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Dep. 8.45

Shakha

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9.38 10.28 12.21 1,34

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£2,300, with a lump sum of about £20,000 in addition. The moré- ment is inspired by a desire to THE MENIN GATE. show appreciation of his great ser

vices to the State for many years, and those who are chiefly interest- ed include Lord Reading, Lord Devonport, Lord Lincolnshire. Sir LORD OXFORD'S SERVICES TO Abe Bailey, Sir Robert Etdien,

A GREAT WAR MEMORIAL.

THE NATION.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. 1,

and Mr. Larkin. the Canadian High Commissioner. It will sur prise many people to know that as ex-Cabinet Minister, Lord Oxford is entitled to a pension, of £9,000 a year: but before he could receive this he would have to sign a de elaration that he is impecunious, and apply for assistance.

It is one of the curious anomalies of our public life that while Par liament was asked to vote--and gladly did vote-large sums" of money is rewards to distinguished officers of the navy and army who. had borne the brunt of the Great War. nothing was done or could be done, to reward the veteran Liberal statesman who had main- tained through dark years - Binching courage and steadfast de termination. The testimonial that is to be made to him is a purely private one. The Government as Government have nothing whatever to do with it.

LONDON, July 9th. The imagination of men sad women of the British race, where ever they may be must have been stirred by the news.cf the dedics tion of the Menin Gate, Ypres, last The Menin Sunday, July 24th. Gate stands as a memorial of some sixty thousand British soldiers who fell in the Ypres Salient,, whose bodies were never recovered from that morass of blood and mad, but whose names are now inscribed on the scroll of fame upon the Gate, On all the wide expanse of the Western Front of war time no spot could be more appropriate for such 4. memorial. It was through the Menin Gate, the spot known 19 "Hell Fire Corner," that are after wave of our men passed to the bell that awaited them beyond. There, more even than at famed Verdun the war Was wes and civilisation saved from the domina tion of German militariam. There also Belgium was saved from being trampled under foot. The cere mony was the most moving that

Art and Camouflage. has been known since the burial of the Unknown Soldier in West-

There are many sincere expres- minster Abbey. Seven hundred sions of regret at the passing mothers whose sons lie in unknown of Mr. Solomon J. Solomon, the graves in the Salient were brought distinguished Royal Academician, from England for the unveiling who taught the British Army the Their march through Three bearing art and mysteries of camouflage bunches of flowers picked In Eag. The system which be or high originated Lish gardent provided the mast and brough most moving incident in a heart stirring day.

DIARY OF EVENTS.

To-day.

St. Bartholomew's Day. Stopping of Heat (SA). Extraordinary General Meeting China Provident Loan and Mort- gage Company, 230 p.m.

Chinese Chamber of Commerce monthly meeting, 2.30 p.m.

Toa Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m. and King Edward Hotel, s p..

Ping Pong League: Hop Ying Club C.R.C. (C.C.Y.ML.S.).

H.A. Baseball League: "Tigers" (S.C.A.A.) v. Filipinos, Happy Valley Diamond, & 15 p.m.

H.. Cricket League Annual Meeting. Sanitary Board Room, Post Office Building, 4.30 p.m.

Water Polo League: Royal Navy . K.O.S.B.; V.R.C. "A" . 2nd Scots Guards.

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Dinner Dansant at Cafe Re- ataurant Parisier.

Queen's Theatre: "The Dark Angel"

World Theatre: "Sherlock Junior."

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Star Theatre: "The Fourth KING - EDWARD

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Lord Oxford is not a wealthy man, and it goes without saying that if he had used his great gifts for personal profit he would be well-off to-day. Some other ex- Cabinet Ministers have had to ap-

Principal Mails:-Outward: ply for pensions. Mr. Lloyd Australia, New Zealand, etc. George is not one of these, however, ishima Maru), 9.30 A. m.; as he was the fortunate recipient Canada, America, etc., Europe vid of an. anticy of £2,000 bestowed Vancouver, B.C. and vid Siberia. on him by the late Mr. Andrew (Empress of Russia), 10 a. Carnegie during the war..

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Thursday,

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12th Annual meeting or Associação Club Lusitano, 5.20 p.m. Portuguesa "de Socorros Mutuos,

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Queen's Theatre: "Sandy." World Theatre: "Captain Blood." Star Theatre: "Dance Madness.". Principal Mails:-Ontward:

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perfection, was the means of sav ing thousands of lives in the war.

