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"Hong Kong Dally Press". Sir, I was interested in "Scruta- tor's article in your Churches" page on Saturday.

He is certainly right when he emphasizes the patent fact that "we are living in a new world, and that it is a world of youth." And yet (as he says) there is really nothing very "new" in the present world.

Writers are continually harping on the fallure of "The Church" to face the need of the day. But is there anything particularly "new 'n this? Has Organ.sed Religion ever stood up satisfactorily to the sitiation of the day?

FLEET MOVEMENTS

Chinese

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HONG KONG

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The first passenger from this part of the globe to have travelled from London to Hong Kong by air, arrived yesterday on the E.MA. the Army Medical Administration, Dorado. He is Dr. C. T. Loo, of

Nanking, and when interviewed by

thusiastic over his experience

representative of the " Hong Kong Daily Press," Dr. Loo

Was en-

and arrived in Penang seven days later. There I had to wait for four "I left London on September 3,

days before making the connection for Hong Kong.

"It was a thrilling experience, for one sees such a lot in so short a space of time. I cut or weeks The British destroyers. Dainty by travelling by air." said Dr. Loo, and Diaff, are due to arrive to

Dr. Loo, bas spent a year travel day from Wel Eal Welling through America and Europe The Chinese gunboat Yong where he was able to gain an in- Chien, which, lett Hong Kong on sight into the latest improvements September 7 returned yesterday

in medical science while on fur- and entered the harbour through lough His "holiday" terminated Sulphur Channel shortly after 2 in London where he decided to get p.m. The Yung Chien fred a

back to China by air. #alute of 21 guns to the country and 11 guns to the Commodore. which were replied to by Fort Blackhead and KMS Tamar, re- spectively,

GREAT FALL IN POPULATION

British Association Warned

PHYSICIAN'S VIEWS

London, Sept. 15. Unless something is done the population of England and Wales will be less by six millions two cen- turies hence, warned - Dr. E. P. Foulton, Physician to Guy's. Hos- To take one example out of Association at Blackpool,

pital, speaking before the British many-John Wesley, and the Methodists of the 18th Century. modern civilisation with

Dr. Poulton stressed the strain on "saved England" from the horrors sultant nervous and mental break- the re- of a bloody Revolution: but did the downs, health hazards, over-feed- Church of their day officially ae-ins, over-worrying, and knowledge these Evangelical prea- cessant demand for an ever more the in- chers? Were they not actually luxurious standard of living. persecuted by the then Ecclesias- tical authorities?

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COMMENTS

Commission Not So "Secret"

FEMALE MEMBER SPEAKS

ALTHOUGH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, COMMISSION ON MUI TSAI IN HONG KONG AND MALAYA HAS NOT MADE ANY REPORT, YET CONSIDERABLE PROMINENCE IS BEING GIVEN IN THE PRESS OF ENGLAND TO THE SUB- JECT, AND ONE MEMBER OF "THE COMMISSION, MISS EDITH PICTON-TURBERVILL BAS GIVEN VERY CLEAR IN- DICATION AS TO HER VIEWS ON THE MATTER.

WE REPRINT PERTINENT EXCERPTS FROM THE "TIMES" AND THE "MANCHESTER GUARDIAN" AS INDICATIVE OF THE IMPORTANCE WHICH ATTACHES TO THIS SUBJECT IN BRITAIN.

Miss Picton-Turbervill recently to criticisms of the Com-"The Times" of August 20, appeara replied Sir William Peel, in his letter to mission's "secrecy."

to gnore the second, and by far the She pointed out that it would more important, of these two be inadvisable to forecast in any etipulations. way' what the Commission's reported by executive

Legislation unsup port will be, and added that she fut.le.

action

and the other two members of the Commission, Sir wirid Woods and hibited to Liberty by the Ce

For instance, slavery in pro- Mr. G. A. Willis, had grant no interviews,

agreed to stitution of the Republic, but whet an international commission:visited "We have been criticised because Liberia we refused to give interviews to slavery and the slave trade were

