In this connection, the op-imistic slatement made by Mr. Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, in the House of Commons on November 1, on the future of British interests in China, is equally criticized here as in Shanghai.
There is ground for stating that influential persons, both in business and political circles, have, within the past few days, made very pressing representations to the chief members of the Government on the immediate danger to British interests throughout China, of which full details are supplied.—Reuter, survey the wreckage in thet 1
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