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CITY MEMORIAL TO MR. CHAMBERLAIN.

MR. BALFOUR'S EULOGY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1915.

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A BUILDER OF EMPIRE. They be sure that he would have partly by habit, but with no in- thrown himself whole-heartedly, herent cohesive power; an Empire without reserve, doubt, or queal in which it is not possible tioning,

Into man

snational for one element to be counted as effort in which man of al adding to the strength of the parties," of all shades others, but whose very dissipation of opinion, with political pacts of in all quarters of the globe in a every charactor and complexionsouros of weakness and not of work together with unfailing strength. unity to bring out the result Bat there have been men, and Mr. Balfuur on July 8 unveiled which unity alone can give us.” in the Council Chamber, of the There is one other aspect of lain at the head, who bave taken CORNED BEEF.

of those man I put Mr. Chamber Guildhall a marble bust of M.Mr. Chamberlain public career Jis ph Chamberlain, which thehich I think must be brought however much they may have a different view of the future, City Corporation intend to place home with ever-increasing stragrend shout the past. They in the lobby of the Cuanvil augth to those who watch the have refused to see in this gradual Chamber, The Lord Mayor pre-ourse of contemporary events. In spread of self-government in all aided, and among those present the lives of many of our statesmen, our Colonies a stage towards and even those not the least de separation.They saw in its serving of national gratitude and stage towards closer union. They and Mrs: Austari Chamberlain, memory, it is hard to isolate looked forward to a time in which CORNED TONGUES, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chamberlain, one particular obaracter an even closer unity might be Mr. and Mrs., Neville Chamber of service which _" they attained, but never at the expense

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lain, and other members of the have done to the State. You on of free autonomous development. family, she Speaker of the House of say of them that from day to day All bistory, so far se I know Commons, Lord 8-lborne, Mr they carried out the wok which anything about it, showe no Bonar Law, Mr. Walter Long, Mr.was set for them to do, that they greater

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H-ary One plin, Mr Jesse Collings raised the tons of public life, that ception of Empire than this, no M, Pike Penne. Lerd Charles they illustrated our rebates by conception which to the wise and Beresford, &r Edward Goulding, their eloquenre, that they aided prudent and learned seemed at true that much of our strength the Lord Mayorand Lidy May ress every good cause as they accord-first more idle, more foolishly in the present comes to us from of Birmingham, the Lady. Miring to their political views ranked impracticable, and which yet our history ess of London, Mise Balfour, and of causes and public interests; under the guidance of political that we may derive encourage- the Sheriffe, Aldermen, and mem-hat you cannot isolate one par wisdom in the Dominions and at ment and example from the deeds in the paas, bers of the Court of Common ticular service that they have done beme is before our eyes becom-and teachings of those who have and say "This service is more dueling a living and powerful fact, Tue soulptor, Mr. Derwest to this statesman than to any Political Imagination,

gone before. Wood, A. B. A, was also present, Other of his contemporarios or of

If amidat the wearing be uniform of a corporal his predecessors."

Who among us should forget, the sorrows of battle we may look

amoke and din, the saorfoes and U.S. CAVALRY ATTACKED BY when we welcome contingents of forward to the time when peace That is not true of Mr. Chamtralia, New Zalund, and the solve that the effect of the common (Reuters Service To The Telegraph") | gallant men from Canada, Aus again reigns, surely we shall re berinin, You can isolate and put Cape, that we owe the spirit sacrifices made by the whole your finger open one service to which has produced, this marvel Empire in the gigantic struggle The Lord Mayor, in opening which he contributed-not alone. the proceedings, said they were not in isolation-but contributes

to that native shall not pass away with the

London. Rosalted, July 18, there to pay a mark of respect to

moderation combined etraggle itself, but shall lead to Brownsville, Texas, says that 100

Router's correspondent the memory of a great English plainly and obviously than any which has made the men of union of free nations which is the forded the Rio Grande, near Mer at political imagination still further strengthening of that Mexicana under cover of darkness, stateaman, and bitizen, one who ther of his contemporaries or the British race the greatest con- mark and sign of the British cedes, and partly surrounded 21 had always held a foremost place even of his predecessors; and that stitution-builders in the world? Empire. in the regard and affection of his service was the building up of Let us remember when we see this

the common feeling of Empire result, when we see this absolutely love for the country of his birth. the Mexicana escaped across the United States cavalry, killing one fellow-citizenA.

