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“HSUAN CHUANG' The Rapid Growth Of Buddhism.

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY LECTURE

The Rev. Dr. Reichelt of the Tao Fong Shan Christian Institute, Shatin, was the speaker at Thurs- day's public meeting of the Manuk Lodge of the Theosophical Society. He took for his subject, "Hsuan Chuang. the great Chinese pilgrim of old, and his accounts of Budd- hism in India". Mr. Felshow, the Vice-President, was in the chair.

Dr. Reichelt said:-

one,

who

A

"There are always people who prefer to live 11 religious life, rather than a worlily

the real life as look upon spiritual one. India has many followers of this belief, and this attitude influenced the Sanskrit literature, so that we find it lack- ing in historical and geographical detail; thus research work is very difficult. Travellers to India, es pecially Grecks and Chinese kept a fuller account and from these dates can be fixed. The Chinese sources

THE 'CHINA' MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1934.

As Insull Stepped on United States Soil

the 8.5.

One can only guess at the feelings of Samuel Insull, former utilities Tsar, of Chicago, as he placed his fool on American soil for the first time in, 18 months as he went ashore from the Const Guard Cutter Hudson at Fort Hancock, N. J. The cutter transferred the magnate from Exilona in New York Harbour and rushed him to the New Jersey coast for entrainment to Chi- cago.

are very valuable, especially those H.K. VOLUNTEER

of Hsyan Chuang in his book "Hsi

Yu Chi" "The Recurd of the Jour

ney to the Wert." They have great-

ly assisted the work of explorera

and archeologists.

Enthusiastic Love

Hauan-Chuang was born about

Orders For The Coming Week.

Orders by Lieut.-Colonel H. 600 years after Christ at Lahyang. B. L. Dowliggin, O. B. E. Com- Early in life he became interested mandant, Hong Kong Volunteer

this Defence Corps:- in Buddhist philosopy, and rapidly developed into an enthu- siastic love. โช

Buddhism

he the

found deep understanding of universe and cosmos as one unit.

Hong Kong. Friday, 8th June, 1984.

PARADE Corps 1st Battery

His fame spread as an expounder | Tuesday, 14th June-There will

of Buddhism. But he felt that he be a parade at Headquarters at was handicaped by unsatisfactory 5.30 p.m. for Instruction on 6-in. B. translations, so he went to India L. Gan.

to study Sanskirt writinga.

He had to overcome many obsta- eles, especially those of

DEFENCE CORPS

Leave

No. 2085, Pte. A. K. Mackenzie. No. 7 Platoon, No. 2 (Scottish) Company, granted nine months leave as from 1.5.34 to 28.2.35.

STRENGTH

Corpe. No. 2132 Pte. W. N. Buyers, Union Insurance, Society of Canton, No. 1 Co., No. 3 Platoon from 7.6.34.

Sd. P. S. M. WILKINSON, Captain.

Adjutant, H.K.V.D. Corva, "Annual Rifle Meeting and Smoking Concert”

As

advised in last week's

POPE AS COUNTRY GENTLEMAN

To Visit Papal Villa In Summer.

TWO MONTHS-VACATION-

Vatican City. Pius XI is expected to go to the Papal Villa at Castel Gandolfo to

MOVIE DIRECTOR- GOES TO GAOL

Five Years' For Prison Escape.

ARRESTED AT MIAMI

Riverside, California. The mistakes of Emmett Flynn, scenario writer and director, have caught up with him and be has been sentenced to serve five years in San Quentin prison for escaping from prison. He produced. "Hold Your Man,"

CHURCHES

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.

Branch of The Mother Church. The First Church of Christ, Scien- tist, in Boston, Mass, USA.J

Macdonnell Road, Below Bowen Road Tram Station.

Sunday Service 11.15 a.m. .Subject: GOD THE CAUSE AND CREATOR

ONLY

The Sunday school is held on

Mr. Flynn and his first wife, Sunday Morning at 10 o'clock Genevieve were divorced in 1930. Wednesday Evening Meeting at 6 After being arrested for failure to P.m. Reading Room at above ad- pay $100 a week to provide for dress open Tuesday and Friday, 10 their eight-year old daughter. hem. to 12 noon. Monday and Thursday. 5.30 to 7 p.m. The was placed on probation.

Unfortunately Mr. Flynn became Public is cordially invited to at- tend the service and visit the intoxicated, thus violating the

Reading Room. terms of his probation, and was sentenced to serve six months in la road camp.

Mr. Again

Flynn became jinebriated and received

mum sentence of 150 days last! October. He was made a "trusty" -privileged prisoner-and slipped out of gaol.

Misfortune caught up with Mr. Flyan last December when he was jarrested in Miami, Florida.

MASS MURDER IN ANATOLIA.

Beserk Villager Kills Ten People.

Cairo.

