The Chinese Department of the YMCA is the most active institution. Its bathing picnics are well patronised, its social evenings are features that are much enjoyed, it has frequent lantern lectures which are highly appreciated, The religious and the educational functions od the Association are…

On Saturday evening at the Chinese Y.M.C.A., Mr. Alfred H. Crook, of Queen's College, will give a lecture on 'The Babyhood of the Earth.' It will be illustrated by 50 pictures showing the phenomenon of the earth's formation.

Owing to Good Friday, the Alexandra Cinematograph presented the films of the 'Passion Play' to a crowded house. There were no artistes at present at the show. The Chinese branch of the Y.M.C.A. rented the hall in Zetland Street to show the film on Sunday afternoon.

Mr. A. C. Franklin, of the Government Civil Hospital, will give a lecture on 'Origin of rock, with local specimens' on Thursday, the 29th, at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. There will be a number of lantern slides.

The lecture on the 'Origin of Rocks' by Mr. A. C. Franklin at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. was attended by a large crowd of men. After the close of the lecture, an opportunity was given to examine through a powerful microscope some sections of local rocks, the slides of which had been made by…

There is a list of lecture course of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. The lecture tomorrow evening, 'The Progress of the Mercantile Marine from a Hongkong Standpoint,' and those on 'Korea' will be illustrated with lantern slides.

Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock there will be a lecture on 'Korea' at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. Mr. W. H. Emberley will have a number of slides exhibited.

Mr Hedley G. White will lecture at the Y.M.C.A., Chinese Department, tomorrow at 8:15 p.m. on 'The Progress of the Mercantile Marine from a Hongkong standpoint.' Lantern slides will be shown. A series of lectures of interest to be delivered at the same Association are those on '…

Mr. Fred B. Smith and Mr. Raymond Robins are on a world tour in a 'men and religion forward movement' and visit YMCA. They have a meeting in the City Hall and accompanied by the Messrs. Paul J. Gilbert, P.H. Metcalf, C.M. Keeler and Ed. W. Peck. Raymond Robins dealt with the social…

Professor C. H. Robertson, the well-known educationist and Y.M.C.A. worker, delivered a lecture last evening in the new theatre, Eau [sic] U Fong, on 'High and Low Temperature.'

A lecture is given at the Union Church Hall by Mr. Mohler of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. with illustration of fine lantern pictures on the Panama Canel and Exposition.

Speaking at the opening of new Y.M.C.A. buildings in Essex, Sir Arthur Yapp, National Secretary of the Association, said the work of their organisation would not be ended with the war. Many people had asked what they would do with their huts. They may add to the huts a canteen and perhaps a…

Mr F. C. Lawes is present in Hongkong. He is taking serial cinema films of Y.M.C.A. activities in China, India and other parts of the east. He will proceed to Mesopotamia and Egypt to take cinema films of Army activities for the authorities.

Mr F. C. Lawes has concluded a visit to Hongkong and delivered a lecture on the war. One remarkable film will be that of an elderly Canton resident.

Falling on the seventh anniversary of the Republic of China, the new building in Bridges Street of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. In front of the platform and behind, the audience can be seen two eyes and a yawning mouth, and behind them is a moving picture operating room which would pass the inspection…

It is a selection from the report of Mr. L. C. Goodrich of Peking, who is in France with the Chinese Labour Corps of the American Army as a Y.M.C.A. worker. Cinema shows: three with total attendance of 500. First performance April 24.

A cinema performance given at the Y.M.C.A. on Thursday evening attracted a number of boys outside the premises. As they refused to move, the Indian watchman caught one of them and struck him with a stick, and for this he was summed yesterday.

Detailed accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the American Young Men's Christian Association National War Work Council. The magnitude of the work accomplished by the Y.M.C.A. has hardly been appreciated by the public. Concerts, vaudeville, motion pictures, athletics, both in the…

A unique event for Hongkong harbour took place on Monday last on the ship Yaroslavl, which is carrying Polish troops to their homeland. The men on the Yaroslavl are being entertained by a series of moving picture shows given them free of charge by the management of the Coronet Theatre, and…

The marvels of the gigantic plant and the bustle in a large American factory were well illustrated at the auditorium of the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association, when two reels of cinema films, depicting the various processes of manufacturing Carter's inks, were exhibited before…