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BACK TO THE BIBLE

THE PROPER ENEMY

OF

MANKIND

SOME DEPREDATIONS

BY MICROBES

Jews who have gone to Pales- MORE DEATHS CAUSED BY INSECTS

tine have been busily engaged in

changing Aryan names to more patently Jewish ones.

According to the Palestine Gazette

Jews with non-Jewish names are ransacking the Bible for Old Testament designations. Thus a Mr. Leslie John Martin has recently become Joshua Gold- stein.

pora

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THAN BY WARS

(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge, D.D.)

♥

UR ancestors in the middleyOuverture. In reality, 22000 out ages were afraid of devils: of the French army of 25.000 died.

we are afraid of microbes of yellow fever.

Nervous people in the middle ages Some years ago I wrote "an looked under their beds for a devil article on War Losses The Grest Several Jewesses named Fanny as Miss Matty, in "Cranford War was the first in history, er | have reappeared with the more

artistic and biblical name of Za-looked under hers for a burglar cept the Franco-Prussian War of The mark on the wall where 1870, în which the microbe did not Luther threw his inkpot at the do most of the killing. In the enemy of mankind is still shown Seven Years' War (1756-1763) ther

An ancient sauffer, dug up in Austrians lost-$2.000 killed and "The Greatest Bowler of All building operations, was presented 92.400 by disease. In the Napo- Time" is the sub-title of a little to St Pauls. I suggested that leonic War the French figures are- book that an admirer, Mr. Wilfrid we should show it in the library unreliable, since Napoleon" was he S. White, has just written about as the identical instrument with Har. Sydney Barnes."

British Figures

WONDER BOWLER

cricket.

which St. Dunstan tweaked the

2

"

certain Mr.

Deciders Of Fate

were killed, 193,851 died of dis-

But it is useless to ignore come much less virulent, but new They have presumed ones appear. The old descriptions

As Mr. P. F. Warmer points out devil's nose, but my colleagues had But in the British Army 25,569+ in a preface, Mr. White is not no imagination. without powerful support. ~The It is a sign of the times when ease. In the Navy 20,000 were Australians have always maintain-a serious book written by 20 killed, 72,000, died of disease. In ed that if Spofforth had a superior American, Mr. Zinsser, appears the Crimean War we lost only it is this tall gannt man who with the title. "Rats, Lice, and 4,602 killed. 17.580 by disease. chose to bury his genius in minor History" I can remember the The French lost 20,000 killed and time when, it was indecent to men 75,000 by disease. In the Boer They have good reason, to re-tion these vermin. A bng was War we lost-7534 killed anda member Barnes. In 1921 he discreetly called

Norfolk 14,382 by disease. mowed down the flower of Austra Howard." after a

All the Utopias represent bac- lian batting on a plumb wicket Bugge who announced that hence terial diseases as having been ex- at Melbourne, taking the first forth he wished to be known as tirpated. I wonder whether this four wickets for one run and hav Mr. Norfolk Howard.

is possible. Old diseases seem to ingat lunch time the phenomenal

disappear of themselves, or to be- analysis: 11 overs, 9 maidens, 6 Ican claim that national pros-rums, 5 wickets. The China Hail

perity is established.

This was undoubtedly the in-parasites. est feat in the whole history of on their insignificance, and have of epidemics, some of them very Moreover, Barnes was done more to shape history than careful. cannot all be identifiect Hong Kong, Monday, October 7, 1935 Educating The Body c

making his debut against Austra-all the ferocious despots and prane with any diseases now know. The British belief that in the lia that year at the age of 38- ing generals who ever lived. The Leprosy is almost extinct in Against South Africa he took typhus louse, the plague fea. and civilised nations; small-pox and The Progressive Rise In cult of sport and of bodily fit-

ness we are second to no nation 17 wickets in a match and 49 in the yellow fever mosquito have de scarlet fever have ceased Employment

terrors And what was the-. in the world is rudely challeng- series both records; and at cided the fate of nations.

