The Archive · 1935

How Shanghai Kept Jubilee Day

Other Nations Join in the Celebrations: Royal Toast Enthusiastically Honoured: Cathedral Service LIVER Jubilee Day, honouring the twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of King George V to the throne of England, was observed with all the pomp and the British community and their ceremony befitting the occasion by friends in Shanghai on Monday.

All naval warships and all British merchants ships in harbours were dressed. Flags and suitable jo emblems decorated many of the buildings along the Bund, and at the Shanghai Club, B.W.A. in the city, receptions were held and Zero Club, and the various police stations in the International Settlement marked the occasion by keeping open house.

"At eat of the varius receptions 2 toast to iis Majesty, the King, was Gun wide at noo all Brgh ware Ship in harbour, lea by HOGS. Kent Wik, Bir Frederic Dreyer, Com= Tander-in-Chief of the Staton "on Eourds manned. ship and gave tree Sheers for the King.

"There were some two hundred

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