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The Ladies who were in charge

There are some I suppose to whom the great silence of to-day: is merely a matter of routine something purely conventional and mechanical For the Great War is: already: fading from men's memories: its lessons and its sacrifices are already half for gotten.

(a)-This silence stands to us for the commemoration of a great

sacrifice.

ANTI-RED WAR.

CANTON, TROOPS. ADVANCE

IN SOUTH A

‚EÄST RIVER · CAPTURES.

PHENOMENA,

MERMAID'S CHILD AND“,

EVIL STAR?

HONGKONG, SUPERSTITIONS.

Success for the Canton Red Having been in more ports qui. troops remains unchecked on the the world than he cares to remem- southern war sector where the ber and with about 20 years anti-Reds are now reported to be experience of the Hongkong, Hongkong celebrated the seventh

retiring precipitately into their waterfront, a Duropean gentle

man who was consulted yesterday anniversary of the signing of the

But to most of us the silence of domains. of various stations were:-Minato-day is instinct with meaning,

in connection with the strange. Armistice with fitting solemnity,,

As yet the anti-Red territory-Yaumati fah whose capture was the simple almost austere cere-Black, 457 Peak, Miss Ram, 402 and purpose.

held for the last few years has reported in yesterday's "Ching mony at the Cenotaph making a Peak Miss D. Holyoak, 458 Penk;

not been invaded but troops at Mail, ppoh-poohed any sugges deep impression on everyone pre-Miss J. Holyoak, 458. Peak Miss

Kongmoon, other parts of the Szetion that the catch was anything Hollingsworth, 183 Peak; Miss

Tap and the West River are now more than a natural object. Thwaites, Peak Hotel; Mrs LG This followed the holding of a Scott, 50 Peak: Miss Stubbings, For a moment earth's Babel converging on the southern front.

In his opinion the fish which A telegram to the Wah Tez was all "round" and was like a service in the Cathedral at which Peak Hotel: Miss Weill 84 sounds are hushed as we listen in the sermon was preached by the Bonham Road: Miss Dunn, 84 proud silence and with bowed at Po alates that General human baby's head in most re- Bishop of Victoria and H.E. the Borham Road: Miss Peck, 4 heads to a great and sacrificial Cheung Kai-shek claims, in a respects was a freak beche-de-mer, a Governor, who was present after Queen's Gardens; Mrs. Haslam, chapter from the book of life.

port to Canton, the capture of specimen of sea-slug indigendus wards aide wreath on the 158 Repube Eny: Mrs. T. G,

Fover 5,000 rifles and 7 artillery to the South Sens.. We commemorate a sacrificial} Cenotaph at the Cathedral com- Bennett.

pieces from General Chan Xwing- growing "flesh”: of this kind. of} Mrs. offering of men and women wheming in the East River campaign. shellfish is apt to discard its pound,

. Trevelyan, Peak Hotel: Mrs. went out to die for something,

("home" on account of being During the day about 100 hdies, [Bourchier, 10 Peak Mrs. Eric which they loved something

[cramped in, said the expert. » helped by Ettle girls, and boy Grimble, 108 Peak; Miss Chappel, which they did not see, and we

On the other hand, Chinese are scouts sold poppies in the street 108 Peak; Mrs. Bartholomew, have not seen, fulfilled.

not to be easily appeased for Earl Haig's fund and such was 523 Peak Miss King, ́Mount.

flights of fantasy the "mez-baby" the vigilance of the charming Austin: Miss King, Mount Austin: beyond the things of time to that

caught by the Shantung policeman vendors that there was hardly Mr. Davison: Mrs. Mitchell, which time's rude hand can never

is connected with some pheno buttonhole to be seen unadorned Tregunter Mansions:

Miss touch.

menon. Simultaneously a strange with red after the early morning. Stirling, Miss Shaw, Miss Shaw

star was noticed one evening dur- Pedestrians who were held up Mrs. Brokes, Queen's Gardens:

ing the week-end and stargazers

Peak Hotel:

And in our silence we look

The over-

In

were busy after sunset yesterday trying to find out if there is any. relation between the fish and the

as would lead to universal peace. But all these hopes have been shattered by that piteous break in human brotherhood which we call the Great War

And I often wonder whether we We see to-day not simply great. appeared to submit willingly and Mrs. Hall, 10 Peak; Miss Wyatt, multitudes of dry bones, broken are not heading precisely the same the boxes when opened at the Government Civil Hospital; Migg bodies, and white crossed graves way to-day

The monarchies of Europe have Poppy Day headquarters at Volun- Monroe, Mountain View: Misa C but a vast triumphant host giving fallen with a crash and with their teer headquarters, disclosed quite (Monroe. Mountain View; Misthanks to God Most High in collapse there is danger of society "new, very bright, star.”

number of notes of high value. Ellis Miss Cotton; Miss Geoghan, joyful alleluia.

finding itself without any prin- The planes of H.M.S. Hermes" 114 Peak; Mrs. Pearce, 299 Peak; We think not merely of the ciple of authority whatever, and gave a delightful aerial display, Miss Stewart; Mrs. Plummer, sacrifice these our brethren made, the result is people are becoming. adding to the pleasurable excite-515 Feak: Miss Judah, Misses but of Him who by His death hath a prey to any adventurers who are fment of the day.

