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Reds" have again set theinsilves to extirpata Christianity in China. But though the missions have had temporary set-backs they have not. been driven out of China. Many of the men and wonen doing this work have died at their poste, others have moved to places like Hong Kong and Shanghai, where they are waiting till it is possible to take up their task.
Helping Mr. Snowden! "Some years ago," writes a cor. Mr. Snowdon's warning that respondent to a London paper, "I sacrificce all round must be made mot an old retired Goporal who, is at lang to be brought right home on his retirement, walked the hos to M.P.s. An order has gone out pitals, took a medical degree, and from the Office of Works that no was afterwards called to the Bar. moro matches are to be supplied, Probably a unique record." An- to M.P. in the House of Com- other roador recommends migration mons. When the present stock is to suitable parts of the Empire. | exhausted the stands on the refresh- Another reader, who is well over mont counters and on the tables in oighty, has taken to Egyptology as a study, and finds it absorbing and easy to absorb.
Newgate Prison Toll Bell.
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SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local.
Yesterday's Legislative Coumil meeting.
Page 7 Extradition case at Central Magis. tracy.
Page 0. Report of Land Officer for 1920.
Page: 6, To-day's wireless programme.
Page 5.
Sport.
pty. About 12,000 boxes of mat- ches are used in a Parliamentary session. And they are not ordin- ary matches; they are good slout sticks two inches long and propor-holidays.. tionately thick. Ship matches in the technical description of them.
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Golf notes: By Gum,
Page la. Cricket notes: By R. Abbit.
Page 10. Fanling starting times during the Page 11. Notes and selections for to-mar- row's races.
Page 7. Ifome football fixtures for the week-end.
Pago 12, Yesterday's H.K.C.C.Tennis Tournament resulte.. Page 10. Finals in the Senior and Junior
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In the earrent number of “The Rock," the organ of the local Roman Catholic community, it is claimed that about. 80,000 converta The Toll Boll of Newgate Prison, were made last year. The numbers which for 190 years gave notice to gained by the many Protestant the citizens of London that a cri- missions are not available, but minal was about to die, is to bo though all admit that progress is returned to England from Ameri-The Humour of Baboons. slow, at least the position is main ea and placed in the London It was found necessary to close tained. The schools
the Museum, and'
Lancaster House, Bt. Cape Town's zoo recently, during medical missions go on persistently, James's, The Inst execution to reconstruction, owing to the behavi- though the former are subject to take place within the walls of the our of the baboons, who wore hous- CHINA AND GOOD FRIDAY. intermittent interference by the prison was on November 10, 1001. ed in temporary cages without pro-Shield will be the attraction in the authorities. It is not ununtural Two years later the gnol was pull-tecting railings. One visitor, in a local football programme to-morrow, GOOD FRIDAY inevitably calls topicious of foreign schools in their sent Central Criminal Court. At to the cage; watching a baboon on
Ued down to make way for the pre-brand now suit, was standing close prospects of which are discussed mind the deaths of that gallant midst, and the continued existener
Pages 10 and 11. i sale of rolics of the prison the hanging from the top, when," with- Irishman, Father TIERNEY, and of of their establishments is a fair bell was bought by an American,out any warning, it deliberately the two American ladies, the wives indication that privileges are not and it is his widow who is now dropped like a stone into its water- trough and gave him a drenching. Another baboon watched its oppor
that the Chinese should be
of missionarios, who were killed abured. But the religion of the recently in Yunnanfu. Not very West spreads not only by the work long ago two Englishwomen, engag- of the missionary, but also by the ed in mission work in Fukien, enterprise of such institutions as were captured and executed by the Bible Society, with their amaz brigands. A year ago a Romaning organisation for distributing Catholic bishop and a priest. were free copies of the Now Testa murdered in the North River dis-ment throughout the land, and the trict, seventy miles from Canton, Y.M.C.A. Sa well regarded is the and since then there has been a latter that high, offrials in Canton long succession of outrages. Now have been actively assisting the as at all times Christian mission-annual drive for funds and new aries in China take their lives in members. their hands." Some people still have an idea that such work com-
returning it to London.
Field Marshal as Head of College,tunity till a smartly dressed wo From the position of Commander-man came too close to, the enge, reached out an arm, ripped her in-Chief in India to the Mastership
"Beautiful Blonde,"
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Page 0. Two experimental flights from England to Australia at the ex- ense of the British Government
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Revised estimates of the "dead and injured in the Managua earth.. quake disaster are lower then were at first reported.
