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THE COLONY'S WAR MEMORIAL Judas the Machaber, and pray that they

UNVEILING OF THE CENOTAPH YESTERDAY.

IMPOSING CEREMONIAL

THE SPEECHES.

of

From Sir Robert and Lady ile Tung." In remembranes, from Messrs. Butter- may find in God, the everlasting reward they have deserved by their snerifies on field and Swire and Staff (The inscrip the battlefield. Eternal rest give ta fion contains. the umes of 17 man who them, O Lord; and lot perpetunt light fell in the War. The names appear nudeg the hendings of Untterfield and Swire, ( shine upon them,”

Taikon Dock and the China Navigation (b).

His Exceliency. The Govenson then walked up to the Monument, saluted, lat arent, ani ritired.

Hongkong, united by many ties withi

Ten buglers from the King's, Regimsut! the heart the Empir, established Me. Bensato, in ask ng His Exerengthen asended the steps of this menumont, Laither Bink yesterday when, with im the Gwernor to unveil the Cobainish.

and impressively rounded the pressive erremonid, the Colony's Warsadg **Your Excellency, The Cenotaphy Post the strains of whicir were faintly Memorial...a replica of the Cenotaph in which you have

to unveil is Whitehall, Leaden.--was unveiled and

PEDR

** Last

From Gilmann and Co. Ltd."

In loving memory of 1st Class 1', (). Mansion. Sub D 5, sunk by Gorumu mine, November 3rd, 1914. Greater love hath no man who giveth his life for a friend."

u loving memory of William Howell'

an exact replica of the am in Whitehall ichard it were be another Bugie | Stapleton, 28 August 2018," fodiented to ** The Glorious DeatỊ.** It constitutes only part of our War Corps at Murray Berrarks. Then after

Brief pause the Band played the National Anthem.

To mr departed brother. Frank M. Soares, from the members of the Catholia Union Club."

In loving memory of my dear brother Sgt. Major Gordon C. Nicholls who died This tribute the Empire's dead | Memorial. A Nursing Home is also being

at the Battle of Arras, April 19th 1918, occupies position in Statue Square haist to fill a much felt need in the

This completed the atlicial proceedlings) from Capt. and Mrs. Pearson and which has long been known as, ***the C'ojany. It will enable people in Hong Colony's finest site."and is itselt Akong to receive the last treatment and and the general public were enabled to daughter." worthy memorial-errtainly a for one attention possible. In this Home, special place their own wreaths at the base of than is possible in Whishall. The Hong-faedities will be arranged for the men the Cenotaph. kong Mmarial is rendered doubly in-who fought in the Great War, and main pressive by reason of the ample space tained so nedly the traditions of the around it, its position near the water Sation. This Cenotaph has been erected and th Fact that it Fatsby the Community as a grateful tribute abrond granite hase approach to those who gave their lives to uphold ed by six steps. which leads to the amour and leals of the British

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From the W.O's, S. Sgts.. Sgts, of the Garrison Sergents' Mess."

There was a continuous stream of people] visiting the Cenotaph until dusk and the collection of wreaths and bunches of

From Messes. Jerline, Matheson and flowers placed at the base of the memorial kept growing, As darkurss set in large Co., Ltd., in hoving remembrance of thos numbers of Chinese clustered around and who gave their lives, in the defence of the in the end a was fouud hebestry to pest | Smpire."!

From S. Dasil and Co,'' special guard of police to guard the tributes. We understand that four police.

next two or three days or, until such time

dais approached by three more steps. Nation. It will remain as an enduring The granite monument has no decoration proof of the loving reinrmbrance in which | hoyond laurel wreaths carved in the state, they are held, and commemorate for all and the inscription The Glorious Dead," | times the supreine sacrifice made by them mos will.o duty at the Cenotaph for the in grateful and king reabrance of

Conotaph."

with the date, 1910. in Rowing figures-in defence of the Empire. Sir. I now On wither side these bronze lagstaff have the honour to ask you to unveil the! project from the masonry and carry, en the centre fagstaff the Union Jack. flank. éd by the White and the Red Ensign. | The Cometaph is 23 fet in height, and the base rekre Bit, en, inches by bit. & inches. Four approaches, kerbed and payed with granit, bisect the gram Jawas beymail the Memorial.

has berti

at the flowers will be romovel..

