'Towards breakfast-time, speeches still were being made simultaneously a half-dozen different places, toasts qualfed, reels danced, the pipers were playing retreats, gather-ngs, and anything else that came Into' their heads, and for a half mile around could be heard the Joyous "hoochs" of a hundred Scottish revellers. Members of other units cheerfully agreed that on this occasion the Shanghai Scottish certainly made S.V.C. history, whilst visiting Regular officer remarked: "It is obvious this is one unit that never can be—disbanded." With the guests and past and present members, altogether 180 sat down to dinner, and toasts began with the soup.
The official guests were:
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