If a vote were taken among Shr hai children for the. greatest affair ili many years it would unanimously in favour of the party given on Jboard H.M.S. Kent on the afternoon of JOct, 10, The children came ashore and were distributed among their many homes with faces beaming with delight and impressions of entertain ment and hospitality which will live Jong in their memories, As grownups were not permitted to accompany their offspring, the only accounts available are those from very youthful reporters who seem to have found the cruiser transformed into a mixture' of Hampstead Heath and Brighton on a Bank Holiday Monday for all the fun of the fair was there together with immense quantities of feo cream and cakes. The clown was also highly appreciated and his anties were exceeded in laughter-making. only by his efforts with a post office stamp, The children were highly delighted and their thanks will supported by the thanks of their parents for such an enjoyable after-oon. Somebody remarked that there always a particularly intimate bond between sailors and children for ever a childish appeal was ever refused by a sailor. In some of the situations of personal recollection in which the Navy has been called in to help the civilians in emergencies, the sailors have looked after the children better than their mothers.
such an atmosphere was Saturday's arty held and was so successful that will leave its mark on the imagina-
world, Mon of children in this part of the
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