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RED ARMY® CHANGES
General Kashirin Transferred
Moscow. July '25. The more important changes baye been made in the High Com- mand of the Red Army.
An official announcement says "that General Kashirin, commander of the Caucasian Military District and one of the eight military judges at the recent trial of Mar- shal Tukhachevsky and seven others Soviet geperals who were subsequently executed, has been transferred to an unstated post. He is being replaced in the Cauca- sian command by General Timos- henko, representative of the new school of Red Army officers, man of peasant origin, who rose from the ranks of the Czarist Army and became 3 general during the civil war.
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General Timoshenko helped to organise the famous Red Cavalry divisions which Marshal Rudenny suggested and developed.- Reuter.
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CORONATION OF
EGYPTIAN KING
Alexandria, July 25. With the Coronation of Egypt young King only four days ahead, striking scenes of loyalty marked the return of the monarch, fol- lowing a five-month visit to Europe. to-day.
Enormous crowds lined the de- corated route which King Farouk followed and cheered frantically as the handsome ruler and other members of the Royal Family drove to the station, en route to the ancient capital, Cairo.
The bands of the various for- eign communities paraded the streets and there were resounding shouts of "Vive le Ral!" and, in Egyptian. "This is our happlest day."- Beuter.
BRITISH STEAMER
ATTACKED
London, July 25. A report was received from Lloyds; that the British steamer "St. Quentin" 3,500 tons, was at- tacked by aeroplanes in Spanish waters, and daznaged: One bulk- head was filled with water. It is believed that the planes came from Valencia.- Transocean News Service.
1937.
BISHOP GRAVES TO RETIRE
OVER 50 YEARS WITH CHURCH IN CHINA
Bishop Frederick Rogers Graves, having spent more than 50 years in China, has resigned as the missionary bishop of Shang- hai and his resignation has been accepted, states the. "North China Daily News," The Rev. W. P. Robers, Bishop-Designate | and author of this appreciation once his nomination has been -confirmed, will not be consecrated to the new office until Novem-
ber probably. Until that time Bishop Graves will act.
Bishop Graves is known in-basic purpose for which, Christian timately to very few people in the schools are run. United States, in part, because of one of the chief characteristics of the man himself-his reticence and dislike of publicity.
EXPECTS MORAL INTEGRITY Another witness to his wisdom is his dealing with different types of churchmanship among his TOWER OF 'STRENGTH
workers. His sole interest has What makes Bishop Graves a
been to keep them at their Chris- remarkable man and a tower" of tian tasks and in this to be true strength to the Church in China to the discipline and worship of is the combination of this simple the church which made him their and retiring nature with a firm bishop. He expects moral in- #rasp of the fundamentals of life. tegrity at this point and has al- It is the wisdom of his decisions ways opposed any condition that that strikes one most forcefully in disrupts the accepted order of the retrospect. Few of his workers, church. He never objects to A have not disagreed with him in person's "higher" or "low" tenden-" some matters, but few of them cles but wants him to play fair. have not come in time to recognize Those who do not will not last that he was right, almost unfail-long in his diocese. ingl right, and that they them- selves had but a partial under- standing of the situation where he saw it whole. Consider a few of these matters and note the wisdom of his policies.
DEEPLY ADMIRED
Bishop Graves retires with the deepest admiration and love of every one of his fellow workers, who are grateful to Almighty God that at such a time and in such CHINESE CONTROL OF CHURCH
Reverchanging China, Fils Take first his manner of dealing Church has had such an able with the problem of turning over leader and bishop. In all proba-
of the Christian. to the Chinese the responsibilities bility, the Chung Hua Sheng Kung work. Others Hul, to him more than to, any have talked about it a great deal and at times, of nationalist out- bursts have rather suddenly trans- ferred authority to the Chinese, when there appeared no other course to follow. With Bishop Graves the work from the very start was directed toward the quiet training of able Chinese workers and. while others were giving lit- tle attention to the problem, he had prepared a ministry of Chl- nese men and women who have gradually but surely been able to assume the responsibilities of the work.
other living petson, owes its happy existence and hope for the future. He has been a most wise master- builder and built upon the eternal foundation, not of human option and passing emotion, But of Jesus Christ. His caly concern has been to magnify Him and promote His cause.
