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CHINESE CRITICISM AT CONVENTION. 0t CABLIS—PESSS ASSOCIATIOIC—COPYBIOfIT.) (BBUTEr'S IBLBGIUMS.) HONOLULU, July 8. Speaking at the Institute of Pacific Relations, Mr Ta Chen, principal of tho Peking University, assailed exclusion laws which, he said, were unjust because one of tho principal grounds of discrimination is race and colour. "Migration," he continued, "is the natural right of the world which is a common possession. No peoplo can be Justified in. withholding unused lands that other people can use which they need urgently." The speaker remarked that it was said that tho Chinese were not assimilable, "It ia nearer the truth," ho said, "to say that no serious attempt has ever been made in any country of the Pacific, any time, to 1 assimilate Chinese." Mr Hay Lyman Wilbur, president of the Stanford University, California, paid a tribute to the Institute when addressing tho Rotary Club. Ho said that although unofficial and informal, tho Institute was nevertheless destined to beconi© a permanent effective instrument for moulding public opinion throughout tho world.