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1929,

the

ment. There is a constantly in- creasing association of natives with the administration a firm French hold on the reigns of government, and a firm sup- port of French commerce. Some hint that the French hold the secret of familiar contact and friendship with Eastern and African races which is denied to the cold and distant Anglo-Saxon,'

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1931.

noses buried in reporta What JEKYLL AND HYDE

PRIEST.

Strange Intellectual Double 'Life.

ONE LIFE SAVED

EVERY DAY.

Lifeboat Service During 1930.

obtains in French or Dutch colonies and dependencies is (not) really vital to us here in Hong Kong, although, of course we should never be too high and mighty to learn from others in

A decreo of major excommunica- the desire to bring our own ad-tion--a pennity very rarely inflict-month, free from the terrible The past year was, after the first ministration as near perfection as ed in these days has bech recent-storms which made 1929 memor- possible. Conversely, it would be ly Issued by the Holy Office against able; but the need for an ever- profoundly interesting to ascer- a priest named Turmel, belonging vigilant lifeboat gervice was again

to the diocese of Rennes, France, shown, and once more the servico. tain what a French or a Dutch His case a singular because it proved, fully equal to the 'tlemands Commission would have to report reveals an intellectual double life. made upon it. No fewer than 365 on administrative conditions in Jekyll-Turmel wore his cassock, lives were rescued from shipwreck Hong Kong, to mention no other his other priestly functions, while and Iceland, a life for each day of celebrated Mass, and performed all round the coasts of Great Britain British overseas Possession. Bo Hyde-Turmel has written book the year, and 29 vessels were saved ing as concerned as he apparent against the Church, under no from destruction, or helped to ly is over the decline in the Bri-fewer

fourteen assumed safety by the lifeboats, tish art of governing, perhaps Sir books which are described as not wild weather of January. During names, during the past 22 yours-- Their busiest time was in the Henry Dobbs could take the only heterodox' but impious. that month there were gales on initiative in securing the despatch He is now an ecclesiastical out-Bixteen days, the wind in the of British, French, and Dutch service. If he enters a church he miles an hour; and the lifeboats law. He is forbidden to attend English Channel rising to 103 Commissions. If that were: ns-is to be expelled, dad If he refuses rescued 54 lives. In September 53 aible their reports, jointly `and to go and cannot turned out, the were rescued, and in December 44. severally, might induce him to service must be stopped.

Since the Royal National Lifeboat The faithful are required to Institution was founded 107 years take a more roseate view than he avoid all social relations with him, ago, 62,481 lives have been rescued does at the moment of the Bri-even in writing. They must not-an average of 11 lives every tish art of governing oversens!

live in the same house, take meals week for over a century. or join in prayer with him or show' Although the majority of the him any mark of politeness. livos rescued were British, the life-

News in Brief..

One non-Chinese

case of diphtheria was notifles during the week-end.....

than

one Nor-

one

This applies to everyone except boats again showed that they are his relatives, and servants. He is a great international as well as a also forbidden to wear any kind of great British service. Altogether, ecclesiastical garb.

16 foreign vessels, belonging "to Intellectual Pride.

nine different countries, were auc coured, and G8 lives were rescued The severity of, the punishment from them. Three of the vessels meted out to Turmel is due to the were French, two: German, two duplicity he has shown for so many Swedish, two- "Danish, έτσι years. He seems to have fallen a Belgian, two Greek, Mr. J. H. Jessen, senior partner victim to Intellectual pride at the wegian, one Japanese, and of the firm of Messrs. Jebsen and beginning of his career, Co., (China), Fedder. Building, pae

belonging to the Free City of Thirty-eight years ago, he was Danzig. sed away in Hamburg, on Thurs-professor of dogmatic theology at

Notable Services.--- day,

Rennes seminary, but his teaching The three finest services of the contained so many heterodox ideas year were carried out by the motor The Eliot Hall annual concert and that he was requested to resign, lifeboats at Longhope (in the dante will be held on Saturday at and, since that time, has gradual- Orkneya), Hartlepool (Durham), 8 p.m. Graduates who were mem-ly become a secret opponent of the and Selsey. (Sussex). The Institu bers of this hostel are cordially Church to which he still outward- tion awarded

a silver medal to ly belonged. welcome.

