_The annual general meeting of the United Services Association was held on Monday at the Masonic Hall, Col. R. Marr Johnson, ¢.M.c., D.S.0., presiding, supported b; Capt. H. J. West, Capt. Budgen, Dr. E. G. Gauntlet, Messrs. J. C. Bosustow, A. S, Campbell, V. D. K. Craddock, C. Houghton and E. H. McMichael (committee) and about 100 members.
The Chairman said that during the past year business depression in Shanghai had resulted in very heavy calls on the funds of the Association. A large number of cases were those of men whom it was very difficult fo help satisfactorily, and the Committee's task had been no easy one. The policy of the Committee had been to make no grant or loan except after careful inquiry into all the circumstances of the case and no deserve ing case failed to find help from the Association They had receiv-
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