(Editor "Norih-China Daily News," 1911-1930)
London, Not. 5
The telegram from the British Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai protesting against the complacency o! the Prime Ministers, allusions last Monday to the war and British
minence in papers here. More thas interests in China has a good prot one person in no way connected with the Far East has made similar comments to me. As one man put it "the long-term view is all very well and no doubt the Japanese" will eventually have to come to us for money. But that's not much consolation for the "British merchants China who see ruin staring them in he face."
Zeanwhile without going into unadvisable details N can be said that everything possible is being done here by members of Parliament ud business men to impress on the Go ernment the urgency of the China situation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.