Chu Pao-san, a representative gathering being present-he guests having been entertained to tea, Mr. H.'E. Arnhold, in a few well-chosen words, initroduced M. de la Prade, the acting French Consul-General, and cxplained in short the objects. for which they were gathered together. The object, he said, was to raise funds for the repatriation of Russian refugees. This was for the benefit of not only the Russians themselves, but for +he general public, who, he trusted, would give the scheme their supper:
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