Mr. R, G. Howe who arrived at Nanking Sept.'15, in company with It-Colonel W. A. Eovat-Prascr and Int. E. Hall-Patch, seems 0 nave had an uneventful journey despite. the activities in progress In the wat zone of the ast twenty-four hours. No stranger lo war, note in this column lately indicated, Mr. Howe ight well have compared notes' with Sir /Hughe Knatehbull-Hugessen on the experiences Jot being wounded. As an oflcer of the Britih JArmy, Mr. Howe was serving with the Salonika ree and during e retreat from the Bulgarian Jarmy he was badly wounded by machine. gun fare and left behind. He lay for forty-eight tours in a temperature of some twenty-Avo degrees of frost, was picked up, conveyed 10 a Bulgarian village and' there hospitably nursed, his principal diet being mill. Within month, despite the gravity of his wound and the Jong Jexposure to terrific cold, he recovered. In due course after "the peace brought about [demobilization Mr. Howe entered the diplomatic service, Tt is this a curious coincidence. that he in his wartime experiences snd his chief the effort to avert war should be. seriously wounded by the same type of weapon, Hall-Patch, who is also a veteran of the Great War, was' very severely wounded in France where hie commanded a battery of artillery.
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