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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CHRISTMASTIDE IN HONGKONG.

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He sent forth His spirit into the hearts of men, enabling them to realise what sonship meant.

Catholic Cathedral.

The full ritual of a Pontifical High Mass was held at the Roman Catholic Cathedral during the midnight service,

His Lordship Bishop Valtorta ofleinted, assisted by the Church Vestry, and later preached a short] sermon on the Nativity of Christ. The full choir of the Cathedral led in the singing, the chanting of the "Adeste Fideles" being a notable feature of the service.

The Cathedral was thronged to overflowing by a vory devout con- gregation.

Similar servicea were also held at St. Margaret's Church at Happy Valley, and the Rosary Church in

in Kowloon.

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Moss was also celebrated Christmas morning in all the Catholic Churches of the Colony.

Union Church.

The Christmas morning service nt. the Union Church was conduct- ed by the Rev. F. C. Young, Mr. R. MCA. Keown fuely rendered the solo "Nazareth.”

The Minister preached from the words "There was no room in the inn." This, he said, had al way struck him as one of thu | most pathetic things about the Christmas story.. That there should be no room in the Inn, no room in the world for. the infant Jesus, was surely one of the sal

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26,

FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDENT.

U. S. NAVAL OFFICER DIES

. IN PHILIPPINES.

MISHAP WITH A GUN.

LOCAL RADIO.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

The programine to be.broadcast by G.O.W. on 300 metres to-day is as follows:

1.48, p.m.-Weather Report. 748 p.m.-Evening Weather Re- porl

Manila, Dec. 19.

.8 p.m. to 10.30 pm-Evening Lichtenst B. W. Schumaker, Programme, (Victor Records) (S. C.) U.5. Navy, stationed at the "Blue Danube" Waltz-piano- Cavite Navy Yard, died at Canncaoferte solo by Josef Lhevinne. Naval Hospital at 4 o'clock yester "Romance in F." Beethoven.- day morning as a result of acciden-Violin solo by Jacques Thibaud: tal shooting at his quarters at the yard late on Monday evening.

Lieutenant Schumaker had receiv ed orders to reurn to the United States on the army transport Grant, sailing from Manila' - on January 16.

Preparatory to packing, their household effecta, Lieutenant and Mrs. Schumaker had been oiling various metal possessions. Upon completing the oiling of her sewing machine, Mm, Schumaker retired, leaving Lieutenant Schumaker oil- ing a gun.

A few moments later a shot rang out and, upon investigation, Lieutenant Schumaker was found badly wounded.. He was rushed to the Canaca Naval Hospital where he died early yesterday morning.

on duty at the Supply Department Lieutenant Schumaker hins been

at Cavite for the past year. He is survived by his widow and a son,

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QUIET DAY AT·

KOWLOON.

MAGISTRACY.

dest facts in history. Someone ONLY THREE CASES AT THE missed a great opportunity for hospitality that night. Yet not on that first Christmas Eve alone, but

The holiday atmosphere pervad-

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"Love's Nocturne" and "Seren- ade."-Beniamino Gigli, tenor.

"Angela Guard Thee" and "Mur- muring Breezes."-Leonard Gow- inga, tenor,

"Minuet" and "Nocturne," Rence Chemet, violin solo.

"The Vagabond King" and "Lady Luck.” (Vocal gems)-Light Opera Company.

"The Pilgrim'e Song of Hope" and "March on a Theme of Han- del."-Arthur Meale, organ solo.

"The Blue Mazurka" and "The Desert Song." (vocal gems).- Light Opera Company.

"Hamlet's Soliloquy" (Hamlet) and "Gloucester's Soliloquy" (Henry VI.).-Dramatic Reading by John Barrymore.

"Slander's Whisper," Barber of Seville.-Feodor Chaliapin.

"Konzertstuck" and "Concer tino."-John Amadio, flúté'

"Kathleen Mavourueen" and "Love's Old Sweet Song."-John, McCormack.

