Alexander Hamilton Middle School - Warrior Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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Q ... 5 EE' il-Ill!! ll'l'C'DN 5555355 England and my sisters were sent over as soon as it could be arranged. The boat on which they came over was sunk on its return trip. It was not often that I saw my father as he was in Bramshot Camp at the south of England, while we were at the sea-port town of Blackpool, Lancashire. When fa- ther did come home we would all gather around him and listen to the stories he would tell us of his soldier life. On clear days standing on the cliffs at the sea front one could readily see the out- line of the coast of France. I clearly recall a large hotel not far from where we lived, on top of which was a huge dome of gold. When the war was on, it was discovered that the Germans could see this dome very plainly on clear days, from France: so by order of the English government this dome was painted a dull grey, hiding it from the seeking eyes of the enemy. Every house was ordered to have lights out a little while after dark as the Zeppe- lins hovered over head and all the houses were provided with dark green curtains to shut out all the light from the windows. To make things a little easier a plan was started which was called Daylight Saving. By this method the clocks were set ahead one hour, thus making the time to get up one hour sooner and the retiring hour also another hour sooner: this was the same number of hours each day, but one rose earlier and retired earlier. I remember very clearly going to visit the camp where my father was staying. It was here I tasted my first corn, as corn is not found in England. I thought it a great delicacy and was delighted with it. A soldier friend of father's and mother's, call- ed Sid,would often take me on his shoulder and walk with me thus, while walking with father and mother under the beautiful chestnut trees along an old lane near by. Sid was a wonderful singer and I remember his favorite song was Turn Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday . How happy things would have been if only the days of yesterday could have come back, Thirty-four AQAQ but it was not to be. Poor Sid was sent to the battle field and in three weeks we re- ceived word saying that he was dead. I was not more than 6 or 7 years old when I knew him, and yet it seems but yesterday when he walked with me on his shoulder under the beautiful chestnut trees of that old English lane. Another incident that comes to me was when mother and I were in London. We were staying in a large hotel, and it was late at night. I was fast asleep and mother left the room, leaving me in charge of a lady, while she went down stairs just out side toa little store near by. She did not expect to be gone over one or two minutes. Imagine her horror when upon trying to return to the hotelaburly policeman known as the English Bobby stopped her in her path and told her in a hasty way to hurry immediately to the Tube, this being an underground subway of London railway. Try as she might to return to me she was pushed into the subway and there, packed in with hundreds of other human beings, she spent most of the night, while the bombs thundered over head and sparks of fire lit the air. When mother finally was allowed to go, she hastened terrified lest I should be killed, scarcely noting the ruins of the once grand London shops around her. She hastened back to where the hotel was, hardly thinking that it would still be there, but it was, and so was I. I had slept like any tired child all through the air-raid and had never even known of all the tumult around me. The next day mother took me and showed me the ruins of all the buildings around the hotel and all over London. Huge glass windows were lying broken in the streets and many buildings were blown up.,The London Hospital, where thousands of wounded soldiers lay suffering, was still standing although the whole of the front hadbeen blown out. I shall never forget the once ieautiful part of London now almost shattered by the menacing hands of the enemy. ss Xsg.sssQQ.ssg.wgssQg.igssr rr sr S M is X X X5 X 5 NGx, XS N Q 3 x - ,E E X Q u -, XX ,sfziitx ,fail-ihx psig x. , 33558. N JXRRX A x . , ?. - , . rg gif, mx. ..,'::5.': - , Q - s3,,jv.1 , o r - , '- ... 'slr Qitiiisrls. -x ...s .. S az. . as QQ.. in - AS I X I ill , in

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Y 1 A,4., AA,.A, . il. f,.- I U M Q I I WEE Theifollowihglitragzelogyes were 'w9'itten.by studentd offlafniiitoizg who haze 'visited the :spots I ' ' ' Of1?ltGQ'6StA whichjhey ,have described. Hong giepulse- Bay which is a beautiful summer ' fBy Herbert Jones! i , ONG KONG, ,China is one .of the,- Q most beautiful cities in. the world and hh has thebest: harbor in all the East. The officials of Hong Kong have a very good system of warning people when there 1 I Typhoon Bay, I-long Kong, China is to be a storm. 'When the weather bureau finds out that there is to be a typhoon, they put out signals on the .tops of the mountains and other stations. When onefof these signals is seen, all the j unks and sam'pans, which are small Chinese boats, come into the bay to be out of the storm. That is whyithe bay of Hong Kong is called T phoon Bay. ' ' ' ' yOn one side of the bay is what -is called Kowloon: it is the old Chinese settlement. On the other side is Hong ,Kong which is an Englishq settlement and army base. Oh one side of the island, of Hong Kong The peak 'of Hong Kong isa beautiful' sight. If-you wish to-Aclimb it, you take an electrics trolley about half -way up: at the end of the trolly line is a large hotell From' there you either walkbr take a sedan chair. At the top you can see nearlyall of the lsland of Hong Kong and 'the blue waters offTyphoon Bay, dotted here and there by small sailing vessels and Chinese junks. At the top -of the peaks is an aerial- that-be- lon-gs to ithe government. ' y In. Hong Kong you see nearly' all the countries in the world represented by their ships and people.- I r The nahivesof Hong Kong are Chinese. In China you will find all classes of people. Some of the richest people in the world are Qhsinese, as are some of the poorest. ' s o 0 o ' l LLP e -sm. Emglaimct During Q l The Dhivcot' i lBy 'Vere Jean Stuart I y HE'HGreat World-War was the great- est war in all times and everyone live- i ihg among the, older generation re- Eembers this. time, and I am sure they all ewishing and silently hoping that never will there be such a war as this again as long as they alive or even 'after'they are gone and .other fgenerationsh are lin our stead. , Duringi the war I lived in England, yets. two months beforewar wasodeclared Il was living in :Ham:ilton,fCanada, with my parents, as I was but a small child of two yearsfof age. Strange to say we started for England on the old White Star Line boat called the Baltic, and no sooner were we there than the war was declared. - l My three sisters had beenleft in Canada and so father immediately -returned to see about their safety and to join the army- on the Canadian side. l For -seven long years we remained in r .. ,Thirtvlhree . , .... .,,. , . Q .... N . N . . if S' fl. iss' if I K- X km Av I sssiifxx as 1 M hit N- 1 as C . ' .. .,..,.. ,. ..,. ..,.. .. .,r.. ...., . ,... W l l I

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