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FARLIER TELEGRAMS,

(Reuter's Soice to the China Mast.)

LLOYD'S SHIPPING REPORT.

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GENEVA.

THE CHINA MAIL.

azanstomed to read and to Balak in Engah

{THE TREASURY,

| besti men

MY LOVE.

HUMBLY DEDICATED TO N.,

My love for you will never fade !

The historical associations at There is nothing surprising in the

Of all the great departments, the selectiña' of a Swise city as the meet. Gerova, except for a short period ing place of the League of Nations in the sixteenth century, may be Treasury, which is being overbaaled Switzerland, by her geographical described us rather respectable than and reorganised, is the most mysteri position, is eminently suited to be brilliant. In the Middle Ages it never oue. It is nown vaguely that the LONDONY October 9th.

in the Civil Service E'en in my grave- Lloyds shipping report for the period the theatre of international convied with Basis and Constance as a 1917-10 states that as the end of Junegresses and conferences such as are meeting-phoe of nationalities. It! was going on throughout the world, Constance. Basle, and Berne; and of the first maak, and was engroseed having gone they are engulfed. 1919, a record amount of shipbuilding recalled to memory by the names of was a thriving municipality, but not examinations generally go there, but namely 40000 tons, of which 2,000,000 Geneva itself is best known to nine in a perpetual struggle to escape from Now and then, as in the ouse of Sir were being built in the United Kingdom.

keep at arm's length the ever-en

During the year up to June 30th people out of ten for its ecnnection the sovereignty of its bishop and 10 John Brudbury, an

I will still love you true,

true,

My love for you can never die. Een into ashes I'll be turned, Why did you ask if I de love you ocial may

While you have known that I can 3,800,000 gross tons were registered away one of the great international

never rest lord's, of which the United States built conventions for regulating the con- crouching power of the bishops emerge into a prominence which 1,500,000: the United Kingdom, 1,300,000; duct of war in accordance with the patrons and supporters, the Counts probably astonishes him; and thThe moment when I think of you? Japan. 80,000; and Canada, 200,000. principks of humanity. The objects afterwards. Dukes) of Savoy With very select section of the public It seems as if you doubt my love,

Sex: America Japan showed the of the Ingue of Nations must necés. in the city walls there raged a co which buys and reads the period But the time will come when greatwt increase in shipbuilding during early commend themselves to everystans feud between the supporters

the war

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**R. 33** FOR THE U.S、A..

LONDON, October 27th. In the House of Commons, brigadier General Seely announced that the new лігудір R. 38. would be complexed without may delay and handed over to the United States Xavy at cost price.

The airship

would be taken to America by an American crew as soon as the shed

--

was ready to receive her.

The Air Ministry would train the American crew. free exceps as regarda pus and rations- "

BOARD OF TRADE FAIR.

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a

ience.

The love that never fades.

of the Bishop and the patriots who reports of the Public Accounts CornMy tortured life will fly away Swiss patriot, since it is only by some desired to make Geneva a republicmittee-reports, by the way, some From this valley of bitter tears, such organisation that Switzerland

after the fashion of Genoa and Fer times more entertaining than a good Then I will no longer suffer Joon be guaranteed against unpru-

The geographical situation of voked attacks. The representatives of the League may rest assured of cordial recupsion in every part of Switzerland." But, considering the KainuumstanRG under which the League has been formed, it is only fitting that the principu French speaking city of Switzerland should be invited to entertain the Council of the League.

