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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY,

NOVEMBER 11,

1938.

Armistice Day Through The Eyes Of FURTHER

Children

WOMAN SWINDLER

of

Hongkong

Bghing, by mutual agreement of the flee parties and make, peace.

On November, the 11th, we cele- brate "Armistice Day" on which is commemorated the Armistice signed

1018.

[TWENTY YEARS! Six years before the eldest by the Allies and the Germans in

contributor to the weekly Children's Corner in the "Telegraph" was born.

What is childhood's reaction to the Great War? Would they thrill at the tub-thumping, Dupes Victim With Bait flag-waving hysteria of the early days of 1914- Of Lottery Prize 1918 as many of us, children then, thrilled?

Are their thoughts of the after the Great War in 1914-1018. Alleged to have obtained $10 on or

day of the eleventh month of 1910 about September 10 from a woman "glories" of war, or of its Armistice was signed on the eleventh and on this day every year we keep named Chan Taul-lan, by pretending

The "Telegraph" publishes below two minutes silence in honour of the that the money was required to in-horrors? stitute a claim against some person

their beloved mother-land. for money, said to have been won by what it belleves to be a cross-section brave men who fought and died for Also on this day we wear the small Chan fen lottery, a 41-year-old of the reactions of Hongkong chll- was dren. The Bille essays are a selec-

Because it red poppy

was this widow named Cheng Chau charged before Mr. E. Hitnsworth at Hon of a large number received last week in the Children's Corner essay

field. Also, we think the poppy in the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.

competition on Armistico Day and Itsmall flower that grew on the battle Proseculing. Det.-Sergeant F. For meaning.

In

order to avoid any suggestion like the blood stains on the fresh rest said that two months ago thei

battle was fought. complainant was introduced to the of sub-edlung-the essays are print crass, the morning after the defendant who was doing business and exactly as they were written by a fortune teller. Chan was Inform-the children-the "Telegraph" has was chosen haphazardly from the large ed by the defendant that she very lucky and that she should buy number of entries received. some lottery tickets. Chan gave the *nall lottery tickets

defendant, on two ocensions. sums of money for

THE SHOPS SOLD PENNY TOYS

and on each of these occasions the

Jean Carpenter (aged at years defendant told Chan that the tickets! bought had turned out winners and handed over money that was sup-months), St. John's fall:

a'eck the Great War stopped. The

On November 11, 1918, at posed to have been well.

One day the defendant told Chan Germans surrendered to England.

The shopa began, to sell penny that a lottery ticket she had bought) had won $7,000, but that the money toys agara.

The money that Enbland borrowed could not be collected breause thel organisers of the lottery had swine from America has not been given

back. died them by changing a character

Armistke Day comes every year. on the ticket. She then asked Chan for $300 to enable her to institute an Armistice Day at 11 o'clock guns are fired to tell the people that it is claim against some person to reclaim the $7,000, but only received $10 as the same time and same day that Chan had not the amount asked for the Great War stopped. From that day onwards, the delen- received dant was alleged to have various sums of money and jewellery from Clan, untier the pretext that Instituted and the claim had been

cover the that money was

needed cost of Court proceedings. On No- vember 4, Chan suspected that she had been defrauded by the defendant and after consultation with men ber of her family she had the dow fendant arrested.

were

In Hongkong we have the various church services and the official ser- vice in Connaught load to mark the The special service in the event. various churches centie in prayers for those brave soldiers who gave up

GAINS

Republicans Again A Major Party

With

CABARET-DANCE

An Interesting programmo has been arranged for the Cabaret-

Dinner

Dance In aid of the Hong- kong Benevolent Society and Earl Halg's Fund at the Grill Room of the Hongkong Hotel to-night.

elever dancer, Jordon, a

Norcen

will demonstrate an Irish. Jig and a Russian Princess Dance. Compton will give a tap dance solo,

Suzette

Jar

Great was atgned between Britain and her Allies and Germany, When the Armistice was signed

New York, Nov. 10, the lost gun was fred,

seven results doubtful the followed by a spirited Tango Popples are sold on this day in state of the parties in the House of ranged by George Concharoff), when remembrance of the Armistice. the Representatives, following the elec- Peter

le now: Democrats Republicans Progressives Farm Labour

soldiers. General Halg started this money goes to a fund for disabled fund for the soldiers disabled in tho Great War and this is known as the Poppy Fund.

tions.

