Christian Service For Graduates
Bibles Presented
the
The Hongkong University Chris-; book will bring you a mesango of tian Association held its annual consolation, joy or hope according to service for the new graduates in the your needs of the moment. And it is St. John's Hall Chapel yesterday all so fresh and modern in its senil- when 40 students received Biblos ment, though it is dressed in
of the
all* from the honds of the Chief Justice, beautiful archale English Sir Atholl MacGregor,
thorised version. Where, for he Professor Gordon King, who constance, can you and in the literature a botter. ducted
the service, thanked the Bri- of any age or any country a tish and Foreign Bible Society for and more complete definition of a Its generous gifts and the guests for gentleman than in the 16th Fealm: "Lord who shall abide in the Taber their
attendance.
nacle who shall dwell in the Holy Hill. He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart, He that back- There were 40 graduates present, biteth not with his tongue, nor doeth while 12 were unable to attend. evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up Those who received Bibles were: a reproach against his neighbour. In Faculty of Medicine-Dre Chia whose eyes a vile person is con- Pee-chyc,
Chow
Wal-wee
them La temned; but he honoureth Chung-yue, Lam Shing-kul, Maud fear the Lord. He that sweareth to Low Non-wan, Pang Tengils own hurt, and changeth not, Ho cheung, Sie Tjoan-djir, R. E. that putteth not his money to usury Smalley, Szeto Onward, Tan Luon-nor taketh reward against the Inno- hong, Tang Ching-tuan, Stephen cent.
He that dooth these things Wong and Wong Yat-hung.
shall never be moved."
The Rev. Frank Short, Hongkong Representative of the British and Foreign Bible Society, conducted the Bible reading.
Ho
Faculty of Engineering. Messrs. Chau Po-cheung, Y. Chung. Golt Kwang-hun, Ip Ching-u, Ip Hung hac, Li Chi-fan, Liew Keng-slong, Wang Tze-sam, Wong Peng-choon, Yank Hain-tsang and Yeoh Joo-telk. Faculty of Arts,the Misses Cheng Wal-man, Doris Heui, Gertrude Kay Joan Hung, Maiste Kotewall, M. L. Suffiad, Mary Tong, Lily Trinh and Wong Yiu-ho and Messrs. Chung Heung-sung, Wilson Heng, Lee Jul- fisten, Shum Lau-kwong, Leslie Sung, Bachelor of Selence-Huang Hsing-tsung.
Most Beautiful Book
that
The gospel according to St Luke is called by Renon, the author of the great Life of Jesus Christ, the most beautiful book ever writtin. In it you will find the earliest and sweetest of oil Xmas Carols and exquisite parables which are peculiar to this probably the parable of the Prodigal Son: Luke, the writer of the gospel, gospel, the best known of which is was a physician. All his writings are full of tender sympathies for the poor and the suffering, and he loves io emphasise this side of our Lord's
After presenting the Bibles, Scharacter and teaching. It is in- Atholl said in part:
teresting to remember that the poor
You stand before the world as were the principal objects of tho young men and women of knowledge personal ministry of Our Lord, and and learning, of professional scien- it was their glory to be the rendiest tifle or technical attainments which receivers of the gospel. They were, make you of special value to the
the as we read in the Epistle of James, community
to which you belong. "the Poor of this world, rich in faith, You are on the threshold of life, and heirs of the kingdom which He anxious to make your contribution hath promised to them that love to the betterment of conditions in Him." your country and in the world at
As you road the New Testament
large,
tion to society.
