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Mount Sinai Manuscript Of The Bible
ALMOST
the
CONSIGNED TO THE
FURNACE!
The finding of the document m the monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinal, by the great Ger- man Biblical scholar Tischendorf is an extraordinary story. On his first visit in 1844 Tischendorf found 129 leaves in a waste paper basket about to be consigned to Two other basket- the furnace.
Recently there was published in the news from Home that the sum of £100,000 had been paid to the Soviet Government for the Codex Sinaiticus. The idea was suggest- ed to Soviet Government through the firm of Maggs Bros., Condult Street London. well "known to those who are interested
in rare books. They have pro-fuls had been consumed. 383 bea-
ves survived, of which duced a copy of the manuscript. The British government support- ed the venture giving £50,000 to- .wards the puchase price. The other £50,000 was raised by 'sub- scriptions from all sources, mostly collected in quite small sums. The King made a personal donatior £100 and the Queen of £50.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY,
RABIES MENACE
FROM THE GAZETTE Appointments And Tenders
Wider Regulations In
· The “Gazette”
NEW MUZZLING ORDER
The regulations regarding the Mr. David M. MacDougall has licensing as well as the muzzling been appointed to act as District of dogs are now extended to the Officer of the Northern District of mainland areas of the New Ter- the New Territories from June 25. ritories.
This fact is announced Mr. MacDougall has also been spin the latest issue of the "Gazette" pointed a Magistrate at Tat Fo where amendments to existing re- Ping Shan, Aŭ Tau, Shau Tau Kok, gulations are published" Sal Kung Sha Tin, Sheung Shui. and Castle Peak, Lok Ma Chau from the same date.
Mr. John Sutherland Maclaren has been appointed District Officer in the Southern District of the New Territories, in addition to his Mr. other duties, from June 20 docu-Maclaren has also been appointed a Magistrate at Tsun Wan, Tal Đ. Tung Chung. Cheung Chau. Wan in Lamma and Yang Shu Island, from the same date.
347 äre contained in the purchase from the Soviet Government. The other 48 leaves are elsewhere. Twenty five years of negotiations and in trigue passed before the ments were presented to His Ma- ofjesty the Emperor of Russia
outline of this and of the docu- ment's history may be had in a smail pamphlet issued by the Trustees of the British Museum, 1934. This pamphlet, is entitled, The Mount Sinal Manuscript of the Bible.'
No country owes so much, to the Bible as Great Britain, and this may be ascertained by anyone studying the history of Europe. It is not generally realised to what degree some of England's greatest leaders trusted in God's Providen-
ce. To mention phly Cromwell,
Wellington, and Nelson. The lat- ter opens his despatch after" the Nile with the words. "By God's grace we have this day won a most signal victory." Such being the case it is not surprising that such efforts have been made and such interest aroused in order to ob- tain the Codex Sinaiticus.
The Bible is the greatest herit- Moses races. age of the white brought Ave books out of Egypt. That is he wrote down the know-
ancient Hebrew tongue.
An
JAPANESE IN
AMOY NERVOUS
Menace Seen In Constant Official Disputes
Tokyo, June 26. Concern over the welfare of
ledge he had un ave books, in the Japanese residents in Amoy in view of a reported" state of uneasiness reigning there was expressed this morning by Foreign Office officials. The Japanese Consul, Mr. Tsuyoshi Tsukamoto, in a lengthy report fled yesterday, stated that Japanese residents in the Fuklen city are viewing with alarm the
During the centuries between Moses and the captivity various books were added. A learned doctor called Esdras codified the books more than five hundred years before
Some
would Christ.
scholars
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as regards the Pentateuch was written by Esdras, and anti-dated in order to give Israel and parti- cularly Judan a history, The "8a- maritan version, that is the Old Testament of Samaria is suficient proof that this was not so, for Samaria was the enemy of Jeru- salem and would not have accepted what Esdras wrote. Others say authors, Genesis had two ..that
but such is only conjecture from "different terms used for God in the
A first and other chapters. though this conjecture is strongly supported by scholars, yet it falls to the ground before an examina- tion of the purpose of the book and Moses. Esdras re-edited the Old Testament, but the first Ave. mysterious books are undoubtedly the work of Moses, priest of Egypt. At the end of the captivity the original meaning of the Hebrew seems to have been lost, unless an oral tradition preserved it Mount amongst the Essenes of Moriah. The language spoken be- came Aramaic, and then this was Jater mingled to Greek.
mathtash that the Old Testament rivalry and constant disputes be- tween national and local officials.
consul charges, Thase, the
are corrupt and are only triterested ir fattening their private purses to the detriment of the welfare of the people.
