"You are going home,"' continued Mr, Clarke, "to fight with Allies who have shown themselves to be in the front rank in warfare. It may be invidious for me to say much about it, but you all feel with me that the Belgians have put up a fight which will go down in the history of the world long after we have gone. I ask all of you going home, who will join different reg ments, to sink personalities and fight for the one cause. That is what you have to do. People must sink their own personalities and work for the compony, the _regiment, the battalion, the division or the brigade, wherever they may be. The war has been brought about by circumstances over which we here have no control, and it is a con-flag ration which was, I suppose, never thought of six months ago. It is a war which I hope will never happen again in the history of this world. In wishing you 'God speed' and everything that is good, we hope that you will all return to your friends in Shanghai, who will give you as hearty a welcome as they give a farewell. Shanghai may well be proud of the contingent going away, who have given up everything to fight for their homeland. It is @ grand and glorious thing that you are able to go. I only wish I was younger, but I have lived too long in Shanghai. I have
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