Recently the three officials here invited all the foreign men to the home of General Den.
This friendly gesture may have some Jconnection with the fact that there was much comment over the invitations sent out by the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs for the official Jceremony in connection with the celebration on the Double Tenth.
Only a small number of the foreign residents of the city were invited and fas the relations between the officials and foreign community of Chengts have been very cordial during the last year it may have been thought, desirable *hat an unfavourable impression should not be created.
It is reported that the headquarters of the Kuomintang has municated with the local organization to the effect that Mission work and missionaries are very. beneficial to China at present and good! relations should be established. This inspires a hope for the early evacuation of occupied property and the! feessation of the well-established practice of using the Union University playing fields as a drill ground.—Reuter.
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