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THE CHINA MAIL.

so-called "State religion Why

Are you aware that while we if such things matter?

have room for them, plenty of No one suspects that Ulster poli-root, we are short of teachers? ticians are really pious, other- The China Mail, which has had worldly men. That were to laugh notes about teachers pay lately, They don't act at all as if they suggests that the Government could were. They fear, rightly or wing get teachers if it would offer euit ly, and we happen to think wrong" able "pay. ly, that Home Rule would meanHow cheerfully we talls of that Rome Rule. It is the rule they million for the Universiy, and how resent, and not the creed for the we begrudge a few hundred thous God of Rome is the God of Canter-sand for our own Educational De bury and the God of Muslim and partment, which should have first Jew. There cannot be more than daim

SLOCAL AND GRENŘELA

Mr. WJ. Williams, late of shanghai, has been appointed Mani- cipal electrical engineer, Penang,

An English mail is due to reach Hanghang on Monday by the P. & O. Kashgar which is expected at noon.

There is a great demand for human hair. In Canton because the German merchants there have received many orders for quantities of hair.

Big Kwok Lim and seven other silk merchants at Tai Tung Po, Namhol, were captured by a gang of bandits on September 10. It is reported that they are holding them for a ransom. of $8,000.

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An addiilepal marine officer is to mean the same thing. Why, all Schools, who goes for a few hours this squabbling in the human aur-each day. He has ohe trained be allowed to certain light cruisers serv? It is a religious forms of our assistant. That school, Victoris. of the C type, including those in old acquaintance ei vis pacem, has no afternoon classes because the the East Indies Station and the China para bellum." By their deeds, if Inspector has to be. back at his Station." not by their words, all these quar-fotice. relsotue people are setting up as are these facts? their motto: "If you wish for toler- Suppose they are, what do you anes. be intolerant." We who look think about them? What are you beyond forms to things, beyond going to do about them? narues to principles, must take is leaf from their book Let us since they will not be sensible, be intolerant of their narrow" distinc- tions. Let us persistently dis- crit all their creeds, and preach The one god of all the peoples. Let us definitely assert in terms, what we tacitly affirm in political con dnet, that their names and formulas and patterns do not tatton if they insist upon being martyrs for non- essentials let us laugh at the and salt us clean our polities Ltd. their childish sibboleths and "totem

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Another clean-bill of health was returned for the Colony yesterday.

Sbc Germans are aboard the Radja" which arrived in Hongkong, yesterday. They have come from Hamburg. They are for Shanghai

A special late car will be run by the Peak Tramway Company in 'con-- nection with the Band night at the Peak Club on Saturday. It will leave the upper station at 12.30 am on Sunday,

Lukongs were this morning issued with new winter uniforms of the same pattern as these worn by the Euro pean and Indian members of the Police Force. This new departure is welcome, as it smartens considerably the hitherto somewhat undignified appearance of our Chinese constables.

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SHANGHAI Sept. 16. The strange discovery of a foreign corpse dressed in navy shirt, pre sumably a seaman, buried in Woo- ung, has been made. The Chinese authorities did not notify the settle- ment police. The body was exhumed by the American authorities. Investi gations are being made.

CANTON RAILWAY.

The following ships of the British China squadron are expected.

SERVICE INTERRUPTED. ****Curfew," "about the end of Septera ber, "Alacrity" & "Hawkins," early November "Bluebell" and "Holly AWONTING SOLDIERS REPORTED TO hock," early, in December: "Titania" and Sabmarines early in December; "Cairo," in January and "Colombo," end of January.

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An extra" issued by the local Chinese newspapers, states that the Naval officers serving abroad Canton train was derailed tear who are allowed to retire under the Ngayan yesterday morning, in Chin- special scheme recently promulgated ese territory, with the result that will be relieved from duty on the communication with Canton by rail. foreign stations as early as practic was cut off. Trains for Canton travel- able and granted free passages to led only as far as Sheklung, pas. England and full pay for the period sengers for Canton receiving a refund undue delay in travelling. of passage, provided there is no on their fares. Repairing work has already been started, and “it is expected "that the service will be resumed either today or to-morrow.

