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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1926."

foundation for lasting work in "AN ILL WIND:

years to come.

Church Pansions. There is yet a further point which I think we ought to consi- der, namely the question of Pen- alons for Workers. I know that Fit may well be urged that to-day

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MEETING STORM WITH YTS LEGACY.'

HAPPY VALLEY DEBRIS.

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"It's an ill wind that blows no-

The difficult times through not the right time to bring this which the Churches had been matter forward; people are finit body any good," and although it passing since the last meeting ofing is more than they can do to would be stretching the point to the Diocesan Synod in April 1925, meet their present liabilities quite regard the debris washed down at were the subject of reference at apart from laying by for the Happy Valley by, recent storms: the fifth meeting of the Victoria future, and yet I believe that as a as anything in the nature of a Diocesan Synod of "the Chung Church we should be wrong if we blessing, it is interesting to note Hwa Sheng Kung Hui held at St. shelve the subject My own idea that it is being put to good use John's Cathedral Hall yesterday, would be that we should try toto defeat the storm through the the Right Rev. Bishop of Victoria provide some echome which agency',of its own legacy, in fact., being in the chair.

should be sed on foot say, in threo The earth washed down is be-

The Right Rev. Bishop Duppuy years time. Our Church in Eng-ing used in filling in the available aaid that the months which had land has only just inaugurated a portions of Wongneichung village Helapsed since their last meeting general Clergy Pension Scheme. I which has suffered so consider- had been a testing time for their would like to feel that from the ably in the past from inundation Church. It had often been proved first the C.H.S.K.H. in this diocess due to the storm. Certain of the that difficulties were a prelude to had some such scheme in exist-villagers who have vacated their progress and he thought there ence.

hodses have been given house rent was much to encourage in the This leads me to add that for quarters elsewhere. work of the Church during this would like to see during the next Other more conservative of the period:

twelve months the Standing Com-residents who are attached to the 1. The two Magnolia" officers

The Bishop referred to the mittee of our Synod make sugges-distries "by sentimental ties ex- Who carried out the seizure of the faith in the future of the Church tions as to the drawing up of a tending over generations of fami- In China as expressed by Dr. book of regulations for thely tenancy are holding on to their picket launch are to be summari-John Mott at the "Conference on Diocese, which together with the tenancies as long as possible. ly executed.

the Church in China" held in Constitutions and Canons of the Eventually, however, they will

2 The British Consul is to be Shanghai at the beginning of the General Synod, might be publish have to go as the scheme "of year. This faith was all the more ed in booklet form so that all elevating the level of this quarter päraded through the streets and to be valued as it was expressed might have available the rules and proceeds and as the plate for pro- has to make a public apology.

3. Mr. Sim Kye Lim's house is to be burnt to the ground.

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by one who spent nearly forty procedure which govern the work riding a settlement a short dis- years of his life travelling from of our Church. I would also like tance away on a higher level pro country to country, holding Con-to see laid on the table at each gresses. ferences with Christian leaders in meeting of the Synod, a Property Work on this latter part of the 4. A British subject is to be different parts of the world, and Register so that all might know scheme has not yet begin but it is seized and held as a hostage until who had paid six visits to China, exactly how we stand as a Church understood that the survey will

Teach visit after an inter in the matter of property. the picket launch is returned.

shortly be put in hand and that Ivali of five or six years. In conclusion, the Bishop refer-contracts will be let out. The Apparently this is the dying Reviewing the progress that red to the meeting of the General site of the settlement with which moans of the discomfited pickets, had been made by the Chris-Synod to be held in Foochow next the villagers will be provided is and they may fail to impress even tian Church in Chine since his May, as which matters of consi- some 200 yards away on a level the versatile Eugene Chen, who first visit thirty years ago: Dr.derable importance for the future higher by about 50 feet. It will Mott had said he was sure that of the Church would be discussed; lie immediately below the road addressed to the Newspaper Enter-hinted that he had a perfect we should face the future with also to the delegation sent by the up the gap to Repulse Bay. It is priso, Ltd.,to whom all remittancos should be made payable.

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National Questions. Continuing Bishop Duppuy

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HONG KONG AND OTHER COLONIES,

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PERTINENT QUERY.

CHINA-BURMA TRADE IN 1923.

(Continued from Page 2.)

