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EUROPEAN OPINION ON CHINA CRISIS.
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM VARIOUS QUARTERS.
HOW MR. GEORGE LANSBURY, M.P., WOULD "CLEAR UP THE MESS."
The situation in China is no longer a front-page feature, says the China E press and Telegraph of July ath, but it continues nevertheless to receive consider able attention and gives cause for not a little anxiety.
SIR ALFRED MOND ON CHINA
-TRADE.
WIDER 'SURVEY OF THE PROBLEM
NEEDED..
Sir Alfred. Mond speaking during the cause of a debate in the China Crisis in the House of Commons on July 2nd, said: Our export trade with China had different nationalities on whom reg
For almost disappeared. The representative ponsibility rests at this crisis. them we ask wisdom and power of of his firm in Shanghai had sent theat vision which shall lead to a firm, con-
eable stating that Bolshevism was be siderate, and generous handling of a situation of extraordinary difficulty. coming, steadily predominant and anti- The urgency of the question renders British feeling was running dangerously.
communication impossible adequate with the other leaders of religious high. Moderate Chinese were terrified, thought in England, but we have every, and if foreign Governments showed any, reason to anticipate concurrence of all in this serious" appeal.
CREWE.
3. Briand; the Foreign Minister, on July 3rd revivid Lord Crewe, the British Ambassador. It is understood that they discussed the proposal of the American Government for a conference to deal with the events in China, Com-
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YESTERDAY'S GAME.
The Japanese beat South China bỷ 7 runs to 1 on the Happy Valley diamond, yesterday aftercon. after a very tame display on both sides.
The sides were as follows:-
JAPANESK.
A. Akiyamın sign of weakening the situation would H. Hachimu
S. Hachima brvome very serious. A few years ago | Yakoi Great Britain and the Dominions repre- Takatowi
S. Uno.. sented 50 per cent of China's import K Kusai
Our trade rights, and tracke nationals in China must be protected, K. Ishimatsu and any steps which the Government tock in that direction would have the support of the country.
our
In Parliament the netivities of the Bol- sheviks in China against Creat Britain have given rise to several important ques- tions. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, reply- ing for the Government, declared that the M. BRIAND CONFERS WITH LORD policy of the Government as laid down in the King's Speech would not be alter- ed. But he firmly declined to tie the hands of the Cabinet in regard to any action which might be deemed necessary for the defence of British interests in circumstances which he described "critical" His restrained but none thementing on the interview, the Journal less painted replies were highly signi declares that an eventual conference on the Chinese problem could not ignore the ficant. No diplomatic "ultimatum,
question of relations with Soviet Russia formal Note af protest and warning, has as' yet 'been despatched to Moscow. But who, the paper says, is at the bottom of
the present Chinese agitation, the great majority of Ministers fert, that
|paper adds that the Powers are quitement had vision and courage to trent' some action is urgent and imperative, and the Unionist rank and file are vir-ready to admit China of a footing of the matter as an investment, not by the tually solid on this point. Any danger equality with themselves, but it first of Crown Colonies, but by Great Britain, of collision with Rasia is, of course, dur all behoves. China to show that she is and to base loans not on the security of
The
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SOUTH CHINA.
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C.
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B. Shun
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S. L. Li
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I. T. Lang
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S. C. Pung
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P. F. Choy
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SCORES BY INNINGS. The scores in the six innings playe
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Japanese
0 400 2-7 South China 0 0 0 0 D 1-
CROWN COLÓNY DEVELOPMENT.
Sir Alfred Mond said it was necessary that the Government should make a wider
had made in the past, If the Govern«NO USE WAITING UPON IMPOTENT survey of our trade problems than they
THE ONLY WAY."
."
PEKING."
