The twelfth anniversary of the birth of the Chinese Republic was celebrated by the Chinese colony in Paris at the Hotel Lutetia the other evening. Six hundred Chinese, including the Minister, Mr. Cheng Lo and the Consul General, Mr. Teh Chao, were present at this reunion, which was remarkable for its informal and hail-fellow-well-met atmosphere. The Chinese Republican flag, used in profusion, decorated the walls. East mingled happily with west, and 600 pairs of Oriental feet danced to the Occidental so-called music of a jazz-band. A concert of Chinese music played on Chinese instruments had what the French call a success de curio-site but could not be compared in point of popularity with the jazz. In a gathering of dinner jackets and Paris gowns there was but one native costume to evoke visions of the Middle Kingdom and the Seven Seas among which all mon are brothers until the Tuchuns get to work.
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