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Entry Forms and copies of Prospectus may be obtained at the Education Department or at the Central British School.

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Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on Thursday, 15th Octo- ber, 1936.

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CONSCIENCE MONEY

RECORD

"Conscience money" record has been broken by Y. Z., who has re- turned £10.000, the largest sum

"conscience money"

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celved by the Treasury.

ever re-

No one may ever know who Y. Z. is.. The only public announce.

BIRTHS

GOW. At Tsingtao, North China, on September 23, 1936, to Com- mander and Mrs. 1. A. Gow, a daughter. (Both well).

HUTTON-On October 7, 1936, at the Country Hospital. Shang- hal, to Mr. and Mrs Lealle W. Hutton, a daughter,

DEATH

SWEENY.—On October 8, 1938, at the Country Hospital, Shang- hal, Benjamin Patten Sweeny. aged 58 years, the dearly be loved husband of Mrs. Grace B. Sweeny,

Editorial

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1936.

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LURE OF

THE FLYING

SHUTTLE

Badminton Season Begins

A GAME FOR YOUNG AND OLD

(BY LEONARD INKSTER)

We are now at the beginning ọf another season of "the lure of the flying shuttle." Badminton, when played by experts, is one of the most strenuous and one of the prectjest

in existence, Kamės Dazzling in its speed, almost in- credible in the delicacy and ac curacy of some of its shots, it is a game which, when played, shy, at London once: 53. Fleet Street the Horticultural Hall in March.

and Business Omice: 15-19. Queen's Road Central Tel. 30351.

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Hoko Kowa, October 13, 1936.

DRESS REFORM

critical

In Saturday's "Daily Press" we published certain comments by Judge Cooper en the subject of dress, particular attention being paid by this genial and shrewd traveller from America, to the 'slavish mauner in which the mere male foto's the dictates of convention.

Many have doubtless read what this distinguished visitor has said On the subject with a good deal ment appeared in the agony of approval. But we have been column of a London newspaper re-doing the same sort of thing for cently. It ran: "The Board of In many years when advice of a land Revenue acknowledge receipt similar kind has been giveri.

of £10,000 as conscience money from Y. Z."

"Don't be a slave to conven "Conscience money" is constant-tion ! Wear comfortable, cool ly being received. No reference and colourful clothes!" And we may be made to it in his Budget. but the Chancellor of the Exche-

mostly applaud. But we

are

when the All-England champion- ships take place, can hold spectu- tors spell-bound,

Depending so much on speed and endurance, played indoors with very few breathers possible, com- pared oven with those in lawn ten- nis, it is not surprising that it is.

JESUS OR BUDDHA? CHINA DEFENCE

HISTORICAL SURVEY

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Doubt As To Origin

CHINA

AND CHRISTIANITY

By

TSE TSAN TAI

re-

On arrival they were welcomed The introduction at Buddhism into China, from India by Buddhist by the Emperor and given missionaries took place in A.D.-65,sidence in the "Hung loo" mon23- about the same time that St. Paul] tery, where they at once began the was preaching and moving west- study of the Chinese language and

the translation of the "Sutras." ward from Antioch to Rome (A.D.

48 to AD. 63).

Buddhism 1.3 founded by

"Buddha" (meaning the "awaken- ed"). has existed for about 2,400 years.

In India, the land of its birth, it has now. tle hold except some among the Nepaulese, and other northern tribes; but it

FTOM henceforth numerous monasteries came into existence, and. Buddhism began to prosper and flourish under the patronage and profection of the Emperor and his Government (A.D. 87),

MEASURES

Generals Discuss Matters

Canton, Oct. 12.

It is reported that on the 8th and 9th instant Generals. Chen

Sing, Li Tsung-jen and Pet Chung- hat were occupied discussing mat- ters connected with national de- fence, and the reorganization of

the military forces of Kwangsi

Province.

On receipt of a telegram from Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, and after attending the grand review of troops, General Chen Sing took of, for Canton at 10 am, on the 10th instant by the aeroplane "Northern Star," and landed at the "Tin Ho" aerodrome at noon, when he was welcomed by all the high civil and military officials.

