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who would have been entirely The St. John. Ambulance satisfied with what they had. Brigade vaccinated 837 during There could be no progress until the week ended April 18. With enough people could be made dis- the number brought forward, satisfied, and this could be done 332,252, the grand total pow only when they were brought to reaches 333,089, think beyond the limits to which| Bhan

they were. accustomed '' ... | A ̈Chinese seaman, 45, nameć Restlessness is one of the most Ko Lin, was held up by five healthful signs of our generation. strangers in Des Voeux-road Cen- Restlessness is discontent--and tral on Saturday afternoon, and discontent is the first necessity of relieved of small money and a progress Show me a thoroughly hat. The men took to their heels, satisfied man and I will show you but subsequently one was caught.

failure. "The wheels of progress

Smiles From Court

SLIPPERY EELS-A PIECE OF DEER TAILS CHOPPING A BAD GHARACTER TAKING BOTTLES FOR A WALK-BABY BORROWED FOR THE OCCASION?

The number "13" may or may not be unlucky, but when it is associated with slippery eels, have worked results which might The engagement is announced there is a different significance. be called miracles. But their of Harold Gordon Eales, seconde Sam was this morning standing before Major C. Willson, greatest service has been to raise son of the late Mr. W. J. Eales

the thinking capacity of society, and of Mrs. Eales, Uplands Park, O.B.E., at the Central Magis If there is one evil in the world Enfield, and Louise, younger tracy, and crawling in a basket today for which there is no ex-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A were the thirteen eels. Accord cuse, it is the evil of stupidity." Vivian Hogg, of Peak Hok Tua pery creatures. They had crawl ing to Lau they were very slip-

(From a widely published inter-Canton. view with Thomas A. Edison).

ed out to him whilst he was tak- Hing a walk along Connaught-road Under the direction of the D. F. Over the week-end one case of Robertson Travel Bureau of Los West, near the Western Market. Lau looked at them and pon- small-pox, one case of diphtheria, Angeles, a party of Americans

dered over from California arrived on Satuṛ-

the ingratitude of and one case of enteric fever were day on the Dollar Steamship Line these snake-like, oviparous, verte- notified. All were Chinese.

s.s. "President Wilson." Includ.brate animals and thought of the ed in the party are Mr. and Mrs. pains a certain fisherman must The H.K.S. Brigade Royal Artil-0. B. Kec, Long Beach, Calf, and have taken to land them out of the the way lery Sports take place to-morrow Mr. and Mrs. Grant Egbert, mil-water, and that was

were saying (Tuesday) at the Royal Naval lionaire motion picture operator, these creatures Officers Sports Ground, King's of Hollywood.

"thank you" by quietly creeping Park, Kowloon,

away.

The Mui Fa Dancing Company will give a display of modern Chinese classical dances, plays, and songs from Monday to Thurs- day at the Po Hing Theatre, Kow- loon.

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

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"Well, I shall take them with me, and as a fit punishment for their ingratitude to the poor fish- erman, I shall put them in a pot. and boil them for food," mused Lau.

(To the Rellor of the "Chima Mall.”))

He did and that was why ke Sir, As reviewed in the was in Court this morning. The The death occurred in Canton "China Mail" and the "Sunday fisherman told a different story.. on Saturday, through meningitis, Herald," Dr. Pfister, in an article He said that the cels were not of an Annamite soldier of the at- entitled "Hypnotism and psycho- ungrateful. They were reposing tachment of French troops sta-therapy in Medical Practice" peacefully in the basket, and Lau tioned in the French Concession, published in the February issue not only lured them but actually

of the Journal of the Hong Kong took them away. Shameen,

University Medical Society, asso- Major Willson agreed that Lau The Hon. Treasurer of the ciates Christian Science healing was a bad man and fined him $10, them, led to the choice of George St. John Ambulance Brigade with the above methods and for or, in default, ten days' imprison-

Tail Thereby Hangs a Tale Permit me to explain that It is always dangerous to play

no wise akin to mental sugges-does that there is bound to be a tion, mesmerism, hypnotiam, tale.

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right loyal is every good English- the Brigade:-Sir Robert Hochristian Science treatment is in with a piece of tail, because if one

country's "Patron Saint," and lowing donations to the funds of grant space for a correction.

Tung $200, Mr. Kwok Hin-wang man to him to this very day. It

| $25. ie interesting to read that under

Mr. H. E. Scriven, General psycho-therapy, or any other Wong Lo will by now be the the auspices of the local Saint' George's Society the day will be. Pabst, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. form of mental treatment which wiser for it. He had the pervert Pinguet and Miss Pinguet were involves thought-transference ored. humour to make a punt of a observed in Hong Kong in a man- among the passengers

All piece of deer tail, which he saw on the the exercise of will-power.

of Mrs outside a medicine vendor's shop ner befitting the occasion--At 11 N.Y.Ks.s. "Kitano Maru" when through the writings a.m. the President of St. George's she left Hong Kong on April 19 Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder yesterday.

of Christian Science, she points "Ha," he said to himself, "what for Singapore. Society will lay a wreath on the!

