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the Government on the score of "Weakness," and who would logic- ally incite the Government to some vague Lut furious sort of military action against China, are an embarassment to the Govern- ment..
FUTILE PROTESTS.
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·HANKOW TROUBLE.hut both Governments during that Have we a policy in China, or are wo Interval take the necessary steps tolving merely from hand to mouth? abollah internal taxation. Lastly, To hudgo from Lord Balfour's If both Governments desired the speech in the House of Lords a Powers should be propared forth-week or two ago we are simply wait- with to cancel the sanctuary whiching for something to turn up the now extended to Chinese in foreign only organised Government that we concessions and settlements. -
have ever known, that of Poking. bas virtually disappoarod, and are waiting until out of the com- pleto confusion seme now authority China and the Powers,
appears, fully armed.. to take itą. The favourite theory cherishod don remarks: For British In- satisfactory to wait until we are The "Daily Telegraph" (Lon-place. And yet It la ng wholly in some Press quarters that the terests and Treaty-rights there perhaps confronted by a new auMPRESS OF CANADA Chinese upheaval is the work of appears now to be no prospect of thority which, having nothing Moscow is regarded as fl-inform- protection whatever outside the thunk us for and being animated by EMPRESS OF ASIA
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA. ed. What is running through limits of the concessions. That is the grievances of a Lentury, some China is, the Kuomintang the also true of the other European just and some unjust, approaches EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
EMPRESS OF CANADA extremist Nationalist movement and the Japanese communities. Fue in a spirit of sheer hostility. EMPRESS OF ASIA to which even the Peking "auth-Long-continued failure on the For there is much at stake in China. orities-if one can use such part of the Powers to arrive at we have a trade there which, in
EMPRESS OF CANADA word for convenience-have paid agreement for a concerted policy spite of all recont fronds on it, is
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA increasing lip-service up to the of resistance to "aggression is now still of immense importance to us.
EMPRESS OF ASIA time of Mr. Wellington Koc's re-its expected fruit. Not only the We have a grent position both in signation. The fever of xenopho-Cantonese Government, but every the treaty ports and in the Interior. bia has spread from Canton to other self-constituted authority We have a large interest in the Hankow, and the feeling in official in China is convinced that foreign peaceful development of China, in quarters is that the fever is mere- Governments are afraid to assert the friendly disposition of the Chi ly inflamed by the pugnacious for-themselves by any means strong-nese people towards us, and in the eign commentatora,
er than formal protest. Their maintenance of peace and prosper The naval measures that are power to influence the situation ity in the whole of the Far East for being taken by the China station has completely vanished. The de- which the participation of China is are directed only towards the pronunciation of the Belgian Treaty essential We tection of life and property, and by the shadow Government in therefore, to maintain a purely pas- cannot afford, the greatest care is being taken Peking, in direct violation of the sive, drifting attitude if any better diplomatically to avoid any sem- terms of that instrument, has can be found. blance of intervention in Chinese been met by no concerted declara- [affairs.
tion of right. The imposition of increased Customs duties by the WESTERN IDEAS..
Canton Government, also in direct violation of Treaties, has called Discussing the problem of China, the "Sunday Times" says: the Powers concerned. The pro- forth nothing but protest from The position is complicated by the test has been rejected in insulting fact that any intervention that-
terms; the duties are being col may become necessary can only Flected and applied to the same aggravate the anti-foreign agita tion which is the basis of the purposes as the plundered salt re- venues. The new attack on the present trouble. What, then foreign administration of the Cus- An Great Britain do? If she toms, established by Treaty and were to reassert the freedom of operating to the immerse benefit, action she surrendered at Wash-of the Chinese revenues, has long ington and proceed to protect her been expected, and the last re- Interests on her own initiative, ruining security of foreign in- what good could come of it? Itvestors is directly threatened. would be futile to engage in un- limited warfare, and the result
Counsels of Despair.
