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LORD. HOW IT HAS BEEN LIFTED UP AGAINST OUR ADVERSARIES.

PEKING NOTES.

OF THE The Lord (ind will help us, therefore, shall we not be confounded; therefore have we set our face like a fint and know that we shall not be ashamed." This is the standard which the spirit of THE SITUATION. The following interesting address was the Lord lifts up against our adversaries. felivered by the Rev. W. Bernard Paton You may call it, if you please, the at Thai Yong on Sunday last, the Fourth standard of a clear conscience, and that Anniversary of the War":

is bound to command the blessing from As we gather this afternoon, we can the Lord. But for this, the Allies would scarcely but recall how, a year ago today, have been down and out long ago, the Allies were looking forward to a

Is that the Lord had not our cause main-

Lainet.

new year of war with great hopes and high confidence.

that she Lord had not our right sustained, When cruel men against us furiously

up in wrath to make of us their

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prey, Then certainly they had devoured us all

could deem.

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affairs shall be relaxed.

RUN ON THE BANK.

this

On Saturday there was one of those inancial episodes not unknown in China.

Mr. Fraser, the Times representative, Bas already left for the North, The Daily LYROM ODE OWN. CORRISPONDENT, ) .. Mail has a special correspondent some-

Pexing, July 9th.

where in the neighbourhood. Major

hot to work, and consequently political Mr. Whiffen, representing the Associated The dog days have come when it is towing General Horvath at Grodekovo; while Wearye, M.C., of Reuter's, has been visit-

happenings are not so much in evidenc Press of America, leaves for the north in The Minister for Foreign Affairs is at the day or two. seaside and declines to

Conle to the The Chinese Government sex to ba capital, preferring to resign, The Premch exercised over alleged Bolshevik and mier, too. seems very much in the back Austro-German intrigues on the Northern ground. Yet in spite of this apparent borders, but there are those who doubt laxity the Cabinet meets almost daily and such activities, alleging that the reports Encouraged by the glorious achieve ments of the Canadians at Vimy Ridge.)

Tune Kun, the generalissimo of the exhina a good excuse for sending an artny discusses the various problems of the hour, are designed with a view to affording Passchendale, and Luos; the splendid victories on the Somme and at Verdun; And swallowed quick, for ought that wooperations from the security and comfort asserting China's authority over

pedition against Kwangtuag still directa into Mongolia for the purpose of re the brilliant advance of the Italians towards Trieste: the fall of Baghdad up a standard against our adversaries in add to his popularity with the more likely to challenge such a procedure

But the spirit of the Lord has lifted of Tientsin, a proceeding which does not former dependency now that Russia is not and the capitulation of Gaza, and, abovesistance with which He has inspiredo the earnest military men, and, in order to nother way besides the indomitable re- all, the entry of America into the arena Allied troops. Have we yet realized the hustle things a little, General Hsu Shu

A local newspaper, The Peking Leadero, of the struggle, there was good ground nations great and small, all the earth Chen has been appointed Deputy Com. Sino-Japanese Military Convention re

significance of the banding together of

in its editorial to-day suggests that the to hope that 1918 would see the end of this over, for the defence of civilization and missioner for the tour Southern provincess cently concluded should be abrogated in devastating war. Only one cloud shadow the saving to the world of that precious This gentleman has had another consulta-favour of an Allied compact respecting ed the horizon, but that cloud was ominous fought and bied We have grown so used tion with his Northern friend, the Tuchun intervention in Siberia. Most probably

heritage of freedom for which our fathers indeed. The political upheaval in Russia to hearing that such pad such a country of the Three Provinces, doubtless with a an understanding of the nature suggested, paralysing military activity, and leading tral Powers, or actually entered the view to strengthening their position has already been reached, and it may

has broken off relations with the Cen- to her ultimate defection from the ranks against them, that we have almost ninancially as well as militarily. of the Entente, gave rise to the gravest

ceased to take

be presumed, therefore, that the conven- account. I question whe forebodingsforeboding the gravest of the names of the countries ranged against ing decision of the week is concerned with operative. Of course the journal wants

ther anyone here could repent off-hand

As a matter of fact, the only outstand-tion alluded to becomes automatically in- which now in the retrospect, we see to Germany and her satellites. Here have been none too grace. the early days of the war, in the great nos prepared to vouch that even this list Vladivostock, it having been agreed to

