By "Tur Squme"
The hunt held on Jan. 16 was a memorable one, To begin with it inaugurated the seventy-fifth year of paperhunting—a record of unbroken sport that few clubs in Shanghai can beat. The Master, in laying his tenth consecutive first hunt of the season's. established a record in his term Mastership "that has. never been equalled "in the whole history Faperhunting. Moreover. his ten years have been the most. critical in all the history of the Club. He laid paper assisted by: Major General Tel-for Smollett and one must pay tribute to the latter's untiring efforts thisseason, a it is due to his help that paperhunting has been made possible. Constantly in touch with the Japan-jose authorities, he succeeded in ob-{taining their permission to hunt over the territory under their control, and yesterday's hunt went off without Long before 10.45 am. the hour "which the meet "was "called, huge crowd had collected at the Columbia Riding School. and when Herbert Spence, who was in charge of the hunt, called on riders to mount and the field moved off, it was seen that there were well over a hundred riders, many of them mounted on ponies that" have made paperhunt history in recent years. I don't know whether a hunt in Shanghai has ever wheen held on a Sunday before, but the idea of a morning hunt' had certainly caught on and all the world and his' wife seemed to be there.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.