opening ceremony of the Upon learning tha the, China Daily News"" now build was to take place last Friday, Field-Marshal Tsao Kun, Presid: ent of the Chinese Republic, sent the following telegram "0. M. Green, Esq, Editor, rth-China Daily" News,"
Shanghai—T am directed by his Exeelteney the. President of China to send yon the follow message:—'On the ocersion the formal opening of your splendid new premises. T wish ler my lsineare "congrat us to you and your stal calliest recollections 1 have-known of and been faaniliar with your admirable publica tion, whick is and always has been typical of sound British commercial principles and enterprise. I have arched with von interest and. the utmost pleasure the progress.of your honourable journal, the daily as well as the. weekly, from the days when Shanghai' itself was insignificant place and when your paper ocespied a comparatively small place in the realm of commerce anti journalism. In the development Shu ito one of the world's greatest. commercial centres your paper has, indeed, taken a most prominent part. This progress has been mutual,
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