The Archive · 1939

Departing Commander

International Guard of Honour on Saturday Major-General APD. Telfer-

Smollett, c, ns0, M.c, on completion of hís command of the British Military Forces in Shanghai, will make his official departure from on February 11. A parade Guards of Honour from the various Race Course at 1130 am. on February 11. Major-General Telfer-Smollett will pass down the line of and will make his departure by motor car.

"Accommodation will be reserved on "parade ground for all friends may wish to bid him goodbye.

requested that hose intending Pirvaent et the parade should LO "Race Course by the Lung-Gate and that they will arrive 1.15 am. Arangements will be for parking cars. No cars will permitted to enter the Lungfei Gate after 11.20 am. the rare experience of seeing wealthy people contribute largely to our work."

Brigadier Morris described the educational work the Army was doing for children for whom mat-sheds had been built, where they and older people are given lessons in the phonetic script, which is the simplest method of learning their language.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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