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NO ONE IN CHARGE. SWATOW LEFT WITHOUT TROOPS. RUMOURS OF OPPOSITION FORCES...

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDIN*]

Swarow, January 30th.

It is dimicult to tell what is going on

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 159,

SUPPRESSION OF BANDITRY. CANTON GOVERNMENT TO TAKE DRASTIC ACTION.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] It is reported that February 1st, has beem Axed as the date on which a moet

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MASONIC SERVICE. GATHERING OF MASONS AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL

ADDRESS BY BISHOP. DUPPUY.

Two hundred and fifteen Masons at tended the first annual Masonic service

We know that the fleeting now is as nothing to the never ending hereafter, that if the earthly housp of our taber nacle be destroyed we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. "We place our hopes to Him," to whom, there is no before or after, before whose eyes the

hare. We arrived at the office this morning of all the military lenders, will be held at St. John's Cathedral last evening infinite past and the infinite future are! ing and heard that all the troops had hold at the Military Council to discussat which the Bishop of Victoria (the Rt spread out as a rasp, to Whom there is

left; certainly by noon there wasn't a soldier left in the place.

Where they have gone and why nobody seems to know." I have tried to find out but the few Chinese one can get in touch with profess absolute ignorance. A few days ago there were vague rumours of opposi. tion forces in the neighbourhood of Taipo, stown about 60 miles to the north of Swatow. It was said by some that they

the various stages of a scheme previously, Yormulated for the suppression of ban ditry in the Province of Kwangtung.

The scheme has been left in abeyance for more than six months owing to the military campaign against General Chao Kwing Ming and his adherents. The capture of King Chow, or Hainan Island, and the neighbouring districts by the

Kuomintang Army is considered to 'com-

Rev. "C: R. Duppay). District Grand Chaplin, preached an appropriate ser mon, in the course of which he expressed the bope that this would be the first of series of Masonic services to be held

there.

Among the Lodges represented were the District Grand Lodge of Hongkong the Zetland Lodge, Victoria Lodge. Per and South China (English Constitution).

were Sun Chuan Fang's troops; by others plete the campaign, and union of Kwang-rance Lodge, United Services Lodge, University of Hongkong Lodge, Star of at they were Wu Fei Fu's.. Whatever tung in so far as the military affairs are this movement may mean the fact re- concerned. What remains to be done Naval and Military Lodge and the Eastern Southern China Lodge, St. John's Lodge.

mains that Swatow is now left without without delay in the suppression of ban-

Scotia Lodge. anyone in charge. I expect therefore ditry throughout the length and breadth that the Chamber of Commerce will turn of the province so as to protect the peo out the merchans guards to preserve some plo against piratical attacks in all the kind of order. Some such body is neces-waterways, and robbery in the inland

sary for last night the ricksha coofies had a domestic hate-day watch versus night watch and began shooting each other.

CHIANG KAI SHEK.

Local papers report that Ho Eng Kim, Commander of the 1st Division of the 18. National Army Corps, has been appointed to succeed Chiang Kai Shok as Com mander-in-Chief,, the latter being deposed by the Canton Government.

QUEER PROPAGANDA. Yesterday the City Kuomintang issued queer circular aotice to the general public, suggesting immediate renewal of the strike and boycott against Japanese on the ground that Japanese troeps are advancing on Peking and Tientsin, in

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Hall, the brethren formed in procession After robing in St. John's Cathedra outside, and proceeded into the Cathe dra! led by the choir singing the proces- sional hymn Glorious things of thee are The scheme embraces the following spoken." At the bead of the procession proposals:---

was the Right Worshipful District Grand Master (the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak who was supported by the Deputy Distric Grand Master (Mr. J. Owen Hughes) and the officers and brethren of the Distri Grand Lodge. Following them enme the officers and brethren of the junior lodges with the officers and brethren of the lodges of both English and Scottish con- (2) The whole province shall be divid-stitutions at the rear. The elergy com et into five special districts,-the north, picted the procession. east, south anil west, with Pun U, Shun- tak, and Heungshan Prefecture forming the Afth.

