MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1925.
'CHINA'S CHANCE."
MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN REVIEWS POSITION.
“UNRIVALLED OPPORTUNITY."
Tariff Conference And Mutual Measures.
The delegates to the Tariff Commission which is to meet in November, ware guests at a luncheon of the China Association held at the Hotel Victoria on Friday, which was notable for an important speech by Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary. The large and distinguished gathering was presided over by Mr. L N. Leefe, formerly of Hongkong.
Mr.
GO THE CHINA MAIL.
The Shanghal Spark.
great chapter in Briti h history and the foreign powers concerned. civilised nation of the West ex- British, Japanese and American her mighty youth.
judicial commissioners and a great sphere of "British If things are rightly handlel and pected, for its nation in every already appointed. It will not being part, but that we shall con-
activity in the Far East. I would the opportunity rightly seized foreign country. only say I welcome the oppor- they hay lead to better relations tunity of exchanging views with than we have experienced for you, that I have been assisted by many years past and they may
confidence and support.
"Unequal" Treaties. After all you cannot deal wisely with a few domestic problems unless you have regard to the traditions of the country with which you are dealing, and you
These in Peking.
for the full attainment of our object I ought not say that they are necessary.
Comment on Speech.
COAL INDUSTRY,
HOME COMMISSION'S SITTINGS.
(Reuter's Service.)
London, Sept. 19.
BAILS FOR CHINA. WR
DELEGATES.
(Reuter's Service.)
London, Sept. 1
Sir R. Macleay, the Bri Minister to China and Macleay, the Hon. Sydney and Mrs. B. C. Nowton, the tish delegation to China, and
. B. Morriss, the owner of Derby winner Manna, loft Sot ampton on board the Canst Pacific liner "Empress of S burg last night. Not being de land," which arrived from F
.ed by the seamen's strike,
sailed on schedule time.
MOSUL GUILE.
"MR. AMERY AT GENEVA
(Reuter's Service.)
Geneva, Sept. Et As Rushdi Bey has declinat renew the assurance given Fethi Bey at the last session the Counell to respect the Co cil's decision, whatever it may
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and to tide over the interval bacan assure him in your name and we rightly understand our Inter-of the opinion that for the future BRITISHI MINISTI tween the first great impact of in the name of all our country. asta, no inherent conflict. We of China and the interests of for West and East and the adaptation that our hand will go out to meet have no territorial ambitions; we eigners it is infinitely preferable of Chinese institutions to the new his with the same memory of old desire nothing but the drdinary that the elementary needs of conditions, (Cheers).
friendships and with same desire rights of a peaceful, peace-loving justice and security for the trader We have already shown our will-to restore cordiality and con- and law-abiding nation. On our be safeguarded by Chinese prac- ingness to advance. More than Aidence (Cheera). I do not con- side, we will not allow ourselves tice, rather than by treaty prí twenty years ago, by the Com-ceal from myself that in many re-to be divèrted by the bitterness of vilege. mercial Treaty of 1902, we soughtspects the circumstances are not the recent days, or the memory The "Sunday Times" likewise to prepare the way for the aboli- those which I would have wished of things that are past. We bear approves Mr. Chamberlain's tion of the ill-regulated and ham for an international conference of no l-will and we will go forward utterance. It says, it is our pering charges upon trade and to this kind.
in the spirit in which, in one of sincere wish that China be as substitute therefor a sound tariff
his last despatches, Sir John capable as Japan herself of play. system on modern lines. At the
A Chinese spark at Shanghal spirit for his countrymen, in face dent self-governing country.
Jordan proclaimed as the righting the full part as an indepen. same time we agreed, as far as it might be in our power, to assist set fire to all the inflammatory of the changing situation.
