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MEMORIAL UNVEILED.
CATHEDRAL GROSS DEDICATED.
A SOLEMN CEREMONY.
MONDAY,
JANUARY $1. 1921.
Hirst, George Hoskins, Archibald Denys Irving, Sidney Henry Howard Iter. Hugh Ivor Jones, Arthur Noel Joseland, Rennie Dean Lammert, Donald Angus MacLeod, Alexander | Lindsay Macdonald, Donald Crawford Mackenzie, Edward J. Mackenzie, Cecil McCutcheon, Walter John May,
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The crescendo of success that has
In defiance of his milionaire father, a young man marries tha sit of his choice, and with the con- divance of her less afluent parents, his honeymo00, AIT is consternation and dismay when leaves o
their parents and guardians li these claims can be urged with god and practical reasons, as we believe they can, so much the bet ter. We believe they can, in spite of the few faults and failings of our local institution that have been
All preliminary notices of forth- pointed at. All depends uponcoming meetings, lectures and what the student is after. It is entertainments, sent for insertion in
A simple yet magnificent ceremony | Andrew Richard Stewart Miller, just a little (stuous to suppose that the news columns of the Casa Mau, took place yesterday morning at the Edwin Alan Monis. Edward Noel attended the efforts of the Denniston the Clive" not see the motive fare charged for at the rate of $1 Cathedral when in the presence of a Mitchell, Ronald Mauro, Ernest Frank Players during the first week of their of the vasions nations in desiring each, (as announced in May and Jane farge assembly the War Memorial Garden Orchard, Ernest George season in Hongkong colminated on to attract Chinese stxients to their of last year) providing that they do Cross, to the memory of the men of Fainting. Frank Richardson, George Saturday night when Lewis Allen respective Universities. They look not occupy more than four Enes. Is Hongkong who fell in the Great War, William Rivers, Frederick Henry Brown's "Please Get Married," a spoa each graduate as an un-faure if this space is exceeded they was unveiled.
Robinson, Thomas Ernest Stanley delightful three-act farce which would salarial Commercial Traveller, will be "placed in the advertising The Memorial stands on a pretty Robson, Alan Davidson hewan be hard to beat for sheer fun and committeri is) an involuntary columns the prevailing rates. plct of ground, against a background Edward Charles Sillis, Francisco sustained interest, kept a crowded partiality for their products. In
of palms and other luxurious tropical Maria Soares, William Howell Staple heuse simmering with laughter from theory, and probably largely in
trees, near the West entrance to the ton. Reginald Alexander Stokes, the rise to the fall of the curtale. practice, every, student who com
Cathedral Shorty after ten o'clock John Francis Summers. Thomas Roused to a high pitch of athusiasm, pletes his terins it Jagan is an
s guard of honour, in command of Taylor, Benry Victor, William H. the audience was not slow in expres fässet tordajan, and every one who
Lieut. T. M. Bevan, M. C., and 40 Viveash, Herbert George Wakeford, sing its keen appreciation by frequent graduates in America or in Britain
men of the Hongkong Defence Coras, Charles Nigel Gordon Walker, Alee applause, su generous at times as to amount almost to an ovatios. The will be prAurerican or pro-British
took its place about the Memorial. Whitmarsh. Harold Wilson.
After the reading of the names, infectious humour of the farce was as the case may be. We have seen
There were also in attendance at
detachments from there was silence for a time, and in itself sufficient to ensure success how pro-Gennañ were the major
the ceremony lity of Japanese stalents who
the Royal Garrison Artillery, Royal then the Bishop of Victoria offered in the hands of a discriminating
company the play was irresistible. studied there. Even men of our
Engineers, 2nd Battalion, Wilts, Re the dedication prayer. He said:
**In the faith of Jesus Christ, we giment, HKS RGA; 2:22nd own rare who had been at. German
Punjabis and 2/55th Coke's Rifles, and dedicate this Memorial, to the plous Universiti mere less anti-German
memory of the men, from this than those who had not.