In the third century B.C. Beting under instructions of the King. Ptolemy, a council of seventy as- and in sembled
Alexandria. made a Greek version, which was called the Septuagint.
The New Testament was pro- duced at a later date," probably
at the end of the Arst century.
original
No
of
exist.
any
Moreover, Mr. Tsukamoto reports
also
that "malicious propaganda' alleg
Japan is planning to that seize Amoy, to obtain a concession at Santuau, a harbour opposite Amoy, is being spread by political agitators. Rumours of a plot to establish an independent "South China" Government are heard, the consul stated.
The Japanese in Amoy, who suf- fered heavily at the time of the abortive Fukten this year, present political strife may lead jeopardize to disturbances and their lives and property
of
rebellion earlier
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Mr. Eric Klmsworth has been appointed Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court in addition to his other duties. Mr. Himsworth has also been appointed a Commission
the adminster oaths in to
er
Supreme Court by His Honour the Gregor.
It is explained that the amend- ments to the principal regulations In effect extends the licensing of dogs to that part. of the main- land portion of the New Terri- torles which was excluded by one of the former regulations. It also extends the mazaling order but exempts sporting dogs in circums- tances specified.
JULY 21934: +
WEDDING
Mr. George Ng And Miss Hong Sling
A wedding of much interest to Chinese circles was, solemnised at st. John's Cathedral on Saturday by the Rev. Lee Kou Yen, when Miss Jennje Hong Sliny, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs Hong Sling of 9 Garden Terrace became the bride of Mr. George Nz Chun Bong.
The bride wore an exquisitely moulded wedding dress,, beautiful its simplieity. Made of sheer white chitton velvet, the gown had a high neck-line-that banned the throat, and a softly drapped bod- ice. She carried a prayer book in place of a bouquet.
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Miss Anna Thomas was maid of honour and the bridesmaids were the Misses Margarey To, Florence At the present time no regula-Chan. Eva Thomas, and Hill Hong tion is suspended. The principal sling. regulations, as now amended, are all in force
The new Regulation No. 1 reads as follows:
1. No person shal
Eeep a dog age of three months "over, the except under and in accordance with a Licence from the Inspector General of Police: Provided that this regulation shall not apply to
"The duties of best man performed by Mr. Lau Pong. The groomsmen were Mesars. Ho Sal Cheong. John M. Pong, Joseph Mark, and Liang Hau Kin.
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The bridesmaids presented pretty picture in dresses of orchid: green, yellow and peach organdie. The maid of honour wore a dress of blue organdie.
Chief Justice, Mr. A. D. A. Mac- any dog kept in any dogs home. After the wedding
approved of Authorized by or under these regulations, or to any dog kept in the non-mainland areas of the New Territories."
Muzzling Order
reception
was held at Gloucester Restaurant where over six hundred guests at- The Extradition Acts of 1870 to
tended to toast the health of the newly-wedded couple. Mr. and 1906 have been applied in the case
Mrs. Ng will shortly be leaving for of Denmark, to Hongkong and other ports of "the British Empire, The new form of regulation No. Shanghal as the bridegroom is an undergraduate at St. John's Uni- for the purpose of the suppression 21 is as follows:
versity. This of the white slave traffic.
The provisions con- 21.—(1) announcement follows the Extra-tained in paragraph (2) of this (White Slave regulation shall not apply to the dition (Denmark)
in Council 1934, non-mainland areas of the New Traffic) Order
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which came into operation on May Territories, nor shall such provi AMINE DISASTER
28, and which appeared in the "London Gazette" on May 18.
Horses, Mules and similar anim- Deep prohibited upon als, are Water Bay beach, and in the water over or near such beach, west of the cable sign there. No person
shall do or cause to te, done any act in contravention of such pro- hibition,
sions apply to any sporting dog when actually working under the charge of the holder of a game licence.
