The Chinese should, however, realize that they cannot expect, continuance of such magnanimity wumless they respond in a. similar spirit. Nor must they drift towards the conviction that forbear-fort of the foreign 1 short cut, through outrages and the violation' of treat fes, to equal international status. We may hope too, that His Maj ty's Government, while firm in the Policy of helping onwards all constructive reform in the country, will not cuffer honest friendliness be: mistaken for micro weakness of purpose but, will strictly abide by their dictum that concessions and treaty adjustment can result only from their fair and ataicable agreement and gre Rot to be wrung from Great Britain by lawlessness and force.
The military exploitation of the country, which now equally prevails in North and South, continues to play havoc with the security for China's foreign loans.
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