Berlin, Jan. 25.
Professor Albert Hermann of Berlin University, the compiler of the well known economic atlas of China, last night addressed the German Geographical Society on the subject of "Foundations of Chinese Economy and Politics." Numerous German friends of China and members of the Chinese colony in Berlin attended the lecture.
Dr. Hermann was enthusiastically applauded when he emphasised that China's eighteen provinces form one indivisible economic unit with so many features in common that they could not be conceived of except as one United State administered by one united economic authority, Dr. Hermann strongly expressed his faith in China's future. The tenacious vitality of the Chinese people had, be stated, in 4,000 years of history always enabled them to overcome whatever adversity had overtaken This vitality and the respect for the law anchored in the "oral teachings of Confucius and in ancestor worship would always be the immutable basis of Chinese policy.—Trans-Ocean.
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