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BRITISH ECONOMIC MISSION TO FAR EAST.

EXPECTED IN HONG KONG TO-DAY,

WHAT THEY HOPE TO DO FOR BRITISH TRADE IN CHINA.

SOME LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS,

Hong Kong offers a very cordial welcome to members of the British Economic Mission to the Far East, who are due to arrivo here early this morning by the s.. Comorin, It is expected that they will stay for about a month.

Bir Ernest Thompson is Chairman of the Mission; be has eleven colleagues, and there is a secretariat of three.

The Mission has nearly completed its labours of inquiry into the reasons for the decrease of British trade in' the Far East, and obtaining suggestions and evidenco likely to be of help to Homo Producers for the Chinese market. A comprehensive report is to

be prepared.

"WE WILL TELL HOME MERCHANTS."

The objects of the Mission and the spirit in which the work is being tackled were well expressed by Sir Ernest Thompson, at the farewell dinner, given at the Cathay Hotel, Shanghai, in the course of which he said:-

As far as the British Economic Mission is concerned we will lay before 'our producers and merchants at home all the facts and information that have been acquired in order,

enable them to accomplish this object.

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We wish to encourage" them to make every effort to secure a larger share of China's trade.

The increased stability and security that we can con- fidently anticipate will attract to China, the financial as sistance which may be necessary during the period of re- construction. In this direction Great Britain will, I am sure, be ready and willing to take her part."

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WORLD DEPRESSION WILL PASS.

I am convinced that an end must come to the present world depression, and so my last words will be that there is no need for any loss of confidence, and that, although there are difficulties to be overcome, we can all be assur- ed that with great efforts at home supported by British people overacas, we shall still see our country holding her rightful and prominent position in the trade of the world.

Surely now the time has arrived for us to fight this depression and to determine that no. luck of confidence or courage shall stand in the way of our enjoying the bene- fits that must come before long to those who net with courage and determination:

CHINA'S INHERENT GREATNESS.

Mr. Louis Beale, who also. spoka, on behalf of the British Economic Mission, in acknowledgment of the tonst proposed by

Sir Peter Grain, said:-

China possesses all the constituents necessary to build up a great modern nation, an industrious and thrifty popu lation, among which there are inventive and creative brains, a vast and diversified area capable of producing an infinite variety of foods and raw materials for industry and a geographical position favourable to foreign trade. As our esteamed leader has so truly said to-night, the greatest immediate needs of Obins are a stable government to, en- sure peace and security and the means of international transportation and pommunication, which necessarily will mean sound financial schemes of helpfulness...

China is no place for selfish financial exploitation and no true friendly interest will desire to see her as such. While in Hong Kong the Economic Mission will be entertained by the General Chamber of Commerce and the Chinese Chamber of Dommarse. An official dinner party in thair honour is also being. given by H.E. the Governor (Sir William Paol, K.C.M.D.) and Lady Peel,

It is understood that the member of the Mission will be made honorary members of the Hong Kong Club, They are stay. ing at the Feninsula Hotel.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30,- 1931.

GREAT FIRE NEAR

CANTON.

CHAN CHUEN ALMOST WIPED OUT.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, Jan. 29.

A great fire swept over "Chan Chuen, a prosperous commercial contre, on the West River, near Canton, 280 buildings, and houses being destroyed, or approximately 35 per cent. of the buildings in the

LOWD.

The fire started last Tuesday night and. rnged unchecked for 30

hours.

The entire business section as

CORRESPONDENCE.

[All letters intended for publicu. tion must be accompanied by the rione and address of the writer, not for publication, unless to desir ed, but as evidence of good faith- | ED.]

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

PUBLIC MONEY.

VOTES APPROVED BY FINANCE COMMITTEE.

QUESTION ON KOWLOON TRAFFIC - CIRCUS.

Thy moeting of the Financo Com. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG mitte which followed the macting

DAILY PREBB."']=

of the Legislative Council yester day approved of votes totalling: SIR,-Your correspondent, "mera- 821,448, covering supponuntary ente mori" in his letter 'published estimates for both 1939 and 1031, in yesterday's issue of your esteem. some details of which were publish-

paper, gives extracts from aed in our yesterday's issue. roviow, in the Times Literary Sup. pioment, of Dr. Lyman Powell's autobiography of Mrs. Eddy.

The following is a copy of a review of the same book, which

In connection `with an item of $200 for the extension of a hundr rd-foot roll. at Kowloon Tsai, the Hon. Mr. Braga asked, if the com- initiee could have a little pre

well as the greater part of the appeared in the New York Repub-information concerning this rond. residential district have been wipedlican of Novembar 27, 1930:-

out.

A WORTHY PORTRAIT.

The cause of the conflagration is pot known.

