Some time ago a large number of American business men, in many cases accompanied by their wives and daughters, visited China, and 8 great fuss was made on the occasion here in Kuangtung. Canton was all agog, and such military as the Manchus possessed were called out to act as a guard of honour. Little came of it at the time, except a series of official feasts, and general wonderment at the wealth of the Americans. The return visit which had been planned was frustrated by the outbreak of the Revolution. But next year, being the occasion of the Exhibition, where the Chinese will be represented, a Commercial Commission is to be organized, if ible. The Minister of Industry, in Peking, has sounded some of the ling men here and they are re-
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