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ST. GEORGE'S DAY IN HONG KONG.
SOMERSETS SOUND THE RETREAT.
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MR. W. E. L. SHENTON'S ADDRESS.
St. George's Day was celebrated yesterday irith more formality. than has been customary in Hong Kong. The ceremony of" laying a wreath on the Cenotaph was well attended at 11 a.m. and "The Retreat" played by the band of the Somerset Light Infantry... attracted a large crowd to the Cricket Club ground at 3.30 pm.
At 7 p.m. the President broadcast an address to Englishmen, also the telegrams received from branches of the Society in other parts of the world,
At B p.m. a mass successful smoking concert was held for Servicemea in Lee Theatre, East Point.
AT THE CENOTÀPH.
MR. W. E. L. SHENTON'S ADDRESS.
The stirring days of Drake and Raleigh the gallant fight of Sir} Richard Grenville of the "Re venge," took place under the ban- ner of St. George, In.was the flag of England which these undaunted pioneers unfurled on the shores of the New World-the flag which en- circled the globe and carried to the Indies, those long and lasting foundations of our glorious Empire.
Mistress of the Seas. Under the redoubtable Blake, the sannon of our ships thundered along the shores of the Mediter ransan, bringing succour to the weak and justice to the oppressed. Well migh; Cromwell my **Fly auch missions as these, we shall make the mame of Englishmen as great as that of Rome was, in Rome's most palmy days." It was Blake who defeated the Dutch, and compelled the maritime powers of Europe to again acknowledge Eng- Fand Mistress of the seas," in token of which to this day, the whip-lash pennant, with St. George's cross at the hoist, is home by all His Majesty's ships ið. commission; and the banner of St.
our flag, to which the poet Camp- bell sing-
An unusually large gathering assembled at the. Cenotaph yester day morning The Hon. Mr. W. THE ST. GEORGE OF HISTORY. George remains the Admiral's flag. EL. Shenton (President of the Society of St George. Hong Kong) and the Hon. Sir Henry Follock, R.C.. LL.D. (a Past President) together deposited a wreath at the Cenotaph.
Mr. W. E. L. Shenton's address was as follows:-
Englishmen and Englishwomen.- To-day is the anniversary of the partyrdour of St. George of Lydda, the Patron Saint of England, Ha met his death on the 23rd of April
A.D. 303.
Captain F. G. Sillitoe, Ral, Aide de-Camp. laid a wreath on behalf of H.E. the Governor (Sir Coil Clementi, K.C.M.G.),
Others present included Mr. W.
It is on the 23rd of April in each A. Dawley and Mr. C. G. Alabaster, year that the English in all parts O.B.E., K.C. (Past Presidents), the of the world gather together, happy Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy; C.B.E., the in the fact that they are English Hon. Mr. T. H. King, Mr. Tand that England is their native Batle (hoa. secretary), Mr. T. E. and. Pearce, Mr. H. R. Phelips. Mr. C. Bulmer Johnson, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, M... Mr. S. J. Jordain, M.C., Mr. E. M. Hazeland, Mr. W. I. Stokes. Mr. W. A. Cornell, Mr.: G. E. Wetton. Lieut. Col. T. A. Robertson, Mr. E. W. Carpenter."
After the ceremony those present were entertained by the President to refreshments:
Tis a glorious charter, deny it
who can. That's breathed in the word:
I'm an Englishman."
"Fe mariners of England
That guard our native Seas, Whose flag has braved a thou.
sand years
The battle and the Breeze". with the battle cry St. George It was on St. George's Day and
för England that the unconquer- able Forces of England and the British Empire carried the assault of Zeebrugge, that incomparable feat, that will live for all time.
St. George not only Eves in the past, but to-day, and in the future. He is representative of English nationality and cohesiveness-he is the bend which unites Englishment throughout the Empire, and indeed throughout the world.
name
I have received as President of the St. George's Society of Hong His Majesty our King whose re Kong the following telegrams ofcovery from His recent illness has greetings from kindred Societies.
