THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1958.
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Lourdes, Feb. 6.
THOUSANDS of sick and afflicted pilgrims will come to Lourdes in 1958 to offer their prayers to the Blessed Virgin during the year which marks the centenary of her apparitions to St Bernadette in the grotto of Massabielle in 1858.
Many of them will come
come, should be addressed to the with at least the secret hope
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that they may be one of the fow chosen to be cured of bodily la.
Many may go home at the end of their pilgrimage with health improved.
But all who have prayed with plety and devotion will go forth from the shrine of Lourdes spiti. Tually beated and strengthened tu meet adversity, present or future.
Hospital space here has al- ready been booked for 34,000 sick pilgrim, who will bathe in thy water flowing from the the grotto of spring in
100 Years Ago
Bernadette Soubirous
Saw A
VISION
10 ocnla PER WORD OVER 20 Births, Deaths, Marriagos, Personal $5.00 per insertion
has been found have not exceeding 25 words, 25 sabielle, where Bernadette tion
Soubirous, an iterate 14-year occurred at Lourdes in the space cents each additional word. old shepherdess, saw visions of of a century, according to the
ALTERNATE INSERTIONS Om Lady 100 years ago,
records. But only 54 of them have been declared miracles by 10% EXTRA
the Church.
If not propald booking fee of BD cente is charged.
POSITIONS VACANT
Miracles
Twenty rallway
ambulance coaches, ench with up to 40 beds, Rave been built to bring the sick They will form to Lourdes. part of a neet of pilgrim trains which,
from
February
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Bernadette Soubirous was 14 years of age when she saw the visions which caused the nomel
become known of Lourdes to
13th throughout the world. first, a lady dressed in white appeared to her in a grotto in the Musabicile rock, beside the
on February river Cave, 158, while she was collecting fcwood for her parents, whose home was a disused prison.
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In the next five months, she
fur which no scientific explana-saw the vision 18 times before
Aborigines
From
Down Under
Are Born Trackers
Darwin, Feb. 6.
Scouring sun-scorched desert country for clues in the nation's worst post-war killing drama, Australia's never-never' people are adding a new chapter to their long and impressive history.
TUITION GIVEN JAPANESS LESIONS by B.A. with 18 years teaching experienes, quick as the
Barneta progres
A
A
These are the people of the Where the European may look outback, the aborigines, skilled for similarity to families In almost from birth in on art es- baby, the aborigine looks at Its sential to survival in the vast racks-and knows just whom It story, tracts of barren territory 'known resembles. There is
'never never-because vouched for, of an aboriginal and there woman returning from ar - Shacoemultire is meaningless part throughout Jap. P.. seems no end.
and walkabout when she came Je35, Rongico.
across the tracks of another na- tive party. She began to wall and called out: "Little sister belong me."
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
Ordinary Yearly
Meeting
General
NOTICE IS HERERY
GIVEN that the Ordinary
In helping police to probe the roadside slaying of three people on their way from Ап inland station to Adelaide in December, aboriginal trackers matched tyre tracks and found and identified footprints from which they could
estimates -make-shrewd
the people who left them.
Versatile
She had not seen her young sister since she was four years old. She was then 14. When the of woman reached the comp,
atster was there.
her
The trackers have their foibles, loo, just like their white bro
hers. A poiler tracker named Tommy was taken to the scene
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From solving crimes to tree-of a burglary at Allee Springs
clue, found a Yearly General Meeting of ang tourists who have lost their fie at once
to home-made cigarette with the Shareholders of the Cor- way in temperatures rising
over 100 degrees Fahrenheit is a turned-in end, which he Con- poration will be held at the short step for a people as ver-sidered made identification al- Head Office of the Corpora-satlle as the aborigines.
Although tion, 1 Queen's Road Contral,
there are oficial any RYETARE Hong Kong, on Friday, the police trackers, 14th day of March, 1958, at borigine can perform the same
There tasks.
art no special
most certain.
But Tommy wanted to do bet- ter, and earn more credit. So he led his party back and forth across tarred roads and hard
Noon for the purpose of training schools, no text book rock surfaces, until he came to receiving and considering But practice is made easier the mon's house. There he point- on a backed boldly and predicted that the the reports of the Directors childhood learning and of the Auditors and the round of generations of clever booty would be there.
hunters in which the not-so-
It was. Proft and Loss Account and clever simply perished, Balance Sheet for the year The children-plecanimales- ended 31st December, 1967, are taken from their mothers by tribal guardians and taught to
Auditors.
Rare Failures
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and for the election of Dires-track snakes, kangaroos, mice, Yet aborigines are known to tors and the appointment of rats, turtles. the lizard-kehave followed tracks even
goanna and anything else that tarred roads. On one occasion a can be food
tracker.showed the spot where two robbers had paried com- pony in the middle of a road.
