(Editor, "North-China Daily News" 1911-1930)
London, May 15.
Mr. H. J. Timperley, who needs no introduction to Shanghai, gave an extremely able address at the House of Commons on. Wednesday to about 120 M.P/s of all parties, on the war in China. His manner of speaking was'exactly right for such an audience—no oratorical flight: vhich members thoroughly distrust (as one M.P. once said to me "They know too much about that sort of thing") a little hesitating but mot unpleasingly so, and full of facts.
He began by showing some of the films which had been taken during the fearful weeks after the Jepanese capture of Nanking. These were necessarily rather fragmentary; no amount of foreign citizenship would have saved the photographer if he had been caught; but some of the pictures, particularly of wounded women, were so horrible one could the public. They have been four LEG loans since 1935, each of £10.000.000. Of the first two the underwriters had Yo take up 55 per cent. of the third, issued eleven months ago, 89 per cent. and now 954. Considering that 3!é per cent. is considered pretty good interest nowadays, and the enormous amount of idle capital there is about, as shown when anything the public really fancy, comes into the market, the failure of these loans particularly of the last two, is conspicuous. der socialist administration, s noi The London County Counc!
popular with people who have money to lend. It is thoroughly unpatriotic, disbanding cadet corps and refusing the usefof buildings for any purpose even most remotely associated with soldiering; it is believed to be wasteful, and it certainly has sent vp rates all over London. hardly look at them.
Mr. Timperley spoke frankly as a partisan of China's: No one blamed him for that. His great argument was that Great Britain was steadily losing prestige in China by nonresistance to Japan and by failure to support the Chinese, who fell with justice that they were fighting Great Britain's cause as well as their own; and he asked his audience to consider what would be the effect on British interests in China after the war if the Chinese felt, as they were inclined to feel now, that Russia was the only power who had given them any solid help.
In fact, Great Britain, not for the first time, seems to be the whipping-boy for everyone. She is blamed by the Chinese for not helping them enough, and by the Japanese for helping China too much. One may of trying to s the main point, there are distifict indications that our Government is tending to take a good deal firmer attitude in China than it has yet done.
Chinese Students Receive. Degrees The list of Chinese on whom degrees were conferred at London University's Presentation Day in the Albert Hall this week contains some interesting records, including eleven Ph. D.'s, six of which were won by But more than this, municipal expenditure throughout the country has been going up by leaps and bounds, infected by the example of ihe Government's enormous budgets, and rates in proportion. Several municipal loans have been floated in he past few months, and undoubted-some of the expenditure, on ga: gan tuan municipal buildings for ex-imple, is quite unjustified. So the private individual with a bit to invest feels that something must be done to show the bumbles that he disapproves of them.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.