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PROTEST TO BRITISH MINISTER.
to pontificate to the common man on loo stays there," where it was subjects like time or space. As No matter how fast light travels, it ALLEGED SECRET AGREEMENT. Professor Lankester puts it, it is can only bathes battle once, and that a common but altogether mistaken while the battle exista- The fond supposition that the discoverer in one mother who trains to beat Light in branch of science is necessarily to be the Einstein Marathon can never accepted as a specially valuable recapture that cute smile which her witness in regard to another branch." baby smiled one sunny day last year. Professor Clifford tells us that where it may seem presumptuous to doubt and investigate. it is always still more presumptutors to profess belief without evidence.
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[China Mail SPECIAL}
SHANGEAL, May 26,
TUESDAY, MAY 24 192
EMPIRE DAY.
LOCAL CELEBRATIONS.
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CANTON AND HONGKONG...
HONGKONG GOVERNOR EXPRESSES REGRET FOR NOTIFICATIONS:
HE DENTES PERING VISIT CONNECTED -WITH AFFATES OF KWÅNGTUNEL
Under these headlines, the Canten Ties says :-....
As is customary and fitting Empire Day was observed to-day chiefly as a boliday for the children-13 an cccasion for impressing upon the rising generation the responsibility of It follows from these mathematics
clean living and straight going tha: of Einstein's (and indeed is so stated
membership of the British race bas, by the interviewer) that the past |
imposed upon them. Government could be the future. Speeds |
offices were closed throughout the greater than that of light would escape We have taken notice of this timely any measurement in terms of time of China bas dispatched a letter to observed a half holiday this after-It may be remembered that recent-
The National organization Union day and some of the business houses letter owing to certain local comments and ran our history far into the fu- the British Minister at Peking pro that have reached ns in connection ture." Consider what that means testing against the alleged secret with our alleged "presumptuous The baby's salle already mentioned agreement between the Governor of attitude to the so-called “discovery" is still to come. It did not happen. Hoogkong and the Peking Govern- of Einstein, a discovery we have We may admit that the mother's ment relative to the extension of
Kwangturg, The letter urges repre- British assistance for Kwangsi against sentations to the Home Government to censure, the Governor.
noon.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
ly on the occasion of the inauguration of Dr. Sun as President of the Republic
of China, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs of the Hongkong Government issued two notifications one forbidding
cared to denounce as one of the fond memory coukl eer, but no sane/ Kowloon to cover · Sheklung and † ADDRESS BY REV, & W, IL STATT R the Chinese at Hongkong to hold
rind can think the past not past. Omnipotence itself cannot undo the eternal fact that what did happen has happened. Only pare" matheran- ties can put the past into the future, for the future into the past. Incident- ally, observe how refreshingly this interviewer cases us of the thought conveyed by: other exponents we noted) that tine is a "dimension." Length can never be depth our three respectable dimensions are constant. Einstein time is not:
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Chinese there not to raise subscriptions celebrations, and one warning the
delusive conclusions "of mathenuatics.
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More than 500 girl guides and bey |the claim has been advanced that no
attended the customary. one who is not an advanced mathema
Empire Day service for children that for funds for the President. The mat- tician. familiar with
was held at St. John's Cathedral at 9ter was energetically taken up by the asian functions," can pnderstand his pro
o'clock this morning. His Excellency Republican Government with the positions, much less query theft.
the Governor (Sir R. É. Stubbs | British Comm-General here. We That is un-cientific, and tends to set
K.CM.G.) aitended by Mr. Burling learn for an authoritative source- ham A.D.C. was present and the that the British Consul General har- up a priesthood of science, in which
Colonial Secretary (Hon. Dr. Claud now replied to the effect that the the truly scientific mind may not
Severn C.M.G.) and director of EducaGovernor of Hongkong has informest sequiesce. It is also untrue. since
[Chira. Mul SPECIAL.]
