Augmenting the increasing numer of foreim members of the Municipal Police Force who have joined up since the outbreak of the war will be another batch of officers who will be leaving in the near future, terminating a long associafion with the force here. Among them are Probationary Sergeants R. L. Bloor and W. R. Home attached io the Chengtu Road station and Foreign Sergeant L. T. Roberts of Gordon Road station, who have been with the force for the past three years.
The three officers, who came out together to join the force in 1938, were recipients of the hearty wishes 9f their colleagues in the force for their future welfare and were presented "with suitable mementos of the esteem in which they were held, at a gathering in the police canteen of the Chengtu Road station day afternoon.
P. S. Bloor was the recipient of suitably inscribed silver cigar and cigarette box, P, S. Home was presented with a big silver tray, while Sergeant Roberts received a set of Silver hair brushes with the usual inscription. The presentation was made in the presence of a number Of police officers from the Chengtu and Gordon Road stations and others, and a toast was drunk to the departing officers who are leaving Shanghai within the coming week.
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