Vancouver, Feb. 17.
Vancouver has welcomed many distinguished men of late but none perhaps was so enthusiastically received as Sir Philip Gibbs, the eminent journalist, one of the little party of five newspapermen who sent out the ish official despatches to a waiting world during the war. Sir Philip, accompanied by his 18-year old son, came here on a lecture tour. His most intimate talk was at a dinner given in his honour by the Institute of Journalists when, between puffs of his cigarette, and quite at home among members here of the same profession, he told modestly of some of his journalistic '"coups"—or "scoops." Stories of his famous feats trickled out during examples he gave of the part luck plays in the daily grind of the news-gatherer, be he humble or outstanding in "the game."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.