The decisions of the Committee of British businessmen, who conferred with Sir Archibald Kerr, British Ambassador to China, and Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Commander-in-Chief of the British Asiatic Fleet, in Sha hai last week-end, are revealed today by the diplomatic correspondent of "The Times" on the basis of a private report received in London.
The Committee, says the correspondent, unanimously agreed that. a "policy of laissez-faire, passive resistance or ce-operation with the Japanese," would bring destruction to British interests as its only result.
They advocated, the correspondent adds, a retaliatory action.
They, themselves, touched on a denunciation of the trade agreement, he declares, but whatever the Government intended to do, they declared, must be done quickly.
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