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The Committee of the H. K. Benevolent Society acknowledge most gratefully a ease of milk from the Nestle & Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co.

A fine of $10 with the option of fourteen days* jall with hard labour was imposed on a Chinese for steal- Ing a cooking pot from a dwelling house at Canton Road.

Mrs. A. T. Hamilton has consented to present the prizes at 6 p.m.

body.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1930.

HAVE WE LIVED,

BEFORE?

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BY SIR OLIVER LODGE

сап

MONG those who accept as a or association with matter, has For general information it is fact the persistence of the for Its object the development notifled that No. 147 Kong Sau-human spirit after bodily death of Individual character or per- youn (King's College), has been there is sometimes, a debate beaonality by a materialiaług process awarded Matriculation and not a tween two alternatives; for the appiled to some entity which, though Senior Local Certificate as at first question

arises whether that in a vague way existing previously, announced.

existence is continuous, in some did not exist in that spectifle form. state or condition apart from mat Encasement in matter, which is The ninth annual athletic sportster or whether it is subject to occaessentially more discontinuous than of Ellis Kadoorie School for Indiana, sional discontinuities, such as would space, has the effect of isolating a gradually Increasing will be held to-morrow at the Indian be involved in reassociation with portion-a Recreation Club ground at 2 p.m. matter by the construction of an-portion-of a general psychic reality,

to kindly other and yet another material 30 as

screen that portion from surrounding influences ex-

those I am acquainted with plenty of cept

to which it evidence in favour of persistent gain access through its specially existence, and even temporary adapted and limited sonse organs. utilisation of other organlama, but During its incarnation, there- I am not acquainted with any real fore, the mind primarily apprehends evidence in favour of what may be only matter-matter subject to and called full-blown reincarnation; displaying the various forms of though I know that in some form energy--and can thus concentrato a belief in the truth of this, and on a comparatively undistracted` even a felt consciousness of it, is mundane existence for д short prevalent among the group of pen- | period. ple known as Theosophiats, who pos. "Two pigs should never be car-sibly have acquired some evidence ried in one crate. I hold that as unknown to me derived from Indian definite cruelty" remarked Mr. experience or meditation. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon

Incarnation Maglatracy this morning, when two; The position of myself and of Chinese men were charged with many of the psychic investigators causing unnecessary suffering tois at present that incarnation, two pigs in Kowloon City and Aned

An unemployed Chinese was fined $25 or, in default, sentenc ed to three weeks' hard labour, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn ing for trespassing in a Govern ment plantation at Ngau Shi Wan. and cutting the branches of pine

trees.

$8 each.

An open Invitation is given to SOVIET AND CHINA

all interested to attend the open-

ing of the New Kowloon Branch What Minutes of Parley of the Helena May Institute at B.;

Disclose

"Earth Life" The episode of earth life thus leads to an accumulation of expert ence, the memory of which persists; and it is difficult to see what gain there would be in interrupting the continuity of this memory by once more plunging the personality into a subsequent incarnation. It would to lead only to confusion. brain is an inhibiting or aereening organ, in which habits

seem The

mny he stared but not true memory. Momory has shown itself to be a mental process," a deposit in the mind, which demonstrably survives the brain; and upon the mind, pre- sumably, our Individual reactions or behaviour depends, as something mere raical habits Memory and charac-

Nanking, Yesterday. c. T. Wang, Foreign Commissioner, separate from

Interviewed by Press men, Dr.

the productive field can be des- Aimai Villas, Austin Road, Kow- troyed by a single year's rise or loon, on Friday, January 24, at 5 fall in the price level."

Lady Clementi has kindly Like p.m.

consented to open the premises. many other financial and banking Advt.

made the following statement:- and instinct. experts, Sir Josiah Stamp does

The minutes of the Chinese and, ter thus developed constitute the not profess to find a remedy for A Chinese woman named Cheung Russian preliminary confabulation individual. the most unsatisfactory and un-So-chan, of 35, Bonham Road, was received showed that it had dis- satisfying situation created by a the victim of a sneak thief at Beussed questions other than the Assuming (as we well may) that trying period of unstable price in Bonham Road, near the top of not within its scope.

p.m.. yesterday. She was walking Chinese Eastern Railway, which are earthly existence in association with Mo Teh-huei; matter is of value in the age-long

The Still Born Child

and exchange levels. He does ad-Western Street when the thief came was naked by the Government, to process of evolution, it may be sur vocate, however, "n conselous up from behind, anatched her hand-come to Nanking immediately.mised that in the case of frustrated public opinion, determined to bag which contained money and Ganton News Agency.

jewellery to the value of $803, and, ran away.

