Beach that Japan did not send enough troops and diJ not send them soon enough may, itis generally recognised here, appear blunt and discourteous when it was really not 60, owing to telegraphic emergencies, but if the full report of Sir Michael's remarks should convey the same unpleasant Impression as is conveyed by Reuter's sumnmary, I think that the proud and sensitive people of this country would feel rather angry with Great Britain for its glaring want of tact—to use the mildest word that can be used in this connection, For my own part, I believe that Reuter did no_ great injustice to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the present instance otherwise the Ministerial organs would soon have corrected the false impression created. The Government is constantly in receipt of telegraphic messages from the powerful capitals of Europe, telling of the utterances of the Press on the Chinese question and on Japan's action in the Present emergency, and has more than once, I understand, had long accounts of debates in the British House of Commons forwarded to it. It has most undoubtedly had a good report of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's remarks above-referred to and the fact that it has not let the Press know anything about it is a little significant. Did we ever so insult a nation at a time when it was hankering and thirsting for our friendship
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