London, Jan. 20.
In a lecture before the Central Asian Society yesterday, Lieutenant-Colonel Etherton, British Consul-Cfeneral at Kashgar, said that the. fundamental principle of the Chinese policy in Turkestan was freedom from foreign domination and when that was secured they showed the greatest toleration of differences of opinion.
Sir John Jordan referred to the unenviable position of the 300,000 Russians in Manchuria in view of the Bolsheviks scrapping treaties with China. He said that China was very suspicious of the Moscow Government and would probably insist on a settlement of some other outstanding questions before renewing treaty relations.—Reuter.
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