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fellow Fascists. Very graciously morning, three Conservancy con- At the Marine Court this Sig. Mussolini conceded to his tractors were each fined $10 for country's "free Press" the right causing an obstruction on to criticise apart from politics Southern Fairway of the harbour. and questions fundamental to the
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Fascist revolution." Plainly; steam launch "Diamante," who For a good many years past Italy's Press is, free-free to do pleaded guilty yesterday on
handsome cheque has reached what Sig Mussolini, the dictator, charge of making fast alongside "Truth" Office every Christmas the' 8.5. "Oregon" whilst under from the Shanghai Race Club as way on October 12, was this a contribution to the "Truth" morning fined $10 by Commander Christmas Fund and Lady St. J. B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N., at the Helier's Country Holiday Fund, |states that weekly. It will interest
the public at home to know that. A master and four mistresses this valuable donation is no more of passenger boats, who
were than a drop in the ocean of the found mooring inside the Cause-benefactions of the club, which
The opening cruise of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club is fixed for November 10,
Marine Court.
The Craigengower Cricket Club way Bay Typhoon Shelter with-
is holding an "At Home" at the out permission, were each fined seems to be almost as much a Club House on Saturday, com-$5 at the Marine Court this charitable as a sporting institu
morning. The defendants pleaded aces in the neighbourhood of tion. In spite of all the disturb- mencing at 3 p.m.
guilty. One of the defendants Mr. A. H. Compton, of Messrs.stated that he was engaged to Shanghai the club transferred to its charity accounts in 1927 no carry, passengers into the shelter David Sassoon's, returned to the but the boat could not get out less than $281,914, which is rec- Colony yesterday by the P. & O. owing to ebb fide, while the koned to be the equivalent in ster- "Macedonia" after Home leave. others said that they went ashoreling of about £26,000. Of this
to get water.
Miss Kathleen Owen Murphy, of Kowloon, has gone on a short holiday to Shanghai and Japan, sailing on the "President Cleve- land."
Mr. F. S. Harrison, of, the South British Insurance Co., and Mrs. Harrison 'returned to Hong Kong yesterday by the "Mace *donia..'
Mr. N. L. Smith, of the Hong Kong Cadet Service, was one of the passengers who returned, to the Colony yesterday on the "Macedonia."
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That was what happened some six or seven years ago, and, as) stated, it was just a little before
Among these expected to ar- rive here on the "Haruna Maru," on Sunday, are Mrs. H. L. Syme Thomson, Mr. W. H. B. Muskett and Captain A. G. S. Kennedy.
Mr. T, J. Price, the well-known hockey player and all-round sportsman, has returned to Hong Kong, arriving on the "Mace donin" yesterday. He has left St. Stephen's College and is now one of the Government teaching
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9um $50,000 was carried to permanent charity trust which the club is endowing, and the rest, except a balance of $10,075 re- served, for emergencies and other
·REPLY TO “FAIRPLAY"
temporary purposes, was distri- buted among local charities of (To the Editor of the "China Mail")
every description, creed, and na- for to the letter which appeared home.
Sir, Kindly permit me to re-tionality, and a few charities at in your correspondence columns last night, in which the attempt In addition to assisting the was made to reconcile Christian good works of others, the Shang- Science and what is known as hai Race Club started during the medical science, by quoting and war, and continues to support referring to isolated passages in handsomely the local Union Jack Mrs. Eddy's works. However, it Club, which is run by the Navy is impossible to prove what is not League, and is regarded true and a careful study of Mrs. by the Navy as the best institu- Eddy's sermon entitled "Chris- tion of its kind on any station. Mr. A. K. J. Jensen, of the tian Healing" as well as her other When the Navy League arquired Great Northern Telegraph Co..works, will convince anyone that the site and built the present pre- has returned to Hong Kong by the two systems cannot be com-mises, the Race Club helped with a the s.s. "Taiyo Maru" after a bined. Nothing in Mrs. Eddy's loan of $112.000. and last year it writings, not in any authenticated contributed $16,840 to the upkeep. utterance of hers, justifies the The club has also endowed a ward assertion that Christian Science in Charing Cross hospital at a practitioners should co-operate cost of £12,000, and last year sup- plemented the endowment with a with medical practice.