The verisimilitude of any draw-P For Ever In Remembrance.

ing or painting of an object de Only those who took part in the ends upon light and shade; and Titanic struggles associated with

it was the absence of shadows the Ypres Salient can understand where shadows should have been on why so many thousands of their comrades never returned, and why an aerial photograph which drew Mr. Solomon's attention to the fact every trace of them was obliterate that the Germans had been tamper- ed. But now, in the noble words of Field Marshal Lord Plumer, ing with the landscape. As every who performed the ceremony at the artilleryman knows, a house or a unveiling, "It can be said of each position was often only to be detected on aerial photographs by one in whose honour we are

the shadow cast. It was the main sembled here to-day he is not function of camouflage not only to missing, he is here.

make objects invisible from the ground, bat are especially to ob-

40th annual meeting of the Hong riate, a shadow when they were

In Kong Football Club, Messrs. Jar- photographed from the air. modern warfare concealment is dine, Matheson's Board Room, 5,30 often a better protection than con-

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The hundreds of relatives of the fallen who attended the dedication at Ypres saw little to remind them of the horrors of twelve years ago

the unceasing processes of for Nature and the work of human hands devoted to restoration have

The art of camouflage was also turned the evidences of desolation into smiling and blessed peaceful-successfully used to disguise trains and tanks, and-more wonderful, ness. Ypres has arisen ruins of the old city, and all perhaps than anything else to around outside the husbandman paint ships ia jazz patterns so that submarines could not aim at them has laboured to bring the land with any degree of accuracy. Mr. again into cultivation

Solomon died at his house At Birchington, where he had a vast studio with windows opening on the sea.

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"We travelled in the print of

alden wars,

Yet all the land was green; And love we found, and peace, where fire and war had been. the and smile, They pass

children of the sword. No more the sword they wield. And O, how deep the corn

along the battlefield,"

Empire Tourists, Touring the Empire seems to have become the fashion with dis- tinguished people. The Prince of Wales left this week for Canada accompanied by the Prime Minis

Friday, Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien 4.30 p.m., and King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.

Ping Pong League: St. Peter's Y.M.C. 7. CA.A. (Y.M.C.A.).

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Naval and Military Y.M.C.AR "Cheer 0": Concert, P.; "Better. 'Ole": Variety Concert

p.m. Dinner Dansant at Cafe Restaur- ant Paris

St. Peter's .M.C. Whist Drive, Cathedral Hall, 8.20 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Sandy," World Theatre: "Captain Blood? Star Theatre: "Dance Madness." Principal Mails:-Outward: Europe vid Marseilles, etc. (Haruna Maru), 2:30 p.m.

Saturday.

4th Ordinary yearly meeting H.K. Realty and Trust Co., Ltd, Exchange Building (2nd floor), 11.30 am.

The League of World Order.. It is sometimes said that we have too many leagues, and societies,, and movements for the promotion of cbjects that are all more or less deserving; but there is something that is bound to make a wide ap: peal in the League of World Order which was founded this week at a gathering held at the Savoy Hotel in London. Lord Buckmaster, a 2.20 p.m. former Lord Chancellor, presided,

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Ping Pong League: Hop Ting vate visite to various countries in is founded. There is no restriction the Empire during the recess which with regard to nation, class or Clab o C.R.C. (S.C.A.A).

Y.M.C.A. bathing begins this week. Bome are going creed, and no political distinctions. European

Oliver Locker-picnic, Big Wave Bay. to South Africa under the auspices To Commander

St. Peter's Y.M.C. launch, picnic. of the Federation Chamber of Com Lampson, well-known for his deter merce of the British Empire. mined and persistent opposition to Launch leaves Queen's Pier, 3.30

Next year there is, I hear, to be Russian political theories, belongs p.m.

great gathering of Empire the credit of originating the Ten Dances: HK Hotel, Hotel M.P.'s in Canada under the League. He is the sworn for of Sayoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m. Dinner Dansant at Cafe Restaur auspices of the Empire Parliamen- Bolshevism, and he did more than tary Association.

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Menu Sundayag the better it will be both for this resting in fact till they were sent country and the Empire whenever back to Moscow-bog-and-baggage. 11th Sunday after Trinity. questions arise on which a right The Fress as a whole gives the Golf: Happy Valley Champion-

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