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grave responsibility for the sacrifice of those lives must

rest with those who wantonly began the attack, and with the

Chinese authorities, who, deregarding the fally and danger of their action, allowed inflamable material to be placed ready to the hands of egitators seeking for an opportunity

to cause a conflagration.

The Chinese delegation, in their definition of the

ensuing boycott of British trede, have implied that this

movement is a voluntary abstention from all comercial

reletions with the British, and they add that the boycott

has been sustained by the Chinese people for more than a

year. With great respect we say most emphatically that that

definition and that statement are entirely at variance with

the facts.

It is imposed

The abstention is not a voluntary one.

on an unwilling people by a small but powerful organisation of persons who maintain the boycott by force of arma and who do not hesitate to shoot down their own fellow country- men when the latter try to continue those normal relations which ought to exist between close and friendly neighbours, and which will certainly, sooner or later, burst through the artificial and economically unsound barriers which prevent their free action at prasant. It would be easy to test the correctness of this assertion, and we are quite

1 aure that if these barriers were removed the current of trade and friendly intercourse would flow freely again, bringing mutual benefit to Chinese and British alike.

Te need scarcely say that we do not ask that any voluntary abstention should be "suppressed by force". All that we ask is that an involuntary abstention should not

Te do be maintained by force or artificial means.

not wish to be misunderstood here. We fully realise that

a year ago many Chinese believed, erroneously as we

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