A Constant Menace to World Peace: American Chambers -of Commerce Meeting Important resolutions on_ the present disordered state of China and illegal taxation in rebel provinces have been passed by the Associated American Chambers of Commerce in China, which concluded its second annual conference on Wednesday. Mr. J. H. Dollar, President of the Shanghai American Chamber, presided, and the delegates from other American Chambers in China and the Far East included Mr. A. G. Henderson (Manila), Mr. R. A. Frost (Hankow), Mr. Myron Simon (Tientsin), Mr, F. J. Deane (Peking), and Mr. V. G. Lyman, Mr.
A. Wiley, Mr. H. B. Lane, Mr. J. B. Powell, Mr. N. H. Kennedy and Mr. ¥. BF. Fairman (Shanghai Chamber). TTi¢ only Chamber net represented was Harbin.
Resolutions on the inability of the Chinese Government to control its vast military forces and the safety of foreigners stated that since the reply of the Chinese Government to the Note on the Lincheng outrage there have been the murders of two missionaries im Szechuan, outrages in Honan and Hupeh, resulting in the murder of a Catholic priest, the kidnapping of two women missionaries, constant firing on peaceable American cargo and passenger boats in the Upper Yangtze, and the Yihyang Maru incident, besides the destruction of a large amount of missionary property.
The conference points out that these outrages are a direct consequence of The condition of military anarchy which has developed in China since the country became w Republic a dozen years ago, which matter received the attention of the Washington Conference on February 1, 1922, when a resolution was adopted expressing the earnest hope that immediate and effective steps would be taken by China to reduce the military forces and expenditures. This resolution received the signature of the Chinese delegates as well as those of the delegates representing othe; nations at the conference.
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