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TUESDAY, OCTOBER. 4 1927.

CHINA'S NEW WAR.

TUESDAY,

OCTOBER 4. 1927.

OBITUARY.

DAY BY DAY.

LOVE IS A THING FULL OF ANXIOUS FEARS.-Ouid.

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factions guided only by their selfish ends is to continue is merely a mat- ter of speculation, but the end does not seem anywhere in sight. More's the pity. The people of North China have seen enough of the The 8.8. Empress of Russia sorrows attendant on warfare, es-left Yokohama yesterday and is pécially the cruelties and wasteful due here on Tuesday next, leaving for Manila on the following day." ness of a winter campaign, to know that an outbreak of fighting. he- : tween the powerful armies of Shan- si and Fengtien can only spell suffering and want and, often enough, too, ruthless ill-treatment

Dr. Wagner, the German Consul, and Mrs. Wagner, have returned to-day by the a.s. Hector from their holiday trip to northern

ports.

many thanks, receipt of parcels of literature from Mrs. Duckworth, Mrs. Dunlop Mrs. Handyside. Mr. A. R. Sutherland and Mrs, Watt.

of the countryside folk. Hankow, The Hospital Comforts Com- Nanking, Peking, Taiyuan, Ichang.mittee begs to acknowledge, with Canton-all these capitals are at the moment in the hands of separ- ate militaristic factions, among whom it would be extremely diffi cult to find one genuine spark of that real nationalism of which China stands so greatly in need.

Sofiet Inconsistency.

A lady's handbag was found in the Lee Gardens on Sunday last and is now in the custody of the police. The owner can obtain the handbag by applying to Chief In- spector Kent, at the Central Poli:e Station.

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THE REV. DR. GILBERT REID.

The Very Idea!

Clerk-"Well, he's very busy, madam, what was it you wanted to so him about?"

Amateur Gardoner "Can I ave It la with regret we have to the Minister of Agriculture?" record the death of Dr Gilbert Reid, which occurred last Friday morning at the Paulun Hospital, Shanghai, where he had been for several months, suffering with Christian fortitude but in spite of affliction and an operation he suc- ceeded in retaining, up to the last. the keenest interest in China and her perplexing problema.

"About a geranium of mine that` isn't doing very well."

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Dad tooted on his saxophone,

As happy as could be. The 'baby cried and spoiled i

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It cried all out of key,

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James Walters, Palace Road, Church End, admitted he was when driving a car at

Dr. Gilbert Reld was an Inter- nationalist who sought to promote, peace between the many schools of thought in this country as well as between Chinese and foreign asleep sympathisers. Until very recently Friern Barnet, and was fined by he had contributed for many years

the Highgate Magistrates.

A

Court for her husband: You get Wife, attending Bow County no time for doing your washing, attending these courts all over the

shop.

a number of able articles to the constable saw the car crash into a columns of the Shanghai Mercury, tricycle carrying bottles of milk. and invariably his theme was China, or Chinese problems. In- deed, it might well be said that he dedicated his life to the cause he had so closely at heart, for intense- ly human, and with his scholarly

Young. Nottingham wife: We attainments and profound know- ledge of Chinese he was able not agreed before our wedding not to only to command the respect of in- quarrel, but since then we have fluential Chinese but sought to quarrelled about everything under mellow the ideas and sweeten the

East Ham debtor: Everybody thought of foreigners who had not the gifts with which he had been is having such a bad time that I' endowed for diagnosing intricate think everybody ought to cry and obstruse Chinese questions.

quite.

So Walthamstow husband: He was a pacifist-a man whe would conquer with the torch of sure as I pay this debt, my wife will owo gome more to-morrow. truth rather than with the rapier Solicitor: It is the way with of ridicule.

wives.

Eastern stage for many has filled a place

the sun.

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A possibly important change of

"The Grand Duchess and the policy is to be observed in the Waiter," the delightful comedy Soviet attitude towards religious which has won so much favour at matters recently in evidence, and the Queen's Theatre during the forming a peculiar contrast with past few days, will be screened for former policy. It is recalled that the last time this evening. Adapted the Bolshevist Russian tendency to the screen from the stage suc probably because the Moscow cess of Alfred Savoir, the picture Soviet feared the political power is one of the best comedies of the of the Church and realised the year. hold it had on an illiterate and superstitious peasantry-was to

The following ships were ex- uproot all religion. Gradually pected to be in wireless com- this policy hardened into a deli- munication with Hongkong to-day says the Mercury in reporting his ly know nothing about costs. The passing of Dr. Gilbert Reid, Barrister at Willesden; I real- berate anti-Christian campaign, in Arafura, Van Heutsz, Linan, Ali- death, effaces a character which Magistrate: Then I am sure no which development went on until,pore, Ningpo, Silver Belle, City of only a few months ago, anti-God Lincoln, Suiyang, President Pierce,

on the Farone else can presume to know. societies became the order of the Times Maru, Steel Engineer, Kaijo It is a loss to the country-it is a was cubically smaller, but practi- years. Willesden man: The bedroom day. The priests, after long per- Maru, Cheribon Maru, Suwa Maru, secution, had already been de Selene, Yuanlee, Orja and Ning-community, and to

cause for sincere regret in this cally the same size.

