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ARMISTICE DAY.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL SERVICE.
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY AT CENOTAPH.
POPPY SALES.
Armistice Day was commemorated in the Colony by special services in St. John's Cathedral, and other churches and by an impressive ceremony at the Cenotaph.
The Cathedral was crowded, extra seating accommodation being provided in the aisles. Special pews were set aside for His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government; Gqvern- ment officials; His Excellency the General Officer Commanding: and Staff; Army Officers and their wives; the Commodore and staff; Naval Oficers and their wives; the Consular Body, and men of the Services.
The service' was taken by the Dean of Hong Kong, assisted by the Assistant Cathedral Chaplain and the Rev. Major Little, C.F., and the Rev. C. B. Shan.
Special morning and evening services were held at St. 'Andrew's, Kowloon; the preacher in the morning being the Rev. G. E. F. Upsdell, C.F., and in the evening the Rev. N. V. Halward
The formation at the Cenotaph was as follows:-
Guards' Association E.A.S.M.A.
NORTH,
Sea Front.
Army Officers
St. John Ambulance
Scouts and Guides
Band of ...... 1st Beds, and
..... Herts. Regt.
Pipers K.O.S.B.
CENOTAPU'
British Legion
H.E. The
Hong Kong Volunteer: ......
Governor
Defence Force G.Q.C.
Navy Officers
Foreign Government Consular Services. R.A.0.B. Mercantile Marine,
Buglers Queen's Regt.
R. Marine O.C.A. French Navy. U.S. Navy. S.N.O.
Executive and Legislative Councila Representative Parties, Army, R. Navy sad RAF.
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A very large crowd' was gathered round the Cenotaph by 10.30 am a deep square being held by-Police to leave a clear passage. for those who wished to lay wreaths. The balconies of the. Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and the Hong Kong Club were crowded. The Last Post was sounded by buglers of the 1st Bn., the Queen's Royal Regt., and the two minutes' silence was heralded by a gun fred from the Murray Parade Ground. A second gun announced the end of the silence, the "Reveille" followed and O God our help in ages, past" was sung by all present..
The sale of Flanders poppies went on, brisky all the morning and very few people indeed were acca in the streets without one, about $5,500 was realised on the street, sales in Hong Kong and Kowloon,
The collections at the Cathedral services and at St. Andrew's, Kowloon, were in aid of Ear Haig's Fund and St. Dunstan's. The Cathedral collection was about $500 and the St. Andrew's $87.
The Cathedral was decorated with Flanders poppies and a most im. pressive form of service had been arranged for the day, including special bymas, a psalm, lesson, and special litanies and prayers."
THE DEAN'S SERMON.
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The Dear preached an eloquent sermon from the text, "In those sacrifices there is a rememberance made of sins year by year Hebrews x verse 3. He said :—
Ten years ago to-day the 'great war ended. Those four mad, ghast ly years had at last dragged them selves out to a conclusion, and left the world recling and staggering like a drunken man.
We look back to-day over the intervening ten years and try to see straight about the almost in credible mixture which went to make up the war. The glory of heroism the blaze of self-sacrifice, the sad weiter of misery and the deep darkness of mass hatred, sus- picion and deceit.
Ten years ago to-day a great sob of relief burst from the hearts of millions of men and women of many races,
Agonised tebra X pressed it for many, a deep "Thank God" for others, while for much too large a number it found ex- pression in a wild and thoughtless yell of victory!
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Thus, on this Armistice Day, our thoughts turn with great humility
the millions of men and women, in all the nations engaged, wao were broken and crushed in body, mind, and spirit, by the devilish machinery of war:
Car illusions about war have af most vanished. No one will deny of course that some glorious chir. acteristics are evoked by it. A natural unity of aim and purpose, magnificent courage and
self sacrifice, stern self-discipline and persistent devotion to duty, won- derful comradeship and triumphant cheerfulness in the midst of misery. These things are some of the peaks of human attainment.
But, whereas we once praised war itself for producing these glories, we now realise that we need such virtues desperately for peace and not for war and that war, which certainly calls them out, yet calls out from human nature far more that is evil than that is good.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12th, 1928.
And mun said to Him "We want AT THE CHINESE MEMORIAL Deither you nor what you bring!".
