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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
Of Blessed Memory
KING, as gruelous, kind,;
A until ad beloved as any in the history of the British monarchy, is laid to rest today. It is a day of mourning and remem- brance throughout the roxims over which King George VI reigned, Hong- kong this morning held its memurlul services. They were, attended by people of Bany nationalities und from different walks of Hfe, but all Bhured Д Kenuine sorrow over the passing of one who was not only a king possessing out- standing qualities, but a nun of high virtue. Mengre words do not easily convey
the thoughts and feelings of the moment, for the death of King George hus inspired more than con- ventional grief. The Inte monarch dedicated his life
to the service of his people and his tragically sudden
death awakened through
the Commonwealth Д realisation that the severe, unending strains of the pust.
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HONGKONG MOURNS KING GEORGE VI
Memorial Services & Two Minutes' Silence
HIGH TRIBUTES
PAID TO
LATE MONARCH
Hongkong this morning paid its tribute to the memory of the late King George VI with an impressive two minutes' silence at noon, during which time traffic everywhere on both sides of the harbour came to a halt, and work in offices stopped.
Special memorial services at St John's Cathedral, the Catholic Cathedral, St Andrew's Church, Christ-Church and the Union Church, were attended by thousands. At both cathedrals there were overflow congregations, who stood reverently outside and followed the services by means of amplifiers which had been installed for the occasion.
Flags everywhere remained at half-mast, and during the morning guns boomed a salute of 56 rounds at minute intervals.
Troops stationed in the Colony held their own memorial parades at Victoria Barrack, Whitfield Burracks and in the New Territories.
background.
stood
sombre
about
- nolemn ---- day --of- -romem-
To the tolling of a bell, rung brance, it is possible to
#L minute Intervals, people recall that he paid those
their way
the 10 wended tolla with
outward Cathedral and by 10.50 the con- serenity which could have gregation, numbering been derived only from an 1,000, were sented, with a large inwurd source of strength. overflow standing in the com- His tremendous sense of pound.
Buch were of dress,
duty, On which exacting demands made, never failed him.
life.
was
family Bentiment by Dean Cathedral vice this morning when,:
the Rose at
the
1 to
the
The
i
Scene at the Catholic Cathedral this morning when more than 4,000 people attended a memorial service to the late King George VI. — Staff Photographer.
MK Gets A Concession
Washington, 14...
The United States Com merce Department today announced that It would allow American, exporters to na Hongkong as a point to tranship
non-strategio materials to friendly coun- tries in the Far East,
The announcement ald
that "strict KafeguardTM
would be enforced to pre-
veni transhipments. to Communist countries.
In December, 1950, the Commerce Departinent baned all United States ships and aircraft from carrying to anywhere in the world strategie ms- fortals which were destined for Communist Ching or East Europe. The ban in cluded the port of long- kong-keuter.
Winter Storm Brings Death,
By Father Ryan Destruction
Moving Address By Father Ryan At The Catholic Cathedral
by the Choir.
then and alternate ustle.
They are tempted Ing. Then in the ensuing
and were met of Psalm 103 "Like as a draw only on their own i
Rev.
Memorial
have had
his
passing.
be-sur-
TH
that
war,
Chicago, Feb, 14.
A terrific winter storm with tornado winds, thun- der and hall, has killed at: least four persons and in- "Jured 65" others,
Striking last night, it has, in addition, caused severe property In four south-eastern damage Sintes.
