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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NANTIENMEN FALLS,
EVACUATED AFTER HEAVY JAPANESE BOMBARDMENT
MONDAY; MAY 1, 1933,
INTO THE DEPTHS OF SPACE
LESSON SERMON.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONGKONG
"Everlasting punishment" was the subject of the Lesson-Sormon in all Churches of Christ, Scien- tist, yesterday.
the
(Continued from Paga 6.)
Peking, Apr. 28. pun is one. The stars we usually see An ofcinl communique con with the naked eye are almost only firms the Chinese reports of the stars of our own group and not furlous fighting on
the Napthose of any other star group, just as tienmen front this morning.
we here in Hongkong see our own city lights and not the lights of Manila or
The Golden Text was: "s not General Hou Ting-yao, the
Singapore or New York or London, destruction to the wicked? and a Chinese Commander of the forres. Very few of these extra-galactic strange punishment to in a report despatched to, Hend- nebuine can be seen with the naked workers of iniquity?" (Job 31:3). quarters at 2.30 p.m. yesterday, eye. But with the aid of a powerful
Among the citations which com- sayo that the Japanese Infantry telescope we can nee very many of and artillery, asalsted by eight them. They seem to be distributed prised the Lesson-Sermon was the aeroplanes, continued to attack more or less uniformly throughout, following from the Bible:" Blogs- the Chinese centro and the two space. They are mostly of definite ed is the man that walketh not in
the counsel of the ungodly, nort flanks on the Nantlenmen front and regular shape and are easy to
identify. Those lazy, cloudy looking standeth in the way of sinners, with utmost violence,
powerful nebulae, examined by
пог sitteth in the seat of the "Most of our fortifications were telescope, nre shown to have the edge scornful. But his delight is in demolished, but oar troops offered regions shown with spots of light and
spirited resistance," the report some of these spots are known to be shall be like a tree planted by the And he the law of the Lord.. adds. "At Bome points the stars. The central regions of the
and whatep- eo nebulae seem to be of luminous rivers of water Japanese bombardment was violent that it was impossible to ganeous matter, matter destined one over he doeth shall prosper... repair the damaged fortifications. day; porhaps, to develop into fult. The ungodly are not so: but are: However, our troops are exert-grown, stars, some parts are actual like the chaff which the wind
driveth away
For the Lord ing their utmidst efforts in holding star clouds already formed. their positions at many points
knoweth the way of the righteous: with hand-to-hand £ghting."
but the way of the ungodly shall Reuter.
perish." (Ps. 1: 1-4, 6).
Nantienmen's Fall.
Peking, Apr. 29. The latest despatches from the front admit that Nantienmen is now in ruins from the Japanca bombardment and has evacuated. The Chinese troops have taken up new intact defences south of Nautfenmen.-Router,
Destroyed Beyond Repair,
Peking, Apr. 30.
are
We have not come the
The Lesson-Sermon also includ- ed the following pasanges from the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy: "Through the wholesome chastisemente of Love, we are helped onward in the march towards righteousness, peace, and purity, which are the landmarks of Science" (P. 323: 6-9).
We have seen in this our pre- liminary trip over the Universe that the earth on which we live la by no means the centre of the Universe and that the sun is not the centre either, that the sun is not even the centre of the group of heavenly bodies of which our carth is one, the gainetic system, The sun is just a common star, its aize being due to its relative beenness to us. We have not dis covered really if there be any centre of the Universe. to a boundary of Universe and looked out into an empty void where An official communique Issued flow with the speed of thought we there were no stars for though we last night states that after 10 could not come to such a boundary, days of battering from the Japan- for though could not bring us with ese artillery, the Chinese defences certainty in our trip beyond where at Nantieumes have been destroy-scientific observation has reached. ed boyand repair
Altogether, in our trip around and The battle fought at Nantien-about this vast universe we came men was one of the most force pon about two million of those
nebulae ar
or stay cities as I called them engagements since military opera-in our preliminary flight. This num tions started inside the Great ber is thus twice the number of people Wall. Casualties were very heavy there are in Hongkong and Kowloon. during the last two days, owing The chances of our colliding with any to the Chinese protection being of them was infinitesimally Finall smashed away. Consequently; the they are very, very far apart. In ed into a large department store bomb towards the Chinese troops began
fuet we got the impression during our and tonsed a yesterday moving
new lines which will be trip that space was almost empty for counter, held as Nantienmen
the average distance between there
One assistant was badly injur star systems we found to be about
WAH
held
BOMB OUTRAGE.