-During the Winter Defence Season the military shall co-operate with the Police in carrying out a rigorous search for robbers in the four districts in mediately bordering Canton Proper, and this the Public Safety Bureau shall robbers' deus inside the City. make every endeavour to locate the

THE SERVICE.

(3) The troops stationed in the north, Four clergy, in addition to the Bishop east, south and western districts shall be all are Masons. They were the Rev. G of Victoria, took part in the service, and charged with the responsibility of aesist. Waldegrave (Missions to Seamen), the ing the local magistrates, whilst in the Rev. G. E., S. Upsdell (Queen's College) Fifth District the 5th Army Corps shall and the Rev. E. W. L Martin (t

pursuance of a policy te put China under specially instructed to clear out all Stephen's College); while the Rev. Mr.

-international control, nyreed upon by Japan, Britain, America, France and Italy...

robbers.

(4) Every magistrate shalt convene a special meeting of all the gentry in his district with a view to holding them responsible for locating the robbers' en and those harbouring the robbers.

Scott (one of the Naval Chaplains) acted as Bishop's Chaplain.

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one eternal Now," and in humble dapea- dence on the most High we hope whea this transitory life has passed away to enter into the Grand Lodge above, that eternal city which hath foundations,

Whose builder and maker is God.

3. THE CALL TO BE CRAFTSMEN.

And the, service in which we are taking service, our call to be craftsmen, to show part to-night, reminds us of our call to ourselves approved before God and man as workmen that need not be ashamed.

His end is not pleasure. We have been Man is not made simply to enjoy life.

called to join the service of the Great builders all. The great Craftsman calls Master add to do His werk, to be world-

us to be fellow-workers with Him, to be

pioneers of great ideals, to be true crafts-

of God.. men, true builders fit to build the temple

Then the great Artificer made this world In the beginning," we read, and the earth was without form and void, "God created the heaven and the earth; and darkness was upon the face of the the face of the deep." deep and the spirit of God moved upon The Lord took the man and put him And again:- into the garden to dress and to till it."

epic of creation, we learn that creative As we meditate upon the wonderful

life comes slowly but it comes that creation never ceases: it is a continuous process; that the world's life is ineffective and deathly when there is no progress. "My Father worketh hitherto and I work, of workers,. He our great Master left Jesus Christ taught us; and it was a body- behind Him, workers with a creative work

to do.

ants, craftsmen, to help the great Master We are called to be apprentices, assiat-

in His stupendous task of creating a new world, a world of beauty and righteous- Dess, of purity, and of brotherly love.

We live in no static world and we are

each one to take our place in the great world-life, we are to add to the life and well being of the world and prevent loss and wasto and dissipation.

The service opened with the singing of Before Jehovah's awful throne whiel: was followed by the sentences and ex-L hortation, general, confession, etc., and the BOYCOTT SEIZURES.

(5) The expenditure for the campaign Lord's Prayer. Then followed the chant will be undertaken by the Financing of Psalms 15 and 19, the reading of Bureau, whilst the money to be utilized the lesson from 1 Corinthians, Chapter (FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ]

in paying informers, awards de, shall, the Nune Dimittis and other parts of -By a decree of the Naval "Prize be borne by the magistrates who may the evensong service, and the hymn

the steamer Ny Tui Chow, which raise sufferent funds in their districts Through the night of doubt and sor thinkers-the discoverers-teach. ys this,

in such a manner as the Finance Commiarow further prayers and the singing of sioner may think fit,

"Great Architect of earth and IIcaven.'

WORLD-BUILDERS ALL

Court was recently seized by strike pickets and Naval patrol boats near Kongmoon, is to he confiscated for carrying boycotted goods. The vessel is stated to be worth about $270,000, and this added to the value of her cargo makes the seizure worth something like 2430,000. The ves sel used to ply between Kwonghoi and Hoi-ab.

KUOMINTANG CURRENCY. "POPULARISING "* NOTES

CENTRAL BANK OF CANTON,

OF

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

(0) Regulations governing awards “and penalties are to be forwarded to all Dis trict Magistrates and Military Com- manders for strict observance, Any breach of the regulations is to be tried by the Civil and Military Councils.

(7) The first object shall be to disarm all bandits, but no enlistment of them in the military service shall be permissible. (8) The co-operation of the Kumin. tang Union, the Peasants' Union, and All-Kwangtung Volunteers Union in the campaign shall be compulsory..

