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British Foreign Secretary's Straight Speaking.

IMPORTANT

7

STATEMENT.

"No Weakness or Hesitation or Doubt."

SHANGHAI OUTRAGES WARNING.

Chinese Government To Be Held Responsible.

AND BRITISH LIVES PROPERTY.

PROTECTION

Mr.

FOR

Austen Chamberlain's Striking Speech,

Unazaliguous.

(Renter's Service)

admitted that the industrial con- ditions were not ideal. He said that the British Government was doing and hati ways done its best to effect improvemem. bur Lunden, June 18, the trouble was much deeper

Mro Chamberlain re-f In the House of Commons seated. answering question "Whatlerred to the dissatisfaction and the British Government going to discontent in the simost incoher- fo in the course of debate eft and governmentless congerie initiated by the Hon. Mr. C. P. of countries forming the Chinese: Trevelyan (Labou) on the situa Empire which netwithstanding tion in China, Mr. Auster, Chun- the goodwill and international, berlain, Secretary

the of Foreign-operation promised at

Mr. Austen Chamberlub

Disastrous Education,

Later.

represented at the conference.

| Washington Conference had pre- vented the Powers doing little more than stand, and watch.

Mr. Chamberlain denied that She sole to fire was given pre perkates. Ma, the intrary no 24 wa uken uncal the police was endangered with the

palped."

|

Child

"May Lust read on

which will appear in Paper that has been

the House? It is darece

eign Office June 10 addressed to the foss

30th

"Sir,i am directua Secretary Chamberlain form you that he has receive Mr. Frank's despatch of the ultimo reporting his efforts to further the intre tion by the Shanglei Ma Council of legislation lines of the recommend, contained in part three, report of the Ch

escape altogether the control might be misrepresented and the Central Government and', might equse prejudice, and await- represent conflicting forces ing the moment when in combined involving China in civil action they could help Ching to'

be more peaceful and more pros perous in future."

Washington Conference.

ircumstances and China, is

"Yet if the attitude

of

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Mr. Sydney Barton at ShIs it surprising in these Great Powers interested in the passing through a period of trou China has been mostly inactive, ble that in the short time that I think it may well be argued that has elapsed it has not been re-even this inuction has been salu- solved? It was in circumstances, tary, and has been the beat ser of this kind that the Washington vice they coulter China at Conference met. It met with a this time. Take an example You choose your home with genuine desire to help China over which members criticise but have Take the the difficulties with which she was much misunderstood.

a genuine Consortium of the Banka, Every confronted and with desire to prevent the rivalries of faction holding power in Chinh at the Western nations from inter- any moment would have been Commission. Mr. Carpin fering with Chinese progress or ready to pledge the resources of appreciated the tit prejudicing the national develop- China to obtain money for any The Consortium is taken in the matter helf ment. It is sometimes sald that purpose. and in your absence the results were negligible. Is it prevented rivalry between there Frank. He approves the action nothing that that conference laid foreign Powers interest in China. reported in the above mention the basis of peace in the Pacific in seeking loans and dissipating ed despatch and desires ber that it resulted in engagements Consortium itself has done no the resources of China. The kept fully informed of all among the great Western Powers developments. In particular and Japan? In all cases and business, has gained nothing for he wishes to be informed of the Japan. I used the phrase West- itself. has prevented a great deal steps that may be taken if the ern Powers but I hasten to say all undesirable business being deadlock restilting on the the Great Powers interested in done and thus by its negative at- absence of a quorum continues. China, and none is more inter- titude, has conserved the re- The House will therefore. Iested than Japan in engagements sources of China for the moment of effective recuperation and the hope. take it as the common to

Chinese sovereignty. And that ioration of the Chinese Re- ground of all of us tha

the conference resulted in the public. undertaking to consider, the re- is in form of the customs with a view eted to providing China with greater revenue for the purpose Chinese developments?

to secure better condition remove abuses, and th ever Brish Governṛ power its efforts will 10 those ends.