still good enough to

Alexander the Great. was pro-"sweat," which is mentioned in ed by the indictment brought 56 he was Steady progress is shown by before the British Association take 12 wickets for 118 runs. bably killed by a typhus bacillus, the Prayer Book? It had the ill- the

If that tiny creature had found a natured habit of selecting Eng British unemployment that most of the adults among

humbler victim, the whole course lishmen as its victims, and seems figures for August. Last April us are "physically illiterate.

of history would have been alter to have terrified our ancestors by the number of insured people at The Headmaster of Mill Bill

based this charge on a survey By adopting all-electric streamlined ed Alexander was only 32 He repeated outbreaks between 1485 work rose to 10.320.000. the of the

crowds of our urban trains, it is claimed, railway time had boundless ambitions and rest- and highest recorded for 14 years: streets, and must have made the tables could be cut in half. An even less energy. He was probably a appears" from history: that is, ever since such statis-assembled savants wince by his simpler method is to use a good Itics were compiled. Some can- addendum that the prime pro-

Your Daily Smile!

| strong pair of scissora.

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| hand.”

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1552,

after which

The "Sweat"

to be-

it dis-

great general; at any rate he commanded the best troops in the

In the first year of Henry VILL- duct of higher eduction ex-

world. If he had lived. what?

it killed two-Lord Mayors and six. tious allowance was then made hibit the most awful warnings

would have happened?

Aldermen in a week. "Scarce one- for the special demand for la of physical deficiency. Though

It is easy to guess. He posed among a hundred that sickened. Greeks, did escape with life," says Holin- bour by the preparations for we may decline to let our flesh

at creep

such

"I don't know. I've lost the small as the champion of the devastating

including the Greek colonies. The shed. In some towns more than the Jubilee. In July proof was

phrases, we should do well to

Sicilian Greeks would have invit half the people died. In the small given that the expansion of in-recognise that there is a good The English visitor in Aberdeen ed him in to drive the Carthagin-town of Shrewsbury 900 died in as dustry was independent of this deal of reasor for dissatisfac-was invited out to dinner on Christians out of the island. Then the few days...

The padding made its Greeks of South Italy would have temporary factor. The total of tion with the physique of the mas Day-

On the other hand, Zinsser finds nation.

appearance and the guest smiled his called his attention to their dar that at least three new infectious the employed rose to 10.381.000.

The strong case made out by appreciation. Now August has returned the Col R. B. Campbell for the re

They say," he said, that whoever er from Rome. Livy, a patriotic diseases have appeared within the finds the threepenny piece in the Roman, thought that the Romans figure 10,424,000. With July cognition that physical educa-

would have beaten him; but this last twenty years, one of whichs. Ayan dever, too!"" responded the is nonsense.

sleepy (not sleeping) sickness, long-deferred hopes that the tion should be continuous from Pudding wir be lucky."

has attracted much attention in- number of the unemployed infancy to maturity, that the host

No Roman Empire class-room should be linked

England. N might be brought below 2,000, with the gymnasium, and that

Hannibal could not take Rome, It is an uncomfortable reflection: 1000 were at last gratified by a schools should aim at building

because he invaded the peninsula that as epidemics love virgin soil, without a siege-train; but Alexan-nations which have driven them: return of 1972,941 August up mind and body together in

der stormed the three strongest out by scientific precautions may has diminished that by 24.977, an efficient harmony comes to

minds well prepared to receive Special Business Men's Tyre and Gaza. He would have munity. In Fiji 40.000

fortresses of antiquity - Thebes. gradually lose their acquired im- and the total at the end of the

it. Middle-aged people with

out of month stood at 1,947.964 memories of the school drill of Service On Sunday. been over the walls of Rome 150,000 died of measles in 1875; Study of these statistics shows their childhood

a fortnight, and then? Should we the disease, hitherto unknown in them to be even more encourag-physical training as a dreary A review of the twenty-five now be speaking Greek? In any the "islands was introduced from