Let us suppose. writes Palaco in the Chino Expres and Telegraph, that in
at most. the last necessary ratification of to the conviction that Soviet agents are capable of assuming the responsibilities the revenues of the Crown Colonies, but the course of the next few days, or weeks on, the security of our crit, and pro- the King Power Taraty is deposited, im actively stirring up hostility towards entailed by sich equality, Great Britain. Of this Mr. Chamberlain said they had evidence which it would be inexpedient to publish, in addition to
ZENOYLEFF'S BOAST
기
#ceeded with big schemes of transporta-accordance with Article X, at Washing- ton;} and et suppose that America,
In his latest contribution to the Botion, and particularly railways, they
intention to take the lead in bringing
the sufficient grounds," as be regarded i shevik Press, Zinovief appears to be par- would in a very few yunus see an enor who has already given indications of n them, contained in the speech of the ticularly elated by what he regards as the mumis transformation in the trule of this Soviet Ambassador in Peking. Finally swift results of the recent appral to country. Was the Government prepared order out of the Chinese chaos, then pro-
Mr. Chamberlain appealed to everyone, in circumstances which are critical, to refrain from language of any kind that would make thein more dangerous. than they are."
"
He to come put on big lines-not a few
ceeds to convene the Special Conference› bolshevisg as quickly as possible," writes in the Ireath of July 28th millions here and a few millions there,
with CL The Chinese events will undoubtedly but
really big scheme have a tremendous revolutionising in £40,000,000 or £50,000,000 spread over fluence on the other countries of the East,
Englund will find herself confronted with
of
a
Mr. Chamberlain's recent statement that
no discussion of these large issues is
11
possible intil "the Chinese Government,
and first of all on the British Colonieser of years? "A big issue like that, THE COTTON TRADE VIEW.
and those Eastern States which are de which the Government could finance, to Quite unofficially, and disclaiming the pendent on Imperialist England. To-day the Crown Colonirs, would be popular; character of a deputation, some four of China hins risa; to morrow it will be the money could be obtained more ebeap-shown their ability, to enforce law and
five members of the Manchester Chamber India:
base taken steps to put an end to the present nati-foreign riots,, and hate
order. We shall reach deadlock agaiu.
Is the restoration of law and order to precede the Cenference or is the Con- ference to gonie first? Which is to the
cause and which is to be effect? I hold that there is no means of restoring law and order in Chins, short of an inter-
To day Shanghai. Hongkong, y. and the issue would be profitable. of Cinumerie who have business connee Peking. Canton are in the throes of re. Such a scheme would involve the placing to-morrow Calenttu aud for years ahead of contracts for rolling tions and special knowledge of labour |volution; conditions in Ching, had a two hours Madras will rise also. Tint is why we stock and bridgee. He failed to see why Conference at the House of Commons on are adding to our slogan Workers of such a policy should not be adopted. July 6th with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald the World. Unite!" the words and the
A BOLSHEVIST EXPERIMENT. as to the effect of the present troubles oppressed nations of the East!"
The Soviet Press prominently expresses upon the cotton trud of Manchester.
The chief Asiatic correspondent of the national expeditionary force or a man- There were with the Labour party leader the greatest satisfaction with the address
conference at which China is fully and It will not be cther members of his party, including of the Chinese Bolshevik General. Feng Kolnische Zeitung deals with the situa-date to Japan, except an international
properly represented. Mr. Arthur Henderson, Mr. Clynes. Mr. Yu Hsiang, to his followers, and specially tion at Canton at the beginning, of May.
enough for two or three nominees of the Mr. his statement that they were not only The correspondent soon discovered that Trevelyan, Mr. Wheatley.. and
present group of affice-holders doing duty Greenwood. The proceedings were pri prepared to give the blood of two ban-Moscow has not only great influence, but vate. The interview was for the purpose dred thousand soldiers for the Chinese also great power in Caston. For example, for a Central Government in Peking to of giving and receiving information. people, but that they were ready take the military instructors in the school for attend, as did Koo and Sie at Washing- op the struggle for the world's oppressed cadets at Whampoa are appointed by ton, it will be necessary also to have re- The deputation pointed out that China
presentatives from Cantun, Chengtu, was Manchester's, second best market for peoples against Imperialism. The Soviet Russia, as are the expert advisers of the cotton. The meeting is of, interest in newspapers declare that although the General Stall of the Fiving Corps and Kalgan, Mukden, and elsewhere. It will not do to ennäne the discussion to likin view of the various resolutions passed by perch was not an actual declaration of of other military institutions The Bol-
and the Surtax, the Agenda Paper must Labour, and Socialist hodies in this coun- war against England; it was character-sheviks, the correspondeut contínues, have been experimenting in Canton for ten
China's Atatus as a nation, her embrace. try and forwarded to China."
