at "Hongkong, is to be sold for HM. S. Kent, at present lyi
breaking up purposes.
The news will bring a twinge of sadness with it, not only to men of the Navy but also to a large number of civilian residents of the Far East, for the Kent is a well known vessel on the China Station and there must be many who bear grateful recollections of her, either for the genial hospitality extended upon some occasion of social festivity or for the comforting reassurance given by her stalwart presence at some hour of stress.
Of this latter class of mourners we may quote one example. A certain braw Scot. who escaped from Petrograd months after all other British subjects had fled from the red terror of Bolshevism, after undergoing innumerable hardships and running risks that were as frequent as the days held minutes, at last made his wav through Siberia and arrived in Vladivostok. All privations and adventures he had borne with the imnerturbability of his race, but the first glimpse of tha trim grey form of the Kent, Twine at anchor in the roads of Viedivostok, was too much for him and he broke into tears.
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