THE FLORAL TRIBUTES.

From the members of the Ewo Mese

the man who died for the Empire in the Great War.

"In memory of 2nd Lieut. R. J. Stevenson. Ist Rants. Regt.. who died of,

The tributes from the various Monteties | wounds n Frama, May 10th, 1918 agmi and Cabs and Business Hogses were for the inest part distinguished by the colours To the mouery of four dear brothers of the Sonety, Chickor Ïlouse in question., and all the Giloriens lead, from Mr. and The following is a list of the wreaths and Mrs S. Diptean. babes of flowers placed at the base by seven o'clock last night :-

The fiverr.

From the Consular Body of Hongkong"

A. E. The GovERson said:4-My Lord!

ladies Bishop.

and gentlemen, Wo have met here today to unveil this memortal to thow who gave their lives for their country in the greatest war in which the British Empire has ever taken part

war essentially different fröm guy of the

[\" country As is generally known. Hongkong's many in which tribute to those who gird in the War is engaged before. In previous wars Great 16 include a Nursing Home to be erected] Britain was represented mainly by dri at a cost of, risigaly, a million suflare, professional Armies and Navies. In this to Great Britain's. Homtred 'Dead.

la memory of our fallen comriules war-into which we entered not from any j The sent menorial at $60,000 exeln- sive of the site, which was dedicated the preservation of those idrals of freedom

self.ch motiva of aggrandisinent, but for from the Ex-Active Service Men's Asscing

tion. 1914-101s." the "paranse by the Government.

a democracy for which the Empire Among the large gathering present

stands-the whole, peoplé had to piny yesterday, sonted in the temporary stinks

ity puirt. The monument which we have preeted around this Muorial, were to be placed here in the most prominent site in noted all the members of the Essentive the Colny, where it will be seen by every- and Legislatie. Conscits, the members body who lands in Hangkong, vom of the War Memorial Cognitive thememorates, therefore, men of all classe Consuls of all the Powers represented in Hongkong, practically all the Naval and Military Offices at pinent in the Colony and a representative gathering of the general public. including a large number of ladies mad children,

The verandahs ordoking the Square were thronged with prople, whilst on those of the Hongkong Club sents had been specialty reted for the accommoda-

tion of members and their wives,

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The British Legion.",

From David Sassoon & Co., Ltd."

From Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Bird. In loving, memory of Lieut. Henry Doonz B.M.A.Sirowned Vernon, September, 1914. RAP."

t

'seit.

From Mr and Mrs. Bird in loving memory of Squadron Commander Theo-, philos Chater Vernon, R.F.C.-killed nu the Somme, September, 1910."

From the Society of Stunfirerge,

"In loving remembrance of Unele Will Hongkong-in loving remembrane of-William Peter Clark, D.C.M., Oxford those who gave their lives in the fireat and Bucks, Light Infantry; also Cousin War fi defence of the Empire."

Harry Saffel R.A.-Jim and Artic Clark."

St. Andrew's Society-in memory of those who made the supreme sacrifer. Theit names liveth for ever more."

From the President and membery of

"From R. H. Kotowall on behalf of the Chines Community of Hongkong, with hodage."

"In sacred memory of the Glorious

In loving memory of Edinand John Waldegrave, nd-Lient, R.C.A.,--killed iġ action, August 10th, 1018."

"In loving memory of Alec Macdonald; from P. H. and N, G. Holyoak."

