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TRADE AND WAR.

CATHOLIC WORK.

NEW BUILDING FOR YOUNG

MENT

OPENED YESTERDAY..

The new building of the Chinese fatholic Young Men's Society in Caine Road was opened yacterday kfbarnton by the Rev. Father Benchlo. the haugurator of the | Sucleby w few years ago. The new buliding was blessed according to Catholic rites and n statue of St.

1. Amongst the large number pre- sent was the Bishop-Elect, the Rev. Father Valtorte..

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OPIUM TRADE.

WHAT INDIA HAS, SACRIFICED:

MONDAY, MAY 24, 1926.

CHINA” AERIAL RIGHTS..

'DUTCH COPS APPLICATION REJECTED..

Peking, May 8-The Aeronau-

MISSIONARY NEWS..

BISHOP ON FERMENT IN

CHINESE. LIFE.

At the last meeting of the

The following, article appears in The Times of India" of March tical Department sent another General Committee held at Salis- message to the Dutch Eegationbury Square, the Church Mission- There is a apocal virtue in do- yesterday fiatly rejecting the ary Society a policy with regard Ing good by stealth, and to its in-second application of the First to its missions in China was fluence we attribute the almost total Dutch Air Co.'s application for discussed. absence of debate, with, which the permission to sell passenger Bishop Bannister, late Indian Loglalature last woek re-tickets for the flight of its aero- Kwangsi and Huzan, reviewed the colved the Government of India's plans from Shanghai to Peking in elements of ferment in Chinese plan for immediate steps for the order to raise funds to Anance life, which present. great difficul suppression of opium exports from the aerial expedition contem-ties to the furtherance of all Endis and in both Houses unani-plated by the company.

kinds of missionary enterprise. mously adopted it. Ah the same At the same time the authori-At the same time he em- we wish our legislators had been ties are considering the formula-phasised various grounds for a little less careful to hide the tion and promulgation of regula optimism, laying stress on the light of their virtus under the tions governing aerial exhibitions abiding presence in Ching of the bushel of silence, Good people by foreign merchants in China sospiritual faculty, together with from America and elsewhere at as to maintain China's aerial the fact that repeatedly, and in Geneva. have out of ignorance and rights and sovereignty and re many .different WAYS, non- misunderstanding poured much strict the activities of foreign Christian Chinese express: the... unjust obloquy upon India and her aviators relative to the collection conviction that the only hope for Government over the opfum bust of fees, taking up passengers for the future of China lies in the ness. Easy-going pletists in Eng-sight-seeing excursions and other dynamic behind the Christian land and India with even less ex-points regarding commercial religion. cuse have done tho. sama. " few fights, in order to avoid com It was mentioned that during speaches from the unofficial benches plications in future.

the recent military activities, aa of the Legislature giving the prac tical common sense view of the matter would have done something to correct the false impression they have created and would have shown that the execution of the policy now adopted will but put the coplay stone on a very fine and nobly inspired series of restrictive measures enacted during a long period of years. This policy does hot date from the recent interna- tional conventions upon which it is directly based nor spring from the discussions which produced them.

The Aeronautical Department guns are in action neur to mission had received telegraphic approval stations, the mission buildings from Marahal Chang Tso-lin behave been thronged by Chinese fore rejecting the request of the seeking protection. Dutch Legation.

A RISING MAN.

SUN CHUAN-FANG. WORTH WATCHING,"

of

The Diocesan Conference of Kobe, Japan,, has considered the question of a pensions scheme for the clergy of that diocese..

The proposed contribution from the clergy and catechists has been reduced from 4 per cent, to 2 per cent, an additional 2 per cent. being found by the missionary societies and voluntary sub- scribers...

The contributions are to ac- cumulate for a period of five years.

THE “MAURETANIĄ,”

AN EXTRAORDINARY. FEAT.

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that this

that she

| John the Evangelist "was also un-It dates back to at least twenty

Paking, May 7.-A new faction velled

years ago, when in 1906, the called the Lower Yangtze Party Government of India, animated by with General Sun Chuan-fang at none but the highest motives, enter-its back has lately come into the ed into negotiations with China political limelight. Its followers Mr. Tho Chak-wan, the President which resulted in the agreement of have recently been displaying of the Society, recalled its origin January, 1908, whereby India great activities and General and attributed its success largely undertook progressively to diminish Sun's late circular telegrams, ad- to the efforts of Father Banchio her exports of opium so as to, co vocating the retirement He also stated that before long they

operate with the Chinese Govern-Marshal Tsao Kun, the reinstate- hoped to have a Women's Catholic ment in their declared policy of re-ment of Dr. Yen's Regency-. Society also.

ducing and finally, atopping the eul- cabinet and other steps towards The Rev. Father Valtorta, the tivation of epiim in their own land. the solution of the political situa- Cunard liner "Mauretanin" in l'or

The extraordinary feat of the Rishop-Elect, said that he had been The Chinese have never fulfilled tion, are indications that it is ging 29 knots when rushing to the the people were lacking in per India faithfully carried out hers, in the political stage, though it steamer "Laleham is a good re- very often told in Hongkong that their purt of the arrangement, but striving to establish its influence help of the disabled British severance, and that although they stopping exports to China years ago to a more or less degree affiliated minder to the public. might start some good work they and never aufering their revival with the Chibi party. To assert veteran steamer is still far and In full swing once again is the were apt to lose enthusiasm: If More: India in 1925 adopted the ite influence, General Sun is Chinese civil war. When will it that were so, then the Sqciety

away the fastest on the North further plaw of stopping, all exports said to have already strongly re- Atlantic of opfum from her shores to non-commended the allotment of one When she arst came out it was all end is a problem that not even should be an exception to the rule.

