International usage, Mr. Lien contended, require all interested Powers to maintain reasonable and lawful relations with the de facto authorities in an area where the administrative power of a previous government had been removed, "I find it quite difficult to understand why those democratic Powers. like France and Great Britain ignore this point. It is quite obvious that. the authorities of the British Concession in Tientsin and those of the. International Settlement in Shanghai have adopted an attitude of protecting malcontents, of disturbing monetary circulation, of interfering with. military operations, of encouraging Communist elements, and of disseminating malicious propaganda, They are plainly hostile to the Provisional and the Reformed Governments."
The British authorities in Tientsin, Mr. Lien asserted had "no reason. whatever" in refusing to hand over the Chinese suspects of the murder. of Mr. Cheng Hsi-kang. The Foreign Minister bitterly denounced the British proposal to set up a tri-partite committee to inquire into the guilt of the alleged assassins, Such a proposal, he declared was "tantamount to an attempt to cause the Government of China give up its administrative rights over its nationals" The question, Mr. Lien, declared did not allow the intervention of a third party. j
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