Soothing Syrup to the Press, either in confidence before its delivery, or immediately 'The authoritative statement made afterwards. Tt is' particularly in-Reuter in London on the teresting to learn from the addenof the extraterritoraity neg Jdtum made to the corrected version tions between Great Britain and Jof the speech that the National China, comforting though Government never entertained any undoubtedly intended to be, will idea of interfering with the freedom hardly set at rest, the uneasiness the Press, but the government can which is being felt by British Jeasily do more: the procedure sug-communities in China. Te has been common knowledge that there have Jzcsted above would actually ssvist been no discussions for some time jin the presentation of news. pest, and it was hardly to be Jelieved that China, preoccupied in another direction as she is at the Truthful "Pravda" moment, would be anxious tp resume them immediately. The assurance that extraterritorial rights will not Rowlan paper has boon" dalle be. relinquished. without safeguards with the Qruth again ina typically that will protect British interests Chia is also very soothing but it Soviet fashion, "fu am article con menting upon' recent developments really gives" Britons in Chi in Manchuria it says that the information. What they not only la Shanghai, bus in the Japanese action in Manchur 3 outports, negotiations proceeded when ioo bow Presents a repulsive heap of treaty]
they came to a stop. Are' the Hit represents," it goes: rumours true that the discussions on to say, "the prelude to a, new reached.a stage at which an agree-world slaughter. "If it has not yet ment. \éas initialled, or where Degun it is not because the, Let Britain is now in a position from which "she cannot with propriety frecede?, And if so, what has been of course, done? The. state of uncertainty the immaculate political' morals of which prevails is definitely injurious {to British interests in China and the, So fet which. permits "Pravda" Janything is done before those in-—"Truth"—to peso downright in ferests ere given an opportunity of its remarks, But there is an interest-being heard on the subject, even ing: conclusion to be drawn from greater injury. may ensue The the article the purport of which i3 Statement made in London is no reproduced. elsewhere." Whatever mote sufficient than a dose of sooth-ims the Soviet may or may not Hing s¥rop would be as treatment have in Manchuria it is clear that for acute appendicitis. any spoliation undertaken there will be done ju the enthusiasm of.an undying love for China. And if this article is nothing but a gentle A Suggestion imper on the hungry mouth of the Soviet wolf, China may yet have to It fs a matter of some regret that appeal to the League of Nations to} IGeneval Chiang Kai-shek has been save hor from her friends.
Jobliged to correct the reports pubished of two of his most important 6 lsocent. speeches. his complaint that he has been mi While, of sour "Buy British" reported will naturally be given all Kihe exedit to be attached to the The very great difference between a boycott used for political ends and utterances of the head of a government, it would seem that the prea "drive™ fo. persuade people, to fuse products of home manufacture vention of stich mistakes in the aniply demonstrated in the move Hfatuce is merely a matter of office ment which will start in Great
fextemporancously. The practice in me, unless the General speaks Britain on November 16, when the ther countries, expecially when che slogan "Buy British" will Lo used for all it is worth, Such.a cam-Jdeclatations to be made are of paign has not in view the damag-
[paramount importance, is to prepare copies of the speech for circulation ing of some countries exports. to Britain by establishing a prejudice -j|seainst them, but rather a pro-plans of Labour first showed dis ist movement to favour astrous fruit in reckless municipal native products.
'Some such move expenditure, which in some me og an offset to the tances had' been flagrant for n do-immense quantity of goods which, cade or 80 past, Possibly, because is reported, are being rushed into Sta generally closer appeal of per England ai inst. the time when a Tarift shall Sonaifties, men were repeatedly" re-ye been inaugurated, turned fo. municipal office" who [for an increased demand for home should only have. been allowed. to will have early erve once. It might be that meticial effect, when the good: at present being dumped will tend to though the electors grumbled at the clay. the gvod.nesults anticipated from the' eat which are increases inthe rates which. they wer, time and time again, called apart from any consideration of the upon' to meet, they felt that, after question of protection the forth-all Labour could do litre harm, and campaign may bar good that, there was always the goternresults, though it is open to ques ment in the background to straight whether the hig ideals of out any, financial muddle. they"
riotism should be used as a got into. That might recount for ing point when the real issue the fact' that when: the opinion on tone of the price of the goods. national polities swayed one Way, that. on municipal affairs Went the ther. "On this occasion, however. the British voters have demonstrate: fod'a unity of decision which must Admiral MacLean have struck dismay into the hearts that section of Labour" wheth The best wis of residents. in consoled itself with the idea that Shanghai and all I along the Yangtze their seats-on. town. and other cou will accompany Vice-Admiral, Ma oils would "not be. so gravely Lean on his age home which ho disturbed as " they hod been fov. 3 after hi Parliament. "Tt. seems clear' that Sears' service here, The role of the peril fo which Britain was. commander oe the Yan is never reduced has thoroughly alarmed the jan easy one, and to fol fow success-electorate hat, " Labour will {tally in the footsteps of such able have a long and difficult, task to men as Rear-Admiral Tweedie, for regain the confidence which once it Instance, requires a great measure of that genius which combines the qual ies of tailor and diplomat. In Admiral Twweedio's time sections of A Link with Captain Boycott ihe bank of the Yangts ware. inested with, bandit-communists. who In the Magazine of the "North-shot at and shelled merchant ships [China Sunday News" of August 2! when occasion presented, itself, snd there appeared an illustrated articn that with every conceivable t of iziving' an. impression of Captain weapon.
Admiral MacLean ad [Charles "Cunningham Boycott—the "my on the duty. of keeping these original vielim of the form of, Saves as mud ostracism to which his name is now lid be lid fe with characteristic [in sally applied—ts he appeared ig Inter days in a Suffolk village. the same time the private letter from England ist menace was steadily veals the fact that his widow is still growing in interior, fa. such Jalive and living with her daughter any and Hunan, also mentioned in the article—in until it rea a state that, Suffolk not far from the estate to General Chi shek had to! which Captain Boycott was agent. take the field unself against these Miss Boycott is writing a History dangerous hordes. In the mean-[of the family and the article time, however, the safety of mis- [question was read by her with gre sionaries and others in such parts interest.
Of her mother the lett of the interior could not but bel goes on to say: a cause of the utmost tion to the Admiral anc 2 hig sta ste shir wale to church and) ret aten, Boycott, is 98 years of age. and it is "safe to say that the yangtze Mia has" never her last Wedneatay cat an. Empire quitted itself better than in these wonderful woman Pug of Uoentaf she fat tryin times, Shanghs saw mors of Admiral MecLean than it did of [When it is remembered that Mrs. hhis predecessor, and that has been Boycott shared her husband of satisfaction. Like ties and dangers in the 1 irish Land who have Kept the watches Leaguer's persecution of him in 1880 fon the Yangtze, Admiral MacLeaa|the vigour of this plucky woman, had the faculty for grasping the will be appreciated,
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