Sir Ronald Macleny re-echoed forward the judicial reform in material that was lying about. I
"Sir John Jordan said in 1918: Mr. Austen Chamberlain's senti. China and to waive our extra- do not want to dwell upon that have watched the evolutionments and hoped the Chinese territorial privileges whenever now. So far as His Majesty's of China through its most difficult Government would meet them in warmly membermaid: "I and other they present no problems other conditions made it safe for desire is to know the facts on in- signs deceive me, this great believed that the Conference Chamberlain, who was on the one side as well as on the progress of Chinese judicial and Government is concerned our one and dramatic stages. Unless the spirit of goodwill. He then myself in the company of an which cannot be resolved to the us to rely on such action by disputable authority and to abide nation is rousing herself from would prove to be a milestone Acciation which represents a mutual advantage of the Chinese Chinese authorities, such as every by the facts as so disclosed. The sleep and bidding fair to renew along the path of realisation of I trust that China's legitimate aspirations.- Are our country will not play a halt- Reuter. our fault if the Chinese Jurist tinue to lead, as we have always Chinese Aspirations. does not take his place among led, in China; and that with our Then came the Great War. them and contribute the Chinese feet upoy the solid ground of your experience and that I like mark, if taken in time and not China-and we have not forgotten share of the settlement of that un- experience we shall allow our eyes I hope that to look towards a broader and any ether Foreign Secretury, will allowed to go too far a real and il-Soined us as an ally and on fortunate episode. always be glad to make use of significant step in the progress of those new ideas which the Great that inquiry may be briefly con- brighter Eastern horizon, a
Geneva, Sept."10 your knowledge and have your China to liberty, unity and pros-War stirred in many breasts on cluded and that before the tariff which China will stand stron
doctrines then preached on self- conference opens the results may and self-reliant as a healthy and
The sub-committee of th perity. (Cheers).
letermination and the liberties of be known and the incident closed. helpful partner in the comity of
appointed by the League "Cou Late Sir John Jordan.
Be that as it may. notwith-nations." peoples China fed as other peoples!
to investigate evidence of This great productive You have found it impossible,
fed at the same time. The powers, standing facts which are only too country and its sturdy and indus-
Mosul dispute have reported as it is impossible for me, to meet
a few years later, in the winter of present to our minds, grave and trious people have much to offer It is announced that the com- of a juridical nature should commending that certain pot on such an occasion and in such
1920-21, met at Washington with menacing facts, as I have said we to A straitened and depleted mission of enquiry on the coal submitted to the Internatio an audience and not try to express
goodwill to their ally and with a are not allowing ourselves to be world; and they hold in their industry at its three sittings Court at the Hague. Mr. something of the debt which we
real desire to meet her aspirations detected from our course in seek hands the fateful gift of peace or hitherto has discussed the best Amet at the one rele and China alike owe to the great can deal wisely with no foreign and advance her wishes there in ing earnestly and patiently for a war in Asia.
method of investigation and pro adjournment, stressing the figure which passed from among problem unless you can enter, to accord with other foreign powers We are ready to pursue the policy of our delegates to the Chinese whereon information is required of the decision both for Tus peaceful solution of our troubles. "I invite you to drink the health visionally divided the subjects desirability of the postponem us actually at one of your meet some extent at any rate, into the fconcerned, we agreed to two ings the other day. It is nearly aspirations of people with whom treaties and I think a good many of 1902 adapted to conditions of Tariff Conference and to assure into seventeen groups, including and Great Britain. But match Bfty years since Sir John Jordan you are dealing and unless you resolutions. We agreed to an im- 1926. We are ready to carry out them of your confidence; and to utilisation of coal, obsolescence he regretted the delay, Mr. entered the Chinese Consular Ser can feel sympathy with their mediate increase of tariff to flye in letter and in spirit, the Wa tell them that we hope and we and replacement of mines, finance accepted the proposal of the vice. After many years of useful grievances and their hardships centum. We agreed that within ington engagement, but for a full know that, in going forward to and ownership of mines, methods committee. All he asked er and distinguished labour, he be- and realise their long history, and three months of the ratification of fruitur guests or going and this great and difficult work, they of working, marketing and distri-Council was that it spedit came His Majesty's Minister at in case of China almost im-the treaty by all powers a special which our guests are going, and will be inspired in the spirit which bution, wages, hours, accidents, settlement as soon as poss Peking in 1906, and for fourteen memorial civilisation, to which tariff conference should be held rights are preliminary toniterias guided Sir John Jordan through diseases, housing, royalties and after receipt of the opinio years represented our King and modern China is heir.
rights two preliminary conditions the whole of his long and great Evidence will be, taken in public are desirable. I am not sure that public career." (Cheers).
nationalisation of the mines. Hague Court." country in the capital of China, events of yesterday and to-day Policy of the Powers, Even when he retired in 1920 from stand out against the long historic
and the commission is to visit We agreed that that conference During the whole should prepare the way for the that position, his public services background.
certain coalfields to enable the did not cease.