Moreover, it may be pointed out subscription of $2,000 to make that Christian Science as dis- good a deficit un the expenses. covered and founded by Mary The bulk of the charity revenue Mr. A. O. E. Lang, formerly of Baker Eddy, is based on the Scrip of the club seems to be derived then that Signor Mussolini was Messrs Deacons, who has come tures and especially on the teach- from a levy of lv per cent. on busy every day at his desk writ-out again to take up an appoint-ings of Jesus Christ. Now, every Members' Sweeps, which yielded ment as an Assistant, Crown Soli- student of the Bible is aware that last year nearly a quarter of a ing something more or less pro-eitor, arrived from Home yester-Jesus always healed by the power million dollars. Those who think found or merely entertaining for day on the "Macedonia."
of God and never resorted to gambling sinful may perhaps ad- drugs or material modes. Thus mit that the sinners in this case the columns of It Avanti, This
a substantial atone-. A fire broke out in a contrac-it will be seen how utterly impos-make was the leading organ of the tor's shop at No. 119, Temple-sible it would be for Christian met
offence. for their Italian Socialists, and presumably street, Yaunfati, yesterday, Scientists to co-operate with what would be, a good thing if racing its editor was a convinced Social-which, however, was quickly put is known as medical science, since men at home were to take a lesson ist. Being so, and being the man out by the timely arrival of the Christian Scientists are faithful from their countrymen at Shang-
Fire Brigade. It appears that ly endeavouring to emulate the hai. he is, we wonder what he would some gasoline caught fire,
works of the Master in conform- have thought had someone come
By with his teachings. In the Gespel of St. John we read Jesus' along, with an air napoleonic, and
words, "It is the spirit that advised him and his staff to
quickeneth; the flesh profiteth no- listen unto him while he told them
thing" and in how to conduct their business,
Science text-book, "Science and From Lake Placid's icy moun-- We fancy that Signor Mussolini
Health with Key to the Scrip-tains to Havana's coral strands tures" by Mary Baker Eddy we moves. the swift plot of "The would have consigned him to the staff.
read." Inferior and unspiritual News Parade," the new Fox pic- deepest depths of Hades and
methods of healing may try to ture featuring Nick Stuart and Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Rodger, the male mind and drugs coalesce, Sally Phipps which will be the threatened him, there and then, Rev. T. B. and Mrs. Woods, Mr. but the two will not mingle scien-chief attraction at the Queen's ALLAN — DAY. -- On Saturday,
with even worse castigation than A. Allison, Mrs. M. E. Dalgliesh, tilically. Why should we wish to Theatre from Sunday till. October 6, 1928, at 10.30 am.. he was likely to receive in the the Rev, T. A. Giles, Capt. J. C. S. do so, since no good can come of Tuesday
according to ü at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, nether regions.
this. For Signor Hadaway, Sub-Lt. P. D. Heine- it?" (p. 142/3). It may be noted special announcement in Shanghal (previously at H.B.M. Mussolini was a man like that; man, Mr. and Mrs. Rapley were that the word "Mind" is used in issue. Between these two ex- Consulate-General), Arthur
among the passengers on the Christian Science as a synonym tremes of temperature there are Wilfrid Taylor, son of the and so he still is else would heMacedonia," which arrived in for God. Rev. Charles Wilfrid and Mrs. not venture to dictate to "seventy port yesterday.
The writer of the letter shelter- stops in bustling New York City and languid Palm Beach. The Allan, of York, England. to directors of
ed behind the pseudonym of "Fair the Fascist daily
story is extremely original and Emily Grace, daughter of Mrs. Press"-nor would they be as Canada" will be shown in the pre-manifest the spirit of fairness ing adventures of a news reel A film entitled "Travel in Play" but can scarcely be said to concerns the thrilling and amus-- Alice Day and the late Leonard John Day, Shanghai.
they seem-willing to brook his mises of the Institution of En- when referring to a quotation
"The min.
News: RAEBURN-TURNHEER. - On dictatorial oratory meekly gineers and Shipbuilders of Hong made in a previous letter, without Parade" is no mere glorification
October 6, 1028, at H.B.M. and mildly and,
Kong, to-day, at 6 p.m., by the taking into account the facts of of the newsreel cameraman how Consulate-General, Shanghai,
as it were, courtesy of the Canadian Pacific the case. The quotation from the ever. It is a complete feature down." **In and afterwards at St. Joseph's "lying
these Railway Company. Members and Christian Science text-book gave picture, with a lovely heroine, a Church, Elisabeth, only daugh- days it takes very bold their friends, including ladies, an opinion of Mrs. Eddy's with.re love story, a villain and every-- ter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Turn-man even to appear to regard are cordially invited to be present. card to genuine medical practi- thing. Newsreel Nick has been heer of St. Gall, Switzerland, Duce's views as other than
tionera and was made to correct assigned to get the picture of an
misunderstanding which to George Duncan, eldest Bon
The Bishop of Victoria has left any of Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Raeburn, oracular and in every way the for official visits to various parts might have arisen from certain eccentric old millionaire who last word in logic and wisdom of the diocese. He expects to be statements made by a critic of hates cameras and cameramen, The Duce himself may not think During his 'absence the Dean and son for omitting part of the sen-/doing after a thoroughly divert- back on or about November 22. Christian Science. The only rea- and this he eventually succeeds im Hong Kong, Friday, Oct. 12, 1928. so, but woe betide those hapArchdeacon Mok will act for him tence quoted was because it ob- ing series of incidents have taken
less journalists who venture to in matters of urgent business, viously had no bearing on the place.
