"Times'" Strong Argument for the Powers to Act London, May 29, The necessity to do something bout China: is insisted upon in a Jeading article in the "Times," which says it is simply absurd to entertain the idea that the great civilizing Powers can afford intermirably to remain passive and Ceprossed spectators of what called "Chinese chaos."
'The paper dwells on the existence of vitality in China end tha' country's rich potentialities fo: development, and submits tha: Britain should take the lead devising a plan for delivering China from the incubus of civil war, The subject should be taken up at the overdue conference to consider the nestion of increasing the customs Guties provided for by the Washington Convention. The Conference might consult not only the Peking Government but all active leaders Chinese opinion—Reutzr,
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