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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1937

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

HONGKONG'S WAR MEMORIALS

OF all the great occasions #++++

in national history,

By T. PAUL

GREGORY

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Armistice Day is perhaps the most solemn and threnetic of them all, re- calling as it does the sacrifices and bitter hard- ships of the Great War. This week Hongkong, as T+#+#+#+*+*+fee/ one of His Majesty's colonial stowing a laurel wreath upon possessions, observed with the British soldier at her feet due pomp and dignity. this an artistic conception that just memorable event; there ly typifies the feeling of Britain fore, it is quite fitting to towards her noble soldier sons. discuss in an article of this The Inscription of this memorial kind the memorials erected by the citizens of the com- munity in remembrance of those of its sons who lost their lives during the last conflict.

is as follows:

1914-1918

In memory of men Of the longkong & Shanghal Bank Whose ituca Given for thelr Country In

Great War,

were

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"They shall not grow old, as

we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor

the years condemn,

At the going down of the aun'

and in the morning

The Cenotaph is, of course, the most familiar of these memorials erected to the glorious dead; for it is perhaps one of the most beautiful of similar structures on account of its chaste simplicity of form suggesting a grandeur and solemnity which is typical of great war memorials every- where. There is, however. in the immediate vicinity of the im- posing cenotaph another war ANOTHER monument which is especially

We will remember them."

memorial - one which is incidentally of much worthy of mention. This is the interest to the Chinese popula- bronze statue erected by the tion of the Colony-is the stone Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- p'aai-lan or arch which stands at ing Corporation to the memory the entrance of the Botanic Gar- of the forty-two members of its dens and which is erected to the staff who fell overseas. Those Chinese members of the Labour who have paused to admire it Corps who were recruited in have been impressed by the Hongkong and who gave their artistic motif of the work; for lives in France. The monument the life-size figure of Fame be- typifies the generous support of

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THE END THE BEST COMMENT

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the Chinese community towards This brick and cement erection Britain and symbolises the real bears the following legend: and -lasting bonds of affection which unito the two great peo ples. The lapidarian inscrip- tion reads:

In

"25th Battp Middicaez Rest. Tyndarena

Feb. 8th, 1917."

To most members of the com-

standing near. Certain members of some twenty of its supporters of the troops upon their arrival who now lle resting in the battle- at Hongkong in March 1917 fields of Franco and Belgium. erected this memorial in com- There is also a similar memorial memoration of tho admirable dis- at the Golf Club at Fanling cipline shown by the Battalion erected in remembrance of its made tha in face of extreme hazard and members who have peril.

supreme sacrifco for King and Fatherland.

Furthermore, the most recent structure commemorating those who have fallen in the last con- flict is, of course, the beautiful war memorial Nursing Homo on The Peak, which has been but This edifice, recently dedicated. however, is so familiar and so well known that its description

"In memory of the Chines I munity, the purpose of erection TN addition to the above me

the service of the British of this memorial is not at all morials of more or less public Government Who died through enemy action well known. It is not as some nature there are a number of During the Great War, 1014-1912," think to commemorate the death private ones which are not so There is one monument, how- of heroes, but is in remembrance. well known. Of these may be ever, which is but little known to of an incident which occurred mentioned the bronze plaque to most residents of the Colony off the coast of South Africa be found within the Hongkong and that is the one erected at near Durban on Feb. 6, 1917, Cricket Club bearing the names is superfluous. Tomuntin on the mainland in when the transport Tyndareus memory of the Indian soldiers was torpedoed by a German sub- who died fighting gloriously in marine whilst en route to Hong- France, Egypt, Palestine and kong. The soldiers, as soon as Mesopotamia. The memorial Is a the vessel was struck, assembled simple granite stone of no artis- upon deck in perfect order as if tic pretensions, bearing upon upon a parade ground and the its surface an inscription attest- battalion's bands struck up the ing to the facts of its crection national anthem. Every man and extolling the patriotic spirit stood at attention; perfect dis

Not a soldier of those men from India who cipline reigned. died for their King Emperor.

