large and representative gathering assembled at the Shanghai Club to welcome the British Round-the-World fliers at lunch. Squadron-Leader Maclaren arrived fat the Club at 12.45, accompanied by Mr, Barton, "H. M. Consul-General, and was received with cheers. ' Flight-Lieut. Plenderleith was detained, trying to repair dam age caused to the machine last night by a junk yunning into it, but he arrived at 1.40.
After lunch Mr. R. G. MacDonald, President of the Shanghai Club, proposed the health of the aviators In a few felicitous words. He men-
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