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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1925.
DAY BY DAY.
tenso interest in the United States, not so much by reason of the issues surrounding the dis-
LOOK AT ALL THE REALLY aster itself, but because of the
WHY DO criticisms of the U. 8. Air Service GREAT AND GOOD MEN, which have been made in the WE CALL THEM GREAT AND course of the enquiry. The GOOD? BECAUSE THEY DARE TO, world flior, Llout. Wade, has do BE TRUE TO THEMSELVES, THEY clared his intention of rosigning DARE TO BE WHAT THEY ARE—' the service because of lack of op Mar Muller. portunity, whilst another officor!
has come forward with the The opening rate of the dollar surprising statoment that on demand to-day is 2s. 4.7/168. Anterica is only oighth among
the Powors us regards aviation, Communication by water be ranking even lower than Poland. tweon Canton and Shek-kl in maid Colonel Mitchell himself recently to have been restored since the stated that America's air infer-11th, instant. iority is due to official Incom-
potence and unwise economy.
Miss D. Sawyer has boen ap- One of his suggestions is that all pointed to the post of headmis
Girls' branches of America's fighting tross of the Diocesan [forces should be grouped togother School, Kowloon, as from Septem-
under a single Secretary of No-bor 1, tional Defence, which, ho says,
Owing to the death of H.M. Queen Alexandra, dancing will not take place in the Grill Room of the Hongkong Hotel or at the Repulse Bay Hotel this evening.
will eliminato pulling ut cross A District Court Martial is to purposes, duplication and jeni-be held at Wellington Barracks Lousy. The Colonel has of late on Tuesday for the trial of Havil | been indulging in some extremely dar Major Chan, Chu-fat, of the
severe criticisms of the two flying 40th Co., R.E. servicon of his country, and thus has arison the question whether or not he has not been guilty of insubordination. Seemingly, he does not fear such a verdict, bo cause he has declared that what he has said has been a patriotic noeesssity, and he holds that the
It is announced that the Vic- country's welfare depends on the toris Trading Company, Limited, broadcasting of what he conceives and the Sisiman Bleamship Com- to be the truth. One American pany Limited, will, unless cause writer says that his dismissal is shown, be struck off the register. would, in the circumstances, be no disgrace" on the contrary, it j
The forthcoming marriage is would be regarded by many as announced of Mr. David Daiglush, | badge of courage and would prob- civil engineer, Shanghai, to Miss ably land hin in the House of Lola Charlotte Burdett-Taylor, Representatives." Be that as it who arrives in the Colony by the may, the trial is arousing the Kaylor. most intense concern in service land civilian circles in the States, and it will be interesting to see THE EMPIRE MOURNS. how it all turns out in the ond.
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One of the most serious aspects i of the sad tragedy on the Laichi-.
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The U.S.S. Huron, flying the flag of the Commander-in-Chief
THE LATE QUEEN MOTHER.
Taken some years ago, the above is one of the best known portraits of the lato Queen Alexandra.
THE "M.1" VICTIMS.
of the U.S. Asiatic Squadron ac- THIS MORNING'S MEMORIAL · cumpained by the U.S.S. General Aluva, is due to arrive at Hoog- kong next Thursday.
SERVICES:
no brief for war, but he believed there was a spiritual ideal em- bodied in the life of a sailor and soldier-the ideal of cheerful and instant obedience to duty. In con- clusion, His Lordship said that
a dream. Ho, could not believe
Special services to the memory life looked far too big to pass for Judge Purdy at the II. S. Court of the officers and men who lost that all the labour of the ages, all of the passing of the Queen "kak Road into which a Coroner's for Shanghai on November 12th their lives in the Sinking of the the devotion, and all the noonday ther, who on her arrival in England Jury concluded enquiring on gave judgment for 300 with as far back as 1863, captured the Thursday, was, we think, the fact costs, in the action of Ross y, the submarine M1.1, were held this brightness of genius were destined hearts of the British people and pital informed an enquirer at asked for $50,000 as damages for Roman Catholic Cathedrals. Both the world, but had made him a re that the Government Civil 1os- China Preys in which plaintiff morning in both the Anglican and to extinction. God had not male man to be the jest and riddle of has held their love and esteem Kowloon that the hospital was full an alleged libel.