Consequently, Chinese Buddhists,

On the 11th instant General have always looked on "India as Chen Sing and his secretaries took their "Ho'y Land"; and,, beginning off for Nanking in two aeroplanes,

at any rate in higher-class Singles, bears full sway in Ceylon, Indo- with the 4th century, a stream of and were escorted by two military

"a very young man's game. Yet Sir George Thomas was winning championships long after. 40. This Chess Master used to play Chess

against his opponent in court! Few who were privileged to watch them will forget the great duels between him and the Irishman Devlin who at the height of his fame, went to Canada as professional coach.

A LATE STARTER He was followed by the Welsh

genius, W. B. Jones, who had eisen to almost the supreme heights in spite of a comparatively late start

Was

and an apparently moderate pily sique. I remember his first ap- pearance at the All-England when playing in handicaps, utterly unable to time the flight of the shuttle in the difficult hall. even missing it completely five or six times. He went on to become a master.

I remember a game when Mrs. Tragett, playing at the back of the court with Mas Hogarth (greatest of all net players) at the net gave an exhibition of such brilliance that she tied up and engineered the defeat of a hard-hitting pair o: International class, playing the orthodox women's side by side game-and this many years after

have seen that majestic Irish pair, Devin and Mack, make the best England pair lock class their in-

assumes China. Titet (where t the form of Lamatam), Mongella, Central Asia, China, and Japan.

six centuries.

Buddhist pligrims continued to

planes of the Kwangtung Aviation flow from China to India during Corps, all the high officials of the Canton Government attending at However, since St. Paul was the aerodrome to bid farewell to

him.

Oriental scholars 'now generally concur in fixing the date of, its preaching Christianity in Europe origin sometime in the 5th Cen-1 (A.D. 48 to- A.D. 63), `when the tury B.C., and in making lt sprics | Emperor Ming Ti had his strange up in the North of India.

According to the Buddhist booka the founder of the religion was an Indian prince of the name of Siddhartha, son of Suddhodana, King of Kaplavastu. which is placed somewhere on the confines

of Oudh "and Nepaul. He is often

called Sakya or Sikya-muni and

also Gautama.

Legendary history states that Prince Siddhartha was married to a lovely and charming princess by his father the King, who virtually Fept him a prisoner in the palace.

After twelve years of blisstal married life, and when thirty years old, he fled from the Palace to live allfe of austerity, and begin the

mendicant

life of 1 religious

い

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It is reported that on arriving at Nanchang yesterday morning dream (A.D. 82), I am constrained

General Chen Sing immediately to ask might not the "divice took off for

Hankow to confer being," who appeared to him with General Ha Sing-ching re- and garding military defence matters "c'othed in golden, ralment with a blaze of white light crown of the Hapeh Province.-- ing his head." have been Jesus Chinese Evening Post. Christ of Nazareth?

It is noteworthy that no men-

tion is made by the Emperor Ming

Ti of a "Golden Image" or an image with a "Golden Face," as described by the Buddhist courtier, the apparition being quite strange to the Emperor.

3 re-

Moreover, Buddhism as Higlon had already been favoured by the Emperor Wu Ti (B.C. 100),

whose armies penetrated to Indo- Scythia and beyond, and if it had been "Buddha,” the Emperor "Ming Ti would certainly not have

explanation,

During the forty years that: "Buddha" continued to preach his questioned his courtiers for an strange doctrine, he appears to have traversed a great part of Northern India, and everywhere making numerous converts.

HOME RACE BETTING

Cesarewitch And Cambridgeshire

London, Oct. II.

Buckleigh as 19 to 2 is still the favourite for the Cesarewitch to. be run at Kempton pext Wednes- day. The following are to-day's betting prices:-

19/2 Buckleight and o. 100/0 Newton Ford and o. 13/1 Hoplite t. 'and o. 100/7 Avondale o. 15/1 £ 100/6 Woodstock t. and o. 100/6 Chrysler II t. and o 20/1 Fet t. and o

22/1 Solar Bear & and o 25/1 Near Relation ₺ and o. 28/1 Gréynam t. and o. 28/1 Jack Tar .33/1 33/1 Rondot. and .o. 33/1 Coup de Rot t and o. 33/1 Weather Vane a 40/1 t 40/1 Fonds de Caisse ti and o. 40/1 Nightcap It. and o. 40/1 Kepton t, and o. 40/1 Patrimony o. 50/1 to, 40/1 Conspirator &

