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FLOODS IN EUROPE.

INCREASING ANXIETY IN FRENCH DISTRICTS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6mx, 1926

FORGED NOTES.

HUNGARLAN PRINCE PLACED UNDER ARREST.

BUDAPEST, January 4th" The circulation at The Hague of a quantity of forged thousand frage French banknotes, apparently produced in Huo- gary, led to the arrest of two Hungarians in Holland, also the arrest here of the private secretary and valet of Prince Louis Windischarts, who was formerly Minister of Supplies

PARIS, January ;th. The likelihood of continued rain is causing the utmost anxiety. Already the Oise has beaten all records, including the floods of 1910 and 1920, having risen twenty feet. The triangle between Creil. A further sensation has now been Beauvais and Noyon is a vast sheet of caused by the arrest of the Prince him- water. Trains on the main line to Bel-self, who is a Privy Councillor and gium are obliged to slow down for many

miles, while sometimes the foers of the estringes are swamped.

Villages in the flooded areas are being hurriedly evacuated, household goods being transported on rafts,

The flooding of the waterworks at Compeigne has rosulted in a limited supply of drinking water, with rationing from barrels.

The rise of the Aisne has flooded many streets in Soissons. A train, between Caen and Saint Lo was abandoned after the passengers had been rescued.

CHILD KILLED..

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A child was killed and three persons were injured as the result of a collapse of a house at Caen, which is very badly damaged. Some estimatra put the damage

at twenty million franes.

The rise of the Meuse has converted the streets of Merières into rushing tor- rents It is feared that twenty thousand workers in the Meuse valley will be ren- dered idle for three weeks in consequence of the flooding of the factories.

WOMEN DRIVEN INSANE. :

AMSTERDAM, January 4th..

The wafer has fallen a yard below yesterday's highest level at Maestricht, so that trains to Liege and the northern parts of Holland are running, but not for public trafic

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Their Majesting in the morning viewed the damage at Maestright where many homeless people are sheltered in military barracks at Shertogenbosch. In view of the extent of the disaster it is remark- able that hitherto there have been no fatalities, although two women have been driven insane as the result of anxiety

and distress.

HANDSOME ROYAL GIFT. ·

BRUSSELS, January 4th. Their Majesties to-day paid a lengthy

member of one of the most distinguished

families in Central Europe. According

to a curiously-worded official statement,

the forgeries were executed not for reasons | of personal gain-but our assumed patriotic grounds The Minister of the Interior has ordered the interrogation of certain

officials of the State map printing offers

THRONE OF RUMANIA. PRINCE MICHAEL RECOGNISED AS HEIR.

BUCHAREST, January 4th. The National Assembly, by 234 votes to 3; ratified Prince Carol's renunciation of his succession rights and recognised Prince Michael ng Heir. A Provisional Regency Bill was passed creating a Council composed of Princo Nicolas, the Orthodox Patriarch and the first Pre- sident of the Court of Cassation. Prince Carol has also waived his parental authority over Prince Michael.

GREEK DICTATORSHIP.

"ON YOUR BAYONETS ONLY DOES SUCCESS DEPEND."

ATHENS, January 4th. The Commander of each barracks has announced that a Dictatorship has been proclaimed und the all must contribute

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BERLIN, January 4th In connection with a report from New York that the banking Arm of Dillon Road and Company is planning tho formation of a German-American steel trust, it is pointed out that there can be no question at present" of forming such a trust because no German steel trast at present exists.

It is believed that, Dillon Read and Company, who themselves own steel works in America, are prepared to fance German steel works with big lusas, so that lack of capital need no

longer hinder the formation of a trust

composed of all the principal German steel works, except Krupps, who are averas to joining therein. Should thir trust come into being, it is expected it will enter into close business relations

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CUTLOOK. INCHINA.

POINTED COMMENT REGARDING

CHRISTIAN GENERAL."

WRISTLING FOR MONEY.'