The editor of this newspaper The benevolent socioties in Canhas just finished reading a book ton are sending relief to those who entitled "Mary Baker: Eddy: A Life Size Bortrait." It is written have been rendered homeless,

by an Episcopal clergyman, Rev. Lyman P. Powell of New York City, and is just fresh from the

U.S. WARSHIPS AT CANTON, Press.

{FROM OUR OWN COAGESFUNDENT.]

Two

CANTON, Jan., PA, American gunboats, the Mindano and the St. Helena, under Captain Stevens, Commander of the South China Patrol, are now visiting Canton. The warships ar rived in Canton Harbour yesterday morning, and are now at anchor in White Goose Bay, off Shameen.

When the visiting warcraft were approaching - Nom Shek Tou, the Canton Naval Department sent the gunboat Chungshan cut to welcome

them.

Could they know if this was the road which led from Boundary Road to the now section of Hoor- loon Taui passing by La Salle Col lego into Kowloon City ri

Hon. Mr. Creasy said that the road ran to the east of the Kow loon Tong Development and then. turned round to the top of the estate, and the work for which the money was required was 00 the north of the state.

It is always better to have a life sizo portrait drawn by a dis- intercated person. The colouring is not so high and the essential de-

In answer to another question tails are better. delineated. The by Mr. Braga, the Hon. Mr. clergyman not only sets forth theCreasy said that the road passed personal life of Mrs. Eddy with fidelity from a wealth of material through a small recreation ground placed at his disposal by the directors of The Molber Church at Boston, but he endeavours to ac count in a natural way for the avidity with which her teaching has been received. He reaches the inevitable conclusion that Christian Boience has made its appeal to humanity because it contains 40 much blessing, healing and truth

It is only sixty-four years since Mrs. Eddy made the discovery of the universal operation of spiritual law that resulted in her instantane ons healing from a physical con- dition her physicians had pro- The U.S.S. Mindanos saluted the nounced fatal. There was a time soon after when she had formulated Chungshap with apvon guns, to

her own faith that she stood alone which the latter returned with a in all the world, the advocate of similar number. The Changshana newly discovered science. With the accretion of studenta came the then led the visitors up to White fearful porasoutions that always Goose Boy. Here Captain Chen attend the cradle days of a new Dick, commander of the Chungahan, religious order: She cmerged suc- disembarked with Captain. Stevens satul from a terrific battle with indifference, prejudice, derision, and his staff of officers and escorted slander and hate, which the cour them to the Canton Naval Head- ageous statement of her faith quarters on the South Bund to call the end of her long and busy career arrayed against hor, and before an Admital Chan Chak. The she was permitted to witness American Captain and his staff generous acceptance of her revela were accorded a hearty welcome.

Both the U.S.S. Mindarea and the St. Helena expect to leave Canton for Hong Kong in the course of two or three days,

FIVE NEW BILLS.

PASSED AT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

tion,

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te the north-west of the Kowloon Tong Estate. It was quite a emull piece of ground beyond the rail. way.

As to whether it was the inten tion of the Government to level that site in order that it might be available as a recreation ground, the Hon. Colonial Secretary re- plied that they could not go so far into the question, but agreed that the scheme was to remove the whole of the hill and to make more re- creation ground available.

Formal Objection.

In regard to an item for 82,000 required for a Rota print machino the Hon. Mr. Braga said:-I am afraid, Sir, for the reason I ex plained in connection with the lino- type machine, I have to formally record my vote against this item of $2,600.

Kowloon Trafic Circus,

An itom for $3,328 required for improvement at the traffic circus at Tainshatsui, was questioned by Mr. Braga who, asked: What is the saving in regard to Playing Field sub-head 227 I tako it that there will be 81,000 which will be used in connection with the traffic circus.

Hon. Colanial Socretary: That is what it looks like to me, Mr. Braga,

Mr. Braga: I would like to know why the recommendations. of the Playing Fields Committee have been trimmed down. Are their re commendations going to be carried out 1

Her new biographer has painted her portrait with a skillful band, but it is not the hand of a goal- ous admirer who might be tempted to cast a divine halo about her head. The strokes of the brush are sharp and clean and they delineate A character whom a better under- standing and a greater toleranco are giving a rightful place arpug the world's great religious think ers and leaders. The biographer Hon. Colonial Secretary: All asked himself, Do her works prove

their recommendations cannot be her faith and reached the conglucopted and adopted ni once.

Mr. sion that not only did Mrs. Eddy

Braga: But apparently in her own human experience en- there is a saving here of 81,000. Fivo now bills passed their first joy and prove the immenso-benefits Hop. Colonial Secretary: I am reading yesterday at the meeting that flow from the possession of afraid there is no hope of any of spiritual vision, but thousands of the work being carried out in 1931. of the Legislative Council. They her followers have been blessed in were na follows:-

the same way and as a dirept result A Bill de provide for the regis.of a teaching that manifests its tration of nurses for the sick.

power in the establishment of a great church and in its effect on 2-A Bill to amend further the contemporaneous religious opinion, Widows and Orphans' Pension, Or-resulting in happier people, cleaner dinance, 1008,

minda,, healthier bodies and the destruction of poverty and lack.

