1930-04-25

FALLEN HEROES LIVE FOR EVER.

Hong Hong Dedicates War Memorial Hospital.

FOUNDATION STONE LAID:

--Mrs. Southorn Gives Stirring Address..

THE

The Foundation Stone Was:Lald by Mrs. W. T. Southern, Wife of His Excellency The Officer Administering The Government

On 4th April, 1930.

"At the Going Down of the Sun and in the Morning We Will Remember Them,"

The conclyding quotation --Is-from Laurence Binyon's poem "For The Fallen." The compléto vores is as

A decade kam rolleri hy since the Armistice was signed, and ¦ under: ---- the hànons of thứ: Great War, to some, are but a vague meinory. But never let this he said of the people of Hong Kong. The brave young men who' left this Colony to fight in a war, which has 'given

"They went with songs to the battle,

they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady

and aglow,

CHINA MAIL.

Y.W.C.A. Campaign to Raise Funds.

A GARDEN PARTY.

On Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Ma Wing-chan the President of the Young Women's Christian Asso- elation, was hosted at a Garder Party given at her residence on Kennedy Road, to the workers in the campaign to raise funds for a Y.W.C.A. building for Hong Kong. In spite of the threatening show-

VOLUNTEER CORPS Orders for the Current

Weck

NUSKETRY COURSE.

Orders by Lieut.-Colonel L, G. Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E., state:-

Publication of Orders. ~

With effect from May 3, 1930, and until further notice, Corps Orders will appear in the Press

Parades and Notices for the on Saturday of each week.

following week will be submitted Thursdays.

birth to a passionate desire to end war, and who return no more win/ They were staunch to the end agamsters, the guests began to gather atto the Adjutant by 12 noon on

live with us again for, evar more.

olds unsounted,

They fell with their faces to the foc.

yopra'condemn.

are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the At the going down of the sun and in

the morning.

The War Memorial Hospital on Mount Kellet, the foundation They shall not grow old, as we that stone for which was laid yesterday afternoon by Mrs. W. T, Southorn, is dedicated by the people of Hong Kong in gratitude to anit love of those heroes who gave their lives so that we might enjoy peace und freedom.

STIRRING CEREMONY,

We will remember them."

Range Allotment, Ranges are allotted B3 fol-

lewa

To-day-Kennedy Road and Miniature to Portuguese Com- pany.

Thursday, May 1-Kennedy Road to The Battery.

Friday, May 2-Kennedy Road to Armoured Car Company. - Addresses.

of the Corps have

The address

of some members not yet been received.

half past two o'clock in goodly numbers, and were quite cheery and merry over having a group Photograph taken. After this ordeal was over there were sev- era! rounds of games until tea time that called for keen eyes, quick declsions and agility of The Building and Equipment.

movement, Mrs. Ma's young The bullding is a reinforced con- daughter-in-law, Mrs. Herbert Ma. crete structure with a granite facing who recently returned from Syd-] to the basement and the upper por-ney. Australia. brought with her tion finished in marble plaster..

a huge English Plum Cake which As at present designed it will ac graced the tea table and was

about 50 patients. 20 much relished. first class private wards with In-

Progress Achieved.

Will all members who have not Idividual bathrooms, 3 second class

yet done so, please notify the-Ad- priyabe wards with a common buth-

After tea the group settled Times have brought to a more diss room to each pair, wards in accord down to the serious business outant without further relay. sagrifices of the days. "Greater Sharp bequest, children's wards, paign to date, and facing the work tant perspective the events and ance with the provisions of the measuring progress in the cam-

Corps Band. There will be a full Bånd Prae- ral J. W. Sandilands, C.B.. C.M.G., 1.3.0, Sir Shou-son Chow, love hath no man than this that a private Maternity Wards and Isola- which remains to be done in order tice at 5.30 p.m. in mufti at Head- Sir Joseph Komp. C.B.E.

man lay down his life K.C..

for his tion Wards with separate bathrooms to reach the goal of $80,000 with quarters on Tuesday, April.29. friends." but those whom we com- and separate entrance: Mr. Justice Wand, the Hon. Mr.

are greater still

A most stirring evremony was to those who served and fell in the commodate performed an Mount Kellett ridge | Great War. yesterday in the presence large and representative gåther- inga Amongst those present in-

cluded ha Excellency Major-Gen

S. W. Tso, O.B.E., the Hon. Mr. W. L. Shenton, Mr. W. 4. Bell, the Hon. Mr. G. G. Alabaster, Mr. C. Bernard Brown, Dr. S. 8. Strahan, Rt. Rev. Bishop Valtorta, and the Very Hov. Dean Alfred .Swann.

