Fatal Consequences of Armed Gang's Clash with, Police The busy corner at-Nanking. and Chakiang Roads on Tuesday night' witnessed.a shooting affray that! took. the lives of two Chinese des-paradoes, wounded two companion and also wounded three Chinese civilians as well as one C.P.C. who intercepted the quartette. None those wounded are in a serious condition.
The trouble started when the four! Chinese bad been: followed by two! C.P.C's who suspected them of be-jing armed. On drawing near. the corner of Nanking Road two additional C.P.C/s joined the group and plans were laid to accost the four fand_search them.
'The.quarry, however, suddenly turned abruptly and opened fire at' the police from almost point blank range. The followers immediately responded and then started a shooting orgy that sent pedestrians scurrying for cover and called.in the help of the policeman in an adjacent traffic tower who. used his!
gh station as a. point of vantage from which to engage himself in pistol practice with the four as the' target.
The upshot was that two of the quarry were killed, two escaped, one C.P.C. was [and three Chines i pened to be in the. vicinity were hit by bullets from the melee.
Service on the Majestic Lawn The old adage of "the ill wind" was recalled by many yesterday! when the Fourth Regiment Church, U. S. Marines—foreed to find a new location for one Sunday—held its morning service on "the. Majestic Lawn. There is no'spot in the city more conducive to praise and worship of God than this quiet park with its border of stately trees. The interest in the new "Marine Church shown by the management in making no charge for the Igwn was greatly appreciated.
Plans have ben made for special services during the autumn and early' winter, among them being Navy Day in October, Armistice and Thanks-November, and very special attention is to be given to the Christmas programme. Next Sunday the, church will be held im its regular place, the Embassy Theatre, 126 Bubbling "Well Road.
The Pioned@® of Life Taking as his text Acts 3:15, 16 and 5: 30,21, Moffatt's translation, the Regimental Chaplain said in part: 18 Jesus as "the This is one of the remarkable insights in his translation.
What does that word mean? When you think of "pioneer" what are your mind pictures?—Don't you think of Marco Polo visiting "far off" Cathay; of Columbus braving the supposed dangers of the Atlantic; of Wilkins and Peary' and, Amundsen in the—frozen reaches of: the Pole; of Shackleton and Scott and Livingstone and Lewis-and Clark and Byrd and lindberg? All. of them were pioneers; and pioneering means adventuring.
Yet in the quieter walks of life] there are pioneers. I do not know any vocation or any phase of life] in which that is better exampled than in medicine.
In the annals of medicine we read of Jenner and Kis work in vaccines; of Trudeau and his fight against the ravages of tuberculosis; and of Pasteur, the quiet, unassuming Frenchman, giving his discoveries to the world: in corder that life might be saved and lengthened.
The Adventure of Religion And the same giiing is true in religion. Some. say that if there is anything in the World that has, adventure" in it that: is religion. Such speak without, equate experience. Real religion, is crammed "full of adventure and there "is room for ficent pioneering, for religion deals. with fertile field for work as a pioneer than in the field of racial contacts, We are at present doing duty in 5 oF 48 we say on "the Sometimes we fu disdain. Yet God, was an Asiatic, born on the same continent on which we find ourselves at this moment. His, glory, of course, is that He can fit Himself into any civilization without losing His essential identity. yet no civilization can entirely contain Him.
Most of us belong to the U. S. Marines, an organization that! prides itself on being-the "first to fight." We sing that we have fought for homeland "from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli." A great many of us enlisted in the _Marine Corps not for the money that we could make out of it but because we felt that Jadventure lurked. just round the
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