A terrible mass murder occurred

His first wife obtained his re- lease from prison on bail and the in the little village of Asarud in charges that he had failed to pro-Anatolia. When a peasant named

were die-Abbas Ahmed went suddeny mad. vide for his daughter

bondamen missed. Mr. Flynn's surrendered him.-Reuter.

SMALLEST FARMER IN WORLD.

take his first summer holiday since Yugo-Slavian's Claim.

the became Pope.

There he will live like a country Or-gentleman for nut less than two

Belgrade.

All ranks are requested/ders this will take place on Fri- months paying daily visits to Amer, claims to be the smallest far-

to attend.

Friday. 15th June--The

Dinner climate Annual

will be

and overwhelming hospitality, but his craving for learning earried him on. His route took him over the mountain of Tibet,

he were normal.

He picked up a hachet and killed Buccessively, his mother-in-law, his wife-and-his five children.

He then rushed out into the

a milkman, street and killed baker, and a policeman.-Reuter,

NEW MOVE TO SUPPRESS NORTHERN COMMUNISTS

SHIRTS

ARROW

$4.75 to $5.25.

AERTEX

$4.50 to $6.50.

WING ON CO.

$2.25 to $6.75.

ROCOLA

DRESS

SHIRTS.

$4.75 to $6.50.

ALSO-

UNDERWEAR, PYJAMAS

and SPORTS WEAR,

THE

WING ON CO.,

LTD,

sive repairs have been in progress: He uses a miniature plough and and $200 for a machine-gun, ac- Hong Kong's Largest Dept. Store

George Apro, a Yugo-Slav Lar- day, 15th June, at 8 p.m. and tic-model farm adjoining the villa.

mer in the world. He is barely Gen. Chiang Kai-shek has issued Since the "reconciliation treaty"

a manifesto to Communist officers 3ft. 4 inches high. Corps kets are now available from Unit

Commanders and also the Officers' with Italy in 1929 released the

Despite his size, be carries out and men offering $20 for each rifle held at

and the Pope from his self-imposed "im- leadquarters at 8 pm. All ranks Mess. Sergeants' Mess

Canteen, at $3.00 per head includ-prisonment in the Vatican, exten-all the work on his land as though surrendered to the Nanging Gov- ernment, $30 for an automatic rifle are expected to attend.

ing all drinks. Dress-Uniform (slacks)

Dress is:-Uniform (Khaki or at the Papal Villa.

sits on a specially high stool toeording to a report from Nanchang will parade through Trumpeters

These are now practically com-milk his cowa-Reuter. Tues- Blue) for all ranks, Officers will Nepal and across the Indian Plain. Headquarters at 5 p.m. "on

pleted, and his Holiness will make a During the whole of his pil-day. 12th June and Friday 15th wear white summer Mess Kit.

As the General Ofeer Cam-preliminary morning excursion | grimage, Hsuan Chuang kept A June, 1934.

manding is presenting the prizes, there to inspect the work some time] painstaking and accurate record of

It is hoped that all ranks will this month. his route and of landmarks and build-

at Miniature Range at

make a special effort to be pre- Very few people will stay inga. After his journey he spent 5.30 p.m. on Monday, 11th June,

Castel Gandolfo with the Pope. about 20 years in China-translating |1934.

Corps Engineers

Parade

at

Bent.

ut

A very good programme for the Accommodation is only being pre-

and recording the literary works he All members attending Annual Smoking Concert is being arrangpared for the prelates and Monsig had brought back with him. Ther Rifle Meeting Dinner on 15th June! were received with great enthusiasm must send in names to 0.C. Com- by the Chinese.

pany by Wednesday 1934.

Religious Inspiration During the 7th and 8th centur-

ed.

13th June,

Corps Signals

at 5.30

jes, a wave of religious inspiration Parade at Headquarters sprend over China and influences p.m. on Tuesday, 12th June 1934. of other religions were fell, expe Machine Gun Battalion

FIVE-YEAR PLAN FOR FRANCE

clally Christianity, which made a Machine Gun Battalion Parades Havre Mayor's Scheme strong impression on the learned will be resumed on Thursday. 14th) people. It was a period of revival June and continued

and expansion and Hsuan Chuang's Thursdays. record stirred up the people.

future

The 3rd Stage of the Machine

About 10 years after Hsuan Gun Companies will be fred at Chuang's book another book

ap-sland Bay on Sunday 24th June peared called "A Mission to Western Heaven". On the surface it

the 1934.

Details of draw etc. will be is. was very fantastic, yet it contain sued later."

Troop

sin-

ed a deep under-esrrent of cerity. It pictures the yearnings | Parade on Tuesday, 12th June

To Conquer Crisis.

EASING THE TAX BURDEN

Paris.

nori on duty in the ante-chamber, and for a detachment of the Swiss guard.

Even Cardinal Pacelli, the Vati- can Secretary of State, the Pope's Foreign Minister will not stay at the villa, but will travel to and fro

from the Vatican every day.

