Nov, 30.
Scots in Shanghai to-day celebrate their national Saint's day with due regard to the claims of the moment. Hospitality yidds to} charity. Instead of subscribing to the annual ball, members of the St. Andrew's Society are' being invited to strengthen the funds for] meeting the acute distress now afflicting s0 many of the community in Shanghai. The President, in a public announcement the other day, made a thoughtful reference to this problem. which is complicated by the urgent need for repatriating Scots for whom the vicissitudes of this autumn's disaster have rendered life in Shanghai no longer practicable. There is no doubt that the national societies have more than they can conveniently handle in dealing with these cases for repatriation and it is clear that the burden should be lightened for them by some substantial assistance from elsewhere. Mr.
W. B, O. Middleton's suggestion that he and his brother-Presidents should confer on the subject is no doubt being considered and their' Joint representations will be seriously considered by the competent British authorities. In saluting Scotland's patron Saint the members of the other British communities here may well seize the occasion to take inspira from the virtues which he so happily culated by. his example. A great traveller, a pioneer with the forerunner of Him whom he closely followed as Master, St. Andrew, by the name which he bore; typified the qualities
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