They needed prayer, action and Asiatic countries or to any of the

or two Cabinet portfolios for his considered, marvellous the Chinese themselves dare pre-sacrifice, they were men of faith, latter except to their own Govern- nominees, namely Yang Wen-kai could manage 25 knots, but if any diet. A semblance of a truce and they believed everything camements or under licences granted by and Chang Hsiao-jo (Chang body had said in those days that to-day may

be shattered to- from God. They must work toge-

She might Chien's son), in the new Cabinet, 20 years later she would be able their Governments. China is in the hands ther and be co-operators with Him well have claimed from that point In fact those two.names are being to add' four knots to her speed he morrow,

Every priest would give all pos that she had done all that could spoken of in political circles as would have been disbelieved. In of the militarists. Until thesesible support to the Society..

candidates for the posts of Minis-this she is very much like her reasonably be demanded of her. have been suppressed, the out-felt that the Society would increase The steps now to be taken him ter and Vice-Minister of Agricul famous predecessor, the "Etruria"

and expand and that they would look must remain gloomy..

spon find their present building too at doing better by Far Eastern ture and Commerce during the of 1884, which somehow contrived countries and by those in trading last few days, and the Cabinet to improve her speed steadily as she Reports are continually filter-

relations with them than the makers are said to have agreed to got alder. In the ing in of the immense damage to There was much work to be done, Governments of those Far Eastern this. It is also stated that Gen Etruria," the performance was the railways caused by these and particularly in the uplifting of countries are ready to do, and iteral Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi will perhaps even more remarkable than

their poorer brethren. They be military eruptions. The depreleved in the ideal of Christ, and that, though India is taking them candidate so as to conform with

cannot too strongly be emphasised also be invited to nominate

athe "Mauretania," for she was ciation in the various lines must they would surely not fall to come in agreement with an international the slogan: Equality and im- engines and a single crew, with a run into millions of dollars. Other up to expectations. (Applause).

convention, she is not compelled by partiality. industries have suffered,, and are

her signature of that convention to suffering, in like degree. The

take them and is acting: not merely "foreign Imperialists" may be

according to Its letter but in the denounced by the pro-Bolshevist element in China, but it is these same "foreign Imperialists" who have found the capital in the past

small.

He

The Rev. Father Downs, congra- tulated Father Bauchio on the work which he had started. It was

wonderful work, very necessary at such times, for the furtherance of education and the work of the Church.

in the evening.

fullest harmony with ita spirit." Here is its text..

"

case of the

itted with old-fashioned compound

high power which threw quite, enough strain on the shaft to begin with

It is wonderful what a high

cost her. Perhaps none has fully-speed a ship can contrive when the: worked it out. The Finance Mom- occasion really demands. It.

The

bling and China has a reasonable CYCLISTS PROGRESS Parić opium in those countries, commodities risen in price so that his narrow escape from destruc-

hope of recovery from the ravages

of civil war, the need of capital will be more acute than ever. And once more it will be to the "foreign: Imperialists" to whom the Chinese will look.

When the present Canton regime ousted the Yunnanese last year, Dr. Wu, in an interview in Hongkong with a representa- tive of this

paper, frank- admitted in effect that

WORLD TOURISTS AND PICKETS.

LEFT FOR NORTH.

GERMAN SHIPBUILDING POSITION.

The State signatory to the pre-ber reminded the Assembly last cruiser "Kent was specially coni- sent protocol, recognising that week that the Government of India missioned into the Navy as a 221⁄2 The Rev. Father Banchio spoke at length in Chinese Members of under Chapter I of the Hague Con- were a few years ago receiving a knot ship, as she could not manage to create and maintain railways the Society presented him with a

vention the duty rests upon them net optam ravenue of ten crores her contract speed of 29, yet when of eatablishing auch a control over in a year. That is more than the it was wanted at the Battle of the and industries in China. That set of books of Chinese classics..

the production, distribution and total amount of the Provincial con Falklande, her speed was worked The following message Wad capital has ever been welcomed.

The up to 25.1 knots.

Similarly, there is the story of It has been recognised by the cabled to His Holiness, the Pope exportation of raw opium as would tributions at their highest.

prevent the Heit träfe, agree to annual receipts have now fallen to "First gathering, of Hongkong

two crores, and these are in the the steamer during the war which Chinese, leaders in the past as a Chinese Catholic Youth presents take such measures as may be re-

quired to prevent completely within. course of the next few years to be met a German submarine and was valuable-nay, an indispensable-filial hornage, and asks for Apostolic five years from the present date the surrendered in the good cause.chased for miles. When finally she ald to the development of the Blessing.""