TONDON, January 4th. The Daily Telegraph thinks it matters little to China whether Feng Yu Hsiang (the "Christian General") stays or 80

Another aspirant to power will re- place him and be exposed to the same sort of danger of a possible combination of Chang Tao Lin with other rivals of Feng's The paper proceeds to refer to the remarkable improvement in the retenus of 1925 compared with 1994 as revealed in Sir Francis Aglen's annual report, despite social confusion. It voices the opinion that, if the unequal treaties" are abrogated, can plete tariff autonomy obtained and extraterritorial privileges abolished, the investor in Chinese or for eign loans 'secured upon the revenue would be whistling for his money.

It believes, that the removal of the

with the Dillon Road steni works, with secarity afforded by extraterritorial status would certainly lead to far graver out necessarily forming a

events than have hitherto occurred. Such American trust,

·German.

The amount which Dillon Read pro- poses to place at the disposal of the German crust when formed is not dis

closet, but it is understood the German steel magnates have been trying for some time to aegotiate a loan in the United States of 25 to 30 million pounds sterling.

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New York, January 3th. Messrs. Dillon. Read & Company sum of approximately confirm that a $50,000,000 is involved in financing a

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CANTON NEWS:

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.)

MUTINY AMONG CHEN, CHIUNG

MING'S TRŪPS.........

A report from Amoy states that the remnants of the defeated anti-Red Army of General Chen Chinag Ming, stranded in Southern Fution since their evacua tion of Swatow two months ago, mutinied last week, ousting Generals Li Yung Fu and Tse Wen Fing and offering the command to Colonel Li Shang Feng.

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DO MIRACLES HAPPEN?

HOW DEAN INGE'S DOUBTS ARE DOING HARM.

ALL THINGS POSSIBLE."

What exactly is the religion of the Dean of St. Paul's writes the Rev. Basil Bouchier, M.A., Vicar of Hampstead Garden Suburb, in a London paper. The Turid announcement that "a leading Churchman has rejected miracles and knocked the bottom out of the Christ- mas religion" is startling, not to say Anomalous.

DR. MA CRITICIZED. Dr. Ma Chun Wu, a native of Kwangsi, The Denn calls on the Church to give and a returned student from Germany, up "shuffling" and re-cast some of its having accepted the portfolio of Justice most ancient and most familiar tradi- in the new Cabinet of the Peking Pro- tional doctrines. By implication, he visional Government formed by Mr. Han would appear to reject both the physical Shi Ting, is now a target of attack from Ascension of Christ and the Physical Re- politicians of the South-western Prosurrection of the human body, whilst he vines. The opinion is expread that nois at one with the scientist in repudiating member of the Kuomintang should so the vulgar conception of miracles as the ciste with the Poking Government until suspension of a lower law by higher. the reunification of China has been effected,

RESTAURANTS ON STRIKE,

Families in Fatshan who selected De cember for celebrating the weddings of their grown-up children found that the

DOING REAL HARM.

Now, in these short sentences are in- volved almost all the cardinal doctrines

of the Christian Faith, the questioning of which strikes at the very heart of Chris- tianity. Dean Inge, let me say at the

very outset, is one of the most brilliant

a step became obviously out of the ques- Purveyors who cater for wedding feasts thinkers of the age. His every atter-

tion before the International Commission appeared in Peking.

The article concludes by enquiring if it is not time the Powers moved in the direction of recognising the glaring facts of the situation and ending the immense international fiasco brought about by mis guided diplomacy in dealing with the affairs of China.

FENG'S CIRCULAR TELEGRAM.

PEKING, January 5th..

Feng Yu Hsiang has issued a circular telegram. stating that he is giving up public life and going abroad. He urges the militarists to support. Tuan Chi Jui and work for the betterment of the country.

JAPAN AND MANCHURIA.

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and large parties were on strike against ance challenges thought, and if we were taxation levied by the Kuomintang on all ng clever and as intellectually equip meals above 20 cents a person. Workers ped as he, all his various "boshells,”* ̈ supporting the restaurant proprietors in could be hurled inte our midst without burt. But we are not, and, because we Fatahan are trying hard to prevent, out-

are not, these explosions are doing real harm throughout the community. side cooks from going to Fataban to profit by the situation.

