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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1937

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION.

WAR

HONGKONG'S

MEMORIALS

By T. PAUL GREGORY

PERHAPS there

Sacred

may instance the "Monument" which were then endemic in that obelisk of grey granite this now salubrious community. which stands in chaste dignity The epitaph on this monument at the junction of two well reads as follows: known roads opposite the Civil Service Cricket Club in Happy Valley. So familiar is this land- mark that few consider the pur pose of its existence, yet a perusal of the weather-scarred and well-nigh obliterated petro- is no glyph, reveals that this pil- Inr was erected by Captain

Colony in His Majesty's

Charles Talbot and the officers dominions which has a and crew of H.M.S. Vestal to more colourful and in teresting history than Hong kong. In this far-flung out post may be found numerous sixth year (1847) of British memorials recording the military

achievements and sacrifices

To the

Memory of all those

of the

LIX. Regiment,

Who died between the 11th June, 1840,

And the

18th November, 1868.

And the amiable qualities of dis- position which endeared him To a large circle of friends;

Combined in rendering his un- timely death the occasion of uninternal mourning among the

foreign community in China. This monument was erected by

public subscription..

In testimony of respect and sfcc-"

tion for his memory,

To me to live is Christ, and to die

is gain

Philippians Ch. 1. Ver. 21.”

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the memory of their departed

Upon one side of the shaft is shipmates who were killed in action, or drowned, or died of enumerated those who fever during the momentous buried here. The list seems AMONGST the more recent of

Colony.

occupation

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of

our

of those far-seeing pioneers who during the Victorian Age aided in the founding ANOTHER memorial of local

American

interest is that which now and consolidation of the stands opposite the Police Re- greatest Empire that has creation Club and which re- ever arisen on the face of the counts the achievements of

those British and earth.

naval men who one August day We are

all more or less largely

in 1856 set out upon a punitive familiar with the majority of those monuments expedition against Chinese erected in remembrance of those pirates who then as now had worthies who in a time of ex- their hairs in Taai-p'aang-waar pedient and peril gave their or Bias Bay. In fact, so prosnic lives that the tenure of Britain and commonplace does

this that

upon this one of the most rough granite pile seem beautiful of England's colonial like the neighbouring "Monu- possessions which less that ment" most residents have pnas- a century since was naught cd it by, times without number, but a barren, fever-ridden and with scarcely a second glance. pirate-earned island might be However, if we should choose perpetuated, and that the course to pause a moment and road the of law, order and justice might simple but appropriate inscrip ultimately prevail. Thus, one tion we cannot fail to be im-

The

simple,

Imposing but memorial in the grounds of St. John's Cathedral to the memory of men who fall in the Great War. (Photo: Staff *grapher).

Photo.

The memorial opposite the Police Recreation Club, which recounta • punitive expedition against Blue Bay pirates in 1855 (Photo Staff Photographer).

are

pressed; for the graven words to us at the present day a most record an incident worthy of formidable one, embracing as it the descriptive genius of a does: Conrad or a Stevenson:

"Erected by the Officers and

Crews of the

U. S. Steam Frigate Powhatan

and II. B. M.

Steam Stoop Rattler

In Memory of their Shipmates

Who fell in a combined boat

attack on t

Heet of piratical junks

A

The memorial erected in St. John's Cathedral grounds to the memory of Captain William Thornton Bate, R.N., killed in action at Canton on December 29, 1857. (Photos Staff Photographer).

the Colony's monuments are those erected in memory of the brave sons of the British Em- pire who gave their lives in the Great War. The impressive Cenotaph opposite the Hongkong Club is too well-known to merit. description, but there are other memorials dedicated to the im- mortal dead of the last conflict which, whilst lacking u im- pressive grandeur, are yet, on account of the sincere motives ple epitaph may enter the portals last of the Sung Emperors, which brought about their of the sacred edifice and there, which may be found near the erection of more than pass- read upon the bronze plaque the old walled city of Kowloon on ing interest. Of these festi- names of those hundred odd monials of

the mainland. national feding men of all nationalitics who left

This rough and piety one may be specially their homes and loved ones in granite boulder standing about mentioned, and this is the the Colony and whose bodies 200 feet in height is one of the almple granite cross in the are now resting in the poppy- most remarkable memorials of grounds of St. John's Cathedral. blown soil of Flanders' Fields. its kind; for the deeply graven The memorial is an emblem of the Church triumphant; for the

inscription on its surface re- cords in cryptic Chinese bronze Crusader's sword that adorns the cross typifies the course, the most famous feat, flight and ultimate suicide ideographs the story of the de struggle for righteousness,

historical monument within

of the valorous, peace and honour,

but un The inserip the Colony's borders is the fortunate monarch, who as his tion in devout prose is perhaps Sung-wong-t'of-that celebrat tory reveals fled from his the most fitting tribute which. could be paid to those honoured ed megalith of Ping Tai, the capital at Peking with the bar dead:

