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THE ANTI-CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT.

"DOWN WITH HEAVEN" NEW SLÓGAN.

NOISY PROCESSIONS.

The Christmas season was var- lously

Kweilin, "celebrated in Kwangsi province. Christians met in their several places of" worship, while" opposers, compos- ed of the majority of "the student body from government schools, "united in a vigorous anti-Christian

campaign.

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"Students from junior and senior schools, both male and female, thousand strong. dlose assembled at noon on Christmas Day in the (former) Imperial City, now the site of a number of government achools. Speeches were made in which Christianity was assailed and the Bible attack. ed. Cartloads of literature were distributed. Some now. "Downs" were noticed, "Down with Heaven -only a dream" was the. starlling"

most

From the Imperial City the pro- cessionists traversed the principal alreets, of the city. Girl students Were much in evidence, with bugles and drums. Their head. gear was fearful and wonderful.. muslin hats in the middle of win- ter of a style that Paris would readily discla'm as not the prasent mode. The compound of the American Baptist Convention Mis- sion was entered and the flag of the Kuomintang hoisted to the top of the flagstaff. After lots of patriolle yelling, the students moved on. Passing churches and the homes of missionaries there was a fresh sounding forth of the various anti-Christian slogans, but no violence.

BRITISH GENERAL

STRIKE.

TRADE UNION "INQUEST."

London, Jan. 14.

The report of the Council of the Trade Union Congress for the long-deferred "inquest" on the general strike in the shape of a special conference of the. Execu- tives of all affiliated. Unions on January 20, has been issued to the delegates to-day as a confidential document. It will be published on January 20.

It is understood that it consists of two sections. The first sum- marises the mining dispute and the course of events to the ter- 'mination of the general strike and explains the Council's motive for calling off the general strike, and repudiates certain suggestions in, that connection. The secondi. deals with subsequent events to the end of November, including the T.U.C.A mediation efforis, and it comments outspokenly on the mining dispute, defending the TU.C. attitude thereto.--Rester.

MCPHERSON CASE,

WHE

EVANGELIST,DISCHARGED.

Los Angeles, Jan. 10-District Attorney "Asn Keyes in superior court today requested and granted dismissal of the criminal conspiracy charges against the evangelist, Mrs. Althee Semple. Me- Pherson. The district attorney, re- Iterated his charges that Mr. McPherson left Los Angeles - Inst spring in the company of Kenneth Ormiston, Former radio operator at"] Angelus temple of which Mrs. Mc- Pherson is pastor, and that she was.. not kidnapped by Mexican bundits as she claimed in explaining her sudden mysterious absence.

In asking dismissal of the case Keyes said it had rusted on the tes- timony of Mrs. Lorraine Wine- mann Sielaff who "has changed her testimony daily`until it contains so many contradictions that she has become a witness for whom no pro secutor could vouch."

Paymaster Commander W. E. G. Urtenshaw and Paymaster Lieu- tenants R. Q. Pine and G. M. Waters have been appointed, to H.M.S. Tamar.

Inspector Bond, for many years in chargo of the Water. Polico, will be sailing for Home on March 5. This officer, after a distin- guished enrreor In the Honkong Police is retiring on pension

The annual general meeting of the Hongkong Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to animals will be held in Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- son und Co.'s board room on Thurs- day, the 20th instant, at 5.15 p.m. The public is cordially invited to attend.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MIXED GRILL

A Merry Miscellany Ashley Sterne

Professpr. Hans Peterson of Vienna has at last succeeded in ex- ploding the atom, and to the in- tense amazement of everybody, who had been anticipating the 'total demolition of the Solar Sys- tem as a consequence-nothing happened! There was no amoke. no smell, no loud bang; the atom just exploded like a perfect gentle- man, and passed peacefully away greatly respected. What has be- come of the bits, Heaven plune knows; but if they are over dis covered I hope Professor Petersen. will be good enough to stick them. together again, olther with rivets or glue or something. After all, atoms are public property, and I cannot see that scientists are en- titled to go about, exploding them for their own amusement any more than you or lare entitled to souk up the sea with blotting-paper or extract all the oxygen from the carth's atmosphere.