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3A Bill to amenil the Publio Health and Building Ordinance, 1903, and an enactment referring thereto.

4-A Bill to make provision for taking from time to time the Census of the Colony,

-A Bill to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinanco, 1890.

Mr. Braga For a practical purposes then, the recommenda tions may not be carried out at all. I was hoping that the pro posals on the Ehatin area might he carried out, but apparently they must be relegated.

Colonial Becretary: I am afraid they must be nelogated.

PASSAGE RATES TO AUSTRALIA.

REDUCTION BY EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN 8.8. CO., LTD.

Great religious leaders are not quickly acclaimed. The followers of Mary Baker Eddy are not no much concerned that she be bon- oured and canonized as a great re- ligious tancher as they are that her precious gift to the world, shall be the froe, and undisputed possession of overy person whose heart hung.. In moving the first Bill, the ers for a better understanding of Attorney-General said that, as state God and man and a greater share ed in the memorandum of objects f the blessings which a recognition and reasons attached, the Bill was and acceptance of man's true, re- based on an English Act, the Nursen Intion to God must inevitably Registration Act of 1919. It had bestow. 1. been submitted to the Nursing As will be seen by comparing authority in England, Scotland, this review with that referred to Wales and Ireland, and their roby your correspondent, the value commendations were incorporated or otherwise of the book to the in.it.

render it is purely a matter of In moving the Bill relating to personal opinjon Mr. James Bou, MF, representspensions, he stated that the objects There. are now on the roarket the Particulars of the revised fares and reason attached were self-ex two antagonistic books mentioned can be obtained on application to planatory,

in yesterday's lattent; also Sybil Messrs. Mackinnon Mackenzie & In moving the third Bill, the Wilbur's biography, in addition to Co. Attorney-General said that when i Dr. Powell's Tho two former ATO- is passed it will repeal Section 70 written by moon whose investiga

MEMBERS OF THE MISSION.

The following are the members of the Mission:-

Bir Ernaat Thompson, who was knighted in 1920, in a shipping mer chant of Manchester:

Idout-Colonel Reginald Keble

the Ormskirk division (Labour), He is Secretary of the United Textile Workers' Association.

Others members of the Mission aro

Morcom, G.B.E., in n director of Mr. Willam A. Crowther, J.P. Lloyd's Bank, Ltd, and of BellissMr. Joule Beale, 0.3.E.

& Morcom, Ltd. Ho is also chair *Mr. F. W. Birchenough, J.P. MAN of the British Electrical Mr. E.. Duxbury.

and Allied Manufacturers' AssociaMr. J. I. Edmondson, tion: Ho was educated at Marl-

borough and Trinity College, Cam-

TU THE GERVILIS" BY IT"

was

Sir Thomas Allon, who knighted in 1019, is Vice-Chairman of the Co-operative Wholesale Soviety; and Chairman of the Co operative Insurance Society, and of the New Zealand Produce Associa tion.

"Mr. George Green,

*Mr. Arthur Reiss.

Mr. T. St. Quintin Hill, OB.2. (Secretary of the Mission),

Mr. N. A. Guttery (Secretary of the Cotton Mission).

Hr. F. A Barnes. (Assistant Secretary).

Also members of the Cotton Mission.

will be pleased to hear that Passengers proceeding to Austra- commencing next month (February) the First and Second Saloon singlo passenge rates (aterling fares) by the Eastern & Australian 8.8. Co.,

4d to and from Australia have been reduced by 10 per cent., and return passage rates have been re duced also.

of the principal Ordinance which tions led them to become, professed pleased to assist in providing these had to do with the seizure of un-antagonists to Christian Science, books on request. The literature of while the two latter are by writers

marked meat,'

Concerning the Census, he ex-who, when compiling their works, o novement itself is available at the Christian Science reading plained that it was intended to take had no connetion with the move-

the Consus this year and that the ment other than a desire to get nt rooms all over the world.

Personal study is surely a fairór present Bill repealed an antiquated the truth concerning it and whose and better way to acquire know- Ordinance of 1881.

investigations led them to exprose ladon that is the nexing of stiah. Marchant Surpping Ordnance the way towards Copies of of the lion ti gli anged Attorney-General said that the Billbooks are procurable by anyone whether he be for or against the revised and increased the fees in sufficiently interested in Christian subject being considered. connection with the engagement and discharge of crows which are con tained in Table I of the principal Ordinance and also made minor amendments to Table J.

Bcience to learn more of it from (shall I say for want of a better word 1) disinterested writers. Incal booksellers will, no doubt, be (Oontinued at foot of next column.)

⠀⠀ A BREARLEY, Christian Science Committed on Publication for Hong Kong and Canton. Hong Kong, Jan 30,

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