were attended by navai dotailsfection of His own personal in- ever since. By her death, one up and could not take in the
from the various British men-of-war finity. "Lord Thou hast been our casualty patient. Eventually the Amongst the passengers who of the very best and highest little girl, whose subsequent death arrived by the Empress of Aus-
in port, and the services were of dwelling place in all generations. Trust in God is the last of all types of womanhood has been has been widely and deeply re-tralis yesterday were Mrs. Eldon a most impressive character.
things and the whole of all things.” the gratted, had to be sent to the Potter, Major and Mrs. R. R. AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL. removed from
Victoria Hospital. on Barker Lewis, Mrs. L. Dunbar, Mr. and
ROMAN CATHOLIC SERVICE. memory of a life spent in helping Ryad, the Peak. For the moment, Mrs. R. J. Goodman, Mr. C. C. of naval units at the service in St. There was a very large gathering
At the Roman Catholic Cathedral. Else we are not concerned with any Stark and Mr. W. D. Goodfellow. John's Cathedral, at which the the service took the form of a others will long remain.
the CANC further aspect of where in this issue we give some than the bare fact that someone;
Bishop of Victoria (Dr. Duppuy) Solemu Requiem Mass, the cele- Reincarnation: The Hope of delivered an appropriate address. brant being the Rev. Father Percy details of the late Queen Alexan-in authority at the Govermont the World" will be the subject of His Excellency the Governor and O'Connor, naval chaplain. After dra's "life" and "the great works of Civil Hospital stated, in answer.
The information that an accident public lecture at tho-Hongkong Mrs. Clementi, together with Sir the Mass, an appropriate address
Lodge of the Theosophical Society, mercy in which she was so deeply patient was being sent across, Buddell Street, on Monday, Matthew Nathan, were present, as was given by the Very Rev. Father interested, and to these little need that all the beds in the hospital November 23rd, at 6 p.m. sharp. also were Vice Admiral Sir G. M. Spada, whilst the Absolution be added. The innumerable public were full and that the patient Lecturer, Mr. Irving S. Cooper, Alexander Sinclair, Commodore was given later at the Catafalque.
had better be sent to Victoria San Francisco. The meeting is Stirling, Sir Henry Gollan, Mr. The Rev. Father Spadu, in his Jucts which, throughout many long Hospital. We thought it was a opon to the public.--Adit. Justice Wood, Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, address, said: Dear brethren,****
yeurs, she was called upon to per-general axion in hospital mun-
Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.L.E., and When some days ago the wire con- the sad news that The draft Bill of an Ordinanco many other Government oflclats veyed to us form were discharged with a' tact agement that no hospital was ever too fall to refuse the ad-
H.M. Submarine M.1, had founder- and charm which could not be ex-mission of a casualty, and we to amend the Magistrates Ordin-and leading residents.
ance is published. Amongst other His Lordship the Bishop, wholed and that about sixty gallant celled, and she was ever ready to sincerely hope that some official things, this Bill will enable a chose as the title for his sermon naval men have lost their lives, our
Statement will be made making Government servent respond to the call of the suffering that just us clear here as it is in
who has "The Spirit of Discipline," preach community was deeply touched, and once been appointed a polico ed from the words "Lord thou hast we offer our prayers to-day for the She lived be most parts of the world. Le: us magistrate to exercise the powers been our dwelling place in all repose of their souls. and the needy.
We offer fore the people as a devoted wife be fair, and say it is quite pos of a magistrate even though he generations."(Psalm 90, 1). 1.75
sible that the person who receiv
our deepest sympathy to the British At the outset he said they ware Navy on this trial and to the re- ed the message at the G.C.H. did has since been appointed' to some beautiful home life around her not realise that the patient whoso other office. *
met for a common purpose-the latives of those gallant men who, In the evening of her life, after admittance was being sought was
desire to do honour to the memory in obedience to their country's call, It is reported that at a meeting in need of very urgent medica of the Committee. of Provincial of brave men, men who may have were serving in the submarine and Its days of regal triumphs, inter-aid, and that matters were not 90 Affairs in Canton it was decido been shipmates and companions of in an accident have met their death. spersed with deep personal sr-clearly understood then as they to incorporate Dr. Sun's Three some of them there. It was in Honour is due to them who have' rows, she delighted to gather he in evidence that the hospital pou-Peoples' Doctrine into the cur-spirit of comradeship that they sacrificed their lives in the coun- family and intimate friends around pie were told that there had been riculum of all schools in Kwang-met-united by ties of a common try's service. But not only honour One would have tung, and that the educational service, a common Empire, a edin-we must give them, but also accord→. her, and almost to the end she re- an accident.
