Mr, Middleton said:
"My first duty is to welcome back Brigadier-General Macnaghten from home leave. I feel sure I am express ing the opinion of the Committee that we can always count on his co-opera tion and help. His good-natured and constructive criticisms are always day is a tribute to him Scot and to the high position he holds in His Majesty's Government. Through meeting Sir Frederick at the races, 1nd we have a common in~ Yerest In sport, T'am not sure it he will be here long enough to see, and, better still, 1 participate in our great winter sport, paper-hunting. must explain to him that, in the absence of foxes, we hunt paper over an un-Known course which is laid freely over the countryside and a number of checks are given. When the feld lets off paper, some enterprising rider finds it again'and the rule is that he must give a clear tally ho' to show he is on paper, and to allow the riders to get together and away on equal terms. There are creeks to wade, jumps both large and small to negotiate, eventually to find the field racing madly to finish over a water Ailed jump. There are lots of spills, seldom serious, and the winner presented with a highly-prized silver yesterday. He plans to stay Shanghai for about a fortnight, less a ing with the one disappointment of three days' dying visit to Nanking, possibly receiving a paper maché cup for which city he is to leave on Tues {in place of a silver one. Well, it day night. never was really pure silver."
From here, he will go on to Horig-Sir Frederick's Reply eng, and, after side calls to Canton Sir Frederick Leith-Ross was not and Swatow, thence to Singapore, slow to take his cue and insisted thi Java, where he will stay for a week really he was a "man of few words.
the Netherlands missions, and With all the pride of the "land Ceylon, Three months of work in cakes," he proclaimed that there was India will follow this, and, with a nothing that gave a Scotsman greater short stay in Egypt, he hopes to be Pleasure, or conferred on him a able to return to England about the Creator honour, than to meet an as-middle of April. sembly of his fellow-countrymen in the far corners of the earth. It had Gathering Planned for 1938 been his luck to be born about as far 'The purpose of his visit, he said, is away from Scotland as was China, two-fold. Primarily, it is for him' to in Mauritius, but he thought the com-meet the leaders of the Christian pany would agree with him that such movement and missionaries, and to a happening was not his fault, and confer with them regarding the pro-he made what amends he could' later gress of mission work. But also, he by being brought up in Buchan. It Seid, it had been decided to hold a was the fortune of his birth that his world Christian gathering in Hong-father, like many other Scots, was kong-Kowloon in October, 1938, to engaged abroad in banking. Indeed, which some 400 people were expected it had been said of the Scots. that, to attend. He was, therefore, engaged when they failed at everything else, in establishing contacts, as it was they took to banking. For his own, hoped that delegates would arrive part, he thought it was safe to boast from Japan, Korea, China, Java, Indi that! Scots, in whatever they were ffsea, "Latin "America, "the South enenged, whether it-was banking as, trid from mission branches in banditry, always seemed to succeed. North Americ, Europe, Great Briain Apa rom ether considerations, the and the Dominions "Tue Rev: Mr, Beton has had a great meeting between Sir Frodeney ard in brought about an. interesting
deal of experience in the work, in Gore Dao, peste ies pobable Which his university, be held the post of the evge J bakerite'
he is engaged. After leaving tore are very few in the Far East
Earistian SMovessnt of Great Brin ofthe any thie er Tout onthe China Coast able to boast of having been a tem years. Prom 1921 to 1801 oe wor Master' in sail, used to call out ste of the Navona Cavatin MMU Council of India, and since the latter pored motes, it was found that Sir and) when the td come Aste, has been aceresary ofthe TELGE FEGeHI was a very Lie bay at the and' editor of the "International Review of Missions."
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