those who prived of much of their authority. chow.

mourn his demise there is the The small boy was writing an and numerous places of worship,

satisfaction of knowing that his essay on the exploits of a V.C. after more or less of desecration, had ceased to function as such.ense the F.M.S. Government has the Institute he founded and the essay with

On the reconsideration of her name will long be associated with during the war. He began his an account of L The main idea has been to get at awarded Mrs. Wakefield (whose work and interests of which he cavalry engagement. the child mind, and thus mould husband, the captain of a rubber sought so long and so loyally to "This brave man," he wrote, anti-religious outlook at the most

smuggling preventive launch, was impressionable age of the new killed during an

promote for the sake of interna- "rode forward through a hail of affray with tionalism.

bulleta. Two horses were shot Nobody seems to know very generation. Undoubtedly great smugglers) another thousand much about the new situation in harm has been," and still can be pounds sterling, making a total The funeral took place at the under him, and the North which has arisen because ber the very deeply religious feel-sand pounds.

But observers who remem-award of a little over two thou-Hangjau Road cemetery last Satur-through his clothes."

day, at 5 p.m.

Most people

naturally of the sprprising outbreak of fighting in rural Russia 'before the

sloppy-minded-Sir Henry Hadow. ing between the forces of General fail of Tsurism, and the reverence Mr. W. E. Image, a police cadet,

The older we get the moro Yen Hai-shan, the military chief of the peasantry, who number has been admitted to hospital at Rev. Gilbert Reid was the direc-liable we are to be impetuous--

many millions, for the orthodox of Shansi province, and those of established Church of their coun- tion, including a broken jaw, as Institute of China Inc.

Kuala Lumpur in a serious conditor-in-chief of the Interational | Judge Cluer.

He was Many people making cotton Marshal. Chang Tse-lin. General try, hrive wondered just how the result of a collision which took born November 29, 1857, at Laurel, cloth are wearing shirts that are Yen occupies a unique position ineffective the Soviet handful has place between his two-seater car L., New York, his father being almost falling from their backs. Chinese politics."

made its campaign, and how long and a bullock cart. The car burat Rev. John Reid. He received his Mr. J. Helm, Almost ever the anti-religious movement would into flames after the collision, education at the Whitestown since the Revolution he has been last. That a change is coming when it was found that a bullock Seminary in 1857, joined the the Tuchun of Shang, and he has over the country is. now evident. | had been killed.

Hamilton College in 1879, and so vacillated-first being on one that the remnant of the Orthodox We learn from recent exchanges

graduated from the Union Theolo- The firing of gums at noon lastgical Seminary, New York City, in side and then on the other-that Church of Russia, by absolute Wednesday announced the arrival 1892. be has managed to hold his position submission to Moscow, has actual- of an American destroyer flotilla Rev. Gilbert Reid first came to porridge was the sequel to a large all through the sweeping changes y obtained a measure of official in Singapore harbour. It consists. China as a missionary under the fire

recognition. A commentator ob- of the destroyers Hulbert, Noa, W serves in this connexion: The B. Preston, Treble, Sicard, Pruitt Soviet Government has authorised and Paul Jones, with the tender the revival of the Holy Synod, Black Hawk, und it has arrived and, the so-called "Temporary from Saigon. The flotilla was to Synod" publishes a "call" to all remain until Saturday, the Orthodox clergy and laity at home and abroad, to rally to the Soviet Government, and threatens clergy who dare continue to resist. expulsion all

done.

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Bad language used constantly to a wife may amount to moral cruelty-Mr. W. E. Luke, Willes- den Magistrate."

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A street filled with boiling

at Johannesburg, South Presbyterian Board of Foreign Africa. As a milling establish- Missions, under which he worked ment was deatroyed by a blaze in Chefeo, Shantung, up to October firemen poured in tons of water, 1882. He then was transfered to which swelled great quantities of Tainan, where he worked in 1885, crushed oats. This soon began. and from 1885 to 1892 he worked to boil, burst the walls and then in the region of China's sages, poured down the streets like lava He went on furlough in 1892 and from a volcano. Natives made

Higher Classes, the mission being returned in 1894, when he resign-hearty meals of the porridge. ed and started the Mission among

that have happened around him. In the fighting between North and South he has been "on the fence" though rumour has often placed him differently. And now, sudden ly, the world wakes up to find "China's champion fence-rider" as with immediate he has been called, in the lists against Marshal Chang, Tso-lin and it would, of course, be absurd to to be a murder, "Jealousy" is a institute which was officially 'sane. motorist, but I must say I have necessary to go over the whole lutely anti-religious Soviet regime, the central figure. The story is tioned by the Government in 1897, just seen a novel and moving

his associated Generals.

this

It is

talk of a Concordat between the

The German film "Jealousy comes to the World Theatre to-day "family cinema" until tomorrow. as the chief picture in the Colony's Although it begins with what seems

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Browne-"As you know, Jones," later known as the International I am by way of being an anti-

Bight."

