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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 14, 1938.

FELICITATIONS AT don FRENCH NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATION TO-DAYS

of

Hong A distinguished gathering attend- Let us now come back to ed the reception: held at the rest- Kong to greet the first arrival

the Air-France, planes which will dence of the French Consul-Gener establish continued and more rapi al, by M. and Madame Dupuy this communication between Hong Kong and morning, in celebration of the Indo-China. I hope that this new French National Day, commemor-link between the Colonies of our two Countries will not only foster the ex- ative of the Fall of the Bastille. change of every nature between them, M. Dupuy, proposing the toast of but will facilitate the way for tourists "The King" said:--The members of desirous of visiting the curious coun- the French Community in Hong Kong try of Indo-China which is really as well as myself wish first of all to neither India nor China but both at thank Your Excellency and Lady the same time.

GOVERNOR'S SPEECH

Northcote for the honour which your And now, I heartily thank all the have kindly given us by your pre- people here present, friends of France, sence here to-day at the reception in who have come to associate themselves the House of France organised for in the celebration of the "Fete Na- the celebration of our National Day. tionals.":

We are all the happier for your presence in our midst not only as the worthy representative of the country which has lavished its hospitality on us but also because the United King- dom and France: have maintained for a long time the most cordial and amiable relationship.

J

PATRIOTIC. UNION

re-

H. E. Sir Geoffry Northcote, plying, said: On behalf of the Bri- tish Community I thank you, M. Du- puy, most, warmly for the sincerely kind words with which you have pro- posed the health of our King and you and all non-British persons present for the whole-hearted manner in which they have honoured it. Y

The manifestation of patriotic_union furnished each year to the French. You, M. Dupuy, have paid a very Communities established in foreign graceful compliment to our Sovereign countries, by the celebration of the and the Queen.. During the visit which 14th of July, is not only a simple and Their Majesties are about to pay to happy rest from our daily duties. It France they will, we know, at once finds its noblest expression and the find themselves at home owing to that whole importance of its signification matchless charm with which it is the in the free and spontaneous turn of custom of your gracious and hospitable hearts towards the Mother-Country; compatriots to welcome their especial everyone of us, I now address my friends. Pomp and ceremony are in- and on such occasions country-men, in this day of anniver- evitable sary, is impregnated by the glory and splendid, of course, their reception will grandeur of the country we cherish be: but eclipsing all will be the all the more, the farther the seas are warmth and the joy which the people which separate us from her of France have a special gift for ex- For us, "la patrie" is not only that pressing towards their guests on such territory where we have our abode, happy occasions.

:

in

our kinsmen, our friends, our inter- I think, Sir, you will readily be- ests, and the hearth which you Eng-lieve me when I assure you that I and lish so

well express in the word all my fellow countrymen here pre- "Home," but it is also the habit of sent concur unreservedly in what you that independence and liberty so dear have said of the happy and harmoni ly acquired which is symbolised by ous relations which exist between our the 14th of July. ·

countries. As you have pointed out,

animates" You have like us in the course of the firm friendship which your history struggled for the same our two nations is no passing senti- ideal and you have attained after a ment, but is founded on a community long evolution, that liberty which is of interests and on ideals which we so dear to the hearts of the British, have in common; that is to say, on that liberty which you have realised an insistence on freedom and real for several centuries, long before any desire for peace. And on this day, other nation in the world.

on which all Frenchmen whether COMMUNITY OF INTEREST your beautiful land or in your colonial But if the community of ideal plays possessions celebrate France's attain- the ranking part in the life of the ment to political liberty we British, people, it has very often as a corollary who a hundred years previously had community of interest. This is in- fought and won a similar fight. are deed what happened in Anglo-French aspecially conscious of those ties which relations where often adjustment of have for many years united us. the points which could oppose us, we LOCAL FRIENDSHIP have attained since the beginning of Since the last anniversary the century, under the happy impulse National Day there have been at least of the great diplomat King Edward two local occurrences which have serv- VII, this accord, this "Entente," this ed to demonstrate and to enhance that harmony to which the British sover friendship. The first of those was the eigns have since remained faithful. admirable, exhibition of the arts and And since I am speaking of their crafts of French Indo-China which august Sovereigns who preside over was staged in Hong Kong during last the destinies of the British Empire, January: my wife and I spent an hour let me state that France will show or so there with extreme pleasure and herself a worthy friend, when during were delighted both by the beauty of the coming week she will receive Their form and the skill in execution which British Majesties.

characterised every type and kind of

A

France, and Paria in particular, exhibit.

of

your

have not forgotten the smiling kind-

Secondly there has come to Hong ness and charming grace of the young Kong, just in the nick of time for to- royal couple, when they visited the day's celebration, the first aeroplane Colonial Exhibition in 1931 at Vin- in the new service which Air France cennes when they were still Duke and is establishing between French Indo- Duchess of York. No doubt that China and this British Colony. We Paris will reserve for them their most welcome M. Puchen and his gallant enthusiastic reception.

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companions very warmly and we wish them every success in their enterprise. I hope that the forthcoming year will disclose other such new ties be tween us; and in that spirit I ask, all present to drink with me to the health of President of the French Republic.

At the Central Magistracy before Mr. R. Edwards, an aged woman Mok. Luk, was fined $200 or two months, when charged with possession of four taels of prepared opium at the Yauma- ti ferry wharf yesterday. S

Sentence of six months' hard-labour was passed on Chan Tal-pon, who pleaded guilty to possession of 295 heroin pills in Spring Garden Lane.

Yeung Hing, charged with posses- slon, of 2.2 taels of non-Government oplum and with keeping a divan in Graham Street, was ined $100 or two. months on the second.

Revenue: Officer R. Stevens prosecut