It is the focal point of the great trade of the Yangtze Valley, importers to and exports from this, the richest area in China, being forced to pass through Shanghai on their way" to buildings, has been remarkable of the century, and even {Ms progress since 1928, the date of his Tat visit her Atty years and lett it often enough to et the perspective of time and distance, Discussing China as a world polite cal power, he said that it is absolutely necessary' for' this country to rec-agnize the fact that, to use his own phrase, homme est wu animal s0- enable, and that more than ever today the Inhabitants. of one country fare dependant on those of another for progress. Certain political in-forests, he went on, through the medium of the press sind newspapers under their control, are trying to teach the people that when anything oes wrong In this country, it is the fault of the foreigners, and that any trouble in China can be traced direct-to the foreigners and" their Influence. This, of course, x utter nonsense, he said, for forelsners, who are here for the mutual benefit of themselves and the Chinese, certainly do not favour trouble of any nature, Tu the carly" part. of the, XVit Century, the first fathers took two years to reach the province of Fokien from France; they would have suspected the sanity of anyone who foresaw that in only three hundred years man would be able to make hat same journey in only a Uitte over week, "In years to come, T think it will be possible: to do It within' three day:
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