+
of
abreast of the current literature of thanksgiving
own man;"
enger to do all that lies within too you will learn the lesson of the your power to help your fellow men, Christian virtues, Faith-"the assur- proud in the knowledge that your training specially adapts you for ance of things hoped for, the proving things not seen"; Hope and Love-- making a really valuable contribu- the practical recognition of the fact that we are all God's children, and Not Yet Perfect
therefore brethren of one another. That your equipment is great and most valuable there can be no doubt. As St Paul says, "We, being many, but it is not perfect or all sufficient are one body In Christ, and everyone and it is in order more fully to fit members one of another" Joy-for you to face and fight the battle of Our Lord promised, "Your Joy no life that this morning each of you man taken from you" and St Paul has been given a copy of the Bible exhorted his readers to rejoice ever
more" peace; humility; patience and How, you may ask, can the Bible help me more than any other book? perseverance. "Let us not be weary I have in the course of my profes-in well doing when due reason we sional studies read many bigger books, freedom, for "the Christian la the shall reap. If we folni not;" courage; many more modern books, and may take me all my time to keep and his
Lord's servant, the world's master repentance; and prayers. This thy profession, so that I I shall have ha little time for rending an old-fashion, surely la no mean gift that you have ed book like this. It is true that the received, this morning. The message Bible which
of the Bible, as you learn to read I this morning put into is, like any other volume, it aright, to study it devoutly and your hands made with
paper, type and ink; it is to meditate on its meaning, will arm true that it has been put together as and equip, you against all the snares a material object by human hands, and pitfalls of the battle of life. St it
Paul writes in the Epistle to the true that the many and diversi-eskus, "Wherefore take unto you fed utterances which it contains Ephesians,
the от proceeded from the lips.
pen
HONGKONG
WOUNDED — Bombs don't care where they hit, especially in such morciless strafing as Nazis recently poured on Lon. don. So one bomb blinded this woman and she is being lod away after receiving first-aid traatmont. Evon hor little dog did not escape wound from sholl splinter..
To Be Gaoled
For Life
British Woman in France
The Germans have decided not to execute Miss Winifred Harle, the British woman they accused of spreading British news in occupied France.
Death sentences on her and. on Florence Frickard, a French woman, held on the same charge, have been commuted to life im- prisonment.
Both women havo been removed to Germany from their Paris prison. Miss Harle, aged 51, was in charge hostel of the Y.W.C.A. Mlle. Fric-
of the
British-American
kard was her head clerk,
welfare
in
The United States Embassy Berlin hnd secured a stay of execu tion "pending reconsideration of the
the whole armour of God, that ye-l caso." of men. All that is true, yet we who may be able to withstand in the evil are Christians believe that the Bible day, and, having done all, to stand.
is Holy Writ, that it is inspired litera Stand therefore, having your loins lure which at least
in the gospels girt sbout with truth, and having Win First Of
New Medals
1941
SANG IN RESCUE
DESTROYER
Torpedoed in the Atlantic, adrift for 11 hours' in 'a lifeboat, then picked up by a destroyer, Madame Katina Paxinou, Greece's leading tragedienne, is still determined to go to the United States.
Madame Paxinou was going
to America to play for the British Hellones War Fund ́un- der the patronage of the Duchess of Kent when the ship was hit by three torpedoes,
Thai Naval
Losses
We left the convoy," she said "and the captain tried to get back to port. For 13 hours we went full
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" speed ahead; then suddenly the ship BANGKOK, June 1 (UP),-The started sinking.
latest issue of the Navy magazine "We all got away in the lifeboats admitted the complete loss of the -there were only three other pas-800-ton torpedo boats Sangkla and sengers, my sister, an English girl Cholburi and said that the 2,000-ton and an American actor. Then a Dhonburi was towed nground in the destroyer picked us uGunner
same
bottle of Kohchang. The Government has started campaign to raise approximately four million ticals, the cost of utilities in Indo-China.
1
The Singing "We were three days in the ship because it had work to do. We three women would go on dock and watch all the wonderful things they
dki.
"There was one gunner, he loves to sing, and asked me to accompany Ilm.
"We would all start a sing- song, an enemy plane would be sighted, the gunner would dhi- appear and then came back to his singing.
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"I have never been so happy in my life. I saw, too, what the British Navy is really ike. It can never be beaten.
"I am a coward, but those men mede me feel brave. I would rather be torpedoed again than be in a London 'blitz."
Chinese Lose First Match
In Australia
SYDNEY, May 31 (Reuter).
a
This presumably means the cost of utilities taken over in Indo-China for which Thailand agreed to pay.
