BRITISH CABINET
PROLONGED SITTING
SITUATION DISCUSSED
LONDON, 18th January. Ministers sat for two and a half hours discussing China. - High officials of the Foreign and "War Offices and the Admiralty and Air-Marshal Sir H. M. Trenchard were in attendance.- Beports from Sir Miles Lampson and Sir Edward O'Malley were considered.
The ct Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent says: "Evidently no suitable basis of negotiations has been hitherto discovered. The truth is that Eugene_ Chen's assurances concerning the ability of the Cantonese to protect foreign life and property have been proved the merest, illusions, and the use of negotiating with so unreliable a person is highly dubious." The correspondent' hints that the factor most likely to impress Chen is vigorous action by the British Navy. Finally it is suggested that the question for Cabinet to-day is that of increasing the defence force or throwing the entire responsibility of protecting Concessions upon the Chinese.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1927, Page 9
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