From tracking 'delecting is another short step.
aboriginal Some
tracktm with working
the Northern Terriotory police have records of very rare. failure. One of the best-known was Bul Bul,
THE REGISTER OF Where everything else be
they learn SHARES of the Corporation comes secondary, will be closed from Friday, quickly and in their teens have a new, unspoken, language and an unessay sixth sense.
the 28th day of February to 14th day of March, 1958, (both days inclusive) during | which period, no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board, MICHAEL W. TURNER,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 10th Jan., 1958.
Similarity
ANY FIRM USING THE name APPLIED TO OUR
“ZORIC”
DRYCLEANING SYSTEM HAS NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER WITH THE UNDERMENTIONED CO.
PLEASE
SIX MILLION PILGRIMS WILL
the Mayor, supported by the parish priest and the police, ordered the ar0100 Ho be arriended off in order to put at end to the "regrettable scenes" of thousands of pilgrims flocking there.
never
In spite of criticism and
Bernadette Lepticism, changed her account of the visions. The "White Lady" told her: um the Immaculate Con- reption," she reiterated again and again.
At the ninth apparition, obey- ing the "White Lady's" instruc- tions to drink from a spring in the grotto, the child dug with her hands in the damp gravel
dd 400 spectators saw the first Tickle of the water in which, for a century since, sick pilgrims have bathed, seeking miraculous cures from disease and in- armities.
The spring, which started to flow then, has never dried up,
though engineering work has increased its flow and led the water through pipes to taps and baths in which the sick are im- mersed
The visions of Bernadette were recognised as authentle by the Church in 1802, and Ave wears inter, in 1687, she herself nude her first vows as a nun. After years of suffering, she diled in Easter week, 1879, and 54 canonised by years later was Pape Plus XI, in 1933.
Discarded
Hundreds of crutches, discard-
PRAY AT FAMOUS
SHRINE THIS
The grotto of Massabielle at Lourdes at night,
ed by pilgrims, hang as silent here. witnesses at the grotto Matter of fact medical reports, many of them written by non-
able to move Catholic doctors, record details hospital, hardly of patients who travelled to and receiving up to Sve injec- Lourdes gravely ill and returned tions of morphia a day to ease
her pain.
YEAR
From the Filos
25
years AGO
MUCH excitement was created recently in the little fishing hamlot of Team Mang châu not far from the Macao Barrier feat whale, 25 Gate, when i | medicinal properly, On the con- long, drifted ashore and wa
trary, tests have shown that re- left high and dry on the beach
of the sick, when the tide went out peated immersion suffering from all sorts of dis- All day long, villagers from the Country troaped eases, in the baths, which the surrounding
to buy tha spring is inadequate to reali for into the hamlet cach pilgrim, introduce a high whale oil and the floshi, until bacteria content. Many people by eleven nothing was left of
of any the regard the absence
excepting monster known effects from this, or boner. A fee was later charged from immerston of sick people for viewing the skeleton.
in the unheated water, as one
of the greatest physical miracles of Lourdes.
the
Before the Church will deciare
For le-Salling yacht, 22
feet by 7 foot a inch, sleep
a cure mirections there must be
evidence that it was instante four, in good order and ready ous, total and tasting. Pilgrims for use. $100. Write Boz D, dalming curs must appear bo S.C.M. Poit. fore the Lourdes Medical Bureau, which includes a neuro-
phsychiatrist, a heart specialist,
radiologist, and any doctor in
REPORT
Lourdes who cares to be present, suggests that
a local paper wild boar
br Lokenl
perta
well bean
over
killed
A medical dossier drawn up shot In Shthu Chun area recent- before the cure must be present- ly, which weighed just over ed and a thorough medical In-980 lbs, is the biggest of its
kind stuoj vestigation is made before
decides | meti,
boats Wild canonical commission
15 bevo whether a miracle has been per- 400
p-on several pecasions in the N.T. formed. In all cases the grim must remain under medical brute weighing 410, e observation for a complete year was shot on February 10, 1981, and then rofurn to Lourdes to by two local aportarmen on the north-weat shape of Taithoshadi. be re-examined.
importance
Underground
Hundreds of former gõida soekers in the Yukon territory attended the funeral in Van- couver of "Klondyke Bob" Henderión, who trat dlicovered gold in the Yukon Valley in
1896.
Although,
non- phong Catholics, the miracle cures of Lourdes are largely responalbie for fame of the shrine, the Church, and Catholics generally regard them as secondary at- some presence in front of me, tributes of the shrine. Typical hands and placing of this attitude, is the Encyclical takng my them on my stomach. My swol-Letter on the centenary celebra-
lions len stomach shrank instantly
in which Pope Pius XII My waist mensuranent, which | makes no mention of physical One of the more spectacular On October 8, 1948, Made- had been 12 Inches, dropped in cures, miraculous or otherwise. of ten cures which have been moiselle Freiel, lying on to instant to 29 inches. I felt but emphasises the recognised as miracles since stretcher, received Holy Coin- a terrible hunger, and I realised of spiritual healing. World War II is that of Mademunion with other sick pilgrims that I was healed."