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and they thought that by killing
Earlier in the morning at 0.18 Him they would get their way, A a.m. representatives of the British
So they schemed and plotted and Legion and the Ex-Active Service BEERY AND HATTON AGAIN Hied and nailed Him to a cross to Men's Association laid wreathe "on
AT THE QUEEN'S. hang in igromony and agony until the Monument erected in the He died. They chased him out of | Botanical Gardens in memory o the vineyard that the inheritance the Chinese who lost their lives in might be theirs. Bat the inherithe Great War, Sir Shou Son tance was not theirs. They had rẻ | Chow' and the Hon. Dr. R. H. fused the way of God and they were | Kotéwull laid, as in previous years, the losers. Christ was the victor a wreath on the Cenotaph as ro and the world in its wiser moments presentatives of the Chinese com acclaims him, as Buch. By His munity of Hong Kong.
There is an all comedy pro supreme sacrifice he has provided
gramme to-day at the Queen's men, for all time, with a picture of
including an Inkwell cartoon, a what the refusal of God's way
Hal Roach comedy "Habeas results in and the contemplation
About $3,000, roughly the same Corpus," in which the fat man of that sacrifice is the most power-
sum as last year, was realized by and the poor surprised thin one ful possible incentive to a change street sales of Flanders poppies in go to the grave yard at midnight of mind and life.
Hong Kong and Kowloon, The and get frightened out of their The murder of Christ was utterly poppy day sub-committee of the lives, and Raymond Hatter and contrary to the will of God. It
British Legion consisted of:- Wallace was caused by men's sin, but it
Brery in their latest draws us, like nothing else does,Messrs. W. B. Cornaby (Secretary), towards the goodness which is per- J. K. Shaw (Treasurer), Arthur sonified in him. Just so
can the Piercy, J. Hancock, W. Bracken, sacrifice of the victims of way
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shame us to a better way of life This sufering was, like that of Christ, wholly contrary to the will of God, but if it will cause us, who now live and have the building of the world in our hands, to be exceedingly humble about our past mistakes and to determine to bulid in future on God's foundations
alane, it will not have been in vain. Wiser Counsels.
In a few minutes we are going to stand and affirm our belief in God's way of life as stated by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount These things must be applied to national and international life ex actly as to individual life. So lorg as we refuse to do so, the horrors of war will continue, and more men and women will be sacrificed on the altar of men's sin.
But, haring at last, by the Grace of God, come to see clearly where we have been wrong in the past, we have hoped that the future may hold wiser counsels and nobler ideals for the world of to-day and for the generations which will follow us.
Therefore, with bumility and with sorrow for the past, but with hope for the future, we will use these wreathes, which have been. brought here as symbols of our thoughts, and lay them at the cenotaph with prayer that we may be given the will and the strength to build a new and better world.
AT THE CENOTAPH.
At the conclusion of the Cathe." dral service the whole congregation moved down to the Cenotaph where already a large crowd was assem bled, and the troops taking part in the ceremony had taken up their positions. The vast concourse of people of all nations was most in- pressive. They took their places with hardly a sound. and the duty of the police in keeping the ranks, was made almost unnecessary by the orderliness of the people who made no attempt to push of acramble for better positions.
His Excellency the Oficer Äð ministering the Government arrived
a car at 10.55. a.m. accompanied by Captain A. I. L. Whyte, A.D.C., and escorted by members of the Excellency had taken up his posi- Flying Squad. As soon 28 Hig
tion at the foot of the Cenotaph the pipers of the 2nd En. K.O.S.B. Our increasing clarity of vision Forest," to be followed by the played the lament "Flowers of the is showing us that the whole blame buglers of the 1st Bn. the Queen's single doorstep. All the world Last Post Officers and men on for war cannot ever be laid at & Royal Fegt who sounded the in some way, responsible for the parade stood at attention, and all suffering and death which wat brings in its train.
the men in the crowd stood un covered until the last note of the "Reveille had died away.
