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OUR DEPUTY I.G.P.
26 YEARS IN THE POLICE FORCE.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1930.
ARMISTICE DAY.
(Continued from Paye 1.)
tions suffered the same pain in their bereavements, and wa' seo
| world wide efforts being made to
render as remote na
сад вo the war in the
tions, all of whom have as their possibility of such a principal object the assistance, Day then should encourage us to [future. The celebration of this LONG & USEFUL CAREER...
in the form most needed, of those support every worthy movement To-day Mr. T. H. King, Deputy tien in the Great War require world peace so as not to render who by reason of their participa aimed at the establishment of Inspector-General of Police, and assistance, either themselves, or vain the sacrifice of those whose Director of Criminal Intelligence, he dependants they have left memory we keep to-day.. completes 26 years' service in the Police Force. He received his ap-
If Peace has her victories no Jeremy Taylor wrote "God is teas renowned than War, so has pointment as a Police probationer pleased with no music below so Peace her problems little less des- on November 11, 1904, and arrived much as the thanksgiving songs perate than those of War. To-day In the Colony on December 17, of of relieved widows and supported we can ask ourselves, if we are
the same year.
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behind.
After just over three years orphans; of rejoleing, comfort-facing, those problems with the
he
service
passed his final and thankful persons." examination in Cantonese on January 19, 1907, and on March 29/jects again the Earl Haig Bri-There has been a tendency to rest' of the same year was attached to fish Legion, Appeal Fund and then the faurels gained in the war the Punjab Police. He passed In/manner of the distribution of its and to let the problemas of peace
I need not mention these ob-courage and tenacity of purpose of the heroes of the Great War?
funds are well known to you, but look after themselves.
But we
Urdu on October 30. In 1908-9
I ask you to make a special effort owe it to the Dead to make the Mr. King was three times appoint this year, because as you will ap best of the Peace that they made dent of Police, (February 22 tepreciate, our remittance is inpossible for us and to exhibit the ed Acting Assistant Superinten-, August 18, 1908; October 11, 1908 the great drop in exchange, our the trials of peace as they did in sterling, consequently owing to
same courage and self-sacrifice in to July 6, 1909; and September 19 dollar contributions must be far those of war.
to October 20, 1909). ~.
25.
n
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Cause of Justice.
This is the spirit Then Mr. King became Acting greater than in the past, if we in which to
celebrate Armistice Day-to draw inspiration' and Superintendent of Importe and are going to retain our position.
Twelve Long Years. Exports for a period from Décem
strength from its memories to ber, 1009, and on April 1, 1010 was have passed since November 11ing order out of the chaos left by To-morrow, twelve years will carry on the work of re-establish- made Officer for examination of
1918-twelve long years, during assisted emigrants in addition to which the nations of the world the war. his Felice duty. He worked in the have been working to find a Emigration Office until October formula, to make war impossible, We also owe it to the Dead to Returning from Home leave on Paris and the various disarma-in November, the month dedicat -Locarno, Geneva, the Pact of pray for them. In the providence of God the Armistice was made October 25, 1911, Mr. King ro- sumed, his post as. Acting Assistant tion of these great problems be so that we turn quite naturally to ment conferences. Should a solu-ed to prayer, for the Holy Souls. Superintendent of Police and was found, the great sacrifices will confirmed as Assistant Superinten dent of Police on January 14, 1912 Balfour said, "Time, I trust, has for us in the war. It was said not have been in vain, as Lord Fray for the repose of the souls of all those who gave their lives From November 22, 1915, to Octo-softened the inevitable misery by the late venerable Cardinal ber 12, 1916, Mr. King was Acting of separation, but no time can Mereler that soldiers who died in Deputy Superintendent of Police, efface the outlines, or dim the the cause, of Justice and Right being finally confirmed as D.S.P.,
writing, which records that their went straight to their reward in on April 5, 1921; his title being sons or their brothers have earn the next life; but it has been the changed in. January, this year toed for themselves, the undying age long practice of the Church
D.I.G.P.
Mr King has several times act.gratitude of those who knew to continue prayers over the years
a gigantic muddle from beginning year when be acted for a short to end, the more strongly we feel period during the absence of the that such disastrous muddling Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, G.M.G must be prevented from recur in Shanghai, in connection with the recruiting of White Russians
ring.
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It is that feeling which gives all its strength to the efforts to make. future war impossible, which makes popular figures of those political leaders who are visibly atriving to bring about not only temporary but permanent peace.
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as anti-piracy guards.
we offer the Holy
ing appeal. We have long lost
them best.".
for the repose of the souls in ed as Chief of the Police during
Hope for Perpetual Peace. The China Mailmany of the illusions of these the absence of the senior officer.