Earlier News

have a yard-stick for its more

Nanking, Yesterday. vital relationships that is not

In spite of the preliminary settle ment of the China-Soviet dispute it is made of jelly or elastic. Public A small boat rowed by an old learned that the German Government, opinion must get in the habit of man of 82 suddenly capsized yes-will continue to take care of the Chin- asking: about every question in-terday afternoon when passing the ese interests in Soviet Russia until volving contractual relations and

Naval Depot at Kowloon. He was China's diplomatic and consular re- rescued by n Police launch which presentations there are fully establish monetary values over long periods happened to be in the vicinity. In ed.-Reuter. of time, or between nations or spite of the coldness of the water]

First Train Arrives large classes of people, with public the man was none the worse for The boat was towed or international policy involved." his wetting. (to Yaumati.

He adds: That the true under-

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lying causes of many of our

There will be a concert at the social troubles should be laid hare Helena May Institute

on Thura-

incarnation, like that of still-born children for instance, a 'second chance may be permitted. I do not know.

individual no second chance seems But for any fully developed necessary or desirable.

It has been suggested, however,

by Myers and others that we are none of us fully and completely in- carnate here and now; that in fact our present manifestation is I Harbin, Yesterday. portion of a larger subliminal self, The first train from Vindivostock beneath the threshold of conscious- since the outbreak of the Sino-Sovietness, which only surges, up ccca. dispute steamed in yesterday. It is ex- sionally in genius and other excep- pected that the trans-Siberian service tional manifestations but which is will be resumed this week-Reater.

a considerable storehouse of know- ledge.

BRAIN_TEST_

Problem

is essential in the interests of day, January 23, at 5.30 p.m. „Hong-Kong, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1936. clear dealing with public issues, Items-by-Madame-Bonenfant, Mrá Bowes-Smith, Major McNair, and and public opinion should be. B. A. Green. Tickets may be Maths. Solves the Colour moulded by the truth." Sir booked in advance, Please note, Josiah points out that even then tens must be booked, telephone the fact of still being without a Matron C. 2160,-Advt. "Hope springs eternal in the remedy, or an effective remedy, is! human breast" of business men beside the mark; we shall at least

A STABLE, LEVEL

no less than in that of ordinary have learned not to blame the MR. LUM KIN-SANG

Death of Old Chinese Resident

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mortals such as mere Professors, wrong causes and not to base our doctors, lawyers, and journalists. hopes upon remedies that must be Ever since the crisis of 1925-27 a disillusionment. But he is em- business men in this Colony have phatic that to clear away what been hoping against hope for a Irving Fisher calls the "money genuine turn in the tide of trade illusion" is the first necessity of The death of Mr. Lum Kin-aang (who was known as "Sang" by and not merely, a ripple that thinking to-day on social ques-many Europeans) for 26 years unhappily subsides in a twinkling. tions.

Chlef Chinese Assistant, Mechani-

The Larger Self And it has been thought that some other portions of this large

self may hereafter become incar nate; so that a complete self shall ultimately emerge and survive as a group or composite of many experi New York; Yesterday. ences and memories, each fraction West Point Military Academy contributing an element of value has solved the colour problem by to the whole. A frustrated or Parhj, of Chicago, the sole negro only affect a small portion of the the use of mathematics. Alonzo truncated Incarnation would then cadet, has been "honourably dis whole composite self, so

that if charged" for failing to pass a full terrestrial

experience were special examination in mathema- denied to this small portion the de tics. Although officials have re privation would not be of such great peatedly denied unfairness, it is importance.

secret that the discharge has solved a dimeult situation.--Reu-

ter's American Service.

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SHANGHAI COURT

Difference of Opinion at Conference

Personal Experience The whole larger self would pre- Humably be the really persistent and growing or evolving. entity; though the individuality laborious- ly grown in each separate portion. would certainly be retained, and. would contribute its quota of per sonal experience and memory to the whole.

