There ensued, at a private meet! ing of the League's Budget or Financial Sub-Committee, picturesque and humorous scene. The Australian delegate happened.
refer—pointedly enough—to States which. could afford the luxury of civil wars, but omitted. to pay their subscriptions to the League. Mr, Chu, evidently ¢on-sidering that the cap fitted the Chinese Government, rose with great indignation and recalled the moral of a fable by La Fontaine, that according as you are pros sporous or poor, the sentence of the Court will declare you to be Diack or white. The Chairman the "Sub-Committee, the. Roumanian delegate, sought tactfully to assuage Mr. Cho's feelings by pointing out that neither the Australian delegate: nor the minutes of the meeting rade "any specie mention ina.
At this point the soft-hearted Norwegian delegate intervened to. offer solace to Mr. Chu by ro-calling China's ancient civilization pacific purposes.
Mr. Chu, profoundly moved and overwhelmed with gratitude, agai French fabulist to the "where there is no money there fare no friends" but, he added, in 1 glowing outburst, "there was, Please Spa Once more th remarked, while inverting the order of words of the French maxim, that the sitting had indeed, shown that China had friends in the League of Nations, but that a little "money for the Leagua, would nevertheless be welcome.
The Indian delegation, I understand, presented the League with '4 strong memorandum on the sub-Ject of its own heavy contribution and of defaulters with" mud lighter burdens."
By the way Mr, Chu, the forme Minister of the Interior in China, now in this country on @ private visit. He does not speak any Eng] lish and so one of the attaches at} the Legation has to accompany hina} everywhere, Yesterday Dr, Cheo the Charge d'Affaires showed hiea over the County
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