THE CHINA, MAIL, NOVEMBER 2, 1938.
LOCAL ARMISTICE DAY CEREMONY PROGRAMME
COMMEMORATION OF ARMISTICE DAY IN HONG KONG WILL, IN ACCORDANCE WITH CUSTOM, BE MARKED BY A CERE- MONIAL PARADE AT THE CENOTAPH IN Statue Square.
Representatives of the fighting services, the Hong Kong Volunteer
Defence Corps and Naval Volunteer Force, the Merchant} Navy, British Legion, Royal Artillery Association, Royal En- gineers Old Comrades' Association, Foreign Armies and Navies, the Consular Services, St. John Ambulance Brigade and Boy Scouts Association, will take part and members of all sections of the community are expected to attend to pay their respects to the war dead.
After the massed bands have.
the National Anthem who wreaths will be laid, during which Ad-massed bands will play,
All representatives from the above bodies will be in position by played 10.45 as will wreath bearers will report to the Garrison jutant on the north side Law Courts at 10.45 a.m.
They will be marshalled
of
the
AT CHINESE WAR MEMORIAL into On the conclusion of the cere- three groups. as detailed, civilian mony at the Cenotaph, the Gover- wreath-bearers being in group ""nor together with senior officers of which will be in the charge of Civil the services and members of the Police detailed by the Commissioner of Police. This group will be posi tioned on the path immediately west. of the Cenotaph and facing it.
Officiating clergy and choir will take up positions on the south and west, respectively, of the Cenotaph under directions issued by the Co- lonial Secretariat.
GOVERNOR'S ARRIVAL
His Excellency the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, escorted by a detachment of motor-cyclists of the H.K.V.D.C., will arrive at the road junction Chater and Jackson Roads
at 10.54 where he will be met by the Naval Commander-in-Chief, the General Officer Commanding and the Air
Force Officer Commanding R. A. F. in the Far East.
His Excellency will then take up his position on the south side of the Cenotaph attended by the Senior Naval Officer, Military and Air Force Officers, and by the Executive and Legislative Councils, the Judges and Senior Members of the Gov- ernment.
At 10.57, pipers of the 2nd. En. The Royal Scots will play a lament.
be
TWO MINUTES' SILENCE At 11.00 a.m. one gun will fired by one of His Majesty's Ships in the stream to note the commence. ment of the two minutes silence.
At 11.02, one gun fired by one of His Majesty's Ships in the stream will denote the end of the Two Minutes Silence.
Drummers of the lat Bn. The Middlesex Regiment will then sound the "Last Post" immediately the sound of this gun has died away.
At the conclusion of the sound- ing of the “Last Post," massed
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at 11.45 to attend a riving there further ceremony to the memory of those Chinese who lost their lives NEXT CHANGE in the war whilst serving under the British Crown.
RESERVED SPACE AT CENOTAPH
The space on the ground floor of the Law Courts under the north verandah and including the pave- ment will be reserved for those who took part, or who had rela- tives who took part, in the Great War, but who are unable to parti. cipate in the ceremony from the Hong Kong Club. Admission will be by ticket. ·
Applications should be made to the D.A.A.G. China Command by November 5.
Members of the services and
commanding officers. police should apply through their
NANCHANG RAID DEATHROLL
Nanchang, To-day.
The death roll as a result of the ruthless Japanese air at- tack on Nanchang on Monday is mounting as more mutilat- ed bodies are extricated from under heaps of debris, and more of the seriously wounded succumb to their injuries,
A large section of the city. is in ruins. High explosives and incendiary bombs rained by the Japanese airmen fell at least 96 different places, blowing structures to smithe- reens and starting huge firés, --Central News.
bands will play the hymn "O God JAPANESE EXCUSE
Our Help In Ages Past.”
There will then be prayer and blessing by the Clergy and one minute later, the drummers of the Middlesex Regiment will sound
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FOR HANKOW GRIEVANCE
Shanghai, To-day. The Japanese authorities now issue, a statement regarding the despatch of 180 Japanese civil- lans by ship to Hankow, an ac- |tion which had aroused resent ment in foreign circles as foreign vessels have been débarred from plying on the Yangtse on se count of it having been proclaim- ed as "danger zone.”
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