Commenting on the British memorandum, the "Morning Post' declares that' the document is both a plain stotment of British policy towards China and a cordial invitation to other interested Powers to manifest equal consistency their dealings with the Chinese! people, The paper says: "The British] Government in the Memorandum frankly recognizes that Cantonese nationalist aims are inspired by a legitimate desire for the independence of China, with which the Government has always Been in sympathy.
The "Daily Mail" describes the proposals on the whole as moderate and judicious and says that they can, be accepted as a fair statement of the principles which should be followed in Britain's dealings with China.
Referring to the sei the "Daily Mail" realities of the ease and abandon the contractual privileges which, we admit, are indefensible. Such an} arrangement is justified if we can, form a basis for regularizing the Position of Canton.
The "Daily Telegraph" declares! that the experience of the Peking Customs Conference has been intentionally disregarded in the British Memorandum and adds that so far as the primary intention of the Tariff Conference is concerned, has already been broken beyond repair: "Any rehash of the eternal, treadmill of self-interest and misunderstanding would only result in widening the breach which this unfortunate Conference has dug between a friendly nation and the rest of the world."
The "Daily Chronicle" hopes that the statement will help to dispel the of British policy led in China, causing anti-British feeling.
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