Jeanne moiselle
Fretel, of at the altar of Saint Bernadette was then carried to
That day, the dying girl from Rennes, in Britanny, who in here, and
when she was 34, was the grotto of Massablelle. 1918.
Ruanes ate her first good meal inken by train to Lourdes un-
Fellow invalida "After two or three minutes," for the years.
their luggage for The conscious and apparently dying
she said later, "I felt soencoe ransacked behind me take me under the chocolate and cakes to meet her Gabel,
Committee, and it may be many years from tubercular peritonitis.
concrete steps are taken Mademoiselle Fretel had arm to help me to sit up. Once hunger. A doctor, who examin- Lourdes Centenary
demois operations. For in a sitting position, I turned el her, fount that all trace of told me the church is eating to put the scheme into effetti.. Next organization for bodily heal his intimation was conveyed There peritonitis had vanished. years, according to her medical to see who had done it.
Then I felt the day, live doctors examined her but for spiritual healing,
not to the S.C.M. Post after int dostlar, she had lain in bed in was no one.
and each gave the same verdict, though many pilgrims do
were instituted on On the way home to Rennes, find cures for physical ailments quiries Mademoiselle Fretel stood forut Lourdes, they find spiritual Saturday (February 4) regard- possibility of the half the night in a crowded pil-relict and new strength to meeting the
scheme being taken up by the grim train. No symptom of her their adversity,"
Government, disease reappeared and in 1030 the Church declared her cure a miracle.
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ROXY & BROADWAY: "The March Hare." Peggy British Cummins and Terence Morgan in a comedy.
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RADIO HONGKONG
Hand Call-Louls Actustrong and his Orchestra: 6.45, Blory of Jane Armitage: 7. Tune Bignal and the News: 7.00, Weather Forecast, An- nouncements and Interlude: 7.15, Concert Miniature; 7.35, Track Talk -Tips For To-mornou Baces: 7.45, Harry James and Its Orchestra: 8. Personally Parade Julio London; I 8.18. The Tope In Popular Murlo presented by Nickel Kendali; #30, Cafe Continental-presented by Jeannette Pity: 9, Operation Fat Quiet; Close Dawn.
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LTHOUGH tentative pro- Aposals have been made from time to time for the te
of clamation
Cheangahawas Bay and the removal of the Yaumati Typhoon Sheller, to official move is being taken to Reverend Father Emile bring the proposals into effect,
spokesman
the of
and
As the date of the centenary approaches, an army of work- men is tolling to complete a remarkable underground church, designed shelter 20,000 pilgrims from the rain or sun, and enable services to continue whatever the weather.
to
before
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After a construction period extending for over hoo years, the new vehicular ferry plots in Hongkong and Kooloon will be entirely completed and be ready By 1877, as the fame of
The church is being built in for use at the beginning of next Lourdes spread, the number of pre-stressed concrete as an im-1 month. sick persons joining pilgrimages merise pillariess hall, shaped to the grotto reached 500 a year. like fish, The roof will stretch in a single arch for 050 feet, with a maximum width of TN a match of paramount im- the Senior its, floor space of portance in 230 feet. Cubleles near the grotio con-
League. the Indian tain baths in which attendants 50,000 square feet a twice that Cricket
Cathedral in R, C., Champions for the last Immerse those slek persons who of Notre Dame
Paris and just short of that of two seasons, defeated the HKCC are tool to enter the water
by three wickets on the latter's unalded. Many perfectly at pil-Saint Peter's in Rome, grims ulso bathe there, seek- The roof, at ground level, is ground on Saturday (February ing spiritual healing, while taps lo be covered with soll and Indians had F. D. Pereira, the
En 1957, the total was more than 30,000.
outalde enable others
to drink
4). For their victory, the
sown with grass to harmonize
of interport fast bowler, to thank, with the beautiful scentry
the
for he captured five valuable only Inside, Lourdes. furniture will be a simple Altar wickets for only 18 runs centre.---China Mali performing the first "hat
or collect the water in bottles to take back their own homes or churches.
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Many aborigines, would rather Mulluck Mullusk tribesmian from speak in tracks than with thele the Daly river district. Native tongues. For instance, to de-criminals were known to sur- scribe an unusual animal, they render when they heard through will draw its tracks in the dust the bush "telegraph' that Bul Bul rather than say that it has four was accking them,
Bul legs and three toes on each foot.
Bul operated in lawless country when the mass-mur- derer, Nemariuck, was striking. Nefbarluck and his band killed
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Dies for Dollars mye. The Tearna: After four months, Nemarluck cheries Harvey, Nink Kendall, Ray awoke one day from a doze to Cordeiro, Tim Brinton, John Wal- find that he could not move his, Ted Thoma: 13, Close Down. arms. Squatting. a few yards away, grlitlig cheerfully and dangling the key to the police handcuffs on Nemarluck's wrists dinke Up The Band: 4. Tea For torso Play "The was Bul Bul. Nemarluck died in Two: 4.00, Muster) A.D.CE DO 1): 10.50, Late Night Final; Clown
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