The Archive · 1927

British Loss in China

London, Mar. 12.

'The "Daily Telegraph" in an editorial reminding its readers that on March 15 the Hankow and Kis. Kiang concessions will be returned to Chinese administration, says that the extent of the losses, moral, terial and individual, of British' resi dents is not yet calculable but it is certain that they are the principal sufferers from the effects of - the British Government's policy in conceding Nationalism almost every-

Photograph by Ariel Comrade "Red Mystery Cantonese Political Burese at Hank timon described a the "Master Tore the design and editing by" the Hed Labour Unions against thing but their bore right to live land trade in China.

This, it continues, should be recalled when the residents' attitude towards British policy is criticized in Britain as an illiberal objection to the loss of privileged s: atus. [Soon or luter a Chinese Government will be in control of Shanghai and the problem of deciding the future status of the international—settlement must arise. The supreme test fof: diplomacy will ultimately applied there and it is earnestly to be) Inoped that the Powers will by then have fully recovered a sense of the necessity of ce-operation in handling the Chinese problem.

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