Incidentally hear that the ap- paratus« employed for the explo- sion was very expensive. I sup- pose it didn't occur to the distin- guished Professor that he could have decimated his atom for six-

pence if he had just handed it over to the 'tender mergies of the Parcels Pust and labelled it "Fra- gile with care.”

"The wives of famous men," says a writer on the Higher Edu- cation of Women. "have undoubt edly improved intellectually from association with their husbands." 'I don't know that I altogether agree with is a somewhat sweeping assertion. For" instance, I'm sure Zantippe's mind, never improved a scrap

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Yet 'midat my misory I benr A glad and thankful heart; ". I don't repine, I never swear, Wheno'er they itch and smart; For I'm aware that ten alone Are all I have to hoed, Whorens five hundred 1 should own Word In contipedeľ

In a recent number of the Timce of India, I saw a photograph of a native of Bombay who breaks paving tones with his fiats. wish he would pay as a visit. H acems to be just the fellow to set- tle once and for all the vexed and much debuted question of what's inside our railway refreshment- room pork pies,; «

don Movement For the metro- Sing hey! for the Brighter Lon-

polis is shortly to be equipped, 1 read, with one of these new clec- trical coursing trucks, complet. with betting-rings, grand stands, paddocks, and (I trust), the usual Thirst-slueking facilities. The "hures" will be "mechanical "hares" driven by electricity, but the greyhounds will be solid dog all through, and in all other re spects the sport will be carried out on strict coursing lines. But while they're about it, why not do. the whole thing by electricity? Electricalgreyhounds, for one thing. It certainly seems awfully rough on the genuine greyhound that the best he can hope for Froni the sport is the pleasure. mingled perchance with pain, of biling an ampere ora kilowatt in the neck. Then I'd like to see electrica bookies that can't bunk installed, and electrical tipsters guaranteed to give one the very agreeable Shock" of backing a winner. Then if the promoters will kindly ar range for an electrical grand- mother's Funeral on the day of all the big events. I cannot think of anything which remains to be desired.

Professor. Robert A. Millikan, the ewvinent American scientist, declares that the intellectual power of the man of to-day is not

from marrying Soerates.superior, and is possibly inferior. She became far more of a shrew to that of the Alexandrian and than a shrewd. At the same

Athenian of 3000 years ago. I beg time, I think 1see what the writer most vehemently to differ. When is getting at. He merely wants to I think of klant minds ke those emphasise what Longfellow said of my friends Professor Barmion long ago: "Wives of great men Crumpett and Professor Anaes all remind us we can make our thesus Bilgewater, the intellects wives subinte."

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A street musician, fined fo erealing an obstruction in. Trufal gar Square (and goodness knows there was quite enough obstruc- tion there already) was found to have a sua of over £28 in his pos session. The magistrate is to be kindly commended. For the self- restraint he displayed in refrain- ing from making any joke about Orpheus and his lost.

my

Own"

The quotation on Great Thoughts. Lear-of calendar for this day on which I write is, "In contemplating the sorrows others we forget 42 True! Let me ignore my ten tor tured: toes for a few minutes while I heubrate & little Song of Gratitude

Ten little chilblains have I gǝt, One upon each pink toe, Driving me nearly off my dot- They itch and tingle so. What though I paint them every

day,

With doubs of iodine, They still refuse to go away, These ten childrens of mine! All day they never cease to throb, These wretched little brutes; And oh the anguish of the job Of putting in my boots!

