Scolx in Shanghai started the celebration of St. Andrew's Eve proved fashion by attendance at the Union Church, where the Rev. H, Newsham preached an eloquent ser mon=the last unfortunately: whet he will devote 19° St. Andrew in Shanghal—and by the parade of the Scottish company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps. On the day. itself Scots' hospitality reigned at the French where Dr. and Ars. A. C, Bryson welcomed the guests of the St. An rew's Society to the Caledonian Bal In greeting the oMeial guests, Dr. Bryson was in happier cate than, his immediate predecessors in. offi for, when he shook the hand of the President of the Royal Society of St. George, he was performing the! faction benevolently with the Pleasing consciousness that the trophy relevant to Scotland's avn game was no longer in Southron "hands. "That golfing victory last Sunday week must have come as balm in" Gilead to many a "depressed Scot. Nationalism, these times, has acquired 2 sinister mening but it is. pleasant to think that Great Britain can encourage it" without fear of incurring partisan ills which have 0 heavily searced modern civilization, Tt would be sad if the picturesqueness vf Seotlish customs—or Indeed of any} national customs as practised within the British Empire—fell into disreule, "There is no likelihood of that danger In Scotland or in those world wide communities where Scotsmen nurse an imaginary inferiority complex-and see that other tribes under the British flag pliantly work under Scottish supervision, with the priv!) exe of using Scottish banking genius.
The ratification of the Angto-Egyptian Treaty will mean a change inthe status of Sir Miles Lampson who will become Ambassador Egypt instead of High Commission On November:4 Sir Miles Lampsoa arrived in Cairo for the last time as British High Commissioner and he was received with the traditional cere~ many, the Guard of Honour being} mounted by the Scots Guards, with the Residency staff and the Grand! Chamberlain, representing the King} Exypl, present. A innovation, however was introduced into this ceremonial routine in recognition of the impending change. In addition the Prime Minister, Mustafa Pasha Nahas, almost every other member of the Egyptian Delegation which took part in the Treaty negotiations was present, and it is stated by the Cairo correspondent of "The Times" that the greeting by the Exyplians was more than usually cordial, A. small crowd of railway employees, which had collected on a platform close by, broke into vigorous handclapping Miles descended from his. train, ud outside the station a large crowd which is described by spondent as entirely novel. The scene indicated the cordiality which the new Treaty relationships have established between the Egyptians and their British allies.
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