Your correspondent indicates that the outcome of the Washington resolutions is hampering the Powers in taking any useful action in China which might expose them to the jeharge of interference. hare is Jat Toast one way not. savouring movement, und Chinese action is still the governing factor in the Far Eastern situation. Any new arrangement sheld dndludg China jand make her parely responsible with the Powers for the successful solution of the problem. New Jccganizations are being widely est ablished in China which eleim to foe able to make suppression under the Republic as effective as it was under the Empire, and, although they have so far little to show in ithe way of achievement, Great Bri tain is morally bound by her previous record to give them a chance [of micking good their professions. For this purpose the American proposals for a 10-year limit may re~ quire to be congideratily amplified and to be made more elastic, $0 as to admit of reduction by graduated stages peri pass with the progress lof future suppression in China, vim aware that these suggestions visionary, but ce were ram mombera of Royal Graham Barton 8
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