(2) No. dog shall be allowed to
IN CHIAOTSO
To abroad in the public eng us is Wheat Crop Ruined
fares or elsewhere unless it either muzzled or on the lead, and
any dog found abroad in the pub ilc thoroughfares or elsewhere which is neither muzzled nor on the lead may be captured and de- Tenders are being invited for the tained, or may be shot or other- following:-
The erection of postal kiosks in Nan Chang Street and Waterloo Road, Kowloon."
The erection of two new markets, one at Arsenal Street, and one at Bowrington Canal. The work con- sists of the erection of reinforced concrete buildings, filtings, stalls, coolle quarters and poultry killing rooms, etc.
are fearing that the S.P.C.A. FORMED
IN NANKING
Hi-Jackers?
From usually reliable sources City, Government,
Consular Officials On Committee
an
neither
By High Winds
Hwalking, Ronan, June 18. On the morning of Sunday. June 17, at about six o'clock, a serious explosion occurred in one of the pits at the Wang Feng colliery operated by the Chung Fu Mining Administration of Chlacteo. Horan. This company is a Sino- British concern, embracing the interests of the Chung Yuan Min- Ing Co. and the Pekin, Syndicate. There is a British staff of about ten or twelve persons resident in and near Chinoiso.
had been a holiday" on There had Saturday, the 16th, which was the festival of the fifth of the Chinese
wise destroyed, by any police om cer or by any person: authorised by the Inspector General of Police The owner of any dog so found shall be deemed to have allowed such dog to go abroad muzzled nor on the lead and to have contravened the provisions of this regulation: The owner of any dog which bites any person, or any other dog, at a time when and place at which it is required by this regulation to... be either muzzled or on the lead, shall be deemed to have allowed his dogarth month. About six in the to go abroad neither muzzled nor morning on the Sunday thirty-one on the lead and to have contraven-
"Then went down the pit, headed
ed this regulation notwithstanding by an experienced Chinese fore- any proof that the dog was wear- ing a muzzle or was on a lead, at such time.
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BRINGING. DOG. TO COLONY
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Is learnt that the root of the trouble in Amoy lies in Úlegal' ac- divities carried on by certain For- mosan Japanese subjects which are strongly opposed by some Chinese officials and in which
Chinese Woman Fined others, chiefly local officials,” wish
Shanghai, June 27 The Nanking Sodety for the
For unlawfully bringing a small to share. On the night of June 18 a number of Chinese, said by Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
black chow dog from Sal Kung: founded at to be members' was the
inaugural Japanese
local. the
Public Safety meeting beld In the Municipal Kowloon, to the Colony without on the office of Government buildings on Satur having a permit from the Govern- Bureau, called
ment Vetinary Surgeon, a Chinese The original pro- the District. Committee of the day, June 9.
woman named Hue Yuk was coples of
Formosan Guild and. demanded moters were Mr. Lal Len, Chlef admittance. The
When this was re- Secretary to the Municipal Goy-charged before Mr. Hamilton at these books
at the ernment and Mr. John Alexander. the Central Magistracy last Satur- opened fire translators of the James Bi-fused, they
older office, and according to the Japan-E. M. Vice-Consul. The officers of ble
had no documents than 916 A.D. The Revised Version ese reports. looted it partially. completed by 1884 had access, to older manuscripts, including copies In the of the Codex Sinaiticus." British Museum may be seen frag ments of John's Gospel, only a few verses. which were found in the stuffing of a mummified crocodile, with other waste manuscripts, such as bills and poems. The date is estimated at not later than 150 A.D. and it is hopefully recorded as being the oldest portion of a done. gospel 'yet known.
At 8 p.m. on June 22 there was another incident of somewhat similar nature. Several Chinese then attacked the house of one of the principal Formosan residents and, when refused admission, lald siege to it. It is reported that the Formosans inside fired on the be- slegers with pistol and
were in
turn fired upon. Very little damage appears to have been
There is a conflict of reports on reasons for these incidents,
The Smal Manuscript is written the
In uncial script, in Greek.. It is but most point to it being an out-
one
canus,
the society include Mr. Shih Ying. Mayor of Nankding, Gen, Ku Cheng Lun, Garrison Commander of Nan- Chen Cho, Chief of kirg, Gen. Police of Nanking, Mr. Lai Lien as secretary of the society, and Mr. Alexander as one of the under secretaries:
The society will issue badges which, on production, will secure the co-operation of the metro- polltan and military police when- ever a member of the society wishes to take action in a case of cruelty. All actions taken. should be reported together with the time and place of the incident and the
day morning.