A Distinct Perspective.

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which to purchase a building for If the second floor is extended at immediate use. This fund will

Battery The Battery will parade at 5.30

Lewis Gun Instruction..

School.

H. T. Cremy, B., the Hon. Mr.memorate to-da J. Owen Hughes, the Hon. Dr.ecause they were ready to lay down some future tiae, extra accommoda- also serve as a foundation with at Headquarters to-day for their lives for their Country and tion can be provided for 30 to 50 which to erect a building in the

more patients according to the lay-future, which

Corps Signals they were steadfast to the end.

can be especially The experiences of those times out of the floor.

Signal class will parade at planned to meet the needs of Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. have rightly engendered a spirit of Two self contained flats for Real-young women's organisation. determination to settle by the waya dent Doctor and Matron and For some time the Directors of on Thursday, May 1.

Machine Gun Troop of reason, mutual understanding and Quarters for Sisters.

the Young Women's Christian As-

To-morrow-Dowbiggin's Trophy co-operation the problems out of Steel windows to be used through-sociation have been thinking of-Parade as per circular issued. which wars have arison, but the out.

putting up such, a building with Taith of those

Thursday, who placed their Heating by low pressure hot water the help of the community, but

May 1- Riding Country before everything else must heated by all fuel, and arranged so finally decided to work toward it

Parade at 5.80 p.m. at Causeway _never_fade_into_the_distance. Dif-that-drying-rooms, stores etc, can by taking the first-step in raising Bay riding school." ficulties may at times be great, but he heated in aummer when remain-funds to purchase a building al- the guiding principles upon which der of Hospital will not require it. ready avaliable, which could be A Refrigerating plant will be in-altered and equipped to serve the the foundation of the future will be built must still be to stand for the stalled in the basement cooling inmediate needs. Right and to keep the lamps of different chambers for storage of Honour and Courage bright.

ment, vegetables, milk, etc., and in That is what we owe to those who addition there will be a cabinet of made the Great Sacrifice.

the Frigidaire type in the serving room of each floor.

"Greater Love Bath No Man."

Mr. T. H. H.Shaw, Chairman. nidressed, the gathering before the ceremony-mí-follownt,—

Your Excellency. Mrs. Soatharu.' Ladies and Gentlemen:-

The Committee thank you for coming here to-day to attend the laying of the Foundation Stone of the Hong Kong War Memorial Nursing Home.

To the Glory of God.

The Union Jack was then lower-

At the clusion of peace it was, fe that suitable memorial should be erected in Hong Kong to the memory of those who served and felled to half mast, and two buglers In the Grent War.

A Committee was formed for this purpose and a salecription list open- ed. Various muggestions were con sidered as to the form this memorial should take including schemes for a City Hall, Theairy, Library and Museum, Saldiers' soft Sailors" - Club, Hospital at Caumemoration Arch.

la March 1920, it was decided, us an initial step, is proceed at once with the erection of a monument. In December 1920, a resolution was pasaud that the uiemorial take the form of a Cenough or the "Finest Site" and this was unveiled in May

1023.

In 1921 Sir Paul Chater assumed the Chairmanship of the Commnittvė and sponsored the scheme for the erection of an up-to-date Nursing Home.

A, the fanda in hand were in- sufficient for such a purpose It was proposed thal additional funds should be collected auth that the Committee should apply for an Order of the Court for mission for half the nual surplus income of Estate

of the late Mr. Granville Sharp to be applied towards the building fund ant as an endowment.

Der-

an-

the

from the Somerset Light Infantry

Thére will be an

date X Ray department the Ground Floor and

Hostel Too Small.

For ten years the work of the Association has been carried on from four rooms in rented quar up-to-ters which the activities and

on needs have now hopelessly out

grown. Especially is this true of the Hostel. There are now many young women Chinese

passing

Armoured Car Company, Motor

Armoured Car Section will parade Cycle Section and

at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. to-day for Machine Gun In- |struction.

Machine Gun Company. until further notice.

There will be no further paradas

not yet fired Part II, for the com

'Musketry.—All ranks who have ing training season will have the last opportunity of doing so at the Peak Range on Sunday, May 4, at

stood out and sounded the "Last fire proof strong room in the base Post.!!

The gathering stood in ment for the storage of inflammable silence for two minutes, and many material connected with this in-through Hong Kong as travellers, a.m. sharp.

silent prayer

was offered to stallation. those who went to the War and never returned.,

All Model Conveniences. A large inundry with up-to-date The sounding of the "Revellle" equipment will be provided in the broke the silence, and the Union basement with necessary drying Jack was hoisted up again.

rooms etc.

