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Two Steeples No. 83

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd, 1928.

THE FIELDS OF FRANCE AND

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FLANDERS.

On a summer's day in 1923 we sat on the low parape that surrounds the open space in front of Amiens Cathedral and drank in the full beauty of the West Front. The stone seemed to glow golden ad grow almost luminous in the last rays of the setting sun-and every figure in that marvellous work of the stone artist stood out like a living creature,

Away on our right was the hideous wreck of a house torn open-showing sordid rooms stil! more sordid in their nakedness of hall stripped walls and protruding beams. One was devoutly grateful to the Providence that watched over the Cathedral and saved it from destruction, even the one shell that pierced the roof did no harm, but was strangled by protecting sand- bags

Amiens-and the world at large- could ill afford to spare the Cathedral, that its like no quisite gem enshrined in the poorest of settings.

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Next day we set out in the early morning, with a backward glance at the Cathedral, standing up against the town like some creation of a dream, blue and intangible in the pale sunlight.

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that remained and the sun gleamed on the remains of golden mosaic exposed to the light of day. think the wreck of this great Basilica caught more poignantly' at one's heart than many other things. It was beautiful in its utter rain, dignified mutely appealing to the passer-by to witness to the wicked ness and folly of war.

The Wooden Crosses Beyond Bapaume.

ROUND THE COURTS.

AN ELUSIVE THIEF.

INDIAN CONSTABLE IN TROUBLE.

The story of how a thief escaped from chatody twice was told to Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday by Inspector Dorling, when the elusive prisoner was charged with stealing a jacket from a clothes lines at the rear of No. 32, Rose Terrace, Kowloon

It appeared that the thiet was The wooden crosses in the resting spotted by a Chinees detective, place, we sought beyond Bapaume and alter following him to Saira had not yet been replaced by stone.bury Road, the officer, closed with It was a spot, so full of peace and wh beauty and glowing flowers that it what he had got hidden ander his dropped some balm into that un- ending ache of loss.

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Heaked the man

jacket The thief refused to show it, a struggle easted, and the chl prit broke loose and bolted- After

O, strong soul, by what shore Tarries thou now. For that forcece chase, the man was re- captured. To make surd 'that he Surely has not been Telt vain!

would not escape again, the detec- Bomewhere surely afar

tive held the men's jacket "firmly and led him off to the Police Station, but on the way, the wily thief unbuttoned his jacket and broke away again, leaving the jacket in the hand of the detec tive. He was, however, intercept- ed by an India constable in Chatham Road, and brought to the Police Station,

In the sounding labour-house vast Of being is practised that strength Zealous, beneficent, firm. Beyond the plot so lovingly tend ed by English bands, separated only by barbed wire, lay further rows of crosses But" how poignant the contrast. On the one side the saft green turf, the masses of lilies, pinks, snapdragons, pasturtiums, pansies, mignonette and all the dear homely English flowers on the other, the German graves which at that time had received but little care.

A few miles out of Amiens we were in a world of harvesting. The broad fields and rolling uplands were golden with sheaves-not ar ranged in neat rows as in England, but all irregular-biggledy.piggledy -giving no sense of order and peace, bus rather of terrile prodity, of war fusion and haste and ferce produc hideousness. tiveness, The sheaves were fashion.

ed in such fantastic forms that. sometimes they seemed a procession of hooded monks, at others a crowd of crouching chimpannes, or again a collection of village gossips. There was something uncanny, most horrifying in these grotesque shapes scen close at hand, and one's eyes sought the distance where they

were blurred and melted into the horizon, and the gold and green and blue brought a seces of peace.

"The Shadow Of The Gallant Dead."