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"The Innocent Suffer With The Guilty." The human race is still refusing Ten years have helped us to see to organise its life according to the the thing is proportion. On the fundamental principle of love first Armistice Day we were almost therefore it suffers as must always entirely selfsh. As we had been | be the case-and the innocent suffe: selfish and thoughtless of the in- with the guilty because we are all dividuals of other rases who were one family. our enemies in the war, so we were I think that we have at last largely thoughtless of anyone's feel-reached the point of fearless ings except our own when the honesty in this matter. And there massacre ended,
fore we must admit that those who We had been drugged, for four suffered, and are suffering still, as years and our heads were still the result of the war, were sacrificed fuddled. We had lost the power to os a heathen altar-the altar of ace straight and steadily. But now man's lovelessness in almost ex- it is different. The effect of the actly the same way at Jesus Christ, drugs has worn off, our eyes have in His life and at His cricifixion, cleared, so that, like the blind man was sacrificed on the altar of man's healed by Jesus, instead of seeing refusal of God. men as trees were units in a forest We thank God with all out hearts to be folled if they get in our way-to-day for all that was magnificent we are beginning to see them now in the men who faced and gave as invaluable children of one great themselves to this sacrifice, but we Family, the Household" of Hum- have need to be utterly humble and anity, the Family of God. peaitent for the sing of men which cause war and produce such awful suffering,
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Self-Satisfaction And Hatred. All through the war, on either side of the trenches, self-satisfac-
"What Have I To Do With It.". tion on the 'one hand and hatred
But some may say "What have and contempt on the other, were I do with it I did not make fostered and turned out as by mass the war." No, but every one of us production. And for war this is knows perfectly well, it he is honest essential and while it lasts it will with himself, that he has within be so. This is what makes war such him, on the scale of a single in- a damnable thing. For its success dividual, all the seeds which, when ful conduct these things must be. they come to their full harvest in Men must be maddened before they social and international life, pro- will kill one another. It is not duce envy, hatred, malice and un- in the normal, healthy make-up of charitableness in the mass and so man to do so. Passions must because war. aroused and encouraged; the flames of bitternees must be fed, else the Lest nature of man will assert itself and spoil the war..
When Jesus walked the earth, He came to men with handa stretched out to bring them all that is good, all joy and truth, lore. and peace.
POPPY SALES.
ridge, G. W. Sewell and Mrs. Bogd Mrs. Robinson was in charge of the collections in Kowlook.
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"Firemen Save My Chüd” finds Hatton and Beery the heroes of so many rather similar misadventures, in the Fire Brigade, which, as soon as they join it appears to be run The thanks of the committee are on as original lines as the American due to Mrs. Reynolds and the City Army, Navy and Air Force when Hall authorities for, the use of the this pair honoured each of these City Hal, Messrs. Lane, Crawford services in turn. The moving spirit and Whiteaway, Laidlaw, for their of the picture is Dora the fire window displays, Messrs. A. S. chief's daughter, who rings up the Watson and Co.,. Powell's, and Brigade when she wants a handy Mackintosh, for lending their ad man in the house for say job from Vertising spaces in the newspapers, rescuing her parrot to dance with to the Hong Kong Tramway Co., her girl friends, Ltd. and the Hong Kong Hotel are her willing slaves and always Our two herÕES Co., Ltd, for putting handbilla in their can sad buses and to the tear to her rescue with engines B.A.T. Co. for the use of sheet hose and ladders to the great dan- posters.
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The committee the whole hearted support of the again received Fress, and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank most kindly sent shroffs to count the money.
CLUB DE RECREIO WAR
MEMORIAL.To
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UNVEILED BY H.E. THE GOVERNOR,
DEDICATED TO PTE. FRANK
N. SOARES.
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMME.
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Club de Recreio's War Memorial dedicated to Pte. Frank M. Soares, of the 3rd Battalion Mid- diesex Regiment, who was killed in action at Ypres during the Great War; was unveiled by H.E. the Officer Administering the Govern- ment (Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, C..G.) at the Club-house at King's Park yesterday at noon. ing at the Club including repre-
There was a very large gather-Tomorrow sentatives of various Portuguese Institutions and ex-Service men (Portuguese) who had served in the Great War. H.E. the Governor of Maceo was also represented at the ceremony.
sad Wednesday: "Women Love Diamonds," drama of modern society life with Pauline Starke, Owen Moore, and Lionel Barrymore. Thursday to Saturday: Clara Bow inRough House Rosie," comedy drama of the prize ring.
Star.
Love Story" with Gloria Swar. son, Ian Keith and George Fawcett.
Thursday to Saturday: "Matinée Ladies" with May McAvoy.
