The death occurred at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Tientsin, on the 12th instant, of Mr. H. G. Owens, of Messrs, Butterfield & Swire, who had recently returned from a business trip to Newchwang and entered the hospital suffering from lymphatic leucaemia. Arriving in Shanghai in April, 1920, Mr. Owens was sent to Harbin in November, and was transferred to Tientsin in July, 1921. He served throughout the War going to France in 1914 with the Queen's Westminster Rifles, and joined the Legion of Frontiersmen in December, 1915. After taking part in the East Africa campaign, he was invalided home with malaria, and transferred to the Royal Fusiliers and at the Armistice was in Cadet Battalion, waiting for a commission in the King's Raya! Rifles, Tue "Eastern Times," commenting on the number of destitute Russians in Shanghai, states that many Russians are arriving in Shanghai daily, and that they understand neither English nor Chinese. They live generally in the Hongkew district and may be seen in the parks daily. Their condition is said to destitute in the extreme. tion is being carefully investigated, in order that the directorate may be assured that their standard of wages is on an equality with other good firms, Of course investigation of this character must take some little time.
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