TROUBLE IN CHINA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 July 1925, Page 2

TROUBLE IN CHINA

.BRITISH EPS MUST BE PROTECTED (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Published in The Times.) LONDON, July 12. Tin- 'l imes, ill a leader, says; "The Chinese are not a. feeble lolk, and will mint easily acquiesce in'any attempt to ruin either their prestige or their trade. There is urgent necessity lor firm British initiative towards China, which should not be circumvented and paralysed by overtimed regard for the intricacies of the intermit iona! situation. Britain has la- hng neglected In r special advanla gcs. Sho must in the present crisis which overshadows everything else in international affairs in immediat importance, tak her own precautions. -Armed intervention in Chinese internal allairs is. ol course. impossible. lmt . Britishers throughout China must he rescued and protected in emergency. I his is net a question of merely providing refuge ships. It has become obviously necessary to assure our naval strength in the Pacific, since the Chinese crisis. in which Moscow is deeply implicated, is only a prelude to further complications in which British interests in the Pacific are vitally concerned. Ihe present slate of Ear East affairs has intimate connection with the discussion of the cruiser pregramme. We must be assured that wo have at our own unfettered disposal means bv which Britishers and British Ear East trade can be continually protected."