ELE the Governor arrived promptly at noon, accompanied by Major H. B. L. Dowbiggin," H.K.V.D.C. and H.E. Major To-day: Bébé Daniels in The General C. C. Luard, C.B., O.M.G. tencies, the band of the Portuguese
On the arrival of their Excel-To-morrow and Wednesday: "Her
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Company of the Volunteer Defence Corps played Hong Kong
Guard of Honour, supplied by the the National Anthem; while the Portuguese Company of the Volun- mand of Lieut. R. R. Davies, teer Defence Corps under the com- M.C.; M.M., presented arms. Excellency accompanied by Mr. J. M. da Rocha, President of the of 23 years that. a "broth" of a Club de Recreio, and Major Dow- Portuguese Hong Kong boy passed. biggin inspected the Guard of to the Great Beyond on the field Honour.
of Flanders. He was buried in Chester Farm Cemetery, Plot" 1, Row C grave 13, 2 miles South of Ypres.
His
To live in hearts we leave behind "Is not to die,"
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A gun fred from the Murray Parade Ground at 11 am. was the signal for the Two Minutes' Silence,
A Very Gallant Young Soldier... which is kept all over the British Empire at this hour on Armistice In asking His Excellency to un- Day: No sound could be heard veil the Memorial, Mr." Rocha except, in the distance, the fami said :— liar clatter of Chinese wooden Your Excellencies, Ladies and shoes, until a second gun signalled Gentlemen,-It may seem rather the end of the silence. The buglers late in the day for the Club de of the 1st Bn. the Queen's Royal Recreio to discharge its obligation Thus lives the memory of "Frank" Regt. then sounded the "Reveille," to one of its members whose name and this was followed by the sing is inscribed in the Roll of Honour in the hearts of all his compatriots ing by all present of the hymn "bby perpetuating his memory in oad in the name of the Club de God our help in ages past," which the shape of a Memorial erected Recreio, 1 ask Your Excellency to was played by the band of the within the Club grounds.
unveil this memorial which has 1st. Bo. the Bedfordshire and Hert- fordshire Regiment.
His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government then went forward and laid the first wealth, of white chrysanthemums, on the Cenotaph, saluted the Glorious Dead" and returned to his station. Wreaths were then laid by Major-General CC Luard, C.B. C.MG., and Commodore J. Pearson, E.M.G., followed by the senior representatives of the French and American Navies on parade. parade ground, and wreaths were His Excelleney then left the laid by representatives of various public bodies of the Colony and by private individual
Units from the following regi- ments made up the Army repre sentative party stationed at the Cenotaph-Royal Artillery, Raysi Engineers, R. Corps of Bignals, 1st En. Queen's Royal Regt., 1st Ba. Beds. and Herts. Regt., 2nd Bn. The K.0.8.B., R.A.S.O, R.A.M.C, R.A.O.C., R.A.F., HK.B. Brigade, H.A.,. 3/18th Punjab Regiment, Hong Kong Mule Corps.
The delay is capable of explari-been especially designed and con- tion. Until the Club. had its own structed by Mr. Ferd H. Meyer of building in this beautiful Park, Oakland, California, in the form the idea of a Memorial for the late of a Sundial, and is dedicated to Francisco Maria Soares has had to the memory of one of the band of be deferred, and we are gathered the glorious dead here to-day in the performance of a mournful duty, the unveiling of ber who made the supreme sacrifice
a modest memorial for a late mem-
in the World War.
a Portuguese member of the Hong FRANCISCO MANIA BOARES
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Unveiling the memorial, His Ex- Our late friend together with a cellency said: In the Glory of few of our compatriots joined up God and in memory of a brave at Hong Kong and left the Colony man, I have the honour to unveil on the 4th December, 1014, on the this memorial" troopship Delta with the first con- then he was a member of the Hong Battalion Queen's Regiment then The bugle Corps from the lat tingent as a Volunteer unit. Until
arrival at Chatham, he was found Reveille. Kong Volunteers. Boon after his sounded the Last Post, and the efficient though for active service and was posted to the 3rd Bat-wreath on the memorial and other His Excellency, then placed his talion Middlesex Regiment as & wreaths were placed on it from Private and to our great sorrow Portuguese institutions and from was killed in" action" on the 6th the Consul General. dreds of thousands, young Soares late Pte. Frank Soares was then April, 1018. Like so many hun Mrs. Soares, the mother of the died a glorious death in the very introduced to His Excellency by prime of life. It was at the age Mr. Rochs, and to H.E. Major
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