Withdrawal Only Without Imperilling Lives London, Jan, 7.
Addessing his Bewdley constitu: cents to-day, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Premier, said that the whole world conceded that the Shanghai Defence Force had probably saved the lives of thousands of foreigners. He hoped that it would be possible in time to withdraw the Force, "but not if such withdrawal imperilled the lives of our own people."
There was a slight improvement in China, the Premier continued, namely, the Chinese were shaking off Soviet control, while the anti-British ery was far less noticeable: the feeling was more anti-foreign than anti-British and there were signs that even that was weaken-
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