HONGKONG AND CANTON. The latest development in the pourpar lers for the settlement of the boycott

to the task undertaken by the army for German Steel Combination, consisting of TOKYO ORDERS WITHDRAWAL OF traffic is improbable, according to those

You see, there are, roughly, four classes of the British public upon whom these electrifying pronouncements take effect Pochaps, more accurately, I should say directed by Canton workers against three, inasmuch as there is one class-on- meatality so sublimely disinterested Hongkong British interest is that a point of friendly contact has been that if one Saturday afternoon at a cup- established between the responsible the final it was proclaimed with authority presentatives of opposing parties. An that there was neither Heaven nor Hell, carly resumption of full trade and the crowd would merely boo the speaker

familiar with the situation and the pro- gress made thus far. The bright sile The War Department announces that is that conversations between the oppos. the remaining reinforcements which were sent to Manchuria last month, are being ing parties have been opened and that a sat down on Thursday or Friday, when large section of the trade community they will leave for Japan.

among the Chinese in Canton is exercis The War Department also announces that Chang Tep Lin and his son haveing the strongest influence possible to sent messages to the Kwantung Japanese recommend the Kuomintang leaders to authorities, regretting that the recent disturbances threatened Japanese lives and property.

the nation's good. The sztement eco- cluded:On your bayonets only does establishment of Dictatorship depend."

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HURRICANE IN SAMOA.

PAGO PAGO, January 4th A ferce hurricane did widespread damage to American Samos last week, bas hitherto no casualties have been re ported. Houses were unroofed and great trees which were uprooted from the mountains slid down into the villages

ed the roads.

PRICE OF RUBBER.

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'SIR ROBERT HORNE IN."TIMELY STATEMENT.””

NEW YORK, January 4th.

visit to the inundated regions around and valleys. Many landslides have block. With regard to a statement published |

Namur and Dinas The situation in the Liege, Namur and Brussels districts has greatly improved but the position in the low lying, districts, notably the Waes area, has become" worse.

Their, Majesties have subscribed two million francs-to the national fund for the victims of the foods, comprising the money presented to them on the occasion of their silver wedding last year, plus a personal gift of one hundred thousand franes:

A SERIOUS CHARGE. SIR BASIL THOMSON IN LONDON COURT.

LONDON, January 4th A huge crowd besieged Marlborough Street Police Court, London, on the ap pearance of Bir Basil Themton, Assistant oner of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner from 1913-1919, in answer to two sum. monses, one accusing him of indecency with a woman in Hyde Park, and the other requiring him to show cause why his recognisances of £6 should not be forfeited for his non-appearance in court on the day named in the original

summons.".

A policeman gave evidence that after arrest the accused told him he was Sir Basil Thomson and if his friends know about this he would be ruined. Suber quently the policeman alleged. that accused mid that if witness overlooked the matter he could leave the police to morrow, to which the policeman replied that accused should not tempt him, a you know how impossible it is for mu to let you go The Polico is my soln means of existence..

Counsel for the prosecution said that Accused at the Police Station, where an, Inspector recognised him, naked that his name be entered as Hugh Thomson, He. was released on 25 bail but failed to appear in Court, Subsequently he wrote explaining that he went to Bow Street by mistake. Accused appeared at Marl borough Street on December 18th for the horough summour. The woman, who was a young pantomime artist, was arrested ad fiped on December 22nd,

2nd The case was adjourned.

FOOTBALL AT HOME.

RESULTS OF MATCHES IN SCOTTISH LEAGUE.

LONDON, January 4th. Following are the results of matches played to-day in the first division of the Scottish League:

Aberdeen, 3 Queen's Park, 1. Airdrieonians, 3; Cowdenbeath, 2, ...Celtic, 3; Partick, 0.

Dundee Un... 0; Dundee, 1.

berniana, 0; St. Johnstone, 3 Kilmarnock, 4; Hamilton, 1. Motherwell, 4; Morton, 1. Rangers, 3; Clydebank, 1. Raith R., 1: Hearts, 3 St. Mirren, 2, Falkirk, 0.

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LOVE FINDS A WAY. MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER GETS

POPE'S DISPENSATION.