It seemed almost incredible that a year ago these teeming fields were hideous wastes covered with wreck age of war, pitted with shell-holes, horrible in their desolation. And yet it was perhaps the ghosts of the Past that robbed this harvest of that sense of perfect harmony and beauty that rests on fields which have not been drenched in blood. The shadow of the gallant dead stood between us and the sunshine and one felt a certain fear of Nature, an anger and a dislike that she can so quickly repair the evil that men do--and cause them to forget,

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We wandered into the mournful spot and read the names where they were decipherable and once agait the horror, the futility, the stupi rose up in all" its

the

His record showed that in August lost, he was convicted for larceny. Six weeks, hard labour, was the sentence.

INDIAN CONSTABLE AND CHINESE GIRI.

An Indian constable was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy with aaaaulting 4 young Chinese girl. On the one side John Smith lay ship intimating to Insp. Phillips

The case was adjourned, his Wor beneath the flowers, and, an other Johann Schmidt lay beneath that Mr. C.A. S. Ruse would appear for the prosecution and the long grass. They had that Mr. Leo d'Almada had been quarrel with each other. Among retained for the defence. all the young and gallant and happy whom the rows of crosses now stand for, there was hop one who sought the quarrel. One does

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not dare to think of the sum total of sorrow represented by those wooden crosses, a mere fraction of the result of that five years holocaust of youth. They left home and high hopes and happinen, wives, parents, sisters and children for nameless hardship and death. Now they lie scarce a few yards apart.

all evil shed away

A pulse in the eternal mind At such a rooment and in such a spot, one feels that every man and woman should devote strength and brain to the League of Nations which through difficulty and die trust, scoffing and hostility, yet holds aloft the torch of peace,

coast.

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CRUELTY CHARGE.

For carrying two chickens by the legs with their heads hanging down, a Chinese cook-boy had to pay a fine of $3 at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday..

Before the same Magistrate a poultry dealer had to pay $7 for transporting 17 ducks in & ricksha with their legs tied together. De fendant was told that he should have carried the ducks in a crate.

SHIP'S COMPAŠS.

their

The two Chinese beld by the police on a charge of having a stolen ship's compass in possession, were dismissed yester. day at the Kowloon Magistracy, because the identification of the From the glowing countryside of compass had not been established." France to the grey dreary helds It was at first thought that it was fat stolen from the s.s. Kalgan, but They say that on the Fleam Dyke of Flanders and its bleak near Cambridge the purple fritidull road that leads from Knocke

Our ear hummed. along the later the compass was found to be

different one. laries grow only where Danish blood to Zeebruggen-Nieuwport-Diammude was spilt. There were few Bowers Vi: y-names that stand for grim growing in the fields of France- battles by sea and by land. Here sun

aly a acarlet poppy here and there, but perhaps in the years to come the aftermath of the war will have given place to peace, more flowers will spring up and children picking poppies there will be told that the Bowers rise from those who gave their lives for England and for France. It seemed to me that t would have been well for the peace of the Future if some portion of the land could have been enclosed and preserved just as it was when the tide of battle ebbed-a warning and a lesson to the younger and the next generations.

the iron of the war seemed to have shadows of the baystacks near by was shining there and the citea into the very soul of the land lengthened across the field Birds Unattractive in peace were these sang, and the poppies nodded along the towns and the tide of battle the hedgerow. The driver of the car that swept over them left, hideous stood bare-headed beside us, He shells that ones were dwellings or was a relation" he said.. where the buildings were complete ly razed, stark red cottages and

We told him, "No,. but he had come many thousands of miles to less windswept landscape. houses now stared out of the tree-fight for freedom."-

The tears came into the man's

eyes.

A Belgian War Veteran.

"That was good, that was cour The coast of Flanders was a nightmare and so were the inland ageous. May he rest peacefully." roads, torn by shells, with the waste He turned away and hid his face fields as yet uncultivated lying on in his hands. either side.

I began to think that all traces of the war. had been covered up when suddenly a board bearing the word, Pozieres" came into view. Instead of the village of Northern France one knew in other days there was a heterogenous collection of wooden shanties and Nissen huts. face grew drawn and old

At one spot he stopped and bis

here, oh, my God-no, it is better not to tell."