45/1 Chirgwin't. and ́o. 50/1 Negriert and o

50/1 Queen's Shilling . and o. CAMBRIDGESHIRE

the call-over for bridgeshire to be run on October 28 was as follows:---

The

12/1 Dan Bugler t. and o. 100/7 Pegomas t. and o. 15/1 Finalist o. 100/6 t 100/6 Harina and o. 18/1 Noble King t and o. 20/1 Aldine and o 25/1 Noble Turk t. and o. 29/1 Rippontor oɛ 33/1 t- Reuter.

TRISTAN DA CUNHA

WORLD'S

LONELIEST ISLE

Cam-

With their potato arop threatened by rats, the Inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic Ocean, find the 'rigours of life on their inhospitable island increased so unduly that they are forced to contemplate abandoning their settlement,

more

Even How they express their great reluctance to forsake the old independent, harsh way of life by seeking refuge, not in suave surroundings but on another diminutive island of their group

accessible Island.

quer often acknowledges payment,a pretty "certain "in our own minde she won her first championship 1 at the age of eighty, and his body Buddhist courtier who interpreted with the forbidding name of In-

through the newspaper columns.

It was during the financial crisis of 1931 that the Chancellor re- 'ceived the previous largest amount į ever paid to the Treasury at one -time-£8,575. It was sent intres-

that nothing much will come of it.

for

Why is that? Why is it that the idea of "dress reform" men has such an oddly unreal, pect of unpaid income tax and such a definitely cranky" air about it, even though many who sympathise with it are far from being cranks?

super tax,

REMARKABLE

CRATER LAKE

"Unbelievable Blueness" Of The Water

t

ferior. I remember Hawthorn, al-

most a veteran, almost a station- ary glant, shooting out a long art

and playing uncanny drop-shots with his velvety touch. I remem- ber... But time wins in the end. This is the day of the Nichols

He died at Kusinagra in Oudh being burned. the relics were distributed among a number of contending claimants.

According to Chinese historians,

HOPE OF THE WORLD But, Christianity as a religion was practically unknown to the Chinese at this period, and the

the Emperor Ming T's dream, doubtless took advantage of the opportunity to influence the i- peror and further the

cause

W

The rat menace ia no new thing on Tristan da Cunha. It has long of been the greatest of the numerous It is recorded that in A.D. 82 the Buddhism in China, and hence hardships against which the set- dynasty had a strange vision, He Buddhism in China, Christianity made the cultivation of wheat im- Emperor Ming T of the Han the successful introduction oftlers have had to struggle. It has dreamt one night that a "divine being clothed in goiden raiment and with a blaze of white lght crowning his head, had appeared to him.

On awakening he enquired of his courtiers who this "divine being" might be, "and 2 certain

then being without a champion.

Owing to the rumours of war and the prevailing perplexity and distress among the nations of the hoped that the Earth, it is churches of China and the World will unite, and that all Christians

It is true that, discussions of dress reform" for women also have a certain unreality. But, the War. To mention a few, it is a Buddhist courtier, who heard the will join in a Great World Re-

then, feminine "dress reform"

whatever the weather. It is a so-

glous Revival for reconciliation. and the peace and happiness of the world'

possible, so that potatoes became the staple food.

The island was discovered in 1508 by the Portuguèse admiral Tristao da Cunha. Attempts were made to settle it by the Dusch in 1656 and by the English East India Company at about the same time. The first permanent settler was Thomas Currie, who landed in 1810. American whalers frequently

American

brothers. White. Hume. Miss Kingsbury, the woman champion. was unknown a few years ago,

There are several reasons for the immense spread of the game since

game which ensures vigorous exer-story remarked as follows: "In the is proceeding actively, even vio-cisc during the winter months West. there exists a divinity, whom In the Cascade mountains, Orelently, all the time.

the people call the 'Buddha." The gon, is the remarkable Crater Lake,

clable game. bringing men and | image is of great stature, and its And, since the great "Chung visited that part of the Atlantic in women together. It is very cheap, face is go'den. Ferhaps Buddha" | Wah" Republic has heralded those days, and Currie was pre- says "Nature." It is about six

at any rate till you become ruin-

the may be the 'divine being, who ap- the birth of "New Han" sently joined by two clently advanced to know good peared to your Majesty,"

eru 53 China, I hope the (You may see shuttles from bad.

