Referring to the meeting of the plomatic Corps at Peking on Saturday, the "Times" deduces that the British Government has taken the initiative in an attempt to reduce all the premises and prin-cines of the Washington Convention to a very simple issue—practical recognition that modern Chinese. nationalism is a fact and many of its claims are entirely legitimate.
The paper says that it has really become quite intolerable that Great Britain should be blamed vehement. Jy, persistently and exclusively for 8 state of affairs for which Britain, least of all, is to blame, he "Times" dwells on' the ham+ pering attitude of other nations on British policy owing to the necessity of keeping in line with them and rejoices that Britain's restraint and seeming passivity have been abandoned, The journal stresses that British policy is the most liberal hitherto Proposed ard goes much the furthest practically recognizing the legitimate demands of Chinese nationalism, ders that the most: serious fact in China to-day is the permeation of very active forces 4 nese nationalism by Bolshevint influence.—Reuter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.