Wider Iss Having said so much beg the House to look at the arge aspects

and

Lock

mon

the

party

prevent encroachment

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"Is is nothing that it resulted the Government what they were Mr. Chamberlain declared that this problem. If you do not in an undertaking to investigate going to do. He asks that question See the occurrences the last the working of the extraterri- in the midst of agitation which the Governmiot was anxious to fey day in their proper perspec- torial system? I thank that was threatens lives, and has cost the ua its utmost to facilitate the tive, you will be a reach, a lust the real advance. At any rate lives of some foreigners in China. ginbilisation oc2, the country, und

conclusion of see wherein lies the was a real guarantee that the for We, ourselves have immense in- branosed to conside the other real remedy for the present dis eign Power's mainly concerned interests in China which are as im

wer to facilitate de promptly contear Allerus

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China would not endeavour to exportant to China as they are to 13th hagthie tha convocation of the at will eatefully de uneques

Successful trade is mutual. kese surti conferoce for support which China render interests but endeavour to help Our interest in China To Tandborg sowed at Washington.

ed to the Allies during the war China in her own development. Interest and every pound profit the Mr. Cumberlain hoped that

which she I frankly admit that we have not British merchant has made, has | ▼ with the goodwill of the Powers

with UK in the com- gathered all the fruits we hoped found its equivalent in value to 11t and China we should help to pilot

struggle.

for as a result. If China has not the Chinese Under these circum- x After the the country through a difficult war there met at Washington that gathered it, of course, we have not stances when some British lives Affairs, said that in common with transition period and establish a conference to which Mr. Treve- gathered it. Our interest is in have been lost, when the lives of the other Power interested, the government firm foundations lyan referred.

There were re-, the peacefu! development of all the members of foreign com- of equity and justice. British Government - would pro-

presented all the Great Powers China and nothing else. I frank-munities may be in some danger, teet, the life and property of Foreign Secretary's Speech,

not the first answer to Mr. Trevelyan's having interests in China and y admit that we British subjects in China and

they met with a single-hearted gathered all the fruits for which question, and an answer which I London, June 18. hold the Chinese Government sé-

desire to help China in the dif- we hoped, but if you seek the am glad to say he foresaw and sponsible for all injuries and Replying to the debate on the ficulties which she had to face. I reason for that, it is not where accepted in the speech he made, is damage wantonly inflicted either situation in China opened by the beg the House to consider what the honourable member opposite that in common with other Powers on British subjects or British Labour member. Mr. Trevelyan, those difficulties were. From our would find it, in a double dose of interested, we shall protect the property. There could be no Mr. Austen Chamberlain said: point of view the work before us original sin which afflicts all his lives and property of British sub- weakness or hesitation. I was Mr. Trevelyan has been gond was part of the great work of re- countrymen except himself, but injects in China and we shell-hold the fundamental duty of every enough to make it plain that he construction which confronted the complexity of the situation the Chinese Government responsi British Government which any did not criticise anything the every country, belligerent or non- with which we have had to deal, ble for all injury and damage inflicted either to WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAWcharge. It is not a remedy for was seeking inspiratioy only as to the war, but in China, the circum moment and in the internal con- perty. (Cheers.) There can be

British Government must dis-Government has yet done and he; belligerent, after the upheaval of the transitional character of wantonly

the Chinese development at this British subjects or British pro- the situation, but a nerensity of what policy the Government was stances were of peculiar difficul-ditions which have hampered and no weakness, no hesitation, no & CO., LTD

the outrages which had occurred. to follow in the future. ty. It was difficult to our HONGKONG.

It is not therefore of imagination to picture the vest-prevented full development of the any criticism of His Majesty's ness of China and her population hopes and reforms contemplated of every British Government and

in Washington.

it is obvious to every British Mr. Lloyd George, the Liberal Government that I have to com- and the diversities which exist

"Disappointed."

Government to discharge it. Leader, in the course of the Plain, or indeed to any such between province and province.

"It is difficult to build on quick- agree with him that it is not the Shanghai debate, hoped that all criticism that I have to answer.

Changing Customs. the interests in China would be the right honourable gentleman's European sense. It is almost a everything is in a state of flux It is the necessity of outrages But I cannot help feeling that "China is not a country in the sand and to construct where remedy for the present position, He declared that there was no view of the situation was too continent. It is a congerie of and transition and it is immense which have taken place but it is single Chinese of the Shanghai uch a surface view, and that nations, not wholly amalgamatedly difficult when the country not the remedy for the situation.

