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No. 27,333 HONG KONG. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1929.

THE EMPIRE MOURNS

ITS DEAD

MILLIONS PAY TRIBUTE TO THE FALLEN

MEMORIES OF 1914-18

SATURDAY'S DOLLAR-Tho closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/8 9/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

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ELEVEN YEARS AFTER

TO-DAY'S CEREMONY AT THE HONG KONG CENOTAPH

1919

1924

ARMISTICE DAY

1929

1925

T

FURN back eleven years in

the Annals of Time

To-day, throughout all parts of the British Empire, indeed the world, at different times but at the same hour, the prayers and thoughts of millions of widows, daughters, mothers, fathers, bro- thers and sisters were crowded into those awful and beautiful Two Minutes of Silence which have-been set asille for the remembrance of those Dear Ones who fell fighting pro patria gloria.

The minds of thousands of ex-servicemen will travel back to- day to the horror and glory of the world's greatest drama, played on the battlefields of France. They will remember comrades, vows,

and wonderful deeds.

In remembering them, let us recall their pledge, that the War

in which they fought was a war to end war,

1920

1921

a white storm' of torn, paper hysterical crowds

booming anthems and . way- ing flags screaming head-

THE SILENCE IN HONG KONG

And though, perchance in weakness

we have cried,

Yet, could we but know that some

where on this Day,

They, too, rejoice with us, then would

we say,

"Give rein to Joy, let Grief give place

to Pride:

For that is how they would wish us

to decide.

Eleven years have rolled by and yet deep down in our hearts we cannot forget. The memory of the dear ones who so unselfishly gave up their lives for us must have been forcibly brought home

At 11 am, one gun posted on Murray Parade ground fired a hlank round to mark the begin- ning of the two minutes' silence, which was braken by another

salute or remove their hand-dress blank round. Officers did not

during the silence.

After the second gan, the Band of the 1st Somerset Light Infan- try aounded the "Reveille," after. which the hymn "O God Our Help in Ages Past" was sung by. the whole assembly.

The ceremony was broadcast from the Supreme Court

to those who attended the cere-dah. mony at the Cenotaph this morn- ing.

The sight of men in khaki and of the allors in white and also the men in mufti still bearing traces of that grim tragedy of modern warfare could not fail to stir us, and the solemnity of the ceremony, together with the far away echo of the "Last Post," was most affecting and moving. The gathering, too, could not but be touched by these lines of John McCrae:--

voran-

FOREIGN WREATHS Wreaths were then laid in the following order: By H.E. the Governor, H.E. the G.0.C.. the Commodore, the Senior Air Omcer, representatives of foreign Navies and several others.

H.E. the Governor departed at 11.08 a.m., the Band of the 1st

00000

1926

1922

liner..

AND There" deep in foreign fields those who had made possible this wild rejoicing of a people triumphant. To-day

"Over

1927

too

just for two minutes let us think of them,

1923

11TH NOVEMBER, 1929..

1928

Somerset Light Infantry playing WARS PRIVATE AND PREMIER'S TRIBUTE

"God Save the King," which brought the ceremony to an end.

The opportunity was also taken

PUBLIC

ILLEGAL

by the G.O.C. to present Long Ser- WHEN THEY ARE LEGAL AND In Flanders fields the poppies blow of the Armoured Car Company of vice medals to Sergeant Robson, Between the Crosses, row on row

the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence The scene at the Cenotaph was Corpa, immediately before the Ar- Indeed a very impressive one. By rival of His Excellency the Gov- 10.45 the following bodies of men

ernor, for the took up their positions in the Gar. Nadir Khan' of the Hong

ceremony proper.

GEN. SMUT'S LECTURE

London, Yesterday..

The need of a general convention

TO HIS DAUGHTER

OUR SENTIMENTAL LEANING TOWARDS THE NAVY

THE AMERICAN MIND

London, Yesterday.