During the Pope's absence work-l mes will be busy repairing his private apartment at the vatican.

The Papal villa is in the Alban Hills, some 20 miles from Rome. was the regular summer resort of A "Five Year Plun" for France the Popes before 870.-Reuter.

by M. Leon has been elaborated Meyer. Deputy and Mayor of Havre,

He believes that it would conqueri

burdens on the tax-payer.

of the undeveloped soul. Its ab 1934 at 5.30 p.m. at Troop Stable, the crisis without imposing new ject was to show the help that dif-Causeway Bay. ferent religions can give to people Armoured Car Company who are seeking the true light,

All ranks will parade on Monday,

The account in Hsuan Chuang's 11th June at Headquarters at 5.30 ut current rates) a year book "The Record of a Journey to p.m.

years by:-

M. Meyer proposes to raise (£25,000,000 2,000,000,000 franca

for five

1. Extending the scope

of the the West" deals largely with places Dress:-Mufti.

production tax to produce some connected with. Buddha's life. Hel No. 2 (Scottish) Company

(about £6,250,-f gave accurate details of distance,

Ordinary Company Parades on 500,000,000 francs

discontinued till 000) a year, and

MEN MANNEQUINS

IN LONDON.

Successful Invasion Of Woman's Domain.

a woman-

London. Men are now having a little of their own back. They are success- fully invading the mannequin pro- cities, and people. There was very Thursdays are little local tradition of the life of further notice.

2. An annual loan to the State fession, until recently Buddha to assist archeologists, but A special Machine Gun Course by the Social Insurance Fund of only province.

University men, actors and ex- with the help of the records many has been organised during the sum-1,500,000,000 francs (£18,750,000). spots have been identified, and ull

Particulars have M. Meyer would distribute this army men are the types particular- ly in demand for this work, accord- doubts have been removed by the been circularised to members, money as follows:

ing to Mr. T. W. Cave, a Londoner discoverie", aided by the records of First parade on Thursday, 14th

who claims to be the world's first Hsuan Chuang. Lunbim, the birth-June 1934.

They are used place of Buddha and Gaya, the city

for displaying pyjamas, suits, mac- kintoshes, flying kit, etc.

mer months.

Appointment

1. Sinking Fund;

2, Export bonuses;

3. Bonuses for the building of male mannequin.

4. Navigation bonuses;

5. Support for agriculture and

where he attained supreme wisdom Government Gazette No. 26-merchant shipping; are only two of the many die Notification No. 439-4.6.34.

Do the women mannequins like coveries made by the archelogical His Majesty the King has been

it?-At least 10 have sworn to boo na a protest at Service of India, with the assis-pleased to approve the appointment wine production:

6. State participation in the ser-themselves hoarse Lance of the records,

In the Most Excellent Order of

by local the men's first big public show the British Empire (Military Divis-vice of loans contracted

bodies for new pubifc works, Reuter. json):~~

Reuter.

Exact Picture

On his return journey Isuan

Chuang visited a number of cities; To be an ordinary member of the

in Turkistan. Guided by the in- Fifth Class or Member:--

formation left by him, modern ex- Company Sergeant Major George POLISH EMIGRANTS

plorera have found that in the 7th Thomas Padgett.

century the people of. Turkistan

had attained to a high civilisation.

Congratulatory

SWINDLED.

TURKS SLAUGHTER 15,000 RAMS.

For Great Religious Festival.

About

Istanbul. 15,000 rams WEID

The Commandant congratulates Not only had Buddhism spread to CSM G.T. Padgett, Corns Bingals, 5,000 Enticed To Cuba. -central Asia, but it had carried In on his being awarded the M.B.E. in

dian culture, art and language the King's Birthday Honour List. False promises that they would with it.

Riffe and Bayonets

become naturalised American cili- Hsuan Chuang was trustworthy

All members of the Corps are zons have enticed more than 5,000 ..and honest in order to give an reminded that their Ribes and Tolish emigrants to Cuba recently, slaughtered by Tarka in Istanbul exact picture. He had a wonder Bayonets must be returned to the it is disclosed in New York. Jon the occasion of Courban Bairam, ful language, Alled with deep poo Corps Armoury at once for the Led to believe that they could the great Moslem religious festival. try., He was noble, human, and Armourer's Annual Inspection. acquire American citizenship after Most of the sheep were given by devoted to holy work He felt that ***** Range Allotment

living in Cuba for a year, those their owners to poor.

'his work was a service and wor The Kennedy Road Range Is emigrants were made to pay $1,200 Thousands of rams were killed by ship, and that there was' sacred allotted to the Armoured Car Com each for a $180 passage by the charitable societies and given away.

conceived the Istanbul was on holiday for atmosphere emanating from the pany on Monday 18th June and swindlers who

Work-Beuter, documents: that God had been Monday, 25th June," 1984. -zgulding him.

scheme.

Ito the Sinivanpao.

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