British Action A Gesture of Derision Fripay, May 20. the following reply, has been given by Mx, Bugene Chen to 3 Newton's message "The Minister for Foreign Atfuirs of the Nationalist Government! acknowledges the receipt of the communication dated May 17 which has been made to him by the British'
Wuhan, in dislaining his Government's responsibility for the cons ints fu the eommanteation under reply, the Minister for Foreign Affairs has to emphasize that he aid that however sincere may the British Government's apprecia: tion of the deals of the Chinese Bhip Born of knowledge and vision engle, it la only by a statesman:
that the British Government] will be able to meet the} aspirations which the Minister has voleed and continues to voice on! behalf of revolutionary and Nationalist China, Had their policy und notion been informed by such 4 "—statesmanship, the British Government could not have failed to. proued. to the palpable contradiction between the policy of peace and conciliation expressed in the Han-Kow Agreement and the other policy of military intervention and politico? sabotage necessarily implied in the despatch to Shanghai of the grentest naval and land fore which the British have ever concentrated in the Far East since the Opium Wars, Menacing and Warlike Attitude "The menacing and warlike ch acter of the entire British Expeditionary Force with its seamen soldiers, its battle cruisers, destroyrs semboat, its aeroplanes, ured ears and tanks, its trend the, barbed wire und aandbegs, 50 glaring that the British explanation of, the defensive and peaceful mission of the expedition savours of gros cynicjem. Is it any wonder}
the Tiankow Agreement hav, in fritvated and the British pro-that the promising possibilities posals of January 27 have' seemed destute of derision' and' mockery, End conditions along the great line lof the Yangtze make it difficult to sustain the chow economic stability which would mean employment fcr work in England and in Nationalist China, "Instead of fastening on the British engine of war at Shanghai a: the signal corrs of most of the extra-revolutionary activity in Natjicnalist Tervitory, the British Gov-tend that it is 'Communist influence' and not their own blunder that has agitated and inflamed National-tst China since the conclusion of the Hankow Agreement.
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