PATRON H.M. THE KING.
Cable Address: "Ovatesclub, London Telephone: CITY 4824
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The "Dear-Sea Club" is a MOB- party society of British, subjecta resid- ing outside the United Kingdom. Its underlying motive is to promote the unity of British subjects the world over. Its three chlaf objecta pr
1. To help one another.
THE OVER-SEAS CLUB
"Wa sail'd wherever ship çquid sell.
We founded many « mighty state; Pray God our drestone may not fail
Through craven foure of being great.“
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Headquarters :-
GENERAL BUILDINGS, ALDWYCH,
LONDON, W.C.
OVER
Ref. 24076/1915
May 28th, 1915.
To render individual service to Empira
3. To draw together in the bond of comradeship British people the world
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MEMBERSHIP
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The Central Committee of the Over-Seas Club begs to acknowledge your communication of the 27th, concerning a donation of £4.500 subscribed by the Tai Yan Bank, and by the members of the British and Chinese community in Hong Kong,
to purchase aeroplanes for the use of the Royal Flying Corps.
We have duly received the remittance from the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and are already in communication with the Director of Military Aeronautics at the War Office, concerning the presentation ceremony. The donors' wishes concerning the inscription shall be carefully carried out, and photographs of the two aeroplanes, with the inscription shall be taken and forwarded to you for transmission to His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong.
My Committee desires to say that a letter has already been addressed to Lord Islington requesting Mr Secretary Bonar Law to perform the presentation ceremony to the Royal
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