To the-pleas of various British shipping magnates, Rear-Admirsl conveying a valuable appreciation of the current situation in China. Internal difficulties, including "the persistence of inter-provincial di sension and external trade depres sion may be described as the main features of a black year, to use Mr. MeMeckin's label." Phe serious decrease "in Customs revenues Hk, Taels 47 million speaks" for ect Although of cause it reflects the genera) world situation, reality of it should view that any solution of pol difficulties can be permanently and successfully found by means of the Uiseredited boycott "weapon. The brandishment of that weapon is not the dignified retort of a despairing victim of brute force but the irresponsible action of a man who, al-realy heavily handicapped, deprives vitality. himself of the source of his own
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