these throughout
matter.
but finished with only an average was sent to Europe in 1874.
departments, 1,523 schools have buted.
of 131.148 m.p.h. Two years ago, when many mis been established, in which 3,75| sions in China found it necessary teachers instruct 61,774 students, to curtail their work because a representing an investment in pro anti-Christian activity, the mis-perty and equipment of $8.824.654 | sionary representatives of this guld: 65 publishing houses have movement held on as long as pos- been erected, which sold in 1828 sible, and though they were com- $1.716.601.54 gold worth of litera pelled for a time to remain in certure printed in 141 languages; 30
con-sanitariums and 61 tain Treaty Ports through
treatment established sular orders, all returned at an
have rooms early date tu their respective throughout the world, represent- fields, and took up the work which
investment of $7,318,524 ing an had been held steady by the faith-
gold. ful native ministry.
Work has been conducted in the While many denominations, says Far East only a little over twenty. Mr. Morris, have staggered under five years. One of the outstand- the great responsibilities of world
ing features of ita present actirily missions during the past four is the large medical work that is years, this denomination, which being conducted and planned for in boasts only a small but active Shanghai, in Honan, in Kwang- membership of less than 300,000, tung, in Kwangsi, in Szechuen, in appropriated $18,000,000 gold for Kalgan, in Changchun, in Tokyo, foreign missions, besides the self-in Koren, in Manila, and in supporting work conducted Penang, besides small, dispen- America, Europe, and Australin.
saries in many other places. The Shanghai Sanitarium known throughout the Far East. Over 100 new languages have Its new Clinic has just been de been added to the activities of this dicated and will soon be opened
since the denomination
last for work among the poor of Sharg- making 24 hai. quadrennial session,
Dr. H. W. Miller, who is now on total of 360 languages in which work is being conducted. When his way to the General Conference, compared with large denonina will lay before this great mission- tions which have from one to two ary convention further plans for million members, and which con- the extension of the medical work duct work in only fifty or sixty in the Far East. language areas, this accomplish- ment seems nothing less than astonishing.
No
than fewer
This world-wide movement, re- 18,866 workers have been recruit presented by the Seventh Day ed from the small membership to Adventist Denomination, is one of do this work in every corner of the sanest movements inaugurated the earth.
The gain in membership in the in the present generation, stated Mr. Morris. There is not the
In 360 Languages.
in
been
No Fanaticism.
KI
well-
past twelve years is much more least fanaticism connected with than in the previous fifty-four the movement. It believes that years of work Since the year
"You'll likely find a job with a dance orchestra, but I've played for the movies almost too long."
From then the engine trouble became worse and his speed less. On the third southward run he averaged 149 miles an hour, and returning on his last northward run only made 97.508 miles
per hour over the measured mile.
When he came to a stop at the end of that run he relaxed in the cock-pit of the Silver Bullet and dejectedly shook his head.
When the news spread that he was going to make an official at- tempt on the record, thousan gathered along the beach, and when he got out of his car after the last attempt he was given a cheer.
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