The Archive · 1935

Communal Rejoice Ings in Yunnanfu

Generalissimo and Mme Chiang Kai-shek Receive Hearty Welcome From Oun Own Yunnanfu, May 11, Generalissimo Chiang" Kai-shek, accompanied by Madame Chiang, ex-Minister Woo Gee-hui, Mr, W. H. Donald, and a small staff, yesterday flew into Kunming, as Yunnanfu is now called, from blue skies which obtained "all the way from Kwel. yang, and into a veritable blaze of lory. Long before the airfield was Teached the passengers in the plane must have observed the coloured streamers, the be-bannered marquees, the gorgeous pennants of the mounted lancers, and" the huge crowd of] people assembled welcome the visitor General and Madame Lung} vere there, with all the high so were the Consular body and there were Bands played and bugles blared and guns saluted and aeroplanes manqouvred. In the marquee cham-ague was opened and toasts were drunk. Headed by the mounted oncers, their pennants being old-style Chinese triangular bannerettes, the cars of the visitors and the chief welcomers, started for the city three or four miles away, through lines of students, dressed in white, or blue: military, clean and well-groomed, and Tows deep of citizens dressed in conspicuously' better attire than the party has been accustomed to see in Kweichow. Yunnanfu was out in its best, and the whole population appeared eager "and incrested to see the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, especially og. they have travelled by alr such a long distance from their Headquarters at Nanchat

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