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MAROHATH. 1918.
Addressing P.-c. Mabi His Excellency said: I have much pleasura in giving you the Belilios Bronze medal for saving life. At the risk of your life, you jump- cd into the Harbour and, rescued a man
HE, the Governor then addressed the Corps, as follows:--
CANADA, THE WAR AND THE and without parallel. It carries forward WORLD'S GOODWILL." the great experiment of British demo- INSPIRING ADDRESS BY DR. J. Acracy in the American colonies of the 18th
MACDONALD
contury. On July 1st, 1867, in the
made actual within the circle of British IS NOT MUCKED.
commonwealths the national freedom for An interesting lecture on "Canada, the which the American Colonies struck in War and the World's Goodwill was the Act of Independence in the 17th cen delivered on Friday night by Dr. J. Atury and for which the sons of British MacDonald, at the Helona May Institute, blood died on the battlefields of the to a large audience, which included Bir Revolution. It was all one achievement- William Rees Davies, KC, the Hon. Mr. the American Republic and the Cuerdian Claud Severn, CMG the Bishop of Dominion. In the days of George III. Victoria, and the Hon. Mr. H. E there was nothing for it but to cut the Pollock, K.C.
painter and strike for independence. In the days of good Queen Victoria, British statesmanship had the larger vision. (Hear, hoar.).
who could not swim, and you brought THE LAW OF THE WORLD'S GOODWILL British North American Act, there was The third sanual inspection of the him sufely to land. Hongkong Folice Reserve by H. E. the
Each of the others who received com Governor (Sir Francis H. May,mendation badges was similarly thanked KCMG), took place yesterday after for his particular service. noon on the Polo Ground at Causeway Bay. A large crowd of spectators lined the ground, amongst whom were the Hon. Mr. Claude Severn, CMG, the Hon. Mr. E. H. Sharp, KC, the Hon. Mr. Kinder- slay (a member of the Legislative Council of the F.M.S.); Lady Tudor Tudor, Mrs Mol. Mosser, Mrs. F. C. Jenkin, and Miss Ventris. The Governor, attended by his AD.C. (Mr. P. PJ Wodehouse), was accompanied by Major General Ventris (attended by Capt. Cassel, A.D.C.), and the Hon. Mr. C. Mol. Messer, (Captain Superintendent of Police). Upon Hi Excellency's arrival at the Saluting base, the Corps, under the command of De puty Superintendent F. C. Jenkin, pre-
And what arision After Canada. camé Australia. The came New Zea land. Then, out of the horrors and the tragedies of war, came South Africa, as
Deputy Superintendent Jenkin, Officers, Chief Inspecture, Inspectors, Sergeants and Constables of the Hongkong Polics Reserve-It is with the greatest pleasure that I have to express the satisfaction
The Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, presided which I have experienced in making this and introduced the lecturer as Editor of my third annual inspection since the the Toronto Globe, a gentleman who had Force wae formed and I may tell you that that satisfaction is shared by Hia oarned considerable notoriety, both as Excellency the General Officer Command a newspaper man and as a leader writer. ing the Troops. The smart and work.
Dr. MacDonald said he had come to like an angress and to the sun the Orient to go away manlike appearance of ranks testifies
from news- remitting care and zeal of all those who re are responsible for the
papers, platforms, etc, as the doctors had and efficiency of this Force, told him he must either go to Japan serting with us all the right of a free people to govern themselves. (Hear, But my satisfaction goes far beyond or go to Heaven (Laughter.) When he hear.) And now? But who can tell what the admiration that your outward ap- sented arms, while the Police Reserve
arrived in Hongkong, he was invited by widar horizons are stretching beyond the band played the National Anthoni, His mendations already carned by the Force, a representative of public opinion to sky-line of the world's supreme struggle
the presentation of the medal for saving Excellency then passed along the lines, life, and this medals for scal and intelli- speak. He thought of consulting the for liberty, for democracy, and for inter- after which the Corps marched past first genes in bringing to justice the perpetra Censor, as he had great respect for him. national peaca 1. (Hear, hear.) Who can
tors of a cruel murder are striking (Laughter.) The Censor said: in quarter column and then in close evidenes of the success and efficiency of ought to do it." Well, the Consor was
tell The British Empire Yes, if by column. The order i was as follows: this young Police Force. In connection
empire you mean not imperium, but an old friend of his, for he had commonwealth. In the truest and pro- with this part of my subject I would re- The mounted section; British section mind employers that it is an essential Chinese section; Portuguese section;part of a police officer's duty to attend known him when he was a student of toundest and sublimest sense there is not and Buglo Band. the Courts of the Colony in connection philosophy in the University of Toronto, any more a British Empire." But
