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[CHINA”AND 'THE, LEAGUE

OF NATIONS..

SIR CHARLES ADDIS ON THE EEAL INTERESTS OF CHINA.

public meeting, under the auspics of the League of Nations Union, to consider the question of China, was held at the Caxton Half Westminster, on May 15th The Right Hon. Viscount Bryce 0.3 Was in the chair, and the meeting was

The "Chairman, in the course of his re mares, said:-The" teague of Nations Union is, I trust you will think, render- ing a publie seerview in calling attention

KING

LARGE ESTATES BEING SPLIT UP. The Duke of Portland, in a letter to

Dr. Wang Chang-hui, a datinguished JAPANESE SWORD FOR THE LAND SALES IN GT, BRITAIN. graduate of yir own oglucational frissite tion and a jurist of, world fame, has been at the bend of the Cornification of Laws Commission, appointed by our tiov ernment, for over two years. The G mission plan to complete their labour by the end 1954, when the five codes are expected to be promulgated and the districts to be furnished with male

The King received at Buckingham Palace, on May 19th, Mr. M. "Nugai (Councillor of the Japanese Embassy in his tenants, says that in view of the pro- London) and Mr. T. bikawa, who present trend of opinion in favour of the ented to his Majesty an old Jagances breaking up of large estates and the crea- sword. The sword is a present from the tio of small ownerships, he has decided proprietors and readers of the Ford to dinge of a large portion of his hoho, which is published in Tokyo in Ayrshire property. In the first place her English and French.

offers i Agricultural halding to the

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sülly attended, strong detachments of While we do not claim that

laws and their administration will have young China being present.

reached the stage of perfection by 19, In presenting the sword. Mr. Yasujiro tenants.

shall have and such progress as to war- we do feel conûdent, to assert that they Ishikawa, editör olethe Furudzu "Phisha,;

The land of the country is no kinger said: Your Majesty's stern command to cuntinng the private preserve, the state. rant Western Powers to relinquish theirto the Navy and Army to go on a crusadely appanage and pleasure ground of a consular qurisdiction. The third-bind- against the arrogant and faithless Ger rates is the denial. to China, of the right many at the period when she undertook predominant bereditary caste for which there is no parallel in reat civilization 4, to hack her way to France

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to the present situation in China, and to the harp which the League (when fully |constituted and organised) can render to the Chinese people. At, this moment China is in vil ense.

There is every where disquiet and anxiety. To sur- ment this crisis, China needs the sym-ce of China, I will merely mention then,admiration by the staff of the Ferzerade of the twentieth century we are

pathetic aid of those foreign Powers which desire ber safely and welfare There are any problemas which they can help har to solve. It is to the langue of

to regulate her own tariff,

There are other hindrances to re-through Belgian suit, in entire disregard outside our island" writes “A Sur-

to her, longstanding solemn pledge, was yer in the Daily News. moved. While they are vital to the ter-

In this latter half of the seaml upon with deep respect and high ritorial integrity and political independ

Cholo in unison with the whole Japan

**

post.

Be

Tovodech

nation.

the direct witnesses of no slow, imper- ceptible evolution. Lut of a veritable land-

• In, the four years and a half of war, slide in historie apres-a mighty yet your Majesty's Navyao magnificently bloodless revolution in the ownership of maintained the ascendancy of the seas British geal estate far transcending any that the German Fleet remained in thing that bas gone" before."

REIFONE FOR SELLING. There has been no such land revolu

believing that if the Powers will agree to renounce aphares of influence in Chinapabolish consular jurisdiction "over their nationals and accord tarift Nations, which China has herell Entered, autonomy in China, they must be propar- that she must look for advice and aid ined to ithdraw their troops the solution of her urgeat problems. One offices from, and rotore their leased forced inaction, until its total surrender

and your Majesty's Army displayed such of them is that of the collection and insides Vemoving hindruninafre at fast ignominious. brought to teption since the passing away of the fondal

ritories and ponosions to China.

of interna valour and tact that the Germans were posal of revenue, upon which the main- tenance of order and internal peace de tional nature which

Powers can

Such brilliant successes are all astribut The railway stem needs to be development, the Friend

·with rx;

able to your Majesty's august Virtues and aristocracy after the Wars of the Roses. consolidated, and extended. A

furnishing her! assist China bý and Courts of

of Robert Hart, Rad. Sis Bichard Dane

knowledge and capital. The work of the splendid patriotism of the British

The commorale cause and the enac Sir Deded, at these a proper entrancy, tre

and the exploitation of mines.