"Waltz" (Debussy). "La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin," "Scherzo,' (Impromtu). Jascha Heifetz, vio- tin.

"""Prophecies", and "I'm Blase.”—

Norman Lon, humourist.

News Bulletin, Dance Music. God Save The King. Close Down.

in more modern days others.mias-ed the Kowloon Magistracy this ed the same opportunity.

morning, when Mr. E. W. Hamiltoji had only two enace in which delin- BIRTH CONTROL VAN, Kucking at the doors of life quents were arrested on Christmas: enntinually there were demands Day. A third case which came for admission Yet, us year follow-before his Worship concerned an ed you, folk/seemed to get further offence which was committed on away from the simple things and Christmas Eve. life became more complicated and. When the rame of a Chinese who disturbed.

As year followed year, childhood was left farther and farther in the past, folk became more prosale, more commonplace and dull. Sometimes cyniciam and despair crept in and they were well on the way to being aceptical. Faces be- came hard and act. Life held few surprises: disillusionment might be writ large aeross life.

Childhood had gone, and with it, the fairies and Santa Claus: they had faded in the light of coming day.

was charged with hawking on Monday without a licence was called, no reply was received, and the man's ball of $5 was estreated.

In the second case, an elderly Chinese was charged with begging in Argyle Street on Christmas Day The defendant pleaded guilty and was fined $5. Sergeant Hur- greaves informed his Worship that the defendant had been sent away three weeks ago.

Sentence of six weeks' hard labour was imposed on a Chinese who was charged with stealing a foot-rule from a man in Shang- "It all comes about," said the hai Street. It was given in preacher, · "because we persuade evidence that the defendant was ourselves that there is no room-seen by a district watchman to no room for the simple but car-steal the rule from the complain- dinal things of life. We must ant's pocket. continually guard against this mood.

"I suspect that in a Colony like i this it is sometimes difficult to persunde oneself that Christmas la really here. It is my first Christmas. here and I find it so

OR

THE MURDER OF A PRIEST.

COMMUNIST.

Paris, Nov. 19. The police are searching for an Italian miner, named Bartolomei, notorious Communist agitator, in connexion with the murder of the Abbe Cesare Cavaradorasi at Joeuf,

INDIGNANT WOMAN WHO SAID SHE SET IT ON FIRE,

Elizabeth Ellis, aged 34, a con- Springhead-rond, fectioner, of Bradford, was charged at Bradford recently with netting fire to caravan owned by the Society for Constructive Birth Control.

The charge was reduced to one of malicious damage, and Ellia was fined 10s., with 10s damage, the alternative being 11 days' Imprisonment,

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Mr. R. S. Bishop, who prosecuted, said that the caravani had been in various parts of the country and was in charge of two certifiented midwives. On a Saturday morning it was found that the window had been broken and paraffin pou side and set alight. Ellis called at a police station and said, "have set fire to the Birth Contral yun." On the charge heing reduced Ellis pleaded guilty, and when ask ed If she would undertake. not to do it again said; . "I shall do it if the woman fa not denit with. I broke the law, but I broke it against some- body who was breaking the law." The Magistrate asked who was "the woman," and Ellis replied, "Marie Stopen."

The Magistrate-She was not in

the caravan.

The Police Surgeon said that Ellis had a strong sense of indignation that pamphlets on birth control were circulated among unmarried

women.

Ellis refused to pay the fine, but a police officer said her sister had offered to pay.

CROSS ROADS SMASH.

DRIVERS WHO ACCELERATED AT THE SAME TIME,

There are so many factors which POLICE SEARCH FOR ITALIAN make it difficult. The season is a little out of its setting. Most of our friends are in the Homeland; our family ties call our thoughts across the wastes of land and water to Home. It is difficult to persuade ourselves that it is real ly Christmas with the thermometer at sixty in the shinde. Here it is near Metz. not. Christmas-Card Yuletide.

