Commercial diplomats have a dim-cult row to hoe. Their efforts to encourage their own countrymen to take a lively interest in the markets to which they are attached, may produce arguments incapable of bearing the strain of transmission abroad. Mr. V. G. Bowden, the Trade Commissioner-designate' to China for the Australian Government, has acquired merit in the eyes of "The People's Tribune" because he has very sensi-[bly reminded a Sydney audience that extravagant notions of the capacity of the Chinese market are unwise, for the simple reason that "so many Upper left, Baron Guillaume, the Belgian Minister, on his way to the Church; next, Gen. Wu Te-chen Below, left, Col. J. C. Beaumont, the British delegation; right, Mr. H, E. Arnhold represents the S.C, Report on page 424
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