EMPIRE PARADE
EL SERVICE
COLOURFUL CEREMONY AT THE CATHEDRAL.
STIRRING SERMON BY SERVICES CHAPLAIN
The Senior Chaplain to the Forces, the Rev. N. Lewis Bryan, B.A., conducted a special Empire Sunday Parade Service at
St
John's "Chthedral resterday, phosing as his subject. The Ideals and Responsibilitice of Empire." The sermon was broadcast through out the Colony and many people listened in:...
LONDON GIRL ON THE YANGISZE",
VIVID IMPRESSION OF SHANGHAI,
HON
PATRONAL FEAST DAY
JAPANESE ROBBED RAINFALL
RECORD
CELEBRATIONS AT ST. LOUIS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
We give the following extractA
Yesterday tbs Balesian Cour From a intler written by an adven-munity in charge of St. Louis, In turous young. Auglickwoman who dustrial School oflebrated the Feast has recently arrived in Hankow, of Our Lady Help of Christiane,
Nanking and Wuhu.
8.8. Tuakwa, May 18, between the Proteatrum of the Society
Solemn High Mass was sung by the Very Rev. Father Bernardiní, Superior assisted by the Rev. Fr. Wiscorsek, Deacon, and the Reve Fr. Bozio, Sub-donca..
Choral Mass Salve Regina which The music of the Mass was the
Waa
rendered by the Balssian Scholastics from Bhaukiwan
The Yangtere is Bithy yellow, muddy water, just like the Whang- poo, We reach Wushu and Kia kiang to-morrow morning and afternoon, and have already passed Chinking and Nanking. The Japanese boats passing by the Yungista have their funnels disguis The Band of the South Wales edal black colour. The Chinese
The sermon for the occasion was. Borderers, under Bandmaster Geeks soldiers look thin and ill-fed and
prouched played throughout the service at many are mere boys between 14 and SJ, who dwelt on the significance by die Rev. Fr. Gallagher, which there was a large attend 16 years of age. When we passed of the title of Help of Christians anos of Service-men and a repre- the forts or what is left of them," Mary is a source of help first, be sentative gathering of the public, at Woosung, the whole village was cause she is the Mother of God; then
The form of Service. WLS да
a mass of ruinis, and you can still because she has been given by God follows:-
ase the homeless rummaging about team to be their Mother, also that Hymn- O God Our Help in in the bricks. The whole place is help is not something which occurs
Ages Fast."
red only long ago, it has endured through all ages in great things, and in small. It is felt to-day all over the world, especially in con- tres like Lourden and Fatima, To win Mary's help we must honour her not by words merely but by deeds by taking her as hur model
Prayera
Yenite
Lesson
Benedictus
Creed
Prayers.
Eymu➡/ Jenü,
Boul!!
Lover
My
Address. HymnKipling's Recessional"
National Anthem. "Benediction.
Voluntary Land of Hope and
Glory.""
The collection will be divided be-
cccupied by the Japanese who sheer ed, the Asama Maru as we came in. In fact we were so close that you could distinctly hear them talking and shouting their." Banzai." The place looked desolate and hopeless.
War and Flood Famine.
The Shanghai streets are throng ed with refugees all thing round begging. "My driver had to beat them from the stops of the dar was in, ne they started to touch my arm, and with the money and let. ter of credit I was carrying I was frightened: Many of the sights that I saw were disgusting. But,
After the religious ceremony the School Band gave a very pleasing selection of music in the compound.
The School Itself.
that is war and, food famine. All Situated in a side street near the the trucks and cars seem even now University gate, the St. Louis In and there is still trouble with socie
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BURGLARY AT MACDONNEL NEARLY ONE INCH IN ONE
ROAD
HOUR YESTERDAY.
BIG HAUL OF JEWELLERY
Nearly an inch of rainfall was rocorded from the brief but honey shower about noon time yesterday It was a pity that the fall lasted only a little time, but oven then it was a welboms contribution in these days of water shortage. The rain fall appeared to have been well die The more valuable articles stolen. triquted over all areas in Victoria
Mr. I Suzuki of 90, Macdonnell Road, was the victim of a burglary. 45 his residence on Saturday night, as a result of which thievas got away with a haul of 8978 worth of jewellery.
were two platinum rings, one sat with diamonds and the other with
valued at 8500 saal diamonds and pearls, which are
Other articles stolon include, gold ring set with a small diamond, a gold watch and chain and a pair of gold cuff links....
report has been made to the police of the burglary and defea 'res are investigating the affair.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY ZB.W/ ON 355 METRES.
11 to 11.30 a.m.-Stock quotations, 11.30 a.m.-Chinese programane. 12.30 p.m.-European programine of
Columbia records.
and Kowloon also experienced a hoary fall.
The total rainfall from 4. p.m. on Saturday to 4pm, on Burday was, according to figures from the Roy al Observatory, Kowloon,, 113 in. obes. It la remarkable that, includ od in this amount was 0985 inch.
which was the fall for one hour, from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm ya terday. This figure of nearly one. Linch for one hour is the highest re- corded for a like period this month,
and it is probably a record for the
whole of this year.
