1927-07-14 — Page 7

THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1927.

CHINA NEWS.

(Continued from page 1.3

NANKING TAXES.

Questions In the House of Commons.

London, July 13. In the House of Commons, in answer to questions, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, said that the situation arising out of the new Nanking taxes was being considered by the Govern- ments concerned in consultation with their representatives in China. Reuter.

FORCES IN CHINA.

Why The India Brigade Is Leaving.

SOVIET FRENZY.

ARREST OF HUNDREDS OF

PEOPLE.

GIRL'S VISION.

TRUTH ABOUT THE MIRACLE VILLAGE.

THE CHINA MAIL.

murmured some strange words of an apparition, would we believe? Would we build a glorious temple and walk round in procession? The proof would have to be mighty good first. I cannot but DEATH SENTENCE THREAT. BODY THAT WILL NOT DECAY. think that the proof was mighty

good in Bernadette's case.

Cures Astonishing.

"

WARSHIPS IN PORT.

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come to.

South Wall Basin, Aphis and Moorhen; East Wall Basin, Subs. L15 and L19: North Arm, Sera London, July 13. phis; West Wall Dock, Vindiet- In the House of Commons, askive; In Dock, Wishart, Wild

First of all, there is no doubt ed whether since the Chinese Swan and Marazion; Kowloon that there was an ignorant pea- armies were hundreds of miles Dock; Forglove; Buoy 6. Emer sant child named Bernadette who, from Shanghai, it was intended ald; Buoy 7, Emerald; Buoy on February 11, 1858, went out to withdraw the whole or part of 10, Wanderer; Buoy 18, Ru- to gather. sticks and....saw the Shanghai Defence Force, Sir theia; Buoy 19, U.S.S. Ruthenia; something.

Foreign Buoy Austen Chamberlain,

26, 20, Belgol; Buoy Secretary, referred to his answer Kharki. on July G.

Mr.

K.R.A. MEETING.

CASTLE PEAK BATHING FACILITIES.

KOWLOON TONG AGAIN.

Gov-

Castle Peak bathing provisions, There is a lady at Lourdes The cures which have taken) Warsaw, July 13. Refugees from Russia report who saw a woman's wound close place were not promised by the street lighting, the lack of dimming facilities on motor buses and the that the Soviet Government has before her very eyes as she was Lady, or mentioned by Berna-advisability of pianting shade trees At least as far as we at Kowloon Tong, were among the caused the arrest of hundreds of tending her in the baths. This is dette.

There were some things matters discussed at the monthly people in Kieff in connection with only one of thousands of strange know.

would never meeting of the Kowloon Residents' an alleged counter-revolutionary cures that have taken place in that Bernadette

Association, over which Mr. B. plot, including a number of off this mystery village of the speak about.

Pyrenees-medical science cannot But the cures are authentic, Wylic presided in the absence of W. J: Stokes. The following cers in the Ukrainian army.

Refugees also report that Grin- explain them. The Rev. Desmand and of every sort and kind.

-who visited I have spoken with a lady who report is contributed:

In the matter of increased public kow, head of the Ukrainian Com- Morse-Boycott munist Party, has declared that Lourdes to investigate the facts saw a woman's wound close be- bathing facilities on the Peninsula, the "Sunday fore her very eyes as she was the Committee had written Govern- all the arrested people will be on behalf of 1sentenced to death.-Reuter. Chronicle," writes as follows in tending her in the baths.

ment requesting accommodation on that journal.]

They are not induced by faith the small beach east of the pier at In preceding articles I have in the ordinary sense of faith-Castle Peak. To this request a reply had been received pointing discussed the beginnings of healing. Lourdes and the tale of its There is the case of the boy out that the report of the Bathing Beaches Committee had definitely Crutches which cluster round the who did not know he was disrecommended, the bay at Cheung Grotto. Let us now consider the eased and yet was healed; there Sha rather than the one at Castle facts, in order to discover a con- is the case of an infidel man who, Peak for public matsheds.

in clusion, if conclusion we can dying from a ghastly disease, ernment did not feel justified

was brought to Lourdes, uncon- spending further public money on scious, by his wife, opened his bathing facilities this year but his hoped to include provision for this eyes suddenly, professed site in 1928, sorrow for many sins, and was

Shade Trees. completely healed.

