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Irishman Is Keeping 25,000 Sikhs In Safety

Nankawa Sahib, Punjab, Pakistan, Aug. 30. The safety of 25,000 Sikhs and the sanctity of this |

Sikh religious shrine rests today in the hands of a County Meath Irishman - Maj. J. M. Sheridan, grand-nephew of Gen. Phil Sheridan who commanded Federal cavalry in the U.S. Civil War.

Thirty-seven year old Sheridann hos his hands full.

Non Sahib is the Bethle. [along with our familles by thou hem of the Sikhs, f miles east Randis upon thousands of Moslems

Lahore Is the heart of Muslem. if the troops ever leave.

of us tried to "Even if some dominated Pakistan, where thott. sands of armed fanaties would migrate to East Punjab we would have destroyer its beautiful tern. be attacked again and agalu along ple and butchered the critice popu. the road, and it is doubtful If any Just badla't been for Sheri. of us would ever get out alive." dan and two Indian snidiers who rubed in on Wednesday just in thur to prevent blondshed,

Sikh community The isolatent I completely at the mercy of the Moleres, practically every one en route herr of whom we saw

express thanks to their wa arned with a spear, zeythe, ple ta

lub of weapon of soine port-gods for sending them on righ

man and a few dozen soldiers for ali tooklug for Sikhs.

protection."

But refugees from the outlying infiltrated here areas who have

"They practically fell on our necks and cried with joy when we arrived on Wednesday," he said. "Everybody turned out to welcome as and then headed for the tem.

remain.

troops

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1947. ME

"WHAT ARE

ARE THOSE

THOSE THINGS I MUST DO NOW THAT I AM FREE AGAIN?"

The Price Of Liberty Is Paid In The Hard Cash Of Duty

:

and

"How many resolutions plans, how many promines and yowa wer made--some open, some silently and privately with God or ourselves during the years of

Through Train To Canton?

reliable.

"Just as some found that stone walls do not make a prison, so we have found that to be unenclosed in iron bars does not make us free. For many, internment was liberation. It freed us from so much that in our ordinary lives made us slaves-possessions, wealth, power." These words were spoken yesterday by Dean Rose, in the course of his sermon in the Cathedral yes-

terday morning on the second anniversary of the Liberation of Hong Kong from the Japanese.

trivialities; dom of internment to the old "Just about two years ago we jof the door to him, a deep surge hinder them with

of sin

and other simply said over and over empres

and pride of of thankfulness. were given the opportunity making a practical anawer to the "Some clipped away for a few again: Thank God, thank God, selfishness now given a chance cloths themselves with power qucation w butl # thousand minutes to get such privacy as thank God!'

their "No pour out

ather

the and venom. mcl words timen debated with ourselves they could to

thankful situation. We had caught a "A P.O,W. whose character and What shall I do when I am stumbling words

prayer before anyone could a glimpse of the scheme and opinion I admire said: 'I la much free ngain?"

pattern of salvation we had hoped harder to be Christian mow for, and had tried to have faiththen when we were prisoners.' In. It was proved true and real. The Glorying Tomb

"It is falthlessness, blindness, "We were ready then to get out pride, irresponsibility, callousness, to make the brave new world, he materiallam, self-concern, self-

hall Keen

unforgiveness, bitterness, pity, worldly values which imprison us. Somu, Sema and the Greek Orphies-the body'a tomb.

"But we say that the world in a prison from which we shall nover be free, if we think and net as if that is all there is; f we accept its valuce, standards, its praise and blame, its honour and dishonour, as Anal.

"Our last rallying text making it still the inspiration of thought in Stanley was 'I was not

to disobedient

the heavenly better life. But most of us vision. need to renew it and to keep i

"With this I leave you-Have bright.

we been disobedient? Let us put

war.

It has been quiet here for the for protection and to defend their past 48 hours and Sheridan does

"What we would do with the full noi bellove there will be trouble holy spent

Sheridan Hive

precious gift of freedom: now As the troops credit for saving the shathe and as long

we would do better, be kinder, pri venting massacre of the entire Both he and the Sikhs realize

more just simpler, and Inter the

if we CRMC polation. He is the only white thot, sooner or

wilt be called to quell rats else. stigle hearted, man in the entire aren,

through, if we were released. Sheridan's trompa hari tu fight where, as less than 2,000 troops their way through hostile mobs fure trying to maintain ew and This is true in whatever way we which on Wednesday congright. order in the entire district which were the prisoners of war.

covers revern) hundred square eet in villages preparing to be. siege the town. Two Indian sol miles, and millions of people whe diers were wounded when they are determined to kill each other.

