The Archive · 1933

Early Days

The Company was commanded at its inauguration by the late Capt. E.D. Saunders, of the Hongkong janghai Bank, with Lieut, C. H.

Hay, of the Union Insurance Society of Hongkong, as his Subaltern, In. 1905 Capt." Saunders. resigned and Lieut Hay left the under' Sergt. Rei joskin, Thi, exper appears 10 have been shared by several units

Survived it, Some months, Tater.

'Corps im past days but, they Capt. GE, Stewart, formerly 0. C. "AP Company, was' posted to the command and Mr. Gaskin was, come missioned 2nd Lieutenant. There were other changes in the officers ud in T8IT the Captaincy was given torr, Gaskin, seo had been with the unit from the start. 3e carried on the arduous duties until 1920 and the unit was maintained at a high state of efficiency. Mr. H. E, Middles ton was another officer who did valuable work in 1920-21 as Captain of the Company. which eventually came under the commanded of Capt, G2. Mitchell, The latter was a first-class ust ler and it might not be entirely in correct to say that he really started ion for thoroughness which ark of the Armoured In Shanghai, besides fathering, lon one of her chief informants views which he repudiates, she denies to the Russian community here any but i of respectable Apparently the wonderful industry and courage which has in the space of a few years turned the Avenue Joffre into a thoroughfare of Russian shops have entirely escaped her notice. She sees nothing beyond the Jeabarets. On hearsay evidence she attempts to sum up the levants in Shanghai last year, a!- though written records were to hand. Her mentor is one of those pests of the East who profess to tell "what has not appear-fed in print but is known to quite Jo number of responsible people".

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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