Shanghai's Welsh community, in common with other Welsh communities.scattered throughout the world, on Wednesday celebrated St. David's Day in traditional style. Although the Welsh community in Shanghai is not a large one this did not detract from the magnificence of the celebrations, chief among which was the annual St. David's Day ball and banquet, held at the Cercle Sportif Francais under the auspices of St. David's Society of Shanghai. Earlier in the day there had been the annual wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph.
The wreath showed the Red Dragon were sounded at the Cenotaph a The "Last Post" and "Reveille" of Wales surrounded by the Welsh where a wreath was laid in memory national flower, the daffodil. of Shanghai Welshmen who died in the Great War.
Sir Herbert Phillips, K.c.M.c., O.B.E., and Major Bassett.
At the banquet and ball: Mr. A. H. Hopkyn Rees (Past President of St. David's Society), Mrs. Hopkyn Rees, Bishop and mrs. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. P. Walker. c a At the banquet and ball: Mr. A. H. George, c.m.c., Mrs. Lancelot Giles, Mr. V. St. J. Killery, Mr. M. T. Stewart (Canadian Trade Commissioner).
Mr. J. A. Bonnyman dancing with
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