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Hunting THE HERRING

The Last Adventurers

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By Jerome Wills

(turst & Blackett, 151,)

E does not call himself a

sallor and he dislikes to bo called a fisherman. He wears no nautical uniform and very few nautical terms are heard on board liis little ship.

He is a trawlerman.

Unlike those

he describes as fishermen, his voyages are usually long, and he sets out cheer. fully in a small beat to battle with some

of the world's worst weather,

Clad in an old jersey, stucks and a cap, with a ridiculou little scarf round his throat, he will voyage anything from two to four thousand miles into the Arctic. Nearly tour thousand men from Hall and hundreds from Grimsby do a trip ikke this every three weeks just to bring back fish to the breakfast and dimer tables of Britain.

They are the last afventurers in a new age, und, as they allde away from the dish dock in the grey light of dawn, they bid a cheery "Good morning" to the dock workers, as if they were just starting a journey up to town from the suburbs.

hore tolk will tell you thin the Trawlermen make a good living. Many of thein do.

There are skippers whe earn thousand pounds. a year and drek brands who turn over five pounds a werk. But at what a costi

Go rocking about in the Arctic off the desolate and windswept coast of Bear Island or along the rocky craga of the Norwegian const, where the wind whines like, volgen in hell. Do it to the depths of winter, and you will gel a taste of what it is like The Day of Biscay and the Atlantic reem like duckponds in comparison,

the weather is good round the English coast and there are plenty of fish on the home market, all the work goes for little or nothing. They have travelled three thousand miles in the Aretic night to bring back "coals to Newcastle." Tough, but it in all la the Rfe of a trawlerman. Ont to 70 degrees North, and the devil take all shore jobs!

It seemed best to me to Jet Mr. Willis review this book for himself by quot- ing from the opening pages of his Bag of the trawlermen. The author made the trip to the Arctic, and they accepted him as one of themselves. Which means that he knows what he is writing about

Why fish felches much poor prices at times. Why it is necessary to go so far north. Why the Norwegians and our- heives quarrelled so much that the Foreign Office had to step in to pre

Why vent International incidents. Hull and Grimsby are so Jealous of each other,

All these questions are answered, and many more, in The Lost Adventurers. Whether you order fish and chips or Bale a la Botine Femme, you should read

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

AUGUST 9, 1937.

Hitler CHALLENGES

CHRISTIAN LIBERTY

by Arthur Porritt

Former Editor of the 'Christian World"

QUICK succession of smashing blows, evidently designed to bb knock-out blows, Is being directed by Herr Hitler and the Nazi Party at the German Evangelical

Church.

The arrest of Dr. Martin Niemoller was the cultaination of what has been described as a wave of arrests which has been proceed- ing for the last few weeks.

Over forty pastors are said to have been thrown into prison or sent to concentration camps.

Dr. Niemöller's arrest his ta sensational aspects. In a sense it is a challesure to all Christendom.

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For Dr. Niemöller is the lender those Protestant Evangelical Christians who have attracted world attention by their courage- ous resistance to the Nazification and Paganisation of Oerman Christianity. They alone have dared to resent the Nazl regime.

Dr. Niemöller, as their lender, is more than a national gure in Germany: he has become one of the best-known men in Christen- dom. He symbolises the cause of Christian liberty.

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has No preacher in Berlin greater eminence. In his Dahlem congregation are-or were-teve-

members of

German Government, Including Baron von Neurath, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Dr. Guertner, the Minister of Justice.

His war record as a submarine commander testifies to his patriot- ism and loyalty. He is not, in any He took no sense, an extremist. part in politics until the Church crisis arose.

His ministry is Biblical, exposi- tory. One might say that he is the Berlin equivalent of Canon Elliot in Or Dr.

Campbell Morgan, London.

The Bishop of Chichester, who knows Dr. Niemöller, describes him as a man whom any Christian might well be proud to count as a friend. "I have never." says Dr. Bell, seen a braver Christian, or a man in whom the lamp of faith burns more brightly."

Why, then, should this worthy Christian minister be in fall?

