In the evening My. Denby was the guest at dinner at the Carlton Cafe of the American Association of China and the American Chamber of Commerce of China. There was a very large' company present. The band of the U.S.S. Huron, under the leadership of Mr. C. H. Boller, rendered selections during the evening.
Among the guests were:—The U.S. Consul-General - and Mrs. Cunningham, Gen. Ho Feng-ling, Military. Governor of Shanghai and Sungkiang, Admiral Tsai Ting-kan, Chairman. of the Tariff Revision Commission, the Shanghai District, Magistrate, Mr. T. E. Doremus, al Joseph @Btrauss, Mr. W.
Vice-President of the American Chamber of Commerce, Rear-Admiral W. H. Bullard, com-ug the Yangtze Patrol of the U.S. Navy, Capt. McArthur, commanding the U. S. N. T. Henderson, Major-General G. Barnett, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Marine Corps, and the Commander of the U. S. & Huron.
In welcoming Mr. Denby, the Consul-General referred to the Navy Secretary's early work in China and continued that perhaps Americans were indebted to a groater extent to Mr. Demby on account of his interest, in getting through Congress a plan for a United States Court for China than for any other single act. He was the father of the United States Court for China. The Court had weathered many storms and had been subject to much criticism and yet it had passed through very few changes and they were all happy- that the Court to-day was able to maintain the dignity and the position which its founder anticipated for it.
Mr. Denby was also_ responsible for guiding through Congress the Act that restored to" China the Boxer Indemnity - Fund. This, in the estimation of many, was one of the most public-spirited deeds of the American nation and it was a gift which had brought inestimable good to many Chinese who had been enabled through it to obtain an education. length to the Washington Confer-Mr. Denby, replying, referred at
ence..He said in part:—Never before, I think, has a Con-terence on these lines resulted in such complete success. Never before have nations agreed to self-denying ordinances whereby they
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