in 1930 I found that- the press," she said to a "Man-rampant. The Chinese · Govern- chester Guardian" representative, ment Informed the League of Na- "but there is a great deal of con- tions in 1933 that "ever since the troversial matter in the subject of Tsing Dynasty" the Government Mui Tsai, and with that controver- had repeatedly abolished the "mui- sial matter our report will deal. taal" system. It abolished it again Naturally we cannot anticipate it." last year. Slavery dies too hard. On two points she could say that to be killed by decrees: even in there was no question. The ex- Hong Kong. where admittedly change of children for valuable much has been done to consideration does go on, and to abolition, Sir William Peel was last my simple mind that is the same year advised by a committee of his thing an buying and selling own appointment that it doubted children. They are not always "whether any attempt to stop the badly treated, but, of course, they practice could, for the present, be are lable to be badly treated. Initiated by the Hong Kong Gov- There is also no doubt that the ernment with any hope of access" policy at home, as well as in Hong-because of the widespread exis- Kong and Malaya, i to, abolish tence of both slave-owning and the practice. Mr. Winston Chur- lavetrading in adjoining terri- chill said in Parliament in 1922 | tories that the system would be suppress-

secure,

The Hong Kong Government

ed in a year. The suppression has legislated in 1923 and again in 1929 not yet been completed..

The question

aiming at the registration, super- is whether the vision, and inspection of “mul-teal" abolition is proceeding with the What has been the result? The speed with which it might pro-report of the local committee ap- ceed, and whether the trate when pointed by Sir William Peel, at Sirad It appears to be diminished, is go- Geofge Maxwell's suggestion, bas ing on underground. The report shown a position so deplorable that will deal with this question: We interviewed over a hundred men

the Colonial Office has sent a commission from this country to and women, British and Chinese, in make further inquiries. Sir Wil Hong Kong and Malaya, and in! Ham rightly says that the acquisi- my view we have some important tion of girls subsequent to the date evidence."

ot the law is illégal. His own com- "POSITION DEPLORABLE”. mittee has shown, however, that The following letter appeared in Hong Kong is full of "unregistered the """Times" on August 31

mui-tsal". Even such "mul-teal”. Bir-In the article published by a are registered are, on an aver the Slavery Committee of the age. inspected less than twice a League of Nations, and quoted by year. It is a case of "intention me, Sir George Maxwell wrote that excellent, execution imperfect": Hong Kong has been figuring the "mul-tsai" system is "alavery," and antil the execution is adequate largely in the Scandinavian unless the system is regulated the "mui-tal" system. ns air papers during the month of and unless the legislation is

and modified by local legislation, George Maxwell shows, will con- Angust. The occasion was tually enforced by executive action.

stitute "slavery in Hong Kong, Str William Beveridge, pessimisti- the Archaeological Congress

I am, Sir, yours, &c., The Church claims now that it phasised the increasing difficulty of Kong was represented by the cally analysing unemployment, em- held at Oslo, at which Hong

DAN JOHN HARRIS. Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge was she who "gave the Bible" to finding a job with every year after Rev. Father D. Finn, S.J. the World; yet those who wrote thirty five. Be warned the British

The martyr, Stephen, sald, to the Religious Leaders of his time, "As your fathers did so do ye. Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute?"

J

St. Paul, and his companions,

were said to be "turning the world upside down"; but the Apostles were often repudiated by the churches, even of that day.

"Middle class circles regard a family of four or five children as

indecent, and it would be advisable not quite the thing if not actually

to follow the lead of Italy and Germany encouraging farallies, though it might be argued population than forty five in this country." he declared,

that six million is a more suitable

TYPHOID

According to the return of cases

the Bible were, many of them, Association of the inevitable reac- of the Regional Seminary, notified to the local Health bitterly opposed by the Church of tion after the present trade re- Aberdeen, j their day; and the Torch of Truth covery and the need for preparing

church.

Our generation is not so very

different from any others that

in.

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was only preserved by being pass for 800,000 additional unemployed many prominent archaeologists, September 12, there were five Both Norway and Sweden have thorities during the week ended ed from one persecuted individual in the not very distant future and these have succeeded to another, and in spite of the Reuter.

cases of typhoid (three occurring spreading interest in their re-

in Hong Kong and two to Kow searches much more widely than Joon), with two deaths, in addition in most other countries. On ac- to four cases of diphtheria. With have gone before, except that nominational gathering in

count of the special attention that two deaths and one cam of past- Youth in now still more to the Central Hall, London, that im over the world to anything con-

the

Boldler Charged front. When I was in England re- mense biriding was packed to nected with the early history of

is being given by archaeologists a Feral fever

There were a deaths from Police Courts cently, I was amazed at the ad- suffocation and largely by young China, the section of the Ollo.com-

tuberen

Funerals vance Youth has made; and in & people (as far as I could see gress that was devoted t

two further cases of typhoid Sporting sphere which he is popularly sun-

Fandtone derdiphtheria were doti posed to shama]. In an Unde-

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