200

105

2

1

as

23 2

Republicans gained 77 sents. The soldiers who were disabled in

The Senate results to date are the Great War make the poppies.

their lives that we might have perce They chest the poppy because popples follows: We are, therefore, bound

pray

for

to pray for those brave men as "It is a holy and wholesome thought to And then the dead." It is interesting to note that the prayers will be sild for peace. Armistice was signed at the eleventh hour on the eleventh month.

It is hiting, therefore, that this it brought to an end the greatest day be apecially commemorated as war known in History.

*

HOUR THAT HATRED ENDED

Doris Moy (aged 14), P.O. Box 1730:

grew on the battlefield during and after the war.

Democrats

Republicans Farm Labour

Progressives Independent

1 Republican... of the new State. Governors elect-

lean.

£1

force

the

Randolph,

clover local dancer, will be her partner. They will be followed by Rosemary Cam- bler and Wilmot Len in that popular and old favourile, "Strawberry

as a nate a "Grand Surprise" has been arranged.

The Hongkong Hotel Dance Band and the Hongkong Hotel Tango Orchestra will be in attendance, so that a very enjoyable evening promised.

WATCHING THE 'WIND

(Continued from Pape 6.)

5

On Armistice Day memorial ser- vices are held in all churches. A parade of the services at the head of which is our King and Queen is ed, 11 are Democrats and 16 Repup-

as we roll a bandage, tearing it on WE hell In London at the memorial and

The Republicans have turned the might tear a veil, breaking it as a at the tomb of the unknown Warrior.

Begloning at 11 o'clock is two tue of the New Deal and have again rising sea breaks ice-flocs.

The masses of mist, join and se minutes silence for those who died beeving

major political during the war.

capable of

of hotly fighting for the Pre-parate growing thinner or thicker in the currents of air, until at a last sidency in 1940.

Postmaster Furley claimed that the breath they vanish completely

When we see all that, how can we PICKPOCKET CAUGHT Republican victories in Connecticut,

Rhode Island and Nebraska could be call the wind invisible? It is one of factors in our the most important attributed to lont issues.

The

Republican victories in Ohio, landscape. It is thanks to the wind Massachusetts, and Pennsyl-that the landscape, like the sea, is Oregon, vania were the results of Democratie never monotonous. intra-party strife.

Used Handkerchief To Armistice Day, we all know, is the

Cover Theft of Pen day the fighting actually ceased in the World War, and the Armistice

Sentence of six months' hard in- Every

on Leung Kwai, was signed by the Ailles and Ger- many on November 11, 1916.

19, when he pleaded guilty to year on this date, the Allied coun-tour was imponed Great tries use this

The

Trigg

to nerve

us a

M. F. M.

President Roosevelt, receivng re

Mr. Herbert Hoover said: "The Re- publicans are now in a position to restore faith in America," ports of the results at Hyde Park, refused to make any comment, but

Mr. Jamta Forley, the Postmaster- exceeded expectations, victories General admitted that the Repubil- but he insisted that the results show- ed that the country was "still strong- can vie

ly behind

the

Twenty years have passed since his victimb pocket and take away New Deal regimes has rolled west to President Rumanitarian policies

and may we hope that it may be the this treaty of peace has been signed

first and the lust that will ever he

neerhi.

*

fountain pen.

Defendant also admitted a previous conviction in March this year.

HANDBAGS SNATCHED

of

GLORY OF THEIR

Mr. Herbert Hoover said the elec- COUNTRY

tions are a protest by the American Stephan Mose (ages 13), 10, Nga

people against the New Deal, He Tsin Wai Rond:

The Great World War begun in 1914 and

Party to gird itself for 1940.

Mr. William Green, Chairman at 11 Britain, France, Rusin, Lichtin, memorial by keeping silence at 11 charge of larceny from the person, said it showed the Republican Party Serbia, Japan, Joined by Italy Inn. for a short period in remem-before Mr. R. Edwards at the Cen-to be reinvigorated and called on the

brance of those killed in fighting and tra Magistracy yesterday.

