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British policy towards China, appending also the note which
was sent by England to the United States of America on the
28th May. It appears that the Consul-General wanted to show
that the present British policy towards China had been
determined upon on that date, and that he regretted the
delay which had held up the publication of the policy.
Our readers should devote their closest attention
to the memorandum (a Chinese version of which will be
published later).
(1) We should study the intentions of the British Imper-
ialists expressed in the memorandum.
(2) We should examine the wording of it, which is very
fair-spoken, but still implies the malicious policy of the British Imperialists that led them to assist Yuen Shih Kai
and the re-actionaries with loans.
(3) We should make ourselves aware of the result of their
malicious policy.
In the memorandum, great emphasis has been placed
on the necessity of a change in the former policy of England
towards China. This amounts to giving the other Imperialists
a warning that they should also make a change conformably with the change in the British policy in China. It is also
stated in it that China has been reduced to great chaos,
that the Peking Government has lost its qualification to represent the whole of China, while a strong Government has sprung up in the South of the Country capable of representing the masses, and that the Chinese are making every endeavour to reform China and her international position. In it an appeal is made to all the Powers that their former policy should be amended, and at the end it is asserted that if a
unified Chinese Government can be established in the present
chaos
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