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TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1930.
CHIANG KAI-SKEH A CHRISTIAN.
BAPTISED AT SHANGHAI YESTERDAY,
KOWLOON DRAMATICS.
TWO PLAYS BY ST, ANDREW'S CLUB MEMBERS.
Encouraged by the success of their two previous productions în the amateur dramatic line, mem- bers of St. Andrew's Club will pre- sent to the public two further at-
Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, tempts to-night, at 9 pm, in St. The proceeds of these plays will go towards the V.D.MA. Funds for the furtherance of missionary. The only people present were work in the diocese. Mr. S. A. members of the family and Sweet. a comparative newcomer to intives, including his mother-in- the Colony, is the producer of the law, wife and Mr. T. L. Soong, the plays. other brother-in-law.
The Bishop of Leicester presid ed over a large public meeting held
Shanghai, Oct. 23. at the Royal Albert Hall on Sept. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek be- 24 to wish God-speed to, a large came a member of the Christian contingent of missionaries of the Church this afternoon, when he Church Missionary Society who brother-in-law. Mr. T. V. Soong. was baptised at the home of his are about to leave for stations the Minister of Finance, by the abroad. This year the society is Reverend Z. T. Kaung, A well- sending out to its various missions known Methodist pastor. oversens 283 missionaries, includ- ing 53 recruits. A number of the missionaries have already salled, but 192 wore on the platform, of whom 48 are for the Far East.
The Rev. W. Wilson Cash the general secretary, announced that from China came the message:
It is worthy of notice that this is the sume religion as adopted Feng Yu-hsiang, the so-called Christian General-Our Own Cor- respondent.
Materialism, Communism, ban-
Simple Ceremony. ditry, militarism, and atheism,
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and like a plague, threaten, China with
his wife. who arrived destruction. Can Christian Eng-
from Nanking early in the morn land sit still and see her die? Alling, proceeded to the residence of the best of China's sons and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Soong, in daughters know that the Gospel of Seymour Road, in the International Christ can save their country, and Settlement, where the simple cere they cry out to their Christian mony was performed in the after- friends in Great Britain to come noon by the Reverend Z. T. Kuang, over and help them in their en-who is the Chinese pastor of the deavour to make
Gospel Young Allen Memorial Church,
Shanghai.
that
known before it is too late.
Among those present was, besides Mr. T. L. Soong, who is the chair- Board, Dr. C. T. Wang, the Foreign man of the Whangpoo Conservancy Minister. Both these
are Chris-
"The Boy Comes Home."
the heated words between uncle
went to
A one-act sketch by AA. Mikie depicts the return of a young man from the front. The play shows the difficulties with which ho has to face his old uncle in the choice of careers. The play is full of humorous, as well as dramatic moments. The timidity of Aunt Emily, the fiery entry of cook and her subsequent and timorous exit. and nephew, the vivid description of movements at the front, the satirical roferences to the "Jam business," and finally the boy's threat to shoot his old uncle, all go to make the play interesting from beginning to end. The role, of the The Bishop of Victoria, Hong-
Boy (Philip) is taken by Reginald kong, in an address, said that, in
Woolley, and Mr. S. A. Sweet view of the present circumstances,
Mrs. J. W. Baldwin was originally enacts the part of Uncle James. people were asking. "Ought we to
picked for the part of Aunt Emily, send fewer missionaries toans.
the mid-Victorian lady of the play, China" "Is not missionary work In China too dangerous?" The shek whether he sincerely desired hospital with appendicitis some two
The pastor asked Chiang Kai- but unfortunately she society had already cut down the to become a Christian, and the Fre-weeks ago, and Phyllis Woolley number of their missionaries there sident replied in firm tones in the very kindly stepped into the breach. to 203 instead of the 277 they had affirmative. The pastor
The docile maid is played by Mar in 1922. Their numbers in China sprinkled the convert and welcomed jorie White and Rita Cole is the were pitifully small. With regard the President to the danger, the whole mission- Church..
into the Christian angry cook. ary enterprise had always been a call to adventurous living. China! was a big country, and while con- It is noteworthy that Mrs. Soong's ditions were impossible in one sons-in-law include the late Dr. area they might be perfectly pos- Sun Yat-sen and Doctor H. H. sible in another. Tre Christian Kung, the Minister of Commerce Church was fighting for its very and Industry. The Suong family tivites of a couple of anarchists, life. There were the difficulties are all Christians. The baptism who import a new and terrible of the civil wars, Bolshevism, was kept a profound secret, and bomb to blow up the Bank of cationalism, but however great the has startled Shanghai and Nan-England." difficulties they did not conceal the king, as there was not the slight the Restaurant, and who is in "sele Robert the waiter of splendour of a stupendous oppor-east knowledge of Chiang Kai- charge of the tunity. The whole of China was shek's intentions outsid
responsible for many humorous in a state of flux and change. If family circle. Christianity was to get into the heart of China the time was now, in this hour of chance and read justment. The next 20 years would offer to the Christian Church an opportunity that would not come again.
BRITISH AIRCRAFT.
BIG FOREIGN ORDER PLACED WITH FAIREY CO.
London, Oct. 23.
it is learned that the Air Ministry has placed with the
A Startling Secret.
then
the
"The Crimson Cocoanut."
The second production is an al surdity by that very popular author Jau Hay. It is entitled "The Crimson Coreanet," and is faree. Spaghetti's Restaurant, in Soho, is chosen as the scene for the
ac
is not
establishment" is
situations. The audience will be Coming at a time when Chiang kept in fita of laughter from the Kai-shek, after a hard-fought cam- very start until the dramatic climax paign in which more than once and the revelation of the crimson he seemed doomed to defeat, has coconut The sketch is full of ac emerged victorious as head of tion all through and one the National Government, the Pre-kept anticipating the next move sident's baptism is a striking for long. blow to the Communists, who at present are hunting down Chris- tians in Klangsi and elsewhere in the Yangtsze valley, and is likely to form a striking precedent with a far-reaching effect on the future Government of China.
Chiang Kai-shek, as indicated, has joined the Methodist denomi- nation.-Reuter.
Fairey Aviation Company one of SHANGHAI TRAGEDY.
the large orders for British service aircraft recently required by a. foreign government.
The machines are biplanes cap- able of high speed, and quickly convertible from land aeroplanes in-
RUSSIAN PRESS CORRESPON-
DENT FOUND DEAD.
Shanghai, Oct, 23.
The role of Robert, the Waiter, is very cleverly enacted by Mr. J. W. Baldwin, and the two anarchists by Maud White as Madame Gli serinski and Richard Wong as Nitro Gliserinski. Anthony L. Cole of the C.L.D. plays no small part in the play, as also Mr. Jabstick, taken by Norman Mackay, and Yancy, his daughter, by Rita Cole
Included in the programme will be songs by Mr. C. W. Liddon-Cole, songs at the Piano by Miss McGill, a pianoforte solo hy Miss Winifred Robinson and monologues by Mr. S. A. Sweet.
poisoned himself before shooting himself in the head.
.
to seaplanes. The type is identical A local foreigner named Rafael He was with the Angasta News with the general purposes machines Rafaloff, a used in the Royal Air Force for correspondent, has been found he worked with a brother of Mr. Russian newspaper Agency in Harbin last year, when
scouting and
reconnaissance-dead in Cathay Apartments here, Lenox Simpson.-Our Oum Corres- British Wireless,
to-day. He is believed to have pondent.
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