tion (r. E. A. Irving) were also him that the notifications were issued. his cozelusions are promulgated, not
among the congregation. in abstruse mathematical fornube, but
during his aience and are coucheck. After appropriate hymns, which in terms which he would not have. SHANGHAL, May 24. in words. Writing for ordinary, nien. A word about light: We, gather,
included Kipling's "Land. of our we debated some of them in simple from Dr. Newcomb that she lighting the China Motors Limited, has prayers offered up an inspiring and he expresses regret that they
Mr. Edward Ezra, who is controll- Birth had been sung and special sanctioned and does not approve language on May 4th, and have there particle hypothesis is no longer purchased the entire motor car address was delivered by the Rev. should have been used. He add by incurred she censure of thoughtless entertained. It gave way to the interests of Andersen Meyer and Co. Gordon W. B. Statt R. N. He told however, that these observations re men who argue ad hominem, or rather cave theory" (though waves with. in China. to the nane, that what an eminent ont particles are unthinkable to the Ltd. scientis declared should not be present writer and the wave theory questioned or doubted by the obscure.culminated in the "elastic solid Inconsistently enough, such imen will theory," so named from the line sccept more willingly the testimony along which the mathematical in of the obscure in deferer of an eminent vestigation proceeded, and according man's "postalates, than they will the to which light transverse testimony of obscure seepties. We vibratory motion propagated longi. saw lately a definition given to antudinally through ether." A very interviewer by Prof. Einstein, hin unedifying definition, which with self." This was extensively reprinted the substitution of water for ether. and offered no clue to the identity of would as scientifically explain the the interviewer, nor soy biar of nature of a tadpole. Clerk Maxwell's Air qualifications. That these latter mathematics dislodged that theory were non-existent may be deduce and we are now told that light is from his extraordinary assertion that identical with electromagnetic dis- someone discovered the fourth di- turbances, which leaves us wise mension and no one living can de-indeed. In spite of the great mass monstrate it." Apart from the Iri-¡ of scientific" writings and figurines volities of biquadratic equations, non-about light, we know nothing about The annual general meeting of superiority did not matter in the last Euclidian geometry, a fourth di-it yet. All is hypothesis, and deduce the Hongkong Football League will but character did matter, the whole [To the Editor of the" China Mail."} mension" is as yet unconceivable by tion from mathematics. Even the take place at 5 p.m. on Monday, May of the time.
During the great war, proceeded the human intellect. The fact that ether is hypothetical, and necessitated 30, at Victoria Barracks, immediately the preacher, it had been wonderful some eccentric mathematicians pre-by the other hypotheses. Incident before the Association Meeting. to see the way our colonies came to Sir-I should wish to draw atten- tend to conceive an extra dimensionally, it seems a little hard that Eins for solids should not add to the repute tein, retaining apparently Newton's at the Hongkong Magistracy, last back with pride at the knowledge I understand are the authorities The total number of cases tried could almost pat themselves on the the part of the Sanitary Board who, the call of the motherland. They tion to a regrettable lapse of duty on of maths.. but should rather expose own corpuscular theory of light year, was 15,304, which is the high- that wherever the British flag had responsible for the destruction of the the weakness of its claim to be pure" should be advertised as making Newest amber recorded in the past ten been planted there the Britisher had breeding-places of harmful insects. thinking.
ton a back number.
years. The number of cases in 1919 always been looked up to. North, was 12.998. The revenue amounted South, East or West, all over the
"For some months past a Colony to $103,132, compared with $50,851 world wherever the Union Jack fiew (I can hardly call it a nest) of Seouts in 1919. This does not include the it stood for fair play, truth, justice or some kindred species has made the revenue of the Tai Po district. The and piety.
| moving hideous from 6am onwards expenditure was $45,539.94.
