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HAIG & HA

HONGKONG

DAILY PRESS

Five

HE fine palate that will only tolerate the very best in whisky finds absolute satisfaction in Haig & Haig Stars Scots Whisky-the only whisky that is good enough for the best people.

Thousands of men in the best clubs and homes are daily choosing Haig & Haig-the test of refinement of palate.

Place your orders in advance, and make as sure as you can of getting supplies.

Haig &Haig Five Stars Ecots Whisky

DISTRIBUTING AGENT T

DONNELLY & WHYTE,

HONGKONG.

Put your orders in early.

Just arrived large stocks

of Tile Register Grates,

Interiors and White Glazed

Tiles.

UNION ENGINEERING

19741

CO., LTD,,

Chater Road:

THURSDAY, DEUKMBKR SUTE,

THE GREAT SILENCE, HOW ARMISTICE DAY WAS: OBSERVED IN LONDON.

Nothing mora simple, more beautiful, or more dramaic, than the Great Silence was ever madeived! For the brief space of two minutes the Empire. remembered the glorious dead. All movement was suspend

business at a standstill, nad perfeet lence everywhere. During this period Kehes British holes were entirely out off from the rest of the world. In the cable-room at the Central Telegraph office, where com munication is constantly maintained with all the principal countries, the instruments taking out messages to Frances Canada, Holland, Belgium, and Germany wers releted from traffic and became still. Throughout the five doors, where day and night operating is coaselegly carried on with thousands of audible instruments, tho eleven o'clock, chimes from a neighbouring church tower schoen with startling distinct CANARES AN two minutes pass the Valow nores of the “Last Post,” blown by me of the officers of the department, rang through the building. In order to have was instrument silent on the stroke of The principal

eleven trafic was Brewed up fire

minutes before the

officers were assembled in the great pro xinisk gallery on the third floor. Works men engaged; on the premises ceased work with the telegraphie stan, Throughout the telephone" exchange work was completely uapgaded by the operators at a given sitoo signal, Engaged lines were not dis-c connected, but the whole system was also Tately silent

minster

At the grene London railway termini the hurring crowds of intending pasengers harted

the hour wag roached, and traina timed:airs, se elegan 'o'clock, were kept until the two minutes had slapeed Passenger porters, taxi-drivers, platelayers, all stood podzimlenk dad with hats and eps coffed.

There was a great crowd of litigants about Cula Law Courts when the hour struck, and

al movement and business were at oncer suspended, Many of the attendants, who ayad their part in the war were wearing hour medals, one or two men displaying a souble row. The Lord Chief Justice w bok sitting, as he was present at the Weed ceremony, but in the Prize Court Sir Henry Duke, the President, rose, a

ad the hous, and interrupted the speech of Raeburn E.C, legal argument. Mr. Justice Balter-asket for the Silence to be observed in memory of the brave dend.'*. “ We will break off here for two minutes said Mr. Justice: Bailbache in e King's Bench Division, and carry our memories back to the fateful days of the great war, and so remind ourselves of the debt we owe to those who fought, i sadared; and died for us-not only to them- butto Him in Whose bands are the issues, ・of Alf battles Mr. Justice Roche inter

rupted the examination of a witness by counsel, and all in court remained stand- ing. The silence was intense, caly the ticking of the clock being heard

The Law Lords were sitting in the House of Lords when Big Ben struck, and immediately (counsel who W25 addressing

their lordships.comend. speech until the

wo minutes had concluded as A

день the big

scenes were wit-

Mempred stores, where

„CESLOMOTE

ers and staffs joined in paying their tribute to the Empire's fallen warriors. At Whitelag's service, commencing at 10-15 and lasting for waty minutes w

het beneath the central dome, while st. | Belfridge's at the eleventh- hour- buglers were drawn up on the balcony in front of the building soo

sconded the Last Poster

who

All work ceased and during the Bitence members of the staff who saw service dur ing the war stood with bowed heads. round the firm's roll of honour of comrades who had enlisted with them and bad made the great sacrifice. At Harrods the fire alarm Bells announced the commencement of the Bilence, and all business was suspended for the two minutes and at Gamage's the signal for the tribute to the dead from the "was given by buglers, who sounded 15-o call gnijving the recom," mencement of every day busines

In Floebstreet and its adjacens thorough fares the thunder of the printing presses erased. The raucous cries of the newsboya were stilled, motor-bidycles conveying news- papers came to a halt, motor-ompibuses stopped, and as the hour of eleven rang out from the clock of Wren's beautiful church of St. Bride all the greas offices in the vicinity became as still as the

grate In the street itself there was only to be beard the twittering of many birder Apart from the sonorous notes of Big Ben and the chimes of St. Paul's Cathedral this was the only sound in newspaper land. As if by the move of a magician's wand all was bushed into a wonderful stillness, vastly impressive in its solemnity and pathos, From Ludgate circus, up Ludgate hill to the Cathedral there was not a move ment The occupants of the omnibuses stood in silent reverence for the dead.. 1.ého pivements And in the roadway- men stood with bare heads and bowed shoulders. Actors, actresses, and managers gathered Dry LeBeautiful wreaths from a. do honour to their Glorions Dead," Fevery theatre In London had been placed about the memorial which is erected there to all noters, musicians, writers, and work ere for the stage who fell in the Great Ward Eiszen strokes were sounded on the big orchestral bell, and es two minutes paat eleven Last 1 Post

soundert DE The trumpet accompanied by the muffled drums, by two members of the Drury Lane orchestra Daily Telegraph.

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PROHIBITION AND THE HOME UNHAPPINESS PRODUCED BY

"DRYNESS FO

Contrary to all expectations, matri muzial infelicity, instead of diminishings has been greable sugmented by - prohibi Thre *all events, is the experience

of Chicago, which reports to-day a 238 por horessa in complaints of crielty to and children aince the

Inability to obtain

adent of the

has resulted in a;

id having a very similar experi

other hand, many crimes have

tion since the

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19771

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