As I be covered in my grave, Gens, on the outer edge of Swit-yovels-gete a glimpse at other But still my love for you I'll keep !

of the Then it will be the time zerland prevented her from becom personalities in the course ing identified with the Swiss cantons evidence; but there the opportunities When you will give to me in their early wars of independence, for publicity end. The identity of And if by chance you'll see

Your judgment true! She was not threatened, as they were from the north and east by the brilliant young men who pass into An humble flow'r that will grow on Hapsburgs and the Empire, nor did the Treasury is veiled discreetly unMy grave, I wish you would kiss it, the conquest of Geneva form a part der the all-embracing “My Leris," So that e'en in my tomb, I'll feel of the schemes of Charles the Rash and it is only very occasionally that Kiss my flower and bathe it with

The sweetness of your love. of Burgundy In the period of the

Your tears, because it is My love that never fades

Hongkong, October 31. 1)

It is true that the political ralo Wars of Religion, when Gesera beer peep into the front side tions of Geneva and France were not come anger to join the Swiss Con- of the office, as in the case of the always friendly in the period when federation, her advances were coldly official who conphined to Glackstone Geneva was a republic independent received except by the neighbouring of the Revised Version emendation of the Swiss Federation. The laterators. The majority in the Con- which made Tiberius number all the LONDON, October 27th.

Valois kings of France naturally ob kleration were unwilling to under-world instead of taxing it, thus reduc The Board of Trade is organising 4jected to the existence on their cust- take the burden of new wars for the ing the thing to amete Locul great Fair to be held at the end ofera fracter of a Protestant city sake of a city professing a form of Government Board affuir. “** February 1940, concurrently, in London State which served both as a place Protestantism with which even the Birmingham and Glasgow.

Sometimes. We know, excitement Only manufacturing firms in the Bri-of refuge for persecuted Huguenote Reformed cuntons were only half in runs through the corridors of that tish Empire will be allowed to exhibit. and as a sensory in which young sympathy. Cheneva was finally ad-gloomy building the clearinghouse Over 100,000 invitations bave been Frenchmen, were trained as pastors mitted into alliance with the Coafor many other bathing as when n isaged.

for the service of the new religionfederation, but she only obtained full Randolph Churchill becomes Chan in France. The Bourbons in the membership in 1815, at the same cellor and the departments look for- eighteenth century complained that time as Valnie and Neuchatel Geneva was a hotbed of new po

ward to squalk. Sometimes the ap tical ideus and a school of political north of the Alps which can boast on the rudirents of finance makes There are, however, few cities palling innocence of a new Chancellor aritators, and on this ground Genera of so long a history, Geneva stands gosip of which the world never was deliberately excluded from the at the junction of several ancient hears. Sometimes great battles rage benefits of the Franco-Swiss Treaty and important highways which afford between the Treasury and the spend- of 1777. The complaint was in a access to and from Italy. Lyonsing departments. but the Palladion Losnos. October 27th. sense unfair, for the University of Busle, und the Rhine valley. In the World's Scutting Championship Geneva publicly condamned the commands the most important pus-its own celebrities, and makes its own It! fends keeps its own pecrets, guards from Putney to Mortlake, for £500 n-side,

Contrat Sockul of Rousseau, the age of the Upper Rhone, the palestinute of outside reputations. Alf Felton, of Australia, Best Ernest. Barry, the holder, easily by night lengths.nost famous political thinker whom sage between the Jura range and is the most silent of all services.

the city aver produced, and no im- Lake Leman, by which the Here! THE AMERICAN LONGSHOREMEN'S partial person could accuse the attempted to force their way into Genevan municipality in that period Romna Gaul in the your 58 B.C., und ef any undue tenderness to radical-on, which any invader who proposed

A special branch of the Board of Trade is directly organising the London Fair, while the Fairs at Birmingham and Glas cow are being arranged by the respective Municipalities, under the auspics of the Board.

SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP,

STRIKE.

NEW YORK, October 27th.

THE SILVER MARKET.

. Still, the fact remains that to reach Lyons from North Switzer-siderations, again, account for the natives of Genera dil yeoma ser- land

would naturally direct bis action of the French Directory i

ESANIP.

CHURCH SERVICES.

St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon.

20TH SUYDAY AFTER TRINITY.-Nov,2nd.

St

Morning Prayer at 111. Holy Communion at 8.15 m. Opening Voluntary: Responses. Farial; Ventbr, Asset Psalms, of the ad Morsing :-IX XI As set To Deum,

Jude Jubilato, Ouseler Hymus 101 (A. & M. 173), 432, 443 (A. & M. 439), 656, 388..