brought so much joy to His sub- jects, bears the birth *George," "after our Patron Saint. English Countryside. So much for the history of St. George and what he means, to Eng is something more-it is land and to Englishmen, but there George's Day that the thoughts of on St. Englishmen wherever they are, re
were:
WORLD. WIDE MESSAGES. Glits of Roses. Baskets of English roses
Complimentary telegrams receiv- wered by the Society in Hong Kong presented by the Society to Mrs. W. T. Soathorn (wife of
the Colonial Secretary) and to Mrsnt banquet. Hirst Lord of the Ad LONDON-Prince George present A. K. Waistel (wife of H.E the miralty chairman. All prosperity Commander-in-Chief). Bunches of roses were also given to the follow. and happiness.-St. George's So
ing:-
Government Civil Hospital. Vic toria Hospital, Peak Hospital, Matilda Hospital, Military Hos- pibal (Bowen Road), Royal Naval Hospital, French Convent Hospital, Alice Memorial Hospital, Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital (Eastern Street), Tung Wah Hospital, Italias Convent Hospital, St. Francis In £rmar (sachai), howloon Hoa. pital. Kowloon Military Hospital, Kwong Wah Hospital.
The usual complimentary tele grams were received by the Society in Hong Kong. and were broadcasti by the President in the evening.
"THE RETREAT."
The Hong Kong Cricket Club ground, which was already bordered with marquees decorated with flags, in preparation for the Garden Party to be given for. H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester on Friday, made an ex- cellent background for the musical entertainment given by the band of the Somerset Light Infantry. The band, under the baton of Mr. E. J.
Woollcott, was massed in the cen tre of the ground, and not only was all the available accommoda ion well filled but the railings were lined with spectators standing in the street, and a good number more watched the proceedings from the Murray Parade Ground
The programme was as follows: 1, Fanfare of Bugles.
2. The Retreat,
ciety.
SHAMEEN, CANTON-Hearty frat ernal greetings.
PEPING-President and members Peking send greetings. wishes from the President and VANCOUVER:-Greetings and best members of the Vancouver, British Columbia, branch of the Society,
turn to their native land, and there is no one who does not ask himself in his heart, what it is that Eng- and stands for. And there comes into one's mind a wonder as to minds of generations to come, il what England may stand for in the our country goes on during the next last two, in converting her fields generation as she has done in the
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To an Englishman. surely Eng KOBE-Heartiest greetings from land is the country and the country Kobe-Arlet, President.
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through the ear, through the eye To-day being St. George's Day it and through certain imperishab o will no doubt be of interest to scents, and what are they -The character, so perhaps in the ten Englishmen to hear something of sounds of England, the tickle of thousandth century, long after the much of which is of course the sub-country smithy the cornerake on them have fallen, and others have St. George's legendary history. the hammer on the anvil in the Empires of this world as we know ect of controversy and may or may dewy morning, the sound of the risen and fallen, and risen and Lydda in Palestine A.D. 970. Lydda sight of a plough team coming over on this earth may yet speak of He was born in scythe against the whetstone, the fallen again, the men who are ther is situated on the plains of Sharon, the brow of a hill, the sight that those characteristics which we this beautiful 80 celebrated for its roses, and as has been seen in England since prize, as the characteristics of the George's favourite, it became the
flower WILS. St. England was a land
English, and that long after the The wild anemones in the woods name of the country has passed national emblem of England. in April, the last load of hay being away, wherever men are honourable profession and entered the Roman comes out, and you can scarcely of home, of their brethren, of St. George became a soldier by drawn down a lane as the twilight and upright and persevering, lovers Army. peror of Rome sent him on a mis
Diocletian" the then Em- distinguish the figures of the horses justice, and of humanity, the men rion to England-he landed on the and above all, most subtle, most we still have among us the gifts of as they take it Home to the farm, in the world of that day may, BRY. West Coast-herzce St. George' penetrating and most moving, the that great English Race. channel. Whilst there he was in smell of wood smoke coming up in strumentai in converting the Em-
I think the thoughts of every autumn SMA press Helena, the mother of Con-smoke that our ancestors lens of
evening-that wood Englishman abroad today are well stantine, to Christianity. Constan- thousands of years ago must have expressed in the words of Words tine, who was born at York, also caught on the air, when they were embraced Christianity, and cunse coming home with the result of the day's forage, when they were still nomads, and when they were still
3. March... Sambre y Meuse.quently became Emperor of Rome, 4. Bugle March Windsor. St. George and Constantine became
The Ride of St. George.
3. Descriptive Piece
7.
8. March. Marching thro' Georgia.
Rule Britannia.
fellow soldiers and fast friends.
Christiana.
worth:-
"I travelled among unknown men
In lands beyond the sea. England! I never knew till then The love. I bore for thee."'. In conclusion, whilst it is on St.
