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GENERAL MANGIN,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1928,

Router recently announced the death of General Mangin, who became prominent as one of France's principal comman- dors in the late war..

CORRESPONDENCE

(To the Editor of the Hongkong

Telegraph."')

Local Funerals.

Sir, Since writing you a letter recently on the needless waste of money at local funerals to enrich flower-sollers at Wyndham Street, I have received a copy of tho rules of a Fund which exists under the Portúguase Mutual Aid Sooloty, to which body I made a reference in my letter.

It may interest the public to know that this excellent Society is based on an entrance fee of $1, followed by a yearly fee of $1

SIGHT.

By the Rev. G. R. Lindsay, M. A

Fow will dispute the contention remains that to be shut out from that of all God's gifts to men the beauty of God's wonderful second only to that of the mind, world, to be deprived of the joy- comes the gift of sight. A blind bringing smile of a little child man moves the hardest, heart to and the loveliness of a good face, pity. The blind are robbed of so constitutos an affliction we would much that makes life interesting shun ourselves and from which and joyful. They are made to be to save our dearost we would go. dependent on others in those vory all lengths of sacrifice. things in which we love our Great, howovor, as is the independence. The pathos of blessing of physical sight, it is blindness novor struck ono so admittedly partial, limited, and foroibly as on the occasienne that gradually weakons. one's first visit to the Church list and spiritual sight for Missionary Blind Home in transcond ̧ P The Bible bas Kowloon City when we heard the much to say about this deopor sightless girls singing

way of sosing. It speaks of`ein- "When by His grace I shall fulness as blindness and urges

look on His Face

men to have their eyes anointed. that they may see. We often That will be glory for me." use the term vision to donote We are told that the blind aro this kind of sight which is de usually compensated by the pendout on training, knowledge, strongthoning of other faculties, and still more upon purity of the power of feeling, for example, heart. Spiritual vision comes as being greatly quickoned. Many a gift direct from God., Better triumph in a really remarkable for be blind than be unable to see. way over their disability and The man who is bounded by a have achieved distinction in material horizon is of all mon literature, music, handicraft and most miserable. The cry of in the service of the State Bartimeus to Jesus OD that But when all this has baon Jericho road long ago might be said and every compensating made ours, "Lord, that I may olment mentioned, the fact receive my sight."

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

SOVIET POLICY.

Moscow, May 15,

Reviewing the foreign situation at the Soviet Congress, M. Chicherin foreshadowed no new development. He had to use for the Arms Conference at Geneva, which aimed at strengthening the means whereby the powerful nations dominated the feeble, but was willing to participate in League commissions treating with technical und humanitarian objects, also limitution of armaments. He asserted that the creation of solid relations with Poland occupied the principal and a call of fifty cents on con-place in the Soviet world policy-Reuter. tributors on the death of a fellow-

MChicHerin reiterated that the Soviet was ready to negotiate contributor. As to the benefits with Britain and to assume all, the obligations resulting from inter- received, on the death of a con-national relations. Should the British Government point out that tributor a payment of $100 ie

Soviet was migusing its diplomatic rights and that certain officials immediately made to the wife or and persons were violating international engagements, the Soviet dependenta or next of kin of the decossod, whilst widows, orphans would do everything that might be demanded of it, but if the British or dependents of the deceased Government required the Soviet to stop all propaganda work in the get the cost of the funeral paid. Soviet Union, that meant that the communist party must cease to be This looks to me a very sensible communist. Nobody would ever succeed in bringing that about. arrangement, and it is far better The Soviet desired to regulate with France not only question of than wasting money on flowers...Tsarist debts, the solution of which he considered more possible than

Yours ofc..

others thought, but also political questions. It was ready to negotiate with Franco in regard to mutual claims.-Reuter.

NATIONAL.

Hongkong, 15th May, 1925.

EUROPEAN SUMMONED.

INCIDENT AT TAIPO

STATION.

FRANCE IN. MOROCCO.

Paris, May 15.

According to a communique from Rabát the French losses con- sequent on dislodging the tribesmen from the Bibane range yesterday were small. General Colombat's column continues cleaning up the Mr. T. H. G. Brayfield, of the Bibane region. General Freydenburg's column is advancing west-

ward.

firm of Messrs. Carmichael and Clarke, naval architects and In the sharp engagement the Moors lost heavily. The French cap- marine surveyors, who resides tured prisonerland war material..

at Taipo, appeared at the The newspapers are rejoicing at the successes in Morocco and Central Magistracy yesterday to mention. that the French aeroplanes which played havoc among the answer a summons taken out by tribesmen were of a large new type. The bombs were made during Mr. I. G. Travor, acting Traffic the Great War but the armistice prevented their being utilised. Superintendent of the Kowloon- The tribesmen retreating from the heights of Bibane were Canton Railway, charging him threatened with envelopmnt and obliged to march through the ravines with unlawfully using insulting where they were an easy target for the aeroplanes. The newspapers worde and behaviour towards state that large reinforcements will be drawn from all garrisons in Teang Lun sau, station master at France shortly for Morocco, also a number of ambulance aeroplanes. Taipo, whereby breach of Reuter. the poace might have boeni

occasioned.

Mr. T. 8 Whyte Smith assist-

ant Crown Solicitor," appeared

to prosecute, and Mr. F. G. Vaux

represented the defendant. The

SYNTHETIC OPIUM.

New York, May 15.

Horman Metmetz, the chemical manufacturer, is offering a prize case was heard by Mr. S. B. B. of $100,000 for the invention of a process for producing synthetic McElderry.

oplum at a price low enough to wipe out poppy growing in India and China.-Reuter's American Service.

ARGENTINE GOLD EXPORTS,

From the evidence taken, it] appears that the dafondant is conduoting a vigorous anti malaria compaign, at Taipo, oiling likely mosquito breeding

In reference to the Buenos Aires decree, enquiries show that it placas and clearing empty bottles and other litter from the fore-refers merely to gold held in banks amounting only to £2,750,000 and not the gold reserve in the conversion office which remains closed. shoro.

It was alleged that he entered--Reuter.

London, May 15.

the Railway Station on the morni [The former message stated that a decree had been issued per- ing of April 25 carrying two mitting the export of gold, from June 10.3

empty beer bottles, asked the

station-maater why he had not ordered the railway coolies to remove the bottles from the fore-

shore, and also

abused the

station master, at the same time

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