The Archive · 1928

DR. WANG CHUNG-HUI IN SHANGHAI

China's Point of View Needs to Be Put More Forcibly im Foreign Press: Powers Benevolently Disposed Dr. Wang Chung-hui, the jurist and Nationalist Minister of Justice, who has been touring Europe as the first and only Chinese member of the International Court of Arbitration at the Hague and as delegate to Great Britain, returned to Shang-hal on Aug. 31'by the Empress of Russia from Hongkong (having. landed there from the European steamer some days ago) and was et at the China Merchants' Lower Wharf by a large crowd of mer chants and officials, Chinese more, They realized that the Nationalist movement was a real "nationalist" movement, that the Nationalists were neither' Com munists nor anti-foreign. They even went so far as to admit that they had been misled by Japanese propaganda and that, if the Nationalists were anti-foreign, attempts would have been made long ago to drive the foreigners out.

The Powers hoped there would soon be a unified China which would benefit the Chinese and the world Among them were noticed Mr. Cha Chao-hsin, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs; Dr. Ho Shih-tsung, president of the Shanghai Provisional Court; Mr, T. C. Yang, president of the Shanghai District Court; Mr. Chang Wei-cheng, secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs; Chev. S. K. Chen, Director of the Shanghai Office of the Foreign Ministry; Dr. Wei Tao ming, Vice-Minister of Justice; Mr. Quo. Tai-chi, former Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs; Gen. Wu Te-chen, former Commissioner of Reconstruction and Public Safety in Canton; Mr, Tam Ho-chin, the well-known Cantonese merchant at whose house Dr. Wang will stay, Mr. Wang Kok-sun and Mr. C. Y. Wang (Dr, Wang's brothers), the members of Dr, Wang's family. alike, They hoped that the relations between China and the world would be improved and that at home In China the Government and the people would work for reconstruc tion.

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