To, the Editor of the "Nowt-Cava Daly News."
Sutj—I should like to take up a Point made in Sir Harry Fox's speech to the Royal Empire Society] og reported in your issue on Tues ay belief that. the abolition of extra:
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territoriality' would ultimately bene-British trade in China," albeit After a. period of tribulation, went fon. (rather. Inconsequently thought)' to enumerate some of the reasons why" such abolition present time would: be Bir Harey admitted that the pre: sent methods of Chinese administra: tion needed' reform and envisaged the. Utopin we all hope for. when hina achieves stability. But he wants this struggling "country to yun before she can walk; to. the inevitable detriment of foreign and Chinese interests. auk Now comes my point, Sir Harry makes the astounding suggestion that, as a mitigation of the trials of the "transition, period" "and. the Chinese administration to follow it we should employ the same under: and methods of evading. offeial abuses us those to which the Chines themselves "are often compelled to resort, 'Thuy actually fostering the corruption which Is impeding' the country's progress, instead of providing' the. example. and shelter of the few safely and soundly adminiing of an eminent Judge whose dat is not to conceal unpalatable tru ig not the way best calculated iter under the above caption from the pen of Charles. Shaw cannot be so regarded. obtain Chinese goodwill. "We cannot tell the Chinese this" bleats Sir Harey Fox. A very good example of the prevalent defeatist policy and the "official ind. acquaint Harry Fox. with' Let once the plain fact that Britons in China who nearly all of whom have Tead
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