It is now believed that after "Yet, after all, what do these murdering the priest, the same man things really matter? The Christ- wont to the house of an Italian mas mood, while helped by these Fascist, Ferrarl, smashed a window external things, is not dependent pane with his revolver and fired them. The Christmas spirit at him, without effect. The bullet breaks the bounds of geography found is of the same kind as those. and the rules of meteorology; it used by the senssin of the Abbe. tramples down the barriers of

The Black Cross, time and space; for it is an atti- Lude of the heart, a bright mood of

A verdict of accidental death The Abbe was loved by many the soul. This spirit defies separa- members of the Italian colony, and was returned at the inquest at tion, for it is born of an unbreak- his waiting-room was always crowd- Benson (Oxfordshire) on the three able hope and confidence in the ed with people anxious to receive victims of the car smash on the his advice. The assassin dashed main Henley' and Oxford Satur- a recent "To put it scripturally, there is into the priest's study, and a few rond either no room in the inn for the seconds later three shots were day-Mrs. Mabel Frances Wil Christ spirit, or there in a glad heard. Then he rushed out, shout-Hama, aged 66, of Ipsden, Ox- fordshire; Mrs. Jane Ethel Delap and joyous welcome.

ing:- “You can go in now." "This is the glory of Christmas The Abbe, owing to his ministra aged 61, of Carrickmines, County morning that we turn away from tions, was in constant touch with Down, Ireland; and the chauffeur,

James Smith Fosten, of Ipaden. hopelessness to hope; we obliter- the Italian Consulate, which ate the things that worry and de- doubt gave rise to the impression press and find our way home to that he was an active Fascist, life's sweet almplicities.

Several months ago, says a Reu- "Once in days gone by a Jewish ter message the Abbe found mother was turned away from an black cross marked on his door, Eastern inn; the inn was over-

which in Corsica and certain parts crowded: a Babe was rejected. It of Italy is a death warrant chalked is a parable. On this Christmas up by an enemy,

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morn we have the alternativo of receiving into our own. lives the

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Mr. Victor Horsman, the Brook- lands racing motor-cyclist, who was driving the other car, sald that he was on his way to Leam ington and when he got to the Ewelmé cross roads he saw the car driven by Fosten coming down La lane at a docent speed," They slowed down in order to allow each other to pass, and both acce- lerated at the same time, ench

The collision, he thought, was one which neither of them could have avoided.

Christ Child, the Spirit of Love, into our own lives the real Spirit thinking the other was giving way,

of Sympathy, of Generosity. Lives of Goodwill?"

may be too full, crowded out by thought of self, by worries about our own possesalons, our stocks and shares, and cares, for bar solves alone.

St. Peter's Church.

The anniverary of the birth of Christ was ushered in by a fairly

A naval wireless message from large congregallon at St. Peter's Nanking states that on Christmas "Is it really true? Or is there Church, West Point, where a mid-Day the Chinceo gunboat Cho Yu not room in these over-driven night choral eucharist service was rehoisted the flag of the Rear lives of ours for a care that athers conducted by the Rev. N. V, Hal-Admiral. The French despatch: may be happy, a thought that those ward, who in a short sermon said vessel Marine saluted the Chinese who are lonely may find a friend, that Christmas was always a580 fing with 21 guns, the Cho Yu re- that those who know little of this clated with happiness. He then turning the salute. The Marine world's comforts shall be aware went on to explain how spiritual then saluted the French Minister, Tof them because we have welcomed happiness could be attained,

who left for Peking,

1928.

THE "IT" GIRL HITS AGAIN! Happy, dashing, carefree Clara, the madcap of the screen in an intriguing story of Hawaii where she plays at the game of hearts with startling results

Guramount Picture

CLARA BOW

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WITH

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IN AN ENTIRE ORANGE OF PROGRAMME”

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THE HILARIOUS STORY OF "OLD BILL" AND HIS PALSFAMID THE BILLETS AND BULLETS OF WARI

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Old Bill

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The Better Ole

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AT THE

Directed be Charles Reisner

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