Veteran Shipping Official Leaving After 42 Years in Far East: His Reminiscences popular shipping oMcials on the China Cone of the est known and most Geast, Mr. Perey Alexander Cox, for 42 years on the staff of the P. & O. and the Canadian Pacific in the Far East sailed on Priday from Shanghai for perhaps tke last time, and by a roundabout route that "will lead to Hawaii, the South Sea Islands, and New Zealand, will return to England where he will make his home, He cheerfully confesses that Tis round-bout way of going home is to see how people on the other side of the world tive.
Mfr. Cox lis spent 42 of his 65 years Jon the China Coast, the only interruption being four years service in the Great War. He was born, raised, and educated in England, starting to work for the P. & O. in his latter teens, Tu January, 1894 he came to the Far Enst for the frst time, working for the for twenty years before he transferred to the Canadian Pacific.
His stay wits the Canadian Line whet: he joined in 1914 was interrupt-by the war, Though 44 years of age ft the time, be enlisted with the) $5: Elghtt: Black Watch. For three years hho fought in the trenches, and in 1010 as wounded while engaged in the Ypres Salient, Ho concluded the war as group commander of a labour Dattation, and at the end of the con ict was retired with te rank of Lieutenant-colonel,
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