Residents of the twq, principal towns in South Africa-Cape- town and Johannesburg-ure at last experiencing a fall'in house) rents. In both cases the wel- come change is due to the fact. that recently a large number of only 4,981 passes were issued dur dwellings have been erected. ing the year, as compared with Flats are coming very much into 10.228 last year. Of these 4,981 favour, particularly with young passes, 1,618 were fer places within married people.

this province and 3,363 were for

scheme up his sleeve to settle the hope, that if we steadily press on General Synod to visit Chinese anticipated that this settlement boycott had not the British Naval Site of our difficulties, a new congregations abroad, an account will be ready for the villagers by

ares for the Christian movement of the work of which would be the end of next year. party stapped; in and cleared the in China will dawn; bur very dif-given later by the Rev. S. Y. K

The Wongneichung village, by pickets off the British wharves.in ficulties may be our galvation. Lee who had accompanied Bishop the time the reprovisioning Canton Argument and reason,

Roots, of Hankow.

scheme is complete, will all be levelled at a considerably higher however, either with the pickets.

elevation-it will be raised by " or the Canton authorities "are said, inter alia

over 20 feet in places. It will be futile. The British have to seek problens at the present time, the We are forced to consider many

on an inclined plane to allow of drainage into the nullah which their own remedy against unlaw-greatest question of all is

has been constructed alongside ful acts, in their own way, whe-Christianity got a saving mes-

and, extending as far

as the sage for the world as it is to- ther that way suits Mr. Zugenej

Jewish cemetery, will afford sites day?" My answer is that if you Chen or not. There has been too take any large view of human life,

for houses which will be safe from storm water inundations. much talk and too little action of it is plain there is insistent need

A considerable part of the earth the kind required to bring mat- for the Christian ethic and that To the Editor of the "China Mall" for carrying out the filling in of EVANS-CHIVERS-At Penang ters to an end. Now that a start tional problems are faced in the Capetown be treated better than from the work of clearance car-

unless our national and interna- Sir-Why should settlers in the present village

will come on Wednesday, September 8, has actually been made by pro spirit of Christ, nation win con-us in Hong Kong? Claude S. Evans..

ried out in connection with the of claiming the pickets to be pirates tinue to war against nation and Please draw the attention of road which is to join up with that Straits Trading. Co., Ltd., Sin gapore to Kathleen Patricia and banditti and by taking steps class against class, until it may persecuted tenants and house-to Repulse Bay at Bowen Road.

well be our modern civilization keepers to the statement of an * nee Crowther, daughter of to end their outrages against Bri- itself will perish. The only alter-Al authority Mr. W. E. Chowther and the Inte tiah life and property on the Can-native to this incessant warfare is ton River, traders "both in a recognition of the Father, Who Canton and Hong Kong can take has a place for each and all in His

great family. their courage in their hands and

What I want to stress at the DANSON-On September 13, 1926, defy the pickets. On the result of very outset is that the success of at the Victoria Nursing Home, their combined resistance to the Christianity can only be a spiritual Shanghat, Roderick the dearly pickets will depend the success of success. To get our organisation beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. their mutual trading relations in net the all-important thing. I was right is very necessary but it is George Danson, Jr., aged the immediate future.

talking this week with Bishop weeks... •

Roots. of Hankow (Chairman of tour House of Bishops) and Fasked him what he though

most needed stressing at such Whenever there is a big opiuma gathering as this. He said case pending in the local courts, the need for individual regenera the imagination at once turns to tion and for friendship. You may those “good old days" when remember that at that Shanghai Hongkong. Friday, Sept. 17, 1926. smuggling was very rife, to the Conference to which I have re

era when a chest of opium was ferred some speaker said that bartered in Whampoa harbour for when people wanted spiritual help a case of tea, and to the mythical they went to Buddhism and not to fortunes made by names asso-Christianity. The question we are When he is exposed and knock, clated with the past. Many people forced to ask ourselves then wonder how the authorities come jis this: "IS the Church ed out the bully generally resorts to know about transactions in supplying men's spiritual needs? to a rhetorical exhibition to re-places so far from Hong Kong. It There ta always B real lieve his injured feelings. The being their duty, we presume that danger, lest we turn aside to bullying pickets in Canton have Export Department are in con- main thing for which we exist ger from Shanghai to Hong Kong was valued at Hik. Tls. 1,466,-

the officers of the Import and falde shows and lose sight of the not yet recovered sufficiently from stant communication with distant What we need everywhere are con- by the P. and O. "Malwa their discomfiture to emit even ports. By knowing what is going tagious personalities, people whose one squeal, but in Swatow the on in other parts of the world, it lives are really devoted to Jesue seizure of the pickets' launch is to changes in the traffic.. There Spirit.

is possible to form an opinion as Christ and dominated by His

being made the excuse for a must be a great deal of work bei A Matter of Results.

WOLF-On August 9. 1926, at

Murrhardt, Wuerttemberg Ger-

many, H. E. Wolf, late Commis- Our Preventive Service. sioner of Chinese Maritime "Custome,

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PICKETS BLEATING.

it is. evident that

to

It is estimated that Capetown other provinces, and 4,851 of them rents are 10 per cent. below what were taken out previous to August they were a year ago, the reduc-1. Normally, 70 per cent. of the tion applying more particularly value to the goods imported is sub- to houses favoured by the lower [sequently forwarded to the interior middle classes. There are still under transit pass, but this year plenty of tenants for three or only 16 per cent. were

80 dealt four-roomed cottages letting at with. If the now likin passes are from £5 158. to £6 10s. a month. respected in the interior, our tran- The building of flats in Cape-sit trade may be said to have prac town and suburbs has been car-tically vanished. ried on on such extensive Total Value of Exports. scale that the supply is in excess The total value of exports to of the demand.

