The British community Shanghai will be deprived by the weather of the privilege of seeing His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces celebrating, by ceremonial of historic dignity, this anniversary of King George vice as a man. To-day it is felt that he comes face to face with people in receiving those homely congratulations which jate daily being given, somewhere or other, to someone or other in every home, on the attainment of another year of I A birth.
never quite loses the fragrant air of the nursery with its gifts and its little acts of obeisance to the central figure of the day. No-one is ever too old to despise the treat, the clasp of the hand, the embrace or the. {token presented to mark the birth-
Vs birth at Marlborough House a That is why the loyal cry 67 years ago. They will have to this morning is "God Save the be content with imagining the King" but it is overshadowed scene on the Horse Guards for once by the more general Parade where, under the eyes of, Many Happy Returns the Admiralty, beneath the back-to Your Majesty. windows of Downing Street and within sight of the Foreign and India Offices, the Guards troop the Colour and the King, in
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