Mr. A. {V. Alexander, a former Lord of the Admiralty, said he hod not criticized the offers but only the policy under which they had to He referred to the statement made by Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, Jopanese Minister of the Navy, regarding the re-opening of the Yangtze.
It-Col, Liewellin said that_ was ore a matter for the Foreign Offee, but _we still have our gunboats on the River, where they have done been praised by the people there, He recalled the resolution of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hankow, expressing gratitude for the work of the British gunboats on the river—Reuter,
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