British community in Jan. 7, Shanghai to-day loses Major-General and Mrs. 0. C. Barrett and Lieutenant-Colonel W. I, O. Faviell and the Ist Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment, who proceed Home on the Nevasa in spite of the fact that. she disrespectfully carries only one funnel to the shocked stonishment of one of her, distinguished passengers. soldier's life and soldier's wige are both inured to partings. So these very good friends of Shanghai cannot be expected to look upon this termination of an, all too brief sojourn in the same. light as the large number of friends whom they will leave behind. Brigadier Borrett—to, give him the style by which he managed to establish himself a pillar of Great Britain in Shanghai—has shown that a fighting soldier in a peace-time avocation can exercise no little influence on the affairs of the community to which he for the. time being belongs. By his alert interest in current events, his almost devastating commonsense, his lively gift of humour and his sociability he hag contributed not a little to the development of that. self-confidence which Shanghai was badly in need. He has never given any doubt of his readiness to give prompt support in emergencies; he has equally displayed that wise recognition of the fact that, for a community situated as his is, the greatest possible virtue lies in preventing ths: emergency from occurring.
Not that General Barrett has attempted to stray along political paths, He is too old a campaigner for that irrelevancy 10 Khaki; besides, in the political sense he has been an observer—- acute be it granted—and nothing more. He has however earned the esteem of his civil colleagues who could say of him as privately they would declare they could not always say of soldiers in his position, that he has never given them "a moment's uneasiness."
In bidding him ax revoir a special word of thanks will given to him for permitting Shanghai to get to know Mrs. Barrett, whose hospitality and charming presence have rendered. service to the come It is hoped that Shanghai will remain not the least fragrant memory of many which she now has of the East, By a coincidence the same transport takes back to "blighty" that very fine battalion which' has just been relieved by the 2nd Scots Fusiliers. Colonel Faviell and his men are really going: to England, Zneit long foreign service £ for the moment ended.
They have—like their successors—tasted much of the joys "of India, Here in Shanghai they have probably missed the freedom of Cantonments, ° the wide open' spaces, as the' film (Continued on Page 47.).°-.
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