years. The experiments took the form
legal code and judicature, ber standing of a
Young Chinese movement which
army, her budget, her railways, and her War Movement on July 6th eighton Commissar for Foreign Affairs, has ad was looked on favourably. Since the debts, it is useless to trifle with the countries urre represented by over sixty dressed to Mr. Hodgson, British Charge Russian revolution, however, terrorist Chinese problem, the position is becoming delegates. Mr. George Lansbury. M.Pd'Affaires in Moscow, if not protesting authods have gained the upper hand. desperate, and the remedy must be des said: Again. and again we are being against the trial by the fixed Court in Not only is there at present, the corres- asked in the House of Corimons,. Are Shanghai of the Russian subject, Dosser,
NO MORE WAR MOVEMENT.
At a reception by the British No More
istic of the movement now foot,
Husto
"RED AGENT No. 43
that Tehitcheria,
Tchiteherin main.
perate too.
Overtures on these. lines are assured Young. The better part of that hoary you prepared to have women and child who was arrested on a charge of prepar|pondent asserts, no way to the interior rea to the ferneity of the Chinese? Weing to commit a hostile act against cer- of China that is safe, but the city of of a welcome alike from Old China and ared not argue whether the Chinese are tain foreign States.
is inevitable. The correspondent adds rescue from the pitiable plight of strife ferocious or not. No English need he tains that the document presented to the Canton gives the impression that its ruin old nation will rally to the prospect of to and insecurity into which her first casay that England's growing aversion in China. They can come away if they Court by the British, police authorities want to. Suppose people like us had to as belonging to Dosser is a forgery, and Russia manifests itself in hostility be in democratic government has plunge take in hand the job of clearing up the refers to previous communications of the tween Hongkong and Canton, and every her. On the other hand, if Mr. Chamber-
we Soviet Government and its plenipoten- IDESS that Capitalism has made,.
outcome cannot be foreseen.
ensuing Greek Kalends..
should say Government has promised tiary Rakowsky on the subject of "mithing is being done by the British with lain's dictum is accepted as pied de la these people protection. We are prepar-chievous falsifications" of Soviet und intellectual and material means to starve lettre, if we wait for the impotent ed to bring them away and compenanta Communist documents. The note insists Out Bolshevist ideas in Canton. An ex-Chief Executive" in Peking to do what, them for any loss. We know that would that the prosecution of Dotser shall be periment is being conducted in Canton he and his predecessors have signally withdrawn and that he shall be set at which the whole of Asia is watching. it failed to do for the past decade, wo my cast money, but so would war'."
Mr. Feaner Brockway, the newly-liberty, and also reserves to the Sovies is crystallised in an embittered" struggle as well throw in our checks and look for elected chairman of the War Besisters Government the right to demand full between England and Russin, and the the Reorganisation of China at the next
compensation. Intentional, said, "I think can any
Dosser, officially known as Agent No. on behalf of the Labour movement of this country that if the policies, which the 43, is, according to the Daily Mail, a Government is pursuing lead to war with Bolshevik whose record in known to the China and with Russia as they promise authorities In 1818 he was at the head to do, the whole Labutr movement would of the committer of Bolsheviks known as the Sovnarhoz," at Haku, in the Cau- Traist-it."...
The anxiety caused on all hands by the casus, which Lak control of the Baku
their pationalisation anti-foreign sentiment in Ching is oilfields on flected in an appeal, published on July June, 1918. He was formerly in the car- 8th. by the Archbishops of Canterbury ploy of an oil firm in the Caucasus an and York for prayer in all the churches statistical clerk. He escaped arrest in 1918, when the Turks and Kurds plander- of the land. It says:--
iz
So grave, so anxious, and so complied Baku and massacred thousands of the cuted is the situation in China that population; but his colleagues," Schan we feel it to be incumbent upon us to man," Commissar General for the Can- Djaparidze, president of the urge that, in our Churches and at casus," home, prayer should be offered on he Soviet of Workmen's, Peasants' and half of the Christians engaged in Mis Soldiers Deputies, and eighteen others sionary, and especially in Educational were shot by order of the Committee of work throughout China; and of any of Public Safety of Turkestan on September our fellow-countrymen" who may be in 20th of that year.
(Continued on next, Column). danger, and aled for the statesmen of
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