The answer is that he is resisting at all costs the avowed determination of the Nazis to compel the Church to submit to the control of the State and to reduce it to the same condition of abject " subjection that has been imposed in Germany on political parties, trade unions and youth organisations,

Totalitarianism is the annihilation of Uberty and even a Church must be allowed no freedom. For four years Dr. Niemüller has been lending a passive resistance movement of German Con- fessional Christians to this demand for submis- slon to Cæsar.

He has stood resolutely for freedom to preach the Gospel and for the equailty of baptised Jews with Gentile Christians; also he had stood like a rock against the new pagan State religion or racialism which substitutes Cermania for God and regards Christ as a public enemy.

Previous suspension from his pulpit and imprisonment for out- spokenness have not crushed Dr. Niemallera intrepid spirit. "We no more think," he said recently, "of arbitrarily eluding the grasp of the authorities than the Apostles did.”

Six days afterwards he was ar- Nested and is now awaiting "secret trial" on the charge of Incitement to disobedience of the Slate.

His ulterances, it is alleged. have provided foreign newspapers with material hostile to Germany. To lience him the Nazis deem it necessary to clap him in jail.

This arrest of Dr. Niemöller is only the sensational climax of re- pressive measures against the Church (Roman as well as Pro- testant) which have been ruth- lessly employed in Germany since the beginning of the Hitler regime. Roman Catholica and Lutherans are alike under fire.

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A year ago the flames of con- troversy seemed to be dying down -It looked as if the Nazis had de- elded, in the spirit of compromise. to yleid a measure of liberty of conscience to Christians in Oer- many.

But a fresh mood of malignant severity became manifest early in this year. Then Herr Kerr, who had been appointed Church minis- ter and practically ecclesiastical dictator, started dragooning tactics

once more.

DR. NIEMOLLER

arrested and taken to the Moabit Prison.

Under a law for the "safeguard- Ing of the German Evangelical Church" he was empowered to act by decree,

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To case the tension Herr Jer himself promised that a General Synod should be elected by a free vote to draft a new Church con- stitution.

Nothing has been heard since February of this promised election. No polling date has been-fixed-no indication has been given as to whether the vote shall be re- stricted to Church members or con- ceded to all nominal Christians. . Not without reason the Con- fessional Movement leaders aus- pect that Dr. Kerr intends to "fake" the election by springing It, without notice, upon the Church and by gerrymandering the elec- toral rolls, so that nominal church- men may swamp the Confessional members in the ballot.

But under a decree issued by Herr Kerri on June 29 the use of church buildings in connection with the election has been lor- the publication of bidden and leaflets or propagandist literature Is" verboten," too.

An arbitrary ban has also been pinced on the long-established custom of reading out during pubile worship the names of per-

especially A nine-years married English woman was offered

mothers, who talk of

going out to work again, I want to say: "Sit down and

do a little elementary arith-

a £3-a-week job, jumped at the chance, but

metic first to see if you can after three months'

afford the job!"

I have been married nine years and, I think, have been a good housekeeper. I have done all my own work, including washing, making Jams and marmalade, baking cakes and pies and making my own and the children's clothes. This has been from necessity.

Three months ago I was of- fered a job at £3 a week.

This

was tempting! I could sce a long holiday at the sea- side for all of us, now furnish- ings for the home, and a nicely growing account in the savings bank.

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three

montha

experience she says

I Can't Afford to Work

The tradesmen's books showed the

I have less in hand following weekly extras. than before, and last night I set down with all my tradesmen's books and accounts around me to find out where the money had gone.

Stockings

were a great expense.

I could wear darned ones at home,

but not at business, where my legs were on view all the time.

Dress Account (three months, Very modest, I think):

↓ a. d.

J. c.

Laundry

0 1 9

Windows (1s. per fort-

night)

0

D 0

Soap flakes (for wash-

ing up)

0

0 5

Kindling for fires

0 0 4

Business dress

to

Electricity

Butcher, baker, etc.