Moreover, it might often

Of symptoms of a revival of trade Reverting to the problem from cal Departments, South China there have been many, only to the angle of local trade, any sign Morning Post, occurred at 2.25 prove the truism of the old adage: of a public consciousness of them. to-day at his residence,

Leung Fal Terrace. "Oft expectation fails where necessity for grappling boldly andį

Mr. Lum was one of the pro- most it promiseth." Eyes that openly with the difficulties be-moters of the Wah Klu Yat Po,

• feel a strange, inevplicable sym have been longingly cast toward gotten of the lack of a stable level the career of which has provid-

Shanghai, Yesterday, pathy with other portions of the In the. his- South China have been over-in commerce and exchange is toled an object lesson

The Shanghai Court Conference larger self to which it belonged, tory of local vernacular papers. strained in watching the per-be doubly welcomed. It is far

met again yesterday. Views stil! This doctrine, I venture to think, A native of Fukien province, differ on several points, but the may be some approximation to the petual turmoil of civil strife and from sufficient to abstain from Mr. Lumi was 61 years of age. Government is confident of early truth. But it is not a subject on its dire effects on the commerce exhibiting the spirit of the round-His health, had been poor for the settlement.

which anyone has A of Hong Kong. On not a few oc- table conference on the plea that known that he suffered from an on Saturday afternoon. Canton who study psychle subjects is last three years. Latterly it was

right to The conference will meet again dogmatise. The business of those casions within the recent past we seem to be at the mercy of incurable brain disease. The best News Agency. the horizon has brightened con-almost unseen forces. Nor is it attention in South China was ob siderably, only to be followed by suficient or helpful to clamour tained but to no purpose. He overcast and gloomy skies-and for an outside expert to en- passed away after a long period

of unconsciousness,

He leaves a widow and eight

The funeral will be held at 4

children.

a reversion to pessimism on the deavour to assuage the scars of part of merchants here. Lean battle against dwindling trade business, empty order books, and and a dwindling dollar. The re- blank ledgers are sufficient to medy-or at least alleviation Pm to-morrow. discourage the stoutest heart in must be sought within the border the realm of commerce..” Well may the cry arise: "Oh for a stable level of trade over storm and declining resolutely to specified number of years; oh own ourselves vanquished by for a

a stable level of the dollar forces over which it is asserted around, which so many fortunes we have no control.

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have been won and lost." And,

oh for a stable policy in the Two

Kwangs not for 'a' month or a fquarter but for at least a decade!-

Discussing this question of a

of our own hearths, meanwhile refusing to bow our heads to the

News in Brief

ARTIST'S DEATH

American Who Won Carnegie Medal“

New York, Yesterday. The death has occurred, at the age of 63, of Mr. George Gardner Symons, the well-known American Artist. He was a member of the Having apparently died of cold Royal Society of British Artists, and

was awarded the Carpegio Frize, for a,

WAILING WALL

Commission to Solve Enigma

Geneva, Yesterday. The League Council has adopt- ed-Mr. Arthur Henderson's 'pro- posal for the appointment of a League Commission of three mem- bers (Britons excluded) to solve the wailing wall enigma-Renter.

HATRY CASE

gradually to accumulate more evidence, in the hope of ultimately. being able to formulate a reason. able working hypothesis, and so lend gradually to a theory con- sistent with all the facts.

Ten Years Ago

[From the "China Mall," January 15, 1920.1

To-day's dollar is worth 5/- 1%.

The wedding took place this morning at St. John's Cathedral. the Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle officiating, of Mias, Mildred Mary Hayman of Bournemouth to Mr. Artbur Murdoch, of Messrs. Jar dins Matheso¥ & Co., Eẞdore 12

The bride who was dressed in a.' „", Landang. Yesterday, white gown-with white net well.

Grand Jury Return

*A True Bill

Fetable level, Sir Josiah Stamp and exposure, the bodies of two National Academy design in 1919, A Grand Jury at the Old Bailey | was given Aawky, by MrC/G/

declares that "ten years" work In

Chinese were found in Mongkok His principal works include The has returned a true billsgainst Alabaster, B.E cousin. of the Yesterday.... The first was lying in Winter Bun," "Borrow and "The Hairy and his three associates. bride, demok building up a spirit of solidarity Canyon Bond. The second was Opalescent RiverReuter's American The trial will probably be held Mr. R. de C. Longmire was best

of Interest in found in Reclamation Street

*von January 20Renter.

Service.

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