With due but quite informa) ceremony, Shanghai bade farewell to Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Simms on Tuesday morning before they went down the river on the Alexandra—specjally placed at their disposal—to go on board the Karmala. There was a large and representative gathering on the Customs Jetty, including Mr. W. P. Lambe, acting: Chairman of the Municipal Council, and Mrs. Lambe, Mr. G. A. Moss, H. M. acting Consul-G-neral, Commander G. de' Rossi, Senior Consul, and Mme de' Rossi, Mr.
K. Chen, chief secretary of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Pearce, Mr. K. J. Me-Euen, Commissionsr of Police, and a number of senior members of the Force, Mr. F. Goodale, Municipal Treasurer, and Mrs. Goodale, Mr. C. Harpur, Commissioner of Works, and_ Mrs. Harpur, Mr. E. S. Benbow Rowe, acting Secretary of the Municipal Council, and Mrs. Benbow Rowe, Maestro Paci, Mr. M. W. Pett and Mr. J. G. Dyson, Shanghai Fire Brigade, and a_ very large number of other friends. Mrs. Simms was the recipient of many beautiful floral gifts, among them a basket of flowers presented by Mrs. O. M. Green, the new Acting Chairman of the British Women's Association, on behalf of the Executive Committee. When the tender, which was decorated with bunting, moved off from the jetty, Mr. and Mrs. Simms were given a very hearty send off.
Tur "Shanghai Tribune'? states that trenches are being dug in the vicinity of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway near Soochow. Considerable alarm has been. created among the farmers of the district, who cannot be persuaded that civil war will not break out in the province. Another newspaper reports the purchase at S! i by the Nanking authorities of 3,000 shells, which reached the provincial capital on Sunday.
A deputation of the St. Patrick's Society headed by Mr. J. J. Dunne, Vice-President, in the absence of Mr. R. B. Moorhead, President, bade farewell to Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Simms at jetty. A letter by the Hon.
'y_on behalf of the Society to Mrs. Simms thanking her and her husband for their great kindness to all Irishmen, North and South, was read by Mr. H. Wilkinson. Mr. Simms, on rejoining the Society, has been made a life member.
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