With the aid of special busting Lear my house. So far as a gia-jaded A messenger employed at the children how the Union Jack was slightly to the East of the Chiversity,
the Rev. Mr. Statt explained to the earcan tell me they have their habitat. offices of the Osaka Shosen Kaisba made up of five separate crosses in the waste ground of the Lyttleton was sentenced to six weeks' impi The cross, be said meant sacrifice and Road level. It is not so much the spasm of energy which takes it several Ball, for stealing a quantity of us Our Lord who gave bis life for us to horrifying as they are to a life-long sonment, yesterday, by Mr. Dyer love and was symbolic of the death of communal habits of these creatures or shorter, and breadth broader or inches higher, only to slips again. But used office stationery bearing the teach us that we ought to give our Tory) which have prompted me the nett result of these energetic firm's heading. A, marine dealer life for each other. Then there were
the children that they were all late enly to the wording of the noti gathered together to think and fications and not to the principles to learn something about involved. patriotism and to see what i
In the same cornmunication the meant for the greatest Empire the Governor assures the Chinese authori- world had ever known. What did
we mean by the word "patriotism" ties of the groundlessness of the recent The sailor and the soldier would tell ramones that British ships of war SHANGHAI, May 24,
them that it meant doing their bit supplied arms to the Kwangsi forces A sensational revelation was made:
and an Encyclopaedia which he had and that his visit to Peking was in the Mixed Court of attempted consulted described it as "the feeling any way connected with the affairs of bribery of Tis. 5,000 of the British which moves a person to identify hisKwangtung.
orm interest with-interest-of-the assessor, Mr. Hutchison, to secure social group to which he belongs the acquittal of a Chinese prisoner and to speak and act accordingly." attempt at bribe. This is the first instance of direct
They had reason to be proud of their Empire but they had to remember that the secret of its greatness depended not only upan what it had but also upon what it was Territory and, numerical
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So this unknown interviewer tells Es that, put plainly," Einstein's discovery is that "all dimensions as well as time are determined by mo tion." Put still more plainly. that The injured By, with inky feet; means that motion may make thick essays to scale the picture on the wall. ness thicker or less thick. (Incidentally. We watch it climb a few inches to the this ignoramus meant conditioned north-east, then slip, and drop an inch rather than determined") It means to the south east.
that motion can make length longer
narrowet.
fair.
;
,
It releases another.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
In 1919 and 1920, the export of rabbit skins from China amounted to about 1,000,000 pieces. Rabbit skins come from Kueichow in Shensi and Chungking In Szechuan. About
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The service closed with the pro-
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SCOUTER IRRITANS.
Yours faithfully,
XENOS.
Now think that over. It is, spurts and frequent slip is that it who bought the paper (worth $10) the three colours-red for the blood to write to you, as the infernal din as we pointed out on
May 4,reaches the right hand top corner at for 60 cents, was sentenced to three that was mathematically possible to demonst-last, leaving footprints to remind us weeks' imprisonment as a receiver.
thicker than water" and each morning, resembling nothing rate that if an aviator could travel of whatever we consider best worth
for sacrifice, white, for the spotless so much as the blare of badly-blown faster than the carth spins, he could remembering. It this. were fact,
of every true Britisher and blue for been compelled to attribute to this purity which ought to mark the nfe hugles. My wife has more than pace fir back in time and watch William rather than imagery, it would certainly
hire stream that knit us altogether cause the dreams of a German invasion the Conqueror's landing in England, remind us of Table XXIV" in the
in une united Empire.
of the Colony which mar the other- or Julius Caesar's navy mobilizing annual report of our Harbour Office
votion and sacrifice were expected of life.
The same truth, justice, piety, de wise undisturbed sleep of a blameless for of course all inexactitude is un- on the coast of France. Is it fair to for 1920. This table, made up of 500,000 pieces of rabbit skins are everyone just as much now during
"science" which can demonstrate trend, shows in vivid fashion the ton about 40 cents par piece. Recently, was "Let us see the preacher said necessary to bring the matter thus
coloured zigzags having an
I am convinced that it is only "BURKHARDT-On May 18, 1921, faithists that the assertions of expert
at Shanghai, Annie Claudia, the scientists call for as much credulity such an absurdity is very far from age entered at Hongkong since 1867. 50,000 pieces were exported to in conclusion that we each go forth to the notice of the readers of your beloved wide of In R. Burkhardt, (faith) as their own unproveable pure thinking? It seems to us quite the "thin red line which appro- ermines, observes the N.C.D. News: the Empire,
National pride draws our eye first to France. The ladies till have their to do our bit and-" build pvaluable journal to cause the im propositions do. That is not so.