"We in this ing to our Faith, we must help; thought that fact would have been and civil service bureaux are to men humanity. tained her personal interest in the sufficient to have warranted ad-undertake the compilation of the Church to-day are one in heart and relieve, and comfort them, and the Explatory mind with those who, two days offer for them various institutions which enjoyed mission anywhere and at any text books for that purpose.
ago, at breaking dawn, came to Sacrifico that they may find merey her patronage, particularly the time. We of this Colony soum
just a little too indifferent to haete! By order of the Leningrad gether at their trysting plade out before the Almighty. The Second nursing services and the children's or urgency as far as accidents Soviot, the old fortress of St. at sea at the spot where Submarine Book of the Macabees, c.12, v.45, took her last fatal plunge, says: "It is a holy and wholesome hospitals. Although well past the are concerned. The ambulance Peter und St. Paul, the Bastille".
of Tsarist Russia on the River of and committed to the Eternal thought, to pray for the dead that allotted span, she maintained great disgrace to a city of nearly a mil-Neva, is to be domolished. The Father the souls of those whose they may be loosed from sin," In elasticity of mind and spirit; keep-lion people, and all too often are site is to be transformed into a bodies were imprisoned there below, their abiding faith they have no
Only the
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We do nead to he some other buildings of historical and the "Last Post" sounded forth by making the supreme sacrifice, As it tality, The Evangelist St. John, still in silent reverence. her life she was a paragon of social jolted out of this attitude of seem-interest are to be allowed to re- and sorried ranks of men stood they have found the future immor- vas with Scott's party in the c.5, v.29, says: "They that have and political discretion. She made ingly studied indifference. England her home in the true sense
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A mandate from the Excutive Frozen South, as it was with done good things shall come forth Council of the Canton Govern-Irvine and Mallory pressing on into the resurrection of life." For wont has been issued to Govern- towards the sumunit of unconquered to Thy faithful, O Lord, He is mental Departments, both civil Everest, be it was with those sixty changed, not taken away, and when We the house of this earthly dwelling and military, forbidding servants men and more a week ago. of the Govorment to strike or know no details of the end, perhaps is dissolved, an eternal habitation It is to resign in a boody, under heavy we never ehall know. Only we are is prepared in Heaven. penalties. It is said that this sure that when, all unawares, the assure to them, this happiness that mandate is the outcome of the hour of crisis came upon them the The issue of one hundred million intending resignation of the training and discipline of months feeling, not for a single moment:" dollars worth of ftalion gold bonds, teachers of the Government Pri- and years did not fall them." Now Death has removed this graciat seven per cent. at 041⁄2 and nia-miary Schools. our and lovable personality, but turing, on December 1st, 1951, has been over-subscribed,Reuter's the Mother Queen's good worke Americen Service. will remain, and the memory of a sweet life will be cherished throughout the years to come.
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ask of you all to pray for them, to offer good works for them and invoke upon them the eternal rest Having said that a sailor's or Eternal rest give unto them, O soldier's training was just as Lord! And let perpetual light shing Officials at the General Fost much a training in moral courage upon them! May they rest in peacel Office pent un extremely busy as in physical courage, His Lord- AMEN!" morning dealing with an
ship said they could not doubt that coptionally heavy Christmas those men in the sunken submarine, Home mail. The Supt. of Mails even amid their anguish, were able informed a Telegraph representa- to meet the Unseen bravely. The ception of the restriction of na- It is reported that with the ox-
H. E. the Governor has nominative that, in anticipation of a: ted the following as mombors of rush, work of clearing the boxes riches of a nation were its acts of vigation in the waterways, censor the Court of University of Hong-commenced at 6 a.m. and it was unselfishness and gonerous sacrship on all letters and parost post, The court-martial of Colonel kong for a perind of three years-found necessary to make clear-ce, and they were honouring that and strict search of all hotels and Mitchell, arising out of the Shon-Messrs. W. H. Bell, A. Cameron, anees every fifteen minutes until day the spirit of unselfishness and inns, martial law has been rescind andoah disaster, is arousing in-|R. M. Dyer and Paul Lauder. the mail closed.
simple devotion to duty. Ho held | od in Kongmoon.