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VAGUE YANGTSZE

SITUATION..

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Three of them who have been found guilty of an offence of a more serious nature are now put in strong fettera.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1927.

"CONFUCIANISM,”

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

LECTURE.

At the weekly public meeting! of the Hongkong Lodge the Theo- sophical Society, at the lounge of Lane Crawford's Restaurant on Sunday last, Mr. Wei Tat, B.A President of the local Chinesa Divi-Lodge T.S., gave a lecture

Confucianism."

براد

TREBITSCH "LINCOLN.

Arrival in Peking Under Another

Name.

THE GALE DISASTER OFF GALWAY.

FORTY-SEVEN THOUGHT TO HAVE PERISHED.

London, Oct. 31.

It is now feared that the num ber of men drowned in the disas ter which befell the dishing fleet off the west coast of Ireland on on Friday night, Is 47.

Troop Movements. One regiment of, the 1st sion of the 13th Nationalist Army (formerly the 14th Army) left here for Woosung to strengthen the defence of the fort. The 1st Division of the 17th Army station- od at Quinsan passed here on their way to Kiangyin, at which point they would immediately cross-the once said of, the Christian Sqrip helpless against the wind and river to join the Northern camtures by a devotee that they con- WAYCA They were manned by paign.

tained shallows in which a child crews of from five to eight. could wade and depths in which When the mon set out the a giant must swim, A similar weather was fine. Father Quinn, fucianium, for some of its teach listening in on his wireless set, statement might be made of Con- the parish priest of Lachan, ing are so simple and so practi- received a warning of the coming Peking, Oct. 31

31eal that any person of average in- saild, but the. Lachan fishermon Bea.British It is confirmed that Trebitschtelligence can understand and were already at Lincoln is here at the Hotel Dun- follow them, while others are so Wireless. ford under the name of H. Ruh. lofty, so profound, that the "ablest -Reuter.

strains his intellect to contain them and sinks exhausted in the The Dollar Line agents effort. By the former are meant nounced that the schedule of all the general ethical teachings con- round-the-world liners will be ad- tained in the Analects of Confu- vanced two days as from Shang- cius, and by the latter the abstruse hair Ilongkong and Manila, com metaphysical subtleties of the mencing with the President Polk Peking. Oct. 26. The reports concerning the esnese, the "Yi King," one of the This is intended to give a longer Canon of Changes, called in Chi- from Hongkong on November 22. tablishment of a Directorate of classics that Confucius edited stay in Singapore, but the sail- Posts at Nanking independent of and amplified it the closing period inga from that port and all others that at Peking have been confirm of his life. ed, though it is not known what

on the westward run will remain functions it will assume in netual

as heretofore., practice.

Two Irish Free Stato aeroplanes He said, in brief: Twenty-four wore to-day searching the coast centuries and more have rolled of Galway Mayo, and Connemara away sinee Confucianism came to for the codies of the victims of China as adequate philosophy, an the gale. all-embracing ethic and a most in-The craft used by the fishermen fluential state-religion. It was wore rowing boats, and they were

POST OFFICE THREATENED.

Nationalists', Independent

Directorate.

As the Post Office has very large obligations to the public in ro spect of the money-order service and savings bank, it is generally feared that the establishment of a second Directorate will weaken public confidence in the south in these services,

His Life.

Utopian Ideal.'

un-

After

Confucius was born in the year 551 B.C. at a time when the Feudal continual sacrifices of the family System of China, established life, springing from love and ren- several centuries earlier by the dered joyful by affection, the self Founder of the Chow dynasty, was feels itself a larger self, and showing unmistakable signs of reaches a sense of unity with disruption and, decay. The cohe- those immediately around. sive influences had given way, and the family comes the public life the central government lost all the life of the community, the life In view of the fact that the effective control over the vassels of the nation. "The moral life Nationalist Government has up to of the various states, who were of man may be likened to travel- the present refrained from inter-soon embroiled in perpetua! feudsling to a distant place; one must fering in the central control of and struggles among themselves, start from the nearest atage. It the Post Office, it is generally besides being usually at logger- may also be likened to ascending thought that they cannot realise heads with their parent dynasty. a height; one must begin from the seriousness of the present' Thus, during the seventy-three the lowest step.". A bad husband step, which, the opinion is ex years of the life of Confucius or a bad son will dever make a pressed, will result in a break- and for many years after his real lover of his nation. down of the postal service in the death, disturbances were rife and Houthern aren and eventually military operations well-nigh in- throughout tha whole country; cessant throughout the length and

The Confucian conception of an while, in view of the stipulations breadth of China. In the midst ideal world is expressed in a chap- of the Washington Conference, of the prevailing disorder, Confu-ter of the Li Ki, the Book of Rites. uch a step would affect the poll eius found it not only necessary in it Confucius said. "When the tical honour and prestige of but imperative to oppose the dan- Great Principle, the Ultimate Chinn.

