International usage, Mr. Lien contended, require all interested Powers t maintain reasonable and lawful relations with the de facto authorities In an area where the administrative power of a previous government had Seen removed.
"E find it quite dimeult to unde stand why those democratic Powers like France and Great Britain ignore this point. Itis quite obvious. that the authorities of the British Cone on 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 encourage Comsnunist' elements. and of dis" seminating malicious propaganda, They are plainly hostile to the Provisional and the Reformea Govern-
The British authorities in Tientsin, Mr. Lien asserted had "no reason whatever" in refusing to hand over the Chinese suspects of the murder of MY. Cheng Hsi-kang. The Foreign Minister bitterly denounced the British proposal to set up a tri-partite committee to inquire into the guilt fof the alleged assassins. Such a proposal, he declared was "tantamount Yo an attempt to cause the Government of Chitia give up its administrative rights over its nationals." The question, Mtr. Lien, declared did not allow the intervention of a third arty.
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