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GOVERNMENT HOUSE INVESTITURË.

FOUR LOCAL RESIDENTS HONOURED.

TRIBUTES PAID TO THE

RECIPIENTS,

At Government House yesterday, Jour loen) residents were invested with honours mentioned in the King's Birthday, list. Mr., D. W.

Traiman was decorated with the C.M.G., Mr. R. M. Dyer received the insignia of a Commander of the British Empire, Mrs. Lily Morris was honoured as a Member of the British Empire and Lieut. W. R. Stevens was invested with the insignin of M.B.E. (military section).

PREVIOUS FINE CONFIRMED.

-MAGISTRATE- REHEARS":

RECENT CASE.

GIRL SOLD FOR $100,

Recently Mr. Whyte-Smith, sitting at the Kawloon Magistracy, eph victed a woman named Au Young Hon King of 662, Nathan Road, for having taken part in a transaction for the transfer of the custody or contral of a minor under the age of eighteen, Lam Chun Ho, for

$100,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1930.

FIERCE FIGHT WITH SALT SMUGGLERS.

-MEMBERS OF PREVENTION. FORCE WOUNDED, SEQUEL TO THE SALE OF

CONTRABAND,

Considerable consternation pre- vailed among the people of Wan Ding, a station on the Shanghai- Nanking Railway not far from Wuish as the result of a fight which broke out between a company of the salt nuggling prevention

force and a large party of smug: glers a little.

y to the north of the town.

The Magistrate had then imposed fine of $500. Yesterday, Mr. Whyto-Smith, An officer and a number of mem- sitting at the Central Magistracy,ors of the salt smuggling prevod granted a re-hosring of the case. tion force were wounded, one, was It would appear that originally the taken prisoner, and three rifles and with an amah who was fined $50, ty was lost. Casualties on part defendant was charged together a considerable quantity of proper The amah, however, did not figure of the smugglers are unknown but in the rehearing except as a wit they were believed to be fairly

heavy.

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Giving evidence, a woman who His Excellency the Governor (Sit was previously employed by the William Peel, K.B.E., C.M.G.) dofent int, stated that the gird con cerned in the case had frequently entered the reception room at 11 expressed herself desirous of re a. preceded by two Indian gaining ber liberty. She had com- A.D.C.'s and accompanied by Capt.plained to witness that she feared sha would be sold to a brothel.

who has taken a vow to remain single) she felt sorry for the girl and out of pure charity sho gave the girl $100 to redeem herself, The girl, however, undertook to repny the woman as soon as she found employment..

Two Junke Taken,

· Last

wock, sono 40 junke' carry- ing severat hundred salt smugglers arrived at a village near Wusih and forced the people to purchase salt which they had oflorod for sale. Learning of this, a company of

force rushed to the place and suc verded in dispersing the smugglers and seizing two of their vessels, on board of which a large quantity of emuggled salt was discovered and Inter confiscated.

THE SACREDNESS

OF SEX.

"ANGLICAN BISHOPS ON MARRIAGE

SERMON AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.

The following, the third of a series of sermons on the Lambeth Conference by the Rev. IV. Koop, was preached on Sunday.at

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St. John's Cathedral, Gen. 1. God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He them; malc and female created He then." To-night we come to the scoond great subject of the Conference, the burning questions of marriage and sex. I suppose there is no side of our life which occupies so much attention in these days, and there are not wanting those who say that too much attention is paid to it. That is probably true, but it is botter than the old conspiracy of

T. A. H. Cultman (A.D.C.) and Mr.Being a sworn spinster (a woman the Kidngsu smuggling provention silence which masked a great deal

G. W. A. Tufton (Private Secre- tary).

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prevention force."

Armed with rifles and pistols and using many boats they set sail for a place a little to the north of Wan Ding, on the Shanghai-Nan patrol boats used by the salé smug. king Railway, where most of the aling prevention force were dergoing repairs

.. Appeal to Boochow.

of hypocrisy and misery. This problem is easily the biggest which mankind has to face and frank discussion is the first step towards a solution.

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They call us because they believe it to be the only sure foundation for Christian family life “and all that makes the magic of the word -homoj the Christian bome which they believe to be the ideal and. natural training ground for charaC- ter

Value of Education. But it is not enough merely to proclaim a standard. The Church exists to help men to live up to that level. And the first help that we all need is education, especial-

ly when we are "young. On this point the Bishops give very clear advice.

“It is important that bofore the the child's emotional reaction to sox is awakened definite informa vion should be given in an atmos- :phore of simplicity and beauty. The persons directly responsibla for this are the parents, who in the exercise of this responsibility will themselves need the best guidanco that the Church can' supply.

