From the very beginning of his work in China he devoted himself te a study of the Chinese language. He became a real scholar and loved the language of this land. Up to the end of his life he was studious, his favourite studies being Chinese and poetry. The result of his devation to duty was that, in the times of crisis, he was not found wanting. Probably there were two great opportunities in the career of this noble man; one was in the year 1900, when, as. acting Consul-General at Hankow, he was _associated with the great Viceroy Chang Chih-tung of Wuchang. Iv may probably be said that it was this Scotsman and this Chinese who, working together, kept the Yangtze Valley quiet during the Boxer uprising. Both loved duty and loved scholarship, and so the sagacious Chinese and the shrewd Scotsman worked together during thut terrible year.
The second crisis was in the Great War. Sir Everard Fraser was here as the chief representative of the British in this great port. Through those four and a half years of struggle he was a pillar of strength, not only to the British, but to all the Allies in this place. Quietly and unobstrusively he worked on, always ready with words of strong encouragement during the dark hours of conflict. It was but right that his body should rest last Wednesday night in that small chapel there, ssu soon to be dedicated to the me-mary of our war heroes, for few of those young men whose names are engraved on the walls of that chapel went out to the war without an interview with Sir Everard, and a word of commendation from him.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.