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TUESDAY, AUGUST

BRITISH SILENCE.

AND THE LIES TOLD ABOUT IS.

SERMON BY THE KEY,T. R. POWELL

4, 1925.

support of medical institutions DUTCH POLITICS.

not only here but i Canton, has been in keeping with British Fradition.

Moreover we have watched with sympathy and encourage- ment the growing national spirit of China and we have not hinder- ed it.

Frenching at Sa, Juhn's Cathedral

Sunday morning. the Rev. But our wonkness is that we T. B. Dowell took is his text the have not talked of these things- words from 1. King's $.7., Tho even though we realise that the toj ·I, the Chinese are a nation of talkera,

air WILN

THE CHINA MAIL.

| NEW PREMIER'S POLICY OF

SOCIAL REFORMĄ.

AMING" AT ECONOMY.

(Reuter's Service.).

The Hague, August 3. The new Dutch Premter, Heer

frencher posted out that Solomon, As a result we have been mis- Colijn, is generally regarded as The very paragon of knowledge, represented, maligned, condemnan of great fast, talent and free was at prout pains to satisfy com- ed.

of ciaracter. pletely we muriosity and question- But the fault is partly our own

Heer Colijn, in a statement of his gs of the visiting Queen of Sheba -the half has not been teld. It policy, said that, now that the With the resull Bat there was would appear then a Christian uncial position fad improved and angelt etosep conines mietween the duty to combat falsehood by the budget been balanced, the in- 180 grent antions of Isnel and truth, and if I may venture terrupted policy of socul" reforma pass on a suggestion made to me,oull be resumed in a careful mana- We are concerned," continued

i would be a good thing if euchner. Bab, is the reduction of State The penther, hot, smile with one of us were to send to our local expenditure remained a question of deme and Stich, as with England Member of Parliament at Home first importance, it has been de and thion, and everyone of us bus

a copy of the resolutions passed cided to nauulgamate the Naval realised the uppalling once at the recent public meeting in and Army department with a view. that exists as to our true relation- Hongkong.

Szoba,

On

to economy.

There is one other aspect which) The section of the War Depart- I should like to mention but ment, labag to the Dutch East which time will forbid me to deal Indies, would eventually be brought The Colonial with in any detail. This is the under straf of missionary question and in parti-epument,

eular missionary school education.

There has been some legitimate

New Appointment.

(ship with the Chities. On the one and we have a campaign of lies, carefully engineered by the chemica of civilisation, who would have the Lanese believe that we are on to Ja byarialiam on them and to oppose thew legitimat aims, the usher we are faced with mis.

It is balieved that Heer Welter, representation mul antruth at isolated missionaries whose viter à member of the Conseil of the The result of insularity prejudice, lack of knowledge. And in both have not been inspired Dutch East Indies, hus accepted races the of the root causes is the either by true judgment or a real the post of Minister of the Colonies same truth of the matter has appreciation of the facts. On the and is pexeeding homeward as soon not been revealed, the facts of the other hand there has been some as possible.

have been suppressed; the loose and ignorant criticism

Imi insot been told.

criticism and condemnation of

cocktail criticism would perhaps adequately describe it which has almost amounted to missionary-

This in measure saings from the natural reticener of the Puglish men to take either about himself or his contry. This passon for silence sens to be peenliary British, few thousand years has leapt from

s other nationals have a habit of praising up their own country ven When you put them under an "aan sihvt e.

of

RUBBER PRICES.

phobia. We do well to remember BEFORE RESTRICTION AND that China after staying still for

an ancient autocracy to a so-call. ed republic in a month. Revolu tionary ideas of

communistic

mean

AFTER.

(Reuter's Service.)

|

GOLF CHALLENGE.

"CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD."

TRIANGULAR TEST,

(Reuter's American Service.)

Toronto, Aug. 3. Leo Diegel, of Glenoaks, New York, who has just won Canadian open golf championship

Jim 'Boruc.

the

for the second successive year at has challenged Jim Ottawa. Barnes and Willie MacFarlane, holders of the British and United Open championships States respectively.

He asks for a contest for the "World's Championship" to be played in Canada this year,

MacFarlane has signified his readiness to engage in the match.

[Jim Barnes is the Cornishman who has lived for some years in! the States. He won the British championship this year. at the sixth attempt, after an excellent last round.j

At the Happy Valley diamond yesterday the Japanese Baseball Club defeated a weakened South: China A.A. team by 7 runs to 1. The line-up and score was:---- Japanese.

South China. 2h. K. F. June

A. Akiyama

RIFF WAR.

FRENCH TANKS DISPERSE ATTACKERS.

(Hayas Agency.)

Faz. Aug. 3.

A French column, while making # reconnaissance near Wezzan, Was attacked by the enemy. Sup- ported by tanks, the column dis- persed the attackers and

continued onerations.

The increasing number of tanks has had an excellent effect on the French position,

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

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27 Tins Mess. 123 Khaki Jackets.

