Sixce Mr, Stevens's arrival in the public, both foreign Chinese, have had almost " surfeit of Consortium and certainly Mr. Stevens himself, after these six days of uninterrupted speech-making and speech-hearing, must welcome the respite which the journey to Peking allows. The Kiangsu Provincial Chamber of Commerce were early in the field with the letter that we printed last Friday, in which, by adroit recall of Mr. Lamont's promise that there should be no impairment of China's sovereign rights, no loans for destructive purposes or military extension, they conveyed a broad hint of the only conditions on which they would tolerate Mr. Stevens's activities.
And this was followed by luncheons and tea parties at which, like the powder in the jam, the same warning was crammed down Mr, Stevens's uncomplaining throat under a coating of chicken mousse and poche Melba, Even Mrs. Stevens was not spared a like doctoring by many Chinese hostesses, in
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