With reference to the planting} Moreover, a strong disposition of shade trees at Kowloon Tong, to believe oneself healed could) copies of letters between Govern What she saw we may consider scarcely replace missing bones, ment and the Kowloon Tong Sub- in a moment, but it is clear that, mend fractures, heal consump- scribers Association had been re- during those extended "visions," tives on the verge of death, close, ceived, but in the absence of a decision by the Botanical and On July 6, in the House of A BOUQUET FOR SHANGHAI she showed signs of being in gaping fissures and remove all Forestry Department the General Commons, answering questions,

contact with something super-trace of growths. There was a Committee decided not to express Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign

London, July 13.

natural above nature. She woman who had a terrible its views in the meantime.

The Association's representative A "bouquet" was handed to Secretary, said that the Indian Brigade was being withdrawn Shanghai by Major I. Isidore was watched by crowda, among growth which was steadily sub-

whom were inen of intelligence duing all internal organs. The on the Board of Education made a from Shanghai where it was no Salmon, M.P., speaking at the and marked scepticism.

in the growth completely

brief report on conditions vanished. Where? longer required in consequence of Royal Sanitary Institute Confer-

Central British School. the arrival of reinforcements.]

A general discussion took place enee at Hastings.

It is not the hypnotism of the following further complaints re- Sir Austen Chamberlain added He declared that there was no-l Every effort was made by the crowds. Many cures have taken gurding the unsatisfactory cond that two batteries and certain thing in England or the United authorities to check those first place in spots far removed from tion of the gas street lighting on urtillery units attached to the States to excel the thoroughness strange pilgrimages. For four Lourdes by application of the Nathan Road and the dangers Indis Brigade were also being and skill of certain "wonderfully years the Church held aloof and water and by prayer. People tendant on the lack of dimming

them. recognise withdrawn. The brigade was hygienie" food-packing factories would

Bernadette had not the intelli-Lourdes, and healed on the way netion until next month, the Hon. have, too, been uncured at facilities on many of the nitor buses. It was decided to defer only sent because it could arrive in Shanghai-Renter. quickly. It was never intended to

to concoct her stories, gence

home. which never

varied under the

Secretary being instructed to pro-i maintain it there.

duce all previous correspondence) most acute analysis and examina-

on these two aubjects. I have just been in an ancient, A treaty that has been under] negotiation between Sir Gilbert peaceful convent, whither she Clayton Air, representing the, was taken by kindly nuns, after

Govenment, and As regards sickness among the British

Ibn the apparitions ceased. There she troops, Sir Austen Chamberlain Saud has been completed and learnt to read and write. Her said that the Government had will be published after ratifica asthma, and the occupation of foreseen the difficulties of the tion. British Wireless Service. shepherding sheep, had hitherto hindered her from receiving any climate and the authorities on the spot had taken every precaution

instruction in letters. possible.-Reuter.

When he mentioned reinforce- inents on July 6 he was referring to troops which were already in Shanghai apart from the Indian

Brigade.

Sent For Speed.

Rugby, July 13.

1

A TREATY COMPLETED.

Rugby, July 13.

OPIUM POISONING.

tion.

Taken to Convent,

not

In order to grasp the situation we must twist things round a

A Chinese woman was yesterday taken to the Government Civil Hos-little. pital from Room No. 414 of the I have just been in the bed Taltsotin Hotel, No. 90, Des Voeux room which Bernadette shared Road Central suffering from oplum with her parents and brothers poisoning. Whether the drug was

vestigation.

MORRISON HILL ACCIDENT.

It is not the water alone which does these things. It contains no healing or medical properties. Cures take place apart from the

water,

The medical bureau is above

suspicion. There is always a number of doctors who are mere- ly concerned in medicine and not miracles. The bureau sifts cases mercilessly, and often postpones its verdicts for years. The most that it will say is that the cure cannot be attributed to a natural process. But if not natural, what then?

at-

The Hon. Treasurer reported a credit balance of $1,004.62 and a membership of 298.

Mr. Lam Ming-fan joined the Association during the past month.

STOLEN CURRENT.

