Mr. Erie Rice, Travelling Sceret= ary of the Over-Seas League, left Shanghai on Tuesday by P. & 0. Khiva for Singapore, During his fortnight's visit to Shanghai on behalf of the League, whose Far Eustern membership has increased by some thousands of recent years, Mr. Rice has developed local interest in its activities and enrolled about 200 new—members—British subjects in Shanghai, Brig. General Macnaghten has consented to act as chairman of the Committee and Mr. I. V. Mekoen, manager of Messrs. Thos, Cook Son, as secretary. The other mem-bors are Mrs, Harold Inwine, Lieut-Col T.-M." Cosprave (Canadian, Trade Commissioner), Paymr. Commander J. M. L. Cusack, (British Naval Officer), Mr. F. G. Helsby (P.W.D.), Mr. B.S, Frenihough, Mr. W. J. Hawkings, and Mr. Graeme D. Nicoll. These members will be glad to receive names of further applicants for membership of what is now the strongest patriotic society of the British Empire, with its own club premises in St, James's, London, and its illustrated monthly magazine. Vernon House is in fact becoming the recognized headquar= ters in London of British people home on leave from all over the world. By establishing a closer personal link among those British subjects who dwell in the farthest parts of the world, and providing mutual interests and facilities home, at the individual cost of 10 ings annally and a 10-shilling ance fee, the League aims drawing the Empire closer together cementing: a general good fel low ship among its people.
Its creed is:—"Believing the British Empire to stand for justice, freedom,' order and good govern= ment, we pledge ourselves, as citizens lof the British Commonwealth of Nations, to maintain the heritage handed down to us by our fathers."
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