This observation led the Em- 400 000.000 of China will welcome as many as 12 tried shuttles used peror to despatch a special mission and follow Jesus Christ, the in a championship match, perhaps to India: and after a few years Saviour of Mankind, and carry un more; but a club of beginners absence the mission returned to the work that has been put back might not use that number in Loyang with a big image of 1875 years by the mis-interpreta three or four evenings),

"Buddha" borne on the backs on tion of Emperor Ming Ti's dream. white horses, together with forty two Pall books containing the Buddhist "Butras," Two Hindu missionaries accompanied the mis- sion back to China.

ALL OVER" ENGLAND

We may not feel quite certai miles long by four miles wide, and that all the "reforms" winch lies within a volcanic crater, the fashion imposes, on the feminine cliffs of which are 300-2000 feet world are invariably improve- high. Its depth in places is near ments, but they come and go so ly 2000 feet. It has no visible out- let, yet its water is fresh and is quickly than in 20 years or so of sald never to freeze, although the adult life a woman may count surface is about 6000 feet above on having seen or worn almost sea level. It was discovered by every conceivable style of frock white men in 1853, and was called or costume which civilised in- And, though there are perhaps the Deep Blue Lake. Seen from

no more really first-class courts the rim of the crater, the water genuity has ever been able to than there are squash courts, it shades from turquoise blue along conceive. Whereas at the end of happens that all over London, and, the shallow borders to darkest 20 years the average man may indeed, all over England, there are prussian blue in the deeper parts have changed the shape of his church halls which are round- From a boat the colour deepens collar and the cut of hia waist about the right size for Badmin- ton courts These the church is | very glad to hire out for a mo- Yet, after all, masculine cos-derate rent. But, perhaps above tume, like the earth, does move,

all, Badminton is very well or- ganised. In this generation man, with

There are not only his tennis shirts, plui fours tournaments, but also a number of shorts, and sporting regalia. of "Lengués," run on the promotion various sorts in addition to more

home and system, with

1W3Y matches, of which quite humble Mr.

produce great

te dark indigo. Cloud shadows and wind flurries variety in the appearance of the surface but the main hensation produced in the eye of the obser- ver la one of "unbelievable blue

Dess."

Dr. Edison Pettit, working on behalf of the National Academy of Belences and the National Parr

coat, but little more.

numerous

GENERAL CHIANG

"AT HANKOW

Hankow, Oct. 12. General Chiang Kai-shek, who arrived on Saturday afternoon by air from Nanking accompanied by Medame Chling Chiến Tả chun and staff of six others, attended the graduation exercises of the Avia-

Bruter

Services, has recently completed formal clothes of various kinds, clube can become members tion Academy this morning.-- a study of the reason for this hus now a freedom and a choice Hickson, Secretary of the AaNOCÍR- extraordinary depth of blue in dress which his predecessors tion after the War. was followed

that the water has no special col- break in to modify the Vic our of its own, but that it is ex-torian-tadition of drabness ceptionally free from suspended though where are the fancy waist matter; such scattering of light as occurs in its depths is mainly coats of yesteryear?

which rose to

best n

God's ways are inscrutable, and the time is now ripe and op- portune for united action.

"Oo, ye and teach all nations." -Matthew 25-19,

CAN'T GO TO PRISON

BILLY STOTT PASSES

Famous Steeplechase Jockey

|

mariners, Lambert - and. Williams who were drowned while fishing barely two years later. Currie was then joined by two other men, and they occupied themselves with growing vegetables, wheat, and

oats.

were

When the British garrison was withdrawn in 1821 Corporal Wi- Ham Glass, with his wife and two children, and two masons left behind. Gradually the com- munity grew through the addition of shipwrecked sailors, coloured *women from the Cape, and a motley crew of Dutch, Italian, and Asiatic settlers. They raised cat- tle, sheep, and pigs, grew apples and peaches, and engaged in segi- Ashing.

