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OBITUARY.
MR. CHOW TSZ-CHI
PEKING, October 22.
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FROM INDIANS,
The death is announced of the Phying on their own ground in ex-Premier, Mr. Chow Tsz-chi the junior bogue on Saturday, the which occurred yesterday after-1.R.C. 2nd XI. were defented by noon.-Beuter.
The Royal Engineers. Scores mid The late Mr Chow Tsz-cht was auntyses follow :-- educated in America. His first official position was acting Junior 1. Hassan, e Ramsey, b Middles Secretary of the Board of Foreign Jon ... Affairs, to which he was appointed. P. Mader, and b Middleton 47
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Redpath Sindar Khan, b Middleton
in September, 1908, becoming D. Runjabi, e Chippendall, b acting Senior Secretary in January of the following year. In 1909 he was made an acting Junior Council- lor and Senior Councillor. In August of 1910 he accompanied Prince Tsai Hsun's anval mission. A. Wahab, b Mithfleton ...... to Japan and America and also.. Arkber, e Grady, & Rid- Prince Tai Chen's Coronation
6. Rumialan, c Chipperudall, I
Redpath
path......
mission in 1911. On los rear, the F. A. Moosdren; not ont late Mr. Chow rejoined the Board . H. M. Sny, b Middletan. of Foreig Affairs and was A. Kitchell, Middleton later appointed Vice-Minister of A. A. Patiyilad, 6 Miklotom.
Yunu Sail-kai's Finance Cabinet, on the refusal of the post by Dr. Chen Chin-tao. In 1912 he became acting Minister of Finance. After complications had arisen in connection with the Belgian loan he was appointed Tutah of Shan- tung. Mr. Chow was
of Wister the chief proinnters of Yuan Middleton Shih-kai's. monarchical
He became Minister of ment. Finance in the Chin Cabinet of
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BANISHMENT SENTENCE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SUFFERING.
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JAPAN'S EARTHQUAKE.
volcanic eruptions, and tidal wavea as the result of their action, and though we are far from minimising |the fearful nature of these catustro- phes'in some cases, an educated One of the most sensational trials
Readers of the China Mail will man cannot but notice that they which has taken place at Jersey remember the correspondence are very little indeed in comparison Criminal Assizes concluded when which had taken place under this with the benefits of which volcanic & Frenchman named Emile Alexis heading. Below wo give the forces are the cause. Not five men, Doublard, 35 years of age, was article referred to by the Rev.we should say, in a million are found guilty of criminal assault on W. T. Featherstone and which killed by earthquakes or volcanic Miss Phyllia Edith Witt, of Ports- appears in the September issue of eruptions, and certainly the num mouth, and with having stolen her The Modern Churchman under the ber killed by them annually bears. handbag containing money and a caption "The Earthquake in Japan."no proportion to the number who return ticket to England.
It has been said by a great writer meet their death by drowning or Miss Witt, a fair-haired girl hard-that the fearful earthquake and who die as the result of their own ly looking her twenty years, relat tidal wave which in five minutes folly and wickedness.
This brief summary of facts ed in court the trying ordeal she cost the lives of 50,000 persons in had undergone,
Lisbon in 1755, ebook the belief of about volcanic forces lustrates many men in God, and caused a what Bishop Butler wrote some to pass 150 years ago, when in a famous wave of infidelity
Western Europe. For chapter of his on the Government over
of God considered as a scheme or not fow thoughtful and
imperfectly con- sympathetic persons felt
that constitution there could be but little love and prehended, he pointed out two but little wisdom in a Creator and things which had to be very care- Ruler of the Universe, Who could fully considered before any man allow or was unable to prevent such could reasonably condemn God's
And it is possible wisdom and goodness. that the knowledge of the terrible Darthquake which has just taken place in Japan, involving the loss of somany lives and such wholesale destruction of property, may pro duce a similar feeling in the case of some of those who have hearts to feel and minds to think,
SCREAMS UNHEEDED. Arriving in Jersey on August 3, on the evening of the 4th she walk ed to Greve de Lewy bay, a resort popular with visitors. She walked back past the hotel at dusk, and then took the wrong road. When she was on a hill a man sprang from behind and dragged her into
a fieldi
She'screamed, but although only 400 yards from an hotel, where hundreds of visitors were staying, she could get no assistance. Three motor vehicles passed, and on cach occasion her assailant tried to strangle her, and told her he meant eventually to "knock her over the head to finish her off."
