"Our success and efficiency were chiefly due to the help of Mr. Rose, said Ceplain 2, ¥. Chen, officer commanding the Chinese and Interpreter Companies of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, in the course of a dinner given in honour of Mr. W. T. Rose, x22, Corps Quartermaster "Sergeant of the S.V.C, in the Sun Ya Restaurant on August 5 by the officers and senior non-commissioned officers of those two presenting a silver shield: to Mr. Rose on behalf of the two Chin= ese companies, Captain Chen said that although "he was not going to relate all of the "good work Mr. Rose had done for the Corps, would like to say a few words about him, Mr, Rose's work and the Chinese company both started thirty years ago, and during that time Mr. Rose help. "He therefore took great pleasure in presenting the shield as a token of goodwill and of their great them, appreciation of all he had done for
Mr. Rose, expressing his thanks, recalled the many happy days. he had spent with the Chinese members of the Corps and praised the keen ness shown by the men when they took musketry instruction from him in the early days of the company. It was an' interesting coincidence that "the year he joined the Corps was also the year that saw the birth of the Chinese company a3 a unit of the corps. He had therefore been in position to note the growth of the Late Corps Quartermaster-Sergeant unit from infancy to its present high standard of eMiciency which, he reminded them, had been attained only through the' keenness. displayed by both past and present members of the 'A toast proposed by Captain Chen for Mr. Rose's success and happy life his' retirement, was drunk amid acclamation. Among those present were Corps Sergt.-Major H. Hatfield, Corps Qmste-Sergt. A. V. Lee (who the successor to Mr. Rose), Sergt.- Major H. W. Davies, Staff Qmst. Sergt. R. Worsley, Qmstr.-Sergt. 7.
Taylor, Mr. ©. D, Gander, and Mr. E, P. Soong.
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