London, Dec, 19.
Mr. W. E. Leveson, whom older residents of Shanghai will recall as MeNetli, now Lord Cush Secretary of the Municipal Council, an, said that the words meant somes has addressed a furious letter to 'The Times" ea the China Inthing' in the nature of reek jdomnity (Application) Bill, which Ineune'of extracting any commercial he denounces as a complete pervert oF other profit for this country Wiile on the subject. of those sion of the original purpose in resphole, words "and other," turning the Boxer money. Mr. itterly. pertinent to recall Leveson writes: speech by Mr, dames Iudson. wil the earl ice Bill sas still in the Ho aticThn, tent of, China store one counter, tice 1d. het lo cation now of Commons, Mr, Hudson waa Satisfied that, if the two words. were, fete in, there wore acequs HEM. Stationery Ofiee. Its "tr talc, its bigiast. hypocrisy, nad Noted even, primarily W2"vneredible bad faith ae Laibar, purposes. He therefore. propoasd pressure' of Goverament busines.
Wore oni tobe tieakfol tat Emendment that the House seal line ta yo the. ill, echeavy, as to prevent the Bill being {ngs His" miendosont wan seconded realled "alton Hala. the Sedo airing "Season, and) hat bye alton, and now that sane of Under-Secretary of State for For Dalton, in ha prewnt expaet specs in which Méraw attention, to ita "salient resents" the now Bill, Detore erotrevable mischief inder which the greater part of the Toney is to be devoted to purposes, projected wholly alien, oth of Labour predecessors fact, however as T shall endeavour 1025, & more explicit di purposes upon which ths be" expended, "Such, hot the ease. Tie host e renembezed at" Che's 0 this reversal gare from he di
applied and not pai for amount cits. for railway materials alread
any millions steriing: aleo that re. deeply pledged to allow China fee laceots othe markets of the ori for her requirements under the Tyatem of open tender, "What will ba Said" y° British. merchants who piled these materials, and whom Fyghty sin" payment for them the fund? "What wil {he American State Department who raced "he ely the pen doe And equal opportuni Sets endorsement of it ae Washinge ton in "tgeet They" wil. any tha employment ha ade coward of Ball Tam, tte the: provisions aunetion ment with respect to the application the fund, ad to apply, he and 0 ther purneses, also to honeys £0 be ald on, count of the, dant in brief) the former Act dedicated ofer Club, Dee, 17, The concluding references British merchants unable to collect their debts from China rathes spoil the virtuous indignation of Mr. Levesen's letter and may create some confusion as to its real pare The steatagom or make-believe Yes in the two words in the riginal Ack "and other." for it may be said that cover any exper sample, wey would alow pose, The case <f education sufficiently safeguarded—at the framers of the act may claim that it is—by the agreement entered into by Sir Miles Lampson ange") which lays it down that the Wang, September 10238. ese Government Keiintey of canterbury pst hie me of kings. The late!
he id that sill analy, the funda thas remitted puorpoven by investing the said
ways, and in rehabtiating and "guiding ral tion ehall have. full emp That the words educational. of thor purposes" sill "not be taken The italics are mine, If T rament the Secretary of State for the moment may. take desirable, tanya "Ne concluded, "that what m9 want ts educational progress, the Inege sense of the words, and. tat: the mass of the money. which we are. giving back again to China shall be, Seed by the Chinese tee foe.
The framers of the present Act wera emphatic, that the words "and ber rightly Sir Robert Ho-tung suggested this very method of title ing two birds with one stone, ale most before Lord Willingdon' had finished his inquiry in China into the beet way of applying the money, is ani chang, when consulted by Lord Wil Lingdon exclaimed "For Heaven's Jsake 30 more stude:.t" Others rer purposes" meant other similar who do not dislike students but also Backher eral arose 'Mz. want railways have seen in ths sasonby, Base Lord "Ponson September agreement, to which the that what the Government had' new Bil gives expression, an quite view "was. largely educational and cultural proposes, and that the! able way of obtaining both—0.M.G,
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