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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1929.

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ST. GEORGE'S BALL

6th January, 1910.

EMBERS are requested to

Man in their applications

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THE CHINA MAIL.

REV. PIKE BELIEVED PERSONAL RIGHTS OF

MURDERED

JOHN BULL

र

MISSING MISSIONARY REPORTED THE CULT OF INDIVIDUALISM:

SHOT BY BANDITS

THROWN IN RIVER

Hon. Secretary, c/o Linstead & A number of reports which hava Davis.

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"It is certainly true that the recently been received in Shang- English have the appearance, to hal, point to the fact that foreigners, of being both un- the Rev. D. F Pike of the soclable and hypocritical," writes China Inland Mission, who was Geoffrey Layman, in "Harper's OIL FIELD FOUND IN taken by bandits in Kuefchow some Monthly Magazine," in explaining months ago, is dead-murdered by his countrymen to American read- his captors a few days after heers. The apparent unsociability

(at

SZECHUAN

LARGEST FIELD IN WORLD

had been carried off when on one of the Englishman arises, I be PROPOSAL TO DEVELOP FOURTH of the regular itineraries connect-lieve, not from shyness nor ed with his evangelical work in the any rate as far as his unsociabl There is at a posity towards his own fellow-coun province. sibility that he is alive, it is undor-trymen is concerned) from any

PETITION TO WORK DEPOSIT stood, but the reports of his mur sense of superiority. It is simply der bave come from so many differ that he is

Apparently, efforts are an Individualist, and

at last ent sources that the assumption that he regards himself, his per natural resources

being made to develop the vast that they are correct is more than sonality, as a possession which he Abounding as it does in lead, silver, of Szechuan. justified.

The Rev. J. Crofts of the same one except his family and his in galt, jade, gypsum, iron ore and oil, is not prepared to share with any.

copper, zine, gold, coal, sulphur, mission has been making investiga-timate friends. A conversational of which salt is the only commodity tions in the country where Mr. opening by a stranger in a rall which has recelyed much serious Pike was captured, at no small risk way carriage, and still more the consideration in the past, Szechuan to himself, and according to his inquiries the captive missionary which he is liable to be naked by province and yet one of the poorest. somewhat intimate questions is considered to be China's richest was shot in the back by the bandits the New York reporter, embarrass Her huge raining resources

make

an

A few days after they had taken him not because he is shy, but be her probably the richest of China's him, his clothes and the saddle of cause he regards them as an in provinces but lack of communica- his horse. and his body

trusion upon his privacy and, tions and the failure of the people thrown into a river.

This report therefore,

almost, would appear to confirm the one

ne it were, to develop them make her one of published

an indecency. previously that the

the poorest. "Consider the high clothes and a saddle belonging to a

walls and Thus, a correspondent of the Kuo foreigner had been found near the thickset hedges which

we build Wen News Agency, writing from roadside in a village in Kueichow.round our gardens, and compare Chungking, says: "In natural re- The late Mr. Pike's colleagues them with the wall-leas and sources, this province is regarded had not ceased their inquiries both hedgeless gardens of the New as China's Paradise." The unfor- at the provincial capital and in the York suburbs-there you have a tunate part of the matter, he says; district where the bandit gang was good symbol of the difference is that China does not possess known to be. In all cases they were which has grown up between our sufficient experts to exploft or ex- 'met with professions of official two peoples,

plore the province. When there are ignorance as to what had happen- "This insistence upon the secur- such men, they are not given ed. Only lately when the reports ity of his personal privacy is of opportunity. Their efforts to work of his death became so sure that it a piece with the Englishman's in- are blocked and so nearly all of was almost impossible to deny them aistence upon the security of his Szechuan's natural resources (and did the officials admit that they had personal rights. He draws a for that matter the natural ra- known of it for some time.

sharp distinction between his sources throughout the whole coun- The murdered missionary was an public and his private life. His try), remain underground and un- Australian and had been in Shang-private life belongs to himself and touched. hal for a number of years before to his family and intimate friends;

For instance, the writer .con. going to Kueichow. His work and he deeply resents any intru- tinues, the silver mine at Luipo (2) was connected with the trans- sion upon it either by the State, a Szechuan was not exploited until port department of the mis- in the person of the police or the its accidental discovery by several sion and he became well-known bureaucrat, or by his fellow-men. Yunnanese who happened to pass in shipping circles and among men Community'a Claims through the place. Then, with the of the Customs service. Ho leaves "In his public fe, on the other aid of the local governmental a wife and four sons. Mrs. Pike hand, when he is acting in his authorities, steps were taken to de is still in Kuelchow and from all capacity as a citizen as opposed velop the mines and they are among accounts has borne her husband's to his capacity as an individual, the very few silver mines to be martyrdom and her own bereave- he is prepared to recognise that operated at the present time. And, ment with great courage. The sym the claims of the community must, without a doubt, there are numer pathy of a very wide circle goea out if necessary, override his perous other mines which have yet to to her and her family.

sonal emotions and predilections be discovered. and that is why he makes such a

Water from the "Fire Tunnel* Recently, a Mr. Hu Koon-wen, of good jaryman, and furns out 85 per cent, strong to vote at a gen" filed a petition with the National the Boon-chi District, Szechuan, oral election.

"As for the Englishman's allegvelop an oil field which has been Government for permission to de- ed hypocrisy, this, I think, is an discovered in this district. Accord- illustration of the large parting to an investigation made by a which the subconscious or instinc- Swiss oil expert this ollfeld may tive plays, in his mental make-up be ranked among the four largest Hypocrisy, as I understand the in the world for it covers an area word, means consciously making of more than seven square ll. yourself out to be a better man

In response to this petition, the than you are. Now the English Ministry of Agriculture and Mines is reported to have sent a party of "He really and truly belleves experts to Szechuan to investigate himself to be a much better man conditions and to make a survey of than anyone else. That ballef, is the field, so as to obtain an accurate not based on any rational evi idea of things. dence-Indeed there is much evi-

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