the nature of labour. It was merely one of his hobbies. However that may be, there will be general satisfaction "that their Lordships have, at the impressive instigation of the Commander-in-Chief of the British China Fleet, decided to honour the victim of that hobby, Mr. Wilkinson, as Secretary and 'Treasurer of the Navy League, 'Shanghai Branch, and of the Union Jack Club which is the League' most important activity here, has gone about his hobby for ten years in an unobtrusive spirit of efflciency. His enthusiasm has never Permitted him to make it an strument for seeking public acclaim. His chief aim has been to see that the Union Jack Club does the job designed for it—the provi-
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