BRITAIN AND CHINA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 90, 18 April 1927, Page 6

BRITAIN AND CHINA.

"Ih<- difference U-twcen Mr Seotj and mrgdt appear* i<. be largely a maUer of cbarirr. I think the bc-t I ran «»f Biitain: he thinkTiht wort-t. The analogy he draws between Britain in China and Germany in Belgium is ridiculmn in fact, and sad in ii*. lack of charity. Tin analogy between Anuria in Italy and Britsa in China is also fal-e. The AaMriaas in Italj were alien ruler-, and. incidentally, British ioreign {tolicr helped tlie lialians to drive them out. Britain ha* no <k--jre to rule China. She has certain prhilepes and property tkm (pained partly, we all admit, by methods that cannot be defended i. and she is seeking to rairender or modify thc-c by negotiation. Whai you have e-tablished Mi<-h interests in a come try. you cannot pack in a suitcase and leave at a moment'? notice. Why all this talk of war in China? No ( .n<. in Britain desires war. and to suj:j;e-t Jo ihr crmXrary h mean. Why, then, not ci\e the British <iflvcrninent credit for it- (latent will i<. peace? Mr. ScoU, says the Canton (iovcrnnu-nt represents thfr aim* and ideals «.f modern (liina. It may. bit it by n<l means controls all China: it cannot discipline ii~ follower: and i: is threatened with war in it- own <-ani]>. The British altitilde towards thi- (uncnirim: is ppiiectly on* rect. rATKJOT.