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YESTERDAY'S H.K.V.D.C.
CEREMONY.
HE'S CHARGE.
MONDAY, MAY 7, 1928.
CHINESE MEMORY.
THOSE WHO DIED IN GREAT WAR.
PAILAU UNVEILED.
The memorial to the Chinese who
GOING HOME,
H.E, THE GOVERNOR'S DEPARTURE.
OFFICIAL ARRANGEMENTS..
The following are the arrange--
H.E. the Governor yesterday morning, at Murray Parade died through enemy action in the ments on the occasion of the de.. ground, presented the new King's Great War, whilst acting on behalf parture on leave, of His Excel-
Şir Cecil Clementi, and Regimental Colours to the of Britain, was yesterday unvelled lency Hong Kong Volunteer Defence in the Public Gardens by H.E. the K.C.M.G., on Wednesday next:--
His Excellency will arrive at 11: Corps. The band of the K.O.S. Governor, Borderers was present as also A large Union Jack which drapa.m. at Queen's Pier, where a a representative group of ed the upper part of the Menu-Guard of Honour. will be drawn. local folk, including Lady ment was drawn aside by His Ex-UP- Clementi and the Misses Clementi, cellency, to reveal the inscrip
were
the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorntion: (Colonial Secretary) and Mrs. Southorn, Sir Henry Pollock, Sir Shou-son Chow, the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, Lieut.-Col. L. J. Comyn (Officer Commanding the K.O.S. Borderers), and the Right Rev. C. R. Duppuy, Bishop of Victoria, accompanied by his Chaplain, the Rev. N. V. Halward.
Dedication.
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"Erected by the Imperial War-Graves Commission In Memory of the Chinese in the Service of the British Govern ment who died through Enemy action, during the Great War, 1914-1918."
to the
Members of Executive and
Legislative Councils, the Judges, Heads of Departments, the Con-- sular Body, representatives of the: Navy and Army, and the Foreign. and Chinese communities and. their ladies will be admitted to the Pier up to 10.50 a.m.
Uniform or morning dress will! be worn.
"THE RING.”
SPECTACULAR BRITISH BOXING FILM.
CROWDED-HOUSES.
His Excellency will embark on Mon from the Police Reserve the team-launch "Victoria" at under the command of Mr. F. C.11.15 and proceed to the C.P. 5.8.-. Mow Fung, A.S.P. (R.) flanked the "Empress of Russia.". His Lordship the. Bishop de-fight of steps, leading up
A salute of 17 guns will be fired! dicated the Colours, after which Monument, around the buse of as the "Empress of Russia”
which were gathered a large num-leaves the harbour. His Excellency said
Lt. Colonel, Bird, Officers, Non- ber of Government officials and Commissioned Officers and men of military and naval officers, as the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence well as many leading Chinese and Corps: The first Volunteer unit of British residents of the Colony. which there is any record in this After inspecting a guard of Chinese Colony was raised on March 1, honour drawn from the 1862. It consisted only of artil-portion of the 40th Company, R.E., lery and was armed with three- His Excellency said:- pounder guns and 4.2/3in.
I unveil this monument to the howitzers. It was named the memory of the Chinese in the ser- From the obscurity of a coun--- Hong Kong Volunteer Corps.vice of the British Government try fair boxer to fame as the From this beginning, there has who died through enemy action idolised champion, is the gripping: been slowly, but continuously, or in the Great War. May it stand theme of "The Ring" the now ganised and developed the present for ever as a memorial to remind British film which started its run. Hong Kong Volunteer Defence the inhabitants of Hong Kong to crowded houses at the Queen's Corps which consists of Artillery, that Great Britain and China Theatre yesterday. Engineers, Mounted Infantry, an were united during those terrible The story of this meteoric rise armoured Car Company and years in the defence of a noble to pugilistic renown, is well inter- eight platoons of Infantry, includ- cause.
woven with love-interest. It. ing one platoon of reserves for
The "last post was sounded as concerned a girl "who did not men over 40 years of age. The the memorial plaque was revealed. know her own heart," and prefer--- strength of the Corps is now 39 is unlikely that Major-General officers and 533 other ranks.
