For the ordinary man to reach a just conclusion, the following questions and the answers to them will require consideration.
1. Were the people who setéled_ at Weihaiwei prior to 1907 given satisfactory assurances that the lease would endure as long as Port Arthur remained in the occupation of another Power? The answer is in the affirmative. yp When is the Port Arthur lease due to terminate? In 1997.
3. Did any responsible official warn British subjects as to the risk they might be running?! The answer is in the negative.
4. Were they encouraged! to invest their money in the Territory? e answer is in the affirmative. virtue of necessity in offering to restore Weihaiwei to China! No, Lord Balfour Stated that Great Britain was prepared to return her leasehold, if it would "promote." general settlement."
The consequences of the mistakes of the Washington' Conference have yet to-be realized. The most unsatisfactory of the terms of rendition is that referring to municipal affairs. There is to be a "municipal area" without a Municipal Council! There will be a "committee" to "advise" the Jocal Chinese administrator: the committee will have no powers' whatever! If the foreign members of this committee are to- get anything done, they may succeed by "tactfulness." "Ye shades of Palmerston and Disraeli, bear witness 5 I am, etc.,
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