Page 0. RM.S. Glorious, which collided
Gibraltar, has arrived at Malaga with the French liner Florida: off
with 500 of the latter's pasacagers, of whom it is feared 30 were killed. Page 0.
of a Cambridge college, is the big dress off her back, and took it in- "leap" to be taken by Field Marside with every sign of enjoyment
of its own joke. shal Sir William Birdwood, who was elected yesterday Master of Peterhouse in succession to Lord Chalmers, a great civil servant who ie retiring from the position. Peterhouse is the college of Bir Contnet with the West is break-William's father, and he has been ing down the Confucian, system, an honorary Fellow since 1990. pares quite well with many other and, among the intelligentsis, is From Cambridge University he ro. careers, from a material point of view. But life in an up-country goda, beneficent and malevolent, of LL.D. in recognition of his servi- shaking the old beliefs in the coived the honorary degree of station involves isolation among Chinese mythology. But where re- vastly strange people, with
ces during the war. Sir William Birdwood became famous during the war as the commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. Second to none in fighting ability, these men required no little tact in handling, but General Bird- wood proved himself just the right man for the job. He mixed much front line that was usual with more freely with his men in the
corps.commanders, and "Birdie's" answer, because I call a spade order, which became operative at
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manner of life, utterly different ligion wanes superstition flourishes. 11 n fow philosophers can go from that of Europe; the discom-through life believing in nothing forts of a variable and trying that they themselves cannot see and climate; the dangers of infection from disense, and of an impairing of health and stamina owing to non-European diet, in addition to from mobs stirred to fury by anti
verify, the average man and the average weman find that religion is a psychological necessity. Some thing is bound to fill the religious The Founder of Christianity laid
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foreign agitation.
down that the violent seize the It must be curious to Chinese Kingdom," principle which people to see the cynical hostility MAHOMEr was to vindicate through with which many Europeans view out a large part of three con mission work in China. Mrtinents. There is to-day in the Far RODNEY GILBERT, for instance, in- East a creed which bus the strength dulges in plenty of candid criticism that is drawn from violence and
It is opposed to at their expense, giving a picture fanaticism. of prosperous little compounds, religions, and it is regarded with where life is taken easily, and by abhorrence by the majority of Chi- no means inadequate anlaries are nese. But virile minorities are supplemented by a little work, on dangerous, and this creed, which we a conmission basis, on behalf of call Bolshevism, has behind it the manufacturers who seek to capture backing of a great nation, whereas
the Chiness' market. Not all the governments of Christían coun-
in:
When Jessie Amelia. Contes, aged 36, was sentenced to Sharpe Bix months' imprisonment with hard labour at the Old Bailey for od to the Press representatives and receiving stolea property she turn said, "Describe me as a beautiful blonde, won't you?" Addressing the
"It is a wonderful institution for jury on her own behalf, she said that sho was not afraid of prison.
people who have sinned against society. Turning to Judge Ure to interrupt me, because I suffer gory, she said: "I don't want you from my nerves, and it gets me she was the sister of a Sheffield all of a dither." She added that councillor. She had been to prison for libel, but was convicted on the evidener of an ex-convict who she pected at Lunn Park on Saturdas know the detectives from Leeds who Racing Association intend holding Interesting developments are ex- bron in prison for 15 years. where the Shangbai Greyhound. "I always give them a straight on races in epite of the Shanghat had given evidence against, her.
Municipal
spade. I am a Yorkshire woman." Sir William was wounded in Gal. tiver sat down for an hour and popularity was rapidly assured. When she was arrested the datee lipoli and again on the western enjoyed a "real good feed" of front, but the final stages of the raisins, apples and oranges. After boiled rabbit, wine, almonds, war found him in command of the wards they had a good laugh and Fifth Army which marched into a chat. The polios officers both
denied this allegation. Lille,
The continued depression Japan is reflected in the foreign trade figures for the first quarter of this year, which show a redue- tion in both experts and imports last year. over the corresponding period of
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I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that misionaries have souls like, that of tries to be missionaries and regard will to no irsue of the Hong Kong Mr. M. Gauthier, of No. 1, Hart plause. Mr. M. W. Sin de riet
I have retired from the Firm of ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, but if, as a efforts of MESSRA. BENJAMIN & POTTS as
from the glat DAY or MARCII, 1931, body, their interests were divided | them as VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB. and have opened offices at Exchange and their enthusiasm half-hearted, matic game.
alibility in the diplo Building, where I am carrying on IE
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"THAT JUST MAN."
Of all the tales that grasp our thought and hold us,
Word pictures in the Good Book's" golden frame, I linger at that one, so briefly told us,
The story of a woman's deathless fame.
