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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 6th, 1928.
CITY-CLEANING AT
CHENGCHOW
式拜體 日陸月卷年八廿百九仟变英
DIARY OF EVENTS.
THE PASSING OF EARL HAIG.
FENG'S LATEST IS
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6.40 8.05 9.10 10.00 12.00 115 218 4,85 5,49
9.2010.07 13.07 1,99
9.83 10.19 12.19 1.84- 9.48 10.32 1933 1476,07
9.68 10.36 19.38 1,51 5.11 0.19 10.08 10.48 12.46
7.41 8.45 10.16 10.57 12.57
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Day 7.20
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12.51
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4.42 6.50
7.15 23
234-4.09
235
5.31 6.30 526 6.35
18.03 8.07
2.55 6.29 6,41
7.18 E05 1034 11.00 11.17 2.58 4AT
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TaipoMarket Dep. 140 8.98 10:38
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1.80 8.18 10.46
744 831 11.00
Mpa 7,57 8,44 11,18
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ARMY'S FAREWELL TO ITS LEADER.
THE SIMPLICITY OF THE FUNERAL
NURSES RECRUITE – FROM
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The first and 15th of every month have been fixed as city-cleaning days by Marshal Feng Yu Hutang according to despatefice from Chengchow. On those days- all officialdom turns out in full force and amists citizens and professional sweepers alike in sweeping the streets. Marshal Feng himself par- ticipates in this work. The suit. is said to be extremely gratifying
To-day.
Hockey HK. Hockey Club 2nd XI H.K.S.R. Mariaa Gronad, Kowloon, à p.ni
Cher Canteen Meeting of Lady Helpers, Helena May In statute, 10.30 am
Sanitary Board 'Fortnightly meet ing, 4.15 p.m.
Annual Inspection of St. John's Ambulance Brigade by H.E. The Governor, Murray Parade Ground, 3.15. p.m. //
That in making the World Chris Cathedral Hall debate Subject: tian, emphasis should be laid on winning individuals, rather than on changing wrong conditions," & P.m.....
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LONDON, Feb. 4th This wock's events have been 8.30 dominated by the death of Earl
Haig, British Commander-in-Chiat Another plan which the Knoun- during the war, in his 67th year. chun leader has in mind is to His end was swift. Lord Haig was change the colour scheme in the staying at the house of his brother-decoration of bouses Hencefor in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. words all houses for residential W. G. Jameson, of 21, Princes Gate, purposes will be painted white, S.W., and was on the point of re- while green is to be the colour in | Lies" turing for the night when be col-the painting of shops and business lapsed while sitting on the edge of houses, we the bed. An official statement issu ed shortly afterwards said: "The cause of death was sudden heart
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the war and previous tropical and campaigning services on the heart muscles. Thus ended the life of a very gallant gentleman, a great and straight soldier, who stood like a rock in the darkest and most ter- rable crises of the war.
Tributes To His Fame.
and converted into schools. Tablets which were erected in various parts
Ten Dancer H.K. Hotel and
5 p.m. Lane,
of the province to eulogize the Hotel Savoy, 30 p.m.; King virtues of Marshal Feng have gives Edward Hotel, way to new boards on which are Crawford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30
ascribed the principles of the late p.m. Dr. Sun Yat Sen and his favourite | tocht slogans.
A disorderly houses in Cheng chow, Kaifeng and other districts have been closed and their immates sent to the lines behind the Kuo minchan to serve as nurses in base hospitala
A portly volume could easily be compiled of the tributes paid to the Into Field Marshal in the columns of the Pres in the last few days, They are all alike in one respect that the writers are agreed in according him a foremost place among the great military leaders of the world. He was appointed am to 6pm.
Salaries are extremely low The Magistrate of Chengchow draws 950 a month and has to work from 6 In the evening
to command the B.E.F. in France there are special classes for officers
in succession to Sir John French and civil servantsuo Ter
în December, 1815, and, as no tiene | umen
in the history of the British Empire been a period when so
cerns of hundrede A semen against whom litling Cie
Wednesday,
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has opened upon the grains of were hurling, their faces before it Ecrans við
much one man, so the three years that followed this appointment. i) The military situation was well mgh desperate. Our French Adhes had almost slaughtered themselves into impotence. The British effort to create itself into a fighting machine on the ushes of its originai heroic army was still in the initial stages. Divided counsels between the Allies were prevalent, while hysterical fights into imaginative strategy by the politicians of both the chief Allies, bindered, handi capped and at. times almost paralysed all the commanders in the field,
Haig's Great Decision.
It is not fully realised even now bow deep and acute were the diff culties that beset Haig, both as a subordinate to and a confrere with
the French Commander-in-Chief.
they were rolled back and the war was ended. Since then the men who fought, got to know about the stead fast personality, the great soldier. and the helping comrade of all soldier-men who has now died from the heart strain of the war.
Funeral.
The
Like some other
me other notable military leaders Earl Haig had a deep feel ing of piety. He was asdfast adherent of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, and when in London regularly attended the Pont Street church of which he was an Elder. It was there that the body lay in State to allow thousands of the public to file past the coffin to pay
last tribute of respect
Later came the service at West- general was borne through the minster Abbey, whither the dead
streeta lined with dense throngs,
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Yet he never wavered, never placed the coffin on a gun carriage being his personal feelings before his duty in the trust that the British sorted amid all the magnificent aation had vested in him. During military pomp and circumstance that awful Spring of 1918, when at the Bitish Army knows how the Germans made their final to give to its great leaders. The desperate effort, that critical service in the Abbey was attended Queen's Theatre "The Circus.” March and April, when the whole by the Prince of Wales, the Duke World Theatre: Drusilla with a fabric of the Allied Armies in ef York, Prince Henry and men Millio
of national eminence în every walk
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Star Theatres was tottering in the balance, Haig viewed the situation of life. Foreign nations, partici- Girl"
pants with the late Field arshal with the cal imperacnal reserve
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ed cause was lost. He, of his per- and Extreme Simplicity. sonal knowledge of the various The most marked element inchid French generals, suggested Foch | funeral service for a military hero for the supreme command, and wil- was its extreme simplicity: Often ingly subjected himself to this an Army band has heen brought authority. MAKE LAWNA
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On this occasion there was no band within the walls Nognate from silver or brass, instruments, or beat of drum was, board till the end. The hymn chosen, was “ Abide with as There was no funeral march to close a service of appealing beauty. In its place chour and congregation joined in singing "Onward Christian Soldiers," just Girl"
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Sunday, While the war lusted it was on too Abbey stonework. Thus the" per- big scale for the majority of vice, in which the military element soldiers to conceive a personality hat seemed so studiously repressed at the top. The Commander in- ended upon a resounding military Chief far behind the Tara was too not, the Revelle immediately for remote from the immediate con-loving The Anny was kidding
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