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"You
a commonwealth And by all the heroin that has glorified tragedies on all the seas of the earth, a commonwealth And bleed and break in the awful silences of by the countless millions of hearts that Britain's life, a commonwealth! A world
the Ambulance;
with an arrost effected by him, or with and had learnt from Kante the dictum Commonwealth? Yes, by the blood of all After the march past the Corps was any case in which he is concerned. This
our free Dominions from the ends of all formed into a hollow square, and the is an irksome and, in any cases, an that what ought to be must be,
the garth, poured out on all the battle- Dr. MacDonald proceeded-Here in folds of the east front and the west. front, original. members of the unpleasant duty. I would ask eu
ployers to assist the Government by force remaining in the Colony and those facilitating the performsure of this duty this British Colony of Hongkong, and at a moment when the clock of the ages specially commended for services render, by members of the Reserve in their ed were drawn up in the middle. H. Ehour or two is penalised it is only in other full hour of the World's destiny employment. If absence at Court for an seems to be making ready to strike an first shook hands with the original man-human nature that slackness in making I am asked to speak a word from Canada, bers and thanked them for their cou-arrests or in taking other action entail a plain and straight word with the accent commonwealth of free peoples, under the tinued service, and then made awards to ing attendance at Court will follow. and the motive of a Canadian journalist. North Star and under the Southern To return to my main subject. There is Hongkong is not the place, the year 1918 Cross, peoples that since the tragic days the following:-
yet another test of the utility of this is not the time, and a Canadian of August, 1914 have sworn that the FOICE. For what purpose was the Force journalist whose native country agonizes commonweal of every British people any- created? Was it not, firstly, to assist in the fourth year of the world's awfulest where is the supreme charge of the whole of war by helping to preserve the peace of his fellows, or to indulge bimself in every whore (Hear hear.) It means in the defence of the Colony in a státe war-is not the man to tickle the fancy Anglo-Saxon and Anglo Celtic democracy" therein? And, secondly, to enable the such easy pleasantries as might be agres Hongkong, surely, as it means Canada - Government to accept as many as possible able and even melodious in the piping as surely as it means everywhere. of the volunteers for the Front from the times of the world's peace,- Here in
Germany would not believe it. The European contingent of the Regular Hongkong to-day, at this peak, this dizzy Prussian warlords mocked at the idea of Police Force, to whose everlasting credit peak of the world's outtook, when all British freedom us nothing but a it will be remembered that every meta-the institutions of democracy and inter-
rope of sand, Count von Bornstorff, efter for taste cu ungest, nationalism seem to quiver to their very German Ambassador to Washington, volunteered for active service) Bixty-two fuuudation, us by some barbaric carth, officers and men of that contingent were quake shock, and when the lie direct is mocked in 1914. He declared that there allowed to go, and every night 63 mem-given to everything fundamental in the was nothing to hold Canada in the British Empire, and nothing in the bers of this Force do duty to replace world's civilization, a journalist would Monroe Doctrine to interfere with Ger as far as possible, the absent Regular be very faise to his own profession were many's invasion of Canada, Police, who have either fallen or are be to cherish frivolous thoughts, or to still fighting for the flag under whose speak empty or inconsequent words. Inspector C. C. Moon, by the OSP Protection we live. Your comrades in such a time as this and in the presence of the same token, he was in Egypt in 1912,
the Regular Police and you have well dis. British residents in Hongkong, had for zeal and intelligence leading to the charged your duty during the years of the power I would speak one significant arrest of a man for receiving stolen pro the war. For not since war broke out, and inspiriting word of Canada's past: perty and the recovery of the same carrying death and destruction into one carnest and appealing word for all ladies from Boston He expounded to lands that had never known anything but the other little peoples, and on them. the philosophy of war. How long
Chief Inspector and Sergeant Major Roylance, commended by the C.S.P for zoul and activity in effecting the arrest of a snatcher in Queen's Bood Central
* (February 14th, 1917).
Staff Inspector Wong Kwong Tin, by the C.S.P. for intelligent action in the recent Kwangeni Banknote forgeries (December 12th, 1917)
Inspector Un Hew Fan, by, the C.S.P for intelligent action in the recent Kwongsai Banknote forgeries, December 12th, 1916)
(September 20th, 3916).
