Japanese Consul-General's Recapitulation of Government Work Mr. 8. Yada, Japanese Consul-General in Shanghai, was a guest of honour to a tiffin on Thursday at the Astor House given by the Rotary Club. In the course of the tiffin, Mr. Yada delivered the following speech Mr, Chairman and Gentlemen,—It is exceedingly gratifying for me to have the honour of addressing you to-day, and all the.mord so because I appreciate the ideals which your association represents. It is not my intention today to recapitulate all the harrowing details of the terrible calamity which has befallen my country, but really to try andi convey some idea of the hugd Government aad how, it is en-task confronting the Japanese
deavouring to surmount it. As
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