THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY
25TH, 1913
THE COLONYS WAR MEMORIAL
UNVEILING OF THE CENOTAPH YESTERDAY.
IMPOSING CEREMONIAL.
THE SPEECHES.
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Judas the Machabee, and pray that they may and in God the everlasting reward they have deserved by their sacrifice on the battl field. Eternal rest give to them, O Lord: and let perpetual light shine upon them."
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR then walked up to the Monument, saluted, laid a wreath, and retired.
**Last
From Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung. **In remembrance, from Messrs. Butter field and Swire and Staff (The inscrip- tion contains th names of 17 men whe fell in the War. The names appear andor the headings of Butterfield and Swire, Taikoo Dock and the China Navigation Co).
From Gilman and Co. Ltd.”
In loving memory of 1st Class P. 0. Blansdon. Sab 1 5, sunk by German nu November 3rd, 1914. Greater love hath no man who giveth his life for a friend.
"La loving memory of William Howell
Hongkong. united by many ties with the heart of the Empire. established,
Ten buglers from the King's Regiment, Mr. BERNARD, in asking His Excellency then ascended the stops if the monument, another link yesterday when, with in the Cevernor to unveil the Cenotaph, pressive ceremonial, the Colony's War suid : "Your Excellency, The Cenotaph Post," the strains of which were faintly
and impressively rounded the Memorial - replica of the Cenotaph in which
to unveil, is Whitehall. Londin, -was unveiled and an exact replica of the one in Whitehall re-choed as it were by another Bug Stapleton, 26 August 1918." dedicated to -- Thư Gloricus Dead."
It constitutes only part of our War Corps at Murray Barracks, Then after This tribute to the Empire's dead Memorial. A Nursing Home is also being
} hriet pause the Band played the occupies a position in Statue Square built to fill a nuch felt need in the
National Anthem, which has long been known "the Colony. It will enable people in Hong- Colony's finest site and is itself a worthy memorial-certainly a fiuer one than is possible in Whitehall. The Hong kong Memorial is rendered doubly pressite by reason of the ample spa around it. its position near the
This completed the official proceedings, kong to receive the best treatment and and the general public were abled to attention possible. In this Home, special place their own wreaths at the base of facilities will be arranged for the men
the Cenotaph. who fought in the Great War, and main-! There was a continuous stream of people taimed so nobly the traditions of the visiting the Cenotaph until dusk and the water Nations. This Cenotaph has been erected collection of wreaths and bunches of front and the fact that it restsalg the Community as a grateful tribute flowers placed at the bace of the memorial broad granite base approach those who gave their lives to uphold kept growing. Ak darkness set in largo ed by six steps. which leads to a the honour and ideals of the British "umbers of Chinese clustered around and da's approached by three more steps. Nation. It will remain as an enduring in the end it was found necessary to post poor of the loving remembrance in which a special guard of police to guard the beyond laurel wreaths carved in the stone, they are held, and commemorate for all tributes. We understand that four police. men will de duty at the Cenotaph for the next two or three days or, until such time as the flowers will be romoved.
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The granite monument has no decoration
and the inscription "The Glorious Dead." with the date, 1919. in Roman figures. On either side three bronze flagstaffs project from the masonry and carry, on the centre #agstaff. the Union Jack flank- ed by the White and the Red Ensign. The Cenotaph is 35 feet in height, and the base measures 18ft. 6 inches by 8ft. 6 inches. Four approaches, "korbed and paved with granite, bisect the grass lawns beyond the Memorial.
As is generally known, Hongkong's tribute to those who died in the War is to include a Nursing Home to be erected at a cost of roughly, a million dollars. The present memorial cost $60,000 exelu- sive of the site, which was dedicated to the purpose by the Government.
Among the large gathering present yesterday, seated in the temporary stands. erected around the Memorial, were to be noticed all the members of the Executivy and Legislative Councils, the members of the War Memorial Committee, the
time the supreme sacrifice made by them in; defence of the Empire. Sir. I now hate the honour to ask you to unveil the Cenotaph."
II. E. The GoVERNOR Said: My Lord Bishopɔ. ladies a.ncl gentlemen, Wo have met here to-day to unveil this memorial to those who gave their lives for their country in the greatest war in which the British Empire has ever taken part-
war essentialy different from any of the many in which our country has been engaged before. Ia previous wars Great Britain was represented mainly by her professional Armies and Navies. In this war-into which we entered not from any selfih motivi of aggraudisement, but for the preservation of those ideals of freedom and democracy for which the Empire stands the whole people had to play placed here in the most prominent site in its part. The monument which we have
the Colony, where it will be seen by every- body who lands in Hongkong. memorates, therefore, men of all classes
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THE FLORAL TRIBUTES.
**In loving memory of my dear brother Sgt. Major Gordon C. Nicholls who died at the Battle of Arras, April 12th 1918, from Capt. and Mrs. Pearson and daughter."
To our depárted brother. Frank M. Soares, from the members of the Catholic Union Club."
From the W.O's. S. Sgts.. Sgts, of the Garrison Sergeants Mess."
From Mo-srs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd.. in loving remembrance of thoge who gave their lives in the defence of the Empire."
