The Scottish Society celebrates Burns Night in the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel - there are about 250 members and guests present. While proposing the toast to 'the immortal memory'', Professor Walter Brown of Hong Kong University speaks about Burns as a man and as a poet, dwelling on his services to freedom
The dinner is served in traditional style with the Barley Bree and the Haggis (piped to the Chieftain's table by the St. Andrew's Society honorary pipers).
The Chieftain is SCMP journalist Ben Wylie and also in attendance are past Chieftain G. D. R. Black, Charles E. Terry (President of St. Patrick's Society), L. C. F. Bellamy (Vice-President of St. George's Society), Sir Atholl MacGregor, French Consul-General Louis Reynaud, C. G. Perdue and Dr. Selwyn-Clarke.
Source:
Hong Kong Telegraph, February 3, 1941, page 3
Note:
Professor Brown taught mathematics. He would devote some of his spare time to going through books in the University Library and, where appropriate, crossing out 'English' and writing 'British' in the margin.