HE.Sir Dudley Ridout, G.O.C, at contingents from E.M.S. "Hawkins Colony, who have fallen in the Great To pr
"Curfew. pose that Chines: students should Singapore, has received notification Ambrose," "Carlisle,” graduate at the Hongkong Caiver front the War Office that his succes-Colombo," "Titania" and other War, in the Name of the Father, and
of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. sity and thereafter be satisfied with ser, Major-General Sir John Fowler, vessels.
Before the actual unveiling and And we pray Thee, O Lord, that it is discovered that the officiat
ing parson is in reality a brist past-graduate course at a leaves London on the 21st January. British University is natural Sir Dudley will leave Stagapore by dedication, an impressive service was this Cross, which we have now eningh as advice coming from a
held in the Cathedral. All the scating dedicated to Thee, may ever remind burglar in clerical garb. The frantic the "Kashgar" in March."
accommodatin was occupied, In the of Thy meritorious cross and eñorts of the girl's respectable parents British adviser, but is it not asking a little too much? The question of
At the Roman Catholic Cathedral centre of the Nave sat the relatives passion and of their sacrifice, and and the irate millionaire to overtake may kindle in us a like spirit of the happy couple, who elude them expense arises, even with those on Saturday afternoon the wedding of the fallen,
The service opened with the Dead service, Who livest and reignest, with tantalising persistency, give rise zhle to send their sons to such:ook place of Mr. S. A. Marcal, of
which are rendered still more Ltd. to zemire qualifications, the Eastern Extension Telegraph March in San!", played by Mr. with the Father and the Holy Spirit, to a succession of piquaat situations
the Cathedral one God now and ever. Amen." The gesin will arise in their Company, and Miss M. A. da Roza. Denmen Fuller,
The Lord's Prayer was then redelicious by the obstinacy with which The reception was beld at the organist. The Easter anthem was mil. What do they got for their
Catholic Union Club after the sung in place of the "Yenite" peated by these present, and four the young people regard the news trong? We have got to shar
Archdeacon Barnett read the passage buglers of the Wiltshire Regiment that their marriage is not legal as an elaborate practical joke. Finally, themil if we desire their patronage
from Revelation, These are they played the "Last Post "
mady For Mongond University, that its
The Bishop of Victoria next ad after
amusing end » ex- Members of the "Carlisle's" that have come out of great tribula-
citing incidents, incindire a re | digren havi valo“. We must
satisfy them, H. We wish them to Valley the remains of a shipmate. T. offered prayers, for the peace of the
a private detective crew-yesterday followed to Happy tion." The Rev. J. T. Halman dressed the assembly. He said:
This Memorial Cross which we contre with Hote that a British degree Heame, Engine Room Artificer, who world and for the British Empire; have unveiled and dedicated today. 2nd an outbres of fre in a hotel, better than any shers. No her died following an operation. The thanksgiving for those who have What does it represent? Tais Cross alters are suaightened out the argument can ings them Wedeceased was a goung maz, only a laid down their lives for their stands for three things. First of all, following morning when it is dis- recall the auriek, rendered in a recent arrival haft, coming out in friends"; and a prayer for the it is a memorial, to us and to those covered that the clerical gentleman Hongkong parent on one ocasion the Bremen", this month.
mourners, that they might have who come after us, of men who, from who performed the marriage cere The a high per page
"faith to look beyond the troubles this Colony, went forth to serve among was in fact a person, the thefts desire your son to this one of the
of the present. The choir sang the cause greater than they knew, and which led to his arrest in company anthem, "O Lord God, Thou strength who laid down their lives for their with a real burglar having been of my "health" (Goss), Thea fellows. It is not of an unknown committed during amnesia.
