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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1988.

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IS SPIRITUALISM A DELUSION?

A

CCORDING to Mr. panions. "Behold," we read in the Prophet Samuel, "there is a

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that hath a familiar secretary of the spirit at En-dor. Spiritualist Central Council, And do we not also read, "He.

there are 3,000 spiritualist descended into Hell?"

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He protests that it is "very mate verity I am not sufficiently unfair" of the B.B.C. not to presumptuous to

opinion as to whether this idea allow any of their services is the whole truth or merely a to be broadcast.

mystical way of translating the of conscience to our infinity necessarily finite minds.

Many men have told me: "Without my sure belief in an Even granting that the very after-life I should find it too plinth of our constitution is re- difficult to follow the dictates of ligious tolerance, I fail to see my conscience in this one." what good purpose could be Others, equally frank, have achieved by such broadcasts. admitted: "I am not entirely

Some form of survival after convinced that my own death is a tenet of every credal sonality will survive my body's

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munication between the dead lost soul without the teachings and the living-even if this be of my redal religion.”. possible is contrary to the Such men I can both admire Stubbs Rd. tenets and forbidden by the and as one-still searching for

teachings of most.

that solace which absoluto faith brings to a true believer envy. The mystic's way, my whole ex- porience of this life teaches me, is a happy way.

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938.

Many Consoled

the late MY friend

Arthur Conan Doyle tried his hardest to convert me

But the way of the spiritualist to his own fervent belief in at least, as I understand it spiritualism. Others have made is not the mystic's. It is the similar attempts. I can there- scientist's. He or she demands fore realise exactly how much proof-the dead shall not only the "spirit world" means to speak but become materialised. those who can convince them- selves of its reality.

And that there are both honest mediums and honest investiga-

tors of psychic phenomena, I ad-

mit.

exposed medium, who says:-

The "Proofs"

TABLES must

move.

トー

"and there will be an extra charge of 75 cents for lettuce for. the rabbits."

Poland Goes Down To

The

Sea At

GDYNIA

I saw 50 ships up to 14,000 tons

By********** displacement lying alongside

There must be photo-G. WARD PRICE graphs, taps, writings with pens

quays of a total area of 1,500 neres, with a depth of 36ft. be-

tween their water-line and the

bottom..

Gdynia has her own Thangat-

or pencils, and that cozy, palpa---|~j~|~|~|~|~|~|~!-÷÷÷÷6~K~i~{~++++++lantic passenger line running to

tive.

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North and South America.

coast.

EDUCATION FOR THE ARMY Hongkong is shortly to have a large and expensive military

ble, terrestrial substance known Let us further agree that cantonment in Kowloon Tong communications--whether

as "ectoplasm" for finite mani-

Gdynia, Poland. Forty thousand passengers move real festations of the truth. It is necessary in view of the or illusory-from their dead

Honest and presumably un-

THE world possesses in and out of her maritime sta- many who biased investigators of psychic

two increasing importance of this loved ones console

spick-and-span tion in the course of a year.

It has cost £12,000,000 to pro- cannot find consolation in ortho- phenomena have assured us, over Far East base and the very dox religions.

new seaports where,

considerable increase in gurrison

and over again, that such finite instead of rust, confusion vide Poland with her artificial port. The natural harbour for At the same time, neverthe- manifestations do occur. Conan and squalor, all is chromium this part of Europe is the splen- troops which is promised. But Icas, even the most obstinate Doyle, in one of his books, goes

plate, streamlining and did old Hanseatic city of Danzig, the most interesting feature of spiritualist must be with me even further. He relates a per-

at the mouth of the Vistula, 201 mediaeval the military programme is the when I state that fraudulent sonal meeting, in a hut on the modernity.

They are in different con- miles away. The modern school which the can-in our industrial north.

mediums are legion, especially west coast of America, between

himself and a long-dead relatinents, a thousand miles apart. black-and-white warehouses and tonment will boast, which be-

Both lie on closed seas instead of the huge brick towers of the an- You have only to meet the au- sides offering accommodation to thor of that remarkable revela- article about my own mother, wave over one

I myself, recently writing an the open ocean. Though palms cient "Crane Gate" in Danzig and pines over are testimony to the great mari- the children of the British tion of an industrial worker's who passed over in 1916, received the other, both rise from desert time traditions of the historic

life, "1, James Whittaker," to forces during their station here, realise how many poor people hers, which said, "I talked with of all-in both of them is Polish city, and as such was put under a letter from a living friend of sand, and-oddest resemblance port. But Danzig is a German will provide modern class-rooms are muleted of shillings they can

a special League of Nations re- freely spoken. for the instruction of young ill afford by the descendants of your mother only last night."

The writer of that letter was These ports are Gdynia on the gime when resuscitated Poland men of the Army as well. This Mr. Sludge, the poet Browning's convinced that she wrote the Baltic and Tel-Aviv in the was given her "corridor" to the is just one small part of the im-

truth. Thousands of other men Levant, and their similarity of Now the Poles say that the Now, don't, sir! Don't expose me! and women, some of very much tongue is accounted for by the mense Government programme

Just this once! This was the first and only time, r'u more than the average intelli-fact that Poland contains 3,500,- troubles which removed them for the better instruction of

swear...

gence, share her convictions. 000 Jews-one-sixth of all the from the map of Europe for 130 Then it's so cruci easy! Oh, those troops and is an indication of

All these say, in effect, "There professing members of that race years were primarily due to the fact that they had always "turn- tricks...

are no dead. Slowly but surely in the whole world--and a great ed their backs on the sea." That the recognition of the fact that Clearly no common conjurer's....