of limited interference could only stances Europeans in China have In these deplorable circum- be an intensification of anti-been reduced to counsels of de- British feeling, Whether we likespair. The possible necessity of it or not, the truth is that the a general withdrawal to those nationalist sentiment which is so centres where direct protection strongly manifesting itself in can be given is being faced. As China to-day is an ungovernable for the vast body of Treaty-pro- evolutionary force: Undoubted-tected foreign interests in China; ly, it is being utilised to the full-it appears est possible extent by Moscow policy of our own and other Gov to be the accepted whose rulers lose no opportunity ernments that they must be left of fostering disorder, and who to find their own salvation until see in the Chinese situation such time as the political situa- heaven-sent chance to strike ation in China settles down in some blow at Great Britain in the stable form, whether under an East. But the discontent is not effective central Government, or in itself their creation; it is a under a combination of feder clear example of developing na-ated authorities,
At tional conselousness, the suppres- present time it is hardly worth the sion of whigh history has proved while to bestow much asteption it to be unwise and unprofitableupon such matters as the Report to attempt.
of the "Commission upon Extra- Long Slumber Over. For this
Territoriality in China." Its ar- reason-if for no raignment of the injustice and other-it would be unwise to em-corruption of Chinese tribunals, bark on any scheme of interven- Fits, account of the tyrannical' viol. tion other than may be foreedence of the military despois, and upon us, in conjunction with its declaration of the impossibi- other Powers, for the protection lity of surrendering extra-terri- of our immediate interests. The torial privileges while such condi East generally is afire with re-tions continue, completely vitiate volt consequent on the infusion the proposdia which it makes for of Western ideas and culture: it the distant future, but it is per- is awakening from long slumber, haps matter of relief to find that and no power can keep its eyelids there are limits to the readiness closed. Slowly the process must of international bodies to close work itself out, and when that their eyes to the reality of affairs has been accomplished the rela-in China. tionship between China and the foreign Powers will be readjust-
it
Safety of Foreigners. As things stand, the first ques
ed. In the meantime, whatever tion is that of the mere personal local action may be forced upon security of the many thousands of them, the Government will be Europeans who, putting their right if they continue to pursue faith in the sanctity of interna their policy of patience.
tional engagements, have made their homes, on Chinese soil and WORKING POLICY...
now find themselves threatened China Commitee's
by a vigorously stimulated out- break of anti-foreign passion. It Views.
is not likely that the campaign Addressing a meeting of Conser-directed against foreign trading vative peers and M.P.'s at the House activity in China will be long-con- of Commons, Mr. Leefe, Chairmantinued. Such madness is not, in of the, China Committee, indicated the nature of things, an enduring the course of action that 'the com- condition. The Chinese cannot mtive suggested the British Govern dispense with a commerce which that Britain had had no polley to social life, and has been an un- ment should adopt. He complained has long been a necessity of their, wards China during the last few mixed benefit to them. A critical years, and declared that, if this stage has been reached in the situation continued, it could only career of that nationalist move- lead to the practical extinction of ment of which the arch-enemies British trade in that country. The of Western civilisation have two alternative courses open to the known how to take advantage. The Government were to continue doing international will to set limits to nothing or to deal with the Canillegitimate and barbarous aspects tonese Government. He suggested of its activity has been wanting. that we should give a lead, and that It remains to see that those ele-1 the British diplomatic representa-mentary duties which no foreign tives in China should inform the Government could conceivably res Cantonese Government that directlypudiate or neglect are carried out ft restored peace and good order in with all necessary vigour as long the territory it governed and ter- as the orgy of political insanity minated all boycotts and strikes and savage cruelty now afflicting against. foreigners it would be re- the miserable. millions of China; cognised by the Powers.
.continues.
HAVE WE / POLICY?
"Living From Hand to
Mouth."
ties to be Reviewed. Sieously the Peking and Contohehe authorities should be in- formed that the existing treaties! would be reviewed with the respec- tive Governments which had been But, after ull, protection for Bri- established in the aorth and soutb. tigh subjects, though it is anim Finally, that until treaties had been mediato obligation, does not carry rovised both Governments would beus far says the Manchester required to recognise existing trea- Guardian". In the course of a leading tion, Further, that tariff automony article reviewing the problems in would be extended to North and China. Protection for British aub South China from Jan. 1, 1928 orjects involves emergency measures 1929, or some convenient date, and only; it does not constitute a policy.
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