These are those who by fight-realed nothing about the duration purgatory, because God has re- days, but the more clearly we The first time he acted in this ing, and suffering, and losing of their period of purgation: Sa realise that the War was merely capacity was from June 6 to July their lives in the greatest of all this morning
9, 1926, and the last time was this wars, have given us, and we hope, Sacrifice of the Mass for the re-
the world perpetual peace.
Twelve years may be a long for us in the Great War.
pose of those who gave their lives time in the life of a man, but While honouring the memory of short in the memory of a nation-the Dead do not forget, the dis Recently when it was thought, treas of the living, so many of owing to a misunderstanding whom gave just less than their that no more national wreatha ves, being blinded, crippled CAPT DOLLAR.
would be laid on the grave of the malmed in a hundred different Unknown Warrior. in West-
ways In the course of the war." the British Their life is made a little easier- minster Abbey, VISIT TO CANTON BEFORE
Nation indicated in no uncertain by the funds administered chiefly LEAVING EAST.
terms, that the Unknown War- rior is not only not forgotten, but through the British Legion. When Captain and Mrs. Robert Dollar, symbol of all who perished in you buy a poppy you are making accompanied by Mr. O. G. Steen, the great cause, by land or sea, men for what they have suffered a little act of gratitude to these General Manager of the Dollar and round the remains, all Bri: for you. The collection taken in. And, whatever may be the ups Steamship Lines, at Shanghai, and tain expresses symbolically, what Church this morning will go to and downs of the peace move- Mrs. Steen, Miss Proudfoot and is felt with regard to those, who the benefit of the same Fund.
Mr. H. Thompson, Private Secret-sacrifted their lives in the cause |ment, to-day's Remembrance will]
ary to Captain Robert Dollar, ar-of their country.
One last word: don't limit your be, for the vast majority of the rived in Hong Kong yesterday It might be thought that since gratitude to the Defenders of your Empire, &
Madison twelve years have passed the You In this Colony have an oppor- Country to one celebration a year. President more solemn and aboard the sacred occasion than ever just be from Manila.
need of funds might not be so cause the mass of us feel that our and Miss Proudfoot proceeded to those who require your help to their memory:-their successors are Mrs. Robert Dollar, Mrs. Steen great, but such is not the case,tunity every day of doing honour to observance of it is not in pain, Shanghai on the President Mad-daysare those who need it most, the soldiers of the present day, that, however slowly and pain-son, whilst Captain Robert Dollar, some have ceased to need your
every bit as worthy of respect, Hong Kong, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 1930.fully, we are struggling not un-Mr. O. G. Steen and Mr. T. B. help, but those who are left have gratitude and confidence as wore
Wilson, General Agent at Hong suffered most.
the heroes of the great war. When successfully to free the world Kong, left for Canton last
trouble threatens they are the first Special Effort Required, from the curse which darkened evening, and will return to Hong To-morrow is the occasion for athere to defend your life, liberties Memory and Resolve. the lives of all
Kong to-morrow evening,
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on those who fell, are not only not an entirely false impression of a Friday afternoon.
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If November 11 were the only day of the year upon, which wo remembered those who perished in the Great War, there would be
in the club-house on Saturday evening.
News in Brief. Members of the Craigengewer MRS. VICTOR BRUCE. very little meaning in the Empire Cricket Club are holding a dance observance of the Silence. It would be better, in that case, to leave to each of us his or her own fading memories of the loved ones who died in the years of
massacre.
The Silence was instituted not only that we should make public manifestation of our remem- brance but to recall to us that not only once a year but at all times we owe a duty to the great mult tude who gave their lives for what they believed to be a sacred
сацве.
All of us who are old enough to remember clearly the general thought and feeling of that time, remember that though the mê tives with which so many men went out to fight were inevitably a strange mixture-in some merely a love of fierce adventure,
in many more a simple unreflect-
ing patriotism-those private mo-
LEAVING FOR AMOY
TO-DAY.
It
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Armistice Day has been chosen is disproportionate and unfair and as Poppy Day or the Day of Re membrance and let no one forget when he or she purchases a Poppy that-
"In Flanders fields the poppies
grow
Between the crosses, row on
row."
THE GREAT STRUGGLE.
SILENCE.
[By Grenville Kleiser.] Great is the power of silence. There is nothing more eloquent than the still, small voles of con science. Think of the silent The
The following forthcoming mar- Yarworth Frost, of 113, The Peak, British aviatrix, stayed at Govern riages are announced: Mr. Richard The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, the to Miss Evelyn Patricia Walling- ment House on Sunday night. ton, of 12, Bowen Road; Mr. Ronald had been her intention to make a Mackey Wood, of '13A, Macdonnell call at Foochow after leaving Amoy, Road, to Miss Kathleen Margaret but a Router messagen states that West, of Springfield, Wilmaton, in spite of every effort by the au- Striking Sermon Preached at St. growth of the giant forest. Cheshire, who is travelling to the thorities there, no suitable Innding
Joseph's Church.
world upon which you now stand Colony on board the ss. Ranchi.
field can be found hence Mrs.
is whirling through space. The Bruce's plans have perforce to be Armistice Day was observed in greatest forces of nature are A performance will be held at
changed.