A concert was held in the Clubmuggling of opium from constitut. But the everitual loss of revenue did make port, the marine super- country. "In time to come, when

ing a serious obstacle to the offer will be greater than these figures intendent was not in the least in- the militarists cense from trou-

tive suppression of the use of pre-show, because oplum has like other terested in the captain's account of

where auch use la temporarily the quantity of opium exports tion, but was fairly dancing with authorised...

which formerly yielded ten crores excitement over the fact that she India neither exporte nor manu-of proft would now give much more. had broken the record by 3% factures prepared opium. by which Behind the revenue to the State we minutes. is meant opium in the form required must remember the wealth deri- for pipe smoking. The people of Vable from so valuable a money India do not use prepared opium, crop by the cultivator: To the because they do not smoke oplum. Government of India belonge credit The two round-the-world cyclists, Exceptions here or there merely for the courage of the initiation of Gibelli and Kundinger, recently in prove the rule, but everyone in the polley of restriction and sup- Considerable light is shed on the Hongkong, arrived in Canton after touch with trading centres knows pression at so great a sacrifice; for situation of German shipbuilding experiencing difficulty with the that Far Eastern countries which they entered upon it before they and allied industries by the annual strike pickets. They have now left do not produce raw oplum manu were under obligation to consult a report of the directors of the Krupp for the North

facture from their imports of it pre-Legislature. But to the people of concern, in which it is stated that, They left Hongkong on the 16th pared opium and opium derivatives India and to their elected represen- after writing off 15,700,000 marks their development schemes must Instant and spent the night in aand export them; Japan, fortatives in the Council of State and to cover various trading losses in- be dependent on a foreign loan. bungalow near the frontier. The example, imports quantities of Legislative Assembly belongs the curred, on the whole undertaking They could not afford to disregard next day when they crossed the opfum that her own people do not even greater honour of endorsing there remains a net total loss. of the aid of foreign capital. The border they were arrested, by striku consume, and there 18 little doubt that policy and pressing upon 15,800,000 marks on the year's works plckets and were only able to pro- a great deal if not all of it goes Government its early fulfilment. ing. Practically half this deficit progress and the trade of Kwang ceed on the intervention of the abroad again in the form of mor- When the actual figures of ita cost was caused by the Germans Werft, tung were their first considera-Station Master who provided them phim. That all the oplum used in were set plain before them Sir Krupp's shipbuilding yard at Kiel. tion Hitherto the military had with a pass which enabled them to these manufactures is Indian is cer- Basil Blackett a couple of years ago which showed a loss last year of controlled all the revenue and it continue safely,

tainly not the case, Frobably only told the Assembly that Government seven million marks, and which was essential to initiate financial The heavy going, combined with a small proportion is. The steps had never been sure how far they necessitated writing down the capl- the loads they wore carrying, made now initiated by the Government of had public opinion behind them in tal of the subsidiary company con- reforms. In some respects Dr progress difcult but the cyclists India and approved by their Legis- their oplum policy and would wal-cerned from 10 to three millions. Wu when Mayor of Canton, eventually reached Canton on the lature will ensure that none of it come its guidance now that the It should also be noted that the was as good as his word. Muni-17th date where they obtained is. It is good not......to do any powers enjoyed by the reformed capital of the Krupp Company It cipal finance underwent an im- special po nits from the Govern-thing whereby thy brother stum constitution facilitated its effective self has been reduced from 160 to mense change for the better. But ment to ravel through Kwangtung bleth. We can recall no Instance expression. From that time for 100 millions by the cancellation of Tha in which a nation has hitherto In ward the Assembly has almost un- 60 millions' worth of reserve shares. to-day military needs are again northwards to Hankow,

cyclists visited Shameen, where accordance with that holy principle animously expressed the view Herr Krupp, in presenting the re- imperative, and once more trade they were warmly received, and acted an finely or with such sublime endorsed last week by Pundit port at the annual meeting, refer- and industry must be sucked to left for the North on Thursday, disregard of the cost as India Madan Mohan Malaviya, an elected red to the opening up of business provide the sinews of civil war

through her Government and with representative from the province with Russia in agricultural and The progress of the whole Pro- Washington, May 15 More the approval of her Legislature is where the main Indian oplum protextile machinery, and he also ducing area lie, when he charac-" stated that the firm had lost at vince wil once more be retarded. than 4,500 business, places have doing in this matter Surely the Chinese will awake one been padlocked in the last six We doubt, whether many people terised the programme of total ex least one hundred million marke months for making or selling have calculated the financial cost tinction of opium exporta as through the destruction of day to the pernicious evils of civil alcoholic liquors sccording to in-of the sacrifice of funds for nation humane and statesmanliks and con- machinery by the Inter-Allled Mil war and give the militarists their formation obtained at prohibition bulding services which India's ra- gratulated Government and the tary Mission, an admission of a walking ticket 1.

enforcement headquarters to-day cent restrictive opium polly has 1 Finance Mamber on adopting it. highly algnificant character.

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