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London, August 3. Nither eun it be utopius, coupled with the reaction In the House of Commotis, reply. said that silence under all ciresan of the world war, have produceding to Sir Robert Hudson Mr. Planers is the best policy for if a ferment which has upset the H. W. Amery said that he was silent at least w supply ancient Chinese philosophy of well aware that in seven out of

The Chinese The Chinese with cinemas, aid in life,

Soeven quarterly periods, in which LEAGUE BASEBALL. me parts of the Far East there assimilate modern education whethe Stevenson Restriction scheme

JAPANESE BEAT SOUTH are portaps more cinemas in propor. ther we like it or not. And let opened the average price $f rubber

CHINA. sut tas populations than there are us not forget that the most harm was below 1/3 per lb. For over in London. And the film tells these ful result of education can be deende before the war, he under to the yearly average price people in language which they enn secularism. alt inderstand die supposed story The real question is whether varied between 7/7 in 1910 and

f our life. Th film flickers before China is to receive a non-moral, in 1914. the eyes of the Eaxat not only the non-religious education which is

Cotton and Rubber. nie of the Boat Bure and the the ideal of the Bolsheviks-

ht 11

Jackie one which is permeated by the

London, August 3. precious

In the House of Commus, reply Goog, but the rare conflicts of highest religion and morality. prize hoxers, and the sex stories of The whole purport of our Chrising to Sir Robert Hodson Mr. H. Hachima tian education is the dissemina-A. M. Samuel said that the mean S. Hachima the West.

The Chinese sits and devours tion of every form of truth and prives of New York middling upland Yokoi ur modern adulterous scenic the building up of a strong in the years cotton 1904 to 1914 Takatomi

and BF1 to 1924 were respectively S. Uno romances, and seeing the white Christian character.

The K. Kusano. woman portrayed in all kinds of When the full facts are known 12 and 22.9 cmts per lb. degrading situations he naturally it will be realised that the mis-spot price in New York on August H. Honda

Mr. Garro Jones K. Ishimatsu thinks, that he is being introduced sien schools in this Colony have was 24.65.

There is come out of a trying ordeal with a-ked of there was any truth in the into British home life.

praiseworthy measure of port that America had communic- nothing much on the screen to a inform him that no nation is success. It is our privilege asated with the Government hinting hetter equipped by nature with a church people to employ every that unless the Stevenson Rubber Japanese faculty for sane idealism than the effort to make our Christian Scheme was dropped they would South China English. No effort appears to be educational institution, as absc-taks similar menses in regard to made to show him that we believe lutely efficient as we possibly can; tun. The Speaker intervened in chivalry and fair piny and for the future of education in the and said that the question should be kindness these things first and most populous country of the added to the Foreign Office. foremost-and in a type of gove earth is at stake.

rnment where justice may flour- Let us then face the whole pro- ish and in which a man may blem in the light of our Christian eek and think the things he citizenship, recalling the words of wils. And as it has been truly Bishop Berkeley "He who has sid, we do not believe in war and not much meditated upon God, we do not believe in bullying, we the human soul, the summum do not Halter ourselves to be bonum may possibly make a supermen, but we are convinced thriving earth worm, but will that the ideas which we stand for most indubitably make & sorry and which we on the whole have patriot and a sorry statesman." In the House of Commons, tried to carry out, are essential to

For the mills of God grind replying to Commander Ken- the peaceful progress and happy slowly, but the future in China worthy, Mr. Ronald McNeill said ness of humanity.

does not belong to lawless that the question of the return of violence. In the long run wisdom Wei-hai-wei to China выда that comes from God will be suspended for the moment owing justified in her children.

to the provisional character of the Chinese Government.

WEI-HAI-WEI.

QUESTION OF RETURN SUSPENDED.

(Reuter's Service.)

London, Aug. 3.

Commander Kenworthy asked Was it not the original ar- rangement that we hand back this territory when the Japanese evacuated certain territories in Shantung, and how had the pre-

Moreover these high principles have in great measure animated our conduct in China and parti- cularly in this Colony, with the result that we yield to none, in We our commercial integrity. van, I think, without any pre-

Feminine dignity is a tender Aumption claim that we are plant in California, where a Bill China's best friendis and we can has been introduced to make it legitimately point to the fact that unlawful to call girls "flapr rs," there are no better employers of on the ground that such a name is sent position been reached? Inbour in the Far East than the harmful to female pride. The Mr. McNeill reiterated that it British and that industrial con- resultant discussion, which will was owing to the provisional ditions in Hongkong are the best doubtless lead to nothing, was nature of the government in in China. We can take a proper remarkable only in that it pro- China. pride in our educational work and duced the best definition of a record that we have spent great modern damsel that has been wealth on schools and medical heard for some time, to wit: establishments. The government "Like a house-painted in front, of this Colony has always turned shingled at the back and empty a sympathetic car to appeals for in the attic." Revue comedians the alleviation of famine distress are probably now learning this by in China, and its strong financial! heart.

THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-18.

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WITHOUT INCIDENT,

EVACUATION OF THE

· RUHR.

(Reuter's Service.)

Berlin, Aug. 3. Reports from all parts, show that the Franco-Belgian evacua- tion of the Ruhr, except three "sanetion" towns, Duesseldorf, Duisburg. and Ruhrort, were everywhere carried out without incident, the inhabitants refrain- ing from any demonstrations likely to cause trouble.

AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN.

AGREEMENT TO WORK ENDORSED.

(Reuters Service.)

Melbourne-Aug-Be Branches of the Seamen's- Union in Queensland, South Aus- tralia and Victoria, have unani- mously endorsed the agreement cabled on July 81.- The recom- missioning of vessels begins, immediately.

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