0 0 7 7.3

Shoes and repairs i Stockings (ale polra)

0 17

10 0

0 17 G

£3 0 3

£0 10 10

The largest item was the weekly wage of the woman who came work in the house for me. I could have had a young dally mu'd or a to live-in" for less, but the giri one couldn't cook and we haven't a apare room for the other, Besides,

I wanted someone reliable to leave

That works out at Bs. a week and That left me with 11s 144d. with my hair. (3s. 6d, a fortnight)

only 4s. 4d. out of my icaves glorious three pounds!

in charge in case one of the chil- week. dren should be 11.

So my budget began as follows:

Mrs. Taylor's 'wpages 15.0 Fares (self—1#...4

40 per day)

0 0

0

Lunches (stag lunch,

good value), is.

0

0

£1 18 0

That left me with £1 2s, a week.

The

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butcher's and baker's counts showed the largest increase.

This pitiful sum was swallowed up

Quickly cooked, and so more ex- in agent's fees, replacing breakages pensive, pieces of meat had to be at home, subscriptions at work and

longer in 1937 than in 19281), to "pass" the children as fit for school, to supervise their break- fast, to give my orders for the day and leave the house before 8 a.m.

In the evening, by the time the children were bathed and in bed, their clothes inspected and mended "bits" for the morrow, sundry washed and the menus decided for the next day, it was time for bed,

These

figures have amazed my husband, but they have taught both him and mo a lesson. We лош know my value in the home in hard cash. This week-end I hand in my notice.

I can't afford to go out to work. My place is in the home.

Caroline Brown

THAT

PICTURE

MAY WIN

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ordered and all cakes and plea were the difference in the cost of home- COMPETITION bought instead of being made at made and ready-made clothes for home.

the children.

were the THEN there

extra clothes I had to

See particulars

I HAVE lost financially]

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on another page.

and physically, too.

have. I had to buy a new dress had to get up an hour earlier to quickly as I had none sultable. got myself ready (it takes

song

who

seceded from

have church membership.

By another edict the collections taken among Confessional congre- gations are restricted.

in defiance of Herr Kerr's edict Confessional pastors peralstoll in reading out the names of sceeders, and it is for this offence that Dr. Nicmoller, Dr. Jakobi and other pro- minent Confessional movement pastors have been arrested.

One of the latest of Herr Kerry's decrees strikes at the financial basts of the Confessional Church.

The voluntary system, under which churches are sustained by the free-will offerings of their members has never taken root in Germany, Many German churches draw allowances from the State and from ecclesiastical taxes col- lected by the State.

This is the Achilles heel of the Confessional Church movement, and Herr Kerri has struck at this vulnerable spot.

By a decree issued on June 20, he has taken power for the Financial Department to decide how ccclesi- astical taxes and State allowances shall be allocated.

This means that he has the Con- fessional Church, financially, at his mercy. Bo another new instru- ment of pressure has been forged to coerce the Confessional Chris- tians into complete subjection to the Totalitarian State system.

And the Archbishop of York has committed himself to the view that "the logic of the Totalitarian State

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any necessarily hostile to religion based supposedly, on a Divine revelation."

So the issue in this German Church crisis is cleared and simpli- ned.

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The question at issue is whether German citizen is, or is not, to have not merely freedom of public worship but liberty to live the Christian life as he conceives it.

The conscience of the Christian world is being deeply stirred by these latest developments in the German crisis.

The Federal Council of American Churches--representing all the Protestant bodies in the United States has issued a manifesto de-

claring that there is no possible ground for doubt as to the hostility of the German Government to the life, the teaching, and the influ- ence of the Christian Church-in direct violation of those promises of protection for positive Chris- tianity which led so many loyal Germans to accept a regime which claimed

to have conquered

atheism."

Representative leaders of all Christian Churches (except the Church of Rome) in all countries in the world (except Germany), whose appointed delegates have beon refused permission to attend by their Government), are to dis- cuss, among other things, the Christian view of the State, the claims of the contemporary State and the Christian conception of freedom.

Is it possible-I hardly think it is probable that this Oecumenical Conference will give expression to the sense of moral outrage with which Christian people everywhere are viewing the deliberate attempt to substitute paganism for Chris- tianity in Germany?

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