Tientsin, July 1.
The Kailan Mining Administration to-day celebrated its silver jubilee with a reception attended by of prominent Chinese and foreign officials here. This followed a banquet at the Astor House last night at which the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, was the chief guest. Leading members of the staff came here from the mines and Chinwangtao to participate in the celebrations, Proposing a toast to the Kailan Mining Administration at last night's banquet, the British Ambassador praised the triumphs of the concern over the difficulties of a quarter of a century in which, he said, it had not been coddled by fate. To-day, he continued, the K.M.A. was a great, prosperous organization performing outstanding social and industrial service and reaping the fruits in the spirit of mutual ce-operation and understanding on which the whole foundation rested.
The Ambassador concluded with a cordial tribute to the care and consideration given by the K.M.A. to its workers and to the enlightened welfare work among the miners, which, he pointed out, included modern housing, educational, medical, creational and other facilities Commissioned to paint a huge fresco in the National Defence Hall of the Tokyo Military Museum, Mr. Kaukuzo Seo, a famous painter, arrived here on Wednesday in the Nagasaki Maru to inspect the battlefields of the "Shanghai War" of 1992.
His fresco, the painter told- the press will depict scenes of the Sino-Japanese hostilities in Chapei" Woosung, and Kiangwan.
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