The "Daily News," in "A wort to Mr. Chen," hopes that he will make " good' the pledge to "keep the situation in hand." The paper [declares that there is no reason to suppose that the Canton Government, with the forces at its command, is unable to perform that imtrative duty.
If Mr, Chen snd are to justify the claim to be a representative and civilized administration, the "Daily News" coninnes, they must prove their instant readiness to perform one of the elementary functions of civilized society by defending the lives and property of peaeable citizens, oF not, against murder Jos rioters, Leaders like Mr, Chen, the paper Jdcclares, must be astute' enough to realize that without foreign trade, conducted in cireamstances of reasonable "security, they will have throttled the goose that lays gold eggs and South East China would be reduced economically to the states of a crude, half-starved incapable of anything but] Iaborious evolution from the beginning—Reuter, Japanese Press Views, Tokyo, Jan. 7.
Although the papers here are giving prominence to the situation Jat Hankow, editorial comment is confined to the "Hochi" which, while expressing disapproval the anti-British movement, considexs, referring to the proposals in the' recent British Memorandum, that they show "Britain's diploma-tie strategy to be doomed, £5 long 'A meeting to discuss the position took place at three o'clock this after noon between Mr. Eugene Chen, Nationalist Foreign Minister, "and the leading members of the American community. Chen assured them that there was no reason fo: panic and declared that the Nationalist Government could control situation, Later the majority of the American community decided embark.
'A meeting with British repre sentatives with the same object resulted in a fiasco, ossly one person attending besides the British Consul-General, Mr. Goffe.
Only one feeling prevails hers, namely, utter Jack of confidence Reuter, Peking, Jan, 7.
Allogether 60 American women jand children have evacuated Han-Kow and are on their way to Shang-
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