A very interesting event took place at the Union Club last Friday when there was a gathering o: the foreigners in Shanghai who were taken captives by the bandits at Lincheng on May 6 last, Mr. Wen Shih-tsen, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs and Superintendent of Customs at Nanking, Mr. Roy Anderson, the American journalist, Mr. Carl Crow, director of the American Relisf Mission, and Dr. H. Mertens, the German physician who went to Paotzeku to treat Comm. G. D. Musso, the Italian lawyer who was one of the captives, were to have been the guests of honour, Mr. Wen was unavoidably delayed at Nanking and was unable to attend the tiffin party, Mr. Anderson was also unable to. be present.
Later in the afternoon, however, when Mr. Wen arrived Mr. J. B. Powell, on behalf of his former fellow-prisoners, presented bini with a beautiful picture carved in silver, with a handsome frame. The picture was that of Paotzeku and its surroundings and was produced with a much admired effect. Mr. Wen's photo, together with that of Mr. Anderson, in half tone, was attached to the picture. Mr. Powell, in presenting the picture, expressed the heartfelt gratitude of himself and his fellow prisoners, and asked Mr. Wen to accept it as a souvenir of their bandit days. The words carved on the silver, below the picture of Paotzeku and between and below the photos, follow
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