Thomson and Mrs. J. Macbeth, direc: tors.
'The meeting was concluded by a musical programme, given by Mmes Dunlap and J. Barensprung, who en tertained the' meeting with Beethoen's "Seventh Symphony" and by fan overture by Mendelssohn, alarm rotsed by the complain fant frightened three robbers away at 935 am, yesterday when they, attempted 16 intimidate the occupy fants of 74 Tai Ping Loong, off Myburgh Road, The trio came in and ordered the inmates to. deliver all the money and valuables, but the alarm forced them to take to thing, their heels, without stealing any-
China Association Annual Meeting Shanghai, Apr. 11.
"rhe annual general meeting of the China Association (Shanghai Branch) was held In the offices of the British Chamber of Commerce yesterday evening, when Mr. LIG. W. Woodhead, the Chairman, reviewed the Eelivities of the Society during 1940, He pointed out the importance of maintaining trade in China at the present time due to the situation In Europe. Extracts from his speech follo "Sir Robert Calder Marshall has given you such a comprehensive re. lew of the activities of the Joint Committee in lis report to the Brit. fsh Chamber of Commerce, and the problems that have engaged its attention during the past year, that there remains very little for me to say, and T have no excuse for detaining you very long. The Committee of the Shanghai Branch of the China Association, as you know, sits Jointly with that'of the Chamber of Commerce, and seldom do occasions crise which call for separate mectings.
"In Shanghai we are now well into the fourth year of carrying on under war conditions, though the fiction is still maintained that no actual state of war exists between China. and Japan. Our diMiculties, serious. a they were before September, 195! have become infinitely more serious singe. And it speaks much for the Persistence and adaptability of our countrymen that, they have been able to carry on as they have done, in spite of them. I like to feel, and I know that you will share my opinion, that carrying on out here is not mere:
a selfish Interest—it fy a vital Im= enol interest. It is, moreover, very conclusive evidence of our confidence in the ultimate victory of the British Empire.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.