CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 105

LONDON,

21st September, 1925.

a result of the forthcoming Gonfaronse at Peking, Chinese Government will no doubt expert Tariff Autonomy and abolition of Extraterritoriality, and will do everythin

in their power to achieve these aims.

To great them fariff Autonomy would be

istrous not only

¡

Powsers, but also th China, because the Chinese

authorities, if allowed a free hand, would put on new or inera se existing duties on imports and exports whenever they required money for raising troops for the purpose of intera), and also perkapa external strife, and Great Briŝian as the chief imperter from and exporter to China, would be the heurisat

sigo sufferer, and thins hørself would continu

tom

by civil car sad rebellion- Parther, it is most impæreba?

that wstar a system of Tariff Autonomy the provinces would obey

the Central Governmentiin particular previsse of Emangtang (Canton) which has so frequently and muccessfully defied Peking,

would doubṣlong and avour to set up a separate tariff for

South, and to use

revolutionary pɔlleg.

osets for the support of ite

Xe garantees given by Peking would,

under present sonditione, be held to be binding on Canton and

provinces of the South and West.

In

humble opinion the Powers should not under

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