The annual general meeting of Patrick's Society of Shanghai held at the Palace Hotel on Wednesday, Mr. D. P. Griffith presiding.
In proposing the adoption of the report and accounts, the chairman said he felt he could not let the present occasion pass without referring to the present _deplorable state of his country, Ireland.
"Let us hope," Mr. Griffith continued, "that the time is not far distant when peace and prosperity and brotherly harmony will
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