Armistice Day celebrations Hongkong began this morning with special services at the churches. At} an early hour Indies and- children in Hongkong and Kowloon were on the streets telling poppies for Earl Haig's Fund.
After the services, a very large concourse of officials, members of Executive and Legislative Council, judges, Consular representatives, military, naval and Air Force officers and men, Volunteers, Boy Scots, Girl Guides, mercantile] marine officers and ex-Nerviee men! assembled at the Cenotaph and took) part in another very impressive ser~)
ice. 'The whole assembly joined in} inging of the hymn "O God, Our Help in Ages Past" to the aecompaniment of massed military and naval bands, The tive minutes' silence was then observed. after! which the Officer Administering the) Government, Mr. Southern, Laid a wreath on the Cenotaph, followed: by the General Officer Commanding, the Commodore and representatives of various associations and' firms. and other résidents—Reutert
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