Detective Sergeant H. B. Dewar the American Federation of Labour 111915, by Rumanin in 1916 and by the the hour in which the hatred that

United States in 1917. These coun-existed between the countries ended. prosecuted, and said that at 3 pm. regards the outcome as a rout of the tries were ranged against Germany, In the United States and in many on Wednesday the defendant was Committee for Industrial Organisa-

Was seen by a district and tired of C.I.D. tactics." Austria, Hungary, Turkey and later other countries, this day is observed walking along Queen's Rond Centralien, proving "that the pubile are sick

holiday and is required so by when he joined by Bulgaria in 1915.

The Republiean tide in the eastern watchman to put a handkerchlet over The Great World War carried on the government.

until November

On

engulf Senator, La Follete's pledging

The Democrats lost the senator- 1918, at 11 am. 11. 191

in a railway

of New Hampshire, New the four years,

to form a third party, Governor Murphy's defeat is attributed largely ships carriage in a wood, the Germans

to his leniency during the sit-down Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Other quarters half the Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Kamas, strikes. signed the Armistice yielding to the demands of the Allies, and thus the

Republican victories us a significant and are trailing, in Indiana An attempted larceny of a handbag cation of what might be expected Iowa. was thus named Armistice Day.

from Au Great World War ended. That day

ey have also lost the governor- Armistice was then followed by an-

containing $85 in maney

have ships of Pennsylvania, Ohio other treaty, called the Pence Treaty

Yeung-chun, 22, actress, in Ewo in 1940, The Peace Treaty was signed

Joyce Leong (aged 12). 10, Queen's Street on Wednesday, resulted in Lui broadened the scope of the Republi- Michigan, together with nine others.

However, New appearing

the Republicans lost unemployed, in the Hall of Mirrors on Versailles

Shing. 20,

Norli Maryland, and the June 8, 1919. On Armistice Road, Central:

Armistice Day is the day on which before Mr. H. R. Butters at the Cen-can triumphis, reversed

Dakota. a major party. Laurence Becker (aged 103, 76. Day, we should honour the many

wastral Magistracy yesterday, when he Deal tide, and restored the Reput - Californiin,

New York Republicans elected 19 was sentenced to six months' hard cans to the status of

Tabulations. in the middle of the

showed that the Re-Representatives, which is three more afternoon Argyle Street, Top Floor:

Armistice Day, which is celebrated thousands of brave soldiers and men, the Great War (1914-1918)

On this day every year, everyone labour for the offence. Inspector A.

the previous figures, compared had made a net gain of remember those who have fallen V. Baker prosecuted.

publicans during that War. A parade is usual- on November 11, is the day on which who gave their lives for the Glory ended.

Caught after he had snatched a cight Senators, and were leading with 20 elected by the Democrata,

The Governor, Mr. Frank F. Mer- ly held and all the prominent people handbag from a widow in Salgon close races for two other seats, which the Allies and the Germans agreed their Country.

hos uccepted the resignation of and many to stop fighting From 1014 to 1819 Britain, France, Italy

Senator William G. McAdoo and has in the Colony are gathered at the Street on Wednesday night, Li Chan- the Democrats before the clection lam, other countries were at war with

Cenotaph to pay respect by laying

hard labour by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- However, the New Dealers retain appointed Mr. T. M. Storice, a Santa The defendant denied having swin-Germany and other countries. Then

wreaths of the "Tomb of the Un-, 17, was sentenced to three months were holding. were beaten and asked Germans dled Chan of any money or jewellery

known Soldiers."

fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy majurities in both Houses, and con- Barbara newspaperman, The feminine population sell yesterday. He admitted a previous train anure than half the State nd-ported Mr. Merriam's candidacy, to Chan hal at first lent her money to for peace, and, on November 11, 1918,

the conviction for attempted

through larceny ministrations, gamble in Macao, and when this ran an Armistice was declared.

Since then November 11 was set

beautiful poppies along all

and street comers, from the person. oul, Chan gave her Jewellery to pawn so that she could continue her aside as the day to remember those

thoroughfares gambling in the hope of getting back whatever had been lost on previous/brave men who died during those on 1919 and the countries talked trying to get as much money as they

four 'World War years.

occasions,

the

DAY TO REMEMBER THE DEAD

In nearly every country in the After she had told her story, the world a two-minute silence, begin- defendant was convicted and was ning at 11 o'clock, is kept on that seatenerd to six months' hard labour. day.