The Empire will mediate despatch to the breeding, BOOKLESS.-In England, Janet Science asks for no credulity; it Einstein (according to this precious priately enough traces the course
Bookless, the dearly beloved wife challenges incredulity, and glories in interviewer) "proved by plain figur- How well we remember the apex of recital was given under extreme practising self-control and keeping disinfectants.
Mr. Denman Fuller's last organ strengthen through the years of British tonnage.
greater if we ground of an adequate Sanitary
characters of Archibald Bookless, Nungpo.it. The idea that ordinary, commenting
by squad armed with a supply of suitable that a clock placed upon the (By cable)..........
men are entitled to claim the privilege sun would register the hours in the that significant red line, and the years climatic conditions and in response our bodies in subjection under as so to several requests he will repeat that we may prove worthy members of ignorance, and acquiesce in any ratio of four to three faster than a when we boasted the top tonnage,with some modification, the same of the greatest Empire the world has sleep in peace..
Thus may we and our neighbours proposition advanced by a person po- like clock on the earth, and that if a 5,400,000 to 6,500,000, in 1901-5.
It was then or soon thereafter that Programme next Monday at 9.15 ever seen."
pm. (when Mrs. Bowes-Smith will! has arisen from the misuse of the terms. lation with the speed of light, this Hongkong claimed the highest an- again sing), since many who wished nouncing of a Benediction by His The China Mail. ally acknowledged as cientis," mile on earth were measured in 2 TESTA, JESTION, PUBLIC, SERTICE" "It is," says Professor Clifford same mile, if taken to the sun, would anal tornage of any port in the to go were prevented from attending Lordship the Bishop of Victoria and Hongkong, May 20, 1021.
Empire, or was it in the world by the weather on that occasion the singing of Kipling's Recessional wrong always, everywhere and for measure only three-fourths of a sun Hosokono, TuRSDAY, MAY 21, 1921. any one, to believe anything upon mile, as measured in the same relation matter. Twas a great bosst The sum of about $100 only is now
insufficient evidence." The ordinary
Lest We Forget" and the National We are
asked to believe that either way. After 1905 the red line needed and will free the Cathedral Anthem. man, unable for any reason to make razy mathematics have "rocked the age, with a gallant spurt upwards in organ entirely from debt. the studies necessary to test such scientific world," disproved Newton's 1909, and another in 1914, down to
THE R. C. CATHEDRAL.
On account of the poor light propositions, should not therefore law, and abolished Euclid.
4,800,000 tons in 1918, after which it The arrest of four persons in
given by the Electric Light Company Professor Ray Lankester points take them for granted. He has no But now please attend carefully which is round about the average for counterfeiting ring is expected to rockets to 5,748,403 tons last year, Japan connected with an extensive
in the Heungshan district, the people CHILDREN'S SERVICE out in the Times, what has been right to "believe" them true. All grant that so far everything is trie 1906-12 Our old bugbear, Germen result in the implication of a large
met and decided to boycott the com sisse of the terms science, scientific, understands that certain things are consider the application of the granted journalists used to write, alarmist The organization, which appears to tion service for the children of the the Electric Company to improve its profess is that he and scientific. We still have to shipping, about, which "patriotic" printers and others in the scheme. Conception, the annual commemora the authorities of the district to order pany by using kerosene lamps. A number of bankers, engravers, At the Cathedral of the Immacolate petition was also drawn up asking and scientist. There are no subjects claimed to be true by persons who facts, which are specially scientific. Pro enjoy the reputation of being in a Einstein
articles, is represented by a dotted have been wide, cashed counterfeit Catholic Schools was held at 9 am power plant and furnish better lights fessor Clifford has said very traly that position to know, In practice he interviewer) said that if a man could which makes us wonder why it ever Y300 to Y20,000 at banks in Tokyo, there was a large attendance, includ
this black line, ending abruptly in 1914, checkers ranging in amount from preceded by Holy Mass, at which both to the consumers and the city. the subject of science is the human may and does safely act on the assum-have moved away from the battlefield worried them, for its top tonnage was Yokohama, Osaka and Nagoya at ing many adults. smiverse; that is to say, everything ption that the chemist does know of Waterloo at a speed greater than 1,300,000. A dotted red line shows the practically the same hour Monday His Lordship. Bishop Pozzoni that is, or has been, or may be related that certain ingredients will re-act in the speed of light, he would have soon climb of Japanese tonnage to 2,231,- inst. Four of the leaders have been officiated at the special service as-year in the House of God to celebrate to man." Our Saturday contributor a certain way. There is reasonable caught up with the light partides 699. The dizziest pinnacle is attained arrested in Shizuoka. "A number of sisted by the Clergy and the Students quite soundly jeered at the Times' ground for supposing that such which had emanated from the battle, by the black line which indicates the Tokyo and Yokohama banks were of the Cathedral Seminary
Empire Day. We are here again to **scientific correspondent.". All cor- scientists" do know the things and could have witnessed the entire maximum of all foreign trade tonnage
thank God for having established respondents should be "scientific," they assert. There are, however, event naturally, only he would see it entered here, British and foreign, The proposal for a Sino-Japanese Italian Convent, French Couvent, St now, and for having in Bis-Divine
used.