St. Joseph's Church by a Soloman silent. How wonderful is the the Helens
on May Instituta
From Foochow she planned to Service at 9 am A Requiem Mass silent power of truth, constantly Wednesday, November. 12, at 9 make her next stop at Shanghai, for the repose of the soula of the at work, without effort, sound or P.m. when the Amateur Dramatic after which will come the most soldiers who fell in the War was confusion. Only man is wasteful, Club will present "nobs" by E. perilous part of her Eastern sald by the Military Chaplain," the Temple Thurston, and "Half An
prodigally squandering words, Hour" by Sir J. M. Barrie. Tickets can be booked at the Helenn May Institute, $2 and $1. Open to the public. Adot..
journey, crossing the Yellow Sea Rev. J. J. O'Brien, appropriate speech and effort to Hiroshima, Japan. The total motets being rendered by a Choir.
distance of this hop is 700 miles, of Priests from of which 550 miles is across water. Cathedral.
Tokyo in one hop,
the Catholic
upper forms of the
sermon-
For those of us
Silence will help you to solve the most difficult personal problems. From Hiroshima she will fly to Parties of students from the Silence a golden. Silence will Catholic give you rest from inordinate. am- The driver of a motor lorry As Mrs. Bruce's Bluebird does Schools of Hong Kong were pre-bition, and desire. Silence pro- suffered severe cute about the face not carry enough petrol for the sent and the Catholic Commanity moles quietness of spirit. The as a result of a collision between Pacific crossing. his vehicle and an Hotel Company a boat at Tokyo and go to Van sented by
she will take of Hong Kong was largely repre-ore you cultivate a spirit of in-
ward silence, the better you will' bus, outside the Police Club, couver, where she will again take After the Mass the Rev. Fr. have intercourse with God. Happy Valley, yesterday. It is to the air and fly to San Francisco Brien preached the following You grow your best thoughts in understood that the bus pulled up
Not Stopping at Foochow
silence, solitude and meditation. at the bus stop, and the lorry ran
Foochow Yesterday. "-
who want When you relax and think deeply. tives were, for the great into it, splintering the windshield. At the instigation of the British through the War years and took you are giving your inmost powers majority, sanctifed by a belief, Three Indian passengers on the Consul, local officials have offered some part, however small in the their best opportunity to disclose. however dim and vague, that in bus rendered året ald until the every facility to Mrs. Victor Bruse, great struggle, this day teems with themselves. Constant action and resisting the German military man was conveyed to hospital, but this local aerodrome is no memories and we scarcely need a expression are direct draughts Both the bus and the lorry were suitable, hence she is not calling preacher to marshal them for us. upon your mental capital. To con- machine they were fighting to
damaged na a result of the col at Foochow Reuter
Time has softened those memorle, tinue growing, and accumulating save not only, this Empire but Hsion/
und taken the sting out of their useful ideas, you must have frò- the world from the curse of war
A fight between Chinese stone matshed on the Wanchai reclama-pain. We keep this day of re- quent times of mental relaxation. itself, "A war to end war" wa masons, attributed to Jealousy, betion and assaulted them with chop, membrance, not to perpetuate en-concentration and silence.
Beware the modern tendency to more than a recruiting catch-tween an old established guild and fiers, causing some ugly, wounds, mitles and misunderstandings, word; it was the "summary of newer one which is better or Thers were more than two in the not to apportion blame and ren hurry and waste. The time you what justified men to themselves sanised, resulted in a fight which raiding party, but only the two ponsibility, but to honour our give to quiet and intelligent Had its echo before. Mr. EH accused were arrested. They glorious Dead, and, by recalling meditation will repay you well. taking part
orgy of
Williams at the Central Magis were taken into custody at Yau- to mind the awful holocaust of Cultivate quietness, poise and de- tracy yesterday, Two members mati on the day following, the-ay- those years, to strengthen our will liberateness. It is at times of in guild were charged saul The Maglatrate convicted, to make possible the peaceful set ward stillness, that you can beat ing grievous bodily hart and remarking that he regarded tlement of future disputes. We hear the voice of God and leara the sneault as a acrious one, he realise now more than ever before His will It is then that you inost sentenced, the two accused to six that fathers, mothers, wives and clearly realize the Divine prelence monthal hard labour each children of all the belligerent na- and power.
dmonises,
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