millionaire auzounces his betrothal warrier that we are thinking now, came the processional:
but of men well known many of to a pretty, but designing neighbour, them in this place: the relatives, whose insatiable city has been the cause of much vazưion to the It was sung to the accompaniment / the comrades and friends of not a 's worried parents, "and the play
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The Straits friends of Mr. S. C. Tes will be pleased to learn that he is engaged to Miss Tan Gaik Lou, youngest sister of Mr. K. H. Tan, Manager of The Ault & Wiborg Co., Hongkong. Mr. Teo is the youngest brother of Mr. Teo Pin Chong of the
professors, nai to take a caters. Send kid, to denkeridge, 15 wat į desipo kini, to remain at home, and apist joy in war business, and retain les Chimes sympathis. Hongkong University good enough for yon ti apertin enn- tu ell any Chinese patent that a young boy, going away from home, will be exposed to very sarî- mist temptation. They know all Lientenant W. S. L. Gilchrist
Eastern Trading Co., Penang and Ipoh. The wedding day is not yet fixed, and will be announced later.
O God, our help in Ages past, Our hope for years to come-
of the band of the 2nd Wilts Regt. which was outside the Cathedral.
&
The
In the Chapel at Clift College, ends in general happiness.
High praise is due to the players The procession moved out of the that College where Earl Haig, where Cathedral to the War Memorial in General Birdwood, and many another for the skill with which they portray- famous leaders received their earlyed the various parts. Miss Florence the following order:
The Clergy The Bishop of training, there is a Memorial Brass Chapman and Mr. Leo Kennedy as
about" that, and their anxiety on has been posted to the "Tamar" 31 victoria, Archdeacon Barnett, the erected to a young soldier, an oja ) the young lovers, who were responsi-
Lieutenant
Gilchrist
HE. the Governor Sir R. E. Stubbs. K.CM.G. and his staff. "
died for his Country,
respective roles with a youthful exuberance and sense of the comic that won them loud applause. Mr. Reynolds Denniston played the frate millionaire with a finish that bespoke Valentine Sidney, as the distracted. the accomplished actor. Mias and some of you will recall how mother, and Mr. Reginald Wykeham, obedient husband Henry Newbolt, has immortalized as
who
"bad never argued these words in one of his poems:
for twenty-five years," both gave Qui procul hinc the legend's clever impersonations of amusing
writ.
roles Miss Pressy Preston as the The frontier grave is far away,valable "neighbour, Miss Shirley Qui ante deim peršit
that sent is not lossene where Hongkong. tar the lark goes. The unfortunate entered the Royal Navy ten years Rev. H. Copley Moyle, the Rev. J. T. boy of the school, who died on able for much of the fun, played their thing let our University is that. ago, saw a good deal of service in Holman, the Rev. J. D. Fim, RN distant frontier. The words on the Hawkins the Brass are in "Latin: translated they redwith-tanding the munificence of the war, and was promoted to his (chaplain to the the government. at such genemine present rank in August of last Rev. M. W. Shewell (Army Chaplain), read
He died far away, he died before benefactions as that of Mr. H. M. year. Before being appointed to the the Rev. G. T. Waldegrave (Missions í
his time; Tamar" he was doing duty with to Seamen), the Rev. W. T. Feather
But he died a soldier, and he Nemozre. it has so far failed to get
stone (beadmaster of the Diocesan the real good will of the European the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham.
Boys' School). population here. Many of our pro-
The death took place at Shang- rainen: public men, in private if not openly, and it a à ton extra-bai, on January 22 of Mr. Frederick vagant donation to purely Chinese Arthold Burchardi at the age of 77. interests. They fail to recognize Mr. Burchard, a German, was one the benefits it promises ultimately of the oldest foreign residents of
Bring to themselves.
China, having been in the country for 52 years. He founded the now extinct firm of Gipperich and Bur- chardi, and retired some 20 years ago. Mr. Burchardi is survived by a daughter, and several relatives in Kiel.
to
4
LOCAL WEDDING.
CHAN-NG
was
H.E. Vice Admiral Sir A. L. Duff, KCB, and his staff.
