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NORTHERN CAMPAIGN.

SUGGESTED AID BY THE

SOVIET.

It is reported from Canton that General Fook-lum, General Officer Commanding the 5th Army Corps, has been recommended by M. Lugarkoff, high adviser of Mill- tary Affairs to command the van- guard in the forthcoming Northern campaign.

As the 5th Army haa. not yet been brought up to the required strength, M. Lugarkoff suys he will undertake to obtain the as- sitance of the Soviet to supply full equipment for one Division of men In consequence, it is stated that when the Army Corps is · brought up to the required strength and fully equipped, it will be sent on netive service to Fuklen. ".

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1928.

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Banks

Chartered Bank

of India. Aus- tralia

China

and

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$

.16,609,907 5,300,000*

tion51,058,714 41,000,000+

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uk

India,

Limited. 1,620,917 560,000§

Total:38,188,928 46,850,000 In addition Sterling Securities de posited, with the Crown Agents valised at £1,197,700

In addition Securities deposite-1 with the Crown Agents and Straits Government valued at £3,108,097.

In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agents 'valued at

290.000,

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Grey Morn, winner of the Chater Cup, being lot in by Mrs. B.D. F. Beith. The jockey is Lieut. Comdr. Thompson. (Photo: Ming Yuen.)

His Excellency the Governor, Lady Clementi and Sir Paul Chater Photo: Ming Yuon.

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

In Puritan days the spiritual value of fasting from food was fully realised, and in these more. or less luxurious days for most of us in the East, 21 form of

The keeping of a fast before Easter can be traced back to the Fourth Century, but it was not until the Seventh Century that forty days were fixed as a period for this, form of self-discipline. abstinence might well prove. These forty days are sometimes check to the increasing encroach- | said to be in memory of our ment of materialist. Christians Lord's fast in the wildorness.need to bo on their guard. We This was not so at first, though it have renounce the false. may have been later on.

"asceticism of a past age, but the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. Lent is not recognised in vain, if it calls a halt to many, not for forty days only, but for life"

In the book of Common Prayer, which was drawn up in 1662, Lent is included in a list of days of fasting. How the fast is to be observed is left to the individual concience, and very wisely, be- cause Christianity is a faith not of rules, but of principles, which each age and each individual must apply to the conditions of the time.

"This view of fasting is true as it goes, but it has a much deeper significance. Fasting is # symbol of tremendous import. It

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attitude un detachment from the things of It is a remarkable fact that time and sonse, What we need even the highly legal code of concerning food and drink, and Judaism enjoined, but one com-pleasure and business, ie the re- pulsory fast. Our Lord certainly soluto determination to be above sanctioned the custom, and laid them, and not to be in bondage to down certain principles to guidothom. I will not be brought us. Fasting was to be observed under the power of any", suid St choorfully, unostentatiously, and Paul. The Bible always links was appropriato at certain periods fasting with prayer, only. He was no advocate of asceticism. He came "eating and

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4:

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"Hero from the world wo

turn.

Jesus to sook."

The Now Testament knows

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