When they are forced to leave, i the vilinge were fired on from during a battle in which Sheridan the Sica can only hope that the to destroy several rioting is over and the Mostre was Inrced

before are pacified, otherwise Nankana hours with mortar fre

will join Laliore, Amritsar, Kud. quelbug the Musiems.

lundar, and scores of other towns which had no Irishman to pro. !ect then and their gods-Unit. td, Press.

Monsoon ring which are inod. ing the area make it difficult for Sheridan to round up Sikhs from the nearby villages and get them to the relative safety of Nankang Sahib. The survivors, several of whom, have been attacked in the

pus! neighborhood in the hours, fearful-scale attack by thousands of Moslema

may be Inunched against Nankan at any moment.

Hopeless Position

A beared

Sikh patriarch

איד

"BLACKMARKET IN STEAMER FARES"

The cessation of railway com. munication between Hong Kong fand Canton and the consequent "rush" on steamers has resulted plained the hopelessness of his in the creation of Bourishing people's position:

blackmarket in steamship taren. "We

Advance bookings for the first half of September have already

Up and teen taken tickets, which are sold at $8 ench

steamship companies are by

over in the realising $12 and blackmarket.

Can

never leave this

sacred spot where Guru Nanak,

The fottnder of Sikhism, was born in the 15th century. The Moslems would destroy it in n sinute. We are but a few thousand men at be annihilated best, who would

FOR BIG WOMEN ONLY ..

Ladies:

"Devil-Well Or Ill"

"Well, two years have passed promlacs and many

of these

have been forgotten, We know we have not used for freedom

should.

The devil was sick,the devil monk would be;

The devil was well; the devil mork was hel "Freedom is strong meat and drink. When Jeshurun waxed fat, he kicked. But our prab- Jen is the problem of the world.

"Freedom, umacipation, bera-! tron, has been the fashionable i vefigim for nearly 200 years. and more selfishly and Irrespan. silly; now the hills are coming

"Mankind has secured more

According to Chinese re purta, negotiations have been completed for the running of a through train, service to Canton as from Sept. 9, for

The purposĽ of conveying Bonie 2,000 odd tons of rail. way equipment urgently TC- the Canton. quired for Hankow railway. The rail. to way equipment is said have recently arrived from America.

The report farther states that no pasiengers or other non.Government goods will be carried by this train.

Wilhelmina's

Birthday Honoured

chuse

we

Christ

triumphant and King in this

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world.

"With freedom did Christ st The ua tree. Miracle was fact. world was under God's hand,

The Fading Rack

"But the vision fades, with xome quickly, with others mora slowly.

a

"Some have

succeeded

In

"The world, however, wants to forget what great things God has done, for the world does not like to advertire its rival.

Others have hastefied to for ret; for the vision of God is with and thunder and lightening, makes heavy demands.

"But we must not be induced 10 Surreniler, Our pathway is to

the source of thankfulness and the renewal of our spirits, and so to living religion and our dedica. tion to God's service.

We must not forget who opened the inner, door to us; and that the iron gate that leadeth to the city opened of its

"Freedom is strong meat and

At a cocktail party moral and religious capital- held by seriety; and that capital held at 6:30 P.M. at the

runing as low as can be. stearngs

Hong Kong Club_yester- "If that capital is exhausted, day, members of Hong nothing can save society, either from one of the totalitarian Kong's Dutch Commun-tul, or to be on the way to it. alaveries, or else choos,

ity celebrated the birth-

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"We have been bought with a great price. Our lives are not our own. They belong to God. "Yet he wants us truly to PORSCES them in freedom, which we can do only when we give ourselves over to his purpose.

for freedom did Christ set a free"."

Readers' Letters

FILM FANNED

Sir. The Hong Kong public own has long beeone accustomed to accord' in due grason.

the studios of Hollywood, but the "Remembrance"

latest "masterpiece" by MGML "To remember is to be thank.They Met in Bombay" is a de

liberate Insult to the British "The long view, the perspec. Army and to the Intelligence of

the public. dull sight tive, give to our satisfyingness of the mighty and where lady-killer Gable is sup. Before a gathering of over noble garment which God's loom posed to land in Hong Kong

The 212 prominent Hong Kong re- is spinning out of the events of an out-and-out misrepresentation, fact that this flm was sidenta, Dr. L.A. Gastmann our lives.

to His "Such was our liberation, But allowed to be shown calls for an "And he is equally right in Majesty the King.

proposed toast

It was only relative.

enquiry into

"Just reengnising that unless we use

04 some found that reasons why the consors, who are The Dutch, he said, were our freedom much more respon happy to celebrate the birthday stone walls do not make a pri-Jusually eager to cut films, sibly, there is no reasonable al-1 of their queon among so many son, so we have found that to be) not, ban this one.

