Prevailing Chaos Must Cease:
Best Method to Produce a Permanent Effect London, July An editorial article in "The Times" says that apart from all question of humanity, the present state of China is of deep and immediate concern to all commercial and trading peoples of the world. China is the greatest undeveloped market in the world. The prevailing chaos cannot continue. It must end in a return to order or to such a dissolution of society as would be fatal to the welfare of the Chinese masses and to the interests of all foreigners having commercial or financial relations with China.
The proposed foreign-officered railway police, even if stiffened as Sir John Jordan recommends by the leaven of a foreign rank and file, would be but a local remedy for a constitutional disease.
"The Times" is of the opinion that much is to be said for the China Association's proposal of a special conference of the Powers as a legitimate development of their Washington policy in the light of later events, but that to be effective the conference must establish contact not merely with the evaporative Peking Government, but. with all the conflicting powers and authorities in China, and with the Tuchuns, parties and business organizations of all the "provinces. That, the paper declares, is the biggest and wisest. method for producing a permanent effect, but the journal is not surprised that its Peking correspondent maintains that in the meantime the Powers should unanimously decide to reinforce their garrisons in order to produce an effect, which condition is precedent to any real reform or genuine progress.—Reuter.
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