Tientsin, Mar. 2.
Unprecedented honours were accorded to the 15th United States Infantry Regiment to-day when it marched to the station en route to the United States after a quarter of a century in Tientsin.
Troops of the European garrisons in Tientsin lined the streets while bands of the British, French and Italian forces played along the entire route and at the station.
Last night British civilians entertained Colonel Joseph A. Grew and the officers of the Regiment at the Tientsin Club. A silver salver was Kuomintang and national affairs will be discussed at a meeting to be held in the middle of this month in Hankow, according to information from Chinese sources yesterday.
The conference, to be attended by delegates of the Kuomintang from all over the Country, will be known as the Sixth National Congress of the Kuomintang.
Great importance is being attached by Chinese political circles to the meeting as resolutions of a far reaching nature are expected to be adopted, Not. only domestic and foreign policies of the Government during the present emergency period will be studied, but measures for closer ce-operation of various parties other than Kuomintang will be decided, Owing to the absence of important. Kuomintang officials, no details of the forthcoming congress were available -here yesterday. It was generally considered to be certain that the congress will usher in a new era, giving official recognition of a united front of various parties in China, presented on which was inscribed the motto of the British Municipal Council, "Comitas inter Gentes" (Courtesy among Nations).
Mr. P. H. B. Kent, who acted as spokesman for the British residents, pointed out that the motto also reflected the aims of Great Britain and America in world affairs—
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