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The diamond jubilee of a society, which during its 60 years' work has raised no less than 389,189 without making any public appent for money, and has also kept ont of debt, is worthy of nata. This is the record of the China Inland Mission, which held meetings in London on May 12th to commemorate the fact that in 183 its work began.

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FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. }

EDINBURGH, May 13th To us in Scotland the late Lord Lever bulme will be best remembered as the nan who tried to modernise the Island of Lewis and the primitive civilisation at a most conservative Hebridean popula:

This society. which has been the pioucer tion. He started his scheme with the very best and most unselfish intentions; but of missionary work in many of the pro- he was defeated in his struggle with the vinces of China, though in granite character of the people, and had Roman Catholics preceded it, will always he associated with the nanie of Dr. Hud. to confess his one great failure in life. Lord Loverhulme, in his plans for Lewison Taylor, the young Yerkshire phy hopil to turn the fishermen crofters from sician, who, after he had been invalided their precarious livelihood as herring house from work in Chinn under a body fishermen and cultivators of unkindly and known as the Chinese Evangelisation Sa- which was working in the coast to the more steady remure ration of traweisty ling un a properly organised basis, with a provinces, felt compelled to lay sickness and go and do the deed" of spread. elaborate system To this end he purchased trawlers and retail fishing the gospel throughout inland China: shops throughout Engined and Scutland. which he run under the name of Mae Fisheries. The plan was an excellent one, carefully worked out, and would have been successful but for one thing-the hu man element. The Lewis crofters had hshed in their swt way and cultivated land in their own way for centuries, They rafused to hib turned into the idus į trial workers that Lord Leverhalne de. wired, much though it might have added to their comfort and prosperity. Sa the scheme fell thrush, and with it a great

The work is supported, by "home" number of improvements on the island that its proprietor had planned in antibodies in firent Britain, Canada, Austra cipation of its industrial progress. Dalasin, United States, Finland, Denmark, prived of its prospects of being turned Sweden, and Germany, and its work strei nto a self-supporting or profit-making ches right up into the corner of North-

for The following is the text of the Note estate, the Island of Lewis was a burden, Western China. No hody suffered more and Lord Leverhulme, disappointed in his terribly during the Boxer outbreak, efforts to raise the condition of its people, 55 missionaries out of the 135 Western addressed by the "Senior Consul, Shang missionaries slain were those of the C. I. decided to get rid of it. In his manner of doing se: he showed not a trace of the M. and of the 3 missionaries' children hai, to the Chinese Commissioner for For. resentment be might well have felt, and who lost their lives 21 were those of C. I. eign Affairs in reply to the later's two

He drew workers. The number of their Chinese Iwas generous to the extreme.

an elaborate pan, the ultimate cffect adherents martyred will probably never of which was that the land was to become! be known. the property of those who cultivated it. He presented Stornoway Castle to the town, and, in laici, treated the people un the island in the most magnanimes

Tanner.

LEVERRULME STORIES.

He made the decision on the heach at Brighton, and in his Bible records, under the date" June 25/65"-" Prayed for 24 willing, skilful labourers, and two days later started the new mission with to in a London bank. On May 26th next year he sailed back to China with a party of twenty two missionaries on the hammer- mir! To-day this little party has grown to a company of 1,134, missionaries, with 34 Chinese helpers (2, of whom are unpaid), working in 260 stations, 1,327 out-stations, and 300 schools

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG “ DAILY PRESS."]· St-Now that the Hongkong, Cantou and Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., have two large ships for the, Canton run-the Langskian, and the Täisina, perlups they could spare a large and faster ship for the Macan run--if not, daily—at least for Notes of protest on the subject of the disthe Sunday sension trip. During the summer months there is always a large number of people travelling to Macao ** powers Jon Sunday morning, and the

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Shanghai, June 6sh." Dr. Hudson Taylor believed that his

S-I am desired! by my colleagues of work would be supported, like Muller's orphanages, by faith, and his trust and that of his successors has been amply rethe Consular Body to acknowledge the warded. Even during the time when the receipt your letters of May 31st and exchange was at its lowest in 1920 the June ist on, the subject of the recent dis- C. I. M. suffered less severely than other amount of contributions-£184.118. teens, for in that year it received its

Frogi the information at the disposal of turhances in the International Heitlement.

the Consular Budy including the Coroner's inquest, it appears that in the afternoon of May 30th a uniber of students were distributing anti-foreign pamphlets and making anti-foreign sperches in the Nanking Road district in the heart of the Settlement.,

[Ed. Note: As announced in the Daily Tras on Wednesday, the Hongkong. Canton and Macao Steamboat Co. are inviting "local ship-builders to tender for their Macao-Hongkong Service. the construction of a fast steaner for

INCOME TAX DEDUCTIONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE

HONGKONG

As a storyteller Lord Leverholme had very few equals. He and his friend Lord Dewar were rivals in this respect. One of the very best stories told of him turns

and prize-drawings," even when these are upon a ready retort with which he oner silenced an interrupter at a meeting he resorted to by innocent-minded people for Jandable objects-in wit raising money was addressing. The question that was

for Church purposes. When there are gut to him was this "Which do you

many grave and deally evils existing consider the most important factor within and without Church hounds, it

or brains!'' industry-labour, rapital,

looks like a waste of ammunition to spend Lord Leverhulme replied with a merry

Which is the marshot on what, if they are offences, are yo twinkle in, his eye:

harmless and insignificant, and commit: iniortant leg of a three-legged stool?"