MARSHAL LI OF CANTON differ from Mussolini in that res-Correspondence should be ad-subject. But Mrs. Eddy's state- ITALY'S FASCIST PRESS
dressed to the Diocesan Chaplain, ment on page 164 of the text book pect for there would be short the Rev. N. V. Halward, Bishop's that "the cultured class of medi
Shanghai, Yesterday Dictator Mussolini, who says shrift for them, as the Duce never House, St. Paul's College. cal practitioners are grand mén The Kuo Min news agency (a and women, therefore they are semi-official Nationalist organisa that Italy's Press is the freest in forgets that it is the business of
The case, in which a cakemaker more scientific than are false tion) has reported that Marahal Li the world, has just been telling a dictator to dictate.
is charged with the double murdaimants to Christian Science," Chai-sum will be appointed Chief seventy of its directors what they Sig. Mussolini told his former der in Woosung-street, was con- is perfectly pertinent in the pre- of Staff of the Nationalist Army, have to do. This, of course, is colleagues something which they tinued before Mr. W. Schofield at sent instance, since those indivi- with General Hou Yung-chang as quite in accordance with Musso- probably never before suspected the Kowloon Magistracy yester-duals who choose to advocate a Assistant Chief of Staff-Reuter. day. The wife of a previous wit-combination of Christian Science [Note: Marshal L is head of fini's tactics and the policy of the when he said that "the Italian ness, gave corroborative evidence and medical practice, drop auto the Canton Government but has Fascist Government.
Even Press is the freest in the world." of having heard the two deceased matically into the above cate been absent from Canton, in Nan- king, for some time. He was if the Duce might never have It la so because, (so he said) it shouting "save life" on the fatal gory. had any direct connection with is not under the orders of a night Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, Finally, for the benefit of your previously appointed Chief of Staff who is prosecuting on behalf of readers may I be permitted to but never seriously undertook the the Italian Press, it is not to be plutocratic party or individual the Crown, produced further state that the Christian Science duties because he returned to his doubted that he would have groups." By no means; it merely evidence from the inmates of the Watchman" has absolutely no own work at Canton (nstoad.] hesitated for a moment to inform submits itself abjectly to the will shop. The case was adjourned. connection with the Christian Science organisation as founded those who were responsible for its of the autocratic Fascists, parti With Superintendent H. T. by Mrs. Eddy whilst Mr B This Church, has no connec conduct, and what he personally cularly to the supreme dictator, Brooks in charge, the fire brigade avered her connection with the tion with the organisation of a thought about it and what He Sig. Mussolini. It is not clear whe- turned out at noon yesterday, in Mother Church; the Firat Church past period functioning only wanted them to do in fact, insist ther the great Mussolini intend response to a call at the outhouses of Christ Scientist in Boston, mechanically through its legally of the Botanical and Forestry De Massachusetts, as far back as empowered officials in Boston, ed, if need be, upon themed to be funny when he likened atment. m** the
BotanPecember, 1909.
U.S.AThe Christian Science Yours, BL etc., doing all that
Parent Church functions, under. he wanted. Italy's Press to far orchestra cal. Gardens, known as
W. H. Adler.its new. Manual covenant formed 1 Peak-road. These No. But Il Duce la an old journalist, playing the same note. The idea was a pressman for many years, conjures up the Bateman Punch houses, used to store garden im- Christian Science Committee on in consonance with the "model plements were destroyed: For
given by Mary Baker Eddy. The advancing movement of Christian and was straight from the picture of the "one-note man" tunately, other implements valued
Science atands for prevention as Isanctum sanctorum of the little fellow who was respon at about $5,000 were saved by the
well as cure, and for collective'rė- timely arrival of the brigade. The in the vanti that he led his all-gible for only one note
structural woodwork was, how- (To the Editor of the “China Mall?) form in all mòral, physical, cirilg quering black-shirts to glory, mighty composition played by a ever, burnt through and it is Sir, I shall esteem it a favour and religious problems. the grave or to eternal Rome" in full-sized orchestra. The Dus probable, that, the buildings, will if you will kindly publish the This disclaimer is published the wonderful march that cul wants Italy's Preen to play "one have to be reconstructed. The following in your esteemed on page in every issue of the
#102197 | Hon. Mr. 1. D..C.
BAZAVESTANE WChristian Science Watchman te, Captain journal minated in the overthrowing of note" only—and that note, not to superintendent of Police, was si49) 5NICE
Yours etc, Italy's political and effété régime, be discordant to him and his on the scene.
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