is Greatly Valued Friendships with the Chinese and His Instructions to Play the Game with: China think there is no giving away of official secrets when I tell you that part of my instructions, when I left London for China, were to preserve an absolute neutrality; to try and play the game with Chinas and to try and get to know tHe nese, With your help, I hope to do that' as I have tried in the past."
These words were uttered by Major-General A, Es Wardrop, Officer "Commanding the Forces in North China, on Tuesday at a tiffin given the General's honour at the Union Club, over which Mr. J. Lil. Lee, the president, presided, There were present among others Mr, Brodie A. Clarke, Brig.-Gen, MacNaghten, Mr. I. W. Maze, Capt, E. I. M, Barrett, Mr. Ranald G. MacDonald, Mr, Chang Nieh-yun, Dr, Loo Hsing-yuan, Mr. 8. 8. Fung, Mr. L. T. Yuan, Mr. Tsuyee Pei, Mr, R. T. Bryan, Mr. 'V: G. Lyman, Mr. J. H. Brett, Mr.
A, Fitch, Col. Mf, H. Logan, Sir Victor Sassoon, Mr. G. W. Shepard, Mr. C. Harpur, "My. Chun Shat-kai, Mr. Chun Bing-him, Mr. Yang Moy-nam and more than 70 other members and their guests, Tribute to Gen, Wardrop Gen, Wardrop, who was in uriis form, was introduced by the chairman, Mr. Lee, who, in the course of his address, said:—
"Gen, Wardrop and gentlemen T am sure that we are all greatly pleased to-day in being able to meet our honoured guest, Major-General Wardrop, in this Union Club of China, T understand our guest well-known as & sportsman, besides Being a very capable army officer, Inasmuch as he. is a man of the world, I am sure that we shall not be. very far wrong in presuming that he is in perfect sympathy with the object of thie international including persons other than of Chinese, British and nationality, Your committee have now completed the rules and regulations of the Club and these, after approval at the general meeting, will be distributed to' ditferent organizations and also forwarded to members.
"T trust that, during Mafor-General Wardrop's' stay in Shanghai, he will endeavour to arouse amongst his friends an interest in this Club.
Meanti have the greatest of Pleasure in announcing the fact that Major-General Wardrop has been elected an honorary member of the Union Club of China and would be grateful to him if he would be kind enough to give us his advice and favour us with any suggestions he may have from time to time so as to further the in-forests of our members, Gentlemen,.I now have pleasure in asking Major-General Wardrop to say a few words to you." (Applause),
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.