There is no information as to how

-On October 7, Bext, Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, K.C.B, will

the train came to be derailed, or

There are seven foreign warships in Canton harbour, namely USS Poor Hutchison would not have Helena,"USS. "Pampanga, H.M.S. been pleased with the announce"Tarantula," HMS Moorben," ment of the Government's plans for HMS. "Robin," the Japanese ships a reformatory. He was the prime "Sahura" and "Kaba.". mover in the matter, and it is cer tain he would not have approved" More than ten little children this outcome of our agitation. The from the homes of the bandits in Ma announcement is made that they are On, were bound together with a constructing a reformatory for sixtyre, all in one row and shot by ofhildren at Laichikok, near the jail, some savage troops on September 9,

Why near a jail? Was that neues reports the Canton Times.

cannot believe it. Worse still, it is to be in charge miral Line who has been on a tour of Mr. D. J. Hanscom of the Ad- of Indian warders! We simply must not say what we think of this the Japan and North China offices, is expected to return to the Colony on utrageous proposal: but the sophis Sunday by the ss. China" when ticated reader who remembers the 1. Facts are facts, observes the con- jail scandal will guess much that tentional Solon, primly tightening, could be said in opposition Of his lips, as it he had now saxl some-; course there is to be a white nan Sir John Tankerville Goldney. thing. The fact is, of course, that over them, but he cannot be every late Chief Justice of Trinidad, for the aplication of the fact is of where all the time, and we say merly a Judge in British Guiana and mor vital importance than the daily that it will not do. There in the Straits Settlements, who died Jact it. A fact unapplied or must be a proper rioratory staff. April 11, aged 73, brother of the pre misapplied is like a gramophon: These children cannot be left to sent baronet, Sir Prior Goldney, left without meords, like a gun without Indian warders. It is a pity to spoil estate of the value of £61,922, and powder like banknotes on a do- the ship for a ha porth of ter. It net personally £40,089,

ley has been appointed to the battle sert island. It is a fact that weis sour-thing to have a reformatory. must all die, but, what of it? One where the boys can be schooled and In the second court, Singapore, cruiser ship "Malaya" Lient-Com man may head on that fact. strained to be useful, and it appears before Mr. C. W. Dawson, Eusofe mander Spreckley joined the naval HONGKONG UNIVERSITY. lite itself as an empty, vain, and that we are to have a proper one Serang, a stevedore, was granted bail service in 1903, was promoted usaless preliminary to death. What by and by, presumably when the in the sum of $50,000 in connection lentenant in 1909, and lieutenant-

IMPORTANT ASPECT. is the use of this, that, or the other.tovernment thinks it can afford with a charge of alleged abetment commander in June, 1917. He was since by and by he must die and it. The Laicbikok one is, we are with a Chinese, of attempted murder, navigating officer of the light cruiser Weymouth "when the war opened, Pasinism and glooni assured, a temporary makeshift. by throwing a bomb at Nagalingam, and saw much service with that ship leave it? claim bin, and long before he diest Even tenporarily, we must register a lawyer's clerk. * he loses his life. Another man our protest against the Indian sees the fact, and does not like it. warder scheme.

He tries to evade the application of

it by the pretence that it isn't final::

he looks to consolation for a fact

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he will resume duty as the Hong-vacate the command of the Second whether or not there were any kong agent of the line....

Battle Squadron. He will be succeeded casualdes. It is stated however, by Rear-Admiral Sir William C. N. that the interruption was caused by Nicholson, presently Third Sea Lord Kwongtung soldiers, who, receiving and Controller. Sir William is a well-information that a special military known member of the Imperial train carrying Kwongsi troops was Defence Committee, and has bad proceeding to the Headquarters of General Ma, rosted up the lines at. experience on every naval station.

Ngayau at night.

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on the African coasts and in the Mediterran sam.

