Among. the names in the Coronation Honours which will prove speel-ally gratifying to Shanghai Britons and their fellow countrymen through-fut China is that of Judge Allan Mossop, upon whom has been conferred the honour of Knighthood.
Judge Mossop has had a distinguish. fed career in the service of the Brit-fish Foreign OMice, and has served all of it in China, He was born on July 30, 1887, and is an MIA. and LIB. of Pembroke Colleye, Cambridge. He was called to. the Bar atthe Inner Temple on, November 17, 1908, and hig first position In China was as acting Crown Advocate The performance was the culmination of long weeks of arduous pre aration, and the programme was taken through with faultless precision, the very carefully drawn time table being rigidly adhered to, The seiting was somewhat similar to that used for the Jubilee celebration the choice of that particular design being made with due regard to the dimensions of the arena and economy, Sharp on time a rocket roared into the sky. Brigadier APD. Telter-Smollett had arrived to take the salute of the Navy, Marines and the 2nd Bu, 'The Royal Regiment, and, after that formality, the pro= [gramme was commenced. 'There was roll of drums and a fanfare, after Which the men drawn up fu the' arena came to the salute while a salute of twenty-one guns resounded over the Race Course and echoed back from the surrounding buildings, making all the "Impressive noise so. generally associated with a Loyal rejoicing. With the last gun the whole aren was plunged in darkness, until the wandering pencils of light from the Foot of the Race Club, picked up the entrance of the castle, where were drawn up the drums of the Loyals and the pipes of the Sh {ish "The Ash Grove, "Under the Double," "Drink to me only" were in this number followed bya selection of Scottish airs. culminating with a slow march fading into the distance, Physleal Jerks
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