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SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1928.

PLEA OF DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY.

CLAIM AGAINST. GERMAN EMBASSY OFFICIAL.

THE ADVERTISING OF CHRISTIANITY.

WHAT IS BEING DONE IN JAPAN,

The House of Lords has allowed Half of Japan's population of 84 the appeal of Horr Hermann millions is still rural, and according Gustav Constantine Engelke, who to a recent enquiry 90 per cent. of claimed that, being in the service this farmer population lives in dis- of the German Ambassador, he triets in which at present there is. was entitled to exemption from ano Christian church. .Theoo suit for arrears of rent..

farmers, like the rest of Japan's people, may be taken as being 100 per cent. literate.

The original suit was brought by Mr. Ernest Otto Paul Musmann to recovor £524 5s. Herr Engelke "These facts decided me in start- took out a summons asking that the ing newspaper evangelisation In proceedings be set aside on the Japan," said the Rev. W. H. Murray ground that he was Consular Secre- Walton, of the Church Missionary tary on the staff of the German Soelety in Japan, who has develop- Embassy in London, and that his ed on unusual piece of missionary name appeared In the Diplomatic work through the use of the Press. List issued by the Foreign Offico. Mr. Walton, who was formerly a Mr. Justice Shehrman made an study-secretary of the C.M.S. in Forder that Horr Engelke should at- London, and a curate at Christ tend for cross-examination on his Church; Beckenham, has just gone affidavit relating to his claim to home on furlough. diplomatic immunity: When the Mr. Walton did not make the mis- case was bofore the Court of Aptake of asking editors for free peal the Attorney-General, on be publicity. He took advertisement half of the Foreign Office, statod space, and' used it for short, well- that Herr Engelko had been ap- written statements about Christi polated a member of the staff of anity. the German Ambassador and had been received in that capacity by the British Government!

By a majority the Court of Ap- peal dismissed the contention that that Information was conclusivo..

Lord Buckmaster, moving that the appeal should be allowed, said that when a statement had been mude by the Crown, speaking through the Attorney-General, that a particular person at the critical moment was qualified to be on the Hist, it was difficult to see how it could be questioned, without the in- troduction of proceedings which, in the person of the Ambassador him- self and equally of his wife and family and staff, it would be unde- sirable to institute.

The Privilege.

It was, of course, obvious that the privilege claim had serious results, as It excluded from their remedies in the Courts the people with whom members of the Ambassador's staff might have incurred obligations, and it was possible that it was open Lo abuse.

"Since the earthquake we have concentrated mostly on the great national papers of Japan, like tho Tokyo Nichi-Nicht, with a cir culation of 700,000 in all parts of Japan, but we have also used smaller papers with great success. Wo taken amali advertisement space with room for thirty lines 14 fiches wide. Here we print a brief article, if possible related to some topical happening, and at the end offer to send interested readers some literature about Christianity.

Religion by Correspondence..

In less than three years we have had 17,000 applications for litera ture, ench article producing on an average about a hundred requests. Each applicant gets some litara- ture, according to his special needs, on subjects like "The Social Ap- peal of Christianity, 'Christianity and the National Life, "The Bible,' and, if he wishes to pursue his en- quiries further, he may become n member of the New Life Society (the attached to the Selkokat Anglican Church in Japan). If he where there is an But it would indeed be unfor- is in an area tunate if, after recognition had been Anglican Church or, falling this, afforded by his Majesty through the another Christian church, he ia put Foreign Office to people as holding into touch with the local body; but such posts on

the Ambassadorial if he is entirely, isolated he can be staff as entitled them to the privi-gin a twenty weeks' correspondence lege, and a statement as to their course, beginning with a general position had beph afforded on be- study of religion, and then on to half of the Crown, through the the character of Christ," Attorney-General, I was to be dis regarded by the Judiciary, for in such circumstances the ensuing con- test could not possibly inure to the public good..

