To-day tald the serious distractions of sott of war, to tse the famous expression, it is necessary to take note of the severance of an important social ink. with Shanghai, In other words Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Bain are sailing for Durban and it is probable that they may not return to China. For forty years Mr. Bain has been an. active member of the British com= munity in Shanghai. For seventeen years. was Chairman of the Lester Chinese Hospital He founded the Shangha Scottish and members fof that distinguished unit will remember the occasion four years ago, Mr" Ranald MeDonald being President of the St. Andrew's Society, when Sergeant \C. Mf. Bain. received the Long Service Medal at the hands the Chairman of the "Council and Mr. [MeDonald appreciatively referred "to the fact "that the "newly-decorated N.CO. had reached his sixtieth birthday and could be held the eldest statesman of the St Andrew's Society. "As a matter of fact Mr. Bain is the the compound of Top rumpled by explosion and the one in right
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