My father had over a passionate and wounding two, after which Mr. Balfour's Appreciation.

among all the varions free self-novel experiment meeting with He had an immense faith in the river. Mr. Balfour, before navelling governing Dominions of which this immenes measure of anccose, capacity of our people both for the said:

not the least part of the Empire that we owe it not merely to the the tasks of peace and war. How-

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e bust, Lord Mayor, bave is composed. I have always held, spirit of the people at home and over long the struggles proved or inthe event of telegrams arriving JEWELLERY, WATCHES, BINOCULARS explained to this, assembly the and I have more than once ex-aversen, not merely to the ordinary which he entered, whatever invitation which has been extend-pressed the view, that we hardly of politicians, whether they disappointments had to be lived ed to me to take a part in this realise how great and how new is be members of the Governments down, he never lost his faith

I accepted the invita- this particular work of Empire and Oppositions in this part of or tion gladly and with pride, on building of which Mr. Chamber the self-governing Empire or any his way rerenely towards the personal grounds and on public lain was the greatest of the srohi-other, but to one man more than appointed end. But of all the batpuraned grounds; on personal grounds, tecta. It is absolutely new and to any other individual; we owe work in which he was engaged, because for years I was bistory has no parellel. It bound with Mr. Chamberlain is but faintly

it to the great state man whose that which lay me rest to his in the closete ties of friendship; even by

memory we have met here to cole heart, that for which he gave his thos who on public grounds, because I look of our great Empire as if it were never have said, that to him alone risks he was taking, was the work talk brate. I do not say, and he would life, and gave it knowing the back 10that long connection, prand a matter of course. It is not in belonge this great feat. It is not of translating the union of to think that I was a colleague of the least understo d by foreigao. If it were so the great build- sentiment, which binds the whole a man whose services to his coun-theoretical writers on politica. It ing of the British Empire could Empire, into an organic anion try have been so great and so was not understood in ancient not stand. It only stands be that would put the whole re

times, not yet in modern times.

The history of colonization is a bave agreed to work in the com-service of the work of liberty and oause all parts of the Empire sources of the Empire at the that in the stress and crisis of the very old one. The Greek idea of mon cause, Nevertheless, though paste which that Empire has to anexampled conflict in which we a colony was emigration from the it would be a are engaged it is no moment for mother-cuntry, setting up on say it is the creation of one man, which we are engaged and of the 1868, and of the Madras Masl frum profound error to do. As I think of the war in of the Madras Times from 1884 to retrospective memories more alt distant shores a community like yet if we look around to the forces gathered from India and 1868 to 1892. He was also Secre ed, as they might hold, for sea oas the mother-country but wholly etstesmen who have lens their of alm reflection. I do not agree and absolutely independent of it. hande to the best of their ability dominion throughout the world, Commerce from 1882 to 1892, with them. I think that there There was another ideal of to this great work, we are bound I seem to see the near prospect

from every

self-governing tary to the Madras Chamber of a time when the colonization, which consisted in to say that in that noble rank Mr. of the realization of my father's memory of great departed states using a colony as a source of Chamberlain stands firat. hearta, or when we can more making them commercial planta- the very character of its constitu- are sustaining in Europe, we may started off, and shortly afterwarde men should be nearer to car wealth to the mother-country,

Toat the British Empire, from hopes, and I feel that, apart from the great cause which we fittingly draw

Having learned of the direction and tions, as you might almost call tion, stands for peace has been be making an Empire that mover

of the German submarine, he inspiration from examples they them; and that also has been admitted by all, sometimes have left behind, or when we can practised, sometimes with success, with admiration, sometimes with again can he challenged. more appropriately remember very often with failure. Bat

the enemy vessel approached and that the great war in which we the idea that you are going British Empire, when it is vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor, appeared over the ship's sides,

