OFFER TO CHINA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 2, 3 January 1931, Page 6

OFFER TO CHINA.

CANADIAN'S MISSION.

Market for British and American

Goods.

PARLEY WITH WAR LORDS.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received ,10 a.m.) ■ . . ■ OTTAWA, January 2. ' Mr. Herbert Marler, head of Canada's Embassy to the Orient, has been sent to China on a great diplomatic and commercial mission, which is designed to place China on her feet so .completely that she will become a huge and profitable < market for British, Canadian and American goods. 'The whole plan is now being discussed in London, New York, Washington, and Ottawa for the habilitation of silver and a general reorganisation of Oriental trade and markets.

• The idea is to call together five or six of the leading war lords of China, who at present are fighting among themselves and maintaining jarmies totalling 3,000,000 men, living by pillage, and to try to convert the Chinese leaders to the idea that everyone will be better off if these Chinese armies are turned into industrial -units, carrying out great industrial works for their own welfare.

Then Britain and the United States would jointly arrange a loan of £200,000,000 for thei opening up of China by railways and highways, and by lending . support to the various schemes to ensure an era of .orderly civilisation throughout the nation.