HE Major-General Sir G. M.-Kirk. patrick, K.C.B, KCSL and his staff.
The Relatives of the Fallen.. His Hoo. The Chief Justice, Mr. H. H. J. Gombertz K.C.
The Hon. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Cland Severn. CMG, LLD., and the Legislative and Executive Coun. cils. "
Officers of the Navy and Army. Ex-Members of HM. Forces. Other members of the congrega. tion.
sed miles, sed pro patria. Of each of these our brothers whose names we have heard just now we say in proad grief
He died far away, he died before
bis time. But he died a soldier, he died
"for his Country. The Cross stands as a memorial to men who laid down their lives for their country and for humanity.
Their name liveth for evermore. Again, this Cross is a Memorial to us of the price at which humanity's
Huxley as the hotel maid, Mr. W. D. Howard as, the parson suffering from amnesia, Mr. Ray D. Clifton as the stuttering hotel clerk, Mr. W. Vaughan-Morgan as the hotel detec tive, Mr. Claytoo Graham as the unrepentant burglar, Mr. Charles Bradley, as the officious constable. and Mr. David Belbridge as a vicar... all contributed to the outstanding success of the play.'
To-night the Company will submit an excellent comedy' entitled "The Girl from Rector's."--
DANGEROUS WRECK.
STEAMER. FOUNDERS AT SEA.
The manager of the Banque Industrielle de Chine at Shanghai has issued to the Press the following A pretty Chinese wedding was in Paris, dated January 20 You telegram from the bank's head office
The hymn, "For all the Saints there must be a reason for this, and solemnised at the To Chai Chorch on heedless of the stable mocks on it, Saturday afternoon when Mr. Owen that an agreement has been reached sung at the Memorial.
are authorized to announce officially who from their labours rest," wis Wes he has guessed at furious psible Chan, of Messrs. Snowman and Co. between our bank and a most power- "The Governor then said: leyan Church. Hongkong. on reasons and is contriving to meet was married to Miss Helen Ng, the fal group of French banks, beaded! I hereby unveil this Memorial to freedom has been bought, and of the January 29, Louise Helen, eld them. In training the pony is youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. by the Banque le Paris et des Pays the glory of God, and in memory of obligation that is laid upon us who est daughter of the Rev. Charlesden by the boy who wears what Ng Kai Chau
Bas, according to which that group the men of this Colony, who counting survive. We are not our own: We WARNING TO MARINERS.. and Mrs. Bote, to George Henry boys wear, while when racing the
The ceremony, which was per acquires a large financial interest in not their life dear to themselves, laid bave been bought at a great price, animal is minted by a jockey informed by the Rev. Cheung Chuk the Banque Industrielle de Chine.". Haskett
it down for their King and country the price of our brother's blood: our colours. Is it the colours that Ling, was well attended by the
during the Great War.
lives are forfeit to the Hundreds Their catch his eye and take. his mind friends and relatives of the happy The Canton Times states that in Name Iveth for ever more.”.
of quiet cemeteries in France, sod off his work? If so, no problem is | couple.
in distant parts of the earth will wir- order to popularise the Provincial As the cord was pulled that released more easy to solve. So the loy The bride, who now wears the colours during train away by her father, was prettily there is now a proposal under con Memorial was covered, the Guard of humanity's redemption has be
given Bank of Kwangtung banknotes, the Union Jack, with which the pess to generations to come, of the greatness of the cost at which
Notice is given by the Coast In- ** TROJA, JUSTICE, PUBLIO SERVICE'ing, and the pony has the opportu attired in a costume of white satin sideration to forbid the circulation of Honour presented arms, and the band
spector that the ss. Sherchau nity of getting used to them, of and wore a tulle veil. She carried a foreign currency in this province. If played the General Salute.
foundered at sea on January, 15 forming, as it were, the habit of shower bouquet of white roses and this proposal is adopted by the Memorial was revealed as a simple nations will be judged, and our lives (Halchow) to the Yangtze River. By the sacrifice of these men the whiist on a voyage from Kwantokou HONGKONG, MONDAT, JAS. 21, 1521
galloping fast mider the most dis maidenbair fern.
