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RATIONALISM & R.P.A. DINNER
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the
to note
MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1927.
TROOPS LEAVE..
ballad
SCENES AT SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS.
port Company of the Royal Army Service Corps marched from the barracks to the station, where they entrained for the first part of their journey to China.
Preparations were completed at Fun early hour, and at seven' a.m. the company left the barracks, headed by the Royal Artillery Stirring, and at the same time band playing lively nira. Other
STIRRING AND PATHETIC.
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(To the Editor of the "Chion Mail"]
excellent Sir-Regarding speeches made at the B.F.A. dinner and the concluding remarks made by Mr. E. R. Price for the Press, it pathetic. scenes of farewell were troops in barracks turned out and the quayside at cheered them heartily, and on the that witnessed on ikely Southampton docks, when the 1st way to the station there was also.. extr column to be oper for discussion for Batt. Green Howards and the 1st much cheering. Many of their many days come by people Batt. Devonshire Regiment em-comrades made their way to the who-as he puts, it gets rubbed barked in the transports "Assaye" station, and cheers were renewed the wrong way. Many therefore and "Kildonan Castle" respective as the train moved out." will I hope, expect to see some in-ly for China. The Green Howards
Coldstream Guards. teresting realis
were the first to arrive, and, under When the 2nd Battalion Cold-- As one who has enjoyed in con- the direction of the embarkation stream Guards left Wellington troversy, the results of being rub,
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bed the wrong way for some years staff, the shipment of arms and Barracks for China to full its and arrived thereby it some more accoutrements was "expeditiously task as a portion of the Shanghai or lees definite conclusions, I am effected. Just before the vessel Defence Force, large crowds as- more than ever strongly of opinion sailed General Sir Edward Bulfin, sembled to give it a hearty send- that one's perspicuetty should-us Colonel-in-chief of the regiment, off.
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far as possible-be kept alive by passed up the gangway to take The battalion marched to putting off the fatal day when one leave of the troops, and as he Waterloo Station, where it en becomes too old to learn
stepped aboard the band played trained for Southampton at 11.15. my Imagine, then.. dent in the General Salute and the regi-am learning that, some Rationalists ural
The troops paraded about 9:30 Jas. averse to being rubbed the mental march past. He gave the
wrong way, or bombed with their officers and men his good wishes, a.m., and the march began at cwn weapons, as Theologians with and expressed the hope that he 10:15 am., Waterloo Station be- their own expletives.
would see them back in Yorkshire fing reached at about 10.45 a.m. The The shortest route was followed,
Approximately a week before the by September at latest. dinner, as the result of a casual object of their going to China, he viz. conversation en being. asked to pointed out, was not for the pur- speak, 1 naturally welcomed the pose of fighting but in order to oppertunity. I was thereupon afford a measure of protection art to write it out for publication. He realised that it might be a dif- This was done and presented on
Birdcage Walk,
Great George Street, Bridge Street, Westminster Bridge,
York Road,
Waterloo Station,
February 28 By March 27 was ficult situation, and his advice was told that everything was arranged that tempers should be kept and and that was too late.
tongues made quiet.
The Band of the Scots Guards append my speech as present- The Girl He Left Behind Him. was detailed to accompany the ed. which, although too late for the On the quayside stood a girl, battalion as far as Waterloo Sta dinner may not be too late for pub-the wife of a corporal on board, to tion, as well as the Coldstream lication. abrasion or evasion
Yours, ete...
SATIRIV.
Hong Kong, March 6. THE UNDELIVERED SPEECH,
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Ladles and gentlemen. to-night
whom she was married a few lers' own band. The Scots Guards. weeks ago, who had travelled from bandsmen wore service dress. London to say good-bye. She Pipers were included: The Cold- made a brave attempt to smother streamers' band went with the ther feelings when the moment of battalion as far as Southampton, parting came. As the ship moved where on arrival the troops em- off, about one o'clock, a storm of barked at once in the Kinfauns cheers rang out, from the hun-Castle:"
dreds of hat-waving soldiers who The day before departure, we are. I hope is the mental atmos had captured every point of vant-Wellington Barracks, were the phere of freedom of expression age on board and popular scene of busy preparations. Out- where we, at least, feel that we can choruses were vigorously aung.
wardly, however, there were few
be intellectually honest, without re- Similar scenes marked the ar- signs to indicate that anything
servation and I would like to make
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NEW AIR SERVICES.