The defendant pleaded guilty and eald that she actually did not know it was unlawful to bring a dog to the Colony. She also said that the puppy was given to her by her friend.
A fine of $25 was imposed.
DOG BITES A GIRL
P
Incident At Taiwan Beach Tatina Tehurin, of No. 5 King's Terrace, a five-year-old Russian girl was bitten by a small terrier Wan
man. It is reported that the fore- man Arst went ahead into the drift to be worked, and then came back for the men. An explosion occurred "almost at once and it is supposed that it was caused by the breaking of a safety lamp, or by a defective lamp. Some men were killed instantly, and by the. night of the 17th eight had suc- cumbed. On the morning of the 18th only five of the thirty-one. who went down were living, and of these five, three were fatally. burned.
It is expected that the fatal casualties will be at least twenty-nine. This is one of the worst mine disasters in this dis- calis triet for some years, and forth the sympathy of all on be- half of the aflcted families.
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Crops Ruined By Wind After a wet spring and the pro- mise of a fine wheat harvest, the country round about was struck by a high northwest wind lasting two or three days just when the wheat was ready to cut. The heads were and much of prematurely dried, the grain was blown to the ground. Some people lost almost everything, and generally the crop has been The price of wheat is very poor. going up, but farmers will have little or no surplus for sale. We of suicide in the immediate have heard of, at least three cases vicinity due to despondency about the prospects for living through the next winter.
The
News comes from Sianfu, Shenal, of the prevalence in that city and district of typhus fever. people are very nervous, knowing the severity of the disease. It is to be hoped that the situation: does not reach epidemic propor
of the earliest substantial break of what is known in Ameri-number of the policeman to whom dog walle playing at Tal texts of vellum manuscripts of theca as hi-jacking. The Formosans
the action is referred and 11 pos-beach, Kowloon Docks on Batur There are only concerned are said to be lenders sible the licence number of the day. fourth century.
The child was playing with the two: the Sinaiticus and the Vati- in a smuggling and gambling ring. vehicle involved if any, to Mr. Lai
Those who attacked them are said Llen or Mr. Alexander so that the dog on the beach when the animal The Sinaiticus contains of the to be either members of some off-action may be followed up. It is bit her on the forehead and nose
The girl was immediately rushed Old Testament, Genesis (fragment)cial body or of a rival organiza-hoped in this way, with the co-
to the Kowloon Hospital for treat Numbers (fragment), I Chronicles tion trying to get a cut out of the operation of the public to prevent
overloading and overdriving of ment, after which she was sent (portions), Ezra, (II.9-end), Ne-llelt proñis being made."
home. The dog was removed to It is said that in that part of the carriage ponies, donkeys, mules, hemiah, Esther, Tobit. Judith, 1
Ma Tau Kwok for observation: and 4 Maccabees, Isaiah, Jeremiah country: there is a strong section etc.
The work of the society will also
.. WOMAN FINED the Minor Prophets (except Hosen, in favour of the Central Goverd-
For removing a dog from Kow- Amos and Micah) Psalms Pro- ment who have been attemping to include destruction of stray or
dogs, slaughter-house loon to Hongkong without permission from the Colonial Veterinary verbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, clean up the corrupt local ad- unwanted
of transport disputes and inspection and
Surgeon, But Yuk-chup a mar- Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus and Job. ministration. The
ried woman was fined $25 at the The New Testament is complete, rivalry between local and govern- animals inspection. It is also with two works which very nearly ment officials referred to in the hoped to establish a pound where obtained admission into the Can-message are believed to apply to
Magistracy on Saturday.
on, the. Epistle of Barnabas, and the disputes occurring for this the Sheperd of Hermas.
reason,
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sick animals may be cared for desired and membership blanks The Enancial and active sup- are available for those who desire port of all residents is earnestly to join the society.
tions.
The dog was ordered to be sent.
to Kennedy Town for observation
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