TRADE NOT WAR

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11405, 5 January 1931, Page 5

TRADE NOT WAR

CANADIAN MISSION TO CHINA

FIGHTING IN EASTERN COUNTRY SHOULD CEASE,

BRITAIN AND AMERICA

PREPARED TO ARRANGE LOAN. *

fU.P.A by Elec. Tel. Copyright:) OTTAWA, Jan. 2. Air. Marler, head of Canada’s embassy to the Orient, lias been sent to China- on a- great diplomatic and commercial mission designed to place China on her feet so completely that she will become a huge profitable market for British, Canadian, and American goods, while Ottawa will take stops for the rehabilitation of silver and the 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 armies of 3,000,000 men who are living by pillage, and to try to convert the Chinese leaders to the idea that every one would be better off if the Chinese armies were 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 opening up •China by railways and highways, and by T lending support to various schemes ensure an era of orderly civilisation throughout the nation.