Jones-"What was that?" "I saw quite a number of motorists slow down and deli-

Orthodox Church and the absc- comedy with a jealous husband as

Rev. Gilbert Reid aided the Chin- China situation once again and get which, through its trade unions, staged in Berlin of which interest.

ing glimpses are given.

ese reform movement from 1894 In fact, has just decreed the re- new alignment, in mind.

doubling of anti-Christian propa-

to 1897, after which he went on Along the Yangtsze there are three ganda. Moreover it is impossible pox will be accorded foreigners 1899. During his trip, which last. 'berately turn aside in order to

Free vaccination against small-furlough again, and returned in fartions Nanking, Hankow and yet to gauge the reaction of the and Chinese in the International I ed about two years, he travelled in avoid running over an animal in General Yang Sen away in the up- lesser clergy and the pious laity Settlement, beginning on October the United States and Europe. On the road."

to this act of total submission.3, it is announced in the current his return to China he was wound- per reaches.

Nanking and Han-But the Russian Church, which, issue of the Municipal Gazette.

"Ah, so they are not all in- ed in the Boxer Siege of Lega-animal was it?"

said human,"

Jones. kow are going to fight (so it is since the suppression of the The announcement states that the tions, at Peking on July 5, 1900,

"What reported) and they find that on Synod and the Patriarchate, has vaccination will be available for and 1902 he transferred the work "A circus elephant," replied their respective northern flanks been without a shepherd, is now Chinese and indigent foreigners at of the Institute to Shanghai. In

to have a measure of legally or-the branch health offices. there are the enemies Sun Chuan-ganised existence, and this re- fang and Feng Yu-hsiang. Strange presents a substantial concession

At Singapore last week the Firelough to the United States and licence at a "temperance festival," as it seems, there is a rumour that on the part of the majority of Station received a call that there Marshal Sun is prepared to link the Administration, which has was a fire in Victoria Street. An

always the peasantry in up with Hankow for the purpose. The whole thing forms a

mind engine was dispatched and owing very to a mistaken traffic signal from of having a smashing hit at Nan-peculiar paradox, characteristical- the Malay constable on point duty, king and, by a rather roundaboutly Bolshevist in its inconsistency. the engine collided with a bus full

process, General Yen's latest action is connected with that idea. The railway that runs from Hankow to Peking passes near to General Yen's territory and a few weeks ago he spread his forces southwards and now actually sits astride that rail-

The reaction of the masres to the new state of affairs will be most interesting to observe.

DRAWING EXAMINA-

'TIONS.

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of passengers. The bus was very badly damaged, and two of the passengers, who were injured, had to be removed to hospital.

1910-1911 he again went on fur-

Europe,

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Browne.

For Belling beer without a

Frances Tweddle was fined £20 at Newcastle and Esther Dobson" £10 for aiding and abetting, Detec tives were served with beer in a refreshment tent.

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In Journalism. During his stay in China, from 1902 to 1921, he conducted the educational social, religious, and literary work of the Instit te, tak- A schoolboy failed in an ing up the editor-propreitorship of amination in all the five subjects the Peking Post in 1917. To he took. Ho telegraphed to his wards Christmas, in 1907, he was brother:-"Failed in all five. deported by the U. S. Government Prepare papa." to Manila, P. 1. at the request of The brother telegraphed back--.. the Peking Government, and in "Papa prepared. Prepare your- 1918 he went on furlough to the self" States, coming back in 1921..

EXCHANGE RATES.

"Time the Comedian," a society drama which contrasts the changes that have taken place during the past twenty-five years, forms the chief item in the new continuous way, preventing Peking from using HONGKONG'S GOOD RESULT. day. The picture is particularly respondent to the London Times in

Rev. Gilbert Reid was special cor programme at the Star Theatre, to- it for military purposes against

Interesting to women because it 1894-1895: London Morning Post Hankow. But the whole position The results of the Royal Draw-shows many interesting gowns of in 1900-1901: New York Tribuno is obscure and in a state of flux, ductied in June last at the British story is of general appeal, of course, Foreign Affairs in 1923.

ing Society's examinations con- both the past and the present. The in 1921: London Daily Herald and Brussels and we shall have to wait for fur-Schools of the Colony have recent- and the acting, with Lew Cody and the managing editor of the Inter- Berlin ther events to clarify it.

ly been received, the general re-Mae Busch at the head of the cast, national Journal in 1922. If the military position is obs-port being "A good and well is worthy of the theme.

sustained result."

Paris..

He was Amsterdam

Copenhagen He held the honorary degree of Vienna

Helsingfors A.M. given him in 1883, and D.D. conferred upon him in 1898 by Geneva

New York Hamilton College.

Milan

He was member of the Delta Stockholm

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Madrid of tor Bloor, Sergt. Hunt, Sgt. Baller, Chinese, and his books in Chinese, Lisbon ed Honours passes L.S. Charman, P.C. Lammert such as "Western Constitutions,"

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