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-11 b、om both quests and hosts during their sojourn in Hong Kɔng,
making their own special contribution to its succuss and progresa,
"The ress never tires of claining that ng lon; is
essentially a place of passage, where no rots are thrust don and
no lasting achievement can be made, This is not true, and I say
this not only because there must be several here tonight, both
British and Chinese, who, like my own family, can olnim at least
five generations' experience of the place. Indee, looking back
from the vantage point of this Jubilee Yorr, at the advances nde
over the last 25 years, the progress in itself gives the lie to this
clain of the press.
"To this progress both quests and hosts have inde their
contribution, as they have to this dinner tonight, and in proposing the
toast to the guests I would like to follow the custom of our Chinese
friends, and suggest that we all, both hosts and guests alike, stand
and drink the toast together.
"I give you the toast of 'The Guests',
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