Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-29
CHINESE AGAINST HUNS.

men and materials on behalf OF the
Allies, according to His Excellency
DR.. V. K. Wellington Koo, China's
Minister Pienipotentiary to the United
States, who addressed the New York
Chamber of Commerce at a recent
luncheon in honor Of the Chinese Mill
tarv Commission now touring this
country.
The Chinese mission Is mainly In
dustriaI in nature, though its findings
will have direct and important bear
inc on Chinas participation in, the war,
and it is visiting various business
centers throughout the country with
a. view to gathering information on
modern methods of adoption in China.
Unlike most of the other missions in
the procession that has been passing
steadily through America since the
war began, the Chinese mission is not
interested in the flotation of loans;
it is devoting its time not only to the
study of munitions plants, but also
to American industrial methods. The
mission is headed by the lieutenant
general of the Chinese army, Mr.. T.
r. Chang, and includes Y. T. Ting,
T. F. Chin, L. G. Han, H. T. Cheng,
{ K, Nein, and c. L. Chang, several
Of whom were educated in the United
States. One of the principal objects
OF the mission is to inspect the million
dollars worth of tools ordered from
an American firm in 1914 for use in
China.
After voicing the appreciation felt
by members Of the commission for the
welcome they have received through
out the United States Dr. Koo went on
to say:
1--WE of China who have learned
through centuries of experience to
prize business honesty more than bust
ness prosperity cannot but admire the
commercial integrity of the American
business men, for we know and ap-
preciate its value. And our own need
of rapid progress in the promotion of
China's material welfare leads us to
emulate the high state of efficiency
in whoch all branches of your in
dustries have been found. If this
feeling of admiration and emulation
has raised one single indeRtical
people it is the thought of promoting
more business relations between
China and the United States.
Equally distinct with the impress,
preston Of commercial integrity and
industrial efficiency of America is the
impression gained by the Chinese com
mission of the nationwide co-opera-
ton in the prosecution of war against
the Central Powers The
knowledge which they have gained
of the organization of gigantic war ma
chinery will enable China to speed up
her preparations for her active particl-
patton of the war.
eve have already approximately
100000 Chinese in France principally,
and in Russia, Mesopotamia and South
Africa doing the work of skilled me-
chanics and masons, of carpenters and
bricklayers, of bridge builders and
trench diggers Their readiness to
take up these kinds of important work
behind the firing line has made it pos
sible to release large number of
British and French soldiers to do ac-
tive duty on the battlefelds,
For China's purpose is to help win the
war.
Although China has been the latest
member to join the great International
partnership, she realizes no less fully
than all her associates in the war that
this is conflict between true and
false principles; it is a conflict to de-
termine whether the principles of right
and justice and of humanity shall pre-
vail, or whether we shall D. rmit the
false principles of brute force and of