"During childhood and youth the boy on girl should thus bepro- pared for the responsibilities of adult life; but the Conference arges the need of some further preparation for those members of the Church who are about to marry,"

There is no time to discuss this

Mr. D. W. Tratman arrived at the dais necompanied by the Hon

But you will agree that there is now, but the right kind of road- Mr. E. R. Hallifax, C.M.G., C.B.E.

Angored over the seizure of their right and a wrong way of pre-ing is an obvious essential. Books (Acting Colonial Secretary) and the

In answer to Mr. J. Barrow, of vessels, the smugglore gathered on

senting the problem. There is the like The Cradle Ship," "Men, Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotowall, C.M.G., the S.C.A. witness stated that she the following day and, with the neurid, shallow presentation of a

moving picture" Women and God," by Dr. Gray, had a brother who was unmarried,sistance of another gang, number certain kind of LL.D. Addressing the recipient, but denied that, there was any ing more than 100, they made and of the cheaper Sunday nows and Maude Rayden's "Sex and His Excellency said that it gave him question of marriage between her plans to attack the salt antuggling which does not help in the least. Common Sense" should be on overy- grent pleasure to invpat him with brother and the girl in the case,

Too often it merely weights the In cross-examination by Mr. M.

scales in favour of the devil and body's bookshelf. the insignia, and his pleasure was K. Lo, for the defendant, witness

makes the fight for chastity a But there are failures in marri- greatly enhanced by the fact that said that her brother did not stay

harder one. A few of the great go as in everything else. What for many years they had been memawock at the defendant's house.

playwrights and novelists really did bers of Bigler branches of the had gone to jail, as his instructions

try to reveal the plain truth about about them? For these the Church. Ma Lo-then asked witness if she

the situation, stripped of its 1818g as an uncensing responsibility ;' Eastern Cadet Service. Mr. Trats wore that she bad. Witness replied

covering of respectability, but, auch her task is to carry on Christ's man was appointed Cadot at the that she had never been in jail but

was the perversity of human nature, it was they who had difficulties with work of reconciliation to God and end of 1904, and had served in the figured in the Police Charge Rooin onco when she had a dispute, about

the censor and oven now, in a redemption from sin Yet how she Colony ever since.

her wages with a Portuguese em A villager learnt of their plans more enlightened age, their works is to go about that task is a most He had performed duties in ployer.

to make a surpriso attack on the are read by all too few. For the

most part I am afraid people do perplexing problem. Another amah, who was until rosmuggling prevention force, and he yarious departments in Hong Kong

One hard question is the romar- and in the New Territories, includ.cently in the employ of the defend promptly reported to them. Four not go to the pictures or the

ant, gave corroborative evidenceing that they were not strong an cheaper newspaper (if they read riage of divorced pereuna. In the a large it) to do hard Christina thinking case of the guilty party in a after which the defendant went ough to cope with such into the box. She said that her number of smugglers, the provon about this terrific moral problem. income was about $180 a month and tion force sont a message to their There is a better way. There is divorce the question of remarriage out of that she had to keep two

comrades in Soochow, appealing the way that begins by remember in the Church hardly arises. So children. She was a widow and the for reinforcements. Owing to the ing that God made Men and girl concerned in the enso was her distance between Soochow and Wan Woman "in-His own image and far as I know the request is never adopted daughter.

Ding, however, the Soochow men

made. But in the case of the in- knows us through and through. failed to arrive in time.

There is the way that faces the nocent party what then? There historic, biological fact that there

are two questions here which we is struggle in creative evolution taking place actually at the present must answer and answer quite time in which woman is winning clearly if any rule is to be propos and, in the more civilised parts of ed that will suit all cases the world, has won her way from being a chattel and a slave, treated. as almost aubhuman, with no

ing that of Head of the Sanitary Department. The manner in which he had performed. his duties as Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs during the strike and boycott of 1925, earned for him the apprecia- tion and osteom of not only the European and the Chinese residents of Hong Kong, but the special com. mendation of Sir R. E. Stubbs, then Governor of Hong Kong, His Ex- cellency added that the honour had been corned by great ability and high devotion to duty."

Mr: Dyer's Services.

Mr. R. M. Dyer was accompanied by the Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, C.B.E., and Rear-Admiral R. A. S. Hill, C.B.E, RN. His Excellency said that Mr. Dyer was manager of a larga shipbuilding and dock com pany, and during his management 20 ships had been built and, an average of 300 vessels taken into

"Cake Money." Defendant admitted that she had received $100 on account of the girl, bat denied that it had any thing whatever to do with a sale. She said that the money was sup posed to have been paid by the brother of an amah who was to marry the girl. The 8100 represent- ed lassee (Lucky modoy) and cake money. With part of the money she had purchased enkes and had sent them to friends to notify them of the betrothal of her adapted laughter.