Po. 1 Mow Fung, by the C.S.P. for intelligence and hard work in connection with a counterfeit case. (December 28th P. 204 Lam Kwai Tien by the Puiene Judge for his courage and promptitude
peace, has the public tranquillity of this Colony been disturbed There are vari bus other directions in which you have assisted the Regular Police, and I have at prosent under consideration proposals made by your Commanding Officer to the C.S.P. for
Ceneral ren Bernhardi mado a secret. visit to the United States in 1013. By and on the way to Japan he got a copy of his new book" Germany and the next War,' and read extracte to two American
unflinching and uncompromising word he was in Japan is another question. about the universal, the absolute and After Japan he went to South America. eternal law of the world's good will My What he did in Brazil and elsewhere is motive is good; my motive is patriotic known to the gods. From South America. (Heat, hear.)
he want to San Francisco, and on the Here in the historic and mystic East, 26th of May he addressed a gathering of
in effecting the arrest of a man, who had activities.ding the sphere of your within sight of the strange faces crowded German-Americans in the German Club.
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A in your streets, and the still stranger and Every man present had been invited by
stabbed another in Stanley Street on the would mention here that your useful more suggestive craft crowded into your the Ambassador, with consulate paper, 4th August (October 3rd, 1916), and also negs has not been limited to police work harbour, the national history of Canada and the meeting was secret to every man. by the 0.8.P. for his courageous action only. To the initiative and energy of toems but a handbreadth. It is even There was no report of that meeting in in effecting an arrest at great risk of his your Commanding Officer the Colony owes less than a handbreadth. Statesmen in any newspaper, though I know that
or serious injury
14th, the annual Bisley meetings, at which all Canada still sit at her councils who sat there are no more alert newspaper men 1917), 19, Karim Deen by the C... units of the armed forces in the "Colon" by the nation's cradle. The ink is not in America than those of Ban Francisco. inbellion Karim Deen by tamati con with while on the social side palf century. Only last year her second presence of the German Star there for as brought into friendly competition yet dry on the record of Canada's first Not one of them told the story of the stealing case. (October 24th, 1916)
P-228 Wong Chung Yan, by the Inspectors Wildin and Clarke, have been breadth of national history is testimony coming of the war he told them how it the Boxing tournamenta, organized by half century began. Canada's hand General Bernhardi told them of the C.S.P. for his plucky action in effecting the means of bringing in considerable to safety, as well as to the Justice, of would begin, he told them that it was not the arrest of a man who had committed funds to Service charities I must not that maxim of British democracy, which only imminent, but inevitable. He told larceny from the person (November forget gratefully to mention the excel asserts that a free people have the right them that the plans were ready; be read 22nd, 1918).
Pe 27 Wong Shia Poon, by the 0.8.P. lent promenade concerts which, with the to govern themselves. (Applause.) There out the plan of campaign to them. He Zor his plucky, action in affecting the sncocoded in making w popular in our democracy when that must of Beities told them that the German Army would
so maxim was denied make a feint of going through the farts- beautiful public gardens
by the King and disregarded by the of France, but would not go through
VORUK
arrest of a pickpocket in Road, Central (March 28th 1917).
P- 121 Man Tat Cheung, (Ambulance).
The result of your close association Government. That was in the dark days them; they would go through Belgium by the C.B.P. for seal and alertness in with the Regular Police in that a great of the Tudors and of the Stuarts and of despite the fact of her neatrality He effecting the arrest of
pick pocket in bond of sympathy, which ever flows from the early Hanoverians the dark days told them that miles of railway had been Des Voeux Road Central. (February 14th, common effort and the sharing of com before the Magna Clists of King John, Laid Beross Belgium, and that when war 1917201 Was, by the Police and the Regular Police, and has pro- Bill of 1839, when the Government, is be in Paris in sixty days. He told them mon burdens, has grown up between you and the stormy days before the Reform broke out the whole German Army would PC 68 Lai Man Magistrate and by the 0.4.P. for real duced the eminently satisfactory result well as the King, was made responsible they would surprise Russia and take and activity in effecting the Arrest of a that I have already mentioned. I want to the slected representatives of the her before her Army was mobilised.. He anatcher in Queen's Road Central. yon, on your part, to see to it that that people. Here, in this British Colony, and told them that Great Britain would be (February 14th, 1917)
bond is never relaxed, and in the presence of British residents, there neutral. He laid down the maxim of the Po Mok Sin Po, by H. E. the Gover When you were called together few, if come back to me the words of Lord militarists that Law is a makeshift and nor for his courageons condust in any, of us anticipated that the burdens Brougham on British justice, which the only reality is force, and that "the tackling a man armed and fighting drunk. you voluntarily and gratuitously under committed to memory out of the school State is above morality." They all walk took to carry would have to be borne zo reader used in Canada when I was a laughed, long and loud at the thing dona Pc. 743 Marques, by the C.S.P for long. Your task is heavy, demanding boy-words true to-day as when Brougham fifty years ago when Canada led the way alertness in
the arrest Help Centrale
a much personal exertion in all weather spoke them, and made emphatic by every the sure and sade British way from rabber in Creen's
(Deneus In ber 28th 1917), et k
a trying climate, and much self decade of Britain's recent history Colonial dependence to national inter. - P-c. 113 Han Nam, by H. E. the Genial. The way is long, for till that Nations fall where judges are unjust, Governor for bringing to justice the peace which the Empire is fighting for But nations do not fall that are treated murderers of the Fo On murder case.
