A Tendency Towards British Concession or of landing Cooperation rumours to that effect are spread by trapa in Hankow and. that any
The Shanghai Municipal Council "interested persons." He apologizes has probably never received a more] for the presence of British naval reassuring nor more encouraging] forces at Hankow and explains that! communication from any Chinese) they would not be there at all if group than the letter which con-! the "Nationalists" were not so busy, fratulates the police on their efforts! with ther things that they. were emer srraaty ey those who tection to the" British communi to. suppress. outlawry, expresses! not in's position to extend the pre.
with criminals and with the families Conmarity Undes soemal ecedttions save been wounded in encounters] Watch they would of course cee the
Of those killed, and closes with an 'The whole tone of the letter, in fact, offer of "appreciation in a more un' consistent. keeping. with the substantial form."
All our readers serjey of ruinous statements that will understand why it is impossible, have emanated from London on this to publish, the names of the "in-i Hankow situation since last Dece fluential Chinese gentlemen who ber, Conciliation is still being have signed this letter. It would plied as s remedy, like a plaster to a not only supply the outlaw oF- cancer, The Chinese are given whole-the Communists, and G2neer, The Chinese are given whole the bodies that meet in North Honan forted aawurance that whatev Road and sponsor tactics designed oot tnt: Britait embarrass the Council and the 2d, that Britain will not undo ill her polite, with a usefal lat of names £0 mistakes in the mide Yangtze pat fin spit molly opposed £2 London stil insists upon furnishing. "Nationalist" inspiration generally, the Chinese leaders, who and would bring the authors of-the *Ponded with s0 much enthusiasm ty letter into direct opposition to the obit oficial effort to. discredit. foreign' foreigner in Central invitations to bedevil the: China, with Advainisteation of, this. Settlement fresh material for amusement and and to alienate the sympathies of Sontempt. We say London because the Chinese residents from that ade We are altogether unwilling to ministration. 'The tone of the letter believe that Mr. Harold Porter ever in, in fact, so symptomatic of a new conceived such a letter as he has tendency "towards ce-operation on' signed oF composed it.
We feel the part of Chinese residents, as certain that the text as it appears, apposed to the influence of those could not have been written by any self-uppointed leaders who have honest British official who has been siduously cultivated the virtue of, ® witness to the events of the past obstruction, that, it may be con-|¥ear or who ig aware of the inevita-_ strued as a very hopeful sign of the; ble effect of such a document upon' times. Tt would be a simple matter the Chinese mind. Further than this to give this Settlement efficient, we have our own reasons Yor believ-government and adequate goliee ing firmly that the statement protection if the sincere ce-operation the landing of troops it. Hankow has the influential Chinese residents never been contemplated is inaceud be relied upon at all times, curate and that it would And what is more, the very vexed, impossible for Mr. Porter to be Problem of Chinese representation ' guilty of this inaccuracy on his own fu: the Council would them be no; responsibility.
Tt was a very short problem at all, but would almost' while ago that we published the ap-'Automatically become an essential ' peal from Lord Southborough and feature of local administration if, various commercial organizations at such interest in Shanghai's welfare ' Home for the reoccupation of Han. and such appreciation of fuithful|kow. This letter we may assume is service as this letter voices were! q typical Foreign OMice retort. to characteristic of the leaders of the such. a. presumptuous "plea. from Chinese community, Participation groups of mere merchants, We hoy Sie acernmant tthe Seton [arena of mere merchant, We Kane by. self-appointed mouthpieces of will be made clear. by the. local public opinion who have consistent-Frvdemonatrated their "ho sity to!
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the Council and have put their bet Land Southborough and his fellow ways be regarded as a menace to, petitioners Bh pence and. prosperity have to oppose obatinate-Bank Registration ly; but intelligent and sympathetic In reply to an article on the participation by men who: really, proposed registration, inspection and. representative of the respectable control of banks and kindred in-Chinese elements in the community tutions by the Currency Bureau, would make the administrative task which we published on Friday, De-to much lighter that there would be comber 9, the local Comptroller of force, however. conservative. or comber the local Comptroller of Feactionsry, that could tong oppose currency, for, Nanking, Mr. Jun-ko it, There has been evidence lately, jeter tous, which appears. in show that there la proving op in 0 which appears Frunities'a strong evuaion of fee. te tine, forth and justifying "Nationaliam" with tts position. In effect Doston, In, effect. his argumente flowery promises and ite onerous im= positions. The passive resatanee of mar ietitations, though ing abandoned and the intuentd Tat, prevent effective enough ere have been asking more direct. Seainst fraud an ise Saltese. of cee Chinese who have something at stake SOfteuard the Investing publi and more frankly from month tg erly managed and inaderoataly Month for a sterner assertion, of 1epervised banks. He pointed out foreign rights, to the end that they janicing business was considered an should be Riven greater protection Geeentigi function of Government in from the neighbouring authorities. Sit Gccidentalcountrice and that the Our Chinese residents have come, in Seutiement. authorities here should {cold realities than in the fancies "cleome oficial control of otherwise bred, of propaganda, which {8 in the application of the new rule decidedly wholesome and promising, [yrs APP!
Lite the rules themselves, there is nothing the matter with Mr. Choy's The Porter Letter [letter Nexcept that it offers. no fuaraniee against. the inevitable One of the most ghastly bose of a aystem. which. would diplomatic errors that has been Gnable a. Chinese administration, to petrated since Mr. O'Malley negotiate Pry into the altairs of banks and ced the surrender of the British Con-Their depositors and which, we have cession in Hankow with Moscow, hinple "recent precedent" for be: through the medium of Mr, Eugene Hein, would lend fo blackmail and Chen, has just been perpetrated by extortion on an unprecedented sale Mr, Harold Porter, British Consvl-We have sounded a few merchants General at Hankow, in a letter to and bankers on the subject and the the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs Feodiest anewer 10. Mr. Choy's fat that port which we published Theoretically sound. arguments, is Inst week, Ttcoincider. very nicely that the average. Chinese depositor the various reports that have trodd rather risk a gamble on the reached Shanghai of General Chen Tonesty and business Capacity of the Chien's reversion to the Comm Toast of the local bankers than pot type and of the efforts whic ime at the merey of the best of Reds are making to regain control the *Natlonaliat" Government' tox of Wu-Han, Mr, Porter says in ested inspectors. Another—de-effect that the British Government astating reply to Me, Choy's well not now and never has had any.
Tensoned leter is the meeting of the intention of resuming control of t Bankers Association held yesterday
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