SALVADOR LEAVES
LEAGUE"
Balvador, July 25. The Republic of Ban Salvador bas followed the example at the EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Lother Central American Republics, Take again the question or, and has withdrawn from the Lea- Christian educational institutions, įgue of Nations. The decision to do: Bishop Graves' sole concern is to so was taken during a Cabinet keep these efficient aids to the meeting on Saturday.. Christian movement in China. He Tranincean News Service has not hesitated to close; them when the insubordination of the
PASSING OF THE
BEAUTY OF ENGLAND
students could not be controlled in any other way. This has often seemed harsh but has been proven a most wise step. He has also re~| The Master of the Rolls, Sir fused to consent to the registra-Wilfred Greene, addressing the tion of his Christian schools with Oxford Preservation Trust at its the present Chinese government, annual meeting in the hall of not at all because the registration of a Christian school with a state is wrong, but because the govern- ment requirements falsify the
THE REAL FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Christ Church, declared that no- body seemed to be lifting a finger to save the beauty of England. The Government. he believed. 'realised that something must be done. Now was the psychological moment.
More important than preserving this or that plece of land was to bring back to Oxford what it.. had in the old days. That was an appreciation of the beauties of the
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KING'S POWERS
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A superstition concerning the Coronation has passed almost un- Mrs. Vaughan Nash, a second said I was really quite warm and country and of buildings, not noticed. When George VI cousin of Florence Nightingale, «in that I didn't wear petticoats be-merely preserving them as museum anointed in Westminster Abbey
According to the British Medical a talk broadcast in the National cause they were too heavy to walk pieces, but seeing that the in-he acquired the right of “touching į Journal some Kings were firm be- programme recently, defended her in. Oh, no!' she said in her live-evitable developments and changes for the King's Evil"
lievers in their powers. Edward I memory against Lytton Stracheyy, downright way. I've walked that were taking place should be The King's Evil is the traditional touched 633 people in one month. portrait, and said that she did not ever so much more than you have, permitted to grow, but in such a
name for a form of swollen glands After the death of Queen Anne the believe there was any truth in and I always wore five petticoats. way as to preserve the amenities.
in the neck, and was" so-called | custom died out. Strachey's accusation that Flor- ence Nightingale was able to its of demoniac frenzy.
In consequence of the fire betti coats Mrs. Nashi was rather apolo- getic when she told "Aunt-Flor-
of course!" she replied cheerfully. "It must be such a help in getting about" That was years before Lord Knutsford spoke of the un- suitability of a nurse arriving at a patient's house with a bicycle on her cab."
From the facts of her life, salence that she had a bicycle, “Why, Mrs. Nash, it was evident that Florence Nightingale was no mere amiable nurse. But was ahe a demoniacal scold? Was she ever. as Strachey says, "perhaps mad?" Hardly, for everybody knew that an ungovernable temper was al- most the greatest of all disquali- fications for cooperation in respon- sible work.
Mrs. Nash's own, knowledge of Florence Nightingale gave her an unforgettable picture of a wise and affectionate elder friend, never harsh, exacting. or unapproach able, and not in the faintest degree
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In 1888, while Mrs. Nush- staying with "Aunt Florence!!: at
malda fell down the stairs and Bouth Street, one of the house,
was seriously hurt. "I went down and looked at the poor girl, who was laying collapsed on a couch in the housekeeper's room. I hurried upstairs to report, and as I open-
a tyrant. Her Arst clear recollec-ed the door there was Aunt Flor- tion of her was in 1874, when the ence standing near me. This was Way 11 years old and Florence the first time I had seen her stand- Nightingale was 54. Her voice had ing, except in the distance, and I the magic power of a great por- sonality and of rare character. beautiful, tall, dignified figure in was struck - with wonder at the During a minor foreign expedition the simple, graceful black dress some nurses had been sent ont, of and at the calm race. I believe I whom "Aunt Florence" had not saw then a glimpse of the Florence had a good account. A nurse Nightingale of Spatari... went to sleep, she told me,” re- } called Mrs. Nash, and the wounds of one of the patients broke out afresh. He bled to death while she was asleep. The words were apo- ken with steep sorrow."
"I was once with Florence Night- ingale alone for some time at Lea Hurst, and we then had some talks about religion, she had a natural desire to help every one, but she always showed the most scrupul ous delicacy towards us young peo- On smother occasion "Aunt Flor-ple in not taking on herself any ence had been asked to speak to rights that belang Mra Nash about her clothes the ents She never, Bald she was afraid I didn't wear us towards the enough to keep me warm, and began about o
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