Amicable Ca-operation of Chinese and Foreigners New York, Dec. 14.
China having, at least tempora arily, spurned the Russian influence in her internal affairs, now would welcome help from America and Great Britain, declared-Sir Frederic Whyte, the head of the British dele gation to the Honolulu Conference, who was entertained at a banquet here to-night by the Institute of] Pacific Relations.
'Mr. Thomas Lamont, the banker, who returned from the East! after endeavouring to arrange a loan to the South Manchuria Railway, presided. He said that there who' were in direct contact with the Chinese believed that their sobriety, common-serse and intelligence final ly would bring them out of the welter of civil war and banditry. He took no stock of the outery inst foreigners. The British, who for decades had poured money into China for the benefit of the community, had, he said, been tolerant and patient in the face of destruction of their properties, £or fear of wounding Chinese susceptibilities, He concluded:—"It only our friends the Chinese could compose their differences to the point of Jointly inviting the amicable cooperation of foreign interests, the Americans, British, and Japanese, sinking national interests, would go long way in an earnest endeavour to serve the common cause."—
Reuter.
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