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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1986

+SIR EDWARD'S INTEREST IN CHINESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE FILLED MANY OF HIS QUIETER MOMENTS. AGAIN FEW KNEW THAT BY BREAKFAST TIME HE HAD ALREADY READ THE CHINESE NEWSPAPERS BEFORE WE REACHED OUR OFFICES.

+HIS LOVE OF THE COUNTRY, WALKING IN THE HILLS, HIS LOVE OF BIRDS AND WILDLIFE ENABLED HIM TO MEET HIS NEED FOR PEACE AND QUIET AMIDST THE STRAINS AND STRESSES OF HIS WORKING LIFE.

+THE TRIBUTES TO SIR EDWARD FOLLOWING HIS DEATH HAVE INCLUDED ONE FROM HER MAJEATY THE QUEEN, AND MANY, MANY FROM THE ORDINARY PEOPLE OF HONG KONG. THESE ARE A MEASURE OF THE DIVERSE QUALITIES OF THE MAN AND THE ADMIRATION AND AFFECTION HE INSPIRED IN PEOPLE FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE. WE MOURN HIS UNTIMELY DEATH BUT WE GIVE THANKS FOR ALL HE SHARED WITH US FOR ALL HE HAS DONE FOR IS.

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+WHAT WOULD HE WISH OF US TODAY BUT TO GO ON BUILDING WHERE HE HAD LEFT OFF, FOR A MAN HE SEEM(ED) OF CHEERFUL YESTERDAYS AND CONFIDENT TOMORROWS+.

+ HONG KONG HAS LOST AN OUTSTANDING GOVERNOR: WE HAVE ALL LOST A VERY DEAR FRIEND.+

THOUSANDS WATCH SERVICE AT CATHEDRAL

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HONG KONG PAID A FINAL TRIBUTE TO ITS LATE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, TODAY (TUESDAY) WHEN A STIRRING FUNERAL SERVICE WAS HELD IN ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.

THOUGH THE ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL COULD ACCOMMODATE ONLY AROUND 750 LEADING MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, COUNTLESS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE MOURNED SIR EDWARD'S DEATH WATCHED THE SOLEMN, DIGNIFIED SERVICE ON TELEVISION.

THE SERVICE BEGAN AT 11.30 AM, AFTER THE COFFIN WAS BORNE IN CEREMONIAL PROCESSION FROM GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

LED BY THE BISHOP OF HONG KONG, THE RT. REV. PETER KWONG KONG-KIT, THE BEARERS CARRIED THE COFFIN UP THE AISLE AND PLACED IT BEFORE THE HIGH ALTAR.

LADY YOUDE AND HER DAUGHTERS JENNIFER AND DEBORAH SAT IN THE FRONT PEW ON ONE SIDE. THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, AS THE QUEEN'S REPRESENTATIVE, LED THE MOURNERS ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE.

/THE ORDER