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HONG KONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1929.

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ПIP TRAINE

STATIONS No. No. 1 No.10 No.11 No.)**X 186.38 No,

AMAN. AM. AX,AK.JAX, | 2.2.

I.14.

T,M, P.X,

IF YE BREAK FAITH,

AN ARMISTICE DAY REFLECTION.

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Fowloon Dap. € 40'8,058.30 9.08 9,15 10.00 12,104 1.15). 2.16) 2.53| 3.20| 4,50|5,40) 7.36

2.25 10.09 12.19) 1,237 2.94 2.33 10.20 12.30 1,055 2.36 953 10.33 17.43 1.489.49 --

948 10.87 12.7 1.5232.53

10.10 10.47 12.375 2,02§ 3.04 -

Yanmati.Dop.) 6 49

Shatin,Dep 7.01)

Tairo...Dep 7,13

Taipo

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Fauling Dep. 7.30

Sheung-

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Saua-

12.05)

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Canton...Arr

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Another hour to go. Phew! 4.50 6.00 7.59 5.04 6.13 8.09 whs, damned cold work, this wait

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Canton

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153584.45

19.60 3.03 4,50

14.18 8,91 5.04

· 12,308,365,17 6.28

12.11 8.14 5.00

12.433.485,206.08

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His Section Sergeant gave an ad monitory grow of warning to private who whispered in too loud

tone to his neighbour. "Curse that private-Dodkin. of course. Why couldn't he keep his confounded tongue quiet? .

Phut, phat, phati

A few stray bullets from the Ger- man trenches, barely twenty yards in front, thuddled into the natural breast work which topped the lip of the crater in which the shivering [Platoon were huddled. The bullets did not worry the Platoon Com- 6.52

He knew they mander unduly. 6.59

were only fired at random with no special target as their objective,

Damn this blank-blank-blank war whispered a bitter lance corporal to his neighbour. "Wot 7.3.are we wallowing in this ruddy mud for when them blokes in Par- finment sirep anng in a warm bed Those bloomin' politicians started the war-ict them fight it! I ain't ad dry feet for three weeks an I'm as crummy as a cuckoo !"

"Yeah," grunted his neighbour, Wot are we 'ere for at all? Where's the sense of planting twenty men in a 'ole right in front of Jerry? It's all bloomin' tripe about rushing that machine-gun to let our blokes be'ind get across. draw More likely we're ere to Jerry's fire when the real fun begins!!

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From the trenches had a rifle spoke suddenly, and the Platoon With strange emotions tearing at Commander felf lifeless into the bis breast, fim Dodkin watched mud while, in the trench, brother-them swing by. Who were they ↑ officer swallowed convulsively as be handed a still-emoking Tide to the private from whom he had taken it itself from a shell-hole but slid Another shape attempted to drag

back into the slime before it could properly reach the rim of the crater. Again and again essayed the attempt, but without arcess,

A white flag suddenly appeared above the German trench and a party of stretcher-bearers ambered timidly over the parapes They atarted to collect their wounded and

from the

"They shall not grow old as we who are left grue ald; age shall not weary them, nor the passing of down of the sun and in the morn- the years condemn. at the going

ing we will remember them. They are the Vanished Army who march ...march... march

Who spoke these words?

Jim did not know. He only knew that the Voice made Itself felt, rather than heard, above the tramp of marching feet.

The excitement within him grew. British party followed it. The and then burst into a fierce wild dead were left to bury themselves, flame as with the Commander at The quivering wreck of that was the head, the old No. 3 Platoon once Private Dodkin was lifted awang dimly into sight. He could Also, two bearers attempted to singing, softly. Keep the Home mud-filled shell-bole, even hear the men whistling and

the damaged Fires Burning." A face in the drag from him machine gun to which he still clung. front rank turned to him with a This lone survivor of No. joyous look of recognition. It was Platoon had accomplished the bis "buddy "—young Jenkins-who Platoon's objective, God knows had giggled at Jim's jokes and drawn down the Section Sergeant's how!

wrath upon his head that night in the shell hole.

Bo-o-am!

Armistice Day..

A haggard-faced man lying in bed started from an uneasy sleep, A fit of coughing left his lips red formed. Instinctively, he clutched the bed-clothes which covered his wasted form, and attempted to tide his head beneath them.

The rumble of the traffic outside died to a standstill.

...