From S. David and Co."
From the members of the Ewo Mess in grateful and loving remembrance of the men who died for the Empire in the
Great War."
"In memory of 2nd Lieut. R. J. Stevenson, 1st Hants. Regt., who died of The tributes from the various Societies, wounds in France, May 10th 1918 aged and Clubs and Business Houses were for · 23.”
the most part distinguished by the coloura: of the Society, Club or House in question, The following is a list of the wreaths and bunches of flowers placed at the base by seven o'clock last night :—
The Governor.
From the Consular Body of Hongkong to Great Britain's Honoured Dend.
"In memory of our fallen comrades from the Ex-Active Service Men's Associa- tion. 1914-1918."
The British Legion.”
From the Society of St. George, Hongkong-in loving remembrance those who gave their lives in the Great War in defence of the Empire."
and all the Glorious Dead, from Mr. and To the memory of four dear brothers
Mrs. S. Deacon."
From David Sassoon &. Co., Ltd."
From Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Bird. In loving memory of Lieut. Henry Doom Vernon, R.M.A, S.-drowned at sell. September, 1914.. R.I.P."
From Mr. and Mrs. Bird in loving memory of Squadron Commander Theo philus Chater Vernon, R.F.C. killed at the Somme, September, 1916."
"In loving remembrance of Uuele Will of-William Peter Clark, D.C.M., Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry; also Cousin Harry Naffel. R.A.-Jim and Artie Clark."
From the President and members of St. Andrew's Society-in memory of those Their
Consuls of all the Powers represented in and of every race within the Empire, and who made the supreme sacrifice.
Hongkong, practically all the Naval and Military Officers at present in the Coleny and a representative gathering of general public. including a large number of ladies and children.
The verandahs overlooking the Square were thronged with people, whilst on those of the Hongkong Club seats had been specially erected for the accommoda- tion of members and their wives. The official arrangements
were remarkably efficient, and the whole proceedings went through without a hitch. The Square was kept clear by cordons of Indian and Chinese police.
At each corner of the steps which constitute th base of the Ceno- taph there stood. with arms reversed, a sailor of the Royal Navy, a dark skinned soldier of the Bombay Grenadiers, a khaki-clad "Tommy" of the King's and a member of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Force respectively.
for that reason we have thought that the fittest form for it to take was a reproduc.! tien of the memorial which was erected
names liveth for ever more.'
From R. H. Kotowali on behalf of the
Chinese community of Hongkong, with hornage."
From the Committee and members of
in the heart of the Empire. There are probably few of us her who had not ye! latises, none who had not dear friends, the Hongkong General Chamber of Com- among the eight hundred thousand of the mere, in memory of those who gave their Empire's dead, to whom this monument is lives in the Empire's cause." dedicated-men of the Army, the Navy the Air Force and the Mercantile Marine, We are here to pay to them our
last tribute of affection and esteem. I feel that nothing that I could say would meet the occasion and I prefer to use the words which the greatest of ancient historians ascribes to the Athenian statesman, I'eric les, in the most touching funeral oration that was ever written:-
Dead from the Parsee community. But oh, for the touch of a vanished hand and
In sacred memory of the Glorious
the sound of a voire that is still."
Da Communidade Portuguesen de Hongkong.
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From the Royal Navy."
* From 2nd Bn.. King's Regiment.” **From the 4th B. K. E. O. Grenadiers. "From
the Defence Corps."
Hongkong Volunteer
"In loving memory of Edmund John Waldegrave, 2nd-Lient, R.G.A.,--killed in action, August 10th, 1918."
"Tu loving memory of Alec Macdonald; from P. H. and N. G. Holyoak."
In memoriam of Messrs. A. G. Vitor,
G. Block. C. E. A. Hanco-true sports everyone; from the Committee and mem- bers of the V.R.C.“
New York."
From the Standard Oil Company of
From a the flower men of 'Hong- kong."
"In loving memory of F. H. Robinson: from Winnie and Basle Raworth."
From Se Seng-kce. 7-8, Wyndham Street,"
In loving memory of Ian Carmichael, R.A.F., from P. H, and N. G. Holyoak" "Having offered in common the sacrifice of their lives. they have won
In memory of my brother A. Bray- cach for himself a fame which cannot
fold, H.A.C.. from T. H. G. Brayfield. Les Marins Francais aur cama-Flywheel,' Taipo." grow old, and the noblest of all sepul-rades Anglai, tues pendant la Guerre de chres.
I speak not of the tomb in which 1914-1915. their bodies are laid but of that in which their glory survives for ever.
For the whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men, and not only are they commemorated by memorials in their own land but even in foreign lands there remains an unwritten memorial of them graven not on stone but in the hearts of men."
