frustrated an attempt to hold a meeting in the Wen Chi University, 3 83 Weihaiwei Road, on May 9, about 40 students gathered in the Ching Hsien Girls School, Chapei, and, after listening to some speeches, pasted various resolutions, including} one that a cablegram' be sent "assuring the workers on strike in England. that they would. receive the. whole-hearted support, of the Chinese people," and another. that! subscriptions to aid the British ikers should be collected at once. So far as can be gathered, no suggestion was made to collect funds for the Chinese who still are unemployed as a consequence of being! forced out of their work a year ago at the dictation of professional agitators.
Another meeting was to have been held in the Kien Koh School, 9 Avenue Dubail, but whilst about 70 students were awaiting the! arrival of Col, Estrange Malon2, Peking correspondent of the "Daily Herald," who was to have addressed them, some French police came in and, "reminding the "students. that! they had not been given permission small group of his friends—as he subsequently remarked, not 100th part of the number' he it eud to class under that designation—assembled in the offices rs, Hopkins, Dunn & Ca. Saturday morning to drink a birthe toast to Mr. Brodie A. Clarke and to wish the veteran still longer: life and at least a continuance the robust health he now enjoys, Me. C. M. Bain said that ae, Clarke was' celebrating his 2nd birthday and he searcely needed tol remind them that Mr. Clarke had a record of public service of which he could be justly proud and of! which his friends were doubly proud. He knew from personal ex-Ferience that Mr. Clarke still was as robust as most of them, for! only a few days previously he! was playing golf with Mr, Clarke and found himself out driven at. most of the holes. Clarso was not any one man's friend, but!
was the friend of every mat The company having toasted Clarke, the latter said it possible for him to think of all that had occurred during over 60. years that he had spent in Shanzhai, but he could say now that, wherever ho might go in his do-clining years, never would he forget Shanghai. His friends in whilst this was going on, but remarked that it was no use attempt-_ ing to interfere and left the scene in company with some Chinese.
Shanghai were not the friends of weeks or months but of years and hoped all of them would live as long as he had done and at his age be as well in health as he felt that di 'Tue Shanghai Students' Union is said to have notified the different! school unions to prepare for a reception of the two student reives from Peking, whose sion is to give a report of the real facts of the shooting in Peking. distance, work is progressing so that it is hoped that many of the other cities between here and Nanking, as well as the latter place itself, will soon be on the circuit, Plans are also under way to extend the service to towns between Shanghai and Hangchow, but work has not yet started on that line.
On behalf of several Chinese gentlemen present, one of them. spoke of the respect in which they held Mr. Clarke and mentioned that} amongst Chinese he was known as "the protector of the iron trade."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.