Witness, in answer to Mr. Barrow, stated that there was no exchange of horoscopes as was customary

and a fierce clash took place which

Question of Remarriage, First, what do we mean by the nocent party! Without judging any special case, wo are bound to

The smugglers arrived at their destination at about 8 p.m. the next day and used flashlights from bridge in order to find out where the head-quarters of the smuggling prevention force were and how many men worn stationed thare.

Members of the force, seeing the flashlights from the bridge, knew education or rights, to a position fire was immediately opened on the equal partner in marriage with a that the smugglers had arrived, so where she plays hor part as an marauders. The latter ropliedfully developed personality. If you allow that the deeree of a divorce want a study in contraste compare Court is not an infallible division the position set out in the new marriage service of the Church of of the bisme. The faults are bel position of dom all on one side. If the England with the women, ay, in the villages of Church makes a distinction bo

tian principle of one going on and monogamy (tho Okris

MAD, one she cannot shift her responsibility. wife) is the crown, the highest on to the shoulders of a civil social achievement of the human court. She most try the case her. words.

Let me read the Bishops'

self. At the moment that would bo. a practical impossibility. A

lasted wall over two hours.

the dockyard annually during the among Chinese who were about to smugglors set fire to a patrolboat, Africa. There is a great struggle tween innocent and guilty parties

last few years,

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Headquarters Looted, During the battle, some of the

whilst others succeeded in occupy- be married. Witness stated thating the headquarters of the smug His Excellency continued that the girl's horoscope was given togling prevention force and looting Mr. Dyer's kindness to the soldiers the amah's brother, but the latter it. However, members of the force and sailors who passed through did not return his own horoscope fought desperately and 8000 re- Hong Kong was proverbial, and it although he promised he would do captured their headquarters, but would be quite true to my that | 89. there were hundreds and thousands Mr. Barrow: I put it to you that longings had been carried away or found that all their personal bes of Servicemen scattered throughout the transaction with which you are destroyed by the marauders. the Empire who looked back with charged really did take place -No, feelings of gratitude and thankful- it did not. ness for the kindness they had re- erived from Mr. and Mrs. Dyer.

Bars, Morris, M.B...

After fighting for more than I put it to you that at the time two hours, the smugglers ran short of ammunition and had to retront, you thought nothing of the matter, Crossing the Shanghai-Nanking and being ignorant you did not Railway, they fled in a northerly know it was against the law. ?—No. direction. As they crossed the I put it to you that your present railway line. goverment soldiers defence, that it was a marriage stationed at the Wan Ding Station. was an afterthought -No

effect, opened fire on them, but without

Dofonco's Submission.

prosecution's case had not been weakened by the new evidence that had been called. The Magistrate added that if cakes had been dia- tributed to announce the betrothal,

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Pure and Clear Atmcaphers. ·

"We must lift the whole sub- ject of sex into a puro and clear atmosphere. God would have us think of sex as something sacred. Many influences in our day tend to concentrate attention os sex and not always upon its sacred ness. Among the tasks that con- front the Church to-day none is more noble or more urgent than that of rescuing the whole sub jeet from degradation in thought and conversation. We must set it in the light of the eternal issues of right and wrong and reveal the noble origin of sex in the creative activity of a Father, who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity."!p

Mrs. Lily Morris was accompanied by Mr. G. P. de Martin, B.B.E., BA., and Mr. Ho Kom Tong,

Defendant then called several O.B.E. In investing her with the decoration of 11.B.E., His Excel poople to testify that they did re- Jency recalled that Mrs. Morris ceive some cakes from defondant joined the Education Department on the betrothal of her adopted of Hong Kong in 1000, and two daughter. This closed the case for

the defence. years later was appointed acting headmistresa of the Victoria: Dritiah School, a position which abe again Addresing the Court, Mr. Lo then it might possibly have been a held in 1927. After holding various pointed out that section 45A of the cloak for the true transaction which posts, she was appointed as Senior Ordinance under which the defead-

was a sale. Under the circum-

If we will do that we shall come Mistress at King's College, and beant was charged with "one of the stances, ho could not see his way to judge these matters not, by pub understood might have been op happy and care instances of recent

to review the sentence originally lic opinion or the spirit of the age pointed firat Headmistress of an- legislation in the Colony which daca passed.

but by the standard of Christ other school, only, with wifely de- not put the onus on the defendant

