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Peiping, August 14.-That the government of Manchuria will

erge from the present civil wars. as the most powerful influence in China is now foreseen as a distinct possibility. While other Chinese fzetions have been using up their reserves and mortgaging their fu-

ture,

Manchuria has remained "neutral" and thereby increased its prosperity.

CRITICISM OF NEW CONVENTION,

·RATÍFICATION DOUBTFUL.

GOVERNMENT'S POLICY

"OPPOSED.

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COMMISSION.

Particulars of a Convention sign-

The unofficial members of the cd by representatives of France and China at Nanking in May for Legislative Council almost un the better regulation of afsirs benimously oppose the Government's

tween French Indo-China and the Chinese Government have now been published in Paris.

programme of expenditure for the financial year beginning on October 1. The Government has budgeted for increased commitments, and for

· a ̈deficit' which it proposes to meet by repaying into revenue from the recently raised loan the moneys which were formerly allocated to capital expenditure from surplus funds. The Opposition contends that a precedent has been created for future years by the Govern. ment's scale of expenditure, which anticipates an ultimate increase in revenue from the income-tax, which

The Convention arranges for Consular representation, passports, the right of domicile, transit, ahd Customs tariffs, together with legal questions such as the right of ar- Not only has Manchuria remain rest and extradition of criminals. ed entirely peaceful while the rest The duration of the Convention is of China was speridag its resour-

five years. It follows the principle cek in fighting, but the Manchurian of mutual treatment of nationala government has made a lot of in matters of trading and taxa money by selling munitions to the tion, and the most favoured nation other factions. The arsenal at treatment for Chinese in Indo-is not get passed. « Mukden has been working night China in matters of jurisdiction and day turning out trench mor- and civil procedure.

tars and ammunition to sell to all groups in Chins proper.

The existing privileges of the Chinese in Indo-China are confirm "Cash on delivery has been Mukden's motte," and militarista ed by letter. A second letter con- have ignored other obligations intains a mutual undertaking to ex

The attitude of the unofficial majority suggests that reliance can- .not be played on new taxation of any sort being sanctioned apart from the betting tax of 31 per cent,

pared for encrifice. He suggested the appointment of a Commission, recruited from England, to over haul the salaries and personnel of the public departments, and to cut down the cost of administration, which absorbs 47 per cent. of: Cey- lon's revenue, and warned the Gov- artment that the Income-tax Bill," which would come up for third reading scan, would be defeated at least by 23 votes to 21.

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which passed the third reading this opposite Gospel) Requirements 21

submitted for second reading. Mr.

order to pay for munitions of war. Amine within three months ques-week. When the Supply Bill was The Mukden navy has been busy tions relating to the Yunnan Rail delivering these supplies to. uny faction which can produce the cash way.' to pay for them.

The new Convention has evoked a good deal of eriticism, so much

M. J. Cary, a European commer- eial meraber, outlined a policy of The present civil war has been

drastic retrenchment drafted by a sub-committee of unofficial members. the most severe in China's modern history. There has been real fight-so that it is considered doubtful It is significant that this is the first ing "everywhere, and the last pos whether its ratification this autumn

time an attempt has been made by the unofficial members to secure a sible copper has been wrung from

can be regarded as "certain. The united nancial policy opposed to the people to pay the expenses of half a million fighting men. A Convention is intended to replace that of the Government, whose in- Chinese army used to be able to the Convention of 1988, which was teation is to maintain the existing rate of development and progress. fight cheaply, ignoring such modern denounced by the Nationalist Gov-financed by the new taxation and weapons & aeroplanes and heavy erament of China in the general loan money. artillery,

foreign Governments which took place in 1928.