Those present included:-Hon. red the glamour of the company Duncan would have had anything
Sir Shou-son Chow and the Hon. of Champion Bob Corby (lan. The Corpa participated actively Dr. R. H. Kotewall, the Colonial Hunter) to that of her husband but kindly remarks to make re- in the operations in the New Ter-Secretary, and Mrs. Soathorn, the struggling up the ladder of fame.
ritories of the Colony in 1899 and
The picture also depicted a garding the work of the Y.M.C.A., was present at the time of the oc- Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., Hon. night club scene with its orgy of but it is just as unlikely that had cupation of Kowloon City. At the M. R. Hallifax, Hon. Mr. C. Charlston, a scrap between the he not been conscientiously able outbreak of the Great War the cl. Messer. Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes, husband and the wife's lover in Overland China Mail to make such observations he cer-Vol Reserves were both mobilised Schofield; Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Mr. their meeting for the champion-- Volunteer Corps and the Volun- Hon. Mr. H. T. Creney, Mr. W the Club, which culminated in tainly would not have made them. in Hong Kong, the strength of Li Yan-tsun (Chairman of the Chi- ship at the Albert Hall, with Mr.. Evidently he welcomed the oppor- these units then being 892 and nese General Chamber of Com Eugene Corri se referee.
large merce), Mr. Ip Lan-cheun (Secre- tunity to say a "good word" on 418 respectively, and a
It was at this thrilling fight,. number of recruits joined both tary), Mr. Ho lu, Mr. Ko Leung- when the husband "One-Round" behalf of the good work of an anits in the first few weeks of the hoe, Mr. Ho Kwong, Mr. Ho Kom- Jack Sander (Carl Brisson) was institution he admired.
war. The regular troops of the tong, Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr. Kwok Slu-all but beaten, that the wife dis-: In our opinion we are at the garrison were gradually with-lau, Dr. S. W. Tso, Mr. Wong covered that it was her husband present moment too near the drawn during the war and the Kwong-tin, Mr. W. Kent, A.S.P., whom she loved best after all. splendid work done by the Defence necessary garrison duties were and others. Force clearly to realise what also Corps and the Volunteer Reserves. was done by the Y.M.C.A., but These duties included the man- we know sufficient to cause us toning of const defence batteries and of defence electric light sta- realise that not only the Navy and tions and the custody of prisoners "THE GARDEN OF EDEN" FOR the Army but civilians also owe a of war in camps. A considerable deep debt of gratitude to the number of men from the Corps and its Reserves volunteered for Association's work in this part of active service during the war and
Adapted from a big German stage the world during the past went home, where they were post- eighteen months. The amazing ed to various units on arrival. hit, "The Garden of Eden," & Hong Kong, Monday, May 7, 1928. efficiency that, was shown-and Many also went to India and other comedy of modern Budapest and parts of the Empire on active ser Monte Carlo will form the chief continues to be shown though vice. The roll of honour of the attraction at the Queen's Theatre now on a smaller scale-was prob- Volunteer Corps, as mobilised on from Thursday to Saturday next, REMARKABLE. BEQUEST TO- Y.M.C.A. AND THE TROOPS. ably owing to the vast experience the outbreak of war, bears the according to a special advertisement names of 24 members; that of the in this issue. Corinne Griffith,
London. Professor Reilly,.. Major-General Sir John Dun-of similar work done by the Asso-Volunteer Reserves and of the Lowell Sherman, Charles Ray and
the leading lecturer on architecture at Liver- can was long enough in Shanghai ciation during the Great War, Volunteer Defence Corps, as re- Louise Dresser are and also saw sufficient of when, as is very well-known and organised during the war, bears players in this big United Artists pool University, speaking recently 49 names; and the number of film: Corinne Grimth makes her at the Guildhouse, Eccleston- other parts of China to universally recognised, this body members of the Corps with war appearance as a proud, unasphistic square, said that the interest that pass judgment upon the worked with a zeal, patience and service is now as follows:ated little singer in a Budapest was being taken in the building of special work that the Young perseverance that fully merited Officers 29; other ranks 181; cabaret who enters society at Monte Liverpool Cathedral was, shown
total-210.
Carlo as the "daughter" of a by the number of bequesta re- Men's Christian Association the many encomiums showered at
Since the war the Corps has Baroness, and who bolts from herceived from people of all de-
Hominations. undertook on the arrival of the the time upon it.
twice been mobilised, in 1922 and own wedding to a wealthy and
Recently, he said, £10,000 was From Shanghai Defence Force.
Let us give praise where praise 1926, by proclamation of the socially prominent youth because of received under the will of a Jew.
Lewis Milestone, time to time since the stirring is due, as Major-General Sir John existence of a "state of emer- her deception.
The cathedral, which was start- gency" in the Colony consequent who produceů "Two Arabian
ed twenty years ago, might Ee days of the early part of last year. Duncan probably had in mind on strikes and the unsettled state Knights," directed the picture on a finished in 1948.
large scale. A notable feature in when the "Shaforce" established when the opportunity came to of the Kwangtung province.
History of Scheme.
"The Garden of Eden" is the itself chiefly in Shanghai and him to say something regarding
Although the Corps has now wonderful camera. effects brought Hong Kong we have had occasion the Association's splendid work in been in existence for 66 years and into several sequences presenting a to refer to the YM.C.A.'s acti-China on behalf of the "Shaforce." has been employed on active ser- fantastic dream photographed in vities and excellent work general-To enumerate what has been vice, it has not hitherto possess full natural colour.
