Donald, Sir Edward Marsh must obviously' be a man of exceptional gifts of experience and knowledge, But the Civil Service does not exhaust his capacity for taking pains. In making 8 farewell presentation to him at the Dominions" Office Inst "month, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, waxed eloquent on that point. He' revealed that a "multitude "of actresses" never "breathed the words 'Eddie Marsh' without adding the epithet "divine creature'. For himself Mr. -Mac= Donald added: very, Cabinet, MUnister had the honour "at Bolum "oe. the' the Duke of Marlborourh Evidently it must have been not 50 much a question of which private secretary the Cabinet Minister wanted as which Cabinet Minister was fortunate enough to be allotted to such a "divine creature." "Other nooks Whitehall may murmur that some may steal a horse but others may not ook over the wall. near Chungking have been going through active manoeuvres lately, in= cluding target practice and' sham bat-les, which appear to have aroused some unnecessary apprehension. To relieve the anxiety of the local optilace, orders have been issued by the commanding oMfeer of the troops Chungking that no {urther night manauvres are to be held for tire being.
Hoxckoxe will shortly lose another of its" well-known business heads, in the person of Mr. R. Kennedy, manager of the Hongkong branch of the Mercantile Bank. Mr. Kennedy's place will be Mr. D. Benson, former manager of the Penang branch, who has a record of seventeen years' service with the bank in Malaya, who arrived at Hongkong in the s. Naldera. Mr. and Mrs, Benson have been on leave at Worthing, where their two boys are at school. Mr. Benson is a keen follower of the hunt and a polo player.
The "East Anglian Magazine monthly devoted to. the record of, East Anglian folk-lore, sport, archaeology and personalities, has in its February issue in con: tinuation" of a series entitled "East Anglian" abroad a _photograph "and appreciation of the career of Mr. H.-H. Read who was born in 1963) at Thorndon in Suffolk of Suffolk stock and is described as "a real Suffolk man" although, as Shanghai knows, he came fo China in 1882, transferring his activities "to Shanghat in 1801. Special reference is made in the article to Mr. Read's valuable con-{tribution to the comfort of the troops in the field during the War by being. secretary of the Shanghai organiza-lon which sent no less than 9,220 Japanese fy-traps to Salonika and Mesopotamia, much to the gratifice-Yon of the respective Commanders.
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