Coxswain John Swanson (Long- After leaving the seminary he hope) and bonze medals to Cox- became chaplain of an almshouse swains Robert Hood (Hartlepool) A fine of $172 or two months' im- and later attached himself to and Frederick Barnes (Selsey). prisonment, was imposed on Kwok another religious Chol Yiu in the Kowloon Court this spending the greater part of his most notable event of the year was

congregation,

Apart from these services; the morning for having two jars of time among his books. dutiable liquor or board his boat.

the sending to the coast of the first A man who knows him describes lifeboat designed and built in him as a "library rat," that is to order to go to the help of aero- on the say.

those confirmed planes which come down at Без. never really The boat is stationed at Dover, double

Police.

on the s.e. Malwa on Saturday.

one of

far into the

and declines to

authorities,

Institution.

Newhaven

and that the foundations of the An interesi'ng sermon moverment against British Im-subject. "If Christ came, what students who are perialism are laid in social anti-would He think of Our Social Sys-happy unless they are surrounded where she will serve the

tem" was preached by the Rev. by books and free from inter-purpose of protecting the дого pathy.

N. V. Halward. M.A., M.C., in St. ference, who read

plane traffic and the heavy passen On the other hand, says the Andrew's Church yesterday eve-night, shun social intercourse and ger steamer trafic across tho

have very few friends. ning.

Straits. She is of an entirely new writer, in a British dependency

Turmel's material wants aro' type, 64 ft. by 14 ft., and she la nowadays one finds, that the Bri-

looked after by an old woman who the largest and fastest motor life. A Chinese woman, Wong Kwai is as uncommunicative as himself. boat in the world. She has two tish have lost faith in themselves attempted to commit suicide by He has shut himself up in his engines, each of 375 h.p., as com and their mission. The heart has jumping from a window into the house gone out of them; they have no street at 24, Bridges Street at mid-strangers. His brother, formerly which, until she was built, were.

seepared with engines of 50 h.p. propaganda spirit. They cannot to the Government Civil Hospital relations with him since his con on our coasta. These engines give day on Saturday. She was removed a missionary, has broken off all the most powerful in any foboat tell what they are working for.and died from a fractured agull demnation by the ecclesiastical her a speed of between 17 and 18 It is not the greater power of the shortly after admission.

knots, so that she la nearly twica' Empire, for that cannot be

Nevertheless, he continues to as fast as any other British life- achieved by a disruptive auto- An unknown Chinese, thought to celebrate Mass in his own private boat. She is named Sir William · Hong Kong. Monday, Feb. 23, 1931.nomy of its parts. It is not Imper- be a refugee, was accidentally chapel, no doubt implying that heillary after the founder of the

drowned while being chased by the adheres to the eternal principle of ial trade, for our rivals are daily villagers of Cheung Wan Village, religion while disagreeing with

The year was exceptionally busy ART OF GOVERNING taking larger shares of the trade who evidently thought he was there dogmas.

for the lifeboat service in other of our dependencies. It is not the for no good purpose. The man

Lay Opinion Severe."· ways. No fower than twelve new By a curious coincidence, this motor lifeboats were completed Have the British lost the art of spread of British culture, for was found concealed in a haystack

and tried to escape by swimming case has come to light during the and sent to their stations. Of governing? This question is everywhere the cry is for the re- the channel to the opposite shore. revival, at опе of the Tarie these boats six went to the English asked in all seriousness in A storation of the vernaculars to a He was seen to disappear, but the theatres, of a play called "Le Pro Coast, Dover and Hythe (Kent), London paper by Sir Henry leading place in education. Some body has not yet been found.

cureur Hallera," the hero of which Berwick-on-Tweedy does his duty as a prosecuting (Sussex), Weymouth (Dorset), Dobbs, who was High Commis-believe that the modern British kioner for Irak from 1923 to official and trader have sacrificed! Mr. L. H. V. Booth, A.S.P., who magistrate during the day and, at and Torbay (Devon); three went to has been acting as Director of night, frequents the lowest and Wales. Moelfre (Anglesey), and After referring to the their souls to sport, that they Criminal Investigation, during the most disreputable plates and be Fishguard and Tenby (Pembroke); cases of India and Irak, with have lost the spirit of devotion to absence of Mr. C. G. Perdue (who haves, in general like a member of one went to Scotland, Lerwick.

