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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER

1935.

BUY A FLANDERS POPPY

In Flandere flolds the poppies blow

Dotween the crossos, row on row, That mark our place; and in the Sky

The larks still bravely singing. "fly

Scarca hoard amid the guns below. We are the Dand, Short days' ago, We lived, folt dawn, saw sunset plow,

Loved and wore loved, and now 'wo lle

In Finndors folds.

Take up our quarrol with the foo;

To you from falling hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high. If yo break faith with us who die,

We shall not sloop, though popples grow.

In Flanders fields.

.

John McCrao.

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MONDAY, Nov, 11, 1935.

BELATED ACTION

Well described as an instance of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted, the Govern ment has at last taken netion to safeguard the currency of the Colony, Faced with a steady outflow of dollars, it has now imposed in embargo on the ex- port of coin and bullion, supple

mented by mensures” to relleva EL coin · and note shortage which, had earlier action

THOUGH POPPIES GROW

IN FLANDERS FIELDS."

HO can give without a moment's hesitation the official date of the end of the war? The date all those who were concerned in it know by heart is November the Eleventh-the ARMIS- TICE.

The symbol that is worn on Armistico Day likewise commemorates not Victory, but Sacrifice and Death. Of this a recent article in Le Telogramme du Pas-de-❘ Salais suys!

Flanders.

ARMISTICE

DAY

To-day the Empire, and, in fact, all the nations who were allied against the Central Powers in the Great War of 1914-18, com- memorates the Armistice which came into force at 11 am, on the 11th day of the 11th month of the year 1918.

"To-day in the 17th anniversary of that armistice and perhaps the most important thing to be remembered is that it in the armis- tice, the censation of hostilities, that is commemorated."

!

When one reads of new and deadlier methods of slaughtering noldiers and civilians, of fears of a now war in Europe, of the Italo-Ethiopian embropilo, of Far Eastern tension, a sane line on what wear really meann can be obtained by remembering that it is the end of the fighting and killing and maining that is celebrated. Other national anniversarics commemorate great victories auch na Waterloo, Trafalgar, that "glorious Firat of June," and so on, but the day chosen chiefly to be commemorated in the War of the Nations in the day on which man could for the first move freely above ground without fear of being slain; when women and children could look up into the sky without the fear of neoing kos- tile aircraft coming to bomb them; when a cablepram could come without,cuuming every woman's, heart to miss a beat.

We shall not sleep, though pop-

ples grow, In Flanders, fields," .

THEREVER

Cone looks.

W among the poets of the

war, those who tried to think. boyond the brass bands, the .rum issue, a few days' leave in a great city, and beyond the mechanical and dreary process of killing and being killed, one; finds ropeated efforts to express" the significance of the sacrifice made by those who served and fell.

English Rupert Brooke

wrote:..

"Thcas laid the world away;

poured out the red

Sweet wine of youth; gave up the

years to be

Of work and joy, and that tor--

hoped nerand

That men call aga; and those

who would have been

"Our friends the English, ba- bind that cloak of coldness which Wo ko generously, allow them, hido an exquisite dellency of

or Hindu, a feeling. To commemorate the of the poet in him, accounted for sepoy, Moslom

the West Indies; most famous date in the history the popples being more richly negro from of the world they have chosen red by the fact that so much he may be a Christian or a Jew, a touching symbol-the poppy of blood had been spilled on the he may be a sailor or marine. soll, and so very many men lay Who knows? But assuredly ho "ita scarlet petals tremble in hurled there. To the soldier it is one who lost his life in the the wind like Uny plumes. Thoy was as though Nature herself execution of his duty. have the rullant, vivid colour of would erect a scarlet memorial

The memorials to the Great glory. They have the vermillion to all those who had died be

what are they?HIS then is War! Not ban- flut of the generous, blood of the lioving their eause was just and War, too,

Tacts and trumpets, and commanders 011 bravo who Coll.

that life, was well lost if honour Statues of "They sing the magniflrent were roinined.

horse-back, waving flashing glittering panoply, but the sur- stanzas of Colonel McCrae:

Novor, Cenotaphs, render of all that one hopes for, We are the Dead. Short days

ago

We lived, felt daru, zase sunset

*plow. Loved and were loved, and now

we le

Their sons, they gave, their cm-

mortality."

The Engilsh adoption of the words? poppy symbol han spread cenotaphs, cenotaphs. And a all that one holds dear, Such throughout the Empire and the cenotaph is a memorial to one pride us there is surely must be world, just as the British choice who is buried elsewhere, nis pride in the knowledge that of the body of an unknwn grave being known or unknown, there are men-and millions of them who have been willing to warrior for national burlal in

Westminster Abbey, among the that is what the Amiss

In Flanders fielda

great sovereigns and heroes of "The members of the British the nation, has been adopted n Legion se repileus of those

tice commemoration bids us youth for what they bellevo to

King asks that to-day at 11 a.m.

remember. His Majesty, the be right.