Three of the deaths occurred in Tennessee. Clifford, Snell, 36, and his four-year-old 601
wore killed when their house
battered, it AIL, the
TO BURN CROPS
Its
Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 14. British
paratroopers have orttered the local population of
dens and happiness together. | of Britain, it is for a person, for family, with a home life as ad- his country destruction brought Kampong Belum, near the Thai-
to
all
land border; to burn their crops
to prevent them falling into the. hands
of guerillas, it was officially disclosed here tonight. -Router,
15 violent years, made eruel demands on body, Al St John's Cathedral clus. ¡ by the Dean following which That he accomplished all this mind and spirit, and must, ters of white gladioli, chry- came the time-honoured Armis- in spite of physical Ul health indeed, have hastened his santhemums and azalea
tice Day commemoratlon hymn and much-suffering fills us with "O God, our help in ages past," fresh admiration. It recalls the
In an eloquent and moving address from the pulpit, of the Catholic end. Nevertheless, on this out sharply against a
Psalm 27, "Dominus Illumina experience of St. Paul who was Cathedral, Father Ryan, SJ, this morning paid tribute to the life and tlo" (The Lord in my light) was hindered by a thorn in the flesh; sung following which
memory of the late King George. His address was part of a memorial Governor read the Proper some infirmity from using the
would have liked In service attended by large numbers of the Catholic community. powers he Lesson taken from the Book of the service of God. "I besought Revelationeginning with
Chapter 21, verses the Lord thrice that 11 might
functions, a king must be a man than the sitting at a desk for Father Ryan said: The angel of death has visited ready too serve his country and some hours a day, but instead words,
depart from me, And he hath "And I saw a new sald unto me heaven and a new
"My grace is this realm and today we mourn his people night and day, to put he selected, one which forced sumcient for thee; for my power the passing of our king The at all times duty before private on him daily, painful, tedious The anthem Thou
keep
is made perfect in weakness, shock of a blow so sudden as considerations, to live a life con-exercises of speech and com- Deep mourning was the order him in perfect peace' (Samuel So
Sebastian Wealey) was beauti-20 many who are endowed with ỉ thực numbs thought for a while | scerated, spent in fulfilment of Delled him to mingle freely in collapsed. Mrs M. Dodgon died perfect health and self confidence and one is conscious only of the the oath of service which he crowds, which his natural At 11.55 o'clock, His Excellency fully render in and the con-own strength and achieve that death hus come, that made to God when in prayer the inclination would have been to in another house when the howl-,
are caught the net of their
Ing winds upon his head. vold. the Governor and Lady Grant-
placed-upon It has struck down the highest crown was
One who can do that
three. victims were sleeping and ham arrived
that it has come without Of George VI it can be sold has In him the authentic stuff had no warning of the on- to To verses THE late king is remember- by the Dean and escorted
that strength,
he was not merely in the of royalty, ed
coming danger. affectionately by their seats by the Cathedral father pitieth his own children: and so miss that inexhaustible days there are the demands of traditional phrase "every inch
is the Lord merciful reservoir of divine power
Storms
widespread lashed -HONOUR AND DUTY power by noma millions not merely as a Treasurer (Mr H. C. Margrolt) even so
and.
with king because on all occasions ceremonial and Mr J. B. Hart (Honorary vate them that fear him," verses which all the really great dives
"must
Then there came the painful sections of Alabamas, Tennessee, he looked and bore himself as which royalty monarch, but as an ideal
Secretary of the
Akansas and Mississippi. Cathedral 13 to
to 17.
are live. The same power of rounded, and there
Dre. pro
one.
but also, and what was for set of circumstances which call- family man who placed
and led by the Sentar
Followed prayers from the Christ which rested upon
clamations and announcements
more, that he was akinged him to the throne, circum-fringes extended to the Atlantic much store on the values Verger (Mr Graham Tso). Burial Service said by the Dean St. Paul in ill health was
and the thundering of selutes, through and through, that he stances in which the very ex-coast where sections of Charles- of happy marriage and During this time, Mr Donald with Thanksgiving adapted jupon him.
and if the dead monarch had lived a life completely dedicated, crcise of virtues which were histon and South Carolina were left without electricity for several played the from the Accession Service, and Universal Fraser, at the
more than the mere been no
and that it was by his unques-own would, and did, bring cen Dr by expressed Voluntary
IDEAL RELATION the Lord's Prayer and a Collect
which Agurehead
some would tionable sincerity and supreme sure upon him, and drew on him hours.
The Red Cross has When Moses felt the burden d
rushed Dark and a few minutes for the Queen.
be it devotion that he won the respect the accusation of self-righteous
10. suppiles
the the Chol and before noon,
DEAN'S SERMON of the government of his people wish the sovereign to
might well happen that he and honour and admiration and non cffort to gain the favour hardest hit areas. Food kitchens
and meanly attributed to emergency memorial ser- Clergy processed in the follow-
Taking as his text The King intolerable he prayed to God in would be the
one forgotten love that surrounded him. The ing order:
of the vocally virtuous. He have been established and tem- Crucifer (Mr shall rejoice in thy strength, O his oppression: "I am not able
crowded person in the
cere-
. KNEW AS A MAN referring to the "great and Dudley' Passmore), the Choir, Lord, exceeding glad shall he to bear all this people alone, for
that zurrounde his
chose no easy rond, but he chose purary homes provided for the constant strength" which the Revs Henry Kwok, M. D. be of thy salvation," the Dean
It is too heavy for me." God monial
He was a king that people at the road of honour and of duty, homeless. promised to rulse Lip men men the king received from his Goulder, James Chow, Frark said:
Numerous houses and school -- distant ends of the earth_felt and it is not only to his own endowed with his spirit to help F. R. Myhill,
That has not happened on this. they knew as a man
splintered In They credit hut to the credit also of buildings were Roland queen, he said: "We love Short,
We stand by the grave of our
him. We know that our late occasion.
