the North and the South of China "In 1014 after the split between the old Empire disappeared anda evolutionary form of, Republican Government was established and from that time onwards the efforts affa cast party in China have hoon to make this revolutionary form of Republican Government a really, "The task vas one of incenpa able dimeulty. Owing' tothe vane Wildy size of China snd the loose hess of at fo. another and. owing to the Stained "traditionalism and sent Independence of the great prov Governors who administer local government in large parts of ter tory, it was a tank which even the best of circumstances must have tried the statesmanship and political tense of any country, and it was a Complicated by the disturbing eect fof impact of. Western a fanclnt Eastern ivilizaton, where they fermented like new wines in bottles, and 10 all this compl ation you' have to add the growth of standing armies and itary forces which have come. to" ere are eliogether the control of the Certtel Government and Who represent cons fioting" forces. often" involving China in civil war.
"Is it surprising in these cizrummstanees—and. China is." passing period of trouble—that in the. short time that "has care epee hast ash and somtinch ben nere el d_and [foreign Powers Inveres' in. China hae ted: rivalry omg these "It was in circumstances of this! ition and it is immensely difficult se'scekingToane go a(pating the kind that the Washington Confer-when a country which you are try ence met. It met with a genuine ing to, help and in which this Healt has done no Dts 4 seater of Chinn, Tg Coen desire to help China over the diffi-work of reconstruction and regent trained nothing for stele, but has culties with which she was confronteration must be done is in a state Srovented-n rear deal of ese ed and with a genuine desire to pre-of transition from the oldest Empire vent the rivalries of Western nation and Monarchy to a modern demo-{bie bonnes eng doe. has from interfering with Chinese procratic Republic, the Sforoures. 0 china forthe negative evttede hus conserve icing national de-'At Washington I think that perhaps the representatives of the as-Sine of efetveYesperaton and is sometimes said that the resembled nations took too rosy a, *etNoar the hopes whith, Washing ion of the Chinpse Republic.
sults were negligible. Is it nothing view of what was possible. They, ton hind of serving early renortthat that conference laid the has hoped that once European vi {ion of suabey in China having or that it re-and attempts of individual fo1 fd'and troubles of voy Brave a sulted in engagements among the ions to exploit China were ended great Western Powers and Japan. the domestic recovery of China Sin Trevelyan aske. dhe. Govern In all cases and Japan.' I used would be smooth and rapid and her the phrase 'Western Powers' but I own people be united and peacefci mit wh they ave dip that question in the midst of hasten to say that all the great and recovery reconstruction Son which threatens Hives and Poswers are intere: ted in Ching and not very long delayed. We have been has cost the lives of some foreigners disappointed. one is more int"ested than Japan China, We ourselves have, immense went enerozch-"Indeed I think that instead of, ment on Chinese sovereignty. moving yards this last year or terests in China whi as im= ave "And that it rovulted in an vntwo Chin moved backwards, portant to China as dertaking to consider reform of Her armies have sprung into ex-Tol trade is mutual. the Customs with a view to provide istence and China has been a ey China with gre to civil wa Organs of effec every pound of profit that " Br Chin is "trading jeteest purpose "f Eh nese developaieat Government, whether Central oF lo-merchant has found bs it equ that it result cal, have degenerated and it is d Ten ware othe Chines, an undertaking to investigate the ficult to find any authority in China "Under these circumstances when working of the ex!riterritor today with which you can British liver have been Tort tem? T think that was a re deal as a representative body of the wen the lites of all members 0 vance. At any rule it was a real Chinese Empire or in whose power Yorr'gn ceamities may be in #072 guarantee that the foreign poac. carry out any undertak dager, the fast answer to 3 mainly concerned in China wot force their own authority nit endeavour:2 exploit Chi Fort of China you can have any: Thich Tom glad tosay he foresaw reveiyan's question, und: a2 Answer
their individual interests bu faith. and necopted in the speech tw" made, deavour to help China in "Under these circumstances the that in common with olor powers develop interested we shall protege the lives Great Powers interested have been frantly adm: that we have rot able to do little but watch fand property of British subjects in gathered all the fruit we had hoped the situation, refraining from Ginn and we shall hold ge Chinese Government responsible for all result. If China has not interfering when interference might be misrepresented and might cause Jury and damage wantonly inflict-ad either on Biitish subjects "ron Prejudice and awaiting the moment velopment of Tana and when in combined action they could nothing else.
I frankly admit that help China to a more peaceful and can be no wealvess, no mediation, British weoposty (cheers) There we have not gathered all the fruits lore prosperous future, iene fundamental duty of for whi.h we i: ad roped, bus if your the attitude of the Great, every British Government and it is seek the reason for that it is. not Powers interested in China has been where the hano: sble Member oppe: iment must discharge it. cious that every Bush Gover mostly inactive I think it may well site would find it, in the double dose agree with him that it is not a be argued that even this action has of original sin which aff remedy for the present position. Te been salutary and has been the best countrymen except ig'a necessity of the outrages which service they could render to China the complexity of the situation with have taken place, but it is not a at this time. which we have had to deal, in the remedy for the situation, "Take an example which members "When Int. Trevelyan treats this transitional characters of Chinese criticize but have much misunder-whole question as if you could trace development at this moment and in} stood. Toke the Consortium of the internal conditions which have further bapk than a strike in Banks. Every faction holding pow-hampered and prevented full dea Japanese factory, he must permit in China at any moment. would ime to say that he has really only velopment of the hopes and reforms have been ready to pledge the rescratched the surface of the prob-contemplated in Washington. sources of China to obtain money Jem. It goes mich deeper than that, "Tt is difficalt to build on quick-, for any purpose. The Consortium The scat of the trouble lies in the
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