WATCHMAN SHOT AT KOWLOON

"LEST WE FORGET" 1914-1918

HOPELESS PLIGHT DISCLOSED

Financial Muddle Of Kwangtung

THE BURDEN OF TAXATION

Canton, Saturday,

LAZARUS The Opticia:

AS A

MRADE

MEETING COMRADES

WALES ON THE

PRINCE (

MOTIVES OR BRAVE DEEDS

GREETING FROM THE KING

London, Yesterday, If the war is to last much rades, the Prince of

As a comrade greeting com- Wales re: longer, it will pat Kwangtung in ceived his V.C. guests at the

B hopeless financial plight. The House of Lords, who, wearing people are now taxed in a degree lounge suita and their medals, that is unheard of. There is crowd outaide St. Stephens. All were cheered by an enormous hardly a commodity, which is not were met on a common level, and taxed and farmed out to mer there were several chants. Tooth brushes, Hichee unions between

'unofficial re- fruit, and chicken and pork and servicemen waiters. cattle, etc. are items of taxation.

guests and ex-

How long the people will stand guests' health, received

The Prince, in proposing the for this burden without propor- of cheering. He said it was not a storm tionate compensation in the way a national habit to invite men to of liberty and protection, the dinner to tell them how brave future will unfold.

John Chinaman is a patient, suffering animal; but when he starts to kick, then there is going to be trouble.

The Lack of Funds It will be recalled that Mr. Fan Ki-mo, the Finance Commissioner, during the last fortnight cabled his

they were, so it was assumed that they did their heroic deeds from motives of self-preservation or because they noticed someone on the staff watching. "I suggest this because every V.C., I talked to always dishes up this sort of explanation."

Referring to the titles of other

resignation to the Finance Ministry decorations the Prince of Wales on more than one occasion, and that suggested that the title "most en- the Ministry refused to sanction It. viable was the order of the Vic-

torin Crosa." It is necessary to explain that, since February, 1928, the revenues ceived from the King, who, ac- A message of greeting was re- of the Kwangtung province have companied by the Queen, attend- been definitely divided into national ed a performance of "The Second and provincial revenues, The Mrs. Fraser" at the Haymarket national revenues are collected by

Theatre-Reuter. offices under the direct control of the Central Government; the money Is not, however, remitted to Nan- king, but retained in the province To-night's dinner in the Royal to defray the expenditure of the Gallery of the House of Lords. Navy, Army, the Foreign Affairs when the Prince of Wales will Department, and the Chungsan preside over a gathering of 320 University.

holders of the Victoria Cross, will be an historic occasion, for it will

Provincial Revenues

:

Historic Occasion

Rugby, Saturday.

The provincial revenues are col-be the largest gathering of V.C.'a lected by the Canton Government

ever held. There are 450 surviving for the sole use of the province, holders of the decoration, and al- that is, theoretically, but in reality though many have come from over- are drawn upon by the Central seas, those not attending the Government in

dinner are mainly absent through case of pressing military needs, which occur fre inability to make the long journey quently, and as has happened in to England from the Dominiona the present trouble.

and Colonies In Australia, for instance, 46 holders of the Victoria Cross unable to come are being $ 3,000,000 entertained in the Commonwealth 1,000,000 by Governor-General Lord Stone- 4,800,000 haven and the State Governors. 12,000,000

Estimated Annual Provincial Revenues

Taxes on fields Likin Various kinds of taxes Gambling Mining, fertilizer, registra-

tion fees, etc.

or monthly.

6,895,000

The remarkable reunion results from a desire to be the guests of the Prince of Wales, and to help $27,805,000 in a national appeal for ex-service men, and widows and dependants of 9,233,000 ex-service men, who may be în

"KID" MARRIOTT INVOLVED IN Estimated Annual National Revenues necessitous circumstances.

ACCIDENT

VICTIM IN HOSPITAL

Mr. H. ("Kid") Marriot, sergeant

of police. In the Hong Kong &

order given:-Royal Navy, Royal Kong S.R.A. also received a medal. Bupplementary to the peace pact I did; I could not have carried Whampoa Dock Co.'s main establish.

Marines, Royal Air Force, Army Detachments, Band,

Ex-Service Dinner

at

We understand that H.E.

"I could not have done the work

through the duties placed upon me; American mind, had it not been for I could not have got hold of the

striking tribute to his daughter her, "was the Prime Minister's

Ishbel, when welcomed home by the National Labour Club.

Involved in what has been reported ment at Hunghom, Kowloon, was

shooting in the Dock premises last to the Police 25 an accidental

evening when Jager Singh, a Sikh watchman, 65 years of age, was shot in the stomach.

the convention

public wars, and place the aggres- sor of a private war in the position of an outlaw, depriving him of all rights under international law.

