The Archive · 1927

Liquidation in Peace?

"I hold that the Concessions should] pass under the control of the Chinese Government. But is that the purpose of agitation? If it ix why do the French and Japanes Concessions remain? When posters appeared on the walls of the British Concession after the evacuation they: appeared to have been, not express sions of Chinese nationalism, but of anti-British hatred. What is any' Government, to do under those cir cumstances? We may frane resolutions, out the man who has. to! carry them out has a job of a different kind and we ought to pu ourselves in his tight shoes, must express my view that, at the moment, the issues are les four hands than in the Canton Government's, "Are we to be allowed to liquidate! in pence or is the jackboot to be applied to us and to us alone? 1 say peace' and I hope that the Canton Foreign Minister will play to that policy."—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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