Throughout all the followed his daily life with an his subjects, to the credit of Alabama and more than 25 this iden! relation with his Koh, Wong Pul-law, Chars late King of bless me King has had many such excel- events of the past week, in the interest that would have been that fundamental good, and ap- people were injured in that wife, and their sharing of Wing-ngok, Canon E. W. L. Mar- Whether we work
who did preciation of good, which is in- State.-United Press, and burdens
Canon Paul T'so, Arch-privilege of meeting him or not lent councillors, but above all, midst of messages and reports embarrassing to one and tin,
we have all heard him speak Mother, was his great and con
from all parts of the Common- not accept it as one of the herent in human now our gracious Queen wife,
nature deacon Lee Kau-yan, the happiness together. How George She (Chaplain) and the read his words,
wealth and Empire, one thing obligations of royalty, but what that road was to be also the we recall his fine an example is there in Dean
was comforting (the Very
as path of honour and of glory. stant strength. We love this has been abundantly clear the they saw Rev A P. kind, steady face, ሃሮ know
one ideal relation with his wife, and mourning is not just for a king, well as stimulating. They saw His reign was one beset with their married and happy Rose).
something of what he has done,
for a symbol of the royal majesty their sharing of work and 'bur-
In the man
midst of his trials and anxieties. He saw family life-a pattern for At noon
the Two-Minute and borne; and we feel with
plunged into us all." It is indeed his Silence was observed and commun unshakable 'conviction wh
mirable as any to be found in and flaming example of Ane, upright then
that he was through and through When our Lord is speaking George the King.
the land and to rare that it to thousands of the homes of his living and devotion to duty Service began during which the good and a man of faith, The about married life he refers
We never wish to separate has become the object of envy. people. He saw the uncertain- God
unduly these two things: the
They saw a God-foaring, mantles of times when despair scized the beginning" that King George VI will bell was tolled 50 times to mark majesty of the King is nowhere the kind of marriage which
the age of His late Majesty,
true to his more apparent than in his death purposed "In the
his Christian always
on nations, when thrones were where be remembered.
man. We should honour, as faith and finding in it the source
in THE SERVICE
Yet there is somethi'g more we hunband and wife are 20 / King's majesty and the king. sincerely
identified with
other ench
in their Truly can it be declared
(Contd. on back page, Col. I) Sentences from the Burial than majesty here whlen fills us chosen
bound, the passing of and strength of his entire life. fealty life, that he was a monarch of Service, beginning with "I am
The source and strength..... upon each other's "blessed and happy the Resurrection and the Life, with stirrings of hope and awe.
For he was not only a great stro
was unworthy of his trust some have wondered who be-
what it reat strength that the twain said the Lord", were then said cart memory."
but
it would then be la shame might be he was also a great carthly king,
that inspired and come one flesh,
How fine anand not in glof that our heads, sustained him, when in every subject of an unseen resim and
there in their showed forth in his life some-
mple is”.
and happy family life, on this sad occasion, and though answer plain: he was a king were bowed. How different it is day of his life thero was the thing of the grace and power | of the King of Kings,
A pattern for us all,
It means that to the ceremonial who accepted his office. аз And in addition to this rock character of our mourning there trust from the eternal What we admire, in our Inte amid all
and the cheapening and King is what we seo of Christ lowering of randard in modern said to any of omnipotent God, and he was in him. What is Kingliness?
who accepted in humble What is greatness? Is it to be able kingliness and the unit also means that there is pride creature to his Creator.
lide, he preserved an irreproachal regret for a monarch who man
was loved as well as honoured, sincerity the obligations of a which goes and joy too. in our hearts, and
You have known his life. You yourself, minating, a law to questioned dignity yourself, irresponsible, a superd
but dimly with our grief there is mingled a have known how as a young with We can
at the dificulties he profound feeling of gratitude to man, a keen athlete fond of out- man? Or is it to be as our Jesus said that the chief among Butover in his
me In:
in the dead Icing. us must be the servant of all sustaining his kingly offlce
door life, with no thought of and humbly obedient to God's the ignorance,
the
the crown over to come to him, Her husband, the Duke of The French delegation was
will and laws? These two ideals petty insults, the misunderstand- There never was a time in the he had decided to give himself Edinburgh, end her sister, hended by President Want still strive for men's allegiance. Ing, and even velled hostility. history of the world when a to the youth of his country, to Princess Margaret, went with Auriol and the Foreign Minister,
But our late King leaves · nu
WAS subject to such make their interests his interest her.