(Shetland Islands); one to Ireland, which we are all quite familiar, their work and the seriousness of has returned to the Colony and re-the criminal class. Sir Henry asserts that in Pales- their characters, and that tennis, sumed office as D.C.1.) is, wo Lay opinion seems to like Hallers Ballycotton (Cork), and one to the Isles of Scilly"(St. Mary's). There understand, to take the place of Mr. better than Turmel. tine neither the Jew nor the golf, and polo play the chief part Walter. Kent, A.S.P., as Assistant As M. Clement Vautel remarks are now 90 motor lifeboats in the Arab is content with us. In in their lives. Still others attri- Superintendent of

Mr. in the Journal, if à priest finds institution's fleet of 194 boats; and Egypt the electors have, when-bute the want of touch between and Mrs. Kent are sailing for Home himself no longer able to believe another 15 motor Jifebonta are

the tenets of his Church the most under construction. ever they have had a chance; re-the British and the people among

elementary honesty should causa

Royal Asalstance. him to give up appearing as a re- The year was notable for the turned anti-British representa-whom they live to the increase of

A peculiar attempt at armed presentative of that Church and help which the lifeboat service re¬ Ceylon is fermenting clerical work, which keeps them robbery took place at Au Pui Lung wearing a garb for which he is no ceived from the Royal Family. In. (though not so violently as glued to their desks, with their Village, Hung Hom, yesterday longer fitted: India) and few have a good word noses buried in reports. Finally, when four men, armed with knives and choppers, broke into the house for the new constitution. Only Sir Henry Dobbs advocates that et Lee Sui-kec, a vegetable dealer, from Singapore and the Malay strong Commission should be While, they were searching the room States do no serious murmurs rise sent to selected, dependencies of in which Les Sulkee and his | daughter were sleaping; one of them against us. Hong Kong comes in France and; perhaps, Holland, to strack the sleeping man on the for no mention honourable or inquire into their administrative jaw. A foki managed to escapes otherwise. Perhaps he is not and representative systems, the and call the Police but on their aware of its existence on the comparative burden of their tax arrive the robbers had decamped

taking nothing with them. Empire map! At any rate he pro tion, their treatment of the local ceeds to ask three questions: Press, and their relations with

"Can it be that the Anglo- the governing Power. Saxon races have lost their should and that we had much to NEW PACIFIC LINER. he said, "is the possibility of air-Batron of the Ladles Lifeboat power of governing? Or is it learn, even if we had something merely that they have been to avoid" climbing up the wrong rope and It will be conceded that the have hitherto been too proud indictment against British ad- to climb down and try another? ministration overseas is rather Have they not been too sure strong, but we must agree that that they alone are success where faults do extat it is the ful colonists, and that they duty of Britons to seek to remedy etruction of a third large new "This number of cruisers is have nothing to learn from them. Can it be said truthfully iners p

totally inadequate in the event of other nations?

of Hong Kong, for matance, that The now vessel, to be named the war if we are to give the necessary Lurrline Commerod, will be started i steguide to the constant flow of Then follows a comparison of the British official and the Brit as soon as the Mariposa, a new vital commodities to our andres Tin, Yaumati was the scene of an conditions in the French Colonies, itish merchant have lost the spirit ship now under construction, la Admirat Taylor expressed our oxplosion at about 2.80 this after- where; the impression is given of devotion to their work that of the ways. The Mariposa will rise that the question of possi- noon. At 8 o'clock this evening that the French are enthusiastic sport plays too great a part inhe Larrline Commerce is to bombed by aeroplanes had been removed to the mortuary. The be finished this year. WWW. bility of merchant ships being ten bodies have been recovered and fbelievers in? the superiority of their lives; or that an in-

cost $8,0 and it will join left out of account, and insisted building in which a less serious cuture, and keep before crease of clerical work keeps them the KaTS feet of which's the that this aspect of the question explosion took place some months

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