The Archive · 1933

Japanese Vessel Looted

Chair in Chinese for Professor Rev. F. B. Turner a Resident of White Russians Carried off Moule China since 1887 by Soviet Fae Ock Own Connesroxsest Peking, July 7.

Harbin, July 7.

Hangchow, Che., July 6.

The death occurred in Tientsin Another outrage by Soviet officials The new professor of the Chinese today of the Rev.

"B. Turner, one Iwas reported yesterday in a des-language at the Cambridge Uni-lof the oldest British missionaries in patched from s. Heian Maru, a reversity has a very vital connection China. search ship, on the Sungari' rive with Hangchow, and the recent a ointment' hes' brought pleasure! lie had been in north China since Reports indicated that the Doz and retired a year ago.

Maru, a freighter, which left Jand admiration ton wide' circle of} cently, he returned from Englanc bin on June 9 for Hulin and was friends. to settle down in China. reported to have been missing since, The Rev. Arthur Christopher! iwas raided by a Soviet man-of-war Moule, M.A is an old Hangchow Deceased is survived by his wife shortly after she left Harbin. boy, for he was born in the Masu-_ and son.—Reuter.

The cargo was looted and about hang, in the year 1873. Tt was in ten White @ussians among the mem-this "quaint corner of the city that} bers of crew were taken away. The his father, the late Rt. Rev. G.

Harbin Navigation Protective, So-Moule, D.p., laid the foundations of strawberry. Loads are brought ciety to-day reported the affair to Christian work in connection lover the Hsihsing ferry dail from ithe Manchuokuo Government and the Church Missionary Society, the county of Sha demanded immediate steps against time when Hangchow was a Turned for this pleasant berry.' For over and desolate city due to the activi. thousand years, this county has been the Soviet" Government.—United ties of the devastating hordes of] renowned for the manufacture of Harbin, July 7. the Taiping rebels, Dragon lanterns and Tantern The Manchoukuo diplomatic re-Tn_his carly teens, Mr. Moule makers hailing from this place are presentative to-day filed a strong continued his education at' King's to be found in almost every town in protest with the Soviae Consul College, Canterbury, the province.

'They have the secret regarding the matter and the Soviet quently' entered Trinity. College, the trade and certainly turn out Consul has promised to investigate Cambridge. After ordination, dainty and jeturesque paper lamps. the matter—-Reuter, spent some years of missionary Li in the province of Shantung, under the auspices of the 8 i to England he cent ministry and latterly was presented, to the Vicarage of Trumptington, jon the outskirts of Cambridge, by!

Trinity College.

'A born scholar, tactically all his his first love for the Chinese and their classical lore. He isthe author of several including the book published in recent days. Christians in China before 1850" This. volume is a valuable piece of research and th ed the Stanilas Julien prize, sented by the French Academ:

For many years, the Chair of Chinese has been ' filled by that renowned sinologue, H. A. Giles, and. now Cambridge honours a worthy, successor in whose laurels Hang-Jchow delights to claim a share. It is interesting to know that the Chinese professorship is one of the four chairs founded with the help of grants from the Universities China Committee, a statutory body. administering a part of the Boxer, Indemnity.

Hangchow continues to be hot and steamy. The tea shops are crowded and the, innovation of "Soft drink parlours" is growing in ice-cream freezers are all these days, and there is quite a jeraze for light refreshments and sparkling drinks which tingle on the tongue.

Dense crowds flock to. the gardens the cool of the evening. it is a throng, in tune with the lake ide, and with a happy forgetful ness of the daily round, If Paris Jeould only meet this West Lake bevy of young life, feeling 0! superior in their winsome silks and one wonders What would be 'The latest style of Chinese ladies dress compels attention and gives Miss China that patrician appearance, and glow of satisfaction. Most of! the conversation is about clothes and "boy friends" and they' love to be chaperoned by some; spruce officer decked in regimentals.

One class of shop in Hangchow! whose business does not seem to suffer is the tailor. The Hangchow tailor seems to be an enthusiastic expert for he shade" and of fainly, some' of the products snappy and catch the eye and 30) "Heaven below" continues to set! the pace for fashion.

"The police are in their summer! uniform and look very neat in their: white drill "shorts." On point duty, the men are supplied with, waler flask and a Red Cross bag containing a small outfit for emergency. Traffic duties do not seem to be so heavy these hot days but] there is a steady flow of passengers rushing through to Mohkansha The Ca-operative Society movement: is taking root and streamers pnounce, the annual conference, During the past weeks several exhibitions of Chinese art have been sponsored by interested—groups anxious to make a ready sale. most of the paintings and drawings there was nothing of a very high order, "It was quite evident that, When Fortune bestowed her gifts upon artists, scrae of the exhibitors did not' happen tobe there. to anc Buddhist and other paintings went

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