The following schools participated: the British Empire, for having sence science is strictly speaking any many other branches of so-called backward. If he had moved toward junks and steam launches. That was corporation to establish a Tientsin Francis School, St. Mary's School, St. Providence used It es an instrument
St. Joseph's College, Garrison School, made it and kept it flourishing till.. Litem of knowledge which has been science" in which even an establish- Waterloo at the same speed, after it in 1913, when 12,600,000 tons were Tobacco Company and calling for a Lewis-Industrial School, Hunghom for the propagation of Christianity tested conclusions, the soundaess of et reputation should not influence the was over, he would have picked recorded. Last year, after a bit of a loan of $30,000,000 is one of the Chinese School. Aberdeen Chinese all over the world. It is which can be demonstrated. All common man to credulity. For ex-up the light particles in reverse order, slump in 1918, it stood at 11,634,691 newest reports in northern financial School, Kai Lap Chinese School, To that Christianity under the British proveable facts are science; nades ample, we have heard the redulous and seen the battle as it occurred. monstrable guesses are not. An in- commoner argue that because Sir
Surely you can see now that it
circles. The capitalists behind the Ying School and Wah Yea School. flag has not been propagated in the vestigator on scientific lines (a scien William Crookes and Dr. Russel requires no abstruse mathematics to
alleged venture are said to have The Boy Scouts of St. Joseph's pure form its founder Jesus Christ List") may sometimes expediently Wallace had established reputations debate such propositions. Here we
demanded that half of this amount College were in attendance in Church ordained; but the Catholic Church FOR A LAME BACK. start with a hypothetical proposition, in certain lines of study, then be have the absurd concept of a sort FN you have peitar men in the other half shall be lent to the Gutierrez and Assistant Scoutmasters teach her doctrice freely, in the past shall be put into the new firm and Parade order under Scoutmaster also has always been allowed to and the correct scientific procedure liefs in quite other, departments of magic lantern projection "of all", as then to employ every possible test were therefore entitled to respect earthly things and events streaming Chamberlain' Pain Balm twice a day that it shall isene loan bonds of short Lient. Col. F. J. Bowen, A.P.D., British flag has been hoisted
the back builtbe arte with Central Government on condition, Willinson and Baptista, and in the present, wherever the to prove it matenable. When it We are advancing here the considered away in material particles into space, for 30 minutes at each polication time duration to protect the lenders foral Commissioner of Scouts was The kiddress was followed by the misss-ging with the palm of the hard endures all these tests, it becomes, proposition that however eminent There may be light particles Shumanly speaking - science/-- Bas Sir Oliver Lodge may be in one der an afford to grant
The dampen a piece of flaurel slighty The Government is considering the also presentavange widla tija kamjanser and landfitter over the proposition; says the repart, and there. After us Postitace, The Bishop, it and the service was bren
Benediction of the Blessed Sat pktato.. grast scienc
artment of study, he has no advant deny the sheer sumption of Waterloo Storskespers
Spain. For this by all Chemists | Diplomatic Corps is also said to have the course of an address to the close by the singing of
evinced a keen interest in it
children said: Here we are again this King, the congregation
frequently noted before the common he is entitled
(according to
tons.
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