German Ambassador's Speech at Hankow Celebration Hankow, Jan. 2.
The hope that the new year would bring to the entire world peace, "to the "maintenance of all endeavours of German are devoted," was experi German Ambassador to Chit Oskar Trautmann, in an air the New Year's caleb German Club here, tended not only by E colony a number of German refugees from other parts of China.
The German Ambassador ex-
Dressed the fear that a protracted war might administer such a blow to the economic system of the Far East that the trade of all nations would be destroyed and an economic recovery made doubtful, Dr. Trautmann pointed out the exemplary attitude displayed by ihe Germans in China during the conflict had been recognized by prominent Chinese personages, The Ambassador moreover paid a tribute to the model ce-operation of other foreigners in China who had helped the Germans safe! evacuate nemercus women and children from such danger zones as Nanking, where the Germans were granted refuge on foreign ships.—Trans-Ocean
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