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WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1938.

CIRCUS TRIBUTE TO BERTRAM MILLS

CHINESE TEA TRADE IN RUSSIA

MEMORIAL SERVICE IN

TENT

"CHURCH AT THE CROSS ROADS"

Possible Return To Mediaevalism

EVANGELICAL PLEA FOR AGREEMENT

Hankow, May 24.

People of the circus and their The China National Tea Cor children, to the number of 300, poration organised by the National

and representing 11 nationalities, Government last year is making

recently attended a memorial ser-Į fresh efforts to revive the brick vice at Luton to Mr. Bertram A tes trade in Russia. It is planning in the great tent of the touring to export 1.200,000 lb. of brick circus which bears his name. "tea" through the Northwestern The service, held simultaneously provinces of China Into Siberia with the interment at Chalfont today at a parting of the ways, Ort * barter system, whereby St. Giles, was conducted from a This comment was made recently at China will receive in return sub-platform in the ring made by six the opening of the Conference of stantial goody, from Soviet Russia elephant tubs, covered with the Evangelical Churchmen, at Or

The Corporation is improving tea boards used by the clowns. production under the guidance of At the side stood the

The Church of England stands

ford, by the Rev. C. M. Chavasse. circus Master of St. Peter's Hall, Oxford, the British technical expert. Mr. bandsmen in their red and green and chairman of the conference. P.E. Witham, who has had pre-uniform. They, accompanied the In the near future, he said, the vious experience of tea trade in hymns under the direction of Mr. Church must declare her mind India and whe is connected with Jack Lindsey, who wore a black about the Church and State Re- the Tea Brokers' Association of farmlet on his white uniform.

part And the Commission cn London. ·Mr. Witham belleved There were present in the con-Christian Doctrine..

that though Soviet Russin is grow ing tea, her crop is far from being sufficient, and with certain improve- ments in brick tea, she will be a good market for China,

Mr. Witham has learned from reliable sources that Japan is dumping tea to England. but following the decision of the Lon- don Co-operative Society last January not to purchase Japanese sumclent, and with certain improve of supply is available. British people refused to bay Japanese tea. (Central News).

BRITAIN'S INTEREST

IN RAILWAYS"

4

IN CHINA

Representations Made

To Japanese

London, May 21.

gregation:

master:

"The Church's attitude to these Mr. Frank Foster, the ring- two documents." he continted, "must inevitably accelerate the return tú mediaevalism char- acteristic of the past century, which would end in the National Church becoming a disestablished Anglo-Catholic sect unrepresenta-

Mr. Tom Tagg, the horse master, who was associated with Mr. Mills for 48 years:

the

Mr. Alfred Simpson, door keeper. the oldest employee;

Koringa, the woman fakir; Priscilla Kayes, the lion tamer: tive of English religion, or else The Corinthians troop of Eng-consolidate the reaction of lish riders:

last 15 years or so, which seeks to reafirm those Reformation Miss 'Lagana, the aerial

principles which have made our gynmast; and

the country what it is."

Ten clownIS, including veteran Pinnochio.

The Church, and State Report The officiating clergy were the definition of "lawful authority" Rev. William Davidson, Vicar of would prevent flagrant illegalities Luton. and the Rev. A. Donald in worship being entrenched any Lawson, honorary chaplain to the longer behind a presumed state of circus.

general anarchy. The hymns were "Onward.

"At the same time such an Christian Soldiers" and "Abide agreed definition would very pro- with Me." The lesson, read by perly allow the Church to alter the ringmaster, was from Revels-her worship without constant re- tions: "I saw a new heaven and course to Parliament, though not a new earth.” ̈·

beyond the doctrinal standards of the present Prayer Book," he added.

Mr. Lawson, in an address. re- ferred to Mr. Mills as "the Gover- Mr. R. A. Butier, Under-Seere- nor who, he said, was moved by tary for Foreign Affairs told the the spirit of loving kindness and House of Commans yesterday that was generous to a fault. the strongest representations had

A difficulty was that the report of the Doctrinal Commission pro-

"He went about doing good,"duced findings which meant that been made to the Japanese Gov- said Mr. Lawson. "Very low ap In future every proposed new ernment and to the Japanese au- pealed to him without a generous phrase in Church of England wor- thorities in Shanghai regarding response. He is more alive today ship must satisfy a searching

the losses that would be suffered than you are."

by British bondholders as a result

doctrinal test and be prodf against

At the close of the service the "the perverted genius of a Car

silent dinal Newman.

of Japanese military occupation of congregation, stood in the Shanghai Nankior Railways memory. and other lines.

The Japanese Government. he sald, had been asked to make the necessary nancial arrangements for continued service of the rail- way loans.