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With the expansion of air services throughout the Empire marking fresh progress year by
it is natural to yeur,
scan the
annual Air Estimates of the Home Government to note how develop- ments of the very recent past are
London Scenes.
cords make mention of the score of respectability than aceur-four o'clock. formation "once upon a time of acy, in order to escape the odium
ally cast upon Atheism by its The 8.8. "Karmala" and the s.5. Jan Aero Club, the existence of misrepresentation. Nevertheless,
kits...
NEW AND BIGGER CARS INTRODUCED.
which "to-day is an unknown with all due respect to his attain "Herminius left the Royal THE PEAK TRAM. quantity: If this part of the nichts, which I should be the last Albert Dock for China with three to deny, there is no doubt that it battalions of infantry-the 1st world is to move with the times, was founded upon a misconception. Middlesex Regiment, the 1st however, it must sooner or later Why this should be, is not far to Cameronians, and the 1st Border
The introduction by the Peak seek as it stands for the negation Regiment-together with some!
two new and bigger tramcars which world in aviation. Moreover, as a mind, and traits of character, which Artillery and other units.
will be greatly welcomed by all The two ships had been in the Peak residents caused a temporary Crown Colony, Hong Kong should disappear upon the understanding
of the Atheistic position, and its dock for several days being re-interruption in the service in the stand to gain immeasurably by scientific foundation. This, unfor-atted, and the work was still go forenoon while tests were the expansion of the Empire nirtunately, has not yet been reacheding on when two spécial trains carried out.
come into line with the rest of the of so many hereditary habits of officers" and men of the Royal Tramway Company yesterday of
routes in this direction. It ought
in the first place to strengthen the Empire spirit. It ought to ad- vance our commercial interest in no mean degree. And in divers other ways the Empire air line
to the Far East should be produc- tive of much good to all directly for indirectly concerned.
CHINESE BISHOP.
PASSING THROUGH HONG KONG
TO-DAY.
Returning from... Rome
to
being
There were no cars available for
by the majority of people, and arrived with the advance guards
more definite and, if I may say. would like to see Rationalists adopt of the various units, and eight passengers in the morning but the
afternoon, no more honest and emphatic atti armoured cars and stores, which normal service was resumed in the during the day were taken on
It is with a view to relieving con- tude, having no suggestion of com-
board. promise with the enemy.
gestion at the busy hours of the The main body of troops reach-day that the longer cars have been carrying Although in this term Atheism. It is merely fed London in nine special trains, introduced. a negation of the belief in Theism, arriving between eleven p.m. and many more passengers, the new cars coming, as it does from the Greek midday. The transport left the are not heavier than those which When fully word Theos, a God; and A, the pre- dock in the early afternoon.
After all there is nothing terrible
1:
uge. have been a
fix, meaning not; does not imply a Scenes of great enthusiasm loaded they will of course, weigh denial of the existence of any were witnessed at Woolwich,more, but this will not make any thing," but merely deals with "the when. No. 12 Mechanical Transdifference to the safe and satisfac-
Fundamental, gratuitous, and un- warrantable assumptions 2 upon)~~~
which all forms of Theism are foutcome" based. On the contrary. Atheism Atheism. by implication, aflems a self exis
tory working of the system.
It will be remembered that last year the Peak Tramway winding
mental growth plant was brought up to the most modern standards by the transfer- It leaves the mind clear for the ence of power from steam to elec bent universe and the eternity of calm, dispassionate study of human tricity. natural operations, as evidenced by problems and social relationships. the indestructibility of matter and We want intellectual honesty to
necessities of which are interpreted. cult exemplied, and formulated into Society. demonstrable laws.
to be followed up by State aid Shanghai via the United States, the conservation of energy, the become more common; now, so diff
and the Far East generally.
of war.
of expression in modern
AT THE STAR.
"CLASSIFIED" TO-DAY :.
ONLY.
His Excellence, the Right Rev. Some months ago, in commenting Monsignor Simon Tau, Bishop of
We can visualise a state of social! (on Sir Alan Cobham's flight to Haimen, arrived to-day on the
We now know the origin, birth.sanity free from the superstition of Australia and Home again, and to American mail liner "President
and can trace the painful disinte-Tur. the tacit assumption that It's one thing to live in a mere Grant." the proposed all-Red air lines this
gration of the Gods." What is Migh! is Kight, transplanted by a street. "It's quite another thing The Bishop of Haimen was born it, then, the agnostic does not know? comprehension of the futility of war
to have an "address." year it was remarked that on the at Shanghai of Catholic parents, What is it about, that we are asked in the mad race between brute force
Babs Comet, who worked in the success of these undertakings and his father, Nicholas Tau, was to suspend judgment? One might and Juteligence (and no nation has would depend to a great extent a member of an eminent family as well attempt to argue upon the the monopoly of either) which classified ad. department of the whose Christianity dates back to attributes of a vacuum by first threatens to destroy so much that big newspaper, lived in the one our hopes of seeing the Empire the Jesuit Missionary efforts dur- creating your own difficulty and has bech gained through ages of and yearned for the other. Big air acrvice extended to the Faring the Ming dynasty. He was then asking someone else to solve suffering due to ignorance of what Central Park, which divides West from East in New York repre- East. The services between the always a leading figure in mission-It, upon some abstract metaphysic, we really are.