Mr. MacDonald, in his speech, said that when he told Americana General Smuts definted a private that Britona haye inherited a sex- war as one waged by a party for its timental leaning in regard to their Kowloon Hospital, whence he had The Indian was transferred from own national purposes, and a pub Navy, he was very timorous regard- been removed In the motor ambul-

Salt.:

Stamp duties Likin-transit pass Sulphur, saltpetre, etc. Opíum prevention Tobacco & wine Rolled tobacco

Total

$10,000,000 Invitations are extendert to all

2,000,000

holders of the Victoria Cross, and 8,000,000

500,000 not only those who won the decora- 700,000 tion in the Great War. Thus Col. 4,000,000 Reynolds, aged 86, and Private 4,000,000 williams, aged 81, who won the

.$31,600,000 Victoria Cross at Rorkes Drift, South Africa, in 1879, and Genoral $ 2,639,000 Sir Reginald Hart, who won his in expenditure the Zulu Campaign of the name .$ 2,800,000 year, and is now 81, will be present.

240,000 The youngest

will be Private Ricketts from Newfoundland, who by giving the wrong age managed 100,000 to enter the army at the age of 40,000 fifteen, and won the V.C. when he $3,800,000 was 17;

or Monthly

Navy

Present monthly Military expenses General Lui Woon-yim,

Kwangal

Yang tieneral

Kwangsi Other expenser

Total

Monthly Payments

000,000

Every guest present will have

the lic war one in which a state was ing the effect, but he received le-ance, to the Government Civil Hog. / Public Loans Liquidation $1,198,000 performed some act of astounding

Civil Service

was urged by General Smuts at a Rhodes' Memorial Lecture Hong Kong The annual Armistice Day din-Rhode's House, Oxford, when he Volunteer Defence Corps, Repre-ner of ex-Active Service men will suggested that sentative parties from foreign be given to-night at the Volun- should clearly define private and navies (late allies), Consular ser- teers' Headquarters. vices party, representative party This year for the first time the of China Coast Officers' Guild, British Legion are associating British Legion. Ex-Active Service with the Ex-Active Service Men's Men's Association, Royal Marines Association, and the dinner is be- Old Comrades' Association. Ing run jointly by these two or Guards' Association, St. John Am-ganisations. bulance Brigade, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, and Royal Antedeluvian Governor, H.E. the General Officer Involved not for nts own individualters next day expressing thanks for pital. No change had taken place Order of Buffalos. The Band of Commanding the Troops, the lat Somerset Light Infantry Honour the Chief Justice, the others in pursuance of public policy that the American people are under- was learned on inquiry by a "China

1,627,000 courage, initiative, or self-sacrifice, His ends, but for police purposes with explaining the point. That means in his condition this morning, it

on land or sea or in air, and all played during the ceremony.. The Hon. The Colonial Secretary, to under an instrument like the Lea-standing us..

Monthly

.$ 2,823,000 the Services will be represented in The sum fixed by the Central the toast list. Thus when the R.A. battery, under the command gether with many other prominent gua Covenant. He contended that

Mail" representative.

Government is $2,400,000 a month. Prince proposes the guests, those Mr. Marriot was formerly with In the provincial monthly re-who will respond will be Lieut- the Royal Naval Dockyard Police venues as against the monthly ex-Commander Auten on behalf of when he lived in Wanchai. In the penditure, there is seen a deficit Naval V.C., Sergeant Spackman sensational encounter between of $490,000, but the deficit of the for Army V.C.'s, Colonel Blahop for Police and armed robbers at bay in national expenditure, as against the Airmen V.C.'s, and Colonel Pearkes Gresson Street in 1918 (in which receipts, taken on a monthly basis, of Canada for Overseas V.C.'s. several. Police and passers-by were is $1,167,000..

Immense públic interest la being taken in the event-British Wire- less Service.

and

CATHEDRAL SERVICE

Governor Attends Impressive Service

the peace pact only covered private war,-Reuter.

Freedom of the Seas The convention would solve the

one great outstanding British American problem, namely, the question of the freedom of the seas

If the aggressor were made to for felt all the rights of commercial re- lations while engaged in a private involved not for its own Individual

great world movement towards dis- He expressed the opinion that the armament had begun well-Reuter. DIPLOMAT GETS A BLACK EYE

PENALTY FOR OFFENSIVE REMARK IN BELGRADE

killed) one of the desperadoes eluded his pursuers until he passed Mr. Marriot's house and was shot down

of an Officer in charge of a sub-persons, have signifled their in section, took up a position on the tension of being present, and the Murray Parade ground.