ELECTRIC SHOP OWNER FINED.

Before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, the proprietor of an electrical goods Questioned regarding the with-

The Simplest Explanation.

shop of Saikung Road, Kowloon drawal from China of the India

May it not be true that, after City, was charged, with connecting Brigade, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, stated in the self-administered or not is now and sisters. It is a miserable; all, the simplest explanation is wire to the street main, and burn-i House of Commons that it was forming the subject of police in-hovel, or rather was so.... one the best; that o this peasant Ing a 150 candle power light at the

room, for about eight of them child the Mother of Christ was Power Company.

expense of the China Light and sent because it could arrive quick- |

their beds rough mattresses permitted to appear as "a beauti- ly and it was not intended it

thrown in corners of the room. ful Lady," dressed, according to for the Company, prosecuted, while Mr. H. J. Armstrong, solicitor should remain there.-British

It was formerly a prison house. the child's description, in a white the defendant was represented by Wireless Service.

The father a bankrupt miller, robe with a blue saah, a rose rest- Mr. F. II. Loseby. unstable and sinking lower and ing on each bared foot, and hold- Entering a plea of "not guilty," lower.

ing in her hand a rosary; that Mr. Loseby said that while he ad the Lady directed the child to mitted that electricity was stolen search in the ground for a stream in the manner alleged by the pro- of water, which the watchers saw Becution, his defence was that the exude firet in a tiny trickle, and defendant had no knowledge of the which still gushes forth with act.

Mr. Armstrong's case was that healing for the multitude.

the defendant had insulated an There is nothing in this belief electric wire to the Company's!

This was discovered by

HANKOW'S FUTURE.

An earth coolle was yesterday re- moved to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from injuries received as the resuit of a fall of rocks after blasting operations on

British Not To Reoccupy Former Morrison Hill.

Concession.

London, July 13. Chairman was instructed to con-

Child of Poverty. Bernadette would have the status of the most poverty stricken little girl from the poor- est of London or Liverpool slums. By a great stretch of the

is

which is opposed to Christianity mains.

In the House of Commons vey to the Senior Consul the fol-imagination we may suppose that answering questions as regards lowing expression of opinion on she conjured up the "visions," or Hankow, Sir Austen Chamberlain, the subject of the newly imposed saw nothing and merely said she in any of its phases. With God Mr. C. H. Miles and Mr. Picket all things are possible and when they visited the premises as Foreign Secretary, repeated the taxes recently promulgated by the saw them.

The thought that occurs to me decision of May 9 not to re-occupy local Chinese authorities, the in-

crease in tonnage dues and the is this: If we arbitrarily dismiss Christianity is reputed to have the result of information received. been cradled in the miraculous. A cashier of the Company went to Hankow.

the religious explanation as un- He told Mr. Basil Peto (Conser-embargo on specie:-

At any rate those who cannot the defendant's shop on the instruc- That this meeting, desires to worthy of credence do we not at accept his simple explanation the defendant who had connected tions of the Europeans. He asked vative), who asked whether the decision was based on the expert enter a strong protest against once create a problem which advice of the naval, military and the illegal surtaxes and luxury even more difficult to solve? For will be hard put to to discover the wire to the main and defendant

better, and Lourdes as a present said "We did it." mercantile community in China, taxes recently promulgated, also the effect of Lourdes must have miracle may be seen by all, and The defendant said that he was the Government would take full the illegal increase in tonnage had a cause.

Hard by, in a convent, there is shared by all. There are no not aware of the theft as he al- responsibility for its own deci- dues. Furthermore, the meeting

objects to the present increase in dying the last person who saw restrictions, and you may bathe ways left the shop to go home at On the night in question he was delayed by busi- They would consult such people taxation on the grounds that they the little Bernadette at her de-in the healing waters without about 10 p.m.

ness and had remained. in the shop and take such advice as they will be used principally for financ-votions before the Grotto; but any questions being asked!

Undecaying Body. might think expedient.

ing China's civil wars.

there is testamentary evidence

There are three other things until midnight when the Euro "Due to recent events in Han- which cannot be refuted.