TIMELY U. S. GESTURE
TO CHINA
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
CHUNGKING, June 1 (UP)- Officials here welcomed the statement made by Mr Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, that the United States would relinquish extra-territorial rights when peace is restored, claiming that It constituted a concrete deinoñstra- tion of United States good will, sympathy and faith in Chiña's future,
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timely In view of Wang Ching-wol'a recent hint that Nanking with Japan- ese aid, would unilaterally cancel all
extra-tiny
might
which, if effected,
considerable
Nankghout China
popular support
off-get
Tho Chinese goodwill mission Omicials declared that Mr Hull's Soccer team opened their Austra manoeuvres and would also
offer would off-set Nanking's llan tour of 19 games, including Japanese propaganda in China that five Tests, this afternoon against a China had mortgaged "herself to strong New South Wales team on the United States due to large United the Sydney Cricket Ground.
States assistance." The Chinese Consul-General, Dr Pao, addressed the team in Chinese prior to the kicking off.
New South Wales won the game by 'six goals to four
The Chinese are playing 2 South Coast team to-morrow,
The team is composed mostly of
players from the Eastern Athletic Association.
First Victory
Sydney, June 1 China beat & South Coast team four goals to two-Reuturi
South China Beat Selangor
TEST ON FIRST AID
Annual Competition For Wanchai Division
A competition for the "Hyder by the Wanchai Division of the St. John Shield" was held among members of
Ambulance Brigade at the Wanchai Fire Station, Jaffe Road, yesterday. The Shield was won by No. 3 Sqund. The judges were Dr J. E. Dovey and Mr A. H. Rumjahn (District Omeers) assisted by Mr Chan Yuk- Raymond, wife of Mr E. M. Ray- ying,
MEs Corps Superintendent. mond, Assistant Commissioner of the Brigade, presented the
Football team, which is touring Malaya, The South China Athletle Association defeated Selangor State, conquerors of Sing Tao and Eastern last year, by three goals to nil at Kuala on Saturday..
Lumpur which Mr Baymond Shield, after
Lee Shek-yau one.
Lee Wal-tong scored two goals and
Preston Beat Arsenal In
War Cup Final
he was
the winners and bald congratulated pleased to note an improvement over the standard displayed last year.
The
competitors were put
through various exercises for the freatment of different fractures, and
opportunity
was taken to display the recently in- troduced Thomas Splint, used-in-the protection of leg fractures.
LONDON, May 31 (Reuter). B.B.C. ASKED TO
records and recalls the very words of armed-the-breastplate-of-righteous Our Lord; it is to us not a work on ness; and your feet shod with the morals, ethics or religion, but the preparation of the gospel of pente; Book of Books and
infallible.
above all, taking the shield of faith. In our devotional readings it may wherewith ye shall be able to quench be that we consciously or unconsci all the fiery darts of the wicked,
Blackburn to-day to And take the helmet of salvation, and our critical faculties ously Jull aleep, but when we read the Bible, the sword of the spirit, which is the when we desire to "harken what the word of God."
A ship carrying more than' 200 passengers, including 50 women and some children, from Ostend to England was tor pedoed. She sank within a minute.
A restricted crowd of 45,000 at
Saw Preston
North End beat Arsenal, 2-1, in the
Yar Cup Final. This was the first national Cup Final held in Lancashire since Shefeld United beat Chelsea at Manchester during the last war.