HOW TO MAKE IT POPULAR.·

The question chiefly exercising the. In the Supreme Court, Singapore,

minds of those interested in the the Chief Justice, Sir John Buckmill,

The light cruiser "Raleigh" University is, I believe, one concert KC, granted a judicial separation to Mrs. Clara Matilda Scott, wife of a sister ship of the "Hawkins," flag ing the extension of its practical use- George Arthur Scott, with costs and ship of the China Station-is to be fulness, writes the Hongkong cor- that, in the absence of such con-

the custody of the children. Peti- completed at Devonport, whither she respondent of the N.C.D. Neurs. Some Vaticans quoted as anxious abou:solation. would make him incon- Another man accepts the

The football season is about here. tioner alleged persistent cruelty, will be transferred from the builders' of the more academic amongst us the menace to the Holy Land," solable. BLOOMFIELD-On August 31.pparently better pleased to travesame fact in a matter of fact way. Aneral meeting of the League beginning nine months after the yard on the Clyde (Messrs. Beard are horrified at the suggestion that

Sure. Death after.

is called for next Friday, in the marriage in 1908, and said she was more & Co., Dalmuir). It is under the University should develop into a Life now.

Raleigh" will glorified technical school, but I think stood that the 1920, a Swatow, to Mr. and it to the Moslem anti-Christians Mrs. J. A. Bloomfield, a daugh- than to the Jewish anti-Christians. All the more reason to get the most R.G.A. Recreation Room at Vie-compelled to leave her husband onbe completed about the end of the that many business men are inclined

The business is July 22..

year, and when ready for the pennant to believe that a technical education, Lout of life while we've got it. So toria" Barracks. These sectarians look like

she will be commissioned as flagship crowned with the haló of a University did our soldiers reason, when going announced as arrangements for bunch of quarrelsome children to war.

The following approaching wed-of the North America and West degree, would admirably ment the Moreover the recognition season 1920-21. What arrange- fighting in the nursery became they of the fact of the Fature actually meats have been made about dings are announced: Mr. A. V. Indies Station, where a really up-to requirements. cannot decide who loves father best. sweetened the present, and wiped grounds? Are we to have that bit Cowell, Army Educational Corps, to date "light cruiser" is badly needed. There is only one Father.

from it some of the unnecessary of Happy Valley at present used, Miss N. W. Green, Army School Mis- It is quite plain that the peace worries and anxieties that marto the great danger of the public, tress; Mr. M. L. Railton, of Messrs. of the world requires the discredit- for so many people. a mistake a handful of golfers? ing of all the creeds. This will be whose consequences were to be felt League's arrangements denounced as an attack upon for a thousand years or fuore would dificult unless more grounds are We hope religion" but it isnot. It is really seem more disastrous than one put at their disposal a necessary first step in the direc-whose effects could not be prolong that members will make a point of tion of restoring honest worship of 4d beyond half a dozen decades. forcing this issue on the meeting. Maskee! It will be all the same By the way, those willing to act as Without ostentation, it has been a century hence" is a popular ex-referees are asked to notify Mr. G. done, without anybody noticing, or Pression of this philosophy. How T. May at the Victoria Barracks. becoming really aware of it. The auch, also, the same fact of in- Empire on which the sun never evitable death can influence cou- Agnostic State. It has succeeded that give, as well as them that take.

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The China Mail.sets may be considered as the great passion and Yore, that bless them

BosGIONG, FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, 1920.

THINGS THAT DON'T MATTER.

and discount much, contemplating

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There is feeling that more might be done towards equipping the young Chinese for particular careers and The Jardins, Matheson & Co., to Nurse Commander F. C. Platt, D.S.O. specially in training them for.com- will be Violet Muriel Vaughan, of the Pre-who was first lieutenant of the sloop mercial life. We read of hundreds of

sidency General Hospital, Calcutta;

"Cadmus," China Station, when the Chinese going to the Universities of Mr. J. S. McCann, of McKinnon, war broke out and won the D.SO. in America, France and Japan, and McKenzie & Co. to Miss. V. M. the operations in the Far East, has wonder why Hongkong does not Starkey, 4 the Peak, Hongkong.

been appointed to the command of make a stronger sppeal and whether the sloop "Dwarf," which is being the advantages it offers are sufficí. W. G. Wallace, a clerk living at recommissioned for service on the ently wellknown. Having regard 15, Markham Road, Shanghai, was West Coast of Africa. Lieut-Com- to the population from which it charged in the American Court with mander Surgeon J. H. Hodgson, M.B., can draw its students, and the having obtained jewellery under false joins the "Tamar" for service with increasing number of good schools pretences from Ah-Fong, a merchant the Hongkong naval hospital. Sur in all parts of China, there should doing business at 295 North Szechuen geon-Lieutenant J. F. Rae has been never be a vacancy in any of its "Widgeon" for hostels, The competition for ad- Road. The jewellery was returned appointed to the

the light cruiser process of elimination should be one Milky to the merchant and the case dis- duty, det. H. G. Millett has been mission should be so strong that the

missed with the understanding that it appointed to might be reopened within, eleven