McEwen; Miss Steel, Miss Bailey; destroyed death and by His rising strong enough to impose their At the Cathedral. Miss Landolt, 17 Orient Building, again hath restored to us everlast-

Miss

Hing: Missing life, who has not suffered there Views that must lead to catag- on Sunday. The spirit of the day received Kowloon; notable expression at the service Dunnett: Miss Dennis; Miss G young lives; so unspeakably pre-trophy are being widely accepted a European of about twenty years'

Las the Cathedral, both in prayer,

hymn, and simple ritual.

At the conclusion of the solemn

Remedios.

Other Celebrations. Later in the day there are to service, the worshippers gathered be other celebrations. At 8 pm round the monument outside the there is a concert in the Soldiers Cathedral where the Right Rev. and Sailors Home, and at

the R. Duppuy, D.D. (Bishop of same. hour the E.A.S.M.A. Club Victoria) offered a prayer and a will hold its annual Armistice wreath was laid by His Excellency (Day dinner at the Volunteer Head the Governor.

Equarters.

Among those present besides His Excellency the Governor, the Hon. Mr. Cecil Clementi, who was accompanied by Capt. G. E. Swin- ton, M.C (AD.C.), were Mrs. Clementi and children, the Hon. Sir Cland Sevein, Col. C. Russell

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Also in the evening there is the carnival at the V.R.C. with side attractions such as the rafting of

handsome diamond brooch, in- aid of the Earl Haig fund for dis- fabled soldiers.

At the Hongkong Hotel a fancy Brown, D.S.O. (Acting GO.C.) dress dinner dance is to take plage Sir Henry Follock and Lady and a large number of tables have Pollock, His Honour Mr. Justice already been booked,

There will Gompertz, the Hon. Mr. P. Hbe many carnival novelties, and Holyoak and Mrs. Holyoak, and souvenirs for the guests: many Government officials and members of Council.

At the Cenotaph.

* BISHOP'S' SERMON,

cious, to be cast as rubbish to the land masses of people are failing to void.

Our minds to-day dwell not only on a great Agorifice but on the Providence that is behind history. We aver our unshaken confidence in the triumph of the good, in a justice that does not sleep and in a loving kindness that never grows weary!

4b.) This silence also stands to us for our Dedication to a great Purpose.

The silence of to-day means to as the commemoration of a great sacrifice, but if it means only this it is not enough. It must inspire us to dedicate our lives to the thing for which these our brothers died, The bugles of the dead come back to sound their challenge to the living:

I think few things that have been written are more caustic than Alfred Noyes' lines on the Victory

Impressive scenes were witness- Preaching at the special Ball,

joyously

ed nt the solemn observance at the [Cathedral service this morning,: The ballroom is full, the dancing Cenotaph where were drawn up the Right Rev. C. R. Duppuy, is eager, the music sounds, forth the formed body of the Army and Bishop of Victoria, took as his Navy, detachments of the Hong-text-- kong Volunteer Defence Corps, Revelation VIII. 1.There was Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, silence in heaven about the space British Legion. Ex-Active Service of half an hour and said :--- Men's Association and Mercantile,

1. Silence.

representatives of the Govern- There was in heaven no cry of ment, Executive and Legislative praise or adoration, no thunder- Councils, the Consular: Body andings, no word of revelation, no voice of living creature saying Come-only silence.

the Chamber of Commerce,,"

"There was silence in heaven. about the space of half an hour." The supreme moments in life are the silent moments-we are so made that when we feel most we cannot speak: we are silent.

His Excellency the Governor, Mr. Cecil Clementi, C.M.G., arrived shortly after 10.45 in his car accompanied by Mrs. Clementi and two of their children. He joined Sir Claud Severn. Sir Matthew Nathan, the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, the Hon: Sir Henry And in the life of Christ we may Pollock, K.,C., the Hon. Mr. D. W. say that the supreme moments Trauman, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. were the silent moments--the H..T. Creasy. His Honour Mr. silence of the wilderness, the Justier H. H. J. Compertz, and the silence of the Garden Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird, all of whom | Gethsemane, the silence of the were gathered on the south side Cross. "Seven times He spake of Statue Squarz..

seven words of love and all three

of

After the singing of the hymn hours His silence cried." It is in "O God Our Help," buglers from silence most that God speaks to the Surrey Regiment sounded the man. It is in silence that the Last Post and immediately the great things fashion themselves |last noté had died zway the sound

IL The Great Silence.

