In Peking it is suspected, more-lover, that there is even more than this behind the ending of the strike land boycott. It is believed that the Cantonese sense a change in foreign policy coming when the foreign met-chants have given up all hope of it, The vigorous Kuomintang propaganda being carried on abroad now and the enlistment of such persons as H. G, Wells and Com-ander Kenworthy as Canton's parftisans in England, are known to be an effort to counter the rapidly growing feeling abroad that the time has come to abandon coaxing and trifling with Chi Chinege agents abroad have undoubtedly sensed the effect upon the Occidental Governments of the allure of the Tariff Conference, the extraterritoriality report and much strong diplomatic representation. The return of the Hermes to Hong-Kong and the imminent increase of the British fleet in China waters are straws which prove a changing wind, nothing more.
Now it is neither Canton' nor Peking's, nor Russia's purpose to {force foreign intervention in China. The foreigner must be undone slow encroachment and not by spectacular acts of violence which will arouse a bellicose clamour Europe or America, so when the feeling seems to be growing abroad that China needs a spanking, that feeling must be eradicated by. friendly gestures and a show of:
(Continued on puge 283 col, 5.),
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