In the evening ex-members of the! British Flying Services dined together at the Shanghai Club and were joined by several members of the Allied services, amongst whom were a number of French officers. Major W. E. Holland presided, Major W. R. B. McBain was in the vice-chair and there were. about 40 others present. An attractive souvenir menu card had been prepared, tied with tricolour ribbons and bearing a picture of 1916-17, showing British machines hard pressed by Germans, and of 1918-19, with a British flyer supreme and unmolested.
The toasts were: The King; Our Fajlen Comrades; the Royal Air Porce; All Allied Flying Services and Our Visitors, Dr. H. Chatley responding for the latter. The Chairman expressed a hope that the dinner-would now become an annual gathering.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.