Lieut, C. Gordon Kirk, 11th Batt, York and Lancaster Regiment, formerly chief detective officer, Shanghai Municipal Police, has been promoted to be captain.
News has been received that Captain F. C. Hefler, of the oth Royal Berkshire Regiment sppeared in the Gazette of February 2 a8 them having been wounded in France—many friends in Shanghai will hope n& seriously.
His many friends will be pleased to hear that Mr. A. H. Mancell, of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, and formerly of the Maxim Ca., 8.V.C., has joined the machine gun section of the 14th Bu. London Scottish, and is ab present) training at Martlow, near Putney.
Mr. Percy R. Lowe, formerly one of the staff of Jardine, Matheson & Ca., Tsingtao, and well known in local cricket, writes from Manly, Australia, to the effect that ho has enlisted in an infantry regiment and is now in a training camp. His younger brother, George, has already left for the front, Mr. Harry Knowles, late of the British American Tobacco has for some time been in two stripes. At present he is billeted in a private house in Somerset and expects to leave for the front. very shortly. I ishes to be remembered to a'l inds in the Far Fast.
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