VAGRANCY LAW.
PENAL SECTIONS TO BE REPEALED.
The Gazette cantside the draft
pim-Local time and weather of an Ordinance to amend the law.
raport
relating to vagrancy. It is explain- ed that Section 10 of the Summary. Offences Ordinance, 1946, as amend- ed in 1924 and 1931 punishes mon- dicaney with a fine but does not, dư?
1.30 p.m.-Mail notics, etc.
p.m-Close down,
4.16 to 10.33 p.m.-Europead pro-
gramme.
tween Earl Haig's Memorial Work. to be occupied by military hands,dustrial School provides a five-yo 416 to 6.30 p.m.-Relay from the fine mendicancy... This is now done.j
shops, and the O.M.S. Home for Orphans, Kowloon,
"THE SERMON.
In the course of his remarks, the Rev. Lewis Bryan said that during the days of the Great War, message onde reached Home from a group of Englishmen who had been marooned for five years in the
tics who are sanding out pamphlets course for poor boys in carpentry, urging the boycott of the Japanese motor engineering, tailoring, print- so as to drive them out of China without firing another, shot,
ing and shoemaking. There is only seek admission: "Are you poor one question asked of the boys who
ad of disease. By the time I had Near the wharves the place, reek settled my luggage and got through the Customs, I had emptied a small hottle of Eau de Cologne dry and required mors.
vided.
Boys are rerruited from the streets and the Police Department In Shanghai everyone ia atil
co-operates with the Principal of wastes of the Arctic. They knew wearing overcoats. I have been the school and send to him any boy nothing about the catastrophy which drinking hot tea and coffee to keep that they consider stands in need had disrupted the peace of Europe warm but am still freezing Every of the training so efficiently pro and the message which they sent thing is terribly expensive and the Boross the world was this Is price of a certain parfume I found all wolf with the old country 1 to be nearly double, what it is in
Years had passed since those momentous and critical days, said the preacher, but Peace had her problems no less precarious than those of War. The map of the world had been altered; Kings had lost" their, crowns and gone into" exile. Wa bad lived through, and were
still living in times of tremendous upheaval and the East was waking from its slumbers of centuries and was determined to play its part in the councils of the nations.
The
Selosian Fathers are
Hong Kong. This is owing to the charge of the establishment and in taxes. Hong Kong is the cheapest all countries of the world, Priests place afterni} !
und Brothers of this Order are con- ducting boys institutions.
ed it peace." The Empire of Spain was laid in South America with rapine, plunder, pillage and assault,
Justice and Liberty.
is supplied by the Government to The present building, for the home gether with a grant of 8400 à
month, and consists of three two-
Justice and the liberty of man, storeyed buildings, the major por of whatever colour or class, andtion being one of first erected in freedom on the sens and oceans of the Colony. The premises are en- the world had been established wherever the Union Jack flow; tirely too small to accommodata there was freedom and peace, either the machinery at present in equality of law, freedom of Wor- ship and individual emancipation,
se or the number of boys that the due to a very large extent to the staff are keen to enroll. "Only about devoted life-long services of men 100 boys are at present resident in who had been content to leave Eng innd and go out into the far places the Lastitution and every year some of the Empire,
of them complete their course, and are drafted out to employment found for them by the Institution.
If the same message were sent by the marooned Englishmen to day, what would be the answer Although, for the first time in our generation there was, to day, a gleam of hope, yet there was the most tremendous power for evil that the world had ever known which was atriving to smash that idea, which, throughout the years of our history, had boed the in spiration of our forefathers, strive There was not a corner of our ing to destroy men's love for their far-flung possessions which King and Country, striving to dis-not hallowed by the bones of the Tupt the relations between the em ployer and employee, between mair and his fellow-men.
Submersive Elements. The speaker referred to the eva effects in the bazaars of India, at Cairo and Alexandria, saying they could trace its course as one could trace that of the sing across a leaf. That power of evil was trying to induce the severance of allegiance to the British Crown until the old Flag which had flown proudly throughout the centuries sometimes looked a little caroworn as though worn-out by the strain and stress of the passing years, ge
Was
pioneers who had laid down their lives in simple service and a suit able insoription for all such would bo They died but the flag off England few free cre their spirit passed."
LOCAL CHINESE WEDDING.
LAMAU WEI KWOK.
We were rich in at least one thing. We were heirs of all that England, stood for and of all the Empire, which meant something. more than splashes of red on a map or ha all-rod route. It was something to be guarded with very breath in our body Eng- land had always used nobly that power which was here and she had
evur abused it; she had established Au Wei Kwok, of Shanghai, third
The marriage took place" on Saturday afternoon at the Union Church, Kennedy Road,
Mies
the flag of liberty in the four corners daughter of the late Mr. Au Beu,
Peninsula Hotel of the pro- gramme of the Empire Products Fair
4.15 pm Opening Speech by the
4.20 p.m-His Excellency the Officer
Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga...