Evil Forces. municipality, although the richest one who really knows the and with deep differences divid- which you are trying to help and ratepayers were Chinese.

"When Mr. Trevelyan treats history of China and the facts of ing its provinces. It includes not in which this work of construc- He declared that the use of the situatio will see that you merely one-fifth of the human tion and regeneration must this whole question as if you could'

must go far deeper than the right race.

be done 13 in America had made of the Boxer honourable gentleman did before of China from the earliest days oldest empire and monarchy must permit me to say that he Tae political

state trace it no further back than ex of transition from Indemnity, though well-intention.

the strike in a Japanese factory he ed. And and disastrous effects in you-can-get-a-true-appreciation of has been saturated in the tradito a modern democratic republic. has really only scratched the sur educating young Chinese in West that which is happening in China tion that it drew, its strength from At Washington I think perhaps face of the problem. It goes much ern ideas and sending them back at the present moment.

its love, respect and reverence for the representatives of the assem- deeper than that. The seat of the its ancestors. Ite institutions bled nations took too rosy a view trouble lies in the discomfort-I were centralised and autocratic. These institutions were weaken of that. It is possible they hoped might use a stronger word-and ing even before the war. In 1911, that once European rivalry and in the discontent of the Chiness ASBESTOS

after the split between the north the attempts of individual foreign people with their present condi- Mr. Lloyd George hoped that

and south of China, the old Em-nations to exploit China were end- tions. They are a practical, hard- we should not repeat the mistake

His pire disappeared and the revolu China would be smooth and rapid ous people. What has been their ed that the domestic recovery of working, laborious and industri. PROTECTED.

of the Boxer repression. He Majesty's present government tionary form of republican gov." demanded that we should not get nor any British Government in ernment was established, and and her own people would be position in recent years? There METAL ROOFING entangled in an isolated move the past or to be formed will en- from that time onwards the united and peaceful and her re- has been no security for life or ment in China. Mr. Ramsay courage evil conditions in the efforts of a vast Party in China covery would be quick and the property: Armies, armed bands MacDonald, the Labour Leader, factories in China or will fail to have been to make this revolu- work of reconstruction not very or simple brigands have interfered agreed that the position was not do. Its best to raise the level of tionary form, of republican gov

long delayed.

with their crops, their trade Moving Backwards, due to a rint or to a temporary industrial conditions in China ernment a reality.

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standing.

the House, I will undertake, I mayness of the attachment of one pred backwards. New armies have the spring's credit is drying up, Labour's Support. ‚

not be thought to underrate for a vince to another, and owing to been sprung into existence and In the circumstances of the gen The debate in the House of industrial system of

moment the evils existing in the regrained traditionalism and China has been a pray to civil eral uneasiness, Widespread auf Commons on Shanghai was though I must not be taken as provincial governors who ad-government, whether central or it is easy to stir up trouble and China, semi-independence of the great war. The organs of effective fering and widespread Insecurity opened by Mr. Trevelyan, who accepting every statement which minister the local government in local, have degenerated, and it is it is in the interest of many people. stressed the alarming graveness the right honourable gentleman large parts of the territory, it was difficult to find any authority in to divert attention from the of the condition in China. He read from the Chinese papers a task which even in the best of China, to-day with which you can domestic causes which really agreed as to the elementary need what paper I do not keen or circumstances must have strendest as a representative body of creste this poverty and misery of the Government to protect the even his statement regards the statesmanship and patriotism the Chinese Empire or in whe Land to impute to foreign --inter: lives of fellow citizens regarding the employment of child labour and political sense of any country; power to carry out any under-farece all the consequences of port, but he contended that the share of the truth. 201 which he promised Labour'e sup- as being the whole truth or a fair and it was all complicated by the taking or anforce their own their own wrong-doing. And it le origin of the trouble, was indua-We all know that the condi- Western ideas on,

disturbing effent of iraps trial, while the climax had come tions of labour are not what we eastern civiliation through unjustifiable shooting. would wish them to be, and no fermented like new wine Mr Trevelyan asserted that British Goverment this or any bottles And to all this Britain was using her forces to other, will be fickly in its duty cation you HAT back up capitalist exploitation or lacking in will to exercise its growth of standing

Chamberlain, replying, Influence to improve it.

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