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Enclosure No. 4.
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Presented to
His Royal Highness Prince
HENRY WILLIAM FREDERICK ALBERT
Duke of Gloucester, this 25th day of
April, 1929,
by the Chinese Community of Hong Kong.
Of late the tidings of the illness of His Majesty
King George were to us and to all his subjects a matter of
grave anxiety. But now that the happy augury of His Majesty b
recovery allows our Prince with an untroubled mind to direct
his golden chariot upon this Royal mission and at last to
come among us, the people of the Colony, old and young, make
manifest their delight; they run hither and thither to spread
the news and offer their greetings from the roadsides, eager
for the joy of seeing your Royal person.
Our Prince with his noble ancestry of the Royal Line
has ever taken the lead in camp and council as all do
acknowledge.
We have memories of the year 1922 when Hong Kong
welcomed His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; and three years later, when His Majesty's Ship "Hawkins" was on her Far Eastern Commission, His Royal Highness Prince George was stationed in this very place. Thus within a single
decade have three of His Majesty's Sons stopped and stay ed here, a Royal distinction for this distant Island which has
surely never been equalled.
Now all of us, old and young, with all respect and
fran the depths of our hearts pay our tribute of loyalty
to His Majesty the King, with the prayer that you will
convey this tribute to him. And we tender our heartfelt
wishes of boundless prosperity and length of years both for
His
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