(9) A Receiving Box will be install- ed in every district for the purpose of receiving letters containing information relative to the corruptness of local gentry

In order to popularise the paper money of the Kuomintang Central Bank of the harbouring of robbers. The ad Canton, each of the D4 districts in Kwang-dress tung, through their magistrates, has been .ordered to deposit from $1,000 to 230,000 in silver into the Bank against the issue of an equal amount in notes for

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The Bishop chose as the subject for his sermon, World-Builders All and based his address on the following texts 1. CuRONICLES XXII. 5.—And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnifica of fame and of glory throughout all countries.

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I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

CORINTHIANS V. 1-We have a Build- ing from God, a house not male with hands, eternal in the heavens.

LA LINK WITH BYGONE DAYS,

And all the world's great workers-the revealers of nature-the artists the that is giving of their service abundantly, good measure, pressed down and running over, lies the beauty of their lives and the secret of their servise.

And we shall beat learn the great secret as we come to the Great Master himself and learn of Him, even as did Michael Faraday, the world's greatest experimental philosopher, who did not scorn Sunday by Sunday, year in and your out, to worship in a chapel in a little narrow court, and there bawing before God God revealed to him His secrets.

Great Faraday who made the world

so wise

And loved the labour better than the

wage.

There are some who believe that the building of the great cathedrals of Europe was the work of that brotherhood of whic or whereabouts of the bandits

In bis address the Bishop said: Our the craft to which many of us in this must be clearly stated in the latters, which must in all cases be registered and service to-night links us up with days Church belong, is the lineal descendant.. sent in to the Receiving" Box by post, gone by The structure which we are This may only be a beautiful fancy but (10) In coastal and inland waters the erecting to-day is built up upon the work it expresses the idea towards which we must ever atrive. The building up of circulation in their respective jurisdic suppression of piracy shall be under- of yesterday-of many yesterdays.

It takes generation after generation to what is beautiful and true, a house of tions. The Heungshan district has been taken by the Navy and should the Inland ordered to contribute 830,000.

Forces he found at any time inadequate build up the world-yes and acon upon God not made with hands, which alone can stand amid the wrecks of time It Swatow authorities have been instructed to cope with the situation, the Navyacon before man appeared on the scene

should render the military all possible-and ine builder and maker of all is God. is peculiarly fitting that at this service, Our thoughts are carried back by this which I hope may be but the first of a assistance by sending men ashore.

service, to the old guilds and companies series of Masonic services held in this of mediaeval days-guilds and fraternities Cathedral, our gifts should go toward which played no unimportant part in the building of Cathedral which is now building up our national life and charin process of erection here in the Far acter. This service takes us back to the East, only a few hundred miles away at days when each fraternity or guild had its Foochow, it is twenty years since the chapel or shrine in the Cathedral or parish church, the family house of God, and when all the brethrea of the Guild dressed in suits of livery walked in pro- cession from their ball or meeting-room to the Church.

to demand Central Bank notes for alt payment of taxes in sums above one dollar..

THE 'SHAMEEN TRUCE.

TRADE COMMISSIONER'S FEE REDUCED,

(FRUM QUE CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] The Kuomintang Trade Commissioner

(11) The general operation to suppress the bandite throughout the province shall be launched at the same time in all directions.

(12) All merchants and people of all classes are requested to assist the military as well as the Navy to carry out this extensive campaign in order to rid the people of their sufferings in their trade and traffi

As the Chinese New Year is Rp

in Canton has decided to reduce his comproaching fast the scheme, it is stated, The origin of our craft goes back far inission from 1 to 1 per cent. on the sums will not be carried into effect until the beyond these days and is hidden in re- lealt with by Chinese merchants in Can- middle of the first moon which will be at too to whom permits are issued to enter the end of February." Shameen for banking transactions in view

of the approach of China New Year. The Strike Committee will open as office near

Shameer to inspect the cards issued by MASTER OF "SHANSI FINED. the Trade Commissioner. The holders of cards are required to deposit a photo- At the Marine Court on Saturday graph of themselves. The object of this morning, before Lieut. Commander G. K. is said to be that Chinese who worked on Hole, HN, Capt. J. M. Byrne, master the Shamecu may not pass in and return

to their employment.