But those days are past. Every denunciation of undertakings with importaut Chinese general must have the most modern weapons, and is willing to pay for them, Mukden has been the first to see the possibilities of profit in selling munitions rather than using them. Every faction in China has made a frantic effort to enlist the sup- port of the "young marshal,

Under the new Convention, the French Government agrees for the first time to the appointment of a Chinese Consul to Hanoi or Hai. Chang Hacuh Liang, governor of phong and to Saigon. Simultane Manchuria, in the divil war. ously it agrees that Chinese living Chang hag been been offered mil-in Indo-China shall enjoy the same lions of dollars to join one side or treatment as other foreigners con- the other. He has wisely evaded

all offers, Mukden has been governing the rights of residence and ing too well as a "neutral" to risk travel, the right to engage in trade taking any part in the conflict.

Whatever the outcome of the war,

and industry, legislation," and the

China proper is already thorough-law-courts..

ly exhausted by the struggle. The Chinese Congregations" in Indo-

credit of all factions has been strained to the limit. Debts have been contracted which will use up

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In other terme, the so-called "régime of Chinese congregation”.

as the people can be coerced to under which the Chinese lived in pay them.

Indo-China is abolished. These

But the Manchurian government has not spent one cent in warfare "Coagregations," or Chinese-com- during this period, and has actual-munities, were continued on the ly profited by the conflict. The same lines as native Annamite Manchurian controlled railways

con.

have done better businees because villages, with chiefs appointed for militarists are using the others. a number of years by the Govern. Manchurian businessmen "bavement of Indo-China. But the taken business" which those in China proper could not handle extraordinary feature of the new under the penalties of war Convention is that, in addition, ditions.

the Chinese in Indo-China are to retain all their special privileges and coffeering the coastal trade, river navigation, etc., ne discri mination is to be made between the. Annamites and themselves. Indo-Chinese Government" always was of opinion that through such. stipulation as is embodied in the

The Mukden "government appears to be the first in modern China to comprehend fully the advantage of pénce. Considered purely upon a cash basis, their gains have been so obvious that WAY no longer tempt them.

When Chang Tso Lin ruled Man churia, he could not resist the temptation to meddle in the con-. flicts of China proper: His

The

son, the present ralei, apparently new treaty, the 400,000 or 500,000

is not this tempted. He is reput

ed to have said, "If Manchuria Chinese under its jurisdiction. keeps out of China's warfare, it would get out of control.

will eventually get all the power

it wants. The prediction is al-Bargaining on Extra-Territoriality. ready realized.

LESSON SERMON.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,

SCIENTIST HONG KONG..

Presumably the French Ministry

of Foreign Affairs has made these concessions to the Nanking Go orament in the hope that it may Bave its extra-territoriality right in Shanghai and other other treaty ports but in competent quarters in Paris it is believed that the cal culation may prove wrong, end that meanwhile new fuel will have "Mind" was the subject of the been brought to Indo-Chiness Lesson-Sermon in all..Churches of agitation. Pertinax," the able Christ, Scientist on Sunday, August diplomatic writer of the Beho

de Paris, lends the very sharperi The Golden Teat was Wheticism of the Convention in an 8- hath known the mind of the Lordticle in, which he declares that it or who hath been his counsellor?" threatens the stability of Indo-

Romans 11. 34), ****

China and expresses the hope that Among the citations which com- the French Parliament, enlighten. prised the Lesson Sermon was the ed by the recent troubles in that following from the Bible: the colony, will not lightly ratify it, depth of the riches both of the for to do so, he contends, would wisdom and knowledge of God:

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boy unsearchable are his judg only increase the serious difficul mente, and his way gust finding. ties that face France. out! For of him, and through him, The truth is, concludes: this and to him, are all things: to whom writer, that, by his concessions to be glory for ever. Amen." (Rom. the detriment of Indo China, the 3320)

WIN Fungi Foreign Minister is trying to effect. ed the following passages from policy of Nanking, with, domande the Christian Science. text-book, the abandonment of our concession Science and Health with Key to at Shanghai, ete, But nothing will the Scripture by Mary Baker modify Nanking's demands unleas Eddy" Infinite Mind can have no it be the fall, always possible, of starting-point, and can return to that Government. Moreover, as no limit. It can never be in bonds, between Shanghai and Indo-China nor bo, fully manifested through, it is absurd to decide in favour corporeality" (p. 294)..

of Shanghai."

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