Never since some, arranged alphabetically, but I am participation in the Allied expedition to to make sure that Japan's apparent heli retreat from Mans, and the Germans is complete-Belgium, Brazil, Britain,

op this country with regard to military swift onrush to the Marne, have the Allies China, France, Greater Britain, Greece, send a thousand troops from one of the had such weeks of tense anxiety as those Italy, Japan, Liberia, Montenegro, Por better divisions at present quartered in that commenced on the 91st March this tugal, Russia, Roumania, Servia. Siam, reking. year. Yet, while recognising that the United States, and, most recent of all,

No. Eresh loans have been sug. situation enlied for greater sacrifices than the West Indian island. flayti, and the sted, but previously reported loan nego ever, there has been no slackening of constate of Honduras. We are very familiar tations have been denied and so it is originated in Tientsin, where some. fidence, only a tightening up of the with Rudyard Kipling's lines Entente will to victory, and a setting of East is East, and. West is West.

difficult to know, exactly where the coun- genius had discovered that the word the teeth with a grimmer determination And never the twain shall meet." than ever, no matter what the cost, to But behold they are met, in defence statement on this subject, published a few ciated notes of the Bank of China, and try stands. Below I give the semi-official Peking could be erased from the depre- see this business through to the only of a cause in which the elemental prin. finish possible, if civilization were to be,ciples of humanity are nt stuke.

Tientsin" inserted, thus enabling the preserved, and the world saved from the That is significant enough. menace of an intolerable militarism..

But must significant of all has been the entry of

During the course of the last few

Artes, to be cashed at full value. Throughout these days, one passage of the United States inte the conflict weeks reports have been in circulation was discovered after a number had scripture has recurred with strange in knew all along that she must come in in about the dotation of various loans from

been cashed. This reacted in the capital, sistence to my mind. It is found in the end. She could not hald aloof for Isciab lix.. 19, When the

ad ever from struggle whose moral issues Japan, but most of them are unfounded Kalgan notes at par, or with slight dis

where exchange-shops cashed Tientsin amă. versary shall come in like a food, the embrace the world. But the day that and baseless, because they have been mount. These shops were, surrounded by spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard she took the decisive step Was one nt ngainst him." Again and again since eperh-making importance.

fabricated by anti-Government elements crowds of people demanding a speedy the beginning of this war have we had to recull the words of the Frends Prium for political and other ends. As a matter exchange and exhausting the limited proof of the truth of these words. Minister, M. Ribot. after this event ha of fact, the Chinese Government has con stock of silver curried by these shops.

Who can forget the numberless crabeen made public: sions on which the soldiers of the Entente thing great has happened, passing the cluded and signed the following agree. However, the police interfered and order have stood with extraordinary valour proportions of political events." before the advaneng German hosts, offer-us say this, and say it frankly and with

For et ments with Japanese capitalists, viz:-

was soon restored. One effect, of course, ing & resistance almost incredible-out full and glad acknowledgment, that Ame numbered often five to one--with every rica stands for the noblest ideals, and in

was the further depreciation of the Pek device of modern warfare massed against the person of her President has given them in overwhelming preponderance expression to them in the coblest

value, the Bank has undertaken to ensh ing notes, and, in order to enhance theis... newly raised levies many of them, against language, The world was an incntel. the trained legions of the greatest miliable debt to President Wilson. He has

these at a point or two higher than the tary Power in the world,

exchange shops. Such is finance in China By all human raised a standard which may truly be calexiations the Allies must have gone called the standard of the Lord. For if

MACAO MENO ABANDONED. under. But never have they been em. that League of Nations on which na pelled more than to retreat not once heart is set even become a fuet, then the by sheer force majeure have the Central Kingdom of God will have been brought

It is reported that "when it was pro- All the other proposed loans such as posed to build a hand in Marmo the Chi-. been able to secure their great nearer to realization, and this war will the Fenghuangshan, Tobacco and Wine nese Government protested on the ground chive the break up of the Allied not have been fought in vain..