by foreign HEMPING ers who have obtained concessions should Tho withdrawal from the

other natural sources of wealth by, and Dave shown how men of expert knowlede small mark of our dep-felt quences of the tremendous movement afe

be

regulated.f-Germany, whose am

bitions and

conspicuous harshness on China, has

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WAJ

I made these tasks easier. They ought to the Government. There has been recently of Japan ur Majesty to accept a sword ans, direct peremptory necessity for

or

the

two

foreign countries can be of grey's wonderful inchievehients the agnates are parting with their cherish, se of Congratulations upon your fairly lead. Many of our territorial to our Government. I am war and of our sincere gratitude for youred patrimony because needs must when favour of

foreign ex engaging many &

endeavours for the at the devil drives. Those of them who have pert to help organising and administer

Majesty's great ing the various departments of our Govtainment of a lasting peace based was hivering on the brink, without ernment.

They

should be given executive justice and humanity. I have the honour powers, and be regularly employed by to rea

request

soul of our Bushido

closing down have probably be undertaken at once it bankruptcy and formed the new Quadruple Consorsium, code of honour of the Japanese warriors;s for their present decisions, Lo sell anarchy are to be averted; and if carried

the express purpose of helping a symbol of supreme justice and treiector of today, and the opportunity the attitude of the average British out in a wide and liberal spirit, their

a manera fulsiment will not only rescue China

Ma le permitted our King aid in reply: It gives that is directly before them of selling at to express the hope that they will avoid from her present

dang but will give the mistake of the old entsortium to ende great pleasure to welcome you here

the top of the market at prices which, her an incomparable moru, jmportant money to the Chinese Government in today, had to revive from your bands unless vendors are hopelessly handicapped position in the world's commerce.

violation of the Constitution in order to a sword of Japan, which you so aptly by mortgages, will yield thers a vastly is hardly any limit to the growth of the cable hd subsidis a powerful man to

describe as embelle of the soul of the better financial retura, than does thuir market for manufactured goods

which

Innd. China would offer under a better admin- destroy aistivals and it off Parlia Japanese warriors wide of honour.

gladly accept this gift as such, and istration and with improved facilities for mentary Government in its embryo The

And its not only the aristocracy. internal communications, and, it need the wishes of the people through their fully mindful of the nchievement, hospitals and City companies, that are new consortium may very well consult in expressing to you my thanks, are but great institutions like our famona scarcely be added, that the principle of elected representatives as to how the loans sacrifice and heroism of our Japanem preparing to part with their ancient en-

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the "open door," with equal opportuni- ties for all importing nations,; must bo strictly enforced. ·(Cheers)

In

the

best used

comrades in arms,

***They Enve nobly borne" their burden speaker therr proceeded to paint out what Chins could do for the League. in these long years of bitter warfare, and CHINA'S ASPIRATIONS.

impotent situation in which China rejoice to think that the valour of HE. Cheng Ting Wang, ex. Vice-Pre- ands herself to day, to raise this questions Japan by and and son has won for your sident Chinese House at Commons, in

may cause some people tovamile. But country the triumph of vindicated right. the course of an address, said: The once is

Contribution that China enn

It is or the foundations of supreme unchanging Chins is now replaced by make towards the League? believe justice and

that the Allied .Da. the changing China. It is no exaggera.

is there 20

tion to say that more changes have taken herg is Negatively, she can at the Lions are to build anew

place in China in the fast two decades

dowments in the shires and elsewhere. Already this latter class of sale is being attended with remarkable results, ns, for instance, the ease where a farm belonging to a public body on "which a reserve of 24,000 had been fixed, ran, up to £21,000,

THE FARMERS' LAND HUNGER. peace in the world"

Another couse of the prevalent an eagle to prevent a most probable world a structure of

The sword which Mr Tshikawa presente exampled boom is the land-hanger of herself strong

she will not afford too great a temptation

to the world's work of a master anwordsmith was Kiyo, Sitting wannte, will not infrequently go amith, one Kiyomaru, holder and prospective small holder. imperialists Positively. China has all of

than in the past twenty centurias. Atinging her house in order d although only seventy years old, is the farmer and intending farmer, small

China, was in 1900 was intially, the isarne in the opening century the

itian gra. But China pince

a mary difěleny Chitin

find

a

offar beyond market values to get security

aratic Power. *Her old deal of great hun as the second Masamune pational unity has taken

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few on

aspect.. Sae the greatest of

the qualities to became whatsong dinodamar at the Japanese to-day of tenure and the pleasant consciousness

smiths, Giorn

The

of proprietorship, whilst smaller men

not change is may yet prove a valued supporter in the mans of the Middle Adly and ex-soldiers yearning for a peaceful

ני

expression in all phase activities The

most probably found in the political organisa. 5ght to make the world safe for demo-

the age-long imperial tion..

eracy (Cheera) absolutism we find the establishment of a Republic, and, in spite of strong reac tionary forces, China has been successful

BIR CHARLES ADDIN.

weapon is

known as a

Court "tachi," movated in a gold country life for themselves and families lacquer scabbard and fitted with gold and are also prepared to pay the fullest pos shakudo mounts. On the white wooden sible figure for the gratification of their box is a description in black characters legitimate and praiseworthy aspirations. of the blade, the school, town, and pro-

dew it. With the victory of China, after some natural hesita vince of the smith who made it.

militarismplete

We

deliberately took her place

DUKES SELLING OUT.

