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REV. DR. PEARCE.

TRIBUTE BY BOARD OF

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At the meeting of the Board of Education held yesterday the Chairman proposed the following resolution:

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1928.

OBITUARY.

FORMER RESIDENT OF HONGKONG.

TRAMS IN CANTON.

EXISTING COMPANY GIVEN TIME LIMIT.

In view of the fact that the

It is understood that the Bureau of Public Utilities will order the electric power lines for the cars to be placed underground, instend of being carried on poles, in order to avoid obstruetion of traffic in this City-Canton Gazette.

Hia many friends in the Colony, and particularly at Taikoo, will Kwangtung Tramcars Company has learn with much regret news of not yet started the laying of the the death, received, yesterday, of rails for the running of its cars: That the Board deeply re- Mr. Donald MacCrae, an old re- In spite of its establishment for grats to learn of the resignsident, who left last year on retire- already nine years, the Bureau of tion of Rev. Dr. Pearce and de-ment to settle down at his wife's Public Utilities has decided to or aires to place on record an ap-home naar Wembley, Mr. Mac der the said company to start the preciation of the very valuable Crae had been in ill-health for a laying of the rails and to place its services rendered by him during considerable period and when he cars in service within the limited his eight years as a member of went away on the P. and O. Rawal time of a month, and should no the Board."

pindi in August of 1927 he was action be taken after the Impac Mr. A. E. Wood said that it was very poorly. It was hoped, how-of this period, the contract con for him a and duty as well as a over, that a change of climate and cluded between the said company privilege to propose the resolution. medical attendance at home, would with the Government, as well as Dr. Pearce's Intimate association de him good, but unfortunately ho its concession rights will be can- with education in China for half

became gradually worse and pass celled. New tenders will then be century was well known to those ed away at his home at 24 Neeld invited to undertake this work. who were present. His colleagues Crescent, Wembley Hill, Middle- on the Board had had many oppor-sex, on Tuesday. Much sympathy tunities of observing the serene will be felt with Mrs. MacGrae in large-mindedness with which he the bereavement she has been call-

ed upon to bear. approached difficult problems... To Dr. Pearce, Dr. Tso and Mr.

The late Mr. Donald MacCrae Ralphs belonged the distinction of having been members of the Beards a very popular figure at Tai- koo and was well-liked by all who since its inception eight years ago. knew him. Fifty-three years ́of Mr. Wood first met Dr. Pearce 20

age, he first came to the Colony the Allies to guarantee the safety years ago trembling before him when he was a child of eight, with of his troops and of the refugees- at his first examination in Can-his father, who was employed at a request that was not acceded to. tonese. He remembered that Dr. the China Sugar Refinery. Ho re- Wrangel then formed a South Peirce asked him if he knew an-ceived his education here and Russian Government on the basis other expression for "pick-pocket" eventually joined the firm of of a personal dictatorship and it and while he was hesitating, Dr. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire. He was recognised by France in Aug. Pearce in his genial way obliging-served in their ships at sea fer a 1020, on condition that it should His popularity ly supplied the answer.

number of years before taking up be democraile. a position in the China Sugar Re-with the people was due to the fact that he had met the wishes of tho Dr. Pearce and his Infectious finery at Talkoo. laugh which was'n continual light His forty-five years residence in peasants by breaking up the great. would be very much missed. His the For East Included a spell at estates. Forming a federation of interest-in-education was not con- Manila. It was whilst he was the Don, Kuban, Terek and Astrak fined to what could be learned there that the Spanish-American han regions, he granted complete from books, but he was at home war broke out and he immediately self-govern control of the army

Legacy Left Behind.

:

on the cricket field, and wherever joined the American Navy, and but rotained healthy games wore played. was in the ship which was respon- When Dr. Pearce had gone, italble for the cutting of the Hong- would be for those who were left kong-Manila cable. Sehind to do their best to foster. the spirit of courage and kind- liness which he left behind. as a legacy to those who were to follow

after him,

and foreign affairs. Meanwhile he had conscripted a larger army and had inflicted several defeats on the Bolsheviks, occupied the Among the older residents of the Taurida province and extended his Colony. Mr. Donald MacCrae will frort to 150 milles. In September the bo bost rememberat for his independent Ukrainians agreed to achievements on the athletic field, co-operate with Wrangel, who was particularly on the bicycle. For also recognised as the head of the five years he was the champion anti-Bolshevik movement by the In seconding the resolution Dr. cyclist of the Colony, and on one Siberian Cossacks and the guerilla" S. W. Tao and he had known Dr. occasion paid a visit to Manila and chiefs of South Russia notably Pearce for 35 years, and bore testi-won the championship there. He Makhno.. mony to the outstanding services which he had rendered to the cause of education.