Burma Hk Tia. 1,755,200 Yours, etc..

-was Hk. Tis. 316.000 Теня than during the preceding year, Szechwan raw silk decreased by Hong Kong, September 17.. 1,104 piculs; but last year was se Mr. G. M: Young was a passen-figure is a fairly average one.

exceptional one and this year's It

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AND WELL.

600 or 38 per cent. of the total value of the exports, a percentage that is an average one. Trade In this article had not been good last. year, when the amount exported' was very large, and this year it was atill worse. The average selling price during 1924 had been R: 1,400 per 100 cattles; during most of this year it was R. 1,200 to R. 1,250, whilst at the very end it fell to R. '1,000: These prices meant selling at a loss. This 'decrease in selling price is put down to the has gained considerable popularity. competition of artificial silk, which

in Burma on account of its cheap nega.

violent tirade against the British.hind the scenes for which those A second question which I think |

concerned do not get all the credit. should occupy us is "Are we get- From information published in Big seizures of drugs and arms ting the best results from our reli this morning's Daily Press are not made every day. It is gious education?" The visit of the only the spectacular and unusual Mr. T. 2. Koo in the early part of pickets (otherwise pirates and which appeale to the mind of the this year brought this question to man in the atrect. People our minds. Our Christian schools (banditti) are taking

their are

hardly bikely hear exist primarily not so much to defeat very badly. They about the many heartbreak-cary on a wide general education have held the usual mass meeting ing jobs undertaken not for Chinese society as to educate KEEP YOUR BABY LOVELY so much to lay hands on any the children of the Christian.com- and passed all kinds of preposter-particular shipment, but to pre- munity and those who desire to ous and silly "resolutions," mak-vent the etuff being smuggled into become Christians, and to train ing demands on the British Gov. this Colony. Painstaking and leaders for the Christian, move-

The Kanal route Between this watchful, the Revenue Officersment. I think one of the points whose baby seldom cries, sleeps peace again sooner than was expected, Are you one of those ineky mothers port and Ehario came into, favour ernment. They desire the cul- Nke other public servants in which we should consider is how fully, eats well, gains weight regular after the Shan rebellion of the pre- prits (?) to be punished, compen- similar positions are always our schools can be brought into the trouble is in the little one's stomach vious year had driven

ly day by day 7 If not most probably sation to be paid for loss and courteous. Tact is combined with closer relationship with the OT intestines, where most of the all-follow the alterrative Long-ch'uan. damage suffered, an apology and enterprise so as not to give Chung Hwa Sheng Kung Hui. Itments of infancy arise.

offence. Bearing in mind that was suggested at our last Synod It is wonderful how quickly a baby again by seven-tenths of the traffic. route. The former is now adopted a guarantee that the incident will Hong Kong is an adjacent to terri-that an Education Committee starts to thrive whom Baby's Own The accommodation en route is still not be repeated, the release tory which lends itself to should be formed and I should like Tablets, are used. They gently add much rougher than it was before lof. the motor launch, and irregularities, much praise should to see such a body founded at the

withdrawal

go to the preventive force for the present time.

the

of H.M.S.

measure of success attained Another matter which I desire "Magnolia." Another correspon hitherto under, difficulty and to bring before you is that of dent of our morning.contemporary against ingenuity,

Christian literature: As a diocèse

Baby's Own the

Tablets

trade to

rebellion, but even so compares. not unfavourably with that on the alternative route, which is also longer and harder. The Kanal Shan chieftain took advantage of throws additional light on the

we ought to devote far more at the child's digestion, relieve colic, crop the disturbed conditions, which tention than we do at present to diarrhoea, capel worms; allay testhing were the aftermath of the rebellion, and calda, banlah constipation, thook temper of the pickets in Swatow.

The total output of the Kallan "Christian Hteraturo both as to pains almost as if by tangle quiet the to levy rather heavy Illegal taxes As a sample of their mentality he Mining Administration's mines its production and to ita distribu- nerves and promote health-giving sleep on the trade passing through his reports a few of the precious re- for the week ended September 4tion, and I hope that a further re-in a perfectly natural way domains, but these finally ceased in amounted to 69,690 tons, and the sult of our Synod this year will Chemists well Baby's Own Tablets, November, and a special deterrent solutions, which are certainly sales during the period to 52.896 be the formation of a Literature pe was Medicine Co., 60 Klanges to trade following this route was

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