Arrival on Saturday En Route for Inspection Trip: Strikirig Speeches Delivered at Dinner John Van A. MacMurra arrived ip Shanghai shortly after hoon on Saturday, on an inspection tour in the Yangtze Valley. Mr. E. 5. Cunningham, American Con-sil-General, and members of the American Consulate, Mr.
French, Chairman of the America Chamber of Commerce, and a delegation and a number of other pro-Ininent Americans were at the Gustoms Jetty to welcome him.
'A detachment of the 4th Regiment of the U, 8, Marine Corps, mith their band, were present and were reviewed by Mr. MacMurray mediately upon his arrival. MacMurray is accompanied by his naval aide, Commander. Powell, and Mr. H, Bucknell, a secretary of the Legation, who was former! attached to the Consulate here and was an assessor in the Mixed Court. They came from Tsingtao on the destroyer Noa Leaving the Customs Jetty, Mr. MacMfurray und his party went to the residence of Mr. E. 8. Cunning hham for tiffin, During Saturday Mr. MacMurray attended to personal matters and saw a few friends who called on him. Dr. K. ©. Wa representing the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, was at the Customs Jetty to receive the Minister. fiting address the inner meaning of his popular reception to-night by. te the American community of Shang-
A few years ago Americans int Ching were like all Gaul—divided into three parts, each speaking a diferent language. Oficials, mis-Sionaries, and business mon seldom {got together on the common grounds citizenship and mutual understanding. To-day there is ample evidence of a growing desire on the part of each" to" comprehend' the idiosyncrasies of the other, and to ce-operate in the performance of that first duty of an American citizen—the promotion of his eountry's welfare, T'do. not' mean to infer that Americans in China have heretofore been lax in the performance of that duty. "On. the contrary, America hax no more patriotic' or loyal citizens than those whose. lot has been cust abroad. But T do mean to point out the folly of our working at eross-purposes, ahd to stress the fact that in union there it strength.
lay particular emphasis upon this, because during the past year certain inspired journalists have ized upon our former non-afiliation as a point of attack in their campaign of malicious and vindietive vilification of Americans in China. A traitor to his country is one who betrays it.
China Daily ing a tour of inspect to 800 for himself what the conditions in this part of China ars.
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