attend this dinner, Yacking. for my departure. to. the South I have had no time to prepare A speech, nevertheless I will say a few words in reply to yours. 1am grateful for' the opportunity T have had of working with you together for fourteen and a half months.
Those who do not know my past career, may think that it was a great temptation to me to become President of the Shanghai Provisional Court. Tt was not. When there was a split between North, South about ten years ago, I left practice in Shanghai and went Canton, where I joined the Ministry Foreign Affairs under Dr. Wa Ting-fang, and since then T have tly been in request I was ed (0 the Supreme Court in Canton, where work more interesting for me and where stayed for ahunt one year and half.
Chen Chiung-ming then tured against the South and burat down the Gé¥ernment House, and respect for the late Dr. Sun zen, did not occupy my post dur ing' his absence, Wien Dr. Sun returned, six. months ater, resumed practice and shortly after that I was appointed by him to the post of Attorney General to. the Southern Government, a post whicn I first was reluctant to accept and which I only took after being persuaded by the late leader to do se. I remained there for two years and met with many difficulties, During my tenure there
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