In these the inhabitants of Pozieres. I saw "bere," he said, "I saw were living. And so on through other villages, where men were still clearing away masses of rubble and stones. Barbed wire lay in heaps along the roadside and the shady allés of former days was represent- ed by a few blackened stumps.

Out in the open country now where copse after copse of black gaunt dead trees stretching out spectre-like branches seemed the most poignant witnesses of the fiery furnace through which the land had passed.

Albert,

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... Every Poppy Sold Helps A

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Disabled a

The years pass and although out- Our Belgian driver had been awardly much is the same the scars through the war, after his second of the war remain... Men and wound he was unable to return to women have had to take up the the fighting line, but drove a ear daily round but the heartache en- for a general.

dures. And moreover those who gave their health and youth and strength for us are in many cases poor and unemployed and home- less. The shouting and the tumult die and the hero is left to fend He had a simple manly way with for himself-his, occupation gonej him, he knew every yard of the the future chaotic, There are country and had told a plain unwidows and orphans left to struggle varnished tale. We did not press on a wretched pittance, the light of him to tell of the nameless horrors their lives extinguished. For these of that road.

Earl Haig's Fund stands as pro- Ypres was the crowning point of teat against the forgetting of a debt the nightmare. The town that was we owe to those who fought and

is. once the glory and pride of Belgium suffered for us. had become a hideous blot of red brick and rubble. We had with us A keen student-an enthusiast for |Belgian architecture asli was be

Every poppy that is sold on Armis fore the war delver in the tice Day goes to help a disabled archives of the country,

man or his dependente. It needs little imagination to rouse every He stood desolate and

mute in the midst of the

man, woman, and child to pay this Place," staring at the reconstruction of the Cloth tribute to the dead and to the Hall at the wreck and horror in which they dwell, the peace and living, to realise that the security where once was beauty and dignity sunshine and prosperity were wou for them by the spirit of sacrifice This reached its climax in the There is only "une

that prompts a man to lay down his gracious Church Here the golden figures of

life for his country, M memory in that long and painful the Virgin and Child were struck day. Round Poperinghe there are Mesopotamia-the gallant dead who

France Flanders — Gallipolí, by a shell and leaned forward as still avenues of rustling trees and lie in these foreign lands live fu If to protect the town for many, fields of grain. We sought the our hearts and have reposed a many months. Just before the grave of a young, Ceylonese soldier sacred trust in us the care of their Armistice they fell, fulfilling an old It was hard to find but at last we prophecy that the fall of the figures discovered the little cemetery, offrades who won through and of would herald peace. Pious hands the high road. There were only their wives and children. had raised a new temporary Church about twenty, wooden crosses, but and new golden figures, but it is the the little plot' was well-tended and old ones that will live in our me full of flowers, We hung on the mories. The Church was a shell. wooden crops, the wreath of purpid The mosaic pavement was torn up and gold sea lavender from "We have been asked to state that -one picked one's way among east mother and sister and our thoughts subscriptions to the local Poppy holes, masses of fallen masonry: few to them seven thousand miles Day lund will be gratefully re- headicas figures, fragments of way. We were glad that he rested ceived by the Hon. Treasurer, capitals. The blue sky showed among the peaceful felds. The W. Brackenridge. through the gaping portions of root.) (Continued on next Columaa), ["} Matheson & Co.,

And then-Albert one of the towns which was still the most for cible evidence of the senseless bid. eousness of "war Practically ant a house of the old town was standing, except a fragment of wall. Men were clearing and rebuilding on all sides, but it was a nightmare, and peace." Teal tangible horror,

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"Jeannine, I Dream

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ANAT BRIKET AND THE VICTOR ORCHESTRA No 21572, 10-inch Memories of Francs-Walts With Focal Chorus

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That's Just My Way of Forgetting You-Fox Trot

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VICTOR ARDEN-PHIL ÜHMAN AND THEIR ÜRCHESTRA

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My Angel--For Trot (Theme Song from the Motion Picture

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Revenge (Theme Song from the Motion Picture production,

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