Silence fell. From afar came the sound of men and women singing.

"God, our Help in Ages Past" There was the faint suspicion of a derisive mile on the clammy foco of the man on the bag He Oh, go an bite yer 'ead off," visualise all that was happening, snapped the lance-corporal. Bless could see, in his mind's eye, the ed Job's comforter you are, Mule-white-surpliced priest and choir gathered around the War Memorial He could in the public square, hear the priest futoning a prayer for the souls of those who had paid the Great Sacrifice. He could hear him giving thanks nato God who gave Victory, and could visualise the tear-stained faces of the women in the crowd who bowed their heads to hide their grief at the memory of some loved one who slept beneath

The tension of waiting, was play ing baree with his nerves.

Silence" whispered the Flatcon Commander, in a weary voice,

Phut, phut, phut!

The bullets continued to spatter, in a desaltory manner, into the carthwork. -

The Dawi.

Something had gone wrong in the attack during the night

on somebody's part "A mistake saw the British curtain-barrage and Number 3 falling short, Pintoon, ensensed in the shell-hole, had suffered severely. A swiftly as they left their trench, the little party was compelled to retire again by their own gans.

Before the chill light of early dawn the clacamy mist commenced slowly to roll away, revealing to red-eyed, weary watchers in both lines great shell-torn holes in the tortured earth, from which wisps of yellow," acrid pieric-laden smoke still eddied and swirled. Here and there, strange mud-and-blood-spat tered shapes, which were once men, lay in weird conterted attitudes.

Flanders coil.

And, beside Jekins was Jim's old-

place, vacant, waiting for him to fall into line.

Conscious of new-found strength. he rushed forward. Before he fully realised it, he was marching for- ward in the front rank,.

Tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp..

Lest We Forget Bo-o-o-om!

The held-up trafic rolled on again; the business heart of the world resumed its normal beat. The Two Minutes Silence was ended

nded in the street below the dense crowds which had packed the pavements and the roadway broke up in cheery disorder.

From the kerb, a small, foxy faced individual stooped to pick up a small metallic object which had fallen from the sky, apparently, during the Silence.

It was a small cross of bronze.

For Valour," read the little man. Then, with a shrug, he drop- red it into the gutter again. It was only bronze, you sead

Buy a poppy, "air 1""

The fox-faced one gave a benevo- A spasm of pain fitted geress the sick man's face followed by an-lent leer as he dropped a penny into other burst of violent coughing. the collecting-box held out to him Privation and continued hunger, by the eager-faced young girl. mande worse by pride af soul, were Giving her a broad wink, he select- ed one of the largest of the poppies taking their dread toll.

she offered for sale and tuçked it into his lapel.

.

Somewhere a band was playing Chopin's "Marche Funebre," and Weakly, he put his hand under

in the sick man smiled. his pillow and drew forth a small cross of bronze bearing the inscrip- tion "For Valeur."

On its reverse side, Pte. James Dodkin, X303452197," he read.

Bitterly, he raised the cross to Then, with a sudden his line. strength horne of passion, hurled it through the open window.

As he turned away, his eye caught sight of the poster suspended from her tray. A design of scarlet pop-- pies, encircling a stark wooden Cross on a shell-swept hill, sur- mounted a quotation which meant little to his busy little mind at the moment.

"If ye break faith with us who die... we shall not sleep, though Poppies grow o'er Flanders fields,” it rend.

- And, at that moment, the kind doctor who had quietly drawn a sheet over the face of what bad once been Private Jim Dodkin, VC placed a crimson poppy, in the thin, wasted band which had but a few minutes before, clutched a small cross of bronze.

The Vanished Army. A horrible Thing with its face completely blown away, stirred and

Tramp, tramp, tramp! The rattle of accoutrement, the struggled to its feet, its bands grop- ing wildly before it. The figure clinking of trench tools knocking stumbled onward in the direction against hard packs, disturbed, the of the German trenebes. By its stillness of the twilight gloom. tattered uniform only could it be Over the hilltop They marched, identified as the Platoon Com-battalion after battalion of Them.

British. mander, who had been the first to

German, American, A truant ray of November sun- fall when the attack began.

Italian, French-men of all nation shine caused the poppy to glow like Crack!

alities and climes they swunga blood-red jewel

Diary of Coming Events,

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St. Martin. Armistice Day.

King Victor Emmanuel III, of Italy born, 1869.

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