(Secretary of State for War) said' that the Government had been advised that their precautions were adequate but not excessive, There was nothing. provocative about sending troops to China. There had been no attack on them. He hoped British were looking forward to the time when a Government of China would adopt the code of civilization and bring up her administration to modern requirements, Sir Austen expressed the hope there would be no attack. They that the civil war would soon end would be a sufficient force at Skangand a stable Government be inhai not to invite attack. If there stalled, He added that nobody £elé were no attack they would certainly that intervention by the League of not be used. The Government were Nations would be useful—Reuter. satisfied with the double course they had take willingness The Landing of U.S. Marines negotiate and protection of British Washington, Mar. 3. nationals. They were willing to Reuter was informed by the Navy negotiate on terms that had been Department to-day that Admiral made public whenever there was a Williams as commander-in-chief of Chinese Government willing or able the United States naval forces continue these negotiations, ie waters had absolute dis-Meanwhile the Government intended cretionary authority to land men la to give protection to their national Shanghai whenever he saw fit, No at Shanghai, word "had been received from Ad-'The estimate was carried by 903 miral Williams regarding the pro-votes to 124. posed march of American marines. through the International Settle Why Local Communities Sleep ment at Shanghai on Saturday but.
Soundly in Their Beds it was emphasized, the marines Mar. 9, Jeovld be landed for exercise when Criticizing the attitude of Labour their commanding officer chose.—M. P's towards China, Mr. 1, C.
Reuter, Amery, the Colonial Secretary, in The Maine at Hongkong the course of a speech at Birmingham to-day said that perfect peace Hongkong, Mar, 4, prevailed at Shanghai: the British The hospital ship Maine arrived jand Chinese communities there were here to-day, sleeping peacefully in their beds Mar, 5, because they had British. troops Under the Emergency R: gulations, looking after them, the Gazette announces the prohibition One Way of Looking at Itt of seditious meetings and process Replying to Sir Clement Kinloch-'Cooke (Conservative), Mr. Locker-Caneronians Reach Hongkong Lampson, the Under-Secretary of [State for' Foreign Affairs, attributed The Herminius with the First the fall in land values and municipal Battalion of the Cameronians on. bonds at Hankow mainly to the uncertainty of the political situation board has arrived—Reuter's Pacific Service. in China, He said that it was hoped that Macao, Mar. 8. the Hankow Agreement, far from The Portucese cruiser Republica contributing to losses, would prove has left for Shanghai—Reuter, the first step towards gradual. re-Porter Resolution Killed storation of confidence, Questioned by Labour Members in The following despatch was revived regard to negotiations with the om Sunday by the "China Weekly Cantonese or any other Government Review from ite Washington 'Mr. Godfrey Locker-Lamp-Correrpoodent, Mr, Underwoo: son, the Under-Secretary of State ington, Mar, 5. for Foreign Affairs, pointed out that The Porter resolution proposing: 'Sir Miles Lampson' had opened con-the "granting of Extratetritos versations with the Peking Government in regard (o the proposals com.
Rights snd Tariff Autonomy, to China, died in the Senate owing te a filibuster on the Resolution.
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