Canton Government all business cross of Hongkong granite, with will be judged. If we fall back to The master of the vessel reports tractingly polychematic condi-
Miss Ruby "Kong, the bridesmaid, transactions will calculate their bronze sword in relief. On the tions. That, however, is not all. wore a pink and white dress, and accounts on the basis of local cur- pedestal was a brass plate, bearing At races a band plays. As we carried a bouquet of pink roses.
rency. There is a complaint before this inscription: know, it doesn't always play well.
Mr. Leung Nai Yung was bestman. the authorities that the Chinese Post" jor play good massie, and it may be mers, accustetud to bigger race that this pony, while aesthetically held at the bridegroom's father's
Office is not accepting the Provincial After the ceremony a reception was Bank of Kwangiang notes for pay- horses, to indulge in a mild jer indifferent to colour, is psychologic house, No. & Lower Mosque Terrace, ment of postage stamps. at our China ponies, to compare ally affected by sounds. them with sheep and to suggest weakness is musical, it also is pre- and was well attended. The custome ,that our most serious and earnest vided for. The "gossips, assure usary toasts were honoured with Sportsmen are, as it were, the of (and Heaven forgive them if they enthusiasm by those present, and spring of an animal that is neither have pulled our leg," for we never both in English and in Chinese.
appropriate speeches were made horse nor mule, but resembles both will) that this pony now has a con- They soon grow out of it, and take cert every time it has elow. They
RACE TIME COMING.
It is not unknown for new-
If his
After dinner, the happy couple, who were the recipients of many
as keen an interest as the rest of say a gramophone has been speci- beautiful and costly presents, left by as in the fortunes of kcal favour ally sent down to the stable, and the night boat for Canton where the ites, especially when they are intro- that this fortunate pony feeds to duced to the popular excitement of the air of I'm for ever blowing boneymoon is being spent. our club swepts, 3 gamble at which bubbles." That's the one mistake
the law winks kindly, to our great comfort and satisfaction, for these seasonal indulgences are pleasant fillips in our jaded life. Now that the training is in full swing, the
we perceive in an otherwise excel-
lent programme. A inore appro- priately suggestive tune would be
OBITUARY.
MR. W. ROBINSON.
"To the glory of God and
"
memory of the
men of Hongkong
who fell
in the Great War
.1914-1918
and whose names are recorded on a tablet in the porch
of this Cathedral”.
The
TOO,
Prewar ways if we are content to that the wreck lies in abent 7 fathers live small lives,not base perhaps of water in the following approxi bot mean if we allow the world to mate position: latitude 33' 50' N., fall back into pre-zar conditions; if longitude 121 26 E The 8 we do not dedicate ourselves to the "Sheachtu" was an iron vessel of bringing in of a new creation, the 467 tons, and at the time of founder- Holy City, a new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, thening was loaded with a cargo of salt. | Mariners are warned that the, position the lives of these men have been wasted; it is as if they had not died given for the wreck is very approxi Their spirit the spirit of iron mate and the vicinity, therefore,
should be ravigated with caution. sacrifice of body and of soni-must
be our spirit: So only can the day: be won. Their sacrifice must sting us all into something heroic.
