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IF THE WAR DEAD COULD COME BACK
MR. BALDWIN'S SPEECH
DIARY OF LOCAL
EVENTS
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19
Anniversaries and Holidays. Jomada II St. Lewis Bertrand of Toulouse.
Cinemas
King's: Bulldog Jack." Queens:-"Border Filght." Oriental:-"Exclusive Story." Wotid: "Chinese Picture." Alhambra: "Nobody's Foof” Majestic:-"Tailspin Tommy." Star:"Little Colonel"
Commercial-"Star" Ferry Co... Interim Dividend payable; Hong- kong Land Investment & Agency Co., Interim Dividend payable,
Dances.-Checro Club Dance,: 8
Meetings. Kowloon Union Church Women's Guild Monthly Business 10 am; S. & S. House Committee 5.30 p.m.; Kow.con Tong Church Committee, 6p.m.
"Social-Whist Drive at Sailors'
Home and Seamen's Institute, pm: Whist Drive and Tombola at Garrison Sergeants' Mess, Queen's Road, 8.30 p.m.
Sports
Bowls Open Pars Final, R. Duncan and S. Randia v. J. E Noronha and F. X M, da Silva Civil Service C.C. green), 430 p.m
Swimming.-R.AOC Association Gala (Y.M.C.A.), 8.45 pm):
London, July 29," Mr. Baldwin made a most moving speech to the Canadian Pilgrims in Westmister Hull, yesterday before on the they laid their wreaths Cenotaph. He spoke simple, wing et words which came straight from the heart and will be carried in the hearts of those who heard then across the sea. The Prime Minister never tires of dwelling on what the world lost when, as Paricles said! in funeral oration over the Athenr an dead, "the year was robbed of its spring." The Great War rob hed the world of four springs, and those would have been, the leaders of to-day and to-morrow, never came to summer, to the infilte loss of victors and vanquished alike.R.C.v. Kowloon C.C. they could come back, said fr. Baldwin, there would be ao var They would never be the younar generation taste what they did." That is to say, they would exercise such a mighty power over the shapLow at 3.55 and 18.80. ing of national policies as to con
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 pel the world's statesmen to make good the prophecy, "Nation shall
Anniversaries and Holidays. not lift up sword against nation, St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor. neither shall they learn war any
Auction-Crown Lands, Land more,"
Tennis B Division Indian
Moon-VII Moon, 3rd Day. Sunrise 6,02m Sunset 6. 52
Tides-High at 10:30 and "23.24,"
Ctuemas
King Bulldog" Jack. Queen Border Flight." Oriental:
Broadway Melody Of
Exactly the same thought found Office, Ping Shan, 11.30 a.m. utterance in the last public speech that President Wilson made na Decoration Day, 1919, when plead ing for the acceptance of the Treaty which contained the Covenant of the League of Nations. There
1036." scerns to me," he said, "to stand bė
World:-"Chinese Picture." tween us and the rejection or quali-
Alhambra:"Nobody's Fool.", Bration of this Treaty the serried
Majestic:-"Tailspin Tommy." ranks of those boys in khaki, not only those boys who came home, búɛ
Star: Anna Karenina.” Miscellaneous. --Claims against those dear ghosts that still deploy upon the fields of France." They the Estate of Edith Maude Craven also throng the road that leads due.
Boclai.-Cheero Club Bridge and trom the Menin Gate, so that the living who pass along it have al Mah Jong Drive, 8 p.m. Civil Ser- most, in Mr. Baldwin's words, to vice Cricket Club Whist Drive, 9 "push their way.” If the worl can Snu no other way of settling F.; St. Andrew's Club Open
Night," 9 p.m. disputed than the way of war, the world, he said, reserves to perish Moon-VI Moon, 4th. Das But the world cannot be allowed Sun-Ise-3.02 a.m, Sunset.-8.51 to perish, whatever it deserves, and D.m
happily that terrific judgment". Tides.--High at 11.05 and 23:40 "Yes. I get $200 a month." sala hardly lies" within human determi Low at 4.35 and 17.18. the private secretary.
"HOW do you manage to carn stach a large salary? asked the school-teacher.
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nation. If Frenchmen and Ger mans can lay their colours together on the Cenotaph, in Whitehall, as
Anniversaries and Holidaya.- they did last month, there shoul St, Jane Frances of Chantal. be no more fighting, said Mr. Buid- win. It would be monstrous to question the entire sincerity of the act Yet how long is it since the third most powerful Minister of the Teich declared, "Some people say there is a world conscience which i the League of Nations, whose part it is to preserve the peace of the world but I prefer to rely on
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·CORONATION OF THE KING
Longest Drive On Record
London, Aug. 18. Peiping-Shanghai The route of the King's Corona- through train will leave Pelping tion on May 12 next year, which
King "It Had To Happen." Queen's: Trall, of the Lone-
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Oriental: Let 'Em Have It." World: Chinese Picture." Alhambra:Trail of the Lone-
some Pine." Majestic:-"Tailspin Tommy." Star: "The Married Her Boss." Lectures-Helena May Christian Fellowship, Meeting, 10.30 a.m.
Miscellaneous.-Claims against the Estate of Abraham Saleh Manasseh Adrián Saleh Manassch), due.
Moon VII Moon, 5th, Day. Social-Hgrs. R.A.WO.'s & Ber- gets. Mass Whist Drive and Tom- bala, 8.30 pm: Cheero Club Dupl cate Contract Bridge, 8 p.m.
Sports...
Tennis "B" Division, Kowloon C.C. v. Crafgengower C/C.
Bunrise.-6.02 am Sunset 6.60
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Tides-High at 11.34 and 23.68; at 6 o'clock every afternoon, arriy-has been announced; shows the Low at 5.16 and 17.44. Ing Shanghai at 7.40 on the third drive from Westminster Abbey" to morning. The trip will take 35 be the longest on record; covering. hours and 40 minutes instead of twice the distance taken at the over 38 hours as required by the Coronation of King George, thus gar Square and Whitehall, and re- present schedule.
giving the enormous crowds ex- turn by way of the Victoria En- pected ample opportunity to wit ness the pageant. qala
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