is attained perhaps twice the effort you as we are treated; they rise as we have have already made must still be put risen: they shine as tre have shone; and POLICH RESERVE MEDALS forth. I wish I could say something to they die us we have died-too much used Staff Inspector Wong Kwong Tin and hearten you in your self-imposed dutics to justice, and too much used to freedom Trooper 2 Wei Wing Hong, for zeal and I cannot think of anything better than to care for that life which is not just intelligente in bringing to justice the to remind you that you are playing and free (Hear, hear) Starr Jordan, President of the Leland Po On murderers
noble part in the greatest struggle the He had learnt those words from the books University California, who divulged is world has yet seen, and that that struggle amed to the Country Schools Teachers
return after a world tour in is for what all mankind loves best should always try to make their scholars August, 1914. The speaker told the story justice and freedom. I know I can rely memorise some of the great things in The people damned him down to hell. on you for further patient and conscien English Literature. (Hear, hear.) The not only pro-Germans in South tious effort till the struggle is over and many things he learnt at the University victory finally won. On behalf of the did not and him in such good stead as Government and of the whole Calour I what he had learnt at the Country
KLILIOS BRONZE HIDAL
dependence, and made certain the coming
of a world commonwealth of free nations which the world calls the British Empire (Hear, hears) is as the ti
They would wish to know how he cama to know about a meeting which was held secret. Amongst those present was Dr.
in the United States and erica
the German Government send
on a world tour ?
Americans
Pe. Mabi for saving a drowning man ORIGINAL MEMBRES DY THE FORCES, — P. C. Jenkin (DSP) G. E. Roylance (Chief Inspector and Sergeant Major), J. Witchell (Staff Inspector), Eldon Pot ter (Staff Inspectors them?
Discipline Depart tender to you, the most grateful thants School, before he ever entered a railway prepare Americans, pe Simply to ment)
A Fothergill (Staff Inspector for your splendid help in the hour of train, Canada's history was proof of of the war We know in Canada what German sympathics, for the coming Emergency Call Department), OC need. In conclusion, I want to say a Brougham's dictarn. (Hear hear.)
A Eustace (lu- word of sympathy with the loss which Canada blazed a new trad on the States all the intrigues that have been Mona (Inspector),
has been done; we know in the United spector, OJONNO
Platoon)
W. A this Force has suffered through the unworld's colonial record. -Canada Butterfield (Crown
(Crown Bergeant in charge of timely death of Mr. Un Kam Wa, one Erst colony of any empire in all the Code's word in the world to day is Bection), Arnold (Sergeant and of its original, most generous and warm-world's history to come to national self united and strong for the rights of all Warning Officer Mounted Police), Gat supporters; and also through the Government without revolution, without the little peoples to live their own life Grimble (P-650), A. Iroton (P-483) death of some six members of the Force separation, and without sacrificing the end to work out their own destiny, fres C. H. Kim (Pro 97B) and T. Arrots who are missing since the terrible catas historical background of the nation's from the domination and the dictation
Addressing Staff Inspector - Wong trophe at Happy Valley on the 55th life, (Hear hear.)
of the aggressive, the arrogant, and the February
Thor) Go back the Colonies of Greece and strong Kwong Tin the Governor said have His Excellency left the ground Home, you must read the record of fend it. Canada entered the world war in much pleasure in awarding you the thres hearty Cheers were given for him the American Colonies, if you will all 1916, and will remain in the war until Police Reserve medal for zeal and intel- ligence in bringing to justice the Pa O by the Reserves at the call of their Cem history tale the same story, Canada's that right is mutle good for evoTY OF
manding Officer.
Brat half century in without precedent little people,
zaurderer
assert, that right, and to de