Call for Sympathetic Attitude by Powers in Matter of Suppression London, Jan. 13.
Sir John Jordan, wating in "Th sTimes." expresses' the option Gne way in which the Powers can Groperly show a sympathetic atttade Zoward China is with reference to plum, suppression.
"Sir John presumes that the Opium Conference reassembling in Geneva Sanuary 19. will revi the Shortive nrzangement reached by the Hirst Conference with regard to pre: Jared opium. The. worst flaw of Bhat agreement, says Ube writer, was That it left China entirely out of the Pletare and only tended to stabilize The existing state of things in the Far Eastern possessions of the Powers, This, Phe declares, was Expectaliy unfair to Britain and China as it ignored the splendid work they had done in common dur-Ing the ten years of opium suppress Han in China and closed the door to further ce-operation of this Kind.
China, Sir John asserts, was the Jone et ango of the whole opium evement and Chinese action is still the governing factor in the" Par stern situation. Any new Fangement should include China and take her jointly responsible with the' Powers for the successful solu tion of the problem.
'The American proposals for a ten-year limit may require Sinsiderably amplified and made more elastic a0 us to admit' elution by graduated" stages part yhonnn with the progress of future Aippression in China.
Tu conclusion Sir John states that these suggestions may" seem onery, Dut so, he anys, were the British and. Chinese proposals S07. which produced. almost _wnpuraileled results and for which the Chinese Government. "and people have never censed to express deep serntitude to. Britain,
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