flinched and when the order was given to evacuate the swiftly sinking ship and take to the boats, the manoeuvres were cir- ANG

NOTHER monument which is ried out with precision and de- now half-forgotten and neg. apatch. In fact, of the thousand lected is the memorial to be men on board only five or six lost found

on The Peak near the their lives and the survivors junction of Lugard and Harlech were picked up by other British Roads on the way to Pokfulam. ships which happened to be

War Planes Are Killing The Countryside

Children's Competition Winners

Here are three re- cent winners in our Children's Competi- tion. Top left is Re- ginald Pengelly (right) Rodney Martin and opposite Ada Foster. (photos By Photogem Studios)

TEST ANSWERS

By ERNEST BETTS

T is no use living in a village

any more.

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I am Informed by the farmers that the cows do not mind.

But the With a roar like the Trump of poultry

differently. breeders say three fighting pinnes risc Doom,

When the planes first arrived the over the fields every morning like hens "couldn't think wot'd come over terrible black gulls, mumble angrily } 'em,"

nor could the poultrymen over the farms and cottages, and either, and the hens spontaneously sweep off in magnificent curves to agreed not to lay till the molter was their appolaments in the sky,

explained. This has now been done, and business la 03 usual.

Every morning the air shakes with the planes, and every afternoon and every night,

They are the brand new planes from the brand new nerodrome at Debden, remote village in Essex, now transformed from a pin-point on the map to a point of strategical importance in the United Kingdom,

the

But some of the villagers fee) bitterly about the planes. Many of the men were in the last wor ond

nir new

* CANT. ALWAYS SE WATCHING THEM NOW, MURSE, HOW CAN Y KLIP THEM HEALTHY?”

"You're very wing to ask

that, Mrs. Bartlett. And I'll tell you the way in which you can help them most.

"Make sure of internal cleanliness by giving them a regular weekly dose of California Syrup of Figs. This is specially important with children at the critical age, like youm, who are working hard for their exams. There's Rolling pulls them dowà more than poison fa the system-it afecta their general health making them Hiable to catch any infection that's going about.

"In my experience "California Syrup

of Figs does far more than simply cleanse the system. It acts quife naturally, and gently and keeps the digestion healthy and active.

"I find 'California Syrup of Figa equally good for adults, especially. for women. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Bartlett, I use it myself and recom- mend you to adopt it for the whole family."

Be sure to get the genuíne" California Syrup of Figs.

California Syrup of Figs

CHATURES OWNAL,

they see, In the coming of the crackle and you begin to think the country is quite a pencetul place to be in..

machines, another war.

There are four hundred young airmen down here to twenty-seven vlilage girls, and where ones you saw a natly farmer's boy plastering

A hundred villages all over the down the hay on his head, you now

sce cavaliers country, wherever

frorn the clouds depots are springing up, are witness-swooping down and sweeping off the ing the same sight.

village blondes.

Opinion greatly varies about the planes.

At the Red Lion they take them with philosophie reserve.

"We got to 'ave 'em," says the bar- tender, "no good kickin' I s'pose." 1 tell him these vast new depols must be good for the pubs.

"Don't you believe 11! Don't make a penn'orth o'difference to the beer trade, they get it all from the canicen. Wot them airmen's only good for a darts,"

You see them pushing girls gingerly along on bicycles. It is hardly Worth being a farmer's boy any langer. The planes seem to have brought glamour to the village girts and love is in the air.

But it is not so. On these black storless nights, the whole country- side seems waiting for something. 11 comes. A low druning sound, a deep guttural moon climbing to a powerful

feely note,

Suddenly, over the trees a white light, Ulken lantern, swings accoss the sky and cleaves the darkness in

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dead straight line. It is the old sloth, with his green and white cyc to port and to starboard. The lights From the body of the plane steadily along like a thrilling night bird, to the accompaniment of an angry bee-like murmur.

