Club Held on dam. 5 at the Mest, At tiff. meeting of the Rotary
pole, Mr. G. J. Yorke, the guest of Fonéur and apeaker of the day. pave intereating account of fond velt works amoneat the guests present was" Dr. Alekhine," the" world's champion "chess player "who introduced by Mr, Tobin. Dr. Alekhine said' it" gave him rear pleasure to be present at Phe teeting, he had had the, honour of ation ding many Rotary Club meot-{ngs in Europe and he found that Rotary: was very much like chess, it waa international, "have come to the Orient," he said, "to study the old methods of playing chess, Recently I spent a week in Japan and T have come to China to study the Chinese game. Chess isn great cultural factor and if I can combine the ancient and modern forms to make it a world game, T think it will greatly help internationalism,"
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