Cemetery on May 30
The American community will hold its annual observance of Memorial Day on the morning of Thursday, May 30. The service will take place in the space just north of the Chapel in the Bubbling Well Cemetery, beginning at 8.30 promptly, and terminating at 9 o'clock or shortly after.
The programme will follow that of previous years, and will be attended by the American community as a whole with special delegations from the Fourth Marines, the Navy, the American Units of the S.V.C., and the American Legion, Spanish War Veterans, Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, Acting Consul-General Richard P. Butrick will serve as Master of Ceremonies. The invocation will be by Chaplain Roy R. Marken of the United States Fourth Marines. The Fourth Marine Band will be in attendance.
The address of the day. will be made by Dr. R. J. McMullen, President of the Hangchow University, and Chairman of the American Association of Shanghai.
Following there will be a vocal solo, by Mrs. J. E. Fullam, the "Recessional" of Reginald de Hoven, accompanied by Mr. H. F. Parkes, and the Benediction by Dr. F. L. Hawks Pott, President of St. John's University; volleys by the 4th US. Marines, Taps, and the National Anthem Prior to the service the defence units on leaving their quarters will be assembled to parade in Bubbling Well Road, to the Cemetery. The graves of the ninety service men who are resting in the Cemetery will be suitably decorated for the occasion.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.