out that attempts to use the above fun I shall have now with that Cenotaph. On the same day Fourteen days' hard labour was methods will destroy one's power nicee of tail." Wong certainly did and by kind permission of Lt.-the sentence imposed on a Chin- to heal through the law of God. have some fun, but what he omit- Col. OH. Little, D.S.O., the ese who stole a pair of trousers She classifies them as "animal ted to do was to ask the permis- from a clothes' line at the back magnetism," and regards the corsion of the owner first before tak- buglers of the Somerset L. I. will yard of Mr. Grimes's house at rect understanding of this subject ing the piece of tail out for a

Wong-nei-chong-road, as so important that, in the walk. sound "The Retreat" on the No. 133

Science textbook, belong to Mr. Christian

The net result of his frolic was Cricket Ground at 5.30 p.m. At The trousers

"Science and Health with Key to that he had to bestir himself Grimes's amah. 7 pm. the President will broad-

the Scriptures," she had devoted early this morning, partake of a cast the telegrams from fellow- A Band concert by the K. 0.a chapter to it entitled Animal frugal breakfast supplied gratis at the Police Station, and then Societies and deliver an address 5. B. will be given in the Penin-Magnetism Unmasked.

sula Hotel roof garden next Sun- Such being the case, Dr. make his debut before Major C. to Englishmen, while at 8 p.m. day, April 28, at 9.15 p.m. Ad- Pfister is mistaken when he re-Willson, at the Central Magis-

Christian Scientists tracy. (on the same day) the President. mission will be $1.50 and tables proaches

The owner of the deer tail said Committee and members of the jor seats may be reserved at the with trying to use these methods Society will be "At Home" to H.M.Hong Kong, Peak, Repulse Bay, without medical knowledge and that he had paid $40 for it, and it

or Peninsula Hotels.

since Christian Science and what was of great medicinal value. In is known as medical practice are fact, it was a panacea. The "Kitano Maru" had aboard diametrically opposed, such know- Wong was asked to spend four- a large number of Japanese offi-ledge would be a hindrance rather teen days at the Victoria Gaol to cers when she left Hong Kong on than an aid to the genuine Chris-get over his bad habit of taking Saturday for Europe via Suez. tian Science practitioner, who other people's deer tails without

Lt-Comdr. M. relies radically on the divine Mind, permission. These include

Chopper Versus Bad Character Nowadays, Akane, Lt. S. Inagawa, Lt.-Col S. God. Kawase, Major T. Tajiri, Col. T.

Ah Chong and Ah Sai had never Watanabe, Capt. B. Honno, Major doctors go so far as to designate wasted any love on each other. K. Iriye, Capt. Y. Imamura. Christian Science as quackery; Ah Chong, however, kept on the on the contrary many of them narrow and straight path, but Ah

in the Lee Thea- Hong Kong, Monday, April 22, 1929. Forces

tre, when they will be entertain- ed at a smoking concert, which ST. GEORGE'S DAY

also will be broadcast. An ex- To-morrow in Hong Kong and cellent programme will be sub- elsewhere throughout the world,mitted and the various items will wherever Englishmen gather, the be presented by well-known local day sacred to the name and fame amateurs.

We have frequently thought of England's patron saint--the

few fair-minded

In its issue of last Friday, the have attested that Christian Sai had always wanted a broad good Saint George-will be cele-how regrettable it is that on this Hong Kong Daily Press" report-Science does heal all types of road to perambulate himself, and Dr. Charles Hunter, eventually it led him to destruc- brated. We have, on a previous day so very little notice is taken ed that Mr. Harry Cooper stated diseases. occasion in these columns, ob- of the anniversary of one who in the Donaldson case, at the associate professor of clinical rion.

These two old enemies came to not only a very great Central Magistracy, before Major medicine in the University of

C. Willson, O.B.E., that "until re- Manitoba publicly states that a clash on Saturday, and as Ah- served that though Saint George Was

Englishman but of one who was cently he had been Editor of the "Christian. Science has helped Sai was a bad character, Alı is to-day probably more than ever celebrated by Englishmen unquestionably a sound patriot. China Mail." This statement many persons suffering from Chong took hold of a chopper to Mr. Harry diseases, which to the medi- chop him. This display of gallan-

practitioner Cooper has never been Editor of cal:

had very little indeed that may be re-To-morrow also is not only the an- was not correct.

defied try, however, was nipped in the diagnosis... Christian Science, bud by the ever watchful Police, garded as authentic is known of niversary of Shakespeare's birth- the "China Mal

furthermore, has brought relief to and Ah Chong was brought before him. He is believed to have been day but, strange coincidence, it

docia,

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W. H. ADLER. Christian Science Committee on Publication for H.K Hong Kong, April 22.

Home-

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Ah Chong got off, and outside the precincts of the Court, he said that in future he would be friend to the bad character.