St. George met his death at the roaming the forests and the plains. These things strike down into the Buglo March Old Faithful, hands of the Emperor Diocletian very depths of our being, and touch George's Day, that our thoughts Grand Fantasia of Englah because of his support of the chords that go had to the begin- turn to Englishmen and England,
Songs...
When Constantine became Em-ring of time and the human race, nevertheless our good wishes and peror of Rome he chose St. George, but they are chords that with every desire for hearty co-operation, go He sound a deeper out to all the other races and his old friend, as the Patron Saint year of our
nationalitica, who together with us of his Native land-England, and note in our innermost being.
make up the Great British Empire. thus the red cross of St. George is on our flag, and his favourite.
THE SMOKING CONCERT. flower, the rose, became our national" emblem.
Then raise the standard of St.
George,
The Evening Hymn. Regt. March....Prince Albert God Save The King. "The Retreat" itself was very impressive, but not more so than the two Bugle marches "Windsor and Old Faithful," played while marching round in a hollow square within a few hundred yards of the audieace.
For all that's good and great. And try and follow in his steps Old England's Patron Saint." St. George's fame has come down
to us from earliest history.
Things That Make England.„ These are the things that make England. They ought to be the in- heritance of every English child-
The Lee Theatre, "kindly loaned nothing can be more touching that by the Lee Hysan Estate Co., Ltd, to see how every man and woma was the scene of an excellent will have their garden if they can, ameking concert, of typically "Eng. will go to gardens if they can,lish songs, music and humour, very to look at something they have much appreciated by a large audi
ever seen, but, which their ances-ence of Service men.
tors knew and loved. The love of
these things is innate and inherent
Service men are not niggardly
in the English. It makes for that with their applause, il convinced features of our race, and it is that of the concert, by the band of love of home, one of the strongest reception accorded the opening item it is well-deserved, and from the
more
right foot "--which 'always
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The descriptive piece "The Ride
From "Merrie England " of St. George" was very well play-
Mr. Green and Chorus, ed, but it was theFantasia of
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In the Saxon days King Arthur
Davenport Brown, Mra, Bel- one of these delightful unrehearsed and the Knights of the Round Table effects, which are often remembered called themselves "The Brother
lamy, Miss Hancock, Mr. Ani- aise, Mr. Brock, Mr. Green. long after the cension which caused hood of St. George."
Mr. Griggs, Mr. Parker, them would otherwise have been King Richard Coeur de Lion and that makes our race seek its new H.M.S. Kent, it was obvious that Finale Land of Hope and forgotten. During the playing of the Crusaders bore on their shields home in the Dominions overseas the entertainment had got off" on
·Glory".... Mrs. Womack... "Drink to me only with thine eyes" the Cross of St. George. Their where they have room to see things the
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a lady and gentleman whose ages battle cry was "St. George for sec at home. It is that power of means such a lot The next num Accompanists: Mrs. Griggs, Mr. resistibly attracted, and set off upward.
in the year 1992, at the Council making homes, almost peculiar to be selections from The Gom
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an encore, and "A Regular Bayal
Band of HMS, Kent, by kind towards the players. A ripple of feast of St. George should be ob- sources of their greatness. The Queen" into which the artistes pat faughter went round the audience, served as a national, holiday.
Wolfe- go overseas, and they take with.
permission of Capt. J. much vim, was accordingly repeat- and the gentleman, rather ungal- lantly deserted his lady at the
love of justice, love of truthi and received, and the programme con- them what they learned at homeed. Other items were equally well Murray, D.S.O., R.N., and Officers. sound and ran back to his mother. King Edward IL in the year the broad humanity, that are so tinued smoothly to its all-too-quick But the tiny pair of red shoes waz 1317 instituted the Order of the characteristic of English people. termination. dered on, until, when most of the Garter-the blue ribbon of chivalry It may well be that these traits on
The full programme was as fol. distance was covered, their wearer dedicating it to St. George, and which we pride ourselves, which we suddenly faltered, hesitated for a directing that the annual fcetival hope to show and try to show in lows!--
Part L little, and solemnly marched back should be held at Windsor on: St. our own lives, may survive-survive again
George's Day.
among our people so long as they King Henry V. won the great are a people--and just as to-day, The evening hymn "Ahide with me" was played, beautifully, and victory of Agincourt under the more than fifteen centuries since impressively and was followed by banner of St. George, Shakespeare the last of those grent Roman "Prince Albert" the regimental represents him as saying Cry legionaries left England, we stil: maroh, of the Bomereet Light In God for Harry, England and St. speak of the Roman strength, and fantry and the National Anthem, George."
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