ACCEPT TALKS
FROM CHUNGKING
CHUNGKING, June 1 (Interna- tional)The British Broadcasting Corporation has requested the Inter-
us it is not like any other book; it Is trown of glory if it be found in the Rust wos carried down, but the ship full of action, with Preston the more to arrange for, the B.B.C. network |
"Yea,
Lord God will say concerning us" So on you will be helped, sustain we are on holy ground and we can- ed and comforted throughout the not read the Bible as we read any years, your old age will be happy other book. We read it because for and glad, for "the hoary head is a the most widely read
and incom- way of righteousness," and death parably the most important collec- itself will lose its terrors. tion of writings in the literature of though I walk through the valley of the world, and within its pages are the shadow of death I will fear no trensures which are inexhaustible, evil; for Thou are with me; thy rod trensures charged with a mission and and thy staff may comfort me." a message to humanity whose signi- Paul wrote to the Philippians. "For Beance has only deepened with the to me to live is Christ, and to die passing of
of time, for the
Bible is Is gain. For if I live in the flesh, this
St
Second Officer Vere Patelck Wills-
and he came to the surface. struck the bottom and heeled over
The U-boat put a searchlight on the survivors in the water and machine-gunued them. For six hours those who remained
cheered and
supported by Wills-Rust and the master, Captain Rowland Morris Woolfenden.
They are two of the first 54 mer-
ageless and each page is as fresh to- is the fruit of my labours; yet what chant seamen and fishermen from 31 and I shall choose I wot not. For I am ships to receive Lloyd's War Medal <lay as when it was written, wliose
influence is still the pro- In a straft betwixt two, having a de- foundest and the most far reaching sire to depart, and to be with Christ for Bravery at Sen,
in the whole world.
A Unique Anthology
I do not ask you to read the Bible, and especially the Old Testament, for -ediflention, al least at first. That is not the way to commend any book to a circle of readers. Read it in the first place for enjoyment; read it as literature. The same generation in English history gave us the au- thorised version in the Plays Shakespeare, and it is difficult to any which legacy is the more precious.
of
which is far better."
Go and prosper. Go forth strong against the evil things of the world, Let the Bible ever be your guide and your friend.
BAPTISMAL SERVICE
It is a real, a unique anthology. Christian and Missionary
Ruth, Esther, Daniel and Jonah.
story books and fascinating
story
and the book of Genesis too
books, and
Chapel Ceremony
St Thomas's New Hospital In Country
·To maintain its, services and to continue facilities for the education of doctors and nurses. London's St Thomas's Hospital is to open a country hospital of is full of delightful stories. If it is Approximately 200 people attend- 350 beds.
This step has been taken be- poetry that you prefer you will find ed the first baptismal service of the
and to spore, for the Old Christian Missionary Chapel, cause of bomb damage to the Testament is the greatest repository which was held at the Peniel Mis-building in London. About 100 of Hebrew. verse of all time. What slon yesterday, afternoon. Fourteen can be finer than the force song of candidates were baptised by immer-beds will be retained in town.
Raids have caused a loga of more triumph over the discomfort of sion.
than £1,000,000 to St Thomas's in Sisera; more pathetic than David's lament over Saul and Jonathan; or assisted by Mr. Feler Sung.
The damage.
enough
a more beautiful wedding song than
and
The Rev. John Bechtel officiated,
than platform where the baptismal tank To cater for about 1,000 extra the Song of Solomon? Where can is situnted ~ was decorated with people food convoys will travel to any true lover of his country or of flowers, and a blue silk curtain, and from the hospital in London freedom find more inspiration than in bearing the words "Baptised into
of the deliver Jesus" wonderful account
In English and ance of Jerusalem from Sennachrib covered the hack of the platform.
book of the Kings? The The following persons were bap Psalms are a col
lised Mrs Edward Lee, the Misses hymns of devotion inspired by per-
the
several times a week. Chineso, "Although bombing reduced us in rizo and handicapped our work," said the hospital secretary, we have not refused a single urgent ease-o
in the secondation of songs and race. Marle Lang, Harriot Hunter fact I should like to emphasise, for
Bechtel, Kw
Kwan Yon-lin Tsun Uat sonal plety, a treasure house of popuying, Taing Kom-yuk Ng Mel-mel, Jor and personal devotion.
I could multiply examples, almost and Messrs Kong Tu-king, Fung
Wing-kwal, Carlton Truax, Daniel
Indefinitely, but that is not my pur-Tritax, William C. Newbern, David posa hara morning. Everyone, Derk and Robert Lang. imagine, has his own, favourite books
this
of the Bible and his favourite pas
many people got the impression that the bombing had knocked us out."..
