'The British community of Shanghai have occasion to be proud of a modest financial' effort which Fesulted in the completion of the British military cemetery at Laoshan, outside Tsingtao, where the men of the South "Wales Borderers who were killed in the investment" of 'Tsingtao in 1914 are buried. This tiny cemetery, one of the smallest and most distant of British war cemeteries, created on the site of the field hospital during the apers tions, suffered from the depredations' of marauding villagers owing to the incomplete state of the wall, but as a result of an appeal Iaunch= ed by the "North-China Daily News" suflelent funds were raised by British ex-service and national societies to complete it and make it secure against further inroads, The sum of $725, was donated by the United Services' Association, St.. Andrew's Society, St. David's Society, St. George's Society, and St. Patrick's Society, with "an anonymous donation of $5, and in addition toa complete wall a watchman's hut has been erected opposite the gates which were a gift of the Shanghai Race Club. It is interesting to lear from Tsingtao that the completion of the project, which makes "Forever England," that magnificent sentiment of war-time sacrifice coined by Rupert Brooke, a hallowed symbol of reality st the Shantung Port, was marked by an inspection ceremony in which Chinese official patronage and support was accorded by the presence of. Admiral Shen Hungelich, Mayor of Tsingtao, and his secretary, Mr. Andrew "Young. Others present included Mr. Handley-Derry, the British Consul General, and British who have keenly identiged selves with the scheme.
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