She struggled until close on midnight, and noticed that her assailant was wearing a leather belt, and when trying to bite his hand when held her mouth found
he had a deformed thumb.
The struggle lasted several hours at least it seemed to her but when she got away she found herself in unknown country, and was eventually taken back to the hotel by residents whom she
knocked up at i a.m.
When motoring next day with her aunt near the Wolf's Cave, Miss Witt, seeing a group of men, becane terribly frightened and called out, "There's the man." On examination, the man pointed ont (Doublardi) was found to be wearing a similar leather belt and had a deformed thumb,
Medical evidence was given that before the assault the young lady was a very intelligent and lively girl, but was now in a very nervous condition.
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catastrophies.
(1) The first is, that no ends are obtained without means, and that God often employs what seem to to be most short-sighted men undesirable means to accomplish
what in the long run are seen to be most desirable ends, c.g., such dreadful and undesirable means as volcanic forces appear to be to most men to bring about such on the whole satisfactory and beneficial results as those mentioned.
Now we do not pretend in such a case to be able absolutely to justify the ways of God to men, for he who would justify absolutely any part
(2) Secondly, God governs and of an infinite scheme must have works by general laws, viz., laws finite knowledge; but we do think it which in our case are framed for is possible to believe and to have good reason for believing that God is mankind as a race-i.e., a related, good and wise although such things organised body--and not for par- ticular isolated individuals of that' happen, and we will try to explain body. It is the greatest good of the why. In the first place, although this is not generally realised, the greatest number, the advancement work of volcanic forces comprises and benefit of the whole so far as very much more than the descrip- this is possible, which is the main tions, which appear in the pages of object of God's government. Sec- the newspaper of popular books of ing before our eyes the result of travel, would lead people to think. knowing whether any other system! this system of government and not In fact, it would be as reasonable to of government is possible under view the letting off of steam by a the circumstances, or could produce railway engine as the whole work better results, he must be a bold of that engine, and to regard a volcanic eruption as the whole or even the chief function of volcanic
man who will undertake or prove Nature, and therefore Nature's God, guilty of folly or injustice.
FOOLS RUSH IN.
forces. We read, perhaps, a graphic account by Bulwer Lytton of the overwhelming of Her- 'Fools rush in where angels fear culaneum and Pompeli, or a vivid to tread,' but in this case there can description by Laily Brassey of be little temptation for any wisc the molten lake in the crater of and patient man to do so, when Kilauea, or the sensational para- every advance in scientific know- graphs of a newspaper correspon-ledge is such as to increase our! dent dealing with the eruptions at reverence for the Martinique or the destruction of Nature's laws. A closer study in a. Tokio, and
ourselves spirit of humility and patience of what are the use of these forces the ways of God in Nature will which, whenever we see them at probably lead men to endorse the work, are either destroying or opinion of St. Paul who, at the con- threatening to destroy man and clusion of a deep and comprehen- his
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Doublard, in the bux, pleaded that it was a case of mistaken identity, and tried to prove an alibi. He admitted that he did not return home until after midnight on the night of the assault. He lost his thumb in the war.
After four minutes' absence, the jury stated they were divided, and according to Jersey law were con-
works, and whose very sive account of the ways of God in sulted individually by the Chief Magistrate, who found that they existence seems to reflect upon history, penned these words:. 'O the wisdom and the good- the depth of the 1iches both of the returned a verdict of guilty.