Carlisle," China-Station.

of the most difficult tasks with which -- Booze months-if Wallace comes into any

the authorities would have to cop other conflict with the courts during that period..

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In these circumstances, Burely, naturalised British subject in the United Kingdom or in New Zealand there would be little heard of financial It's something you will lose on

Dr. Amos P. Wilder, who will be and the other Dominions is an alien trouble. It is hoped that, apart from In the same way a their advice regarding the immediate Ex-well remembered in the Far East as in Australia.

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You can't take milk with water.

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Milky

They would have something to say.

WILLIAM HILL.

·FIRE AT OSAKA.

MILLION YEN DAMAGE.

ORIGIN OF LUISASTER UNKNOWN,

U. S. Consul-General in Hongkong naturalised British subject in Australia financial problem; the members of and at Shanghai, from which he is an alien in other parts of the the Commission will deal adequately.

questions and with retired in 1914, has accepted a post Empire. A bill is now being drafted with these tion as Assistant Editor of the Flew to alter this anomalous state of affairs methods for making the University Haver (Conn) Journal Courier. Dr. bringing the Australian naturalis more popular. Wilder was Secretary of the Yaleation laws into line with those of the If occasion is Mission in China, the headquarters of United Kingdom. which organization was at New offered, this bill will be introduced in Haven. Dr. Wilder will be remembered the Federal Parliament during the Canada and the as a writer of ability and as an accom- present session. plished after-dinner speaker.

United Kingdom have already enter ed into reciprocal arrangements The Miyako suggests. "that the with regard to naturalisation. It is time has come to do a little weeding hoped that eventually these will be among the 80,000 policemen of extended to all the Dousinions.

Merchandise stored at the Customs Tokyo. There have been complainte

Warehouse at Osaka Umeda Station Mr. Greenbill, manufacturer of for some time about the loose conduct

The question about the exact was completely destroyed in a fire "raw" films, has just returned to of certain members of the force, but location of a cow's ears which you which started on September 2 from London after a world trip. In Japan few dismissals have been made a quote from a school examination unknown origin. Property valued at he established new.. distributing the difficulty of replacing menTM was organisations, which will be directed too great. Now, however; when paper (writes a currespondent of the ¥1,000,000 was destroyed. The fire from London. England, it is hoped, applications are coming into the Daily Nees) was an important factor started among goods piled on the will become the film centre of the police stations for-positions in the recently in securing the passage landing place in the station com

Bill dealing with the teaching of. world. The best British pictures will force, la mambers every day, the through the Ohio Legislature of pound at Umeda Station and fanned be distributed with those of the authorities can afford to make care

goods spread over 750 tsubo of ground measure, as Americans would say, were ablaze in a short space of time. United Artists of America, through full selections and restore all under agriculture in rural schools. The by a strong southerly wind all the had been almost beaten to a frazzle The flames then spread to the Cas- the British exchanges already exist-able ones.

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"LEUTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE." by means of the tacit assumption friend, depress chopard the aged Some people say that the

that the creeds do not matter. In poor He cannot every addition to the red area on have long to five is extended to the map, where a foreign creed alt mankind by some graspers of existed, we have pursued the policy the fact. They smile indulgently of tolerance. The State deliberate at the fretting and the fussing of ly decided not to interfere with those who have not noted the fact, what, by plain implication, did not and act as if they were planning matter to the State, There was a for eternity. They forgive much Something "Inert may be Ireland and Palestine Crow a time in English history when a these frail and evanescent creatures, new, bright light on history, for shallow thinker might pick out an those who bave the moral courage apparent inconsistency, the time whose lives, when all is seen and to eschew native prejudices and that made our King fidei defensar said, appear and disappear like river. → Cities face facts. It has ng been known But whatever the combatants them snowflakes, on that the real difficulty at the bottom selves may have thought, thay we and thrones and powers Stand in: of the Irish problem is the so-called not discover that they were really Time's eye Mach as do the flowers So now you see that if we had three