G coming, as students to enter the

Dress:-Mufti or uniform op- schools of Hong Kong, who need tional but equipment must be living accommodation for longer

worn. Platoon Commanders will or shorter periods, where they can warn all those who have yet to find a homelike atmosphere and a fire this course. Range Officer: sense of security. Many of these 2/Lieut. D. L. Strollett. silver trowel and mailet was hand-i The building will be served by two young women have had to be ed to Mrs. Southorn, with these muin lifts, one for passengers and turned away, after taxing the and another for small cubicle hostel space beyond stretcher cases in one hand, she placed news- papers and coins under the foun- goods.

its capacity. Educational work A-large-entrance is provided-in and recreation and sports are dation stone, and tapping the) atone with the mallet she said: the basement through which the clso greatly restricted by lack of

ambulance can drive and so dis- proper space.'

That Glorious Summer Day? Mrs. Southern then addressed the gathering. She said:

The reports at the Garden Party showed that $55.00 of the amount needed had been secured to date,

Scottish Company Parades-Thursday, May 1, 1930 for Machine Gun Instruction.

No. 6 Platoon at Kowloon Dock under Lieut. G. Duncan, M.B.E.

No. 7 Platoon at Headquarters nt 5.30 p.m. under Captain H. R. Forsyth."

Portuguese Company Parades.The parade on Friday, May 2, 1930, as Company will

To the glory of God and in charge patients straight into this memory of those who served lift and so to the required floor. and fell in the Great War, I de- In addition there will be service clare this stone to be well and food lifta connecting the kitchen on practically all of it from the truly laid."

the top floor with the service rooms Chinese. community, much of it in under:- on each floor....

comparatively small subscriptions Recruits at Headquarters for The operating theatre section is representing continuous situated on the top floor and is self work on the part of the seventy

hard Lewis Gun Training.

Nos. 9 and 10 Platoons at It will be sixteen years on Augustaenger lift and the main staircase.

contained, being served by the pas- women who are collecting funds. Miniature Range for Musketry.

Miss MacKinlay, the National

Nos. 11 and 12 Platoons at 4 of this year since Great Britain

It contains two theatres, a com-Y.W.C.A. secretary for finance, Kennedy Road Range for firing entered the Great War. Standing mon

anaesthetic room, a large was a guest at the Garden Party (Rifle). here in this lovely peaceful spot one's sterilising room with sterilisers for and made a brief address to the Part I. Musketry-All those thoughts go back to that glorious instruments, dressing bowls etc., a workers, pralslhg them for the who have not yet fired Part I. summer day which ushered in a four changing room and bathroom for the good work they had accomplished will fire at Stonecutters Range on year's nightmare of slaughter Surgeons, a atore for dressings, In-in collecting the money in hand, Sunday, April 27. This Order was confirmed in April and sorrow. To tens of thousands struments, etc., and a room for the and also in educating the people lost opportunity. The launch will This Is the of broken minds and bodies, and to theatre Sister. 1923 with provision that wards

of their community to understand leave Queen's Pier, Hong Kong, at hamed after the late Mr. Granville tens of thousands of desolate homes,

An air conditioning apparatus is and care for the welfare of the a.m., calling at Kowloon Police the world can never be the same under consideration for this section, young women and girls in it. Pler at 8.15 a.m.

keeping the temperature of the Each subscription, she said, re- pain that war bringa in its train,

Out of the welter of carnage and theatros cool and dry in the Sum- presented a personal contact and Bayoneta, Belt and pouches must Dress:-Optional, but Rifles. an opportunity to make known be taken. rises the nobility of sacrifice of

The clerical department with pri- the worth of the Young Women's lost for duty. those who counted the world well vate office for the Superintendent is Christian Association as a com Rodrigues.

Range Officer:-Lieut. J. 3.

altuated on the ground floor next to munity service institution. She The conscience of nations awakens the main entrance with a waiting urged them to go on, and said it Sunday, April 27, all Rifles and .and Bayonets, After due to the Trustees of the late Mr. slowly, but around us to-day we room for visitors. T

was their own personal conviction Bayonets will be returned Granville Sharp's estate for the, feel these consciences stirring to life

Sharp and/or his wife should be set apart for free patients as deter-again.

mined by the Committee, with parti cular reference to those who saw active service in the Great War Further funds were also specifically subscribed for the Nursing Home.

The thanks of the Committee are

and-realising-that-such-sacrißee-of-

mer.

