Whitney, acting Chairman, at the annual meeting of the Association held at 12 The Bund yesterday afternoon.
Among those present was Mrs, Herbert Phillips, wife of E. M. Consul-General, who arrived in Shanghai on Monday but immediately consented to become Hon. President in order to attend.
Mrs. Whitney said the executive committee met for the last time before the summer recess on June 23 and members made their own plans for the holidays, those leaving before August 13 being among the fortunate. "You all know what happened on that day and the day following—they will remain occasions never to be forgotten in the mind of any person who was in this tormented city. The British authorities decided to fake the step of evacuating the vast majority of British women and children, and between August 17 and August 24, about 3,500 had been taken away. Among those who were obliged to leave Shanghai were our Acting Chairman at that time, Mrs. Brooke, and our Secretary, Mrs. Colter, Before leaving on August 25 Mrs. Brooke had ascertained that I should be prepared to carry on and had notified the Consulate of this fact, The great majority of the Executive Bourd were either away from Shanghai or compelled to leave.
"Under the exceptional circumstances obtaining on the Bund, the rooms at Headquarters were closed on August 16, for some days, We were not alone in this, since the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank re moved their banking operations out West in common with most other banks,
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