U. S. Government's Extraterritoriality recommendations of the Strawn Report and suggesting that they be implemented previous to the total] abolition of extraterritoriality. It] has been with great gratitude and] satisfaction that your Chamber has} found that the policy of the American Government—_wholly coincides with the opinion of the} Chamber, and that the American Government has, adhered to a principle involving the gradual abolition, of extraterritoriality. 3 The Chamber participated in the community dinner given to the Honourable John Van Antwerp) MacMurray when he passed through Shanghai after his resignation as United States Minister to China.
Mr. MacMurray has served the American Community with exceptional skill and personal interest. He has at various times been faced by the opposition of subversive terests, but has manfully stood by sound American principles and has therefore won the gratitude and goodwill of all Americans in China. We regretted that he saw fit to resign and we regretted more than that that our Government cannot find the means amply to remunerate ie officials so that at a certain of their public careers they fare forced to seek private employment to ensure the welfare of their However, as much as we were] sorry to see Mr. MacMurray leave us, we rejoiced that his successor was taken from the China Service of the State Department and is man of exceptional experience and ability in handling Far Eastern affairs, Mr. Nelson 'T. Johnson has been known to us personal many years that he will always appear to us not so much as a Minister but as an old friend. He has grown in his career among us and we rejoice at his success. The Chamber will entertain Mr, Johnson on March 6, and it is hoped that the entire Community will attend on this} occasion.
The Chamber during the year has also entertained a good-will party of American business men from San Francisco and members of the Car-nogi Peace Endowment Commission. The latter body consisted of a group of American journalists of well-established reputations in their own! cities and fields of endeavour. They had visited Japan and China and gained first-hand impressions of conditions here. Their visit was of the first importance as it put an end in the United States to subversive and dis honourable propaganda from this country. The Chamber was pleased to have this opportunity to State its position to the visiting Journalists and this opportunity, must be taken to thank Mr. George Tucker for placing his house at the Chamber's disposal for the occasion. also. entertained ner, thos maintaining the tradition ippi community din eral Dwight Davis of
of the closest relationships between this American community and that of our neighbour in the Philippines.
The following were elected members of the Board of Directors for the ensuing year: Messrs. F. P. Bils Bills Motors, Fed. Me. U.S.A. Garl Crow—the "Shanghai Evening Post"; Win. 8. Fleming—Fleming, Franklin & Allman; C, H. French Andersen, Meyer & Ca., Ltd; H. W. Frick—Equitable Eastern Banking Corp; Chester Fritz—the American Metal Ca., Ltd.; Ernest Price—China Airways, Fed. Me. US.A.; F. J. Raven—Raven Trust Go, Fed. Me. U.S.A.; 0. G. Steen—the' Robert Dollar Ca.; E. C. Stocker the Texas Ca. (China) Ltd.; F.J. Twogood—Standard Oil Ca, of New York. foreign employees and the question is. asked "What right has the management to deduct such a levy from oar. salaries?"
The position is further aggravated by the fact that salaries are much in arrear and we understand that in some eases even the latter months jof 1929 have not been paid in full, The more fortunate ones have, however, received salaries for January but many others are even without that, it was stated yesterday. With the" further commandeering vessels by the Nanking Government, employees take a very gloomy the {view of the future,
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