CHINESE BOYCOTT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 11 February 1926, Page 9

CHINESE BOYCOTT

BRITISH TRADE IN EAST

POLICY OF PATIENCE BEARING FRUIT

SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN'S VIEW.

(United Press Association—Copyright.)

(Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) (Received 11th February, noon.)

LONDON, 10th February.

In the House of Commons, in a lengthy statement on the Chinese boycott of British trade at Hong Kong, Sir Austen Chamberlain said that the Canton Government was at present subject to such anti-British influences that a reasonable settlement was hopeless. The position was quite different with the rest of China. Our policy of patience and conciliation was bearing fruit there.

There was evidence that Communist influences were disgusting all sections of the Chinese. This resentment would undoubtedly spread and, if interven tion by a foreign Power strengthened the extremists, it would unite China against aggression. He thought that no good purpose would be achieved by sending a Special Commissioner to negotiate with Canton.