To comment on the events that have happened during the last decade which have cemented and furthered Sino-Brilish friendship and ce-opera~ tion will require a separate treatise. Suilee it here to enumerate a few Instances. The first was, of course, the rendition of the Hankow Concession in 1927. The whole. affair was handled under such dramatic clreumstanees as to signalize the Guwn of a new era in Sino-British relations, Then in. the short. period of the following three years, the world witnessed the smooth" and friendly, return of the Concessions in Chinkiang, Amoy and tne leased territory of Welhatwel, So much an the way of assisting the "Chinese Government in asserting full soverelgnty over her territory.
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