A Grave in Flanders

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 May 1915, Page 3

A Grave in Flanders

t tf— ._ Ihe Harrovian, the Harrow School magazine, contains the following poem l>y Lord Crewe, whose soii-in-lUw, Captain the Hon A. Ji. B. O'Xeill.. was killed in action in .November: — Here in tlio marshland, past the battered bridge. One of a hundred yams untimely sown, Here, with his comrades of the hardwon ridge His rest unknown. * His horoscope had (seemed so plainly drawn-— School triumphs, earned apace in in work and play; Friendships at will; then love's delightful dawn And mellowing day. Home fostering hope: some service to the State; Benignant age; then the long tryst to keep Whore in the yew-tree shadow congregate His fathers sloop. Whs hero the one thing needful to distil From life's alembic through this holier fate. The man's essential soul, the hero will? We a.sk: and wait.

I^wgafeww»s '"vtii mil %u r The Levin Brass Band will piny the following programme in Oxford-Ureet in front, of the Grant] Hotel this oven- | ing. commencing at :- -Overtiw-o. "Chocolate Caramels.'' quickstep "The Xew Colonial"; valse, "Vlyrino" : twostep "King of the Coons" ; niarcli "It'.s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" ; val.se "IMvdrops and Daisies"; t|uiekstep "TJie High School Cadets"; "God Save the King." The Chines evidently .set a high value upon themselves, for if a dead Chinese is worth £200, what wouM be the value of a, living oner- Many wealthy men insure their lives for many thousands of pounds, but it is not a common custom to insure the safety of a corpse. The "Oonunion" says a local insurance company issued three policies end! tor £200 oil the risk that flic bodies ol Young Wong. Young Chung ;m( | Young King, the three Chinese who were asphyxiated recently, would be landed safely at Hong Kong. The coffins containing the body's will be first shipped toS.vdnev bv the Ulimaroa, and from there transshipped to the Japanese Mail steamer -Viko Marn. The insurances were efi leetcd by the local Chinese Association. nn<l the total cost ol landimr the bodies m Hong Kong will amount to over £100. The three men were natives of Gotv Fong. in the Province of Canton, and their remains will eventually find a resting-place there among their ancestors, for the veneration of ancestors is a strong feature in Chinese national ideals; in fact, it is almost a form of religion. A Chinese alwavs hopes to sleep the last long sleep on his native soil, and he lisnahV strives to save enough money to carry his bones back to China, from anv land where he may have made a temporary home.