Administering the Government replies and declares the Fair open.
Section 15 of the principal Ordin ance provides that the Superintend ent of the House of Detention shall' use his best endeavours, to obtain bouse for vagrants admitted there- suitable employment outaids the
o
Section 16 provide for the punishment of
of any vagrant who re- such employment, when obtained. fusss or neglects to avail himself of
4.30 p 5.30 pm-Music by the enacted in other Colonies, but it Similar penal sections have beau
Band of EMS. Cornwall, byla not considered necessary to re- kind permission of Capt. G. Htain them. Section 18 is therefore Knowles, D.S. C., RN.
repealed by this amending Ordin ∙5.30 to 6.30 p.m.-fusie by the l'ance,
Peninsula Hotel Band.
4.25 pm--Presentations to Mr.
Southorn.
Gramophone music by Arnhold's Radio Services Limited will be hroederst during the intervals. These records will be kindly sup. · plied by Messrs. Anderson Music Company.
a
8:30 to 9 pm. Columbia records will be brosdeast from the .Studio.
A
HONG KONG STOCK MARKET.
SATURDAY'S OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS.
The opening was somewhat quie This programme will, as far as tor on Saturday morning, attention being broadcast by Messrs. Arn approaching Settlement possible, be a duplication of that boing mainly occupied with the hold's, Radio Services Limited in the Peninsula Hotel
tice, orn. 7 p.m.-look quotations, mail no-
8 p.m.-Local time and weather, re-
porta
0 to 10.30 p.m.-A programme of records from Z.B.W.'s Library.
Orchestral Concert. Orchestral Afternoon of a Faun" (Debussy). Philadel phia Symphony Orchestra, un- der the direction of Loopold Stokowski,
Song Samson at Dalila-My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice
Saint-Saens),
Song Samson et Dalila-Deli
lan's Song of Spring" (Saint- Ssens) Sigrid Onegin (Coh
tralto)
Cello Solo Adagio (Bach
Biloti-Casals)
We had been content to let things of the world had over everyto Mr. Lam Chik Ho, second son-Cello Solo Goyesca Intar- drift, with the perfectly obvious she had always stood for the result, and if we had let them drift right of little nations to hold up of Mr. Lam Woo, the well-known very much further we might have their heads, and had always been cal building contractor. The Rev. followed othara into the past of foremost in the aims of liberty. Powell officiated.
history. So it was that they were
auted to remember and take stock
of which we stood and to think
justice and truth,
Service-zen's Example
Given away by Mr, Au Chiu, the bride was Albired in Irass of carried a
again of the great ideall which, all The Empire, however, was not a white satin #loco down the years of our history, bad job only for politicians. They came
been the rallying power of our and went but the Empire still went bouquet of white carnations. The Eru pire, and surely, they were just on. Not only was, every English Misses Holle Chan and May those two things, service had man abroad & representative of the Cheung sacrifice," without which no life, British Empiro ut every soldiers
idesmaids, whether public or private, could and sailor who left England's shores dresses of mauve and green geor- over hope for susce are a missionary. By the way be getterand carried bouquets of pink
It whe no mers chance or enatal did his job and by the way he ogn fortune from the hands of fate that ducted himself was the nation England had gathered, round her indged, bu
carnations.
The flower girls, the Misses Laura Yeung and Jennie Lam, were dross-
self the greatest commonwealth of The night may be long and the free people the world had every road may be steep, you it waited in crêpe de chine, and their bou known, and had welded them to our feat If we will determine on gether, beatuse the power banind it this one thing at Innat, that we wha the hand of God,29 over will remember themesponsibility had been giver to England a no that has come. Hown to us motors. torages this England of ours, this The Roman lesions lost Coub in Sampire so gloripts and so free, thali trying to pengun thesworld but it the banded on to:
other nation
was said of the Boment that they made yet more splendid and more "mado a desbistion
call- | glorious, Ban then send back (Dontinued on new
the answ All is well
nd the rec
discharged and Mr
mezzo (Granados) Pablo Casbla Concerto No. 1 in B Flat minor for piano and. Orchestra! (Tschaikowsky, Op. 23)-Play- ed by Solomon (Piano) and the Halle Orchestra, conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty Ist Movement Allegro non trop
po molto maestoso, And Movement-Andantino sem
ard Movement Allegro con fuoco.
Dream of Youth (Verdi). SongTravists Wild My Song Lucia Tomb of My Sainted Fathers (Donizetti) Beniamino Gigli (Tenor) Violin Solo Indian Lament (Dvorak-Kreisler)? Violin Solo Alavonic Dance
No. 3 (Dvorak-Kreisler) Fritz Kreisler.
There was, however, no material alteration in ratos.
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Hong Kong Electrics, 874) Telephones (PP), 823,90 Dairy Farms, 828 Coneruckcons (New), 814" Govt. Losos, & per cent. Premium.
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