The Archive · 1920

Deputation to America The Returned Chinese Latour

CHINESE LABOUR ASSOCIATION

Association of China, (consisting of men who "did their bit" for the Allies in Europe in the war) is sending Dr. Tehyi Hsieh of Shanghai, ax its special Delegate to America for the purpose of presenting greetings to the National American Labour Federation at Washington, D. C., to confer with American Labour leaders to find ways and means to ameliorate labour conditions in China The Association hopes to have a membership of over one hundred thousand when all the Chinese labourers have been repatriated.

A warm and hearty reception was accorded Dr. Hsieh at a dinner given by the Association at the Y. M. C. A, restaurant on Tuesday Mr. Hsia Chi-feng (who had seen three years service in France) the officers and executive members of the Association, all of whom had served in the late war, representatives of the Chinese Press, and Mr. Lawrence K. Kentiwell, Honorary Legal Adviser to the Association.

Mr. Hsia Chi-feng, the pre dent, in his opening remarks, re counting many stories of his perience in France and paid a warm tribute to the efficiency of the Allies and the humane way. in which the German prisoners of war were treated: he said the experience and hardship which he and the rest of his Countrymen had endured in France during the war were fully repaid in that they had all learnt a valuable lesson, that was, "unity" If Ohina were also united, the most glorious pages of Chinese history might yet be written.

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