M. Robert Schuman. It also. ¡n-
doubt in our minds which ideat to the very idea af kinghip,king
How idly do often use scrutiny, when his mallest act and their well-being his care, Leaving Clarence House, her cluded General Juin Command he followed; and, we see with the word "privilege" He was the most trivial, detall of his You know how in pursuance of London home, the Queen, the der-in-Chief of the Ailled Armed wonder and gratitude to God Duke and her sister drove to Forces in Central Europe.
privileged
have how much a man may grow like i tifa of his own, privileged to be and commented on 50 frost this intention, he went to clubs
close this no dally life, was scen, so
and camps among rich and poor Westminster Hall.
the Master he followed so faith- were met at London
the servant of all night and day, And as Idings become fower the and destitute, until he got to Airport by the Duke of Edin-
privileged to carry the heaviest scrutiny grows keener, and for know the problems of youth s burden, privileged to have no the smallest slip criticism Isro prince had ever known them. burgh.
discharge except by the gentle waiting. Rarely too, if ever. This would have been admir angel of death. We can thank has
royal dutles, demanded such
dedication of the man the
to. augusi DIVINE PURPOSE
responsibilties of his have been to It is not
self-conscious and shy, and of mun'is self-interest! · · He ac t
mystery; the "Powers that be difficult thing, to be a good cepted the weight of his office are krdained by God". The and in these trying dood in order to perform the duty which he thought It his lat to for the greatest blessings with open eyes and a steady King always stands for God and Rome, Feb. 14.
resolute will, Ho loved his reveals him in some way, that pen given to a realm undertake ho cet himself to Hundreds of tons of rock lava people, and carried undinching- either his mysterious wrath or
There are overcome the defect and to march together tomorrow in the broke of the tip of Vesuvius is the burden of their govern his grace. And we have den few
king.
which the
conquer the qualities of tem- West funeral cortego from minster Hall, a
volcano on Thursday night and ment and welfare. He was a his grace. But why should universal judgment of men is perament which it engendered. It Klat Frederick and Queen crashed into the yawning central man who carried a cress in the
some peoples and nations be so more unaalmous today than that may
connection with alife hat which Gay Queen Juliana of Hol live on the volcano's slopes of always an alternative possible selves,
to full, but it in so blood? It is in recognition of bo
of this that an escape open to an easy and is with humble thankfubices we mourn him no deeply ship that ball-consuming. Innd, with Prince Hornhard, a
something which reveals belive pleasant to which he might
sende! now.zpis
The ; character of
kingship
was the guiding Abert, yourger brother of King volcano. In Europe, last erupted well have taken. But he never we outtrilso, wh.how that
we surmiso what. God's purpose changes in every age; but, in no duty which was causing some damage took that alternative. Ho did for our nation and Cominion age can a man bear himself as principle of his whole fo, A Grand Duchess of Laxembourg la the area surrounding. Its not lay down is eros until wealth must be for us so to be a king unless he has the quality the Ennior royal duke he might with her Consort, Prince Falls, plop
God said, "Well done, thou good heard King decaye believed of kingship in his heart.. King- have chosen for himself many were also: nmong toddy's; ur- * In *1031 •on eruption killed and faithful servant, enter thou that God was using cur nation, ship is not something that can a useful tatic which would have.
14,000 peoplo-Reuter.
into the joy of thy Lord"," (Could an bath" page. Col. (5) be put on as a crown for this entailed re heavier demands
QUEEN
*
ELIZABETH AT WESTMINSTER HALL
London, Feb. 14. Queen Elizabeth tonight paid a last visit to West- minster Hall where the body of her father, King George VI, rests in State,
They
The Queen and Princess Mar- garet were both unveiled.
Withdrawn and unnoticed by the crowds still passing through
Later. arrivals included the Hall, the Queen and her sister stood for 10 minutes West German Chancellor, beneath the lintel of a doorway Konrad Adenauer-Router. opposite the catafalque,
Heads
Ministers of States, and militarychlefs from all
the
and so. IBart' needs and aims, klank even if he had been ons
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meanness,
to
A GOOD KING
Д
fully.
DEVOTION TO DUTY How we admire his devotion to duty, the costliness of which we Drican hardly appreciate. It meant } „God for privilege when we have the delicate performance table in any, man, but you know not pleasing himself: it meant a King who can use privilege self-sacrifice and much inherent in his care at what cast it had
slowly, relent- | in this giving himself, lessly, and yet I think gladly.
How much lus lite made pitiable
to be done, for nature had dono one cruel thing to him, it had given him a defect of speech
ever the world were arriving VESUVIUS SHOWS those who think the sole motive have such a King ve Rufer is to be a leing; it is a supremely which has, the effect of making
here day by air and sea for
the funeral of Klog George,
Five Tings, three presidents, and nine viciting, princes are to
ACTIVITY.
one
to have a
Ingrid of Denmark arrived to- crater, warning peasantà who | best scrise-in that there was cursed and others, Zuch as:ou- | George VI was a good king. It for Feom'a small thing to speak
pro
here.
Prince
Baudouin of Belgium, and the t
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