His many friends in China will be interested in learning that Mr, Frank Hinckley (who, with Mrs, Hinckley, lived in Shanghai for many years) has been lecturing on the international conference. While missionaries and educators have won the confidence of the Chinese, he is reported to have said, American merchants have not been so fortumate. I trust that his prediction regarding the conference is correct, {for he believes that "it will give an impetus to merchandising, shipping and banking between San Francisco and China, of which we have not before dared to dream,"
Speaking on November 6 at the City Commons Club at the varsity oval at Berkeley, Mr. Hinckley said that the British, Japanese and Chinese had already accepted the American plan for autonomy of Customs in China after January, 1929, and "details are now being worked out at the conference in session to take care of this vexing question during the interim." He Jgave it as his opinion that the Customs treaties with China in the [past have not only been unfair to China, but "what is worse, they thave not been fairly administered." China was very badly treated at Versailles, "where she sect wd: to have no friend except America, and even America yielded to pressure. against her."
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