CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4] — Page 192

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Goverment House;"

Hongkong,

9th

February, 1901.

4th Jany. 1901. ad 465 Feby.

17el.

sir,

I have the honour to formard copies

of Addresses of Condolence upon the death of our late

revered and beloved Queen received for transmission to

His Majesty The King.

3.

It is reedless to say that the Celony was plunged in profourdest grief, the evidence of which was universel. On the 2nd. instant, a enorial Service was held in St. John's Cathedral, which was at- tended by all the Consuls and the Officers of the German, Portuguese and American War Ships in Harbour. The Governor of Macae cme ever officially to attend the Service, after which a large number of wreaths from the German, Portuguese, Jewish, Zeroastrian and Chinese Com- munities, the Crews of His Majesty's Fleet, and the Royal Welsh Fusiliers were reverentially deposited at

the Queen's Statue.

Memorial Services were also held in the Union Church and the Jewish and Zoroastrian Churches. Every shop, European and Chinese in Hongkong,were closed. and all business suspended. I have never seen such deep

as

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

BC...

80..

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