Show JAPANESE ESE MINISTER FORO FORCED TO STOP SPEECH BECAUSE OF OP LAUGHTER LA U r New Nets Ue bT Over 75 mem members members bers hers of fd the th lit Sil of America th the and their guests s anniversary banquet of the association at D lm tonight The conspicuous guest gU t of the evening was the Chinese minister Wu W Vu Ting Fang Senator of Nebraska spoke SI Oke Oketo in the The Great Greut Republic to the toast New and Senator Gallinger G of New Hampshire simke s mke to the toast I The Congress of the States InI in jn 1 Its I ta Relations to the Silk Industry I then introduced to Minister Wu was speak to the tb toast t The Great Nation of the in the Eyes Byes of the Oldest Great Nation The orchestra played the Chop Suey march and cheer ch er after cheer greeted greet d the minister m as M he arose Wu Vu Ting Fang said in part Although your nation Is the young youngest youngest youngest est I think I am justified in saying that It IC commands as great respect re as a I Ithe the oldest nation on earth You de deserve deserve deserve serve this not on account of your age ageon wisdom intelli intelligence but on account of your youn ou W and enterprise gence genre The Japanese minister Kogoro Taka introduced ed to respond to the him hira him was Avas w S toast Japan and Her Estimation of I America and American Ideas I IThe The Japanese minister began to read i his speech in a loud voice which corn com commanded C m attention by its tone But be before before before fore he had read far he be got down to a singsong tone that caused cu ed a majority of the diners to forget the speech and talk among themselves Half a dozen dosen times they talked and laughed so tJ loud loudly loudly loudly ly that General Congdon had to rap raj raphard raphard hard for attention Then Thea the t e would break out of his singsong style stylo and read a few sentences in a clearer tone but would soon become almost inaudible The talking and laughter continued dow down his hi and the speaker ter finally threw n paper on the table folded fold his hands hand a in front of him closing his eyes ey S steed s d si silent silent silent lent For a second there was quiet quietness quietness quietness ness This was broken by a call for cheers for Cor the Japanese minister They were given with great grec vigor but the recipient recipient ent exit was vexed and flung his biB paper down on the floor Senator Gallinger picked up the paper and handed banded it to the minister who was as persuaded per to start again He soon relapsed into lain the singsong style and the talking and laughter be began began began gan again Thereupon the minister flung flun the pa paper paper a aper per down on the table and resuming his seat would not finish Then many of the diners came caine up to him and con congratulated congratulated him on on his hi effort ego somewhat mollifying him bbs |