Let us run lightly over details," says "A Surveyor." In the opening month

Sir Charles Addis said it was a memor able day in the history of the war when

well

the side of by Pred by the

the Allies in this great world conflict. believe that the time has come for a new(Cheers) The material assistance which world order. China is in hearty accord China was able to render to the Allies same way as the family is now linked outlying (western) Eaton Estate-extend-

of this year the Duke of Westminster's.. with

the formation of the League of Na was not inconsiderable. The work done up with the highest power in the pro- ing to 730 acres, comprising twelve tions, because it is in full

in France

vinces. He would give one more instance, townships on the borders of Cheshire, sagns and did much to facilitate the advanes of One of the deepest and most serious evils Flint and Denbigh, including Bfty vo the cherished ideals of bez mans it up the Chinese Labour Corps 12

The Great Unity, is an old troops, and in, our Mercantile Marines in China, a very canter eating into the considerable farms-was broken up. teachers. idea!" is

All

within the fuur 85 are. Chu

Chinese gave up their lives in order that brothers is a Chinese conception older our

of war. Her act in enter

despotism equipment versal brotherhood,

thai What does thising the war was one of

profound signi-

batween 20 League mean. China Inasmuch as Scance

especially when it was unem bored that

Oristal nation is separat and five ed the sand

Lions in no"

than the Christian conception of zien might be applied with food and ears of the people, as the 171912/ndicate of"his Grace's tenant-farmers

for

which prevailed In

bere.

the fundamental aim of the Leage is to from the scene of warfare by ten thou to enable thans sterlingtin order the outerme being a. total of £330,600.

promote world peace by preventing and miles of ocean, that her shores Dunded.

it naturally affords protection.

small and weak nations. While

Consortium supplied took over 6,809 neres, and there was an

pled wholesale disposal of cottage property, four

military forces to be dis There have been other considerable Seven years have

Passed

by dispersals; but the big things have yet and her political institu- day under the command of the Tuchufis coming auctions of the spring and sum- sinor then and there were more men to to ps the test of public sale. Forth- ner include the Sutherland Estates, on

a great country, she is, 2-tory had come to our chiBY RIO I

week, and for that reason, has

is werp, unmener, Ad now, that vie than there were in 1912. These winese the east coast of the country from which

her captical questions upon which

ject by repeated humiliations from alien Chi had a right to take her place in Statesmen should fix their minds imperialism. Whether the Lengue able the comity of antions and if she chooses

depending, upon the ability of those who The privileges which she had won were Nations would remove from of 114,300 ores, and including a loch which

Count ponsibility:

in carry out its aims is yet problematični, to nocupy a seat in the League of Nations upon those grand schemes which might the family title is taken, comprising

contingent upon bez

the Treaty signing of Peace. He noticed that there was n agitation in China itself instructing

are now charged with the rest

of the Lea in the enouga

ugh to

to create

Chin the

of some Smbat the imperialistic designs delegates in Paris to withhold their siga in hand the simple schemes he had fishing and deer stalking.

of

faith

Bort

to

сол

upper more attractive. The

bounds the property for eleven miles, fear

of territorial aggression, and if she together with Dornoch Castle, salmon

her sincerity, and by that means obtain House Estate of 37,000 acres, the Craigen. saggested, she would be able to prove Then there is the Northern Haddo embers of the Longue. I ture from the Treaty and he ventured the sympathy of the Powers, and receive adverse decision of the Council of, the influence to prevent any such unnatural cial assistance in carrying them

he permitted to say that the recent to-night to ask the delegates to use their from them financial executive, and jud- Billen Estate, in Ayrshire and Kirkcud

out. brightshire, of 32,000 acres, and the Prime Ministers concerning the German

result.

Compromise and sacrifice of some (Cheers.)

Gilmour Estate (Ross-shiro and Suther- in Shantung has made me some Fights

twere inevitable. It would indeed be

AN ANCIENT. LEAGUE OF NATIONS. land) of 140,000 acres, including two what sceptical.

