"Who Indemnity Delegation tierd and Lady Wil members. of the Indemnity Delegation are com: mencing to-day a brief holiday from heft labours, which will be. taken again at Tientsin about the 20th. They certainly deserve a rest. Apart from much hard work on the enormous mars of material they ave had before them, they have been continually "on tap" for public functions and speech-making and have also spent much time and Inbour on private interviews. The assistance given by the three! Ohinese members, Dr. V. K. Ting, Br. -C, C. Wang and Dr. Hu Chih, has been invaluable. They have been unwearied in bringing Lord Willingdon into touch with numbers. of influential Chinese whom he might not otherwise have met, and their ce-operation in the work the Delegation generally has been mot friendly, assiduous and helpful 'We may, perhaps, venture to refer once more to Lord Willingdon's personal charm. Quite apart from the ultimate purpose of the Delega~ tion, it has done good in diffusing'
healthy atmosphere over Chinese and British relationships generally. Before the delegation came, thexe relationships were certainly much better than they had been. Bnt just as when two. persons fall into a seemingly hopeless state of'difference and misunderstanding, and only the advent of a third party, can deliver them from it, so it has been, we think, with Lord 'Willingdon's personality as between British and Chinese. Without directly attempting' a reconciliation between them, he and the Delegation undoubtedly have been instrumental in causing both the Chinese and British communities to look at each other with new vision; and if the]
Delegation never did anything else, its time would have been well spent in this respect alone. As a matter of fact, there is ground for bel that its work as regards the outlaying of the Indemnity has been fruitful and that good practical results may be expected. But for) these we must wait, The other outcome of the Delegation's presence in already sensibly about us, was never the strong point of the faddists. And as the British Raj is obviously in the wrong whatever it does, the better course is to consider the masses of the peaceable public first-and see to their welfare, even at the expense of some discomfort to professional treublemakers, The Davis Scholarship Information has been received that the Davis Scholarship in Chinese, at] Oxford, has been raised in value from £50 to £100 a year. A recent notice in the Oxford University
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