gerous tendency toward decentra-Truth, prevail, a public and com ization, and to uphold the sumon spirit will rule over the world, preme authority, of the emperor as people will elect men of talents, against his too powerful vassals. virtue and ability; they will talk But knowing the futility of PIC-about sincere agreement, and cul- tests unbacked by force, he kept tivate universal peace. Thus men himself aloof for the most part, will not regard as their parents, and devoted himself to study and only their own parents, nor treat In connixion with the Ling Nam teaching, gathering as many as as their children only their own case which came before the Bank-three- thousand disciples and children. A competent provision rupley Court on Saturday last, in seventy-two devoted ones around will be secured for the aged, till which a former Compradare of the him. In 501 B.C. at the age of their death, employment for the ss. Link Nam had a receiving fifty, Confucius at last made his middle-aged, and the means order made against him, and in entry on, the political stage by ac-growing up for the young. The which, it was stated that he had capting the governship of a widowers, widows, orphans, child- been unable to collect monies due small town in his native state of less men, and those who are dis to him' from the owners, it should. But he resigned after a few abled by discase, will all be suffi be made clear that the owners re-

brilliant years of office Then ciently maintained. Each man ferred to were the defract Chun followed his many years of home will have his rights, and each Wah Navigation Company and not less exile,, danger and hardships, į woman her individuality safe- the present owners of the vessel. State after state he wandered in guarded.

#

LING NAM CASE.

AN EXPLANATION.

MR. AMERY'S TOUR IN AUSTRALIA.

DISCUSSES IMPERIAL

QUESTION.

Last week, was gratifyingly free from the incidence of notifiable dis- cases, the only fresh cases to be reported being two Chinese cases of typhoid fever. There were three deaths from the disease during the His Teachings. *, **** period. During yesterday, two further cases were notified to the authorities.

of

search of a prince who would In conclusion the lecturer said, sympathetically adopt his politi"The above condition of Extreme cal principles and measures for Peace was the final aim of Con- ameliorating the conditions of the fucius, the Golden Age of Confuci- time. But very bitter indeed was unism. It reminds us of the words his disappointment. Not only of Tennyson in "Locksley Hall":" were his principles coldly accept-

When the war drums throb no ed, but his very life was actually

longer and the battle flags are Lion, Oct 31. jeopardized on several occasions.

furled. Mr. Amery, the Dominions Secre- After thirteen years of travel, he

In the Parliament of men, the tary.. hak conferred with the roturned to his native state, worn

federation of the world. Cabinet of Victoria, Australia. out by privations and anxieties. ceived by Confucius thousands of

"This Utopian age, so wisely con-: The chief subjects under discus-Then, the vision of a mighty duty years ago, is not distant from us. sion were migration, and the en- to be fulfilled for future genera- Has not the League of Nations corragement of the use of Austra- tions dawned upon him, and with been formed to turn the attention lian products in Britain.British heart and soul he devoted the re- of all nations of the world towards Wireless.

maining years of his life to literary that higher ideal, that Par Cos- labours, which were the and compiling of the canonienlosophical Society been established editing mopolitana? Has not the The- books of the ancient rulers and with the object of spreading peace the penning of the "Spring and and Autumn Annals of Lu."

harmony. among man- kind? Has not the Prince of Peace Himself, the Lord of Love and Compassion, al- The moral touchings of Confu- ready come to our world to es- clus are neither utilitarian on the tablish His Kingdom of Happiness one hand nor religious on the on earth, and to restore peace and other, that is to say, they are not righteousness among the weary based on the expectation of profit nations? Living to-day at the or happiness to be gained either beginning of this wonderful age, in this world or the next. Virtue witnessing the many happy signa for virtue's sake" is the maxim of the realization of the long- which served as the corner-stone cherished ideal of Confucius, I of his ethics, distinguishing Con- cannot help turning my heart and fucianism from the other religions soul with the sweetest love and of the world. In many religions highest admiration to him, who there is a question of reward and has been so truly described by Prof. recognition or punishment and the wisest and most consummate Giles as 'the prince of philosophers, discouragement. Even Buddhism of sages, the loftiest moralist, the holds out the hope of Nirvan to most subtle and penetrating intel- the pure of heart; and preaches lect that China has ever seen.' the long torment of successive re- births to those who fall short of the Mean?" All-embracing and In the words of the "Doctrine of perfect goodness. But in Confu- vast, Confucius is like the sky. cianism is found à different un-Deep-centred, he derstanding of life, a different Wherever ships and carriages like the abyss. purpose, a different ecstasy and reach, wherover the strength that is that a man should cult of man penetrates, vate virtue for its own sake and the sky covers and the earth its own value and not in order to supports, wherever be rewarded or recognised.

sun and moon shine, wherever frost, and

The only thing some women don't know is why they married..

wherever

The manifestation of the love dew fall, all who have blood and aspect of a man's nature begins breath unfeignedly honour Him. with the love for parents, and Hence it is said, 'He is the Peer of hence family Ufo is the first school God"." for spiritual unfolding; for in the

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