Mr. Chilien Tsur, PH. p., Consul-General of the Republic of China to the Dominion of Canada, sailed to-day aboard the Empress of Russia for Peking on a mission which may have a far-reaching effect on Canadian trade with the Orient. Mr, Tsur is to submit a report to the Government of his country on the new Bill regulating Chinese immigration which has just been adopted by the Canadian Parliament. Mr. Tsur considers his recall to China in a measure as a break in the relations between the two countries. His secretary, is still at at Ottawa to_ transact consular business, but Mr. Tsur was uncertain as whether he would return to Canada. Mr. Tsur does not mince matters in his criticism of the Bill. The Peking authorities, he said, took the view that the regulations were high-handed and entirely out of line with the relations which should exist between two friendly countries. There were three main points in the bill, he said, to which the Chinese Government took exception. First they objected to what practically amounted to the exclusion of the wives and children of merchants resident in Canada then they thought the new registration clause, under which a Chinese failing to register was liable to a fine of $500, harsh and unnecessary' and, thirdly, they failed to see the justice of compelling those Chinese who might have changed their occupation in the country since 1917, to pay a second poll tax.
These terms are so harsh, Mr. Tsur intimated, that there was bound to be a revulsion of feeling in China towards Canada and the commerce between the two countries would greatly suffer as a consequence. Not only that, but he feared that there would be a boycott in China, not only against Canadian goods, but against Canadian missionaries, and Canadian teachers as_ well. Mr. Tsur was particularly bitter about the recharge of the poll tax. He thought it a petty business on the part of the Canadian Government to try to make a few dollars out of immigration, instead of bending its efforts to make many millions for the Dominion by fostering friendly trade relations with China.
Pexina, Sept. 24.—It is reported that General Wu Pei-fu is transferring his headquarters to Hankow in a few days.—Reuten.
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