The resolution was carried with acclamation.

Remarkable Contrast,

was keenly. Interested in yachting Till the end of October ho was and one of his greatest hobbies able to beat off all the Bolshevik was in design and build model attack. In 6 months he had taken yachts; On returning to the 70,000 prisoners, 250 guns, 17 Colony from his last leave Mr.armoured trains 20 armoured cars, MacCrae brought back with him hundreds of horses. and much one of the latest models from other booty. But peace with

White Russian. Leader.

Brússals. Apr. 25. The death is reported of General Peter Wrangel, the famous White Russian leader-Reider.

Baron-Peter Wrangel, who comes

Poland enabled the Soviet to send large forces against him. is army was unable to defend its front of 260 miles against the Bolsheviks who had heavy guns and plenty of munitions. He re tired to the fartifled lines of Poro- the Bolsheviks under kop, but

In reply, Dr. Pearce referred to the remarkable contrast between educational conditions in the Co-Home. luny and China 60 years ago and those of to-day. In the course öf some interesting reminiscences be referred to the conservatism of the parents of Chinese children in the days of Dr. Eitel and how they clung to the old method of learn- ing by heart. In those old times in Hongkong it was not considered of a Baltic family of Swedish des-Frunse'a command got in behind proper for a man to visit girlcent, was born at Petrograd In his fortifications by a daring schools. With this he contrasted 1879. Brought up as a Russian, march over, the ice-covered sea.. Wrangel, however, managed to Home remarks recently made by he had an exceptionally good edu- Mr. Hornell in speaking of the cation and took a course in min-evacuate his troops and thousands lady under-graduates in the Uni-ing. After serving as a private of refugees in ships supplied by in the Guards for a year he went the Entente and they were taken versity.

to Siberia as a mining engineer. to Turkey, Lemnos, Egypt and France advanced Dr. Pearce said that he had had During the Russo-Japanese war he Jugoslavia. Imuch to do with educational mat was an officer under Rennenkampf about 150,000,000 francs for the tera during his long service in the and when it was over he rejoined relief of these people, who were Colony, and it was to education the Guards. In the world-war he in dire straits. His aim was to that he owed his sunniest memo-was a successful cavalry officer, re-keep his army together so that it ries. In thanking the Board forceived the Cross of St. George and could again be employed against to the Tsar. the Bolsheviks, but Allied support their kind resolution he said he was made A.D.C. had always admired the harmony Latterly he led a Cossack division. was essential and this was not of the Board and he himself had After the revolution he was granted.

About 10,000 persons were re- tried to work harmoniously with twice condemned to death. On them.

the first occasion he was saved by patriated to Soviet Russia and one of his former soldiers and on 12,000 took up their abode in the second was standing bound on Serbia and Brazil. The best part the deck of a torpedo bont ready to of army remained for a time in BRITISH BUDGET.

be thrown into the water when en camp at Gallipoll, but in 1922 accident set him free. He was Wrangel removed his headquarters. THE "TIMES" OPINIÓN.

one of the first officers to join Kale- to Jugoslavia and with his staff A "really constructive piece of din in his struggle against the kept, in touch with the Russian finance" is the Times description Bolsheviks and after his chief's exiles who were scattered over of the budget. It says that the suicide entered the volunteer army Jugoslavia, Bulgaria and Rumaola. As his. hope of a favourable turn plan to reform the rating system under, Donikin and Alexeleff and

was not realised, he raised a force in the Caucasus. in Russin ja broadly conceived and statesman-like, and may well be- After Denikin'e retreat from Orel finally liquidated his organisation come the most important achieve.to the Black Sea and his departure in the summer of 1926 and offered from Russin, Wrangel took over the his services to the Grand Duke ment of the present Parliament.

The budget has been well receiv-command of the demoralised volun-Nicholas meanwhile going to live teer army in April 1920, and. re-in Belgium. The remainder of his ed on the stock exchange where s cheerful sentiment prevails. Gra-organised it, being assisted by the army in Jugoslavia and Bulgaria, mophone shares especially bounded fact that the Bolsheviks had taken about 30,000 men, has naturally up in view of the absence of an-away most of their troops to fight been disarmed but the soldiers' re- tfeipated taxation thereon, Oll- the Poles, He refused to nego-tain their military organisation shares were unaffected by the extra tiate peace with the Soviet, as sug and are largely dependent on their taxation.-R:uter,

gested by Lloyd George, and asked chief for their livelihood.

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