Of all the events in the programme that marked Marshal Joffre's: visit to Shanghai undoubtedly the most popular with the general public and certainly one of the best arranged was the review of the §.V.C. on the Bund on Saturday. Beyond that, one can endeavour to interpret the thoughts of the veteran soldier himself and suggest that he thought almost more of it than of the various other functions he attended. On Friday night, when he dined with the War veterans, there was a proud light in his eye and a never relaxing smile on his face showing that he felt he was amongst his own, and there was the same look about him on Saturday.
For the Volunteers one can say that for 10 years at least they have never done anything better, though perhaps some old hand has pleasant recollections of a prender occasion in bygone days of long ago. For two hours before the time set for the march past people were thronging to the Bund, crowding to every vantage point offered by the buildings and the rest formed into two solid banks, half-a-dozen
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