Lord Leverhuine was famed for his, as is acknowledged. with the best of intentions" in the best of causes. If the tousts. One of them" run thus hat Churches are persuaded to set forth on friends; may we always have more friends a crusade, not only against moderate than money, and may we never want for drinkers and those who play golf or travel

"He often quoted this invitation to bis friends Come is the evening. Come in the morning. Come when expected, degree, to the all-pervading inclination was knocked down and assaulted. The bame, was repaid a large sum to whichr

either.

for rong without warning Thousands of welers ve'll find here helore yr. And the oftener ye some the more we does

FEREMASONRY.

It was reported at the quarterly on munication of the Grand Lodge of Scot larxl, held in dinburgh, that the Foreign and Colonial Committee, being satisfied of the accuracy of information from the Grand Lodge of New York that the Grund Orient of Belgium had abandoned the requirement of belief in God, decided to recommend that the Grand Lodge of Sent faut could no longer remain in arity with the Grand Orient of Belgium. The geport was adopted.

WHR Cachon ySD SOM PROBLEMS."

A few of the ringleaders. were arrested but their, companions ac companied them to the police station and refused to leave. Other groups of stud- enta continued to make speeches which

by trains or hus on Sundays, but against collected large crowds, and a foreign con

DAILY PRESS."]

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In recent instance with which I have

all who give way, in any shape or in any stable who endeavoured to disperse then be dealing,, public servant invalides

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human nature to tempt "lack and to. play

Provident Fund accumulated over with fiance, they are

crew then forced their way into Louz he was entitled ferm the Official Suff more likely th antagenise than to rally to their support police station and were only ejected with number of years. The Crown Agente great dificulty. The police pushed the moderate and liberal-minded opinion. BETTING AND GAMBLING,

crowd back to the east along Nanking bowever, by instructions from the British. Road endeavouring to disperse them, but Revenue Authorities, deducted full tax The habit of betting is so widespread at the Town Hall the crowd turned on at 4/6d, on this sum when it was paid la, that the attitude of the Seuttish Chur- the police attempting to disarm them and my client in England and it was only after a very drastic corresnondence with. ?

drove them back with cries of Kill the the Revenue Authorities that the amount, ches towards it deserves a little more

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an increase in the gambling habit during Lauza Police Station when the police In my opinion such a sum paid to. recent years and ask how it is to be explained? The Committee of the Un- and the station of being rushed, the man who through residence abroad, ited Free Church reply, that it is party officer in charge baving given a warning throughout the period of the accrual of de to slackened restraints and both by shouting and displaying his pis- the fund, is not assessable to British tax mord stamina the aftermath of Wachtel ordered the police guard at the station merely because it happens to be paid, the partly by the monotony of life which to Bre: as a result four noters were him on his arrival in England. In this our industrial processes and housing killed and ten or more wounded, of whom particular instaner, however, my client and social conditions impose on many

seven have since died."

had not actually become technically, re "Probably the real ex- As prelude to the heavy artillery of town-dwellers,

On the following day parties of students Bident in England and so the matter was tae debates in the General Assemblies planation of the increas Hex in the fact

To avoid the difficulty, might. I sug- during the month of May, we have always that betting has become an enterprising again distributed notices in the Nanking beyond dispute.

If the pro- Road inciting to a general strike with the the blowing of trumpets and the giving and remunerative trade. forth of watchwords in the reports of the fessional was not making money out resuls that on the third day-June 1st-gest that it would be prudent to have any dimensions of the crowds assembled in the Nanking Road each vim paid over before departurs to three leading Presbyterian Churches, of bitting,

The assaulting the police and damaging motor England at all. But if that cannot be This year gaubling and betting, Sabbath evil would speedily dwindle.

organisation 18 ingeni- and tramcars. At the corner of Nanking done and the tax is netually deducted breaking,

the drink traffe, and the ad bookmakers vance of Romanism are all prominent in ous in its methods and widespread in and Chekiang Roads a number of paving in the arbitrary nabion indicated above,

Their agents operate stones were uprooted by the rioters and this shumld not he anhmitted to

most санс it will probably he the Committee reports. But the language used is much too strong for the facts. is in workshops and offices, in the streets thrown at the police. and firemen who in

were endeavouring to disperse the mob, found that the Revenge have no right to Success, in repelling intemperance, for ex- and closes of towns. canvassing evett angle, to he secured by the use of fute from door to door with the alluring finally forcing the police, for the protee any such deduction where a find has crate, contradictory, and ill-considered promise of easy money." The Chur- tion of life and property, to open fire, been accumulated wholly broad by a language such as in to be found in the ches contend that further legislation is with the result that three men were killed persau not subject to British tax.

