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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY

1928.

HYDE PARK LIKE FAIRYLAND.

HOTELS

THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic Address: KREMLIN, HONGKONG.

·AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL

Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI

HOTELS.

LIMITED

In association with the.Grand Hotel

Dos Wagons Lits; Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony All Bad Rooma newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.

Hotel launoti tacts alijateanters.

($25 for thirty Tin Tickets can be bad at the Ofco

of the above Hotel.)

Tel. Add. Victoria.

HOTELS OF

MOTEL METRO

Tolophone C. 373.

J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager,

DISTINCTION

The Kowloon Hotel.

Kowloon.

The Premier Hotel in Kowloon with all modern conveni- ences. High Class Cusine and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and Railway Station. Representative meets all...

steamers.

Dally Rates from

Monthly-Rates from

$ 6.00. $130.00.

Under the Personal Supervision and attention of

MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.

Tel. No. K.608 & K.609. Cables. "Kowlotel." Kowloon.

PALACE HOTEL. Tel. Kowloon No. 8

Tol Address "PALACE.". Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fana throughout, Tvary Room with Private Bath Lounge, Bar and Billard-Rooms. of the proprietress Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision Fares moderate. Special, termi to families on application to:

Mr. J. FL OXBERRY, Proprietress.

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Cables :-

" EUROPE

Singapore,

HOTEL

SINGAPORE.

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.

Arthur Ada!! Manaoing Disaster

AMERICAN'S GIFT TO will be one of the finest in the

LONDON.

£200,000 VESTED IN TRUST FOR DENTAL CLINIC.

in Gray's Inn-rond.

avurli.

Mr. Eastman, who is on his way

A scene in Hyde" Park, London, during the recent severa 'winter, weather. The snow transformed the baro branches of the trees into a glistening tracery of delicate lace.

IN MEMORY OF

HAIG.

EARLLeader's open tomb, so once again our thoughts are irresistibly drawn to his comrades in service, to the graves of warriors unknown" and (nown, to all those

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Dimittis was sung and was follow- The édy appropriate, prayers.

hymá, "Our Father's Home Eter- nal, was next sung. This was followed by the sermon.

The congregation then Bang "For all the Saints who from their Labours Rest." When this was concluded, with the congregation standing, the strains of the Dead March in "Saul" were heard, after which bugiers from the Scots Guards sounded the Last Post and the Reveille.

Valiant hearts who to their glory -

came

Through dust of conflict and

through battle famé. Froudly you gathered, rank on

rank, to war,

As who had heard God's mesange

from afar;

All you had hoped for, all you had

you gave

To save mankind-yourselves you

scorned to HAVE,

CANADIAN STEEL

CHANGES."

BIG CORPORATION TO BE REORGANISED.

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Montreal, Feb. 2. The Directors of the Britiali Empire Steel Corporation, the Dominion Steel Corporation, the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Com- pany, and their subsidiaries, have Jannounced that the first-named corporation, the president of which has resigned, is being re- organised under new financial and industrial interests.

If you have ever been to the Chapel of the Staff College at Camberley and seen on the walls

These latter interests are Mon- there the names of so many who treat and Toronta corporations, re- gave themselves in their country's presented by Messrs. Holt Grundy service; or if you have stood be- and Company, with New York fin side the Kitchener Memorial in the fancial associates. Reuter's Ameri Chapel of All Souls in St. Paul's Cathedral,: London, you will have The service concluded with the had forced upon you the thought National Anthem and the Benedic-how great is the debt that still

tion.

The Bishop's Address. The Bishop bured his address on the words: "Our citizenship in in Heaven."-Philippians 111-20. He said:-A muacle of his heart grew tired, we are told, and one who has heen for years a household name

can Service.

standa against us who are alive GERMANY MUST PAY. to-day, andhow-urgent is the call to press, onwards towards the accomplishment of our great un-M. finished task.

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A Crosa Upon a Lonely Hill. And as we think of all those savioura who come not home to- night because themselves they

BERENGER'S WARNING TO

THE AGENT-GENERAL

M. Berenger, who when French Ambassador at Washington debt agreement, has vigorously negotiated the Mellon-Berenger

to us all is no longer with us. would not save, we think also of refuted in an article published

We are met to-day to pay our tri-a Cross that stood long years ago in the Agence Economique, et

热

·

In the frailty of our human clay Christ, our Redeemer, passed the

self same way"

bute to the memory of a very upon a lonely hill where gallant gentleman-our individual tribute of respect and affection, the {grateful tribute of this Colony, the proud tribute of the Service to which many of you belong and to which many more of us had the honour for a time to bolong.