Out of such sacrificò Laurence

flowers, mate by their mutilated the other allied countries,

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everybody in the Empire ob- Binyon found these words: comrades. Give them good wel-HE Fronch writer quoted serve silence for Two Minutes "The shall not grow old as we come, and wear in your button. I above speaks of that cloak and in the time, just two minutes

that are left grow old;

hole the trail poppy, which hus

HE Tlanders

Agr shall not weary them, nor

they years contemn.

At the going down of the mini,

and in the morning

We skall remember them."

【ISTORY has taught us that

the quivering redness of lips of coldness" the English have, out of a whole year, to contem- lips that know how to whisper to and by English he means all plate the sacrifices: that were your heart."

those of British stock. Then inade during the war, and the indeed he was right when he cost of it all, and keep the will spoke of an exquisite delicacy to peace ever uppermost.

that feeling underneath was of poppy

Colonel McCrae, who knew Tchosen because it grew, in cloak. Who is the Unknown war and suffered in it, tried to Hit is more in human nature the flat devastated fields with a Warrior chosen to le among the express the feelings of those

the victory and richer redness than ever before mighty? He may be an officer, who died. Here are some other to remember when the armies passed on, and 4 private, a Tommy from any lines to be remembered every forget the cost. It is because the soldier who is never above of the counties of England, a day and on Armistice Day in of this the Flanders poppies sold on Armistice Day bear on. little superstition and who, kilted Scot, a lean-jawed' Aus particular:

the tag the words: despite his trade, has something trallan, a Canadian from the

lumber camps, a South African) from the broad veld, t clear- eyed New Zealander, an Indian

boon takon, would not have NOTES OF THE DAY

occurred. Nothing that has

"To you from failing hands We throw the torch,

Be yours to hold it high.

If ve break faith with us who die

Rail Coach

Ended

so far been done touches the matter of the sterling value CEASE FIRE! [ of the dollar, which will still be

This is a time of sad remam- Hlable to fluctuation under apec brance. At 11 o'clock on this day ulative influences. Some idea in 1918 a great and terrible silence i of the extent of the drainage of fall upon the world. For the first luent currency may be gathered time in more than four years the from the fact that from the end guns ceased their thundering and of-June-to-the-end-of-October, terror was allayed There was FIFTEEN years ago the dollar specie reserve of the time to think, time to consider the

to-day the Armis- state which thus work had come. Colony's leading banka has been got to may have been ashamed tice which ended the decreased by well over $48,000,- But most only knew a great relief, World War was signed 000 and that is only part of an overwhelming thankfulness that

the story. Barring smuggling, war was ended-for always, they in a railway carriage in that outflow will now cease. In hoped. Nations counted their dead

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Soon after, nine o'clock their three

cara approached the eroas-roads.

the meantime, however, the and their debt and shuddered. Vic- the forest of Compiegne, Government has to deal with the tors, after the first hour of jubila fifty miles from Paris. position created by the shortage tion, remembered their hurts and

"2419D" is the number of this of dollar-notes and subsidiary sought to mend them. Vanquished

It stands in coin, and it is doing so by intro- know no moment of intoxicating historic railway car.

joy; but only one of thankfulness a clearing of the forest at the end ducing, us 蟲 temporary emer that the horror had passed. And of what, in war time, were twe gency measure, dollar notes of they too looked to their wounds. spurs of railway track, on which, its own issue, as well as new Those were crowded days. Men in November 1918, side by side. subsidiary nickel coin which will, who had had visions of a plan for stood the trains of Allies and it is intended, permanently re-lasting peace tried very hard to Germans.

a treaty at Versailles

These tracks have been embedded five-cent pieces. The fact that which would make wars impossi-In concrete. In November 1918 they the Government had these notes ble: their colleagues were already ran from Rethondes Junction, & mile at work upon the foundations of and a half away, but soon after. and coins in readiness appears the League of Nations, Treaties wards were torn up except for their to suggest that it has long been were signed, Europe was re-made, inst few rail-lengths. contemplating currency reform | nations reconstructed their ́‚poli- | Around these rail-lengths the trees 'measures, of a nature which can

tical and, sometimes, their econo- have been felled and a circular cient- only be guessed. The query mie life; the league of Nations ing made. An inscription embedded suggests itself whether

the grew to a thing of ue dimenalons, In the terraced lawn of the clearing with French afficers in charge, and Government has been 11th

the criminal pride of the German ing the Id of itself taking for peace; we are no longer pre- Empire auccumbed, vanquished by sped toward the rear, and the Allied over the note issue, and whether paring for war. We learned our the free, peoples whom it hoped to advance was resumed.