TRAGIC DEATH OF AMOY REFUGEE

Ko Hsi-tien. aged 40, a refugee Repeated requests had also been from Amoy, is reported to have made that British engineers committed suicide by taking a dose should be allowed to inspect the of polson. line of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway-(British Wireless).

CAMERON CLAN

RALLY IN AUSTRALIA

"If God is not to be dishonour ed." added Mr. Chavasse, "the Church much first agree on the truth of its doctrine,”

WOMEN J.P. "NOT

WORTH ANYTHING"

Ex-Magistrate's View

Ko, a well-known physician and business-man, escaped to Hong Kong shortly before the fall of Amoy, but his family of six were puty-Lieutenant of the East Rid- all killed during" the Japanese

shelling of the island.

News),

George Easton, 69, a former De-

Centraling of Yorkshire, and

JAPANESE STRENGTHENING

2 'Beut.- colonel, appealed at Folkestone Quarter Sessions recently against a conviction. and sentence of one month at Folkestone for obtaining credit by fraud at a local hotel."

Conducting his' own case, he said that he resigned as a magis- trate when the Lord Chancellor Hankow, May 24.

suggested that many justices” were As a result of the dramatic

too old. At the police court he Cameron clans st Achnacarry. Chinese air visit to Japan on May came before four magistrates, two stronghold and headquarters of 20, the Japanese Ministry of In- of whom were women. the clan. This will be the first terior has decided to strengthen rally of the Camerons since 1745.

Members of the Clan Cameron

Hvlpg in Australia are to hold a AIR DEFENCE

rally on June 24. It will coincide with the Scottish gathering of the

the air defences In the south-He had the greatest respect for The meeting is the result of a western part of the Empire, ac- the fair sex, but he did not think plan to establish clan unity and cording to intelligence reports re. they were worth anything on the further clan projects which was ceived here. originated in 1934 by Captain Evans Cameron, commander of the Orient Uner Orford.

"About 5000 clansmen will at tend the rally," Captain Cameron, saldin an Interview in Sydney recently.

"The leader of the clan, Colonel Bir Donald Walter. Cameron of Lochiel, and his wife. Lady Her- intone Cameron, will receive the homage of members of the clan.

·more

Bench, as they had no opinion of their owd.

The measure is all the necessary in view of the many The Recorder (Mr. Roland Oliver, mining districts on Klushu Island.K.C.) Cismissed the appeal, but re-

(Central News).

duced the sentence to 13 days.

WHEN A KING PAID £510 FOR

A BEARD "TRIM"

When James IV. of Scotland, at poses, the Abbot of Rungland and "The title of head of the clan the age of 30, married the 14-year his collaborators were able to c fa the oldest in existence in Great old Margaret Tudor, be paid an ure and find uses for surprisingly. Britain. The chief of the clan honorarium to the Countess of large amount of it," added Pro- has been in direct lineal descent Surrey and her daughter, Lady fessor Read, who also told of an from father to son since 1056.”.

Gray, to the value of £510 for air-minded abbot of the name of having "clippit the King's berd" Broun

This "costly attempt at re- Broun, in the quaint language of juvenation was mentioned recently Bishop Lesley, tulk in hand to Two hundred thousand refugees by Professor John Read, of 6tie with wingis, and to that effect are still on relief in Shanghai Andrews University, in a lecture on he causet mak ane pair of wingis Mr. Chu Ying-kwang, Chinese alchemy under Jame IV. of Scot of tedders Equipped with these chairman of the International land to the Society for the Study movable feathered wings he took Relief Commission, Shanghat, told of Alchemy and Early Chemistry oon from the lofty Battlements of foreign correspondents recently. London.

Stirling Castle for a fight to Paris, According to, Mr. Chu who was Describing the efforts of a cerbot: shortle he fell to the round one-time civil governor of Che-tain John Damian, "an ingenious and brak his thee bane kiang, 500,000 homeless and deand personable Italian," to find a "Nothing Caunted, added Pro stitute have been given help in "quinta esscencia" (elixir of life) resso Read, the courageous ex- Shanghai since hostilities started for the King, Professor Read midperimenter ascribed by downfal in China's premier port on August that among the ingredients used to that "thair was sum hep tedderik 13. There are two kinds of relief in for these experiments between 1501 in the wingis, which yearned and Bhanghai, one for the wounded and 1613 were gold quicksilver, coveted the midden and not the soldiers, which is undertaken by and aqua vitse (in simpler langu skles. If the wings had been the Red Cross Society of China; Be whisky),

made entirely of eagle's feathers and the other for refugees, which Although in those days whisky they would have exerted a na- tural tendency to soar into the sponsored by foreign and must have been a rare drug ru Chinese public organizations

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