The members of this small com- munity of about 100 persons have the reputation. rather surprising when one considers their VēTY mixed antecedents, of being moral and religious, hospitable to stran- gers, well mannered, and industri- Dus, They manage their bwn affairs and possess no written law.

DO FLATS CREATE CRIME?

What Probation Officers Have To Say

London, Oct. 12. The medical officer of health for The "death has occurred of the Lambeth reports that one of the famous steeplechase jockey. Billy chief causes of the increase in Stott, suddenly from heart failure | Juvenile crime is Ilving in flats in- at the age of 37.

stead of houses.

Stott was the champion steeple, He is seconded in this belief by chase Jockey in 1927-32. His the secretary of the Association of mount Pelorus Jack fell at the last | Probation Officers.

Anonymous Friend Pays Rate hurdle in the 1933 Grand National |

when leading in the race.- Reuter.

For Protester

Because an anonymous friend bas paid 74, Mr, Oswald Roney Acworth, of Chobham-lane, Chob ham, Surrey, is disappointed. He. cannot now go to prison, an "ex- perience, he declared; to which he was looking forward.

insurance

Mr. Acworth, an broker, was committed to prison for six days by the Woking Bench for non-payment of Td. in rates to the Bagshot. Rural Connell The 'order was suspended for a week,

TERRITORIAL

·FATALLY SHOT

These allegations are worth, the attention of social students, and 11 La likely that an official inquiry will be made.

The preservation of family life... in separate houses for each family in no doubt best.

It is believed that the worst conditions are to be found, not in modern blocks of flats, but in old and large houses converted tato

While practising with a group of Chester Territorials on the RAF. rifle range at Sealand, near Ches-tenements. ter, recently, Frank Moore aged 21.. Connah's-court, Handbridge, Ches- ter, was fatally wounded, a

He apparently alipped. and, fall- ing on his ride, received a shot in the abdomen. He died shortly after admission to Chester In firmary.

But even in the case of the modern blocks of fats the children often have less room to play than they have in the back streets.

Reliable, statistics are wanting. but if it is the "fact that flat life- is the cause of an increase in Juvenile crime, the matter ought to be 'sifted and steps taken to cure the evil.

News Service Bulletin" (school of 30 or 40 years ago might well by Mr. Mercer, both members of round the beginner are the ones edition); Carnegie Institution of

Hands have envied. Colour, too, does the Alexandra Palace Cub, a club to work his downfall against a bat- Washington, 4 Nq. 4)

the position of ter-class player. At its eminence held once by the Login game of unequalled aesthetic ap- then by the Crystal Palace. But peal, it is also a game which will word must be said for Mr. Prior. 2 give many a stout gentleman and former champion, whore "child" middle-aged lady great pleasure was the London League. from the water molecules," and is

during the next six months. For "ALL KINDS AND CONDITIONS, therefore deep blue. The degree

it is a very flattering game. It of clarity le almost that of spe-

The number of classes in Bad- seems easy. So long as you keep man all the coloure and delicate minton is perhaps even greater in your own class you will be per- elally prepared dust-free water. The scattered light from dust-free fabrica beloved of his eighteenth- than that in lawn tennis. A man betually aston'aled at your owa water is blue at all angles; that century ancestors with the who seems a genius to his clubskil, even brilliancy. de from Crater Lake water is white choice of greater solidity and members can be made, a'most Then go to a tournament and forward angle, and at all other comfort for working occasions second magnituce layer of even receive the maximum handicap interwards he told selenda of als me it gets to a ceret, the men whereby a bone can be cut

thrown in. angles là Alu

Perhaps we are on the eve of a revolution which will restore to

Mr. Acworth told the Court that hé could afford to pay, but he was being charged for nothing, and in the next few years he would have to pay a idw. pounds for nothing The 7d, was for sewerage charges, and he stated that as he did not

The very shots the lowest class and learn to with which be" "wraves_ringsTMl be humble!—“Morning Post."

intention to go to prison.

A ship going east will get a day ahead of the sun because by the

friends his crew will see two sunsets where

they should see only one.

Lister discovered antiseptic treat-

to two without any after-effect or the owner.