The Manchester "Guardian" editorial says that if the British vernment courageously persists in the spirit of its Note to. the Powers in regard to China, the chance of coming to some honourable and satisfactory arrangement! with China is better than for a long time past, The whole Note, the paper d clares, breathes a spirit of modera-ion, and wisdom, which is a humane: fas it is politic, the British Government, in effect, asking the Canton. 'Government to come to a sensible interim arrangement until some auth-_ ority has definitely established itself' as the Government of China. That fair offer, the paper continues, fand if the Cantonese are confident of their power to seize Shanghi and Peking, they may be willing to accept it; but the Nationalists are in a hurry and are not always content with what is reasonable.
Possibly the British proposals will meet with Welays owing to disagree-
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