"Mr. Churchill is right in day of Queen Wilhel-carer view of the beauty and The entire film from the point Buying that conscription of mina. | labour in peace time meana cross.. ing the line that divid- od democracy ironi slavery.

ternative to totalltaranism.

"Give A Pattern"

friends.

WOR

immediate

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Perhaps the concerned. could unenclosed in iron bare does not Department

explain-APPLE: SAUCE, He went on to say: "Of the make us free. Dutch who were interned here liberation. It freed us from so

"For many, internment

KILLED BY FALL the first thought on liberation

to take up their work much that in our ordinary lives.

FROM BUS LE slaves possessions. | makts where they left it.

wealth, power.

Fatal injuries, were received] And now we' ace Dutch "Bonds of bad habits were by an unknown Chinese male;) St. Paul tells us where we shipping, Dutch banks, Dutch

and may fint it when

ic necd rnowt urgently a pattern and > motive for free living.

wan

much broken-too

food

where the spirit of the Lord is perhaps small, but increasing and self,satisfaction, wasted and 21.30 on Saturday night, when

he writes merchants, a Dutch community, drink, wrong ambitions, pride aged about 20 years, at about?

there is freedom."

This is no dreamy idealism or plous sentiment, but urgent; plain fact, and the only vel option.

the

he jumped from Bus 18 while in numbers and playing net an futile activities, in which unimportant role in this place, rdinary pattern of life enlangics once

The accident occurred in the Kadoorie Avenue, vicinity of Kowloon, as the bus was pro ceeding to Kowloon City.,, ·

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"Restoration” · ·

"And conversely when the "This rapid restoration has barbed wire was down, some ran At present a dispassionate re-been made possibly by the fact out from the comparative free view of the world, and the world that in this place law and order Includes ourselves, wrings from come first.

us the cry of the psalmist 'who "For this, Hong Kong can

will show us any goods?"

Our civiliantion la sick, we are not the men and women we were. Not Born But Made

serve as an example for these canditions which are certainly. not everywhere prevailing in thlo post-war world.

"The prosperity and happiness! of Hong Kong go to all our

"A mood of cynicism, selfish hearts.

ness, and callousness, grows too "We wish it well and we easily in this soll. The time Dutch will be glad to do our la out of joint—0 cursed, spite, share in the restoration of Họng and we hardly get as far as Kong to its former glory." Humfells. second though,that "The proposing a toast to we may be born to set it right!| Queen Wilhelmina, the "Gov""" "But there is a remedy for ernor (Bir Alexander, Grant- that mood. History fs a cordial hám) said: "Holland is not for drooping spirits,

conaldered a great power in "Who is there, who has not the sense that that term "is found the reality of Providence, used today) who has not seen the hand of. God "In point of fact; Holland Is

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THE DARING YOUNG MAN

WITH

THE---CHAIR!

London, Aug: 30. ---

A young Irishman sat in an easy-chair 12,000 feet over the green fields of Oxfordshire today with nothing under his feet but the warm summer air.

"It was just a little uncanny but it was very peaceful, and gave one a feeling of strange detachment," said Bernard Lynch after safely descending by a parachute supporting his chairs

Lynch volunteered for the

In the events of his own life, at a great nation and has been for guinea-pig act to prove the ef least once, generally mony several centuries. Confficacy of an ejection #cat, invent "The world and especiallyed by aircraft manufacturat know that this conviction Great Intal and Chion, we fames Martin, Lynch whs rocket

times?

Hoodlums

dwolt increasingly in men's a great deal to the Dutch for ed out of a Gloster Meteora Raid DP.

hearts during, imprisonment.

the calfuro and trade, that they plane. Nying over 500 miles, an "Were we not wonderfully fed.

have sprend through the hour yesterday. and protected, and cared for, and wer

Marin Invented the chair for World' released as it by a miracle?

"When the Lord turned again Among prominent Dutch el-pilots of high speed aircraft who zen, prosent were: Mr. and Mrs. otherwise could not parachute. the captivity of Zion, then were A. Bonnegman; Bit, and Mr. from thele planta because of the we like unta them that dream,

Mourhaus, Mr. and Mra do terrific air pressure. The RAF "I was more than a dream, 1 Graff, Mr. and Mys: Kien, Mr. and has approved the chair for use was a miracle.

Mrs Swemmelaar, Mr. and Sire..

Then, thankfulness Willed our hearts and we were close to God. Then was the Spirit of Jesus in our hearts and we had a motive and pattern for free Ilving.

