t wing message to, the 2 G. Fleming has sent} "North-China Daily the death of Col. Hooker:—"His sudden death has left me numb and, any wav, I coald never find words to express adequately what I feel about him or to do his memory justice, Dick Hooker was one of the best friends I have ever had, or that any man could wish for." Tt was easy to be friends with him, for he was a man of such a simple, straightforward character, and there were no frills about" him. He was the soul of loyalty in his friendship. "*No man could have cooperated more closely and whole-heartedly than he done for the last two years. war generous to a fouls. Widely travelled and rich in experience, he possessed an inexhaustible him.even in the most. trying -moments. In spite of his illness last summer, he never lost that buoyant cheerfulness which was ong of La chief characteristics and the one, possibly, by wh he will be best remembered in Shanghai.
"To know him was to love him and we of the British Army in Shanghai feel that we have be greatly privileged in meeting, almost duily, such a man as Dick Hooke:
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