Although, In our view, Mr, Eden's statement is rather' too' vague and, {nerefore, notin itself sumciont te dissipate all-our misgivings, the fact cannot, however, be ignored, that a fistined tendency hes been noticeable in the British polley towards China for the past decade or so—a tendency hich has been made even more conspievous in some. of the powerful organs of public opinion during the past year—and that this tendency. Is characterized by a desire to vee the building up of a strong and Independ-lent China, Thus, judging from sheer feommon sense, it is unlikely that the Acith|Brtish Government will, at this moment, do anything able. to arouse ithe suspicions of the Chinese people.
are ready, therefore, to give cred= lence to the oficial information from [London denying the existence of any Anglo-Japanese understanding pre}- Ludicial to China's interests, Looking at the question from ans.3 other point of views we wish yo pint tout that, according to reports, it is Japan which has taken the initiative in these conversations at London, If this were true, that is, if Japan' actually raised at London the s0- Jeatled China problem and made it a subject of discussion with Great. Britain, it would in itself mark a {aking action to. relove te Suara" the Colony "are aren that the Frost rz Nonr-Cnrwa Darcy News," or May 30, 1877, "Shunpao" hardly: mak mentions Mr. Aorrison's Fecemt visit oegnow, witch" it "understands wag Riade with a view to about, surveying such' alin the course of uy The Counett's Polley Mention has been made of the fof taking over one of the Counci's Schools, That proposal hot likely to mblerialize from any Gecision of the Council as is recog) zed by those in touch with the developments arising from the reception of the Special Report. The Community would be wise therefore to Front Tue Nonts-Cuixa Dany News." of May 29, 1877, spite yCinterering eter ty eat We reprint from the "Dally Press" a int from Canton, gence Seavie Shorn, egardh {hat thes flood haa made ite way" Ants according to" Honskong report states Ped
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Srould then estimate. the "value, Of osiris. for hesi an they that of sovereigns prove that "this 's?the "ease in experience does define ils readiness to. support the, Beads wh oom employed.
Cathedral School. In the light of the figures quoted above it can best serve "its own Interests by ensuring that the School provides' education for British boys in a far-wider use Of the term than at present, There ig no reason why British Shanghallanders should be less broad-minded fon that question than their counirymen in England or in other Eastern countries. After all the boys who fave to make their future here eat not 00 early com in contact with the international and fert'the genuineness of the" gois: and attributes to them much which noteworthy change, as for a8 Japan China "Fish in Trough"
For the past six years or 49, the Japanese' War effec and pellians move always eon reluctant to" see tiny. Power. take an interest inthe China problem." Intact, the Japane fee warlords and. their henchmen, the pollteians and section" of the Dress, have been daly sticking what They call the polley' of "playing. off tone. barbarian" against another" Feline upon Europe and America supposed to have been followed by hina, "in thee eyes, China nes tong Seen regarded as sect in the butchers ra. sh foa Wough which they Slone may carve or swallow allow ing neither China fo ery for help nor other Power to pake is nose nto This altitude certainly cannot accopied by China nor countenanced other Powers, Tins, if the ques:
China. vis-awls Japan "and [Great Britain has really been raised fr'the conversations iniunted by the Hiapanese"""Ambaseador at" London, whatever may have been the contents Jor auch conversations or Ue results Feoched, the very fact that Japan hae Been' willing to. sonss. the "China favestion with another Power repre Senis an Smportant change in Japan's foreign policy.
May 10, the Japanese Government held a Scint conference. of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, War and the Navy" to" discuss. ana "revie SSapan's polley towards China' Ace fording to the Japanese papers of the same evening, the "decisions adjustment of Sino-Japanese relations [should hereafter be carried on with regard to the report that. the Chinese Foreign Omce contemplates the proposal of a collective security system for the Pacific, Japan. must adopt an attitude of "complete rejec~ on" in the matter; and (3) with regard to the attempted restoration of Anglo-Sapanese understanding vis avis China, the conference laid stress Uupon the necessity of preserving in=
and of insisting pon mutual respect Limate relations with Great Britain for each others "present position If there is any truth in these press that, during. the London eon versations, Japan had probably -put forward as a basle principle that should respect, the "present position" ofthe other." This has perhaps given rise to the rumours of the proposed revival of spheres of influence" in China, Only One Solution What interests us mont is, however, the second point, We are not aware when or whether our Foreign Omce proposed the creation of a collective security system for the Pacific. If Jour Government has made such a proposal, we shall certainly give it our unreserved support, If Japan's attitude is one of "complete rejection" towards this proposal, we are con-wineed that the Anglo-Japanese conversations at London would be devoid of any results. Japanese statesmen fought to realize that to discuss the China question with Great Britain on the principle of "mutual respect of leach others present positions" would be nothing but an attempt at "division spoils:"—a thing, Which can never tolerated either by the Chinese Government or the Chinese people. "This is certainly not the way to solve the Sino-Japanese question, or the Anglo-Chinese-Japanese question oF the. whole Pacific question, There sis only one way to solve these questions, and that is for all the countries on the Pacife—viz., China, Japan, Soviet Russia, Great Britain "Gand her self-governing Dominions on the Pacific), and. the United States—to organize and parti-pate in a collective security system and to discuss and solve jointly those @iMcult questions outstanding among them which they can not solve bY themselves.
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