This Japanese motor car is having a bad time trying to pass along this road in Anhwei province owing to the mud and the badly-used road. The motor truck is doing its best to tow the car out of trouble, The Shanghai Fire Brigade Mess were hosts yesterday at noon in the Fire Brigade Club, Honan Road, to Capt. J. Gordon Dyson, Chief Officer of the Brigade, who is going Home on leave in the s, Carthage on Tues-The function was attended by a large proportion of the foreign officers of the Brigade, including representatives of Headquarters, Stations, Inspection Branch and Workshops, and of the Volunteer Reserve.
Capt, H. G. Reed, Deputy Chief Officer' and President of the Fire Brigade Mess in turning to Capt. Dyson, spoke as follows:—^As you proceed on long leave we take this opportunity of wishing you a very pleasant holiday in the Homeland. We trust the trip home will be an enjoyable one and that you will return in the autumn greatly benefitted by the change.
"With the small gifs that have already been handed to you go the best of wishes of all members of the Mess,
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