Financiere, the chief suggestions

of

of Mr. Parker Gilbert, the Agent- General for Reparations Payments. The Agent-General, in his report, contemplates the abolition We think a our Great Captain,

foreign control over the transfer Jesus whose lot with us was cast.

of reparations and the determina- Who saw it out from first to lost."tion of their exact amount. "The double suggestion of Mr. Parker

Earl Haig was a great leader of |`- men, chosen out to be a foremost Whom, though we had often for-Gilbert," M. Berenger declares, leader in an hour of appalling gotten, or very nearly, we could"aims at no less than putting in crisis in human history. He never never quite forget out there in question all that part of the finched. With utter devotion and Flandera and Who we know never Versailles Treaty which concerns disregard of self, he gave him forgot us and Whose task in the the payment of reparations. He self up to his task. The style is world still remains unfinished, even jeopardises the existence of the man, and in the famous waiting for volunteers who will de- the Reparations Commission." S message flashed out in the dark dicate themselves to its accom- The Agont-Goribral is roundly ac- hours of 1918 we see laid bare the plishment amongst men. As we cused of over-stepping the bounds spirit of the man himself:-"Therethink of Him and of the Leader must be no retirement. With our whom we commemorate to-day, we bucks to the wall each one of.us cry: must fight on to the end. The safety of our homes and the free- dom of mankind depend on the conduct of each one of us at this critical moment."

O risen Lord! O Shepherd of our

Derdl

Whose Cross has bought them and

Whose' Staff has led-

In glorious hope their proud and

Borrowing Land Commits her Children to thy

gracious Hand. Amen.

AT THE CENOTAPH, Wreath-Laying Ceremony This

And as Earl Haig was great leader of men, so also he was a great friend of the men he led: and, he stuck to them to the end. When the strife was over, he gave himself up to their service-to the cause of the blinded, the maimed, the unemployed, the widows, to England's green and pleasant land. Prior to the: Memorial Service, the building up of Jerusalem in And he died In the doing of it. od in this great niter-war task carried out by members of the There is a sense in which he Infla wreath laying deremony was

Morning,

to Uganda for a shooting expedi- And the life of every great man Hongkong and China Branch of

tlon, met Lord Riddell, Presidents, from

of his authority, and M. Berenger concludes with the following signi ficant phrase: "According as Germany pays or does not pay to the Allies. 132,000,000,000 gold marks, the European Allies will or will not pay 23,000,000,000 dollars to the United States of America." In stating the matter thus M. Berenger is undoubtedly expressing the opinion both of official and un- official France.

Bromley Counell is asking Kent Educational Committee to provide

them fashionable wrought-iron an itinerant instructor to visit village blacksmiths and teach work.

of the Hospital; Mr. Albert Levy, failere; they see so much and there the Ex-Active Service Men's Asso-Leaver, aged 61, of Dobson-street, one point of view, a the British Legion as well as by Identifying the body of Henry the Treasurer, Sir Frank Newnes, is so little they seem able to do. ciation at nine o'clock this morn Southwark, at a Lambeth inquest a mentber of the Board of ManageIt is only little men who are the Ing.

Walter Wain, brother-in-law, of

financial arrangements were com- pleted.

Lord Riddell expressed the

An Unfinished Task.

Mr. George Eastman, of Roches-ment, and Mr.. Reginald Garrett, really successful men and that Mr. Geo. K. Hall Brutton, Pre-Gordon-atreet, Blackpool, describ-i ter, U.S.A., head of the Kodak the Secretary, in Paris, when the is because they attempt so little. Company, has now completed his

sident of the local branch of the ed him as a medical student. The gift of a dental clinic to the Royal

Legion, and Lt. Col. Hurley Bell, medical student at 61 years of Coroner (Mr. Ingleby Oddie)—A

Free Hospital, London, by trans-thanks of the Hospital to Mr. East-task to us and ten years after that of their respective organisations.to be a chemist, was killed by a

D.S.O., President of the Easma He bequeathes his unfinished Club, laid the wreaths on behalf age! He must have been an on- ferring the sum of £200,000 to man for hia'splendid gift,

timist. Leaver, who was stated famous "backs to the wall" trustees to crect and equip the

There was a very large atten-motor lorry in Newington Butts, building, to be erected on a site lils object was to improve the laid to rest still spenka: "Every dance of members of these in- Mr. Eastman, in reply, said that mesange he who in this week teeth of the children living in the position must be held to the last stitutions, those present including boroughs of Holborn, Islington, St. an; there must be no retire. Pancras, and Finsbury, so as toment. With our backs to the wall prove to other districts what could each one of us måst fight on to

the end." 来 be done..

A sum of £160,000 is needed to In this world in which we Hye endow and carry on the clinic. nothing that is second beat will The clinic will comprise special The Board of the Royal Free Hos-over do; we must live true to the accommodation for the treatment pital appeal for support to enable highest ideals we have seon, we of tonall, adenoid, and cleft them to make the best use of the must ever press on towards their

presenting in the Legislative Assembly, the palato cases, When completed, it building and equipment.

aliainment,

a few moments. The wreath from principle of democratie revolution. H

blindness, 5. Expression used of stocks and ("On! to the bound of the waste; the British Legion was made en har standing at 180, par cent. 8. Norfolk

"Onl to the elty of God."-

tirely of red popples, whilst that Norwich 7 Henry VII Classi

Group exptain. 19, 148K-IKAR, 11... In the As we pay proud homage to the from the Easma Club was a white study of B language, that part, which dowle memory of Earl Haig to-day, as we cross entwined with a circular with quantity, ascent and the laws of earl

fication. 12 Cunardi Union: Castle: White would fain place our wreath on the wreath of Flanders popples.

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