Mo the Editor of the China, suppression brigandage and creating peace and order as it went "Nonrn-Ciiwa Dany News."
Sm—My attention has been Arawn to your editorial of March 10° which is headed "A Knife in the Back," in which you make comments upon an address. given the House of Commons Dr. ChE. ford M, Stubbs, Into of, Chengtu."
Tt was with'some astonishment that I read your very unfair com-am entry, It may interest you to know that Sir Robert Hamilton, a late Governor of Kenya Colony was in the Chair, and. that: representative of all _parties hend the speech of Dr. Stubbs. Conservative. 'Members, in particular, were vocal in saying how unusually fair-minded and painstaking had been the account which Dr. Stubbs had given of the Chinese situation, and expecially of the' recent developments associated with the rise of modern China. So fax_as he dealt with the position of British people in China, he was particularly careful to emphasize the difficulties in which they wera, and the general complexity of the problems which had to be faced, 'To describe what was admitted on ai hands to have been a careful, fonseleitious and scholarly speech 4 "knife in the back" ina, leading editorial, can only arouse' grave fears for the reputation of British journalism in north China, Tam, ete, This was rejected by the Commission a year ago, bat may well be Pondered now. T suggest that an attempt be made to sound Chinese opinion as to whether some such benevolent intervention would not be welcomed if the foreigners employed were not British, but all belonged to the smaller nations, sue as' Denmark and Switzerland (to obviate all fear of aggression); the cost being borne by the provinces being pacified (the ing this possible); and it be understood that nothing further than the suppression of disorder, banditry: and Inwless mi itaxism would be attempt all other matters would be left enrively to the provinees or tau to settle according to their own ideas.
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