Bugles played, people cheered, a band or two started in to welcome the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang and Marshal Chang. General Ma Hung-kwel and his brother, General Ma Hung-ping, who one time was governor of Shantung, clutched the ands of the visitors as they stepped out of the plane, indicated that Ninghsia was theirs, and, after the inspeetion of the guard, piled them in ears and drove them a long way till the city was reached. At the airdrome they passed long lines of—waiting soldiery and cheering citizens, and as they drew near the city another long was alo adding ther welcome, layed "Johnnie Comes Marching Home," with a which brings to mind that at Si the troops goose-stepped at the review to "John Brown's Body," and "Marching Through Georgia," which shows that while places are far distant in China yet the world is small. 'The crowds of people craned their' necks to an insufferable extent, apparently to catch a glimpse of Madame Chiang, Judging by the way their eyes fastened upon her, and they seemed to regard her as a being from another world, No doubt they were prepared to prove that, since they had just seen her drop down 10,000 feet out of the skies.
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