Baby Makes the Difference

a Koman citizen, born in Cappa also is the anniversary of his Over 200 dancers occupied the individuals who were victims of Mr. E. W. Hamilton, on a charge fearless denunciator death-the wonderful English floor of the R.E. Theatre when organic disorder, proving that of attempting to do Ah Sai bodily To Ah Sai, discretion was better of the martyrdom of Chris poet and dramatist, of universal the R.E. Warrant Officers' and psycho-therapy is not solely con- Sergeants' Mess gave their last fined to functional diseases." Sir tians and himself, altimately, a fame, having been born at Strat-dance of the season on Saturday William Barrett, F.R.S., the emin- than revenge. He knew that the martyr. He is said actually to ford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564, night. Q.M.S. Scott was M.C. and ent British physicist and investi- Magistrate would have

Christian thing to say to him also, and music was provided by the Dance gator, in a book on same have had the temerity to de- and passing away in the

Band of H.M.S. "Suffolk." Much Science, has said: "I am bound although he was the complainant nounce the Emperor Diocletian town on April 23, 1616. No doubt of the success of the series of to say that cures, often of a very in the case, he thought it would for his persecution of the early to-morrow's programme is quite dances run by the Mess during the remarkable character, are effect-be better not to turn up to prose-

marvellous im-cute his foe. Christians; and very probably suitable, but it would have been last season has been due to the oned. The

thusiastic efforts

Having no way to teach Ab of Sergeant provement in the general health Peachey,

of persons who have become ad-Chong a lesson, the Magistrate this led to his own persecution. more so had something from the "Glorious William's" work been

herents to this faith is unques-told him that It looked to him that Emperors and officials generally

nd offic

he could get off, because the bad included. Saint George' deserves The annual meeting of the tionable."

Yours: etc., Chinese Club took place on Satur-

character was not in Court, had, in those rough-and-ready

all the honours heaped upon day, Dr. Ma Luk being in the days, rather a rough-and-ready

his worthy head. But so also chair. The report; and accounts way of dealing with any sort of opposition. But neither persen does Shakespeare, Perhaps of last year were passed, and the next year the local St. George's following were elected officials for the coraing year-Mr. Li Hoi- tion nor, mártyrdom, we fancy,

A Chinese woman, with a baby would have much terror for the Society will bear this in mind and tung, Chairman;. Mr. Chiu Mui-

in her arms, stood before Mr. who was able to tackle forget not the great literary chow, Vice-Chairman; Mr. K. L. heritage that has come to us Chau, Hon. Secretary; Mr. Woo

A constable accused him of sell-E W. Hamilton this morning at "dragons," according to the fami-

Pak-luk, Hon. Treasurer, and ing them without a licence, but the Central Magistracy. lar episode associated with, Saint and to the world through the eleven uthier members to serve on the irate accused said that he was was there because she had hawk- glowing mind of the Son of the Executive Committee. only walking along the road with ed fruits instead of cooked food George. As a matter of fact,

them. He was not selling; cer- as permitted by her licence. neither the worthy Saint George Stratford-on-Avon," who was

Many Homebound passengers tainly not, but had only intended His Worship: Is that baby your born on and died on St. Georges were on the P. & D. 9.s. "Kar- to take them to Macão for sale.own, or just borrowed for the oc-

mala" when she sailed from Hong His Worship: Certainly you casion? Kong on Saturday, including were not taking the bottles out for The Woman: No, your Wor- The most necessary task of Capt. L. H. G. Andrew, Mr. and a walk?

ship, it is my own and I am a civilisation," declared Mr. Edison, Mrs. M. E. Ashley, Capt. and Mrs. The Accused; No, but I had widow. "is to teach men how to think. G. S. Bates, Mr. S. Baker, Mr. buto and His Worship: All right; you Our grandfathers were not equip J. C. Boyd, Dr. and Mrs. F was taking the bottles to a are fined only $1. ped mentally to grasp or to utilise Clark, Mr. L. Cubitt, Mr. and Mrs. friend's house. Somehow the bag the new order of things. It was A. H. Elston, Surg. Comdr, P. L. fell and some bottles were broken. necessary to create an under Gibben, Mr. and Mrs. T. Grim- I was picking up the fragments standing and appreciation of a shaw, Lt, H. Harris, M.C., Major when the constable arrested me higher standard of living, and HJ Hughes, M.B.E, and Mrs. His Worship (rubbing the tip then a desire for it a demand to Hughes, Mr and Mrs. J. Johnston of his nose) Yes, I see, just take get more out of life on the part Lt. Col. and Mrs. L. T. Lucey, Mring the bottles out for a walk, of several millions of individuals J. McLeod,

eh? Well, $5 or eight days' hard

man

nor anybody else ever saw મ dragon, doubtless for the same or a similar reason that Icelanders never see snakes in their native land, namely, because there is

none to see.

The "dragon incident" is now adays explained in the light of being symbolical of the triumph of Christianity over evil. L England and elsewhere the doughty deeds, or the legend of

Day.

Taking Bottles for a Walk!

She

A young Chinese dressed in for- eiga attire had to explain to Mr. Hamilton this morning what he was doing with several bottles of Hon Far oil. ...

Continued at foof of preceding

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