I cannot go to sleep at night, Or, if I do, they wake Me up, until the morning light Shall on my vision break,

cube. It was Barmion Crumpétt who solved it, by simply taking two lumps of sugar instead of one ia. his early morning cup of ten. Pythagoras again, merely invent- ed the Pythagorean Triangle--a crude thing which was absolutely useless from the commercial point of view. It remained for Annes- thosius Bilgewater so to modulate and improve it, that to-day it is the only sort of triangle played in the Handel Festival orchestra. But possibly Professor Millikan was not aware of these achieve. ments of my friends? Well, he'll get a nasty jar when he learns that they have each been warded a Nobel Prize for their researches.. So shall I

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MOMENT INOPFORTUNE.

of

ROMANS IN BRITAIN.

ERMINE STREET AND THE NINTH LEGION,

of such men as the late Pro- fessor Euclid, of Alexandria, and Consulu representatives, that it

has no intention of acting con- How the Roman Invasion deve- the st later Professor Pythago-

trary to National aspirations, the loped native crafts and proved ras, of Athens, seem pretty poor

legitimacy of which it fully refresh markets for the languishing Euclid junk by comparision. merely propounded without solv-cognises. It confirms its adhesia notteries of the county, which in. to the immediate and unconditional the second century had become a ong the problem of duplicating the

granting of the Washington Sur flourishing industry. is described taxes as proposed by the British in the "Report. on the Historical and accepted by the French Gov-Monuments of Huntingdonshire" crnments, and agrees the (Stationery Ofco, 85%.), the tenth auggestions of the British Govern labour of its kind undertaken by ment as regards extru-territori- the Royal Commission on Histori- ality. Since these measures are cal Monuments. proposed with the object

The report is, an exhaustive and demonstrating the loyal intention fascinating account of the secular of the Powers as regards China, and ecclesiastical architecture and the Belgian Government wonders ancient remains of a county which whether it would not be preferable from the earliest times was close" to apply them only as fa ras are to an abundant supply of stone really of a kind to satisfy the and did not use brick work until Chinese people,

the close of the Middle Ages. There are alight traces of Roman settlements at the river crossings, As regards the collective a confused system of banks and declaration suggested in the Bri-ditches at Calne, and ramparts tish Memorandum regarding the much reduced by ploughing at the policy to be followed to China by Romano-British town of Chester-" the signatories to the Washington ton. But the outstanding Roman Treaty, the Belgian Government monument is Ermine-street, which is, of opinion that such a declara- forms the axis of the county and tion is at present neither oppor- is à relic of the northward pro- tune nor possible. Several gross of the ninth, legion in the Powers have already rejected the early days of the conqueat. proposal, and, moreover, it is to. The rond added an important be feated that with the frame of overland route to a region hither- mind existing at present in China, to almost Impassable. It was. a collective declaration, however mainly thick forest and fen, wide, and liberal, would create traversed only by three water. more distrust than satisfaction, ways. On the few dry areas on and, in any case, give rise to the gravel along the river banks erroneous interpretations:Belor-on-the-islands among-tho-mar- glum, however, wishes that in the shes a sparse, poverty-stricken establishment of a Government population made rough pottery, with authority to speak in the hunted. fished, and scratched a name of a sovereign and united living from the soll.. Chinese people, the aspirations of

TUNG KOON'S PLIGHT.

THREAT OF A GENERAL

STRIKE.

A report from Shek Lung statea that the town is full of rumours concerning the activities of bandits infeeting the district, of Tung Koon and also of labour tyranny now pre-. vailing there

Tung Koon is one of the richest agricultural districts of Kwangtung. Following the ray- ages . of war I'm the East River districts brigands and pirates have greatly increased num- ber and their activities have been so frequent that the inhabitants have been shorn of almost all

their worldly possessions. In some villages even the houses have been razed to the ground or burnt and many people are seen huddled to- gether in rags in the open air.

During a short séjourn of two days in the city which was under- taken by a correspondent, strikes by members of four Labour Unions were in full swing, these being the silk ploce-goods, the paper, pastry and cake and printers' and jobbers" unions. These strikes had been.on for some days, and on the date of the correspondent's arrival, the atrikers held a mass meeting at which a resolution was passed to the effect that an ultimatum be sent to the employers that unless their torms are agreed to within three days, a general strike of all Unions will be called.

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