Chamberlain, the Foreign Secretary, and Sir Laming Worthington-Evang, the Minister for Wan, also conferred on the position with high officials of these departments, It is understood that the Cabi policy favours mogotiations en a liberal basis with the Cantonese, but there can be no question of Great Britaain submitting to violenco—Wireless Though Reuter.
London, Jan, 17.
The "Spectator" ig of the opinion that the Government has. followed the only course which promises a. solution of all the dificultics of Britain's prevent relations with China, It is wary easy to talk of loss of prestige but the truth is the Yangtze is too low in the winter for ships of any size to go as far as Lankow and even if that wore not so no ponsible person would re-gare war with China as a practical policy.
"ost cool observers admit that that progress is inevitable, Chinese Nationalism is a reality and
Therefore the obviously right policy is to encourage what is good Nationalism and try to detach from it the reeting powers of proving to the Chinese aupcrviston is not weceszary but "fatal to rests, clear that Mr. Eugene Chen has ied to maintain control after
mintang cannot ktep order even in. Promising. to do so and if the Kuo. the concession ut Hankow after promising to do so what is the value of the a on thst the Cantonese are the real rulers of China.
"Mr. Chen wil do well to under stand that although there is a-wave of liberal feeling: in England about China. ord thers is a strong desire to end the one-sided treaties there.
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