NEW Yon, January 5th.

by Bir Robert Horne in London giving his views on the prices of rubber, the New York Timer considers it most timely and calculated to allay the vestiges of

the temporary ill-feeling in both coun tiers. The paper says that the excite ment which temporarily raged around the high price was from the first artificial and quite unnecessary.

Mr. Hoover has hastened to do hin

best to correct the unforunate effects of his first utterances. The early exaggera tions were hollow and could not bear the weight of trade statistics. It would scem that even Congress was ready to consider the question on the basis of truth and reason,

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MR. HOOVER'S LAMENTS.

LONDON, January 5th. The Time in a leader, replying to Despite the persistent opposition of her American criticism of British rubber father, Mr. Clarence Markay, the multi-restriction, reiterates the reasons render- millionaire, President of the Pastal, Tela ing the Stevenson Scheme necessary. graph and Cable Company, Miss Ellen It says that when prices rose rapidly Mackay, aged 22, has married the song-largely owing to American forward con- writer, Mr. Irving Berlin.

REINFORCEMENTS.

TOKYO, January 5th.

9.8. "BALTIMORE" MARU." JAPANESE VESSEL TOWED TO PORT SUDAN.

PORT SUDAN, January 4th The as. Baltimore Marn has arrived, in tow.

A message from Perim on December 30th reported that the Japanese steamer Baltimore Maris had broken her tail

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NIKKO HOTEL BURNT. TOURISTS FROM "BELGENLAND " HAVE VISIT SPOILED.

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TOKYO, January 5th.

GAOL FOR COUNTESS. STRANGE THEFT CASE.

urgo their dictator, M. Borodin, the Soviet Commissioner to South China, and the Strike Committee of workers, to make the terms for settlement as reason able and practical as possible.

CHINESE DESIRES. Chinese workers expecting to return to

Hongkong after the settlement of the difficulty are desirous of being assured that they will be permitted freely to reorganize their unions and not he de ported without, trial When their presentatives met the delegation from Hongkong on January 1st, these ques tious wore touched upon." Of course, the delegation, being sent by Chinese mer chants and only able to deal with cer

Then there are those whose belief is so and clamour to get on with the game

unassailable that they can afford to treat any new utterance with unconcern.

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SCIENCE AND RELIGION. ».

Two classes, however, remain. And it is for these that I am gravely concerned, it only for the fact that they constitute the majority. The one class hear, read and inwardly digest the many and varied newricws" (which now-a-days spring up, mushroom-like, in a night), and the result is they fall away altogether.

The remaining class overwhelmed and not strong enough to stomach the immer- sity of these new and modern revelations, begin, like Thomas, to be extremely

doubtful.

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Probably there never has been an age when the intellectual capacity of-the average Church-going congregation was so low as to-day, and their hold upon the

eternal verities of our Faith so loose that I am sorry that the Dean's position And, in my judgment, it is for this reason is so open to misunderstanding, and his latest utterances calculated to hinder rather than help.

It is not nearly so much the statement, as the form of statement, that worries ran. Science and Religion are not oppos cd. Then, why say so, and unsettle the man in the street? Only last Sunday I addressed a mass meeting of men at West Ham-between one and two thousand of them at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the remark which they received as enthusiastically as any was when I said:

We are living in a world of wonder. Some people say that there is no such thing as miracle. Whereas it is far truer to say that there is nothing but miracle. The scientists, far from robbing this world of its wonder, have made it more wonderful. It remains a miraculous world needing some opo cutaids off it to explain it." A

Yes, instead of talking to me about the "aniformity of Nature," tell me about the "fidelity of God." No man without Divine wisdom could have concocted any one of the statements in the First Chap-

ter of Genesis. Each of these statements is in perfect agreement with present. geo- logical knowledge

"A. Nichi Nichs special message reports that fire destroyed the Nikko Hotel last hight. There was much confusion as the tain financial aspects was unable to hotel was crowded with tourists from the discuss any political problems without liner Belgenland. There were no casual- ties but the loss is estimated at half-a-further instructions from Hongkong. The workers in Canton were of opinion million yen.

that it would be better to have a few British merchants in the Hongkong de Iegation who could more or less speak for the British interests, both trade and political, and this they made known at On the stroke of midnight on Novem their first formal or preliminary meet- ber 18th a sentence of one year's in- prisonment was passed at Potsdam on ing. The other political subject the Countess Ellinor Bothmer. She was con-workers would like to consider is a more victed both of purloining articles from the dwelling of her old family friend, the real and effective Chinese representation

on the Hongkong Legislative Council. President of the Potsdam Court, Herr Rieck, and of -stealing money from the

DR. VU EMBARRASSED.

