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Lord Mayor, Citizens -

I have been thrilled to fly here for the purpose of participating in your good will flight for medical relief to China. It is wonderful to come back again to Canada. I have had several pleasant visits in your beautiful country, and is is with greatest happiness that I return to Canada again. I want to extend greetings to you from the Chinese Participating Committee of United China Relief as well as officers and chairman of our big drive down in the States. You will be glad to know that our campaign is nearing its goal, and that we are being enabled to help provide medical help as well as food and clothing for the millions of Chinese whose sufferings I have seen with my own eyes.

I am sure that your efforts on behalf of China will meet with the same success, for I feel that there is a real awareness in both the United States and Canada of the fact that China is a sister democracy, fighting at your sides for those mutual principles which we hold dear. We will fight until every menace to our governments is removed. Not until then will we stop fighting with determination and relentlessness.

It is hardly necessary for me to tell you how happy I am to see and to participate in this campaign for medical relief to China. We of the United China Relief campaign in America and have been hoping it would happen for ever so long. And now that it has become a reality we are extremely gratified.