Zero Club Meets for Annual Dinner at Shanghai Club On the evening of February 5 Brigadier-General E. B, Macnoghfen, presiding ut the Shanghai Club over a record gathering some authority put the number at 105—of the members of the Zero Club and their guests "in. annual dinner array, admitted that he would to harp on old strings, perhaps tell old stories, He also confessed that he was impenitent for the traditions of the Club and the memories which It enshrined - made the telling of old stories of their common" experience the Atting tribute to the evening's reunion. The Zero Club was unlike all other clubs:
that it did not hang together on provincial nssoctations, university' membership and the ko. It had no old school tes; It hud! the simple tle of comradeship in the horror and blood and self-sacrifice of those by-tone four years, In that spirit the Club saluted its Navy as repre-chairman's right, the Army as represented by Brigadier A. P. D, TelferSmollett—'all that "a Brigadier should be" interjected the chiot host and Mr, W. J, Monk the Shanghai Club's present' "Chairman of Com~ mittee, without whose countenance the, Zero, Club's hospitality would ose Its lustre, dri discussing the Army the company were also asked to welcome LtCol, J, B. Hume and officers of the 2nd. Baitalion, the Loyal Regiment they aid in the ust to the men of the Loyals for their soldierly bearing in the streets of Shanghai The speech was well received and the" General's" reminiscences into which the full Aavour of campagna Ing and of course the full-blooded figure of "Hunter Bunter" duly Intrudéd, were so acceptable that the aforesaid impenitent mood was more than pardoned—it set the company purring.
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