Having proposed a toast to "Our Respective ers," Mr. Calder! Marshall said "Your Excelioney and ientlemen—Our club is honoured by the presence here to-ay of Mr. Lampson, His Majesty's Minister to} Giina, and we are glad to have th opportunity of tendering him our heartiest welcome to China, Mr, Lampson is not new the Orient, he having held apointments in Japan and Siberia, 'a5 well as in China, Tt seems ts me a happy augury that, 40 soon after his arrival in China, he should he titining with the members of the Union Club. All our interests. are losely interwoven, and whether be American, Chinese or British, all Jock forward to and desire that unity without which there can] de no true and lasting progress.) (Moor! Heart) The ideal of on: eld) is to assist in setting in motion foree—a force of mutual trust and confidence which can bring about conditions favourable to all. We wish much suees to Mr, Lampson in the high office to which he has been appointed, and express the hope that, during his tenure of that) office, we may often have the: opportunity of seeing him in Shang; bai."
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