Doublard was sentenced to seven ness of the. Creator of wisdom and knowledge of God, years' penal servitude, to be all.
such impressions, how unsearchable are his judge- followed by five years' banishment though founded perhaps upon ments and his ways past finding from Jersey.
accurate descriptions, are neverthe-out-
Now
The Bailiff of Jersey, Sir Williamless absolutely inaccurate, for they But someone may very naturally Venables Vernon, in passing sent lead us to regard volcanic forces say, although you may have ex- ence, said Doublard's wife and as generally evil and disastrous.plained this matter of volcanic 'little children must be pitied, but | And such impressions are as in- [ action satisfactorily from the point not shown the weakness of some impressed with the idea that the you explain it satisfactorily from he was pleased that the jury had correct as if, for instance, we were of view of the whole race, how can other Jersey juries in defending the action of the sun was generally the point of view of those indivi- honour of women and young girls. disastrous by descriptions we had duals who are overwhelmed by it 17 Cases such as that day's were be heard of the sunstrokes, droughts We frankly confess that we cannot,
coming much too frequent.
blisters and thirst of which it had and the reason is because the been the cause, or if we regarded divine government is a scheme or water with disfavour because of constitution very imperfectly com- Here is the the floods and cases of drowning pretended by us.
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WOMAN KILLED.
As Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, K.C., was being driven home to Rw. Boreham, near Chelmsford, after the Fahmy trial, his car ran into, and knocked down, Mrs. Prentice, wife of a bailiff on the Hylands Park Estate, near Chelmsford, who was alighting from an omnibus.
She was taken to Chelmsford Hospital, where she was found to he dead. The car was being 14 driven very slowly at the time, Sir Henry was very distressed at the occurrence.
1920 and was adviser to the Bamsey, e Hassan, ↳ Sindar Chinese delegation to the Washing-
Khan ton Conference in November 1921, He was Minister of Education Reduh, Sirdar Klan ..... and acting Premier in 1922 during Haublin, e Samy, b Kitchell ... Liang Shib-yi's absence. He was Chippendalt, b Sirdar Khan ..... Premier at the time Parliament Major Gaudy, retired was recalled when Sun Yat-sen Bean, c and h Moosdern came to Gauton and commenced Smith, 5 Sirdar Khen
TURSDAY OCTOBER 231928.
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had an aversion to air as a destruc- able to offer some solution of the tive element on account of the mysteries of fear, and pain, and storms and hurricanes which it death. Our intellect shows us rea-! produces. Anyone who heard us sons for the existence of each of speaking of the work of the sun, these, but it is only faith which water and atmosphere in this way can make us regard these reasons would immediately say, 'You are as satisfactory in all cases.
We see that a sense of fear is under a great delusion, for you are mistaking the temporary, the ac-implanted in us for purposes of cidental, the partial, for the per- self-preservation, as also is that of manent, the normal, the complete, pain. We see that they develop You are regarding a part, and that in men certain moral qualities neither a very great part, nor a which would be impossible without very characteristic part as the them. To fear we awe such whole. You are under a similar virtues as caution, foresight, thrift, delusion to that which a man would energy and perhaps even courage. by under who on reading in the To pain we often times owe newspaper an account of some sympathy, patience, gentleness, dreadful shipping disaster should spirituality. As for death it is not "There! there is an example only that process by which we say, of the way
the ocean works; end a life which the condition of what opinion can you have the body has rendered intolerable, of the wisdom and "goodness but it affords extraordinary oppor of Him who created it?in the tunities both for faith and heroism. existence. meantime shitting his eyes, good As to whether the man, to the well nigh incalculable of fear, pain, and good purposes, climatic, economic, this world are reflections upon political, and social that the ocean the wisdom and goodness of 13 and the administration of Babys Own serves to our nation in particular God, по one can
Tablets when neerrsary are the best and to mankind at large. Volcanic conclusively. Faith teaches For, after all, what is man from £32,000 SWEEP PRIZES.
