The papers approve the waiting land unbiassed attitude adopted by The paper says that supporters of the integrity and progress of China should abstain from making! dramatic gestures at a time when the country is in such dire straits.
France, like Japan and the other Powers, "Lo Matin" continues, refuses at present to ssu scribe to a programme whose intentions may be excellent, but which is plainly inopportune.
"L'Echo de Paris says: "The central idea of the British Memmorandum, namely, general cognition de facto of the Canter Government, will certainly come to nothing: but will Britain be willing to break off the negotiations commenced by Mr. Miles Lampson? Along that path lurks danger: the Powers have been at sixes and sevens in the Far East for the past five years and if the British Foreign Office now overrides the objections, Jof the French Government, they will be ranged against each other just, they were over Turkey four years Jago. Moreover, the Powers can only safeguard the for munities if they are fence of the rights and positions essential to their trade."—Reuter.
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