PEKING STORE DAMAGED BY EXPLOSION
One
Peking, Apr. 28. of Peiping's Iron and Blood Societies caused $10,000 dirt one of their members walk- damage when at 8.30 p.m. to.
against the Japanese onslaught. nillion light years. Now a lighted about the head, while the ex-
--Beater.
Chinng's Movements.
plosion fired a quantity of "Fit", causing a conflagration which the Manager of the department store) estimates destroyed goods to the value of $10,000.
year is the distance light travels in a year the rate of 186,000 miles per Peking. Apr. 30. second. The distance Bght would Information to the effect that travel in n dny enormous, that Chiang Kai-shek had arrived in travelled in a mouth is staggering lu
The store had been threatened Peking unexpectedly at 10 o'clock think of, and what of that travelled
in a year! And if we multiply the before, but complied with every on Saturday night came from distarre it travels in a year by two reliable and convincing source, but less, we get the average distance demand of the Blood and Iron So- free gifts any doubts regarding his presence here between those island star systems of eiety, offering as have arisen, and the general con- the Universe. The distance between Japanese goods that can be found. viction is that he is not here the group of lights of Hongkong ani-Reuter.
Reader.
.
Sples Activities,
that of the light of Manila, fedes into nothingness when compared with thought-wearying the tremendous,
Peking, Apr. 28.
distances between the inland universe Without special authorisation of the stars. The nearest nebula to no one will be allowed to proceed us is well below the average distanco to the fighting front, according to away from us being only 850,000 Hight an order issued by the Branch years away. That is to say, if you Military Council which stales inke historizal times on this earth as that during the last few weeks going back 4,000 years, the light that many communists and Chinese started from the nearest nebula ut spies employed by "the enemy" the beginning of history has only posed as representatives of pub-travelled the half of one per cent of lic organizations and went to the its journey and history will have to repeat itself about 200 times more front for the purpose of spying on before that light can arrive at our Chinese positions.
planet. Anyone proceeding to the front without the permission of the military authorities is liable to arrest.-Reuter,
ANOTHER FAST
GANDHI ANNOUNCES DETERMINATION
Now to come back, to our own alactic system. The sun is distant from us 93 million miles, and from the sun to the centre of the galactic system is about 17,000 light years. The sun is not on the edge of the gulnetic system, nor at its centre, but well within it and is surrounded on all sides by stars. The distance acrosa this wheel shaped galactic system Poona, Apr. 30. from edge to edge is 220,000 fight
years. No wonder the stars, in Mahatma Gandhi has not yet menre in themselves, look so small to finished his fasting in the cause of us! The nearest star to us. within the untouchables.
our own galactic system, is 25 million From the gaol at Yoravda, million miles away, Le, about 25 where he is n prisoner. Gandhi thousand times as far away as the announced yesterday that on May sun, and it takes 4 years.for thi She will begin a fast of 21 days light of that star to reach us. in connection with his campaign. The number of stars in the galactic for the removal of untouchability. system, not to speak of the other two The fast, says. Gandhi, will be million similar systems out-beyond, is estimated as up to 300,000 million. "unconditional and frrevocable."
So that if this galactic system were Gandhi's decision to fast is in-parcelled out among the people of the terpreted by observers as an ex-earth to-day, ench would receive for pression of dinsatisfaction at the patrimony or plaything a give of progress of the high caste Hindus' about two hundred starry orbs,
Our earth is,comparatively in- efforts to remove untouchability.
It is feared, in view of Gandhi's significant amongst the galaxles of
the universe, insignificant in size, b reaction on his week fast laat the mental power of the huma September that three weeks will inhabitants that travels so swiftly mean certain death.-Reuter.
'Packing las hardest when you haven't enough to fill your trunk.
the
and penetratca so deeply le something far surpassing mere bulk or mer distance in its magnificence. It la good to get out into the open spaces of the country. It is refreshing and Londening, so, too, a visit to great open spaces and the atellar cities of the Universe widen intellectual vision beyond parochini rroportions to cosmic proportions and even to the touching of the Infinite.
ane
(This is the first of a series of popular talks on astronomy which the Rev. MacDonald is giving over the radio. The second is to be given to- morrow evening.)
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Port Arthur, Apr. 30. An Interesting find of stone-age burial relics has been made to the east of Sanyangtaoshan, In the Port-Arthur-district, according to a report received to-day.
This follows the dlacovery of ancient earthenware at Wang- chiatun, at the base of Mount Laotleh-Reuter's Special,
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