To those men, whose name liveth for
The King's Regt., with bayonets fixed. and headed by the Band. marched down from Murray Barracks. The Guard of Honour drawn from the Navy, the Royal Marines, the King's and the other regiments in the Colony, and representa tives from the Old Comrades Association. E.A.S.M.A.. the Defence Corps and theever, I unveil this memorial. Police, assembled in the Naval Yard At this point His Excellency pulled the earlier in the afternoon, and marched up cord, and the huge Union Jacks which to the Cenotaph headed by pipers of the had covered the memorial descended. Bombay Grenadiers. Arrived in the revealing the Cenotaph in its complete enclosure they were flanked by small bodies ness. of sailors from French. American, and The BISHOP OF VICTORIA, (Dr. DEPPUY) Portugues Naval vessels in the Harburthen wald the following • Dedicatory The whole guard was then formed in a squa round the Cenotaph. and greeted H.E. The Governor (Sir R. E stubbs, K.C.M.G.) on his arrival with a Royal Salute. At that moment the Bank struck up the solemn strains of the National Anthom.
was met
His Excellency entered the enclosure accompanied by his Aide-de-Camp (Capt. R. Neville. Royal Marine Light Infantry). and
by Commodor. Grace, R.N., and Colonel ('. W. Davy, C.M.G.. D.S.O.. His Excellency, who was not in uniform, immediately proceeded to in- spect the Guard of Honour. and the Regimant
Prayer:-
"Aux morts de la Grande Guerre de 1914-1918: le Consul de Frauce et le Francais de Hongkong reconnaissants."
"In memory of Ian Neil Carmichael, from T. H. G. Brayfield."
There were several wreaths and bunches of flowers without cards.
The Chinese flower sellers of Wyndham
Les anciens combattants Francais aj letir freres d'armes tues pendant lastret who had brought a large tribute Guerre 1914-1918."
Nous ne vous oublierons jamais." From the U.S.S. Pampangua.” From the Royal Marines Old Comrades Association, Hongkong and South China Branch-in memory."
from themselves were not present when the public laid their wreaths at the base of the Cenotaph, and the Hon. Mr. Irving, noticing this, had their tributa carried up to the dais by four Boy
Scouts,
"In memory of our fallen confirades. Hongkong Police."
"In memory of our Masonic dead who | RECORD COCAINE HAUL AT died that we might live; from the District Grand Lodge and all brethren. Hongkong.
From the Warders of Victoria Gaol." From the Hongkong and Shanghai
In the faith of Jesus Christ we! dedicate this Cenotaph to the sacred Banking Corporation." memory of those who gave their lives.
in the Great War. In the name of the
From the China Coast Officers' Guild Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy This wreath contained the names of 30 Ghost. Amen.”
Mariae officers who were killed or drown ed at Sea."
After a slight pause, the Rev. J. KIKK MACONACHIE reited the following:---
"Christ is risen from the dead; and become the first fruits of them that slept.
"I R Console 2 home del Regio
d'Italia."
CALCUTTA.
RS. 31,000 WORTH ON TANDA."
The latest Calcutta papers to haud report a very large seizure of cocaine on the s.s. Tunda :--
the s.s. Tanda, plying between China and The Customs staff got information that
India and lying at the Outram Ghat moorings had on board some of this contraband stuff and immediately got to work. The Customs staff having taken all precautious to guard the vessel, began the work of ransacking the vessel for the may be in the coal store, the Customs cocaine, Having found a clue that the stuff
officers set to the work of shovelling the coal in the bunkers. It was a very severa task in the great heat. Their efforts were early crowned with slight success as they In loving memory of dear nephew were able to find a small quantity of Clifford Lamplugh, R.A.F.. from P. H. cocaine This initial success assured them and N. (1, Holyoak."
The Consul General de Portugal en For since by man came death by nome da Macao Portuguesa. 24-5-1923.* man came also the resurrection of this
In loving remembrance of our dearest dead.
"For in Adan all die: even
nephew, Lieut. Frank Neville Cowper, in Christ shall all be made alive,
3rd Suffolks, from P. H. and N. G. Holyoak." "Glory be to the Father, and to thej Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
so!
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end, Amen."
This having been done. His Excellency mounted the platform set in front
In loving memory of Ben Chapruan, of the memorial, accompanied by the The Right Rev. J. Pozzoni, Bishop of from P. H. and N. G. Holyoak." Bishop of Victoria (Dr. C. R. Duppuy), Taxia and Vicar Apostolic of Hongkong, From Messrs. Shewan. Tomes and the Right Rev. D. Pezzoni (Bishop of said White, at the sight of this Ceno Co." Tavis and Visar Ap tolie of Hongkong),taph, our memory goes forth in gratitude In memory of Captain E. W. Evers, the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie (Minister of to the heroes who have died for us: and M.C. and Lient. D. A. Macleod, from Union Church), and Mr. D. G. M.while our hearts feel spurred to noble Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co. Ltd.” Bernard (Chairman of the War Memorialdetis by their great examples, let us also
Vinas Sau dades de mae Irmaos, Committee).
recall the holy and wholesome thought of from Francisco Maria Soares.”
that they wers on the right track and the shovelling away the coal. After about Customs officers redoubled their efforts at
300 tons of coal had been turned up and shifted. 620 ounces of cocaine, valued at about Rs. 31.000 was found to the joy of the Customs staff.
It has long been suspected that there is an organised association of smugglers with agents at important foreign ports. and their agents got away from the ship No arrests were made as the smugglers
when the Customs staff came on board.