The list of the fallen was read by
Kowloon, an assitant of the Hong Hugh Arthur, Anthony Drummond us of the Sacrifice of Him who has honoured dead we take increased
The death of Mr. W. Robinson, of the Rev. HL Copley Movie. It follows:
dedicated to the great task rèmain- Henry Adair, Arthur Allctrurch, Lastly, this Cross is a memorial to ing before us that from these kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, took place last Bailey, A. H. Best, John Hugh Bone, redeemed from waste the sacrifice of devotion to that cause for, which night at the French Hospital, the Cyril Francis Wogan Bowen-Rowl these, our brothers. If I mistake they gave the last full measure of inds, Ernest W. Brett, James Brewer not, there is more than one man bere devotion; and that we bere highly news coming as a shock to his many W. A. J. Bullock, lan Neil Carmichael who has stood on the field of battle resolve that these dead shall not Commander Charles S. Benning friends. He was admitted to the Ben Fletcher Chapman, Daniel Gor after the fight was over, and with have died in vain chasing rainbows, and we could D.S.O.,tas-been-appointed to the hospital about two months ago don Cheeseman, W. H. Church. Jas bewildered mind has asked "Is there
command of the "Titania," depot ship suffering from jaundice. Complica
At the conclusion of the Bishop's interest in the forthcoming meet urge the shrewd owner to change for submarines at Hongkong. Comitions set in, and lately he became per Clark, Albert Edmund Clarke, in all the, universe anything that can address, the National Anthem was
the record accordingly. If we hear
Lionel Oscar Collins, Walter Gordon redeem from waste this terrible sung and the Blessing was pronounc ang becomes audible, and the air is that the has been done, we will mander Penning, who was recently rapidly worse... fall of gossip about ponies and back the animal as evidence of good torpedo ship, in bome
in command of the." Vulcan,” depot Mr Robinson had resided in the Cope, Ernest Cruickshanks. Charies destruction ?" and somehow bis mind ed. The proceedings came to an end punters. Tw owners have entered faith.
waters, Colony for a number of years and Clement Francis Conningham, Frank has travelled on to a green hill far with a march past of the troops, the their pony is Adversariat," and
specialised in submarine-work long had a wide acquaintance. He was Dealy, Sidney Dealy, Arthur Francis away, and to a lonely Cross placed Governor taking the salute. if it fails to score a win with after this that racing in Hougkong of the E.T. When the war of 1914-18 Company. For the last, two years be
At all events, let none tell us before the war, and was in command formerly de augur with the F. & Deane, John Delahunty, Kenneth there, and he has said, "Here only
A number of beautitul floral tri-- Rose Dennys, name like that, the China Mail is not a serious business.
Peter Sydenham can this sacrifice find its explanation bates were placed at the foot of the Dixon, Ernest Drury, opened. He saw much under water had been with the Hongkong and .staff is going to be seriously out of
Robert and the fulfilment of its purpose."
cross, and during the services the pocket, that's all. Of the most
I cannot do better than end by Bags on the Cathedral and the war- service, and won the D.SO. for re- Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com- Edwards Alfred Ernest Elborough, peated acts of good service in Helgo pany. He was active in Masonic Edward Henry Evan, Ernest William quoting these immortal words of ships in the barbour, among them a inferesting" gossip that reaches us
land Bight when his submarine affairs. He was 47 years of age, and Alexander Adair Fyfe, Peter Boyd of the Civil War It is for us, the
Evers, Kemeth Rowley Forde, Abraham Lincoln spoken at the end French destroyer, were at half mast. is that about a certain pony that makes the most remarkably fast
The Memorial itself was designed formed part of Commodore Roger leaves a widow and child, at present Gardner Francis Grist Jobalising in he dedicated here to the by Meer Leigh and Orange and -times when training; but when No Hongkong publicist can be eyes-famous-patrol-force, which at home Manchester Much
actually racing has been so far blamed for urging the claims of held the narrow seas. (mentioned in sympathy is felt for them in their Edward Gresson, Leonard Joseph unfinished work which they who made by Messrs. C. E. Warren and among the also rans." It occur Hongkong University, upon the despatches, DSO, 1914 Star, Bri bereavement. The funeral will be Gull, Cyril Eugene Agation Hance, fought have thus far so nobly Co. The bronze sword was made by
Charles David de Heney, Arthur advanced. "It is for us to be here the Kowloon Dock Company. red to his intelligent owner that attention of Chinese students and tish War Medals).,
CHINESE AND UNIVER
SITIES.
held at Happy Valley, this evening.