Mar. 14
The loss of Sir Sidney Lorton -|as their Consul-General will be deeply and sincerely regretted by his countrymen in Shanghai. Presumably they will have on asy to imagine the og of Nationalist officials at the removal of one who dee there appears thinking that being a before he hen he went was known inge; the does not fact a consul, He now rank, @ ¥@i and may perla regarded mainly as a brief rest cure, it opens up avenuer to were closed to him he remained in Shanghai. May those avenues lead one day the Legation i 2 Pol cians are, mercifully, not eteril, and new generations of them have been known oecasionally to retrieve their predecessors' follies. Nobedy in Chin asks for the big stick or a gunboat policy, nor are they neces sary. We beg only for accept ings us they are, not guided doct: ingires would have them be; for rejection of ctenees unsupported by a ed of substacee: fcr recogni terest of the China also that of overwhelming all.
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