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Deathless, because earth's bounds know not its keeping,
Not by earth's changing praise is she adored,— Heaven's Records of the sowing and the reaping
Bear witness of the way she served her Lord.
No poets sing sweet tribute to her beauty,
No saintly, aureole is round her brow, She plied no task of rugged Christian. duty- Yet boldly gleams her courage even now.
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When men of old, their Christ in madness scorning, Cried Crucify" to suit their hideous plan, Ona voice alone was raised in solemn warning,
The voice of one who knew Him-"That just Man 19
The stately Pilate read his lady's pleading,-
So passionate and enger was her prayer He almost felt with her the dream's strange leading, And saw with her the vision of despair.
But yet-how could he heed her, weakly troubled! How trust a woman's wild, pricious will -- And even as ho read, the shouts were doubled,-
And Christ was crucified. And all was still.
She-hath done what she could "The only being
On earth, who strave to save that priceless life f Think of her glory In Iris love all-seeing
Think how. He surely smiles on Pillto's wife!
GLADYS JACKSO
To-day being Good Friday, there According to a report made to the Captain Dorvaston; and the audi police, a house boy, employed. by once was unstinted in their ap Daily Press until Monday.
Avenue, Kowloon, is alleged to with considerable success in the have absconded with a quantity of part of the aristocratio cook; Miss The total output of the Kailan clothing and some blankets belong Rowe and Mr. H. W. Looker on- ing to his employer. Most of the hanced the good impressions which Mining Administration's mines for property was subsequently recover they created on the opening night. the week ending March 21, amounted by the police from pawnshops. The artists appreciated the spirit ed to 116,400 tons, and the sales
of the comedy and certainly in- during the period to 110,114 tona.
parted it very effectively to their auditors-Hong Kong Daily Press, April 3, 1900,
Sentence of nine months' hard labour and twenty strokes of the birch was passed on each of two Convicted on a charge of stenting W, Schofield of kidnapning a Chi Chinese who were convicted by Mr. a pair of scales from the Empresanese boy, six years of age, from
to
Looking Back 50 Years,
of Asia, a Chinese with previous 101, Third Street.
Whatever opinions men may hold The men were as to the injurious effects of opium-... convictions on his record was arrested by the Chinese police at amoking, and whatever may ho sentenced
Shumchun and were in due course thought of the past history of the six months' hard handed to local police when the Indian opium trade, it is now (says labour by Mr. E. W. Hamilton yes- identity of the kidnapped boy was the Friend of India) evident terday.
established.
enough to practical men that the time has gone by for any useful The meeting of the English Anso-apitation against the carrying on ciation announced for Tuesday, of that trade in future. It is cer- April 7, has had to be postponed, tain. now that the Chinese would ed to 4.09 inches, of which 1.21 and as Mr. Fenwick is indisposed. Mr.not want opium in abundance, even 1.71 inches fell on the 15th and Fenwick was going to lecture on though not another ounce were 12th, respectively. There were F, W. H. Myers," As F. W. H. allowed to leave the shores of India. eighteen days in which no rainfall Myers was an author and scholar The drug in' now largely produced was registered.
The total rainfall in the Colony during the month of March amount
whose works are of great interest, but not very widely known, mem Captain J. Davidson, master of bers of the English Association will the 8.8. Clara Jebsen, was yester-look forward to the fixing of an- day fined $100 on pleading "guilty' other date for this lecture. An an-
course.
to having imported pigs on board nouncement will be made in due This ship, the animals not being stowed in accordance with the re- gulations,
Chan Pak To, alias Chan Taz Looking Back 25-Years- Lai, a retired Chinese officer, who
"Lady Huntsworth's Experiment"
died at his residence, 6. Cheung On was presented by the Hong Kong Street, Kowloon Bay Reclamation, Amateur Dramatic Club to a good
estate
China, and the industry seems is rapidly extending the eultiva- to be steadily increasing. Persia tion and trade and as both the Persian and the Chinese drug aro much cheaper than the Indian, the dunger of the future seems really to be that the Indian drug may be driven out of the field. The prac tical question for India is not: whether we may rightly continue to send opium to Ching, but how we can adjust our revenue and ex penditure so that we may not be
on October 11, 1930, aged 76, left house at the Theatre Royal last de bankrupt by a falling off in valued for probate at night. The principals showed an the opium revenue, which, if not $120,500. Probate of the will has unmistakable improvement on their certhin, is very far from being im been granted to Chan Leung Sze, fieat night's performance, notably probable. Hong Kong Daily Press,
Lieut. Commander Lloyd Thomas as April 3, 1581.
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