Extract from the "Hongkong Daily Press" of
the 7th. February,
1911.
THE LATE ADMIRAL GUALER'S
FUNERAL.
A MESSAGS FROM THE EMPEROR WILLIAM.
Yesterday afternoon, at 3.30, Captain Kraft, Commanding the German Craiser Squad- ron, and Staff called on H.E. the Gorernor to convey a message from His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany,
Captain Kraftspeke as follows:-"By cabled order of His Imperial Majesty the German Emperor. I have to express His Imperial thauks to your Excellency for your grand arrangements in connection with Admiral Gabler's funeral, for your great sympathy shown to him and for your attoudance at the funeral with all the
Officials and the Military Forces of the British Colony of Hongkong."
His Excellency replied that the Colony would deeply appreciate His Imperial Majesty's gracious message, for which he expressed his profound thanks, The expressions of sympathy to which His Imperial Majesty had alluded were no marely outward form, but were dictated by the real and sincere grief that the death of the Admiral had occasioned throughout the whole community.
H. E. Major-General Anderson and Staff and Mr. Clementi were also present at Gorerumsot House.
On Saturday, 4th Justant, prior to receiving His Imperial Majesty's instructions, Captain Kraft called on H. E. the Governor, the Admiral Commanding-in-Chief, the Genera Offcar Commanding the Forces in South China, the leading Officials and the Caplains of British Foreign Warships in harbour to ex- press, on behalf of himself and his officers, his sincere thanks for their sympathy and for their attendance at Admiral Gubler's funeral,
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