•

Rifles

of the need and the ability of the Corps Stores in a clean-condition nancial assistance which has rea; youth must, not be demanded again ASTHMA RESEARCH..W.C.A. to meet that need In

Promotion. ever growing usefulness, that and also to the Government who in fact that it is better for a man donated equally with the subscribers to live and work for his country than Spanish Doctor Blames would help them to find the cour No. 2 Platoon, to be CQ.M.S.

dered this scheme a practicable one

up to the first $200,000.

The Original Site.

The original site granted by the Government was on

Stubbs Road.

It was decided that this would be Inconvenient of access both for

to'kill and dle for it.

Through the history of the ages

peace comes dropping alow," paid

for at a fearful price.

Pollen of Plants.

Transfer, and Posting. transferred from Corps Signals to .No. 1615 Sigm. C. E. Hoore la

No. 1004 Sergt. A. Urquhart, age and the peralatence that were from.date. needed to accomplish their pur- pose, and would hleb be 'a' large Sufferers from asthma will be factor in convincing those to interested to hear of an investiga- whom they made their appeal. tion which a Spanish doctor has Work of the Collectors.

A chart was exhibited, which Illustrated by a series of blue) country.

IIis view is that there are three lines against the names of the forms of asthma which occur seventy women who are working

In gratitude and love for those who laid down their lives in a war just completed into the cause of patients and visitors, also necessitat.which has given birth to a passion that disease is it occurs in his ing special transport facilities. Upon ate desire to end war, the people of further consideration a Sub-Com- Memorial Hospital. Here all that Hong Kong dedicate this War

resent site on Mount Kellett ridge

splendid building..

Machine Gun Company and is posted to No. 1 Platoon, as from date.

Struck off the Strength Having completed 8 years' ser-

vice:—

No. 042 Gr. D. E. Sherman, "Battery, as from April 7, 1930.

Having left the Colony:--

No., 622 Gr. J. S. Beach, Bat tery, as from date,

with the medical profession, to in can produce will be concentrated on and autumn-and that each form had collected to date. The work- mittee was formed, in conjunction modern medical skill and nursing with the seasons-spring, summer in the campaign, the amount each vestigate alternative sites and the the healing of the sick. In this is caused by the pollen of planta er against whore name stood the

as decided to be the most suitable I have had the

of which He has compiled a list of plants longest blue line, told of some of be acquisition of the properties lay the foundation stone to

honour to which are of great importance in her experiences In collecting G Leave was completed in June 1928 and the day, the asmes and spirits the causation of asthma, and has money. She has been working

No. 965 L/Cpl. A. A. Dand, was signed in October of that year us by land and sea and air wil live arge number of, tests, climbing stairs as high as the 22, 1930 to January 22, 1981 19 contact for the levelling of the site of those fellow citizens who died for confirmed his conclusions by a part of every day, sometimes Light Section Cadre, from April

All arrangements are now under for evermore

Although all cases of asthmus eighth storey to make a call be No. 788 Gr. G. D. Mead, Battery, Tay, through the Architects, Mars Mrs. Southorn was then pre-may not be caused, by pollen, yet cause, as she afated, and could from April 26, 1980 to April 26, Palmer & Turner, for completing the sented with a basket of flowers the treatment of this distressing she did ride up the lift, the No. 785 Gr. M., D. Scott, Bat in large percentage of them are,

not bear to ride in the lifts:- 1981 building by the early summar of naxt year. It will contain adults by Miss Pamela Shaw, after which

Hight refreshments were served complaint will be much simplified, would be so dizzy, when the gat tery from June 2, 1980 to June

and will follow the linea of the to the top, she would have no 2, 1981... modern treatment of hay fever, sanze to present her cause" intel-

(8gd.) R. C. STRACHEY, which has thome origin,

Captain,

pure

The Hospital The inscription on the Stone is as follows

Tala

and children's wards, a separate Isolation ward, X-Ray department and Operating Theatres. A special Sub-Committee will attend to the modern equipment, ably, irted by the dos- ang and

thorough The Community of Hong Kong ly up-to-d balding which To The Memory of Thors

memoria). Who Served and Fell in the Grast War

August) 1912-November, 1018

and

tors

We shall

will be

War Memorial Nursing Home Was Bulls By

South

On returning from Africa Lord Malchett said that feeling in the Union was favour able to closes trade relations with the Empire

ligently and effectively!

Following these talks the work ers enthusiastically decided to go

"Acting Adjutant, H.K.V.D., Corps. on with the work of collecting the fund with more energy and per

stance, and after an informal boot and shoe operatives work in Conditions under which many dcial time, the Garden Party East London are descri broke up jurt in time to escape.

report consider the evening lowers.

ed at

don confe

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