are bridging the gap be- many of them have found their

was a mistake they were deter- it is not the automaton which Dishosty and fraud apart. tween this world and the next way to Tel-Aviv in Palestine. mined to make no longer-so makes the best soldier.

however, can spiritualism help one. There

Join our ranks. Be en- Fifteen years ago Gdynia was they set themselves to build on LUCKY DOG !

the average workaday man and lightened. Be happy."

a village of 200 fishermen and the open, ahoal-infested Baltic Was a time, to be sure, when woman in this average workaday Truly enlightened? Or just their families, whose thatched shore a brand-new port of their HEALTHY DESPITE THE TROPI.

to world?

deluded by natural phenomena cottages were strung alone the own, which to-day shifts 10,000,- CAL HEAT. ALWAYS FULL OF Sergeant instructors used

which the scientist of the years sandy shore between the tree 000 tons of merchandise a year. ENERGY AND GOOD SPIRITS. bawl: "You ain't supposed to

Old as Mankind THRIVES UNDER ALL CONDI think. Just get on

with it."

to come will explain us casily covered dunes and the shallow

Universal rearmament is help- TIONS! WHAT'S THE SECRET And the same thing was said of

THE idea that our per- as he now explains the workings Baltic.

ing to build up the prosperity of sonalitics survive our of that cathode ray which is the OF HIS FITNESS? JUST SENSIBLE

Poverty To Riches Gdynia. I found its quaya piled FEEDING. A REGULAR DIET OF the British army in perhaps corporal bodies is as old as man- heart of the television camera?

high with the rusty scrap iron SPRATT'S THE BISCUITS THAT more clegant terms when the kind. Odysseus, in the Homeric ARE LIKED BEST BY ALL DOGS poet wrote: "Theirs not to rea- and talks with his dead

legend, visits the realms of Dis Kipling's Belief

Now most of those which has become by far its

fishermen are million- largest import. THAT MEAN HEALTH AND LONG

TRULY happy? Or mere-aires-in Polish zlotys, which, Most of it is of United States But the modern LIFE TO YOUR PET.

ly led up the garden being on a gold basis, are worth origin: old radiators from Ame- path of dreams by human sor-six times as much SPRATT'S HAVE A FEED FOR soldier, although he naturally

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is taught something more than this newly-created opportunity the desire-inherent in all of us do in England,

out-of-date industrial plant are Their fishing days forgotten, pouring into Gydnia at the rate his duty. He is an efficient cog

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Herring · Imports more and more upon petrol-too, as there always were, but own judgment as dictated to me and

other branches of the service, can only give my own view my

MUCH of this raw ma- rows of shops that now

terial is "in transit." power and, for that reason, on on a larger scale. One might by my own conscience.

occupy the formerly worthless mechanical efficiency. In the venture the guess that the last personal survivial, and not-asso recently they used to dry their which were labelled as consign- Even granting that there be ground belonging to them, where like cases of 20 large aeroplanes, I saw, lying on a dock, the hut-

army, as in every other modern great war taught the British many of the world's best brains nets.

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out of the ranks. The British man souls into one Infinite Be-mingled scrub and sand to-day destination may be farther on.

One square yard of that Estonia, though their ultimate efficiency, officers and men are Navy has long been aware of ing, I cannot bring myself to be fetches £8. The site for a villa required to specialise more and the value of the officer who lieve that mere human beings costs £1,000.

Germany, Denmark. and more If by means of educa- comes up from the lower deck. should attempt to bridge tho

Sweden all considerably surpass put Granted he is generally a stern gulf between this life and the the early thirties, told me that their vessels using the port of A Polish naval offlcer, still in Great Britain in the tonnage of a young soldier can

next. himself in the way of promotion disciplinarian and is not always

I believe with Rudyard Kip-destroyer in which he served the main British exports to Po- when he was a midshipman the Gdynia. Herrings. are one of it is an obvious advantage from as popular with the "troops" as ling: the personal point of view. It an officer who has always worn

Oh, the road to En-dor is the oldest used to lie three miles out from land, and a leading firm of Lon- a "fore-and-after" rig. But he

Gdynia, unable to come closer don herring merchants is build- is no less important from the is highly efficient and quite

inshore because there was no ing a large store there. standpoint of the General Staff, rightly highly respected. The

depth of water. would think. For if days of prejudice against com And nothing has changed of the cor

Everything Modern Private Wilks' can do the job of missions for Tommy Atkins,

THE chilling-sheds for

foodstuffs will take. Sergeant Weeks, and Sergeant too, are passing, if they have. For such as go down on the road to CRUISING now in the

yacht belonging to the 1,200 wagon-loads at once; the Weeks can do the job of some-not already gone forever. The

There is so much to be done director-general of the port, M. wheat granaries have a capacity body else a good deal higher in late goneral Sir Arthur Currie before the world, can be made Stanislaus Lengowski, around of 10,000 tons; coal, which is the unit, there is less danger of was a Canadian "volunteer," "and anything like a paradise for the the 700 acres of the harbour Gdynia's largest export, la not even a professional soldier average man and woman. Let basins, protected by break handled by a most modern outåt orror in omergency and better until 1914. Maybe Hongkong us hold our own earthly gates waters 24 miles long, and fit of belt-conveyors and wagon- prospects for the individual in will help produce a Hamilton or before we rashly attempt ted with automatic radio-ben- tips, while the shipping of lim-

Heaven's or Hell's. the future. The R.A.F. proba-a Haig or a Roberts,

(Continued on Page 5.)

one

road And the craziest road of all! Straight it runs to the Witch's

abode,

As it did in the days of Saul;

row in stora

En-dor.

1,500 Acres Of Quays

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