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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1925.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN ON CHINA.

pose of the now times and in 1833 the monopoly of the East India Company was abolished and trado was thrown open. What followed? China could not adjust -horself to`

Seven years

BRITAIN'S FRIENDSHIP STRESSED.the new conditions.

UNEQUAL

TREATIES" ANALYSED. ··

Londen, Sept. 18. but I hope only momentarily,

A large and distinguished gather-¡ Interrupted. (Cheers). ing presided over by Mr. L. N. Leefe, formerly of Hongkong, was present at a luncheon of the China 'Association, at the Hotol Victorfa.

Mr. Chamberlain, who was warm-

·ly received, sald: "1 find myself in the company of an Association which represents a great chapter in British history and a great sphere of British activity in the Far East. I would only say I welcome the opportunity of

A Grave Position.

The present situation is grave.

It would be idle to pretend to shut one's eyes to all the difficulties that have arisen or to the serious lasues which are involved. The Chinese people cannot escape the impact of Western thought, and the now wine of the West poured into the old vessels of the East ferments and meances us with a cataclysm.

exchanging views with you, that I In that troubled scene external have been assisted by your experi-influencos find their opportunity ence and that I, like any other and seek their own profit out of the Foreign Secretary, will always be misfortunes of China and in gind to make use of your knowledge encouraging the hostility of a and have your confidence and section of the Chinese nation to nations like our own, which desire support.

nothing but to live in peace with them and to contribute to their prosperity and so contributing to theirs, to make our own...

A Warm Tribute.

You have found it impossible, as It is impossible for me, to meet on such an occasion and in such an audience and not try to express something of the debt which we and China alike owe to the great figure which passed from among us actually at one of your meetings the other day. It is nearly fifty years since Sir John Jordan entered the Chinese Consular Service. After many years of useful and dis tinguished labour, he became His Majesty's Minister at Peking in 1906, and for fourteen years re- presented our King and country in the capital of China. Even when he retired in 1929 from that post- tion, his public services did not cease. He accompanied Lord Balfour to the Washington Confer

ence and continued to the last moment to place his ripe experience and intimate knowledge on Chinese conditions and his deep sympathy with the Chinese at the disposal of the British Government and give us the benefit of his lifelong labours and service.

Internal Strife.

The situation is rendered more difficult by the internal strife and quarrels of the Chinese among themselves and by lack of control by the Central Authorities over what happens in the provinces, But though these are grave features of the situation and add to the difficulties of the problem they are, I am convinced, only surface features.

They are grave enough

but they Are symptomatic of changes which are taking place in the Eastern no less, than in the Western world; and with goodwill

on the one side as well as on the

other they present no problems

which cannot be resolved to the mutual advantage of the Chinese) and the foreign powers concerned. If things are rightly handled and the opportunity tightly seized they may lead to better relations than we have experienced "for many years past and they may mark, if taken in time and not allowed to go too far, a real and significant step in the progress of China to

(Cheers).

For Honour of Country. He was in truth a type of that CO.great race of public servants who liberty, unity Fruit and

work" quietly, caring little. for personal fame, for the honour of their own country and at the same time penetrated with sympathy for the country and people among whom his lot was cast. I think of Sir John Jordan as a great Englishman who loved China only second to his own country and who served his own country well in the important posts he held because he was never lacking in sympathy for the people among whom he worked and sought to reconcile them as they are and can be reconciled to the interests of his own country with the interests, liberties and developments of. China,

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of constantly increasing the strain of constant friction and complaints and failure to secure any satisfac- tion led, as these events must lead a country, to the so-called Opium War of 1840.

But there were much more impor- tant things at stake in the Oplum War than any question of Oplum. The boycott of British shipping and confiscation of traders' goods, restriction of liberties and imprisonment of British citizens and finally the expulsion of the merchants from. Canton these

and which found their solution in were questions which led to war the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, the first of those unequal treaties whereof China complains to-day.

Treatles Not Our Choosing.. I wish I could persuade some Chinaman of historical knowledge and of statesmanship and authority with his own people to explain thit all this system of unequal treatles was not of our choosing We did not desire it. It was the minimum we could ask of a China which repelled the foreigner and would. not give justice in her courts or secure for him the ordinary advan- tages or civilisation and orderly, Government,

which opened China, through that It was largely. British policy and subsequent treaties, to inter national trade and it was first and foremost British enterprise which showed the way to other nations and proved to them how great a market was open to them, to us and to the Chinese to the mutual advan.

age of the world.

Times change and circumstances altar. We are ready, as all our to new conditions. These treaties history shows, to adapt ourselves were a creation of a particular set of circumstances..

As circumstances change and as the Chinese by their own govern- ment and through themselves can secure to the foreigner within their gates protection for himself and his system and just trial in cases property, an orderly and fair-legal where he is charged with any offence against the laws of the. country in which he is a guest as the Chinese Government can offer prosperity.us these things we will gladly sur

Ready to Abolish Treaties.

We have already shown pur willingness to advance. More than twenty years ago, by the Commer cial Treaty of 1902, we sought to prepare the way for the abolition of the Ill-regulated and hampering charges upon trade and to sub- stitute therefor a sound tarif system on modern lines.

render the special arrangements Immemorial Civilization. which were brought into being only In order to preserve peace between After all you cannot deal wisely China and the outer world and to with a few domestic problems tide over the Interval between the unless you have regard to the first great impact of West and East traditions of the country with and the adaptation of Chinese which you are dealing, and you Institutions to the new conditions. can deal wisely with no foreign (Cheers). problem unless you can enter, "to some extent at any rate, into the aspirations of people with whom you are dealing and unless you can feel sympathy with their grievances and their hardships and realise their long history, and in case of China almost immemorial civilisa tion, to which modern China is heir, These events of yesterday and to-day stand out against the long To the country where his work- historic background. During the ing, life was passed we are now whole of the eighteenth century our sending gentlemen who are your relations with China as traders guests to-day. Their task is not and we are not unwilling to recall an easy one I know well. But L Napoleon's gibe, which may be our am far from being pessimistic as glory, that we are, a nation of to the results of the labours to shopkeepers and as anxious for which they are going. At any rate peace as any shopkeeper-our trade they face their task rich in an relations were subject to two great experience that is diplomatic, monopolies namely, the East India finnhelal and commercial, They Company on the one side and the face their task strong in the con- Cohong of Canton on the other. fidence of their own Government and of their countrymen and I do not doubt that working in the spirit which informed Sir John Jordan's long career they will help to restore the feelings of confidence and friendship between China and ourselves which are momentarily,

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Their passing was one stage in the development of relation's between the East and the West and in the growth of our common concerns. The bonds of monopoly were too qurrow to serve the pur-

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might be in our power, to assist same time we agreed, as far as it forward the judicial reform in China and to waive our extraterri torial privileges whenever progress of Chinese judicial and other coll- ditions made it safe for us to rely on such action by Chinese authori ties, such as every civilised nation of the West expected, for its nation. in every foreign country.

Our Ally in War,

Then came the Great War. China and we have not forgotten It- Joined us as an ally and on those, new ideas which the Great War stirred in many breasts on doctrines. (Continued on Page 3.)

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