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Saturday, August 25, 1973

LIBERATION DAY REMEMBERED

The 28th anniversary of Hong Kong's Liberation Day will be observed

next Monday (August 27).

At a brief ceremony to be held at the City Hall Garden of Remembrance

at 11 a.m., representatives of the Hong Kong Prisoners of War Association

and the Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) will lay wreaths at

the Shrine in memory of members of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps

who died during the battle of December 1941 or later as prisoners of war.

This will be followed by the sounding of the Last Post by a

regimental trumpeter, a two-minute silence and reveille, and the firing

of three volleys of salute.

The ceremony will last about 10 minutes.

In the evening, a cocktail party will be given by warrant officers

and sergeants of the Royal Hong Kong Reginent (The Volunteers) in

Beaconsfield House for their officers and members of the Prisoners of

War Association.

The acting Governor, Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, will attend.

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