Concluding Voluntary, Evening Prayer at 5p.r. Oparing, Voluntary; Responses. Ferial; Psalms, of the Ind Evenina :—ds sot j Magnifcat, Smart: Nune Dimittis Monk. Bymas, 18, 422, 374 (A, & M. Tune), 459.

Vesper Hymn.. Concluding Voluntary.

B. Choir Practice next Friday

Morning Service, 11 a.m. yms. 10, be 296 246. Subject: The Church in Philadelphia. Evening Service, & p.. Hyos 239, 219, 378 370. Preacher: Rev. J. Kirk Maconachic.

Sunday Services, November 4

An attempt to resume work at the Barklyn Docks resulted in pitched vice in shaping and popularieing the march. Hence Geneva, which al seizing Geneva, at a time when Italy battles between 2,000 striking longshore- men and voluntary workers, Revolvers political doctrizes which at length ready in 58 B.C. was a thriving Cel-Was becoming an important theatre at 8.00 pm. were fired and stores, bricks and clubs destroyed the-Bourbe-regime. Thetic settlement and the site of a bridge of operations for French armies, end were freely used. Scores of people were relations of the city with revolution-ncross the Rivage, witnessed the first it is interesting to observe that Napo- Union Church, Kennedy Road. injured,

Jary France were not more fortunate brush of Julius Caesar with the Helleon started from Genera for the en this account and Geneva had vetit, and was treated by subsequent Italian campaign of 1800 which oul- good cause to complain of the in-rulers of Roman Gaul as one of the these stray facts of military history minated in Marengo. We mentica gratitude of her converts. The city chief frontier posts of the province not as it themselves important but LowDos: October 24th was forcibly annexed to France by 15 the year 400 A.D. the Celtic Meurs. Montaga & Co's report of the Directory (1788), and was retain town had becomes a full-blown Romen because they explain, what would October 23rd. attributes the new rise in in unwilling subjection by Napocivites, with its own municipal cr-

otherwire seem miraculous and in the price of silver to the continuance of leos. an intense demand frum, Chica and says"

The present freedom of ganisation, and in the fifth century explicable, the survival of the Gene that the L'ontinen: is little disposed to Gears, it is curious to note, was a bishop of Geneva uppears among

van Republic the religious wars of huy at the present abnormal level of due to the combined potion of Eng. the suffragans of the Archbishop of the sixteenth century, when it was prices.

land, Prussia, and Austria in the Vienne. With the bishoprice for Cathole Powers, and totally incap

surrounded on three sidoe by the tunes of the city were inextricably connected from that time until the able of defending itself against 3 a.m.-Holy Communion. year 1532, when the holder of the French or Spanish armies. Philip 11 am-Morning Frayer and Sermon.

1. unveted Geneva as a office, weary of his hopeless struggle

gateway Preacher: Rov. . F. Waldegrave with the municipal aristocracy, trans-through which troops could be des ferred his seat to Gex. The stages patched from Italy to the Rhine-

Peak Church. by which the bishop mode himself hard and the Netherlands. France

War of Liberation.

It is pretty certain that these trkomories, no longer excite resent ment against France in the breasts of Genevan citizens. But Germany and Austria are entitled, by virtue of their action in 1911, to expect het their representativas, wher admitted

Geneva could not hope to escape from their bondage. In the four- teenth and fifteenth centuries the Empire became a broken read for the bishops. But they acquired a new supporter in the rulers of Savoy.

military calculations of Great Powers. never again figure as a pawn in the

Her modern consequence and repute. tiens rests on other grounds. In the eighteenth century her University was honourably distinguished ne

St Peter's Church, West Polat.

Sunday, November 2.

The Gospel Hall

~12-PRODER STREET.

Weekly Services-Sunday: Breaking of Bread for Believers only, 11 am. Bible study, Tuesday, 8.30 p.m. and

Gospel Meeting, 8 p.in-

Thursday, 8 pr Friday, Ladies' Bible study, 5.30 p.m. Saturday, Frayer Meeting, 6 p.m. First Church of Christ Scientist,

MacDonnell Rond.