"In Great Britain and all ports of She admitted three previous convie- tions for similar offences, but added the British Empire including: Hong- that on these ocensions, like the kong. poppies are sold on Armistice she was falsely ac-Day. The money collected all go to present one.

Earl Haig's Fund for cused.

At the conclusion of the case, Det.Soldiers. Another name for Arrait Sergeant Forrest instituted a charge tice Day is Remembrance Day. of breach of a Deportation Ordinance

and asked for al against Cheng. week's remand, which was granted.

Social Items

Miss K. 1. Batty-Smith will leave Government House for the Helena May Institute on Monday, November

14.

Lady Northcote will be At Home to the members of the Halcyon Club at Government House al 4 pan. on Monday, November 14.

Mrs. M. V. Courtney and Mice B. Howard will arrive at Governungni i House on Thursday, November 17.

The tennis tournament arranged by the Central British Assolution for Sunday, November 13, has been postponed until Sunday, November 20, at 2.30 p.m.

dipbel

BEFORE I WAS BORN

I SHALL TAKE

A PICNIC

Mak Wai Lam (aged 143. 12, Wing Lee Street, 2nd flour:

Why eleventh November was made

for holkay? Because it is the last day of the Great War of the world peace on that day, so that we called it "Armistice Day."

SELL BEAUTIFUL POPPIES

can for the benefit of the Earl Halg's fund, This fund is used to aid those In the former many years, I was who have been disabled by the war.

Special Services are also held at that day. But 1 shall take a plenie both the Roman Catholic Church called to merry feasting to enjoy with my friends to visit the outskirts and the St. John's Cathedral, in of this city this year. It will be very order to remember the victims of the foot-walk on the merry romfortable and joyous for us to just war.

THERE WILL BE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MARCHING

day....

M. M. Samy (aged 11), 457. Lock- hart Road, Top Floor:

Armistice Day is held on Novem-

·

RESPECTS TO THOSE WHO FELL

Jose Xavier, (aged 11), 11 Ting Cheung Building:

Armistice Day is a day kept in

S. S. Bux (aged 8), 55, Jardine ver 11 of every year. It is a sign commemoration of the peuce which

Bazaar:

is observed on Armistice Day November 11 at 11 o'clock, because is a day of remembering those persons who died for their country

it

of

peace at the end of the Great was signed on November 11 after War. The ceremony will be held the world war, which took place

from the year 1914 to 1918.

the day at 11 a.m., the world On every

minutes for observes a silence of

in Hongkong al the year Statue Square where the Governor puls wreaths and flowers on the

In

their services to their country c the war many soldiers came and were disabled in such a state that they could not make a living. Eventually Earl Hair thought that

disabled and sale of poppies was fund should be raised to keep the started, the proceeds of which were

in the World War. Twenty years Veenotaph for the soldiers who fell the unknown dead soldiers who gave ago wis date the worst write for the Great War. Many people will go and we keep solemn silence for two ininutes as a respect to those who to rer the Governor put the wreaths died for us. In order to show our and flowers on the cenotaph. The streets in which the Governor will sympathies to their parents, wives, stree

pass will be crowded, whilst police- children, brothers and sisters, we should donate money to swell the men will keep back the crowds Earl Haig Poppy Fund to support Buildings overlooking Statue Square

Poppies be sold on that day and people will buy them. There will be soldiers and sailors marching.

them.

Before I was born, the World War started in August, 1914.

THE FLOWER OF THE BATTLEFIELD

Joan Dobson (aged 14), 36, Han- how Rond:

Armistice is really a peace treaty signed by England and Germany

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will be crowded alsu

WE ARE BOUND TO PRAY

to go to them.

All over the world in this day, a service is being held at the Cenotaph to pay their respects to those who fell, and many wreaths are laid by the oral government bodies, accom~ panied by the Last Post with a grand

Gus Velasco (aged 12), 60, Taipouf hanour. *

Koud, Kowloon:

To make an Armistice during a War means to come to terms, stop!

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