Surely one must be blind indeed who

monopoly, and the Peking-Mukden Rail that, it was an infringement of China's Think of the noble defence of Liege by cannot recognize in these superlative ay have been cancelled, while other re-sovereign rights, r view which is said to the Belgians under Gen. Liman, which great events the standard of the Loi ports about eighty million dollars from be supported by the Chinese in the South. at the time mightily impressed the lifted up against our adversaries and the Japan for issuing Yen notes in Peking, Now it is announced that the Portuguese imagination of Europe, but has almost brutal militarism for which they stand. been forgotten in the stirring events that But let us add one more witness.

Or one hundred million dollars loan with Government has decided to abandon its have happened since. Think, too, of the rnd above, the witness from outside na marvellous retreat from Mona, when the tions, comes that from within the enemy's million dollars for the development of friendship between the two nations.

Land tax as security, and one hundred original plan in order to maintain the small 'British Expeditionary force held country itself. The remarkable confession up five German Army. Corps, so averting Prince Lichnowsky

catastrophe that would have exceeded damning document published against Ger. entirely fabricated by anti-Tuan Chi-jui the treaty of 1897-it is difficult to under. the most iron mines in Chion are all rumours Portuguese sovereignty was recognised by the surrender of bedan! Think again many since the war began. It is surris

stand the explanation thus given. It can Chinese sovereignty, I under.

not mean a revival of the essertion of

armies,

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We do well

We all feel some.

days ago.

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1.The Kirin-Huiling Railway loan. 2-The Tsinan-Shuntch Railway loan. 2.The Telegraph loan, including five

Wireless Stations.

4.- The Kirin-Heilungkiang Forest loan, 5.-Third advance of ten million dollars

Currency loan.

of the 1st Battle of Ypres, when the Prus of the first significance that it should elements sian Guards, proud in their strength, have been made public just now. advanced in Berried ranks to overwhelm tar that it took twenty years before the Government. received" altogether about For the above mentioned five loans the the contemptible little Army) that true causes of the Franco-Prussinn var confronted them, only to red and break me to light. But in this war, which forty million dollars Japanese gold.cur- before its indomitable Fexistance again, of the 2nd Battle of Ypres in May. than the saving of humanity is

Orefics all comparison, and when nothing reacy without restriction as to their use. 1915, when poisonous gases were und fortake, God has not suffered us to fight the first time, under the shock of which en blindly, merely suraising the justice ally due to British, American, and French The tobacco lean has been stopped, parti. the Allied armies were Inred back, and of our cause, but has given us many and the road to Calais actually thrown open infallible proofs to hearten and inspire protests, and partly due to the threats of for A brief moment, only to be closed. "Truth will out-we have known and those Chinese who are interested in the again at once by these Canadians, of believed that from the first; but He Who

undying memory, who with bared breast inanifests the truth in God, and in the tobacco and wine trades to go on strike and naked steel held back the German vindicating the end for which the Entente and refuse to pay their taxes onset! Or think of the magnificent reis fighting God has added en more Government in case their protests are sistance of the French at Verdun, or mark of victory to the standard He has

maximum effort of the enemy wha in the OF that end there can be no doubt this? |

to the

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more recently of the Italians on the lifted up against our adversaries and His unheeded by Peking. Piave, on each of which occasions the

And what is to be the end

The cative of North Manchuria are end turned into something like a rout! end is certain victory.

The doing their best to oppose the Forest But, above all, think of the happenings near," says Gen. Smuts, victory is as loan of thirty millions, and Mr. Nishi-84 serviettes, 38 tray-clothes 17 knitted

Be it far or 28 of these last few weeks in France. sure as the rising of the sun to-morrow.

Wonderful as France has been through We endorse those words, not because of the bara has already promised to give con- out the whole war she has never been so new hopefulness that has dawned in the cessions to the natives to relinquish their wonderful as now. After four years of present military situation, but because claims to mines in the vicinity of the uncensing struggle, during part of which we know that a true and righteous cause foresta. she bore almost the entire strain on the can never fail.

He also promises to permit the God's plans cannot Western Front, and after her enmies have offer ultimate defent. boasted from the housetops that she had plishment may be delayed, but the delay BELGIAN ANNIVERSARY.

