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St the meeting of British subjects, held on September 16. in. 'Tientain, to which you animadverted in your leading article of this morning, to decides not to accord publicity. in China to the proceedings, 'The object of the meeting was to lace. before "the "widest "possible Dublic in 'Great Britain an' oppe for help in the grave dangers {aeing all British subjects in China by the threatened abolition of extraterritoriality-at the end of the present ar, in the hope that public opinion at home might succeed in inducing our "Government to. modify the Attitude they have taken up on this object. The dangers that nreaten all Britigh subjects, whether they in Shanghai, Tientsin, or other es in China, are so well known and understood' by all thinking people in this country to-day that to Tepeat them in the Press here is merely to preach to the converted.
On the other hand, as you are doubtless aware, the British Government are still pledged to implement the promise made by Austen Chamberlain in 1926 to return to China the British Concession in Tientsin. At the moment this question is not active, but it is like the award of Democles suspended over the heads of the British community there, and by a slender thread, which might be cut at any moment, It is, therefore, natural when 0 iny ave abroad in China to-day ith swords specially sharpened for the cutting of just such threads, the British community in Ti tsin is anxious not to obtrude itself unnecessarily on the notice of such people.
T may add that it was not intend-that all reference to the meeting should be withheld from the Press in China, but it was felt that an indirect reference to it through the Home Press would be less likely to attract undesired attention.
E, J. Natuan.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.