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THE FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY

ARMISTICE DAY OBSERVANCES AT THE CENOTAPH AND CHURCHES

STREETS SALES OF POPPIES REALISE OVER $5,000.

The fourteenth anniversary of the signing of the Armistice There were large was overently, observed by all communities. congregations at the gatumemoration services held at the Anglican and Roning Catholic Cathedrals, and the ceremony at the Cent Laph, following customary lines, was one of impressive dignity. While it is impossible to say that the two minutes' silence was unbroken by any sound of human voice, the huge crowd watching the proceedings was notably quieter than un previous

· occasions. Those who take the trouble to attend have learnt to understand what is happening, and what is expected of them, '

The day was marked by glorious suushing and a cloudless sky, a contrast, to last year when No. 7 typhoon signal was hoisted and by 11 am, it was raining hard and a gale, blowing.

The ante of Flander's Poppies in After the officiul wreaths had been Hong Kong and Kowloon began atlaid, the personal tributes of many an early hour and the results were men and women were placed on the

Cenotaph. most gratifying. Hong Kong's con tribution to Earl Haig's Fund will reach a high figure this year, as from the street. sales aloue, over $5,000 was realised. Of this more than $2,000 was collected from Kowloon.

THE GATHERING AT STATUE SQUARE

The gathering at Statue Square. yesterday morning was attended by at least three thousand people. The verandahs of the Hong Kong Club and

were

the Supreme Court thronged with sightseers while the windows of other buildings com- manding a view of the Cenotaph were also filled.

The space around the Cenotaph

STREET SALE OF POPPIES

ALMOST $6,000 FOR EARL HAIG'S FUND

THE SILENCE: REMEM BRANCE DAY.

The following pamphlet was. issued by the Hong Kong maguo_f of Nations' Society yesterday

What shall in cur thoughts dur- ing the two minutes of silence? Surely enmities of fifteen years ago must be forgetten. The supromo Bacrifice of millions will of course Le remembered with deepest › re- spect. but those who gave their lives would be the first to wish for more than this.

Remembrance Day must take on a significance both lasting and pro- ductive if it is to live.

It is suggested therefore that during the Silence the world's great need of pence be recalled,. and the longing of all wise men for international goodwill and co- operation find silent expression in a common will to support all efforts made for the secure establishment. of peace.

These things shall bet

A loftier

Face Than e'or the world hath known.

shall rise

With Rame lot, freedom in their

souls

And light of science in their

eyel

They shall be gentle, brave, and

strong,

To spill no drop of blood, but

dare

All that may plant man's lordship

firm

On earth and, fire and sea and

Air.

Nation with nation, land with

land,

I

Unarmed shall live as comrades

free;

!

every heart and brain shall

throb The pulse of one fraternity.

J. A. SYMONDS.

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AT THE CHINESE MEMORIAL many willing helpers who were sta

in tioned at every point of vantage

ARCH both the Island and the Peninsula. There were many individual col- ections of over a hundred dollars and in every way the Colony can be proud of the generous response which it has made to the appeal

An impressive ceremony was hold was occupied by representatives of

on behalf of the Poppy Day Fund.

at the Chinese Memorial Arch at His Majesty's Fighting Forces and the officers in white and khaki In Hong Kong, poppies were sold the Public Gardens following the Commander-in-Chief, the 0.0.0.

at Statue Square, Star Ferry, obeervance at the Cenotaph.

Troops, Hong Kong Area, and the Hix Excellency the Officer Ad. uniforms with medals gleaming in

Blake Pier, Post Office, Hong Kong ministering the Government, the Senior Royal Air Force Officer. the sunshine made an impossing Hotel, A.P.C. Building, Queca's Commander-in-Chief, the G.0.0. Chinese members of, the Council sight. Members of the. Legislative Theatre, Dairy Farm, Wyndham Troops, and the Senior Royal Air placed their wreath on the base of

Force Officer were met at the foot Council and representatives of thei

of the Botanic Garden steps by the Consular Body attended in large Matilda Hospital, Mount Kellet, Chinese Members of the Council, War Memorial Hospital, Repulse who escorted them up the steps to

the Memorial. Bay, Happy Valley, Taikoo and

The "Last Post was sounded Shaukiwan, while in the Peninsula and: the two minutes' silence was

held followed by "Revoille," a very thorough drive was

His Excellency laid a wreath on under the direction of Mr. C. M. the Monument, followed by the Manners. Mrs. J. II. Hunt was the convener for Kowloon.

number.

A body of 32 man from the Por- tuguese cruiser Adamastor. and contingents of 12 men from each of the American warships, U.8,S Fulton and U.S.S. Mindanao, also paraded.

