The ashes of the late Mr. Gilbert Ashford, formerly of the British Cigarette Company, Ltd., Poo tung, were placed in Bubbling Well Genietery Chapel on Sept. the ceremony being strictly private with no flowers, in accord-Ance with the wishes of the deceas-fed. The late Mr. Ashford, who ied on September i, following a serious operation, had been in the employ of the British Company, Ltd. for years, ten years being spent in Hankow, and he and Mrs, Ashford had resided in Shanghai since 1929.
'Although physically unable to take part in strenuous sports, Mr. Ashford was a keen huntsman. He was a native of Exeter, England, and served in the Great War, where he was' gassed and never fully vecovered from the effec. He leaves
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