"Nowru-Curwa Dany News"
Simy—I shall be grateful if you will give publicity to the following actions taken by the Directors of the London Missionary Society at recent Board meeting.
Tam, ete., Secretary, China Advisory Council London Missionary Society Shanghai, Dee. 2, 1925, "The Directors of the London Missionary Society wish to make it known that they do not desire that the legal rights of their mission and missionaries in China should in future rest upon existing treaties between Great Britain and China, and in particular upon, the so-called: toleration clauses in these treaties dealing specifically with missionary work, and they desire that their" future legal rights and liberties should there freely accorded to them by Chiva as @ Sovereign Power and mutually agreed upon in equal conference between China and other nations.
"Noxrn-Cuma Dany News"
Sm,—Here are two points I would beg Mr. Francis Zia and other Chinese friends seriously to ponder.
If any Chinese wants to eond Confucian missionaries to Britain to [preach their doctrines, they are as free to do 30 as I, an Englishman, in my own country, am. He does not need to negotiate a reciprocal Treaty to do 30. He and they will go to a land of freedom where any man can think and talk as he pleases without let or hindrance.
Mr. Zia jibs at foreigners owning land in China. Again I would remind him there are 10,000 of his
and peaceful owners of land in unirymen,—Chinase—the happy British Empire: again he does not need to negotiate a reciprocal treaty. His countrymen have been welcomed and as far as I know there have deen no British riots against them.
Now, Mr. Zia, why do you not persuade your Chinese friends to. be as generous and chivalrous to Britons in your country as we are to you and yours in our lands?
You surely do not want -the unequal treatment of getting everything and giving nothing?
His Majesty's Government of their mess to join in steps towards '8 comprehensive revision of existing treaties between Great Britain and China. So far as the interests of missions and missionaries are concerned they would welcome the abolition of the present arti cles relating to extraterritorial Aity, and the substitution for them of such provisions for the administration of justice and the protection of the life and property of British aationale as may be mutually upon in egy Gonterence between China, Great Britain and other Powers."
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