The Archive · 1940

PERSONAL NOTES

Mas. Erle Davies has left for Australia where she will join her daughter, Min. C. C. Newson returned from Tsingtao on Septembe 4 after a month's holiday, Ma, "Rennie Parr left Shanghai for Australia where he hopes enlist in His Majesty's Forces.

Int. and Mrs. Monteith Webb are sailing for America on September 10, In the s, President Coolidge, Miss Mary Jo Buchan will return fo Shanghai soon, Miss Buchan has been spending the summer in Weihatwei Mu. V. J.B, Holland left for a holiday in Japan on Sept. 6 in the Nagasaki Maru, he intends to be away about a month, Int. C. C. O'Connell has been admitted into the Country Hospital but Is progressing favourably and expects to leave within a week, 'Tue Rev. and Mrs. C, W. Allan and Miss Winifred Allen eft Shang hai on September 3 for Tsingtao, and expect "to be away' about tree AMR. and Mrs. P, Yannoulatos have returned to Shanghai after a. {wor year leave, combining pleasure and business, in Burope. They are stay ing at the Cathay Hotel, Mu. C. IL Haines, Registrar of HM.' Supreme Court returned 10 Shanghai on September 8 by the Shuntien from Weihaiwei, where hho has been vacationing, Carman R. G. W. Melsoms of the Northamptonshire Regiment. (son-inlaw of Mr, and Mrs, D. W. Crawford) whoo was missing at Dunkirk, Feported to be a prisoner of war, Ins. J. 8, Potter and her daughter Patricia, who have been spending he summer at Weihaiwei, will return tomorrow in the s, Shuntien and will be at home at 95 Amherst Avenue.

Ins, Wirt Leonard is the chairman of the society formed in Shanghai by American ladies for the purpose of sending knitted comforts fo the free French troops fighting under the banner of General de Gaulle.

Mus. J. N, Groenficld_ accompanied by her two! children, Jimmie and Rosemary, arrived on S-pt. 7 from. Weihaiwei where they Have been spending the summer. It may be recalled that it was Jimmie and Rose mary who, through a rough and choppy so, apparently with tittle thought of the danger to their own lives. went to the rescue of the two soldiers of the 2nd Bu. East Surrey Regiment, and safely brought them to shore on the July 20 last, Mu, C. C. Todd. writing from Canada a friend here says—"Canada wants Britons in the ranks as long fas they are under 45 and can pass the doctor. Whether or not they got commissions rests with their own efforts. In other words it would not seem easy to walk into a commission Straight away. It T fail to get. home I shall' come back to Canada and enlist, Gather they do not. en-fire too deeply into the question of age. Anyway Tam only 41 now and have seen dozens of men in uniform in. the strects—all rankes—with last war ribbons up?

Tue following were among the pose sengers who sailed in the s8, President Pierce on September 2: for Kobe—Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Williams, Mr, and Mrs, J. W. Matshall, "and Lieutenant J. Blais, For Yokohama Mr. and Mrs, F. F. Booth, and Mrs. E. F. Walker." For San Francisco—Miss D, Gibbings, Mrs. W. A. Palmer and her two sons, Mrs. D. E. Collins, Mr. and Mrs, B. Alpern, Mrs. C.F. Fielding, Mrs, J. F, Dreith, Mrs. Dumstery, Mrs. J, H. Jacobson, Mss Esther E Tapert, Miss Eleanor Carnahan, Lieutenant and Mrs. V, S. Robinson and daughter, It, Col. J. Arthur, It, Col. C. 1. Murray, Mr, 5S. S. Church, N. F. Brewer, C. Lacy, D, Beatty, J. Davies, Jr." For Los Angeles—Mrs. L. K, Campbell.

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