But, pture,

would, fddeed,

Mr. Lionel Giles end a paper written islands in the Shetlands, with numberless ith the height of madness; it wild the promises of the

unschooled folly, if because believe the League will menu och us sidered she had receives to Ching on by his father, Prof. H. 4. Giles, Prof others. Ching. First of all, the League will give legitimate due, she was to throw away all out fear of contradiction that the League

Giles wrot

wrote that it might be said with

MILLIONS OF ACRES PASSING. China an opportunity to readjust herself League of Nations, advantages which, iner welcome than that which nearly half a million acres of land--an

advantages she could obtain from the of Nations to the new situation.

would

One firm alone of London auctioneers What the desire

receive Do arm- people

made the case of Chins, he thought were greater be extended to it by the of China is has been made

would are submitting doring the coming monthe manifestly clear. It is to retain the Re-than those of any other Fower. He said

people of Neha because

se the

The Chinese had long since recognised aggregate pade up of some thirty estates pubical it to definitely accepted by all the vital interest of China was internal settling, disputes. They had no terri-commanding historical importance; and

„of Goseznisantpilard--we tha

urgent interest of China.

that war was an antiquated method of scattered over England and, Scotland, of In desiring to adapt herself to pecarity, and that the League of Nations torial ambitions, they bly asked to keep the fate of most of these will be a piece- this form of Government, her leaders are sad it in no other quarter of the world what they had got and what had been meal break-up for the benefit of the

to in

way which she could of the tasks before them holy difficult Aut privileges carried with them obliga shower in the course of his Paper bowling men who have an ardent natural

world theirs for tenturies.

Professor Giles sitting tenants and other practical farm are fully con- scious of the ignorance prevailing among which the League of

tions

and great, no, want, the ad in offer is bad existed in China thret thou artig for the cultivation of their own mass of the peuple, and of their poverty: of

of the transportation and of better means they would be communications i g

made of thera. the lack of industrial development and

When

Some industrious person calculated a seven years ago China decided of the backwardness in the methods of become the Punch sympathy, with that of the lotuseabury the young barbarians in the Bible, and the area of our premiet Secretary to the Ministry long time ago that there are more acres of there were many of

to Parliamentary

when about the middle land, in Yorkshire than there are letterd manufacture above all, of

of their

Us who felt want of political experience But the experiment, and we based that feeling of Great Britain burst thoir way into the county is close upon 3,000,000 acres are determined to apply, themselves ro Chinese people

upon extraordinary capacity of the closed door of Ch solutely_to_these tasks. They ask that.

China, they Chantom Partaments and phantom Em: which they were tas at that time

for self-government.lisation much older than themselves, and 4 civi

There are those in a position to knav assistance be given them in this recon- structive and transition period in two perora had fitted across the stage, but is been described as an Empire or-two or three years, including the resulta were totally unable to have which has changed hands during the past who confidently declare that the land definite forms. First, to remove te hindrances of international, nature, and, secondly, to furnish them with expert knowledge and capital.

naticna.

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the linking up of the family through guides the

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Governor of the Province link by link to war had been almost forgotten. The very aproach, if it does not sureiss, the magistrate of the district, and the Sanized for peace in which the arts of of the bursting seacefnow upon ds, will Of the hindrances of international n the Emperor. The chain of anthorityinent representative of the Chinese gure just given. In 1918, one drm' alone ture the greatest is what is generally held fast, and the same proete was her contribution to make to the League total of more than five-and-a-half millions nation had said that China would have sold about half a million sees for a known as the "Spheres of Influence of In- likely to continue whether the Govern- of Nations, but he had been much too teresta" The second great, hindrancois could not help thinking

ment was monarchical or republican

He

too pounds. modext

to tell us what that Jurisdiction over of consular

contribution their ardent China, would make. residents

The real contribu- "The total sales officially reported for Chinese friends laid too much stress upon tion which Ching could make to the com- the year reached £11,382,505 as compared China. It is hardly noncasary to dwell on the incompatibility ha visitation, horkel intend of the mon stock would-be-to-supply--that with £9,687,136 in 1917; 26 (07,617 in 1816,

jurisdiction

with the exercise individuals who worked them. It would foundation of pure morality in her deal- and £3,570,724 In 1818 all statisties, be it of the right of territorial sovereignty of education before you could link up Been wholly lacking in the relations of arrangements between landlords and ten- require a broad and widespread system ings with other States which had hitherto remarked, which did get cover friendly China has made remarkable progress in the judicial field, notably since the in the province with the Parliament in the Western peoples, one auguration of the Republican régime.

another. ants and Innumerable other privata With (C)

dealings."

of

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