Sandags, II a.m. Wednesdays, 5.30 p.m.

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"THE SHANGHAI WHEEL"

ACTION TAKEN BY CHIESE POLICE

Branch at YAUMATI,

DEATH OF MR. A. J. FERRIER AT SEA.

MISSION WORK IN CHINA,

Rome, Oct. 24. Monsignor Menicatti, the Apostolic Vicar to Northern Honan, wrote a report to the Congregation of Propaganda complaining of the lack of means of Catholic missionaries

the seigneur as well as the spiritual that Geneva should not fall have the 8.30 Excalag Service.

was for that very resou determined 8.15 am-Holy Communion.

News reached Shanghai on Oct. 27 compared with Protestanta. Be says the funds the latter diapose for prolelysising regarded with satipathy by the Bat the bishop's position as a per-

According to the Hsin Wan Pao. of the death whilst at sea the pre- to the League of Nations, will not superior of the city are not known.

hands of the Hapsbys or their

the chief of the Chinese Police has vious day of Mr. Arthur James Fer- sre a hundred times superior to those of

friends the Dukes of Savoy. And Cathriics. Thus Pretestants have colleges, population of its capital. Of the reign prince the Empire was

entered a protest against the resump-rier. Mr. Ferrier was engineer on tion of gambling at the establish board the str. "Burrumbeet,” and he universities and superior aaboola while the Allies England, perhaps, bas most formally recognised by Frederic Bar. 6o, Gerens escaped scathless, except Catholie Missions only taneh amidst the case to be proud of her past rela- bar in the twelfth century and for a singularly ill managed soult

ment known as "The Wheel," 28 passed away while the steamer was poorest and lowest classes. Being impossible tions with Geneva. In the sixteenth so long as the Holy Roman Empire by a small Savoyard force in 1600.

Peoshan Road. His report on the making one of her customary runs. that Confucianism will be the religion of century, Geneva contributed more remained a reality the citizens of We may hope that Genewa will

matter, which is quoted by the Chin- The deceased, who was 42 years the State Mon, Manicatti predicts that than any other Continental centre of

being conducted by an Italian subject, the age of four he went Home, and ese journal, asserts that the house is of age, was born in Shanghai At China will declare for Protestantism. In the Reformed religion to the devel backs, Law Courts, commercial bones and opent of the Reformation in Great

who formerly ran the same business at received his education at Dollar Government offices all the most important Brimia. Both in Bagland and in

No. 24. When this latter house was Academy. His school days finished, posts are taken by prominent Chinese the Scotland the teaching of Calvin

raided, the raport continues, the he served his apprenticeship as an majority being Protestante.

and the premises were sealed up to sea in steamers of various home educated" a new type of Protestaat.

gambling paraphernalia was seized engineer at Arbroath, and then went

REPATRIATING LABOUR COMP3.

very different from that which had his cherished the hope that one day school of political and historical

The Italian Consul General opened lines. Having passed the Board of been alternately putronised and per the temporal power of the bishop studies, und Geneva became not only

negotiations, with the office of the Trade examination as chief engineer, London, Ost. 24. scented by Herry VIII. Few of us might pass into their own hands. the intellectual metropolis of Swit

Shanghai-Woosung Police, and as a be returned to Shanghai, and for socie The Chinese Labour Corps in France is are now prepared to commend un- The last few bishops of Geneva were,zerland but also one of the chief

token of friendship the case was treat-time sailed on the China coast in the now being repatriated at the rate of five reservedly the political theory and as a genem rule, cadets of the dometres of European thought. The

ed leniently. A small fine was imposed Indo-China boats. In 1904 he went bundred daily Repatriation should be practice of early Presbyterianism, house of Savoy: and once for a short city which had adopted Calvia ac-

and the seals on the premises were re-to America, and remained there for completed by Det., 31 if aficione shipping but undeniably the Presbyteriaza period the See was actually helt by quired a new renown as the birth-

moved. The building was handed 10 years, being engaged as a motor were a salutary influence in the Duke Amadeus VIII, who, having place of Rousseau and the home of

