Mr. Lee then called upon Captain Robert Dollar to address the tiffin, Captain Dollar said that he was very pleased to be back in Shanghai among s0 many of his friends and that he thought Mr. Soong's speech ought to be printed and distributed as there was so much in it which those interested would like to think, about. "If China had peace and a stronely centralized federal Government this country would make greater progress than any country' on the face of the earth," he said.
'The tiffin was very largely attended, more than 200. persons bein present. Among them were Sir' Sidney Barton, Mr. E. 8. Cunningham, Mr. 8. Yada, General Ta-chun, Garrison Commissioner of Shanghai, Mr. King Wun-tze, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, Shang: hai. Judge Loo Hsun Messrs. Pei, Gatt and Yuan, the new Chinese members of the Shanghai il, and many other
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