Yours faithfully,

CHAS. H. TOLLEY. reviews of the year to be submitted to the urgently required to cope with the and several injured. Assembly of the United Free Church nuisance of street betting, to remove the In addition there were several other The docunsent, opens with a note of ex- inequality as between one class and an instances of attacks on the police, and itation-breaches have been made in the other, and to prevent the publication of on foreigners and their property in differ stronghold of the drink" trate that will betting information which fills so many ent parts parts of the Settlement. Again, in the afternoon of June 2nd a number of aver be repaired"; and the further columns of most newspapers

Chinese opened fire with revolvers on a prophecy is pronounced that attacks are Tux sux' TILI being prepared that will make these Very few people, though they hav Volunteer patrol in the vicinity of Burkill

At the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday breaches wider, and make it plain that lived in the Highlands all their lives, Road and the New World, wounding two the downfall of the strong fortress is only have ever seen or tasted smuggled whisky troopers and their mounts. The police before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, Chinese inatter of time." The authors of the For half-a-centary, at least, the illicit and Volunteers returned this fire with the hawker was charged with assaulting and

J report appear to have felt that they were ina' still has been practically as obsolete result that one Chinese was killed.

grievously wounding a contractor of the shouting victory before the walls of the as the fint-lock gun. There might, be With reference to the students and P.W.D. who was removed to the Kwong stronghold of the Trade were sufficiently an occasional revenue capture at long others who have been arrested, only a few Wah Hospital suffering from a fracture shaken; for

they immediately go on to intervals in Ross-shire, but it is safe of the most serious cases have been re akull. The affait occurred on Tuesday admit that the rate of progress" they are making secrtainly not impres to say that, in most of the Highland marded in custody the majority being in Dundas Roal. The man way reBaud- sive that though there is no stragasounties a gallon of spirits that had released on bail in varying sudis.

paid lawful cess to the Government

From the above it will be cbserved that tion the situation is static"; and, al has not been drank in

A domestic puirrel between a hotke tering their metaphor, they sanounce that

deep, vehement collision of Crude whisky is almost as easily mile the vetion of the police has been very coolin and cook at No. 3, Humphrey's pot of tea; for generations its different from that described in your notes Buildings which resulted in the wound two strong tides, and there is no sign of the temperzoen tide receding "--a very hesret distillation was common in most under reply. None can regret more deeping of the latter with a chopper was sered in the opening pean that the part of it is now, if not forgotten, at, of life which has occurred, but the ques Mr. E. W. Hamilton, Festerday where leiat unpratcicix The Campbeltown tion of the propriety of the action taken No-Licence tide was carrying everything distillerica of to-day had their origin in by the police is

Que which tould be both parties were hound over in the sur

of $25 balore it. This obsession in favour of

raised in the course of the legal procced- black pots" kept at one time ings when the prisoners arrested on this prohibitory or compulsory methods of

An unemployed Chinese who was ar making men sober and virtuous, the idea briskly going in the wilder and uncension are brought to trial. There willested on the President Van Burens on tifention of temperance with extreme

solitary parts of Kintyre to supply the

also as a matter of course he an investiga- views intemperately expressed, and the convivial needs of Ayrshire.

of munition in his possession we sen- confusion of the moderate use with the unpalatable, and unwholesomb the pro tion by the authorities concerned into the May 11th with a revolver and 200 roundr abuse of alcolic, may be triced also a duct of the ama' still was can be guessed action of the police officer, in question tenced to 12 months hard labour with from the "poteen" of Connemara. The besides which the competent courts stand the option of a fine of $1,000 by Ms. F though in more cautious language, in the formula and technique of "poteen" and ready to deal with any complaints. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy deliverances of the Church of Scotland Assembly Committees on the subjects, pots in the West of Ireland the demand assume full responsibilty, for all action

smuggled Bootch whisky are the same. The Settlement authorities naturally yesterday."

there is

different thing from the impression con

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a life-time.

How

ed.

POLICE COURT ITEMS.

only of temperance, but of betting and for amuggled whisky is at present grea- taken in the maintenance of order against In consequence of complaints receive

ambling and of Sunday observince.

Both Churches and, of course, also the ter than ever. Thers is to likelihood, law breakers I must at the same time by the police from the Kowloon Hesid grave responsibility ents' Association, a batch of skylarking Free Church are asked to inhibit and however, of 'revival of the making of remind you that

the Scottish Highlands rests upon the local Chinese authorities cyclists were summoned at the Kowloon. discourage, along with the forms taken whisky in by gambling and betting that are umver though, for the fun of the thing one in respect of the anti-foreign agitation Magistracy before Mr. E. W. Hamilton sully recognised to be vicious and danger would like to be able to say that one conducted beyond the limits of the Settle yesterday. They got off with a fine ons, practices such as raffles, lotteries, had tasted the Mountain dew of a ment to which these regrettable occur of 5 each and few words of advies,

énées are largely to be attributed.

from His Worship. (Continued on' nezt.Column), Highland: "black pot,"