It would appear that that objectionable term "mopping up" which we so often encounter these days into China and the local branch is Unhappily, ing to make great celebrations treatment it was revealed that for our mental patients of the anniversary in the near future suffers from lack of proper clinics It "was upon the suggestion of for dealing with such cases. and lack might be applied to our social clear-arces as well as the military ones, for the epidemic of general evacua tion seems to have spread even to inhabitants we had thought most rooted to our soi A sad break in the chain of old associations will be effected when Miss Sharp leaves for retirement in England early in June. This lady is perhaps one of our best-known inhabitants and it is over thirty years since she first commenced residence in Shanghai. Her dancing school has been one of our cultural institutions and the number of pupils who have passed through her hands must run into thousands, It was for health reasons that Miss Sharp first left England where she had previously received her dancing training according to the Wordsworth system. She came to visit her sister, Mrs. Valentine, and such was the lure of our city that here she stayed, and had it not been for present unhappy conditions here she would have rel ined for some time longer. Her only near relative in this part of the world now is her nephew, Dr. D. J. Valentine, who is in Hongkong: her niece Mrs. C. Forrest, form of Shanghai, left some time ago with hec fi N.C.DAN.- Photograph Sharp, whose school oj Dancing been an institution in Shanghai resident ie leaving shortly Jor England thirty years, This well-known
there she intends to make her Jüture home. The. B.W.A. has arranged a farewell tea to take place on June 1 at Headquarters, family to live in Victoria. In England Miss Sharp has three brothers and two sisters so that she has a strong pull towards her native land.
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