May 10.
On an occasion like the present it is only right and fitting that we should endeavour to express the thanks of the community to members of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps for the work they are doing in our midst. While it is a very proper custom for the Municipal Council to make yearly mention of appreciation of these services, we feel that in offering an additional word we ate no more than interpreting the feelings of the community, That men, and most of them very busy men too, should be prepared to devote so much of their leisure to drill, to shooting, to the study of the peculiar tactics which conditions in Shanghai require, is evidence of fine public spirit, and that the Corps should be an international organization and yet able to carry on its work with practically an entire absence. of friction speaks still more highly for that same
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