Great War Veterans' dinner And Smoking Concert Armistice Day celebrations were held at the various British clubs in the city, these being marked by the attendance of distinguished visitors, including members of the diplomatic body, and naval and military officers, all of whom were attired in full-dress uniforms, A large number of people attended the reception at the Zero Club at noon yesterday. The Club room, with its many souvenirs of war-time service and British naval and army activities in Shanghai, together with the overflow room, was "crowded.
Brigadier-General E, B. Macnaghten, President of the Club, proposed the toast to "The Ladies.
At 1230 there was a brief core-many at the Shanghai Club when Mr, E. E. Parsons, the Chairman, placed the Club's wreath on the war memorial in the hall The band of H.M.S. Birmingham played a selcction of music during the tiffin hour.
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