But suddenly there come to that Victory Ball the shades of those who had died only a few hours before:-

"Shadows of dead man stand by

the wall. “Watching the fun of the

Victory Ball.

see that peace which comes from the adoption of the policy of world' revolution, and armed dictator: ships is a pesce of utter desolation and universal rula;

Yesterday's report was --- Of the size and appearance of a baby's head, a strange sea-animal was caught by a Shantung police- nan at the ferry wharf, Yaumati,

The description is borne out by

standing in the Colony,

Those who saw the "fish" main-

tain that it must have been a fish

it came out of the water.

It is not correct to say that, there was a body, as it was all Nothing imposed on men from head." not unlike the head of an without can ever last, only that if The Shares monto, which men freely accept Seculur nose ent-boler and in above the solutions are no solutions. Man eyes Another description is that spirit and can only be redeemed the "Han had a round body, like a by the costly method of individual California orange," conversion. That is the principle A close inspection of the bowl for which Christianity steadily in which the "fish" was kept re- vealed the fact that the specimen was very much alive.

As it breathed, and opened its mouth, two tiny teeth could be seen.

stands:

Only look far enough and you will see that the ultimate cause of all the catastrophies and miseries of our time is the entire lack among the great masses of men of any theory of the universe, any clear view of God's purpose in FORMER GOVERNOR. history and in individual life.

What people are failing to see is that a civilization which has been built up upon Christian prin- ciple depends upon Christianity for its continuance that there cannot be good without God. .*

There is a plain issue before us: the choice between accepting the governance of Christ or no govern ment at all. Civilization with God, will destroy itself. We dare not face the prospect of an irreligious

world,

SIR MATTHEW NATHAN HERE.

"RED" CONTROL EXPERIENCE.

Arriving yesterday by the sis "Tanda" from Australia, Sir Matthew Nathan, former Hong- ong Governor, who is on a tour of the Far East, wil leave in ten days' time for Europe via Japan.

Sir Matthew Nathan was Gov- ernor of Hongkong from 1903-7

Two principles are struggling "God, how that dead boy gape Leiple embodied in the League of afterwards controlling the des-

for supremacy to-day, the prin-

and grins

"As the tom-toms bang and the

shimmy! begins.. "What did you think we should

find said, a shade "When the last shot echoed and

peace was made?"

Nations and the principle of the tinies of Natal in that capacity mailed fist If the principle of and holding several high adminis the mailed fist is to have thetrative positions in Britain before victory then it means race suicide being appointed to the Governor- and the result will be that the ship of Queenslande Here, Sir Matthew Nathan has hour will soon come when we shall not even have hovels to live in but had opportunity of observing the only graves. To-day somethingn actual practice, récent events workings of advanced. Socialism old is passing and something new referred to by cable showing how is being born for the weal or woe much the Labour Government of stand-of the whole world. The question that state is under the thumb of to be decided is whether society the "Red" elemente de

"Christ laughed the fleshless

jaws of his friend, "I thought they'd be praying

for worlds to mend." "Pish' said a statesman,

iving near,

"Tim glad they can busy their

thoughts elsewhere!

"We mustn't reproach them - they're young you see, "Ah said the dead man

were wa

"Victory! Victory Bon with the

dance!

"Back to the jungle the new,

beasts prance

is to be based on self-love or on During hie atay here, if he has the true regard for God and man not already done so, Sir Matthew whether the world is to be a Nathan will doubtless be able to battlefield for opposing armies or appreciate a branch of ""Red" of all races and classes and Queensland experiences he is un- home for a family, community activity with which in spite of his individuals 1

acquainted that of the effects of propaganda in Canton, C

Last night, Sir Matthew Was present at a farewell dinner at the Hongkong Hotel given to Sir Claud Severn by the Hongkong Civil Service,

IV. Another Great Bilence. The silence of to-day speaks to us of another silence,

of the gun fired from the parade And to-day there is a great ground was heard. All heads were silence going round the earth bared and all Hongkong observed "following the sun and keeping

"God how these dead men grin this summons to silence until the company with the hours. In by the wall, "Reveille" was sounded and the thronged cities you will find it "Watching the fun of the second gun went.'

there in Whitehall at the heart of Victory Ball" His Excellency the Governor our Empire, where some of us What I want to ask is this. He Angels: proceeded alone to the Cenotaph, watched the Peace Procession on saluted, laid a simple wreath, a day that we can never forget that poem of Alfred Noyer no Jerusa the foot of the steps in full view one outpost of Empire where only lightly going to say that all the manit saluted again and as he reached And in solitary places in some rebuke for us to day? Are we hidden of the hundreds who thronged the the three or four can come talk we used to hear about making Supreme Court pavement and all together,

the world better world and

other approaches to the Cenotaph, Twelve months have sped by about u

the strains of the National An fnum vere heard. Far Excelleney

stopped, remained at the 3 "whilst heads were bared again an

the detachments top!

since last this silence circled round

Y-talk

In the matchless words of Kempis The time will come when the Master of Mastera will

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