Irwas dictum of Lord Palmerston, one of the most patriotic and common-sensible statesmen that ever filled the post of Prime Minister, that- the community that did ranks of the Volunteers filled'as they should be. The Municipal Cou: is never backward in giving its aid it would be impossible to get better staff of officers than the Corps now possesses; whatever a man's special tastes, there isa unit ready to receive him; our young men have absolutely no excuse for their apathy, not do its utmost to defend itself Employers indeed must feel that a was not worth defending. The young man who hangs back after an speech made on Wednesday evenii appeal such as that made by Mu the Chairman of the Council, Anderson and Major Keswick hes an Anderson, the full text of important element wanting in his which will be found elsewhere, seems composition. to indicate that Shanghai, and we speak of course for the Anglo-Saxon community here, is not doing its utmost for its own defence, Sir
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