In menioriam of Mosers. A. G. Vietor,

and of every rues within the Empire, and for that reason we have thought that the fittest form for it to take was a reproduc tien of the memorial which was erected in the heart of the Empire. There are

From the Committed and members of Probably few of us hers who had not the Bongkong General: Chamber of Cam. Bloch, C. E. A. Hanre-true, sporty latives, none who had not dear friends, merce, in memory of those who gave their everyone from the Committee and mem- among the eight hundred thousand of the

lives in the Empire's cause."

hers of the V.R.C." Empire's dead to whom this monument is

"From the Standard Oil Company of dedicated-men of the Army, the Navy Dead from the Parge community But New York," the Air Fores The

oh, for the touch of vanished hand and Marine. We are here to pay to them our last tribute of affection and esteem. I feel the sound of a voice that is still,**!.

"Da Communidade Portuguesen de that nothing that I could say would meet -

Hongkong." the occasion and I prefer to use the words which the greatest of nucient historians ¦ «

scribes to the Athenian statesman, Peric- les, in the most touching funeral pration

that was ever written ;--

official arrangements were remarkably Leffrient, and the whole proceedings went through without a hitch. The Square was kept clear by cordons of fudin and Chinese police.

At each corner of the steps which constivate kizar En of the Ceno

| toplar then stood. with arms reverend, a sailor of the Royal Navy, a dark skinned soldier of the Bombay Grenadiers, In khaki-eld Tornmy" of the King's and a quember of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Forre respectively.....

nod the

Mercantilisi

From the Royal Navy."

From 2nd Bn.. King's Regimen," From the 24th Bn., K. E. 0. Grendiers,

*From the Hongkong Defence Corps."

"Volunteer

From all the flower men of Hong- kong."

In loving memory of F. H. Robinson; from Winnie and Basle Rnworth.".

"From So Seng-kve, 3-5, Wyndhama Street,"

In loving memory of Jan Carmichael, R.A.F, from P. H. and N. G. Holyoak" Having offered in common the

In memory of my brother A. Bray- sacrifice of their lives, they have won

field, H.A.C from T. H. G. Brayfield. each for himself a fame which cannot Les Marius Franenis at leur camaFlywheel, Taipo." grow old, and the noblest of ali sequi | rades Anglais tue pendant la Guerra de

hrs.

"I speak hot of the tomb in which 1914-1918.**

their bodies are laid but of that in

*"Aux morts de In "Grande Guerre de Cansul de France et lo which their glory survives for ever, 1914-1918 ir

"For the whole earth is the sepulchre Frauenis de Hongkong reconnaissants." of. famous men, and not only are they Les auciens combattaats Francais a ommemorated by memorials in their

own land but even in foreign lands leur frares d'armes tues pendrat la there remains an unwritten memorial of Guerre 1914-1918." them graven tot un stone but in the hearts of men,'

To those men, whose name liveth for ever. I unveil this memorial.

The King's Regt., with bayonets, fixed and “honded by the Band. marched down from Murray Barracks. The Guard of Honour drawn from the Navy, the Royal Marines, the King'a and the other regiments in the Colony, and representa. tives from the Old Commendes Association, E.4.8.3.A.. the Dilence Corps and the Police, assembled in the Naval Yard At the point His Excellency pulled the earlier in the afternoon, and marched up cord, and the huge Union Jacks which to the Cenotaph headed by pipers of the had covered the memorial descended, Bombay Grenadiers Arrived in the revealing the Cenotaph in its complete. Jenclosure they were flanked by small bodies bes

of sailors from Fresh, American, and Portuguese Naval vessels in the Harbour. Thu- winle guard was then formed in a [square round the fmotaph, und greeted H.E. The Governor (Sir R. E. Stubbs, K.C.M.G.) on his arrival with a Royal Salute At that moment the Bank struck up the solemn strains of the National Anthem.

His Excellency entered the inelcsurr accompanied by his Aide-de-Camp' (C'ript. | B. Néville, Boyni Marine Light Infantry), and was met by Commodore Orner, R.N., and Colcurl 6. W. Davy, C.M.G.. D.S.Q., His Excellency, win was not in uniform, immediatly progceded to in- spect the Guard of Honour, and the Regiment,

the

The Bisnor, or Vitoria (Dr. Deerry) then said following Dedicatory Prayer:-

"Nous ne vous oublierons jamais."

