British Compliment and a Warning London, Nov. 18.
Mr. Amery (the Colonial Secretary) in 4 speech at the annual dinner of the China Association tonight -declared that the situation fu China was the subject of anxious concern on the part of the British Government.
Mr. Amery mentioned the "won-' derful history of Hongkong." He said he was glad to think that they had been able to give Hongkong the help for which it had appealed. They had found it not from the Imperial Exchequer but in the patriotic and willing cooperation of West Africa, the Malay States and Hongkons Shanghai Bank.
Mr. Amery was firmly convinced that Hongkong's difficulties were transient. He believed that though the period of waiting might be anxious the Chinese people's common-sense would-never allow. the present state of affairs to continue far ever ner woald the patience of the British Government witness for ever the impoverishment and. re-progression of a great British colony—Reater.
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