1a Information Bureau a leaflet reply-if to the otatement of cure by the ina Association. This document was stuffed with inaccuracies, and doing from Mr. E. F. Mackay whose Knowledge of local conditions, being up-to-date and first hand, is of quite exceptional importance to British interests over here at the present time, It is essential to deal with misstatements such as the Bureau is issuing, but perhaps too great im-Portanee is being given to them. It) ix essential for British interests in the Far East to protect their position by organized efforts in this country, and it is not publications such as are issued by the China Information Bureau which reali need dealing with, so much as ir-'Tesponsible. leaders in ill-informed newspapers. These leaders course, appear principally in papers of the Labour type. As I receive '2 great number of cuttings about China, my post is full of communications to the effect that Branches of the LIP. all over the country are passing resolutions denouncing the aggressive action of British Imper-laiists and. capitalists, and demanding free life and development for the down-trodden Chinese people. These resolutions are usually passed by two men and a boy, but I suppose some people believe in the efficacy of this machine-made agitation. Orders are issued from the Headquarters of the LIP. in Londor. that all Branches are to consider and, of course, pass these resolutions, and even if there are only two mem: bers present, the resolutions are duly passed "and published) asa free and unbiassed opinion of representative British working men.
Methods of Sun and Wind If China is reali cere, doubt some concessions will' be made, the more sas Sir Ronald Macleay, speaking recently at Manchester, took a notable line in Aicating that in this movement in the Far East, we must move with the times. But, on the other hand, under} pressure, we ave likely to do very Tittle, and the Chinese in their own interests, had better realize that! they can obtain a good deal more by a conciliatory policy than by the present attempt at a boycott and intimidation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.