London, July 23.
At the Admiralty yesterday, Sir /Bede Clifford, Governor of Mauritius, handed to Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, a. silver: [cigarette box presented to the wardroom of IMS. Mauritius by the, people of that colony.
The box contained two cheques, one Jor £11,000 for the purchase of a seaplane for the ship, and the second of £150,000 as a gift to the British Government for the prosecution of Sir Bede Clifford said that a good Jpart of the money had been given by people ut French descent, who were unshaken in their loyalty to the Allied cause—Reuter.
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