But that

asked for the oil supplies. are engaged in connected with the to have an Empire in which attacked; also stands for war expressed his confidence, that the and the German commander and Mr. Bonar Law, in proposing Immediately the machine guns great continuous history of the the most important elements shall defensive war, but war we see war would lead to the closer union his men, covered by the rifles of Empire. It is no isolated episode be free self-governing communi- with rur own eyes to day. If, as of the Empire. Mr. Chamberlain, the French bluejackete, bad no accidentally thrust inte our pro- ties in whose domestic affairs the I firmly believe, this titanio more than any men had made the alternative but to surrender. gress. It has come upon us in mother-country shall never inter-struggle is going to set this ideal of Empire a living one. one sense anexpeatedly, in ons fere, and which nevertheless is to Empire before the eyes of all men Mr. Walter Long, who seconded the sailing ship and thence taken sense entirely outside the even be bound together by one broad in a light which they have never echoed the sentiment that, thanks to Malta, tenor of our historical evolution; eretem of law, une broad santi fully realized before, it is in no largely to the life-work of Mr.A prize crew took possession of but in another sense we are at ment, one broad constitutional small measure because it has Chamberlain, the Empire would the submarine, this moment engaged and upon policy that is an absolute novel-proved conclusively that the

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Ministers' Tributes.

our efforts absolutely depende its in the history of the world spiritual bonde which unite the and greater than before. saccess in carrying out the that is a new creation scarcely most distant parts of the Empire polioy of our forefathers which dreamed of by our grandfathers to this its contra have grown in has built up the Empire which it but which we now see in actual "is now our business to defend..

Courage and Patriotism. When we think of those who

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The crew were ordered on board

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Germans and the Empire. our strength, shat the wisdom of REPORTED CAPTURE OF A THE Ship

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A Filial Tribute."

SUBMARINE.

French Naval Commander's Ruse.

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All claims against the steamer

If you look book to writings ing of it and the patriotism of have gone, we often say to our of theorists in this a ustry individuals. And we, who are Delvos: "Had he been spared, two or three generations ago, now beginning to feel how great, how would he have acted, had it they would be almost unanime how admirable, is the work that been thrown upon him to desi ous in saying that the then has been done, are bound to call with the difficulties which now colonial Empire of Britain was to mind with admiration and with confront us? If that question be on its way to general separation, gratitude the memory above all aaked with regard to Mr. Cham that as each element grow in of him who, among many fellow. berlain, there need be no doubt strength and required lean the workers, stande ahead abovethem from tome relates the following obtained. or hesitation as to the snamer. services of the mother-country, all. There is not one man who know developing its own system in ite him, there is not one man who own fashion, it would gradually would for an instant hesitate to drift away, probably is a very Mr. Austen Chamberlain, in A Frenoli torpedo-bat destroy. Steamer or Godowab, ay that he knew exactly how Mr. friendly spirit, but still with no expressing the thinks of Mra. er having boarded lerzo eniline must be presented to the Under- Chamberlain would have be notion of a common life or any Joseph Chamberlain and the ship is the gean Ses, found signed on or before the 25th haved at the present crisis. We organie unity with the country of members of the family to the that it belonged to a Balkon State August or they will not be know that he would have shown its origin. That would bave been Corporation, said that though and was supplying a German recogu all that serene courage and the ordinary view; and the grant his father's home was in Brenbmarine with naphth

naphthaand ardent patriotism which ever dising of constitutions first to this mingham, he was born in the benzine, tinguished him. We know that, colony and then to that colony Uity of London and began his Tae French commander there. Godowns, where they will be born controversialist though he was regarded as a stage towards business life within a few bua- upon dresse up foms of his sajle practised in all the political final separation. If you will look dred yards of the Guildhall. Too orain the alothes of the crew of the are which characterizes the to what foreigners think of the City had honoured him in his caillng abi ous life of a free community, Empire, especially what Germans lifetime now they honoured his ailing ship's crew were dis

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