Jess. The mass of the people of enslave." the new Government notes are the world felt and belleved these

At La Capelle the Germans changed On one track in inscribed "The into French cars. At Homblieres, being used, not for the pur-things. And yet; looking back, German plenipotentiaries"; on the four miles cast of St. Quentin, they TORO originally intended. but over the past sixteen years, we olher "Marshal Foch.",

were given a supper of soup, tluned merely temporarily for the pur- | must realise that humanity has not i The latter track disappears be- beef, and peas in the upstairs room pose of casing the presont rid itself of that most terrible of neath a neat concreto building under of a small estaminet,

the trees at the rim of the clearing. From Homblieres the Germans situation. So far 119 the scourge. There is something Within that building is the dining were driven south to Tergnier, where coin issue is concerned, there wrong with our system, and with

Home ourselves. We have seen bloodshed car in which the actual signing of they went to bed in a special train

the Armistice occurred.

which awaited them with its curtains- may or may not be

The whole clearing lies about 250 fastened down. algnificance, in relation to future in Russia, in North Chima, In

This conveyed them to Compiegne, The historic coach where the stabilisation, in the fact that the South America and Afrien. We havo yards off one of the main roads of

forest. seen civil wars in Spain, Greece,

only thirty miles away. From Com- Armistice was signed pa The whole place-rallway tracks, piegne station they were backed into nickel pieces will be token coins, Austria, Germany, Mexico, China, dining-car and all-will be heaped the forest to Nothondes Junction and Conditions under which it can bo ob of less intrinsic value than the Portugal....wo see the signs of with

tained." flowers and thronged with finally switched off into a lonely spurja," from both Erzberger old subsidiary coins. Be that as hate and passion still. The seeds silent black-clad visitors next Satur of track, where they found Foch's Oberndorf. it may, it will be interesting to of the pestilence remain. They are day."

-train waiting alongside them.

retreating, "their 800 whether the public responds in the hearts and souls of men, and

Foch entered the car and saluted. With their army

navy mutinous, their allies

gone, "The eleventh hour of the eleventh to the Government roquest that, consequently affect the policies and

“Conditions”.

their southern frontier exposed, and it should exchange the old coin politics of nations. Our Govern-day of the eleventh month" is always

"We have come," said Eraberger, a medley of provisional and revolu

at home, the for the new. In the matter of monte- It is obvious-have failed associated with the Armistice..

Actually, it was five o'clock in the "to receive the propositions of the tionary committees Intrinsic value, the old coin will

morning which the truce was signed. Allied Powers relative to the con- Germans had seventy-two hours in

Four days previously, on Noven clusion of an armistico on sea and which to reply.

They Signed ber 7, the German representatives land and in the

the alt, on all fronts

It was not until 10 p.m. on Novom. had left Spa, bound they knew not and in the colonics," by reason of the export embar-y on a silver basis, our currency where

"I have no propositions to make ber 10 that the Germana recolved to your

thoir final instructions from Berlin, sald Foch, go), but the fact that their con- is still widely divorced from it

White Flag

Count van Oberndorf broke in: and even then the final sesalon In tent is worth morg may induce by reason of speculative activity, Foch had instructed them by wiro. "We desire to find out what are the Foch's train did not begin until hoarding or smuggling, Except and for this reason anything less to present themselves at a cross conditions under which the Allies 2 a.m. It lasted until 6.m for its bolated nature, the steps may happen to it. Stabilisation ronds near Haudroy village, a mile would consent to alltions to make," then the Germans. By 5.10 all the Foch and Wemyss signed first, and taken by the Government will la admittedly a difficult pro- and a half north-east of La Cappelle

signatures had been affixed, bo welcomed, 28. they will blem, but until somo action is nd some thirty miles east of St. sald Foch,

Nevertheless President Wilson-" Six hours Quentin. onsuro stoppage of the taken which will keep the They were told to fly a white fing Erzberger began. outflow of coln. But, as dollar relatively steady in rela-and to carry a bugler, who was to "I am here to listen to you if you By that time the Kaiser had fled Wo romarkod in opening. tion to other currencies, existing sound his bugle continuously. As are asking for an armlatice," Foch to Holland, the Red flag was fiving the exchange value of the dollar uncertainty so crippling to halted the Allied advance, to numit ing for an armistice? If you are Ebert was Chancellor of the newly

they nonged the French lines Foch interrupted sharply. "Are you ask- over Germany, and the will romain unaffected. Nominal-business, will continue

them.

neking it, I can let you know the born German Republle,

not enjoy any advantago over the new here in Hongkong (this

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