From the U.S.8. Pampanga.”' From the Royal Marines Old Comrades Association, Hongkong and South China

Brauch-in-memory.”

"In memory of our fallen comrades, Hongkong Police.”

•

"In memory of Lan Neil Carmichael, from T. H. G. Brayfield."

There were several wreaths and bunches of flowers without cards.

The Chinese flower sellers of Wyndhans Stxt who had brought a large tribute from themselves were not prosent wher the public hid their wreaths at the base: of the Cenotaph, and the Hon. Mr. Irving, noticing this, had their tributa carried up to the dais by four Boy

Scouth

"In memory of our Masonic dead who RECORD COCAINE HAUL AT diet that we might live; from the District

CALCUTTA. Grand Lodge and all brethren, Hongkong,

E. C."

RS. 31,000 WORTIL ON

"TANDA."-

"From the Warders of Victoria Gaol." "fo the faith of Jesus Christ we "From the Hongkong and Shanghai The latest Upkcužta papers to hand report dedicate this Cenotaph to the sacred Banking Corporation." memory of those who gave their livi

a very large izurs of cocaine on the 5.8.

in the Great War. In the name of the From the China Const Officers' Guild Tanda Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy! This wreath contained the names of 30 Ghost. Amen."

Marine officers who were killed or drown After a slight pause, the Rev. J. Kinked at Sea,” MADONACHI' recited the following :--

.

Christ is risen from the dead: and become the first fruits of them that d'Italia." slept.

For as in Adam alt de: even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

"Glory lw to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Console, nome del Regio

the work of

a

The Customs staff got information that the as. Tanda, plyine between China and India and lying t the Outram Ghat. moorings, had on board some of this contraband stuff and immediately got to. work. The Customs staff having taken The Copsul General de Portugal, en all precautions to guard the vessel, began For siney by man myno denth; by humo da' Macão Portuguesa, 94-6-121"

cocaine. Haneking the vessel for the. cfuo that the stuff man can also the resurrvetian of the

In loving remembrance of our dearest

may be in the coal store, thus Customs drad.

wephew, Lieut. Frank Noville Cowper, officera sau to the work of shovelling the ardi Suffolks, from P. H. and N. G. cand in the hunker. It was a very vero Holyonk,**

task in the great heat! Their efforts woro early owned with slight mucces

Ruccess as they In loving memory of dear. "nephew were able to find a small

quantity of Clifford Lamplugh. RA.F., from P. H. cocaine. This initial success assured them that they were on the right track and the and N. G. Holyoak."

Customs officers redoubled their efforts at shovelling away the coal. After about 300 tons of roa! had been turned up and shifted, 690 ounces of coenine, valued at about Rs. 31,000 was found to the joy of the Customa staft.

It has long been suspected that, thera is an organised association of smugglers with agents et important foreign ports.

No arresta were made na the smugglers and their ngonta got away from the ship when the Customs staff came on board.

As it was in the beginning, is now. and ever shalt be; world without end. Ainen,"

The Right Rev. D. Pozzosi, Bishop of

In loving memory of Ben Chapman, from P. H. and N. G. Holyoak."

"This having been måne, His Excellency mounted the platform set in front! of th memorial, accompanied by tho Bishop of Victoria (Dr. C. R. Duppuy), Tavia and Vicar Apostolic of Hongkong, "From Messrs. Shewan, Tomen and the Right. Rev. Pozzoni (Bishop of Bud: While, at the sight of this. Ceno Co." Tavia and Vicar pistolic of Hongkong), taph, our memory goes forth in gratitude

In memory of Captain E. W. Evers, tho Rev. J. Kirk Monachie (Minister of to the heroes who have died for us and M.C. and Lieut. D. A. Macleod, from Union Church), and Mr. D. G. M. while our hearts' feel spurred to noble Mours, A. S. Watson and Co. Ltd"

Vinos Sau dades do mao Irmnos, Bernard (Chairman of the War Memorial deeds by their great examples, let us also Committee).

recall the holy and wholesome thought of from Francisco Maria Soares.”