1937-12-10 — Page 2

EMPIRE

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 10,

UNITY CAMPAIGN

Mr. Neville Chamberlain JAPANESE

On Ottawa Pacts

London, To-day.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain,

received an enthusiastic reception when he address- ed an audience of nearly 3,000 in London last night in connection with the Empire Unity campaign.

DIPLOMAT'S MISSION

Tokyo, To-day. Mr. Masayuki Tani, Minister returned to to Austria, has Tokyo, having been recalled by the Foreign Office.

It is understood that Mr. Tani

China on an important mission.

Mr. Chamberlain said that under the Ottawa Agreement, our imports from countries represent is shortly proceeding to North ed there had increased by 41 per cent., while our ex- ports to those countries had increased by 46 per cent between 1932 and 1936, and there had been a great increase in imports and exports in the first nine months of this year.

The Premier added: "So we see that the policy of Imperial Prefer- ence. in practice has been twice blessed

"It has benefited the Dominions? and also this country.”

During the same period, he said,

our exports to foreign

had greatly increased.

countries

ECONOMIC STABILITY

These figures proved that the in- crease in imperial trade, instead of diminishing foreign trade, had add- ed to the economic stability of thel world and had therefore proved to be a stimulus to international ex- change of goods.

Referring to the ImperialTM Con- ference after the Coronation, Mr. Chamberlain said that never in all history of Imperial Conferences was the sense of kinship better or the fundamental unity between us on all essential issues more clearly de- monstrated.

DEFENCE COLLABORATION

nearer

There were further efforts they could make to bring them their goal, namely, collaboration with other partners in the British Commonwealth in means of defence, in their attitude and relations with foreign powers and in development communication and of means of building up scanty populations with fresh blood.

Speaking of rival systems of gov- ernment, Mr. Chamberlain said: “It is no wish of ours to prescribe to govern- other nations the sort of ment they should have.

"For ourselves, we prefer, and mean to maintain, that form of de- mocracy we have built up for hun- dreds of years, and which is best suited to the habits and ways of thought of our people.

LIBERTY AND JUSTICE "We rejoice to find that in these great Dominions, there too are the same forms of democracy, untouched by Fascism or Communism and standing for the same ideals of peace, liberty and justice that we do ourselves.

"We realise that by our partner- ship with these other democracies, we are raised from the status of a fourth-rate Power to be the heart of an Empire which stands in the front rank of all powers in the world.”- Reuter.

Quarantine restrictions imposed by the Customs Authorities at Che

co against arrivals from Hong Kong on account of cholera have been re-

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In a press interview he said that the old pesce fabric of Europe had been shaken to the ground, and consequently a movement towards reconstruc- tion was under way.

ISHII'S CALL ON PREMIER

London, To-day.

Viscount Ishii, former Japanese Ambassador to Great Britain, paid a courtesy call on the Prime Min- ister at 3 o'clock yesterday even- ing-

The Japanese diplomat stayed with Mr. Chamberlain for half an

hour. -Renter.

Alluding to the Sino-Japanese conflict, Mr. Tani expressed the opinion that the world was en- tering on an era of reconstruc- tion, to which Japan also must bend her efforts and energies.

-Reuter

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