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ly, but we confess that it was not
performed by the Volunteer
LIVELY COMEDY.
QUEEN'S..
SCENES IN COLOUR,
With her encouragement he went :. on and won the championship- and then came reconciliation.
The part of the heroine was well sustained by Lillian Hall- Davis, whilst the hero, Carl Bris-- on, boxing champion of the.. Danish Navy, was well suited for the leading role of the girl's hus band, who fought for his wife:
and won both. rather than for the championship--
JEW'S GIFT.
LIVERPOOL
AT THE CHEER ‘O.
At the Cheer 'O Y.M.C.A., Queer's Building, the following events will take place:--on Wednes- day, May 9, a whiat drive commens- ing at 7 p.m.; on Thursday, May ∙10, a dance commencing at 7.80
commencing at 7.80 p.m. on : Sun- day, May 18, a musical entertain- ment commencing at 7.30 p.m. The Cheer 'O Y.M.C.A. City Hall, will open some time during this month. The date is not at present:
DO YOU KNOW?
To-day's List of
Little Posers.
actually done would be quite im ed colours. A recommendation was made on December 7, 1926, until we read the telegram which possible within the scope of this by Lt-Colonel Bird that a King's Reuter sent us a few days ago article; besides, the multifarious Colour and a Regimental Colour book which will be preserved at pm. on Saturday, May 12, a dance that we fully realised how great activities of the Y.M.C.A. are should be granted to the Hong Volunteer Headquarters.
Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. an institution and how potent for very generally known from the His Excellency Major-General "I Charge You." good work among the defence excellent provision they make for Luard supported this recommen Gentlemon, of the Hong Kong forces had been the YMCA. the physical welfare of those for dation and on December 18, 1926, Volunteer Defence Corps, I charge The telegram to which we allude whom they toil, their intellectual forwarded it to the Secretary of you to remember that the colours State for the Colonies with my which have been presented to you referred to Maj.-General Duncan's and moral needs and the social own hearty endorsement and this day are a gift from your remarks when he presided in Lon-events, including the many de. asked that the application "might Sovereign and from the ladies of be favourably considered. On Hong Kong. In days of yore don at a luncheon given in honour lightful concerts in which they so August 30, 1927, Mr. Amery tele-knights did their devoir manfully. of Dr. David Yui, General Secre- successfully interested many civil- graphed to me that His Majesty in service of their liege lord the tary of the Chinese National Com-ians, as also by immensely enter the King had been graciously King and for their ladies' favour. mittee of the Association. The taining thousands of soldiers and pleased to approve the grant of Military duty nowadays is less colours to the Hong Kong Volun-gay and colourful than it used to Major-General took the oppor sailors for whom the entertain teer Defence Corps and had also be; but it demands from the sol tunity to pay a tribute to what he ments wero principally intended, approved of the designs for these dier even greater gallantry and called "the protective work of the In every respect the Y.M.C.A.'s colours which were submitted devotion than in bygone times. YMCA centres in Shanghai for work both in ordinary times and with the application. Thereupon Let these colours always be trea-
the ladies of Hong Kong express-sured among you as emblems of Mall" appear half a dozen questions, the troops there," expressing the particularly during the past'ed the wish to defray the cost of your loyalty to the Crown, to the of a general nature, for which opinion that the fact that dis-eighteen months in Shanghai and preparing and embroidering both Colony and to your own homes! acknowledgment le due to the cipline had been so good was very, Hong Kong thoroughly merits the King's Colour and the Regi- May thay be an Inspiration to "Daily Sketch, Answers will be largely owing to what had been the admiration and gratitude of mental Colour. They raised you in times of danger and keep found on page 9 of this issue.
Subscription of $1,247 among you steady in the humdrum days 1. Which is the larger, Wales.or done by these centres. Very pros all
themselves in suma varying be of ordinary routine! And may Yorkshire?MEN perly, Major-General
tween one and five dollars. This they wave above you as the out- What an achromatic, lens is? housca I amount more than covers the coat ward and visible ensigns of hon Which is the oldest and most In some working-class of the spoke merely on behalf
have been in the walls are so thin of both colours. The list of sub- our and patriotism, and stir you widespread English family name? Army, being fully aware no you can hear the woman next door scribers is very representative and as men are still stirred by those. What has been described as doubt, that his remarks would be changing / her.
Duncan
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From day to day in the "Chius
Jack includes all sections of the com- wonderful werds of Homer which the sohleferb thing in physic
munity. This gracious act of the ring through the ages as a trum- - * How many bases there are in
n is best of the human aanstoog Inglies of Hong Kong has been pet call "One de commemorated by entering the the defense of tile father. Who was we first max to wins Fame, O GRISWI YBUDICI TOOK