A large detachment of police offi cers, including many Reservists, was

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Stations

A rough estimate of the street sales in Kowloon shows that over duty regulating crowd and $2,100 was collected, while in Hong traffic. The gathering, mainly Kong the street sales in the city Chinese, European,and Indians was district amounted to nearly $2.300. representative of the Colony's The Happy Valley district, which cosmopolitan, population.

was covered by the Civil Service available space was taken by 10.30 Club collected close on to 8000 and Taikoo contributed $133. Several more returns have to be sent to headquarters and it is estimated that the total will be at least 86,000, Those who helped in the street sales were as follows:-

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Shortly before 11 am. His Excel- loney the Officer Administering the Government, the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, C.M.0. arrived, accom ponded by his 'AD.C., Captain Webb. His Excellency walked up the steps on the Southern side of the Cenotaph, saluted and took his

The Misses. Hallifax, R. Alabas position with Admiral Sir Howard ter, P. Wales, Sauger H. Lauder, Kelly, Commander-in-Chief, China P. Harrison, Naylor, Ferguson, Station, and the Officer Command Grace, Pollock, Shenton, Hodgson, ing, Hong Kong Area, Major E. Blackburn, E. B. Blackburn, I. General R. M. Sandilands,

Hancock, Lloyd, M. Greig, Dowbig-

Immediately afterwards, the massed buglers of the 1st Battalion, gin, H. Batterfield, Bewley, Leong, the Lincolnshire Regiment, and the N. Cooper, E. Lammert, M. King 1st Battalion South Wales Border R. King, Gubbay, E. Bonna, Whi ers, sounded the "Last Post." Astham, K. Butterfeld, P. Buchanan, the last noto subsided the boom of Henderson, Master M. Wales, Mas- 趄 gun from. H.M.S.. Tamar ter Baynham, Master J. Wynne announced the ..commencement Jones, Master Swann, Mrs. Singer, of the Silence, Heads were Mrs. Baynham, Mrs. Wadeson, Mrs. hared and bowed in

remeth Stone, Mrs. Gerrard, Miss Lane,

brance of those who had fallen, bert, Miss Bully, Miss Tenesty:

The mind went back to the daya

of the war, to the battlefields in

all parts of the world, to the sir

gua.

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raids, the training camps, the hoe- The Misses Small, O. Dalziel, P pitals. Again the boom of a Laoginead, Mra, Bryant, Mrs. M. The two-minutes Silence was Boas, Mrs. C. M. Mammers, Miss. May Witcholl, Miss Pfeifer, Mrs. over!

The buglers raised instruments V. C. Labrum, Mis J. Weller, to lips and the strains of the Miss 8. Dalziel Miss B. "Reveille" flooded the air. Then Walker, Mrs. E Burke, Miss massed bands commenced the bymm A. Fowler, Mrs. H. Mills, "O.God, Our Help in Ages Past," Mias Rhoda Fowler, Miss M, Heat, the gathering joining in. The Na Mr. Clemo, Mins D Tollam, tional Anthem, followed by a short Misa M. Stokes, Mrs. D. R. Pater prayer and benediction, brought the sum, Mrs; J. 6. Lyal, Mrs. F. Ceremony to close and His Ex-Goodwin, Mre. JW Baldwin, cellency the Governor laid the first Mina M E. Scott, Miss M. Tillory, wreath on the Cenotaph MissD. Witchell, Miss M. Gardi Other wreaths were laid by the mor, Miss, R. Gill, Misa M.-Smith, Royal Navy, the Army, Royal Air Miss J. Booth, Miss. Hickey, Force, Royal Merchant Navy, Bri Miss M. Rumsby, Miss E. Thomson, tinh Lagion, Ex-Active Service Miss J. Holland, Mrs. O. D. Rol Mon's Association, Old Comrades land, Miss K. Ninh, Bag, B. 6574uld Association, the Consular Body, ing, Mrs Tinson, Miss K. Hamil St John Ambulance Corp; Boyton

Scouts Association, Society of St. Mrs. Gow convened the sale at Georgo, St. Andrew's Bociety, 8th Kowloon Docks and was assisted. David's Bodiety, Chamber of Com by Miss D. Henderson, Miss Brown: merce Hong Kong Club, Too Hi Miss Adami, Miss M. Bell and and many "other civilian bodies. Mius Gray

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A large congregation attended St. John's Cathedral. It was a the monument, followed by Chinese the commemoration service held in the Sunitary service in which representatives of representatives on Board, Senior Members of the Diall the leading Protestant churches trict Watch Committee, the Chair in the Colony took part, the offi man of the Tung Wah Hospital, cisting clergy being the Very Rev. the Chairman of the Po Leung Dean A. Swann, The Rev. N. V.. Kuk, and the Chairman of the Halward, the Ray, F. Foley, the Chinese General Chamber of Com Rev. W. W. Regers (Vicar of St.

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