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forces are no exception to this. that they exist for the welfare of the point of view of know- They too are a great power in the mankind here, and that those who ledge? He is a being who has realm of Nature, and certainly, on learn here the lessons that this little more than passed the portal the whole, a beneficent power.
world has to teach them never meet of life, and is moving forward he- with the fear, pain, and death again tween two infinities, an infinite It is possible that if there were no whereas those who do not learn the past and an infinite future, Shall he The sweepstake fever reached" volcanic forces within the globe, lessons of this life, are certain to then say with calm assurance, the one of irs many climaxes when 36 ^f) To mothers everywhere Baby's Own there would bo no human meet with them again in another Cicator of the Universe is mistaken people throughout the whole, of
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MR. FRANK MCGRATH.
the Banque Industrielle de Chine. Isues, e D. Runịnhm, 1 Mirdar
The death has occurred in Shang- hai of Mr. Frank McGrath, whose name will be well remembered here in connection with the tannery enterprise. Mr. McGrath was taken
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CHILDREN'S CONSTI- PATION.
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VOLCANIC.FORCES.
(wo a real friend. They are equally life on its surface. Any scientific life.
death in
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Queen's Read.
LUCKY
NUMBERS IN MAMMOTH DRAW.
there; He is unjust there? Would Lancashire breathlessly awaited
In
it not be better for the character, the result of the draw in thesweeps- the happiness, the usefulness of such an one to try.
Tablets, the Canadian children's remedly.
of their action Fear, pain, and death seem to armless and helpful to the youngest account Mr. McGrath was born in Salem,
infact as to the child of air yors or indicates that they perform all serve a reasonable purpose. niore, see a specific for indigestion, sorts of useful functions. For ins-many cases, so far as we can see, Massachusetts, 26 years ago and
vumiting, ecfic, diarrhoea, alp'e forer; tance, they bring up to the crust of they produce a beneficial result, and And feel at heart that One above was graduated from the Salem High School and then attended St. family established the first modern maka teething pole realf the earth many useful and valuable it seems therefore not unreasonable in perfect wisdom, perfect love
sleep and good appetite; drivo eut Anselm's College, New Hampshire, tannery in the Orient. Three years worms. Obtainable from chemists, also minerals such as gold and silver. to believe that they serve a bene is working for the best!? until the war broke out. He crossed ago he, as buyer for W. G. Hump at crata the vial, post free from the In their underground laboratories ficial purpose in those cases where Or adopt as his rule of life the the Atlantic and served the British hreys, went round the world, and Dr. William Medicine Co., 00 Kiangse they manufacture many beautiful the result cannot be seen by 15 poet Cowper's wise and reverent
gems. They provide us with red or even where seen it does not advice: Government throughout in the tan- then settled in Shanghai joining Head, Shanghai. neries, providing leathers for Army again his father and brother. For the
and grey granite; they transmute seem beneficial Moreover, where common limestone into marble, and so much wisdom and good-'Judge not the Lord by feeble shales into slates; they produce our | ness
seen a knowledge | graphite and pumice: possibly they of which grows with our knowledge But trust Him for His grace: ars agents in the production of our of the universe, and to act upon the Behind a frowning providence mineral oils: certainly we owe our belief that they extend to every He hides a smiling face--- medicinal hot springs to them and part of creation, is better than Blind unbelief is sure to err, many other products, including to think them wanting in any And scan His work in vain, new and fertile soils.
part of it, especially in those God is His own interpreter,
use. He then joined his brother and father in Bangkok, were the
past year,,deceased has been office, manager for the China Java Export Co.
Mr. McGrath is survived by his
Monday, October 20th mother, Mr A. McGrath, a
JASCHA HEIFETZ
Booking at MoUTRIES,
sister, Mrs. K. M. Sutterly of Hong-, kong, and three brothers, Edmund,"
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sense,
On the other hand, we suffer parts whore we cannot prave And He will make it plain. occasionally from earthquakes and anything one way or the other
take organised by the Rushholme Conservative Club, Manchester.
The draw, which was made, by. Miss Lily Hammett, a blind woman, took place in a remote Cheshire village, the locality of which re- mained a carefully guarded secret,
It was announced that approxi❤ - mately £32,000 had been subs- cribed, and it is apportioned as follows:-
First prize, £12,800; second, 1£6,400; third £3.200; fourth, £1,600;-drameru,ofcunu oge-wili receive £25 to £30 apiece. Charities- will benefit by £1,600, and the club will take 10 per cent, gamely £3,200.
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