A NEW STORE.

The opening of a new Store is always an interesting event in the history of a Town.

mote antiquity. To-night I am not con- cerned to trace back its story into the distant past. My purpose rather is to bid you recall and bonour all those who in every generation have dedicated them selves to building up the house magnificul which shall be of fame and glory through out all countries, that blessed city hek venly Salem. Zion city of our God (the of the 8.8. Shansi, was charged with city of brotherly love) that temple of failing to proceed to the quarantine peace, of which the temple of Solomon, and the earthly Jerusalem are the shadow anchorage on entering the harbour on and the type." January 18th, and with allowing mem- bers of the crew to land without "the" customary medical examination.

A WORLD-WIDE FRATERNITY. Again, our service to-day reminds us Dr. I. Newton said that the local that we are members of a society of authorities had been notified that the friends, links in a great world brother- port of Shanghai, from which the deltood, that we must ever, and in spite of fendant's vessel sailed, was infected with all the setbacks work manfully for the small-pox. On January 12th, another day:

When come it may, as come it rust for bout entered the harbour in the same

all that, manner from Shanghai, and the "office

That man to man the world a'er shall was warned of this. At present there

brothers be for all that i were 436 cases of small-pox among It is worth recording therefore, that a the European population, and between now Dispensary has been recently opened three and four hundred among the ab 22, Des Voeux Road Central, opposite Chinese. Three cases had been brought

It signifies that someone has bright hopes for the future, and is prepared to back his opinion in the most practical way possible. It also increases the op- portunities for buyers and competition is always good.

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the Central Post Office-named the into Hongkong harbour since January Queen's Dispensary. This new Store seems lat... to have managed to capture something of Capt. Byrne, who pleaded guilty," the Spirit of the old Chemist's shop, stated that he unaware of the which leads one to expect. that it will regulations. make an insistent appeal to ladies who. appreciate making their purchases in pleasant surroundings

Its of interest to note, also, that n small lending library is attached to this store, which, if there is sufficient induce meat, will gradually be extended.

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and so, brothers, we shall make it our aim to subdue every discordant passion within us, to enrich our hearts with God's own love and goodness so that we may humbly reflect that order and beauty which reign forever before God's throne.

The brotherhood to, which we belong 15 subject indeed to the decay of time. We human beings who are members of it have His Worship, who imposed a fine of our little day and cease to be, but we 8100, or two months' hard labour in set our hopes on a timeless fellowship. default, asked whether the owners' or We look not at the things that are seen defendant would pay the fine, in which but at the things which are not seen; for question Capt. Byrne replied that he did the things which are seen are temporal not know just then.

but the things" "which" are unseen are eternal

Bubsequently the fine was paid.

Diocese of Fukien war separated from this Diocese of Victoria, and HOW length a cathedral is being built. It is hoped that the new building will be con- secrated next year, at the time of the General Synod of the Chinese Church (the Chung Hwa Sheng Kung Hui). And as the Masons of the North of England, the brethren of the Province of West Lan cashire gave the Chapter House to the newest Cathedral in England, that of Liverpool, so it is fitting that the Masonic body here should make its gift to the newest Cathedral in the Far East, that of Foochow.

And I think I cannot better conclude this our Masonic service than by quoting the words of that ancient hymn, dating back to the 7th Century, which was sung by our brother Masons at the dedication of that Chapter House of Liverpool Cathedral:---

Blessed city, Heavenly Salem,

Vision dear of peace and love, Who of living stones are builded In the height of heaven above, And with Angels hosta encircled."

As a bride dost earthward move.

Many a blow and biting sculpture Polish'd well those stones elect," In their places now comparted By the heavenly Architect, Who therewith hath will'd for ever

That His Palace should be deck'd.

Laud and honour to the Father,

Laud and honour to the Son, Laud and honour to the Spirit,

Ever Three, and ever One, Consubstantial Co-eternal,

" While unending ages run.

The offertory, which was in aid of the building of the Cathedral at Foochow was taken during the singing of Abide with me, fast fails the excatide." The National Anthem and the benediction concluded the service

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