GPORT and international friendship were invoked on June 7 by Mr. Norman Sparke as well associated with the toast of Sic Louis Bealo's health at the Linsi Country Club, which in 1931 had been estab shed to further those social propensities of Shanghai. Sir Louis Beale had made international friendship one of his chief aims in his enthusiastic labours here. Sport, Mr, Sparke at that moment felt, could be carried too far when it deprived the company of the attendance of two distinguished figures, Mr. O. K. Yui and Brigadier A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett, because both of them, in the search for recreation, had been temporarily defeated by that very sporting creature the China pony.
In short, riding accidents kept May and Brigadier to their couches instead of sitting round the hospitable board at the Club where the rain pattered down in mournful token of Hungjao's regret at Sir Louis Beale's departure, as Sir Victor Sassoon put it in a deft little speech at the end of the dinner.
Mr. Sparke, recalled that that day thirty-two years ago had seen his arrival in Shanghai, warned by an old-timer that he would live to regret his eagerness to disembark at Woosung. "He had not regretted a moment of it and hoped to see another thirty two years of a place which had a unique international appeal and taught its disciples that there were two sides to every question. In that setting Sit Louis Beale had specially made his mark, To him and Lady Beale they wished a happy time at Home and a speedy return in time to see the cotton and rice now coming up in the eld giving abundant crops.
Mr. Li Ming ably stepped, into the breach caused by Mr. Yul's Chin: pony and firmly endorsed Mr, Sparke' tribute to Sir Louis Beale's under~ standing and enthusiasm. After the guest had replied, Sir Victor, con~ fessing that his speech-making abililes had been atrophied by disuse in Shanghai where so many brilliant orators abounded, gracefully gave his assent to the commendation of Sir Louis Beale, but ventured to argue that Mr, Sparke had under-estimated the complexity of Chinese prob-ems: there were not two sides to every question but a thousand and it was diMeult to see the answers for the mass of alternatives. interposing themselves In between. Fin-Sir Victor reminded the gather. ing that Me, Sparke himself wa taking @ spelt of leave and sailing on the morrow, so another toast was indicated, was drunk, as Sir Louis healths had been when a body of such men has been built up T look forward confidently {to seeing China emerge as one of the cading manufacturing nations in the world.
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