No Desire for Land in China, But Only Security for Lawful Trade: Chamberlain'g Appeal to Britons in East London, Jan, 19.
Affairs in China gave cause for anxiety but he thought that the Position was somewhat improved, declared the Secretary of State for Foreign Affai Austen Chamberlain, addressing his constituents at Birmingham to-day.
Sir Austen expressed the opinion that a grave phase of the Chinese revolution had passed with the passing of Russian influence from China, 'The Foreign Secretary said that' the danger at present was not 30 much, if at all, direct hostility as was inspired and directed: by the Soviet, but the anarchy prevailing in the Yangtze Valley, which was disastrously affecting' trade China,
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