Mr. Lo then pointed out that alone, it does not matter if that votion, she decided to romain to and has not turned the ordinary throughout the case Mr. Barrow standard seems imposibly high; assist her husband in his work at process of criminal law topsy- had stated that the transaction took the Church can know no other. King's College. A great deal of turvy," He submitted that the place out of the woman's ignorance, What many Church people her work there had been in post prosecution had not brought a scrap and that probably she had thought graduate training of University of evidence to support their coas nothing of the deal at the time, graduates appointed to Kings Mr. Le went on to say, that the Bearing in mind the attitude of the Collego, and there were many who prosecution could not have the cake prosecution, Mr. Lo requested his had cause to feel thankful for what and eat it. If the servants had worship to redage the amount of she had done for them,

been charitable-minded enough to the fine. In doing so he pointed give the girl $100 to buy her free- Somerset Officer's Record,"

dom, the latter had now obtained out that auotlier person, who was Liout W. Stevens was spon-it. Both the smahs had stated that party to the deal, the amah, was

only fined $60. dirty", about sored by his brother afficers of the there was nothing

The Maginile pointed out that 1st Batt. Somerset Light Infantry, it, and there was no question of there was a gap in the social

vial post- Lieut. R. N. Thicknesso and Lieut. purchase or sale. Where then wortion of the two persons. LN Evans. In decorating him the question of transfer of custody with the insignia of M.B.E., His or control1 Actually the evidence Excellency said that Lient. Stovona was that the girl was in the custody joined the Somerset Light Infantry of the defendant all the time.

Mr. Lo also pointed out that

was sent to India.

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Subsequently,

Mr. Lo pointed out that the woman had to keep two children and she was only getting about 8180 25 years ago and shortly afterwards there was an absenes of corrobora wicked about the ease. He asked month. As the prosecution had pointed out, there was nothing he derved in the Great War, both tion in the case since corroboration the Magistrate once again to con- in the Egyptian Expeditionary from an accomplice was not accept sider the question of reducing the Forces and in France. He later ed in law as any-corroboration at fine.

The Magistrate pointed.

out that Mr. Barrow contended, that the the fine ho had imposed was intend prosecution has shown that a transed as a deterrent to others. Its action did, take place...

served on various stations, and was Appointed 1st Lieutenant; and, whilst serving with the Army of Oo

'the local rank of

for his services in the evacuation of the Rhino, that this honour, which he righly deserved, had been conferred upon him.

all.

immediate effect was another quer Lion, Merenver, una kufa and been His Worship, after going over the fined 100 and his Worship thought" various points raised by Mr. Lo, that a fine of $500 would be felt in gave it as his opinion that the about the same degree by the de- (Continued at foot of next column.) ; fendant,

The other question is this. The Church join, & man and woman in what she believes and proclaims to be a life-long, unbreakable bond. Can sho in all seriousness perform the same ceremony for the same wo- man and another husband while the first one da still alive! Those are. two difficult points, to be decided Remember at the same time that all through the Church has her. duty of upholding the perfect standard set by Christ.

It is with these considerations in view that the Bishopa "recom- mend that the marriage of one, 'whoso, "former partner, is still living, should not be celebrated according to the rites of the Church

And I do not think that two sincere Christians who had in mind something more than their own hap piness, namely the cause of Christ. in the world and the honour of His Church, would ask for it to be done. God's blessings are not need to recognise is that Christ's found only within the Church and. Community has been commission such blessings He has to give ed to set a standard of life which them in their second marriage will se not that of the world,

not be withheld by any rule of The tremendous commission of man. They will not be shut, out, the Head of the Church con from the followsrip of the Church fronts us. "Yo' are the alt of or of Holy Communion if they the earth, ““Yê are the light of give, proof of their sincerity, S the world." No metaphors could Finally there is a call to rescuо be mora searching Salt and those who are in an even more Light, He says, and that in pitiable plight. This is a task that avery place and relationship of lay very close to the heart of life-first and foremost, in all Christ and must lie very close to that concerns the family the heart of His Church. What then is the standard of The Conference desires to ex- preas the debt which the Church Christ? We must be cloar noout the findful of Our Lord's words

oves to the devotion of those who, in constantly changing conditions What, therefore God hath join and in the face of increasing dif od together, let not man put as- ficulties have maintained and under, the Conference reafirms carried forward the preventive pa Our Lord's principle and and rescue work of the Church. standard of marriage, a lifelong Such devotion calls for greatly and indissoluble union, for bet increased interest and support one man with from all members of the, Church." ble formy, the bratton offer, wo mount leave the pufort all others on either side, aud But let its key word, stick in our calls on all Christian people to minds education, preparation. 7 maintain and bear, witness to this prevention, rescue and above"" "alf

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