ORIENTAL TRADE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 28, 3 January 1931, Page 7

ORIENTAL TRADE

REHABILITATION OF CHINA,

BIG PLAN AFOOT.

BRITAIN, CANADA AND UNITED STATES INTERESTED,

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received January 3, 8.25 a m TT „ OTTAWA, Jan. 2. Hon H. M. Marler head of Canada s Embassy to the Orient, has been sent to China on a great diplomatic and commercial mission designed to place China on her feet so completely that ehe will become a huge, profitable market for British, Canadian and American goods. The whole plan is now being discussed m London, New York, Washington a nd Ottawa, for the rehabilitation of the silver currency and the general reorganisation of the Oriental trade and markets.

The idea is to call together five or six leading War Lords in China, who are at present fighting among themselves and maintaining armies of three million men living by pillage, and try and convert the Chinese leaders to the idea that evoryone 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 1,000,000,000 dollars for opening up China by railways and highways, and by lending support to various schemes to ensure an era of orderly civilisation throughout the nation.