HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
28TH OCTOBER, 1915.
598
PRESENT:-
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G.
HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. VENTRIS (General Officer Commanding the Troops).
HON. MR. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).
HON. MR. J. H. KEMP (Attorney- General).
THE KING'S APPEAL
HIS EXCELLENCY.-Before we pro- ceed to the Orders of the Day I should like to say a few words concerning the ap- peal which our Most Gracious Sovereign has recently issued to all his liege subjects in the Empire to join in the tremendous struggle in which that Empires engaged. Now, it is probable that but few in this Colony, comparatively few, will be able, for one reason or another, to respond to that appeal by going or offering their services to go to the front. But there is no reason why those in the Colony who have not yet joined the Volunteers, the Volunteer Reserves or the Special Police Reserve should not respond to the appeal by joining one or other of these three HON. MR. C. McI. MESSER (Captain forces. I would remind those to whom I
HON. MR. A. M. THOMSON (Colonial Treasurer).
HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX (Secre- tary for Chinese Affairs).
HON. MR. W. CHATHAM, (Director of Public Works).
Superintendent of Police).
C.M.G.
HON. MR. WEI YUK, C.M.G. HON. MR. E. A. HEWETT, C.M.G. HON. MR. E. SHELLIM. HON. MR. LAU CHU PAK. MR. A. G. M. FLETCHER (Clerk of Councils).
Minutes
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
Finance
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table Financial Minutes Nos. 49 to
58, and moved that they be referred to
the Finance Committee.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER conded, and this was agreed to.
Papers
se-
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table the following papers: Quarterly Return of Excesses on Sub-Heads met by savings under heads of expenditure. Also report of proceedings of Finance Committee, No. 149, which was adopted.
refer to remember that the stronger the Colonial armed forces of the Colony are, the more men can my gallant friend on my right, the General Officer Command- ing, spare from the regular garrison to proceed to the front, and the more men can I spare from the Hongkong Police and other Departments of the public ser- vice. I have once more to remind all His Majesty's liege subjects in the Colony that they are able here indirectly by their assistance to support their brothers-in- arms at the Front and in all the other parts of the globe. I had thought that there were but few who had not already joined the three Colonial armed forces. which I have mentioned, but I regret to say that on making an investigation I find that in this little community there are still between 100 and 150 men who are as physically able to lend their ser- vices to one or other of these three forces as are the men who have been rendering yeoman service within the ranks of these services in the past twelve months, and for many years in some cases before the outbreak of war. I see no reason what- ever why the majority of the number I have referred to should not come forward and assist in the way I have indicated, if for
no other reason than that
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