London, Sept. 20. of the eighteenth century our abolition of Likin as contem- He accompanied
members to familiarise them- Lord, Balfour to the Washington relations with China as traders plated in our old treaty of 1902 mutual goodwill, putting aside Chamberlain's speech of the 18th
The first is an atmosphere of
The "Observer" applauds Mr. selves with conditions. Conference and continued to the and we are not unwilling to recall and to an interim imposition of a little suspicions unbecoming to which it declares represents the last moment to place his ripe Napoleon's gibe. which may be surtax-of-2 centum on general great peoples not having their British
Smiler:What's-the-matter? Mr. Amery declared categories attitude our glory, that we are a nation of tariff with five centum on certain roots in China or here but disa- nothing for ourselves that is not experience and intimate know-
of desiring You look sour. ledge on Chinese conditions and shopkeepers and as anxious for objects of luxury with a view to seminated, engendered and en-to
that similar assurances by Writer: Why shouldn't I? his deep sympathy
Itain fell to the ground and the equal and with the peace as any shopkeeper-our
wrote a column article on fresh null and void, and Britain Chinese at the disposal of the trade relations were aubject to trang the freedom of China, couraged by those who see their advancement of advantag
to strengthening the authority of opportunity in
It Is milk, and the editor condensed it, have to reconsider her position other people's British Government and give us two great monopolies namely, the the Central Government and to troubles and are as little regard-Doon¤¤¤¤μÕ¶ÛÛÛ! the benefit of his lifelong labours East India Company on the one providing means for the develop ful of the interests of China as and service,
side and the Cohong of Canton on
ment of China's trade and pros- they are of the goodwill of Eng- He was in truth a type of that the other.
perity. We agreed further, and land. (Cheers). The second great race of public servants who! Their passing was one stage in again in accord with the other requirement for the full fruition work quietly, caring little for the development of relations be Powers, to appoint a commission of our hopes and purposes is a personal fame, for the honour of tween the East and the West and to go into the question of extra- China at peace within itself, their own country and at the same in the growth of our common con- territoriality to see what progress united with an effective central time penetrated with sympathy cerns. The bonds of monopoly could be made in that question authority who for the country and people among were too narrow to serve the pur- and what measures were needed engagements and see them kept, whom his lot was cast. I think pose of the new times and in 1833 to prepare for the eventual aur who can provide security for life the monopoly of the East India render of all extraterritoriality and property, and who thus cap Englishman who loved China only Company was abolished and trade rights.
make possible for strangers and Becond to his own country and who ed? China could not adjust her- agreed that the Japanese were to of!
was thrown open. What follow-
Finally we and the Japanese guests within her gates surrender served his own country well in the elf to the new conditions Seven hand back Shantung to China and privilege for
will not say the important posts he held because
it is not a he was never lacking in sympathy years of constantly increasing the we to surrender our lease of Wei- privileged position - but of for the people among whom he strain of constant friction and hai-wei and, though the subject a special position which under worked and sought to reconcile complaints and failure to secure was not mentioned at Washing- the treaties we and other foreign- them as they are and can be recon-any satisfaction led, as
these ton, to surrender the claim on our ers have enjoyed. ciled to the interests of his own the so-called Opium War of 1840. payment of the Boxer Indemnity erents must lead a country, to taxpayer to the relief which the country with the interesis, liberties and developments of
But there were much more im- was intended to give to him for China.
portant things at stake in the charges incurred in consequence Opium War than any question of of shall I say, weakness of the To the country where his work shipping and
Opium. The boycott of British Chinese Government and to de-
confiscation ing life was passed we are now traders goods, restriction
of vote money so received to pur. sending gentlemen who are your liberties and imprisonment of interest but of direct benefit to of poses which were not merely of guests to-day. Their task is not British citizens and finally the China alone, an easy one know well. But I expulsion of the merchants from were ready to act at once.
