Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord]
the Admiralty, inn speech at Ellesmere, declared: "It is clear that the influence which is causing alli th difficulty between Britain" and China is not so much Chinese Russian, We must exercise as gre
influence.'
pestle patience in resisting that Mr. Bridgeman salt that he did! not despair of Britain arriving at some reasonable arrangement for the revision of the treaties, but nobody should wish to risk the lives of "our fellow subjects by hurrying the negotiations without securing that their safety is thoroughly assured."
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