I have been myself privileged are no police within the religious tendant and imposed a fine of $75,

that remain to be noticed. There penns came. views

Mr. Schofield convicted the de- kow, the Chamber also with grave concern the embargo to speak with the younger demesne of Lourdes, although brother of Bernadette. He lives there are tens of thousands of imposed on specie."

sion.

It was impossible to say what might be necessary to protect British interests at Hankow four months hence, but providing the situation had not changed a sub. stantial force would be maintain- ed throughout the winter.

Reuter,

ter,

Shadows Before.

IN THE "MAIL..”

Entertainments.

In order that the above men- a simple life, among his pansies pilgrimis annually. There 13 tioned may be discussed and and his memories, in a little villa never any infectious disease, ruling obtained from the Cen- some small distance from the although Lourdes is always full COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED sular bodies with reference to Grotto. He is a simple man, re- of people suffering from virulent the attitude that foreign mer-fined no doubt by contact with disease. chants, and shippers should adopt many persons in a long life. regarding the payment of the in-

Wish Fulfilled.

The Northern authorities are

And, last of all, Bernadette's

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Rugby, July 13. Sir Austen Chamberlain, For- creased taxes, the Chamber re-

He did not see the occurrences nearly fifty years, has been ex- July 14-World Theatre; "East' eign Secretary, was also asked quests that it be permitted to whether the protective forces send an International deputa- at the Grotto, for he was born humed from the ground and at Hankow would be main-tion to call upon the Senior Con- showed me some letters penned in tion, with its linen unsoiled and

long after they occurred. He found to be in perfect composi tained there throughout the win- zu).

after life by Bernadette, naive white!

July 14-Tea Dance Cafe Res- He replied that it was impos- collecting the 21% per cent. in- and simple. He believes imo- sible to say what arrangements crease in the surtax and 5 per favoured by heavenly appari- plicity that his elder sister was

Strawberry growers in South-taurant Parisien, 4.20 p.m.. Special might be necessary for the pro- cent. luxury tax. It is under- tection of British interests atstood that the Japanese are re-

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ern Hampshire declare that the Dinner 8 p.m.

July 14-Isako's Circus, New Ro- Hankow four months ahead, but fusing to collect them at Antung that the Lady who appeared to the season will be one of the clamation Ground, Wanchal, 9.15

An interesting point to notice is crop will be a poor one and that' provided circumstances remained and Dairen.--Reuter.

pim. Bernadette said, nothing about shortest on record. Two or three

July 14-Informal Counter-Attack.

miracles, but asked that a church white frosts, experienced when Cheer O 7 p.m.; sing song at Shanghai, July 18. Foreign reports from Houchow-might be built upon the rock and the flowers were in bloom, rob- "Better 'Ole" p

July 15-Naval and Military that processions might take place bed the growers, it is stated, of fu indicate that Chiang Kai-shek's there. This has all been fulfilled. at least half their crops and Y.M.C.A's "Cheer '0" Concert, 7

successfully counter-

of pounds p.m. attacked and revered ground as Lourdes is beautiful in its arch-caused thousands

itectural wonders, and proces-damage. Now the spell of hot July 16-Grand Concert at City far as Lincheng.--Reuter,

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EARLIER MESSAGES.

Strong Shanghai Protest Againsť Taxes.

Shanghai, July 18.

forces

Tsingtao Peaceful

Taingtao, July 18.

ly favours the North. Tsingtao church was picked out with swell.

is perfectly peaceful and the lights, and a vast concourse of

The Shanghai General Chamber situation is much easier. Reuter, people took part in a torchlight

of Commerce has sent a message

Mr. T. V. Soong, procession around the demesne. It was an awe-inspiring sight, to the Senior Consul stating that

Hankow, July 18, Mr. T. V. Soong returned on and the sound of many voices at a meeting of the Chamber yesterday at which there were Tuesday afternoon, aboard & Bri- singing "Avel in the darkness present representatives of the tish steamer from Shanghai, moved me intensely, American, Belgian, British, Troops continue to proceed down The little girl's naive state- French, German, Italian, Japan river, while it is rumoured that ment of the Lady's wishes has ese, Netherlands and Swedish troops from Canton are ap- been literally fulfilled. But sup Chambers of Commerce, thel proaching Nanchang-Reuter, pose your little Liverpool child

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