A. Kaplen, Mr. W. Corts, Mrs. In all teghest fighter and

bomber" alrerafl. Greaf, and Mr. and Mrs. Offen-

Undisturbed berg..

Synagogue

Vlanna, Aug, 30. The Ministry of the Interior said

today that unidentified Semitic-raids against a Jewith dis homa Ferried out whil placed persons synagogue in Hit gr's hometown of Braunau during the night.

The Ministry sold the synago-

tch Hong Kongre Lynch sat undisturbed for two Neu-Dutch aldents represented at the occasion minutes ateiting the canvas wore: Sie llenry Blackall, Air curlalti on top of the chair which gus Torah, was stolen, and prayer

B. N. strewn

V-3 Day

"Do you remember the coming of thio, news, of X.J. Day? brly speak for what I wil

Melquist, torise groups making olire Dest that zott, merely angthee thin their resciion

Commodore 8. Webster and his protected hatface and head from

Das Paar p

Why Was Queen Victoria Heard In A Junk Shop?

the Queen

Tangler, Aug. 31. How did a broken fragment of a gramophone.re- cord of a speech made by Queen Victoria find its way into a. Dakar junk shop? It is recording of a speech of welcome which malo to the former "Emperor Mehelik of Abyssinia in 1897 when the British Government decided that a gesture of friend- ship was desirable to Abyssinians in order to effect a Rettlement of the Somall boun- farten.

the

Round

The World

Aug. 30. VIENNA An epitaph 10 The Queen made the record, afluent etapcards of Hygene and thin was taken by a mission days was today's "wanted" item of which the late Lord, Rennell in the "Arbeiter Zeitung":-~ "Beautiful Persian rugs will be was the head, to Abyssinia.

traded for stable inanure.". Three Coples

Only three copies of this re

MOSCOW: The Soviet rac cord were made. The copy pre-ing car. "Zyedsdn II" was credit- sented to the Emperor was sup

poned, by special request, to bed today with cutting. 12-100- destroyed as soon as he had heard of a urcond from the world re- e.c. in a test on Minsk highway. il. The second was kept by acord for J clans cars under 350 court official and the third given It went 91.66 miles an hour with to the man who made it.

running start.

PARIS: The AFP reports that one passenger was killed and several others injured whe

This much has been discovered by Monsieur Michel du Perron, a souvenir collector who bought the fragment of the record in the funk shup. "I have made North African Airline plane

about careful, Inquiries

the crashed against the hillside in origin of the record," he said, Morrocco on a run from Algiars "and I understand that the to Rabat. official's record was stolen many

years ago. Shortly before the SOUTHAMPTON:-An Irish- last war the third record was American, John Origan, 44 pt British Home was sentenced to four weeks in discovered in an old box,of re- Long Island, City, New York, cords and the Office took possession of it, and prison today for stowing awa

in New for some reason or other put aon the Mauretania"

la a deck chair after the slip Queen's voice. ban on the reproduction of the York. He was captured usicep

"A Puzzic"

salled and said he wanted to "Which record this one is return to his Irish birthplace-- puzzlen me, but I learned from United Press, the proprietor of the antique shop!

Talpel, Aug. 31. where I found it that he bought

shipment of 700 tons of the record with a lot of other sluff from a negro medium who Taiwan sugar left the island port, claimed to be able to call up the Kuohsing, yesterday

spirits of the departed.

A

aboard the Butterleid & Swire ship. Poyank "Very probably this record for Hong Kong. was one of his tricks of trailoi

Of this, 500 tons are for Hong

for enthralling native audiences." Kong and the other 200 tons for

Our Own Correspondent,

Singapore-Central News.

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er Commnedora G. L. Roberts, the boat and drifted to earth on racks were also reported stoned and Publishing of the only 1947 Edition of the Civil Serviço, Ldiat. and several windowa were smaan. This edition, the first since 1941. will contaśm about 400.pager, PEMASARKAN ge; and will be ready for publication at the end of September

KORTVISSENT. A Beund parachut

Tive, mingtatour bobini cate: | A Ministry (pokesman said that All ordern for copion (130 osch) should be forwarded not later,

Ik Mons, L-Col. M. R Reynolds

and Mel, pulled from the plans he landed Tribez, where Mr. Nobje, Mr. Ca Gallow, Mr. de passer dish any pe and Mrs. 8. Å, Gray, and Mr. and the "Meteor, and diaken off

turning to God, and Kia opening! Men Dhan Ruttenfor.

rastie

FANERGUIGA” would be than Life 16th September in the Becretary jaipoly

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