Then, as to miracles. Why are they to puzze of a few visitors in a hotel at the Pomeranian watering-place, Polzin

Dr. C. C. Wu, Chairman of the Canton be termed either impossible or improb able? Nature's laws are not arbitrary The case was greatly complicated by a Municipal Council, who is in close touch laws. At best, Nature's laws are nothing number of anonymous.letters sent to vari our people, in which the writers either with both Canton and Hongkong Chinese but the observed uniformities in nature, took the guilt of the robberies on them merchants and is actually referred to by and, therefore, if you are really scientific, selves or attributed it to third parties certain workers as " also belonging to the Sonodify your theory by your facts

The Dean appears to me to cut down. Similar communications were also made hy mysterious veiled ladies. The Court. capitalist class," has been embarrassed the facts to suit his theory? When Miss Ellen Mackay (who is a Roman Catholic) had previously obtained dis be drawn into a series of statements, however, came to the conclusion that all for some time with requests from all sides people say, "We cannot relieve in any these mystifications originated with the to use bis good offices and personal in break in the uniformity of Nature," they. pensation from the Pope, permitting her which can only be described as inaccurate, counteas hezeel It further took the view fuccce, particularly his friendship with forgot surely that they do all, believe m marriage to Mr. Berlin, who is a Jew.

anwise and.

stolen late among the rushes on the hasten the much desired settlement. It is when one moment there was no hfe, and feeling on

the part of Americans un-shore, of, one of the Potsdam lakes. A derstood that, both Mr. Wang Ching the next there was,

man who accused himself of stealing Wei, Chairman of the Council of ComFinally, one word about the ascension familiar

with the facts It is no case moneftist Polzin subsequently admitted missars of the Kuomintang Government of Christ. I may be old fashioned, but for recrimination but for commonsense that his story was false. He said, how in Canton, and Mr. T. V. Soong, chief to accept this, in all its literalness, causes PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S REQUEST At the best, Mr. Hoover's laments cannot ever, that he confessed to the countess on commissar of finance, trade, and mumer me not the slightest difficulty. With Ged

his own initiative, and received from berous other departments, are also desirous all things are possible. increase the world's production of the impression that she was innocent and of a settlement, but the power of the As to the nature of man's Ren rrection Soviets and the Strike Committee is not body Nothing, to my mind, in all the WASHINGTON, January 4th.

The Bench expressed the opinion that so weak as many have wished to believe. Bible is plainer or more unmistakable the relations between the socused and President Coolidge has asked Congress rubber; at the worst they may ruffle the really believed in his guilt.

On pressure by Chinese merchants in than Paul's denial of a physical Resur to appropriate 850,000 of the expenses of feelings of the American public and a Police Captain Hefter had not been above Canton, the Strike Committee is consider rection. Man rises not with, but from, American representatives at the pre- liminary disarmament discussions in shock a worldwide movement for the reproach The countess protested her in ing the abolition of restrictions on travel his body

nocence throughout, and, when sentence between Canton and Hongkong, and the Geneva He declares that the repre- amicable adjustment of economic difficul- was passed, declared that she would not granting of greater freedom for goods sentation will not involve any attitude ties between nations by mutual conces tuve been alive had the not been deter other than British to leave Hongkong for mined to fight for the honour of her hus Canton vid non-British vessels and rid to sendeve me, or any conferen to attend a similar future confertace. :sion and agreement

Shanghai. band, her sons, and her unborn child."

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tracts Mr. Hoover allowed himself to

islated to, arouse ill- that it was the who hid some of the AL. Borodin, to effect a compromise and the, greatest break that ever happened,

So I say: Whilst the chief function-of

the preacher is to stir up thought, it does need to be done with caution. Otherwise the danger is that the last state is likely to be palpably worst than the first. -