On those lines we am far from being pessimistic as Canton-these to the results of the labours to which led to war and which found which they are going.
in rank with the At any their solution in the Treaty of conference greater progress has great rate they face. their task rich in Nanking in 1842, the first of those not been made.
modern, civilised and an experience that is diplomatie, unequal treaties whereof China spired by nothing but goodwill to take
We were in-progressing nations. Will China financial and commercial. They
the chance that face their task strong in the con-
the Chinese people.
open to her? Will she seize, the fidence of their own Government
opportunity as it passes? I do and of their countrymen and I
not know. China cao I wish I could persuade some
The Salvation of do not doubt that working in the Chinaman of historical knowledge nection in my life except as mem- Chinese, and the measure of her come only from the spirit which informed Sir John and of statesmanship and ber of the Government with the Jordan's long career they will help authority with his own people to Far East but as a
member of Progress and the extent of her to restore the feelings of con- explain that all this system of various Governments I have talk-progress will be the measure and fidence and friendship between unequal treaties was not of oured with many men whose active extent of the capacity and good- China and ourselves which are choosing. We did not desire it. lives have lain in the Far East. ment can bring to the solution of will which the Chinese Govern- momentarily, but I hope only It was the minimum we could ask I have never yet met an English this great question. (Cheera). momentarily, interrupted of a China which repeiled the man who had been in China and (Cheers).
foreigner and would not give passed at any rate a reasonable bute all we can. Unequal treaties "We, on our side, will contri- The present situation is grave. justice in her courts or secure for part of his working life there or It would be idle to pretend to shut, him the ordinary advantages or who was intimately connected were not. conditions arbitrarfly one's eyes to all the difficulties civilisation and orderly Govern with British trade with China imposed on China by Foreign that have arisen or to the serious ment,
who had not imbibed a great
Powers, They were the inevit- issues which are involved. "The Necessary Protection. sympathy with the Chinese,able consequence of the unwilling Chinese people cannot escape the
(Cheers), a great trust in the neas, or of the inability, of the impact of Western thought, and which opened China, through that I would add, almost a personal foreigners the protection and It was largely British policy honour of their pledged word and China of that day to extend to the new wine of the West poured and subsequent treaties, to inter-affection for the characteristic liberty which they could meet in into the old vessels of the East national trade and it was first and features of Chinese nationality.overy Western country. If those ferments and menaces us with a foremost British enterprise which (Cheers). cataclysm. In that troubled scene showed the way to other nations
intolerable conditions can be put external. influences find their and proved to them how great a there to the new conference forti- tional Treaty privileges come to
Our representatives will go at endi to, reasons for the excep opportunity and seek their own market was open to them, to us fed by those old friendships and an end. We are ready to review profit out of the misfortunes of and to the Chinese to the mutual inspired by a sympathy for China the situation, to meet China half- China and in encouraging the advantage of the world. hostility of a section of the
that they drink in at every way and to relinquish our special Chinese nation to nations like our stances alter. We are ready, as have passed their lives there, Chinese Government can assure Times change and circum- gathering of Englishmen who righta jest in proportion as the own, which desire nothing but to all our history shows, to adapt ready to take full account of to our nationals the due enjoy live in peace with them and to ourselves to new conditions. These Ching's aspirations, conscious ment of the ordinary rights of contribute to their prosperity and treaties were a creation of a part that we have no interest that can foreigners in every country. Un- Bo contributing to theirs, to make cular set of circumstances. confict with the real and abiding equal Treatles, as they are called, As circumstances change and as interests of China, itself, and were the means appropriate st The situation is rendered more the Chinese by their own govern- fortified by the knowledge that in the time they were made to secure difficult by the interval strife and ment and through themselves can serving their own country they common justice for foreigners quarrels of the Chinese among secure to the foreigner within need do nothing and ask nothing within China; but we have no des themselves and by lack of control their gates protection for himself which will not equally avail to the by the Central Althorities over and his property, an orderly and advantage of China and what happens in the provinces, ir local tourand Wat Trial But though these zio five fene system and just trial in Chinese peop
of Sir John Jordan as
a great
Britain's Representatives.
bur own.
complains to-day.
can undertake
The Tarif Conference. Our only wish is for a strong, united, independent, orderly and prosperous China. The meeting of Tariff Conference gives to the Chinese themselves an unrivalled freedom and to secure respect for opportunity to advance. their own their Government and themselves and to take their place with all
interval since the Washington them were questions It is not our fault if in the their inimemorial history behind.
Treaties Not Our Choosing.
Canes where he is charged with
tures of the situation and add to any offence against the laws of the difficulties of the problem they country in which he is a guest ar, I am convinced, only surface the Chinese Government can features. They are grave enough us these things we will but they are symptomatic of render the special
hanges, which are taking place in
ware brought sh
no less than in the only in orde orld; and with goodwill between China wit
Sympathetic Attllude.
I have had no personal con-
I read the other
sire for medial privileges.from. the moment that the ernment is willing
enough to star the antecutio
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