Bishop without any concrete basis of The nature, and psychological sented to her a veritable and lit- Home Country, Egypt, India, andary and welfare work.
Tau was educated by the Jesuit thought or material to work upon misconceptions of religious fervour eral gulf in social distinctions.
How was Bab to bridge this Singapore to Australia, and vice fathers and afterwards entered whatever the real difficulty, it have only served to accentuate the versa, it was pointed out, could that order. He is accompanied by seeme to me, is to know what the primitive instincts, mental Infirmi-gulf?
agnostic is agnostle about, and is ties, und illusions of the childhood
The type that Corinne Griffith not but pave the way in due course the Rev. Dr. James J. Morrissey: aimest as bad as religion, which of the human race, right up to the depicts is a new one to her, S.Jan Irish priest who studied defined, is a something or another modern Church with is blessings for an extension to Hong Kong in Rome where he entered the about something that nobody knows upon the banners, and instruments and its limning is perfect. Jack Mulhall is ideal as the mechanic Jesuit order, and is now on his anything whatever about. The Air Estimates, just pub-way to do missionary work in Atheism involves and Implies the I should like to dee every effort who outdistances the smitten by Ward lished, more than warrant the China, and also by his nephew, reality of something to think with made to cultivate as far as humanly aristocrat, played
John Tsu, who is the Shanghai re- and something to think about, and possible the unbiased impersonal Crane, for the favour of the. long view of the position express-presentative of the Buick Motor the organisation or process of inter-attitude of mind over disagreemental impudent little want ad. girl. In ed some months ago. In Car Company.
action between nerve and brain In upon matters of opinion, with that the supporting cast, each one of memorandum that accompanies Bishop Tsu was ordained a contact with external reality by measure of self control which leads whom fit perfectly into his the Estimates it is stated that priest in 1898 and after three means of sonses, we call mind. to the diversion of all forms of vio- niche, are such prime merriment years of priesthood was appoint. The processes and laws of thought lence,to the intellectual sphero, monopolists as Charles Murray flying boats will be provided with ed "Foreign Vicar," which gave are now well known and before the where issues can be fought out to and George Sidney, the intention of making an exten-him jurisdiction over several re-theologian or metaphysician who conclusions, having definite results
talk so glfbly of immaterality-can unattaineble by any other meaл sive cruise in 1928 as a self-con-ligious communities, He was justify their fundamental thesie, and, in so far an we are able to elevated to the Episcopate last they must first indicats by what interpret the growing corporate" tained unit in Far Eastern October by His Holiness Pope Pius means or process they assert im-consciousness of human
under- waters, finally visiting Australian XI in the great basilica of St. materiality, apart from organisa-standing-associated, as it is, with the accumulative experiences of ports. A survey of the route, we Peters and bears the unique dis-tion, can think..
Ernest: Trevor, charged with are informed, is at present being tinction of being the first Chinese I would like to see the agnosticism mankind in the evolutionary path Carried out by a ground party, ever consecrated a Bishop of the of Rationalism a thing of the past: from childhood to maturity, we are alleged theft from guests of the Roman Catholic Church. His Koll tree thought more dynamis in its lable by the elimination of errors, Glenealy Hotel, was again before With the Far East on the map reas has since created five more sacular ethics and expression, and to co-ordinate truths, and consoli Major Willson at the Central
therefore would define Rationalem date data, for the benefit of those Magistracy this morning. of aviation an immense stimulus Chinese Bishops.
He now claims to have taken ad the final residue of thought, yet, to come, and the lessons they should be. given to the art and
which ch. Its confined road through may learn from our struggles, to many sittings, at last encounters what extent we bave shaken of the the articles merely as security for One case of smallpox (Chinese) the finer meshes of ratiocination, shackles of superstition, the only money due to him. “
science of flying in this part of
ALLEGED THEFT.
DEVELOPMENT IN TREIOR CASE.
the world. The potentialities, and one case of enteric fever spread outwardly along the broa-real test, or measure of the prograss His Worship. Axed Thursday as
apart from the naval and military (British) were reported yesterday der Intellectual pathe and logical of civilisation.”
the date of hearing of the case,
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