penance. But it is not thus re-years" ing than the totals suggest

activities of the St case there would have been no Australia,⠀ August is not a month in garded by the boys and girls of Andrew's Boy Scout Troop, the Roman Empire, and no Pope-

to-day. There are still grave jubilee of which was celebrated It has been lately suggested which the employment figures defects in the national curricu- recently, is the principal article that the Roman Empire succumb are apt to make a good show. lum of the education of the in the October issue of Theed because the health of the people Last year, for example, August body. Though Britain spent Andrian, while M. C. H. writes was andermined by malaria; it is last year 2200,000 on loans attractively on "Impressions of a possible that this was one con- mainly National Playing Fields Asso

may think of

ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH

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FORTHCOMING WEDDING"

The forthcoming marriage is It is announced in the Bishop's that Athens was crippled by son Parish, Executive assistant..

recorded an increase in unem for playing fields, though the Summer Holiday" to Japan.tributory cause. It is certain announced of Mr. Joseph Ander

California, who is

ployment. This was due to the large number of boys] ciation has provided many Notes that Sunday next will see plague at the beginning of the the Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. of“, market at the end of the school many an urban child has no on the analogy of the custom in Roman Empire... was half emptied Miss Cecelia Mary Coleman, resid- and girls entering the labour thousands of inalienable acres a special service for business men,Peloponnesian War, and that the No. 8 Peak Road Hong Kong, and year. That despite this August chance of a regular game. England for an assize sermon “re of its population by the terrife g at the St. Francis Hotel, San crease of umemployment by physical training too often of justice is a part of the trea-and Iustinian: The Black Deathon route to the Colony by the 3.5. was able to show a total de-When the children leave school(cognising that the administration plagues under Marcus Aurelius/Francisco, by the gratifying fart that the There are not enough place in tive work of God in maintaining in the fourteenth century swept number of men unemployed de-which it can be continued, there and developing human society away at least one-quarter, pro- clined by 47.000. When we pro-are not nearly enough qualified The Bishop states that he feels bably one-third, of the population ceed to examine the incidence teachers available. To fill these that "the business community of Europe, and had important of improvement in different gaps is a work of national im-have at least an equal share in economic consequences. trades we find further cause portance.

nearly 25.000 is accounted for comes to a most untimely end

for satisfaction. Far the great- est advance has been made, by [coal-mining, which gave, enj

ployment to 37.350 more ment,

“STRAY” CATS

Many Wars Decided

the same creative work," and the date was chosen in view. of the

The microbes have decided |opening of the new Hong Kong) and Shanghai Bank building next many wars. They saved Jeru salem under Hezekiah, though the Thursday.

pious

the chronicler ascribes the church, that on September 22 slaughter of the Assyrians to the or the occasion of the Scouts angel of the Lord The Huns er jubilee, is recorded in the would probably have taken Con- stantinople in 425 if they had not been stopped by plague.

than in July. It should also be Basket-Maker Charged. The first broadcast

noted that, as compared with

With Theft August, 1994, the increase is |50,944. || Considering the diffi-

"You must stop these law culties of the export trade this ful detentions of stray cats monthly notes.

service of

is remarkable. The conclusion remarked Mr. E L Wyne with the unlawful possession of to be drawn is that the revival Jones at the Kowloon Police of confidence and energy which Court this morning to a 44 lawful receiving of the black

a white cat and with the has brought the number of peo-year-old basket-maker, Chan cat, which he stated he bought pel in work up from 9.317,000 Wah, who was sentenced to from the first accused for 30

1931, when the National one month's hard labour for the

nent, took office,

is still prog

signs

remains

be dor

cents, was discharged as there

The Crusades were turned back by epidemics more than by the cacens In 1632, during the

de irty Years War, typh

to theft of a black cat belonging to was insufficient evidence against

44-year-old/widow, Chong him An order was made for leon

No. 58 Ro Kung. Road the black

hing 38-year-old its owner. **

who was charged

ted both armies those of Gas“

Adolphus and W

they joined

supp

the black hero,

President Hoover.