May 7.
Maxsitat, Sun Chuan-fang weill maintains his reputation for} making speeches different. from those of most Chinese officials.
Long as was his address to the gentry and merchants on _his scheme of a Greater Shanghai, every word was worth reading land the whole address bore a [stamp of sincerity very remark-lable. Nor was yesterday's speech to a foreign audience less worthy! of note. There were points in both speeches which might -at first sight cause a shock. But] both were so much distinguished by frankness and common sensal as to earn general commendation. Most striking of all was Murshal Sun's definition of the lonly' kind of claim on which Chinal
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