Munition Ship Takes
hages. Mine fire the Palms and the HUNGARIAN INTERESTS Back Model Dresses
Gospel according to St Luke.
His Excellency the Gove
| Britain's export driva tor, fashiona
Psalms one can find om een
pleased to "recognise Mr G munitions from the USA, went back.
amry, mood. Whether..
the Governor has is going ahond? A ship carrying ilitfor you, whather. you Miskin, Hon C Consul for Sweden at with 2,000, British models aboard, E telumbhan, dospondent or pent Hongkong ins being in charge of BTN
minantsarevictoryas in Hungarian and Ruminion Interests a clothes which include sporta Twente and woollen, dresség” for Asus (10 maty this wonderful in the Colony
The early stages of the game were national Broadcasting Station hero selentic and Arsenal relying on a solld defence and quick
weekly four-and-a-half forward regular thrusts.
minute broadcasts by well known Drake, a last-minute Inclusion in Chinese speakers, the Arsenal attack, was a constant
·Select personager will be asked to danger to the Preston defence.
go on the air in the near future.
The talks will be in English,
Hal-time arrived with по соге. Arsenal was severely handicapped by an injury to Drake, who retired from the game a quarter of an hour before Caught Burglar In the end.
Preston took the inillative and, efler swarming 'round the Arsenal Front Of Altar defence for a while, opened the scor-
CANON R. B. JOLLY, burly log. Arsenal, soon equalised when Gallimore, the Preston full-back, kick-six-foot Rural Dean of South-
restored lead immediately afterwords.
ed into his own goal; but Preston ampton, told recently of his Their forwards ran right through from struggle with a burglar in front the kick-off and Robert Bentile finish of the altar of his privata ed a fine combined movement with a chapel. well-placed shot.
Thereafter, Preston concentrated on the defensive and finished deserved
winners.
Other Matches
Results of other matches played were:
2.
London Cup, Semi-Anals-Reading 4 Crystal Palace 1: Totteniiam 0. Brentford South Regional-Aldershot a Ports- mouth 2: Millwall. a. Fulham 0: Delcester 3. Northampton 2; Queen's Park Hangers 1. West Ham d; Walsall 10, West Bromwich
South Challenge Match-Brighton Watford. 1
North Regional-Dinckpool 4 Chester 2; Dolion 3, Oldham 1: 'Bury 2, Manchester City 3: Liverpool 1. Everton L
Glasgow Charity Cup Final Rangers 3. Partick, 0.
FRED PERRY IN
U. S. PROFESSIONAL
TENNIS FINAL
"A mald told me that somebody had got into the deanery," he said. "So I called my dogs and went up- Stairs.
"Behind a door in the oratory a man was hiding, and I seized him by the neck.
"Twice he made a bolt, but I caught him again.
ho "Then. I, had to laugh, for turned and exclaimed," "I thought you were a — pardon; I..didn't know you were a m... cop!"
"For about half an hour I∙ gave. him a good talking-to. Then I gave him a cup of tea and a shilling and told him to get out.":
Tho
HONGKONG
·MAILS LOST
Postmaster General an...... nounced that letters by surface route"
United for United Kingdom, vin States of America, posted in Hong- kong between February 22 and March CICAGO, June 1 (Router), 7, 1941, and letters superscribed "By Fred Ferry, former Wimbledon and air to USA and thence, by Sen, American champion, reached the posted between 20 and 25 March, Snal of the American Professional 1041, have been lost by enemy Lawn Tennis Championship to-day, netion. beating Kelih Gledhill;“ 6-1, -,0-8,
6-4, 7-5, In the seral-hal Hollywood, who boat John Taunte
Ferry meets Richard. Skeen, of
conqueror, of Donald Budge, Q-4, 0-8;
Mock Battle At
Gibraltar
fought En Sh
to ranskan leng
RECITAL
Friday, 6th June, 1941
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(First Public Appearance) PAULINE CHOW-Soprano
(Guest Artiste)
GASTON D'AQUINO-Tenor, ·
E. O'NEILL SITAW—Accompanist
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