"To the

Sergeanle,

Corporals,

21

14

Glory of God

And

Drummers,

1

In Memory of the

Privates,

Women, Children,

466

36

107

Men of Hongkong

Who fell

NOTHER of the Colony's little known monuments, is Of Kuhlan, August 4th, 1855.”

that erected above Murray Formerly on its original site Parade Ground,' in the grounds near Wanchal Market, this of St. John's Cathedral. This monument was sadly neglected, is perhaps in its way the most but is now well looked after. imposing memorial ever erected It was moved about two years to an individual in the Colony, ago........

being. as it is... magnificent granite column surmounted by a globe, and having inset upon its

the

BUT perhaps anddest sides tablets of red marble upon

memorial of them all is that which are inscribed the follow- urn-capped shaft in the Pro- ing lines:

testant Cemetery in Happy Valley erected in memory of those brave men, women and children who formed the van- guard of foreign settlement and were laid low by deadly fevers

"Sacred to the memory of Captain William Thornton Bate,

J.N.

Who was killed under the walls

of Canton,

At the storming of the City, on

December 29th, 1857,

In the 37th year of his age. His distinguished career of pro-

fessional service,

In the Great War

1914-1918

And

Whose Namer are recorded

On a tablet in the Porch of This Cathedral.”

Furthermore, those who are touched by the lines of this sim--

The Arduous Duties performed b

in the survey

of the neighbouring Seas.

The Christian Virtues and Con-

latent Piety which

Adorned his private character,

Another of the half-forgottin WAT memorials in Hongkong. This is situated in Happy Valley and commemorates the herald death of British soldiers, (Photot Staff Photographer).

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NATURE'S OWN LAXATIVE

baric hordes of the Mongol Chieftain Kublai Khan literally at his heels. In April 1274 A. D.

the Chinese Emperor made his last stand and the hills about Kowloon City are covered with the mounds of those thousands of brave war-

riors who died defending their sovereign and the last precious strip of Chinese soil from the encroachment of the hated in- vader.

Just another 5 minutes wish I didn't always wake so tired. Those wretched directors are meeting this moming too!

All their

happiness depended on him.

Oh, Mr. Martin! I had to send that report into the directors' meeting without

THIRKS

Very efficient

but not

you seeing it. Sorry couldn't job.

ivait.

But I checked,

it carefully

THAT NIGHT

'THINKE!"

Their happiness depends on my job..! The directors are right, I am half asleep. I'll simply

have to see a doctor

· about this wretched

tiredness

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Wook-End Problems

PROBLEM I

STRIDEIVELL'S WALK

⚫ Stridewell walked 54 miles.

PROBLEM IL

WORD SQUARE

D LOIS LORNA ORGAN INA NE SANER

The Rival Motorista

1 have had a large number of letters from readers who query the answer to this problem. The point which they have all over- looked is that the average speed of two cars which respectively do, say, 30 m.pl, and 00 m.p.h. Is not 43m.ph, It is actually 40 m.p.h., arrived at in this way; a enr travelling at 30 m.p.h. does one mile in two minutes; a car travelling at 80 mph. does one mile in one minute. Hence the average of their speeds is the speed of a car travelling two

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A Trip To Southond (SOLUTION)

The damning evidence was the bruise on Eddie's thumbnail in the photograph I was "right at the base of the thumb." When Playful "checked up on it" the black mark was still there, but half-way up the thumbnail.'

miles in three minutes, ... 10 m.p.h. Calculating average speeds in this way, the answer given last week is readily deter- mined.

Darling! Remember m getting a rise this month. I hate to see you saving and doing all the housework yourself.

Let's get a. daily help in

| your

young man

19 MONTHS LATER

MEANWHILE IN THE DIRECTORS MEETING:

dear sir, Martin, boks half

But, my.

asleep all day. If the younger man CAN

do the job better, Martin must take the consequences. I'll talk to Martin

THE DOCTOR SAYS:

It's this waking tired that's holding you back! Even during sleep, heartbeats and other

automatic actions go on using up energy. Unless energy's replaced during sleep, of course you wake tired-Night Starved! 1 advise

·Horlicks..

and so every night

M-m-m

GRANB

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Does your husband

wake tired?

he does, see to it that fia gess Horlicks regularly, a cupful every night. He'll get the He'll right kind of sleep, and wake refreshed.

be able to concentrue better, he won't be handi- capped any longer at his work by that deadening tiredness.

HORLICKS

guards against Night Starvation

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