Committee anticipate that the His Excellency the Governor numbers attending will exceed then arrived and took up a post those of previous years. tion opposite the flags on the Cenotaph and behind him were the senior Naval, Military and Air Force Officers, thus: H.E. the. General Officer Commanding, ons pace behind the Governor, and two paces behind the G.0.C., stood the The Arst Armistice Day observ-war, the question of neutral rights Soolor Air Officer, the G.S.O. 1, ance this morning was the Com-will be revolutionised and the doc-

the Commodore. Behind remoration Service which was held trine of the freedom of the seis SERB. DEFENDS HIS CITY thom were the A.D.C.'s to the 9.45 am. Cathedral, starting at cease to be of practical importance. G.O.C., and Governor, and

An even more important result Commodore's Secretary. Others There was a very large congrega-of the proposed convention would

Belgrade, Yesterday. who stood opposite the flags on to which included His Excellency be to make economic sanctions Italian Minister for punishment, the Owing to the insistence of the the Cenotaph were the Hon. Mam the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, under Article 16 of the League Serbian Kadolo Blovitch has bean K.C.M.G.) who was accompanied by Covenant workable with the co sentenced a month's imprison Clemonti, accompanied by Capt. an outlaw under the peace pact days, although police investigation as an Instructor, and trainer, to the His Excellency the Governor the General Officer Commanding an aggressor boycotted for flouting voked the trouble. The Italiane BIG

A. J. L. Whyte, His Excellency would generally be identical with whereupon Radio Slovitch, a pro- delight of a large circle of friends arrived at 10.56, when the troopa (Major General J W. Sandilands, the unanimous decision of the Lea didantisded at the sentences and

called to attention and the CB., C.M.G., D.8.0.), accompanied gue serait instructions from Rome.H and played. God Save the King" by Lt. Cameron, A.D.C., the He further suggested that "the It appears that Casson, made k

of the H.K.V.D.C., Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, OM.G., aggressor might be defined by a loud and insulting lowers of the Colonial Secretary Commodore, conferente of all the Powers inter Belgrade and Serb this Buglers, R. A. S. HUI RN, accompanied by ested in the area where danger was whereupon Radolo

Infantry the Naval Becretary, the members threatened on similar, lines the iminent, merchant,

mcers of the Executive and Lerulative conference provided for by the Piel Went

Unable to Pay

Since the National Government

A Dramatic Occasion

London, Saturday, As a comrade greeting comrades

by Mr. Marriot. For this service, does not romit any funds to he received suitable recognition Kwangtung, it falls upon this pro from the authorities at a public vince to make good at the ex- parade. After leaving the Naval pense of the provincial revenues. the Prince received his V.C. guests Yard, Mr. Marriot joined the This explains the reason why the at the House of Lords, who, wearing Whampoa Dock Co.

Kwangtung Government is unable lounge suits and medale, were cheer-

riot was a professional boxing

In his younger days, "Kid" Mato pay its way this month, and ed by enormous crowds outside champion of the Colaity in the r is having sleepless nights, as All met on a common level, and

also why the Finance Commission- Saint Stephen's. bars of the Executive and Legis Capt. Billitoe, R.M., ADC, Lady operation of the United States, since ment and his companion to. Brighter divisions. He has not given he is being pressed both by the there were several unofficial re-

lative Councils."

THE LAST. POST

fe Ocean Fart at Washington

In 1921 Reuter

up the sport and continues to aót

and admirers.

funds, which he has not enough Servicemen walters. military and civil officials for onlons between guests and ex-

in the Treasury to meet. The Prince, proposing his gueste The Finance Department has bealth, received a storm of cheer- already borrowed from the Cen- lng. He said that it was not the tral Bank a sum of $4,000,000 and national habit to invite men to din-”. also other sums from merchanta ner to tell them how brave they about and the Serbian retorted "In that secured on advanced taxes, On were, so he assumed they did their generally case Rómie alag is a filthy place. the other hand, the Central Goy heroic deeds from motives of self- Cassoni then hit the Serbian in the ernment is indebted to, the Provins preservation, or because they face and the latter gave a black cial Government for a sum of noticed someone on the staff watch- eye knocking him down. Cas- $91,000,000, with no indication of ing. “I suggest this because every "dirty son had to be carried out of the repayment in the near future. I have talked to always dishes on admitted it cabaret Res

Canton News Agency,

up this sort of explanation."-Reuter