over to the Italian Consul-General on engineer. Returning to Shanghai, political life of Great Britain be been elected as an anti-Pope by the Bushuqui and Sismondi. It is

condition that no gambling would he was for two years chief engineer tween the years 1500 and 1860. As Council of Busle (1483), seized the within the range of possibility that

be permitted on the premises and in the China Import & Export Lamber a spiritual movement Calvinism, in opportunity to conter upon himself the seat of the League of Nations

that no foreigner would be permitted Co. He again went to sea, and was spite of many criticisms and re- this coveted piece of preferment, and Geneva may lead the way towards

to enter Chinese territory to commit latterly sailing in Messrs. McBain's actions, has for three centuries help-obstinately retained it after he bad yet another intellectual renaissance

any offence against public morality, Boat "Burrumbeet." He had been in The public telephone service betweened to mould the character of every been induced to resign the tiara. of a more healing and reconciling

and that the Chinese Police would be indifferent health for some time prior London, Paris and Brussels, which was English-speaking people. In the Such importance as the bishopa of character than those associated with unday Evening, Gospel Meeting, 8 pm. allowed to visit and inspect the house to his decease. entirely suspended during the war, re eighteenth century Great Britain re Geneva possessed was due to the the names of the Calvinist Reform-

from time to time. All this is on! Mr. Ferrier was unmarried. Two opens on October 28th.

paid to Geneva the intellectual debt strutegical position of the diocese, and the apostles of the Contrat

record.

brothers survive him, one of these which had been contracted in the end it is as a strategical point that Social.-B. W. C. D. in Manchester

-Now (continues the report) the Mr. F. Ferrier being in Shanghai, and Guardian. (days of Elizabeth and Mary Stuart. Geneva suntly comes before us in

Italian in question is diring enough the other, Mr. J. B. Ferrier, in [Nowhere on the Continent had Eng-the Middle Ages. It was at Geneva

to resume gambling af No. 28, in Australia. |lish political, scientific, and philoso-that Charles the Great marshalled

the neighbourhood of the former phical writer, from Locke and New-the Frankish anies for his first ex-

house, and this is contrary to the ton downwards, a more appreciative pedition to Ily (773) Here toc

agreement entered into.. The Chief: public than at Genew. The Gene the armies of the Holy Roman Em- historian Sismondi, hitself alpire were mastered by Conrad II. warm admirer of English thought in 1034, after like had annexed the and institutione, affirmed (in 1802) kingdom of Burgundy, to recognise that his compatriots, while they his title and to assist him in crush epoke and wrote in French, were | ing a rebellion.

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LONDON, October 27th.

INDIGESTION AND BILIOUS-

NESS.

You should not cat food of any kind

when bilions but take a full dese of Chamberlain's Tablets and drink plenty of water. That will clcenso the Atomach, move the bowels and sogg restore the system to a healthy condi- tion. For sale by all Chemists and Storekeepers.

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ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN, TT may be impossible to prevent an

accident, but it is not impossible to

Wesleyan Methodist Churab, Hauchai

Morning Service, 10.15 a.m. Evening Service, 6.15 p.m.

Soldiers' and Bailors' Home,, Arsenal Street.

St. Joseph's Church, Garden Road.

Mass and Sermon at 10 am. followed by the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

Roman Catholic Cathedral, Glonealy.

of Police goes on to say that he leave Chinese territory within three has wired to the Commissioner for days, and that he be given to under Foreign Affairs asking him serious stand that any delay on his part will ly to negotiate with the Italian Consul mean a breach of the former agree.

to the proprietor of "The Wheel” to police are ordered to watch the house.

Balm is not beyond anyone's pure, and Mass at 6, 7 and 9.30 am. be prepared for it. Chamberlain's Pain with a bottle of this liniment you are High Mass at 8 am. prepared for almost srything. For sale 5.30 p.m.-Benediction of the Eleased General for instructions to be given ment. In the meantime, the Chinese Strategic con- by all Chemists and Storekeeper.

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