"Specifically, the British proposal (a) Not only will Chang Tso-lin receive new substantial revenues, but, a gilt-edyed security will be rented ing him to float a loan to save lated currency from the ecllapse inseparable from the reckless prosecution of wars of revenge and feudal ambition.
(b) Every treaty port will become!
fresh object of militarist plunder jane an added incentive to the perpetuation of feudalism and civil war in Sharchai—which hae been on the eve of passing to Nationalist! control without mech fighting—must Inow become the theatre of a bloody struggle (involving, may be, permanent injury to foreign trade) since the millions to be collected there—that is, 40 per cent. of the' surtaxes—are to Sun Chuan-fang and Chang Chung-chang like raw meat to Leasts of prey.
If the views and sentiments expressed in the British Declaration leave the Nationalist mind unmoved, it is because they cloak a policy that is objectively a menace and a danger to the epcedy advancement, of the cause of Chinese nationalism, But those who.support that cause fare strong enough to meet this danger,"—Reuter.
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