THE CHINESE
EXPRESSION OF REGRET FOR CERTAIN STATEMENTS. Tho Acting-Primo Minister (Sir James Allen) has sent tho following lotter to Mr. Liu Shih-Yuan, Consul for China:— "Dear Sir,—l have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of Juno 14 within enclosure, being a cutting from 'Ihb Dominion newspaper of Juno 12, containing a brief roport of a missionary lecture on the Miao of China by Mr. Robert Powell. .1 convey to you my sincere regret that such statements were made and published. Please accept my assurance that the New Zealand Government does not in any way endorse what has been said by Mr. Powell. On tho contrary, it has tlio highest opinion or the Chinese, and is gratified to know that the Chiueso nation has joined hands with our United Kingdom and other Allies in tho interests of justice and of peace. The opinion of the Attorney-General has been sccurcd, and lie reports to mo that, though we can stop such matter being published, he considers it' better to have a more elearly-cxprossed power in the regulations. A new regulation, giving this power, will be submitted for the approval of the Executive Council at tho I earliest possible opportunity."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 237, 25 June 1918, Page 4
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