Noonday speakers: 2 Dr. H. G. C. Hallock, Re Small, Spurling and Rev.
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Fourth Marines Church.—A choral group of thirty girls from the Grace Yang School For Girls, under the direction of Miss Myra Bancroft Olive will sing at the Christmas services to be held at the Grand Theatre, Sunday, December 24, at 10 o'clock. They sing as their nest number, "Hymn Of The Nativity," by Stewart. Following toe Lesson irom the Scripiures, the eneral group sing a seres of well-known Selections, "The King Lays Down His Robe and Crown" and "Heaven is now With Gládness Ringing," both by Wareing. ìn conducting the morning worship, Chaplain B. R. Marken will deliver a Christmas message in keeping with the spirit of this occasion. Following the Sermon, a number of Christmas Carols wil! be sung. In parucipation of this annual event, the Regimental Band, plays as their first number, "Beneath me Holl" (A Selection of- Christmas Songs) by Then there are the poor sufferers who have lost home and all by fire. In several parts of the city and outside such fires have been started and always at night and the poor people find themselves out in the cold air with literally nothing but the clothes they were sleeping in. One cannot get enough to go round and so a whole family (seven, eight or even nine) have to do the best they can ith one mien-bi—with very few clothes, and in many cases not only suffer from the cold but have the pain of severe burns as well. It is heart-breaking to see the suffering of there are younger men and women some of the little ones.
To realize something of the suffering of the people at this time one need only look over the group of 200 or so, men and women, young and old, who come twice a week to hear the Gospel. There are rickshaw men, with barely strength to pull, valiantly carrying on; there are the blind (and these have increased greatly of late); the cripples (some are men taken for cocle work and badly treated). There is an old woman of 70 who has to move with a stool. Her bandaged head tells its own story. She was injured entering the city gate, not quick enough in understanding the sentry. There are other women with dreadful bruises on leg or arm for the same reasons, Saint Peters Church (Avenue Dubail) Tel. 80/25 Sunday: Masses at 5.16, 6, 7, 8 and 9.30 am. Benediction at 3.30 and 649 p.m. Weekdays: Masses at 515, 6, 645 and 130 a.m.
Saint Theresa's Church (370 Tatung Road) Tel. 39359 Sunday: Masses at 7 and 830 am. Benediction at 4 p.m.
A motorcar crossing the bridge at the time was hurled into the Seine.
Some 30 people in all also were thrown into the cold waters, but heroic rescuers, regardless of danger, plunged in to save eight of them and the rest managed to scramble ashore themselves.
Our Lady's Church (694 Baikal Road) Benediction 4 p.m.
Weekdays: Masses at 6.45 a.m. 8 a.m. Weekdays: Masses at 6 and 7 a.m.
It was reported earlier that the collapse was caused by the explosion of a gas main.—Havas.
Church of St. Aloysius Gonzaga (739 Kiaochow Road) Tel 32513 sunday: Masses at 6, 7, 8 and 9.30 a.m. Benediction at 4 p.m. Weekdays: Masses at 5.30, 6 and 6.30 am.
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