By @&ptain Clarke Captain W. G.-Clarke, President of St. Patrick's Society, and Mrs. Clarke, gave a farewell garden party on Sunday at 260 Route Dupleix fo Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Young, who are refiring from China early next month About 120 guests attended.
Captain Clarke, in bidding farewell io Mr. and Mrs. Young, referred to Mr. Youngs long record with the Shanghai Municipal Police and his final achievement of reaching -one of the highest ofüces.in that service In presenting Mr. Young with a silver cigarette box, suitably inscribed, from his friends in. St. Patrick's Society, and to Mrs, Young linen tea-€loths and handkerchiefs Captain Clarke wished them a happy retirement in the homeland.
Mr. Young, in reply, thanked Captain and Mrs. Clarke for their kind and generous hospitality and for the presents which would always remind them of pleasant associations in Shanghai Mr. Young referred to the earlier days of St. Patrick's Society and his enrolment when he first cam Gut to Shanghai. He also referred to prominent Britons in China of Irish birth, many of whom had unfortunately passed on.
Mrs. Young also said a few words of thanks and mentioned that she was not Irish herself but had done the next best thing in marrying an Irishman.
Mr. Young was President of St Patrick's Society a few years ago, and has been a member of the committee Eternal Triangle A man named Li Ching-kang has been arrested by the Yulin Road police and may be brought before the First Special District Court in connection with the gruesome discovery of a girl's body under the kitchen floor of a Chinese house at 23 Tung Lo Fang, Whashing Road. The arrested man is alleged to have strangled the girl, believed to be his sweetheart, to death and then buried her in he house suspecting that she was in love with another man.
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