All day long while men on the soil

But the villagers, asleep in their are sowing and threshing, the air beds, have ceased to wonder at this above is full of the sound of destrue-amazing and poetical, sight. Once you've seen it, they say, you've seen tion, and you can scarcely hear the it for good and all, and why the so- grunt of a pig or the sound of a lark, and-30 don't it rain? The Govern- ment send the planes, why don't they TIB night-foll. Then the lights go send the rain? The planes mean no- on in the cottages and the fires thing.

DOES WAKING TIRED EVERY MORNING

ruin a Woman's

Looks?

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Playfair had not been able to, ascertain the number of Parkin's ticket. But he did know that Porkin, who had booked after Lightfeet, had a ticket with a number next consecutive to his. He therefore had an examination made of the Piccadilly tickets sur rendered late that night at Chalk Form

As it happened, there were only three of these. Next, the tickets bearing numbers Imme-

diately preceding those were tracked down, Two had been

given up at Earl's Court-and both by passengers whom the collector could entity and the third one at Maida Vale. Here was sum- cient evidence to convince Playfa. that Lighteet, in his statement was lying, and to enable Playfair to go ahead with confidence in the com- piction of the case against him.

Weck-End Problems

PROBLEM I CHEAPJACK'S BAZAAR

A Gordon Highlander costs

· fourpence

The explanation is that there can be only one way of Inying out the money which is consistent with the data.

The prices in the Bazaar mus! be Od., 4d. and 2d.; and the several expenditures must be:

(1) Cd., 6d.

(2) 4d., 4d., 4. (3) 40, 44, 2d., 2d,

PROBLEM II WORD SQUARE

CT S NER " CELIA TR A· L STAL L

A Lay Sermon

By Hugh Redwood JEALOUSY, as we understand it,

the Is not reckoned among virtues. It may be true to say of it that it has its springs in love, but the springs have been fouled by selfishness, and the waters are very bitter. A strange word,, therefore, Is "Jealous, no applied to Almighty

God.

A icalous God. Exodus XX., &

Well, "God is His own inter- preter." He Him- self it was who used it, and if we ask Him its rightful meaning. He makes it plain, in Jesus. He shows us a rejected Saviour, weeping over Jerusalem.

These are the tears of God's Jealousy, shed in the knowledge that

a people turning to other gods must inevitably lose the way and perish, but shed also with a love so unselfish that, to give light to those In the shadow of death and to guide their feet into the way of peace, God made flesh. In Jesus Christ was ready Himself to die. Are you afraid of this "Jealous" God? Do you tell yourself and nthers that because you have lost the way Hols punishing you? Remember that which proves it unthinkable: pause with Jesus on Olivet's shoulder, where He, be holding the city, wept,

that dullness in your eyes, those

tiredness lines will leave you when

you get rid of Night Starvation

VAKING TIRED every morning

WA

is very often a sign of Night

Starvation. It shows in your face in s

dozen different ways. Even the colour: No beauty treatment can hide the of your skin changes. Shadows come in unattractive results of Night Starvation. all the wrong places, making you look You have to get rid of the cause. Do you drawn and old. Night Starvation shows know that you burn up energy even in your body, too. Shoulders-droop while you sleep? Breathing alone takes your whole figure sags. Your step 20,000 musculae efforts during the lacks youthfulness and vitality.

night. Unless murgy is replaced during slap,

Women who always wake flead never

have charm like this.

LUPELESS HAIR, -ette

DULL EYES

DRAWN FACE

DROOMING SHOULDER

TIRED WALK

Where'

Night Starvation symptoms first show

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of course you wake feeling and LOOKING

red-Night Starved, in fact.

What to do about it Doctors say there is nothing so good as taking Horlicks, a hot cupful every night. You will wake feeling refreshed -sparkling eyes, fresh healthy skin. No drawn look. No shadows. Your face, your whole appearance, will have that vivacity and charm other women. envy.

Horlicks to correct this condition. Start

›HORLICKS GUARDs against nighT STARVATION |

YOU SLEEP SOUNDLY AND WAKE REFRESHED

EVERY HORNING