When Steamer was Sunk Mr, Orchard Dixon, 21 year-old former Cathedral School boy and son of Mr. C. D. Dixon, Tientsin branch manager of Mackenzie & Ca, was among the British prisoners on board the Admiral Graf Spee and is now in "Montevideo, according to a cable received by Mr. F. W. Poate, Managing Director of Mackenzie & Ca., yesterday morning.
Mr. Orchard Dixon left Shanghat Some years ago, together with his twin brother Mr, Martin Dixon. Both were in New Zealand when the war broke out and while Martin is serving in the New Zealand land forces, Orchard decided to leave for England io join up. He was working his way home as a cabin-boy when the steamer on which he was travelling was sunk by the German pocket-battleship. Together with all the other members of the crew, he was made a prisoner and had it not been for the British naval attack on the German warship, he would probably have et a prisoner of war for the di ion.
Another Dixon brother, Mr. Herbert Dixon who left Shanghai three years lage to join the Royal Air Force, is now a Flying-Officer "somewhere in England."
The cable received from Orchard, who still has many friends here, does Bot reveal when he is proceeding to England but it was presumed by those who know him that somehow he would find ways and means to reach Great Britain with a view to offering his services.
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