It is not so many years since Sir Charles, then Mr. Addis, left the Far East to become manager of the London office of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bunk that there will not be many friends left here to welcome him and Lady Addis. Sir Charles Addis is, if it may be permitted to say 80, and of the products of British finance in the Far East of which it may well be proud, and the knighthood conferred on bim in 1913 as well as his subsequent appointment as a Director of the Bank of England was no less a. tribute to himself than a recognition of the importance of the Far Eastern money market and the necessity to the Bank of England of having an exchange expert in its councils. Sir Charles Addis's present visit is, we believe. in the nature of a busman's holiday: it may certainly be taken as an, indication that the primacy of London in the world's money markets is not' yet wholly a thing of the past. In other directions, it may be hoped that some opportunity will be that he will kindly accept it) of afforded Sir Charles Addis (and
feretina things that he has been ving in public some of the very saying at Hongkong and on Monday at the British Chamber of Com-morea lunch. There is room for new ideas in the Far East, where we are becoming rather like squirrels running round and round in the vicious circle of a caged wheel.
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