Viscount Dunedin, and Lords Phillimore, Blancsburgh, and Warrington of Clyffe concurred, and the appeal was allowed,

GERMANY'S VIEW OF

THE MARNE.

"TRAGEDY" OF COMPLETE MISUNDERSTANDING.

Berlin, July 18,

To all that has been written on the Battle of the Marne is now added an account, in four volumes, of Germany's official history of the battle. It may be taken to express fully and finally the German point of view.

Mr. Walion says he gets applica- Lions from all classes, but the majority are students and young farmers. "Experience shows me,' he said, "that it is easier to get really into touch with what the younger generation in Japan is thinking by correspondence than it is by conversation. There is much less shyness to be overcome in this method."

Members of the Society can bor- row books of many sorts, theologi- cal, devotional, cultural, sociologi- cal, poetry, and fiction. "Lives of Christ are the most in demand in the religious section," said Mr. Walton, "but 10 per cent. of all the books lent from the Bbrary those by Toyohiko Kagawa, the Christian labour leader and novelist. These include his 'Life of Christ,' hla sociological books, his poetry, and his stories.

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What Japan Reads. "Besides Kagawa's novels, thero is also a great demand for trans- In the summing up, the German lations of such books we John command is criticised with frank- Halifax, Ivanhoe,' and 'Quo Vadis.' rean, The saddest characteristic of I used to be told the Japanese were the whole "tragedy," the writersh dishonest that I should lose most finds, is that one can describe the of the library books," said Mr. entire battle without so much as Walton, "but, as a matter of fact, mentioning the Supreme Command, though we took risks, the loss has The responsibility for defest in been less than half of 1 per cent.' unburdened on to the shoulders of Talking of the public demand the Second Army commander, for booke, Mr. Walton Bays that in General von Bulow, who conducted Japan just now almost every con the battle not as a strategist, but chlvable type of book is being pub- as a mere tactician.

lished in 1 yen (2.) editions, For von Kluck, the First Army usually in subscription sets of 40, commander, and Baron von Hausen, lesued at the rate of three a month. the Third Army commander, the He displayed a big advertisement of writer has high praise.

"Library of Humour containing Coming to the trials of Septem-the works of Japanese humorists. ber 9, he describes how, while the Other series are on law, for chil- Guards, Corps commander was dren, poetry, sociology, religion, thinking of nothing but the victory science, and fiction. The last in- which he saw approaching on his clude Wells, Conan Doyle, and front, General von Bulow was bent G.B.S., but he does not recall having on retreating from an enemy who seen Edgar Wallacef" proved not to be there. General von Bulow had ordered the Guards Corps to attack Sezanne with all energy,

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General Misunderstanding, "The troops thought that this was the signal for a decisive victory. They redoubled their efforts; the defeat of the enemy was becoming ever more pronounced. Little did they imagine that all their herolem was a cover for a withdrawal.”

The writer expressca astonish ment that in an age of wire and wireless, of automobile and aoro plane, no sort of consultation be tween the First and Second Armies was oven attempted

"In train and tram nowaday," he said, "you ace as many Japaneso reading these books as you see read- Ing newspapers."

In his newspaper evangelisation work Mr. Walton has the assistance of the Roy, M. S. Murao, a Toronto First Clads Honoura Graduate, who has just been commissioned by a big non-Christian firm of Japanese publishers to write two books on the Sermon on the Mount for one of thair theological series. He has also the help of a Japanese news- paper éditor who lost his position Bome years ago because he became a Christian.

"Only when the order to retreatcision to rotreat.Not till 1.80 in had been given and the fact com- the afternoon did the Third Arnly municated to the First Army was commander hear of this decision the question raised as to the post- by intercepting a wireless message tion of that army-three days late from the Second to the First Army. as it was mowith this conflict between "It was the same with the Third | general and troops there was no Army, to whom General von Bulow solution of the drama but did not even communiente liis de- - catastrophe."!

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