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SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1986
+BUT IT WOULD BE RATHER A REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS
IN GENERAL. I SHALL NOT BE TAKING SPECIFIC PROPOSALS TO THEM. +
THE GOVERNOR WAS MET ON ARRIVAL BY SIR DAVID; THE ACTING SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, MR OSWALD CHEUNG; AND THE ACTING SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR S. L. CHEN.
LIBERATION DAY TO BE OBSERVED ****
HONG KONG WILL OBSERVE THIS YEAR'S LIBERATION DAY WITH A WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY AT THE CITY HALL ON MONDAY (AUGUST 25).
DURING THE CEREMONY, WHICH WILL BEGIN AT 10.45 AM IN THE GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE HONG KONG BRITISH FORCES, HONG KONG PRISONERS OF WAR ASSOCIATION, ROYAL HONG KONG REGIMENT (THE VOLUNTEERS), THE MIDDLESEX REGIMENT AND HONG KONG WAR MEMORIAL FUND COMMITTEE WILL LAY WREATHS AT THE SHRINE IN MEMORY OF MEMBERS OF THE HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS WHO DIED IN THE BATTLE OF HONG KONG IN DECEMBER 1941 OR LATER AS PRISONERS OF WAR.
COLONEL C.J.D. BULLOCK WILL LAY A WREATH ON BEHALF OF THE COMMANDER BRITISH FORCES.
THE WREATH OF THE PRISONERS OF WAR ASSOCIATION WILL BE LAID BY ITS CHAIRMAN, MR J.V.G. MITCHELL.
REGIMENTAL WREATHS OF THE VOLUNTEERS WILL BE LAID BY ITS COMMANDING OFFICER, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL J. HUTCHINS, AND THAT OF THE MIDDLESEX REGIMENT BY WARRANT OFFICER SECOND CLASS P. DOBSON.
THE MIDDLESEX REGIMENT AND THE VOLUNTEERS FOUGHT SIDE-BY-SIDE IN THE BATTLE OF HONG KONG.
THE WREATH OF THE HONG KONG WAR MEMORIAL FUND COMMITTEE WILL BE LAID BY COLONEL H.A. DE B. BOTELHO.
THE WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY WILL BE FOLLOWED BY THE SOUNDING OF THE LAST POST, A TWO-MINUTE SILENCE AND REVEILLE, AND THE FIRING OF THREE VOLLEYS OF SALUTE.
THE FIRING PARTY, BUGLER AND SENTRIES, WILL BE PROVIDED BY THE VOLUNTEERS.
REMEMBRANCE CEREMONIES