The special Chinese envoy to Germany. Gen. Tsinng Pa-lie, accom~ panied by the Chinese Ambassador in Berlin, arrived here to-day by train from Berlin and was greeted at the station on behalf of the East Asiatic Association Hamburg-Bremen by Dr. Richter.
The Chinese visitors drove to the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten where the East Asiatic Association held a reception attended by numerous pruminent personalities of the business World of Hamburg.
'After the chairman of the assoclation. Herr Helfferich, had welcomed the guests, Gen. Tsiang delivered a speech in' which he recalled that German ships arriving from Hamburg 100 years ago had first enabled the Chinese to become acquainted with German machines. His hearers, he said, knew the reputation enjoyed ty German machines in China and suggested that this had been decisive preparing the way for the i portation of other German goods.
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