Their accom. natives to take shares in his Company. been "bled white," she is now 6ghting is nothing more than a salutary discipline

surgical caps, 24 surgical swabs in bag, face swabs. 17. knitted handkerchiefs, &

rolled bandages, 12 gauze many-tailed bandages (abdominal), 12 gauze many. tailed bandages (chest), £2 flannel mang The Belgian community celebrated thegular bandages, 31 comfort bags, 7 pairs tailed bandages (abdominal), 12 trian-

as heroically as ever, in what is described for the people of His hand d

the greatest battle in this war of nations that they represent. He has call anniversary of their national indepen-white socks, 1 fannel suit, and a pair. «

Five separate offensives of ed them to cooperate with Him in the dence on Sunday, when there was an "At flannel trousera

magnitude

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beea establishment of righteousness on the

bave

by the Germans since March earth. Three who would co-operate with

at the Sino-French Cercle, con-

1st and while huge dents have been God must have clean hands and pure gratulations and sympathies being ten- made in the Allied lines, our enemies hearts,

sometimes

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and

God 14

HONGKONG POLICE RESERV2.

are further from their objective than reverses to stimulate conrage and give dered our gallant Allies by a host of ever, and what threatened to become a occasion to furbish ideals and simplify friends.. The Belgian Minister to Russia GADERS ISSUED BY MR. F. C. JENKIN, M.DE world thaking disaster now promises to motives." and shall we also add-to is here on a visit. A few days ago he had turn into a harbinger of the much-longed, eradicate viens that at like a canker

CAPES.

for victory.

the heart of even the best of nations an audience with the President, and I ask what is the meaning of this Sach, I verily believe, is the meaning of to-day His Excellency . Jales Deatree D.O. 77 is enncelled. Now repeated tale of amazing resistinen many of the set-br the Allies against what appeared time and again suffered.

hare

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to be overhelming odds? Is it not that were more ready to learn the lessons-Gol the theatre of the British Legation."

Would that they, as nations will speak at a reception to be given in when the adversary has come in like wild teach them. But in the end. flood, the spirit of the Lord has lifted God's plans are indestructible and His ap a standard against him? That has been manifested in the spirit of the experienced in wars, and knows how to in airs in Siberia. The Allied expedi- Monday, August 12th--No, 2 Platoon.

spirit purpose cannot be deflected. He is well- Their unshakeable confidence, their will perpetual dew of benediction. men that make up the Allied forces distil the red food of tragedy int

into a ingness to offer themselves and to face let me close with some lines of fae every Bacrifice, their extraordinary Russell Jewell, written ut a prave crisis the beroism, their refusal to accept deleti, in the sine working out of perangal their amazing cheerfulness even under freedom in Ameries, but peculiarly suited depressing circumstances to the present situation:-- Whence comes this spirit but from Him

French detachment which will leave from Careless seems the great Avenger; his there. The United States authorities may Who maintains very righteous canse, and Who never faileth those who stand

Lore's pages but record Entente gaurance of victory, which has for the oppressed and the wronged? The never weakened, despite the direst die appointment, is rooted and grounded in their certainty of the righteousness of their cause. The words of Isaiah may be applied to them with perfect truth.

most

up

One death-grapple in the darkness, 'twixt

e'd systems and the Word: Truth forever on the scaffold; Wrong

forever on the throne! Yet that scn Fold ways the future, and

Behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keep

ing watch above His own."

arranged, is under way. Our French Wednesday, August 14th-No. 9 Co. tion to Vladivostock, which has now been Tuesday, August 13th--No. 1 Section. friends in blue or khaki, in fair propor. Thursday, August 18th--No. 3 Co. tion, left for Tientsin to make up the No. 2 Bection at Water Police Station on

Friday, August 18th, at 5.45 p.m. draw on officers and men from North Kit and rifles will be inspected by n China as well as from Manila. But I

Superintendent at 6 p.m. on each of must not say more. in this connection,

the above Parades. otherwise your censor may use his pencil.

REVISION. think I may safely tell you that the Sergt to Lai Man Wai reveria to the correspondents are also, making plans. raską at his own request.

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