Father Jacquinot Appeals for Help in Operating Medical Nantao Zone The Rev. Father Jacquinot was guest of honour at the annual dinner of the Oxford and Cambridge Society last night in the Cathay Mansions, which was attended by between fifty and sixty members of the society In the absence of the president, Dr. Wu Lien-teh, Mr. W. H. Lock took the chair, introducing the guest of honour. Before Father Jacquinot replied, the meeting listened in to the broadcast of the boat race from London, provided through the courtesy of Messrs, Moutrie & Ca. w.c also supplied a mechanic who manipulated the huge radio they had lent.
In introducing Father Jacquinot Mr, Locke apologised for the British habit, as described by Bernard Sha of inviting a great man and then "eating mutton chops with him in 3 stuffy atmosphere." He outlined some of the work Father Jacquinot and his committee have been doing in the Nantao Zone, and ended by paying a tribute to the work of the Jesuits in China, who were here before the first business man had thought of making contacts in this part of the world. Shipping people. he said, in all parts of China owe a daily debt to the information whic! is supplied to them by the Siccawe: Observatory, an observatory founded in memory of the first Chinese mem-Ver of the order.
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