Of the stars from the religious one: but the Zionist fighting things thar saatlered more! That daily die." There is the fact,

Way." scheme for Palestine, and its sur-than faith? Roman Catholicism the central fact, the indisputable prising developments, serve to rub was, a tyranny, then. It touched and universally significant fact; but in the mors). The Muslim has things that mattered. It touched. how differently, how variously, do always regarded the Christian as it laid a heavy hand on, the dailymer apply it to their conduct. As an infidel," and the "Christian lives of men. It was that they an unapplied fact it cannot be said as not been slow with the ta feared and fought it is that, preto have a meaning; applied, it quoque, so that it is at least resumably, that Ulster fears and means, the whole thing. Now let markable to find Christians and fights in Ireland to-day. But when us, morituri all, consider how we Muslims together in shoulder-to-Catholicism lost its temporal power, apply it.

onlder formation unitedly oppos and ceased to be a tyrant, we real- my Zionism. A protest has been ized that it did not matter politic- ssued by an Talamo Christian Conally, and we emancipated the erence It says the Jew has no Catholica, removed their disabili- historical claim to Falestine. He ties, yielded them their place in the pocupied a part of Palestine by sun, recognising theirs as one way Did you read Mr. Bowley's letter terminating its inhabitants sonjeand not a bad way of worship in Monday's China Mail? It should yo thousand years ago, and suc ping, the same God that we did, have been a sort of bombshell, and peded in holding it for about three If this was not an admission of the the apathy that your silence in hundred years, but, since then both principle that politically the dicates is the most horrible feature

in the Philippine Islands, Shanghai, - Sympathy will be felt for HE. by its poponents when Mr toms warehouses stored with cotton hristians and Moslems have each methods of worship do not matter, of Hongkong,

Singapore, and elsewhere. Mr. Green the Governor, Sir Reginald Stubbs, Braschler stood up and declared that yarn, rice, leather; beans and other ld it more than twice as long, that creeds do not matter, we do

Are you interested in nothing but bill says that Japan was a great at the recent death at Home of his if any one of the Bill's opponents goods and they were completely.des mileuch an argumens would throw not know what it was..

moneygrubbing and sport? - picture-loving nation. There were eldest brother, Mr. W. W. Stubbe could say offhand whether a cow's trayed. Twenty trucks filled with all be thap of Europe in confusion. Nominally we have our State On the very day that the letter theatres there in which 5,000 people The deceased was appointed District cars were in front of or behind its sorts of goods, which stood on the the own prophecies of Ezekiel are religion, but practically we net as appeared, do you know that 500 were accommodated, and these were Commissioner In Southern Nigela, horns he would be converted to their rails, were also destroyed Sparks This coming back. It is only if it did not matter. In war, faced boys were turned away from, the always fall, though, the juices of West Africa, in 1909, previous to view. No ont ventured an answer falling on the creek gulbeat the light-

he can break up Mosten-with things that really did makter, principal Government school 22 admon ranged from 1 to 5 yen which he was for many years Assist and Mr. Braschler proceeded to make the tradition of pur Lord. we very plainly put it in its place, Are you aware that zedly 200 The Japanese were we keen to leamant District Commismune. He was speech in support of the Bill which only here that the pound of as an unimportant onument of these boys came from district more about Western (methods, and the possessor of the African General sectired its unanimous acceptance. can be exacted and all reli- Now, as though it did not matter, government schools, and that they customs, and were focking to the Service Medal. In November, 1919, the world sussed. Is the State is making itself respon were turned away because there cinemas because they provided prace he returned Home on sick leave, and

utterance; bible for the setting up in Palestine was no class for them.

tically the only means by which they in May of this year, his health having "WALLA WALLA BOATS bostile cults, of a colony of people who are de What happens? Do they go on could obtain that knowledge &C. gradually given away, he retired on

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Railway workers" and firemen made every effort to keep the fire within certain limit but they were only partially successful. The authorities are now, seeking to find the origin of the fire