BRITISH POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 9

BRITISH POLICY

INTERVENTION UNTHINKABLE.

(Received 7th December, noon.)

PEKIN, 6th December. - . Mr. Miles Lampson, Britain's new Envoy, addressing British businessmen at Shanghai, declared that intervention,, by Britain was unthinkable. Mr. Lampson said that he had the i widest powers' to deal with the situation. He intended to confer with the rival war lords with a view to amicable settlement. He said that Britain was prepared to suffer more rather than intervene in order to maintain trade. He declared that Britain's design's in China were not political or territorial.

At Hankow the landing took plac« of all marines in co-operation with th» civilian police forces in all the concessions. The thre^iened general striks arid sabotage was staved off. In many, instances the demands of the agitators were granted, and they were temporarily pacified. Trade, nevertheless, it paralysed, and vessels tied up hay« been confiscated by the military. The China Merchants Company, the largest of this Chinese companies in the Far East, employing many foreigners, is go. ing into liquidation owing to Sum Chuan Tang's commandeering practically the whole fleet for transport of troops.