London, Dec. 14.
"The Times" gives prominence to a despatch from its Peking correspondent strongly urging that Britain should remit the Boxer Indemnity and devote it to Chinese education.
The correspondent declares that. it is impossible for Britain to continue to take what the United States, France and Japan are relinquishing. The sacrifice would trifling as compared with what we vainly spend elsewhere, because it is plain that we can do good with the money to ourselves and to others. Indeed, he continues, if we do not make a sacrifice, we are likely to suffer heavily in the competition for the trade and goodwill of the biggest trading community in the world. We are doing nothing directly to secure the maintenance of British influence among the Chinese, while Japan, America and France are engaging in a great propaganda campaign with money drawn from China. Plainly we cannot continue to put in our pockets what others are spending on good works—Reuter.
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