Sir John Brenan said that Mr. urkili was one of the kindest. world where one had so may friends. Mr. Calder Marshall had mentioned hhis work in connection with the Chamber of Commerce. To him that work had been a great pleasure. He then referred to his firm, a short history of which he gave, and partie gularly referred to the friendships he had with Chinese, particularly Mr. Chun Bin and he felt, there fore, that, though he was not'so well acquainted with the present gener ton of Chinese, they still would find many of them staunch friends. A great deal of his firm's success) had Benn due fo the loyalty of his Chinese lends.
Ha hoped to come back to China whatever happened, he always look back on tive work of the Chamber with the greatest satisfaction. The years he had spent with the Chamber were very happy ones and he thought that in many ways the Chamber had done a great dear of good, but, if they had only kept together British merchants, and only held up British traditions of honest trading, they had accomplished much. He could only hope that the Chamber of Commerce during the ext twenty years would have the same happy years that he had spent uring the time he had been connect-fed with it,
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