FORCES OF BRITAIN.
NUMBERS BEING DECREASED. AN IMPROVED SITUATION. British Wireless. RUGBY, Nov. 23. Speaking at the annual dinner of the Chinese Association last evening, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War, referred to the marked improvement in the situation in China, Ho said British interests thero were not separate from, but parallel with, the in* terests of China.
Sir Laming paid a tribute to the ser« vices of tJio British forces in China. Uiey had already been reduced considerably, and still moro battalions would corao away at the next trooping season. There was an efficient local force at Shanghai. It was largely composed of businessmen. Ho hoped it would bo developed with a view to any future emergency. The British taxpayers would have to pay altogether £4,000,000 on account of tho defenco force in China, and the Government felt that what could bo done locally should bo done. General Sir. John Duncan, formerly commander of the British forces in China, made the. point that tho Chinese were uot anti-British. He said they -were proChinese, which was quite a different thing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20113, 26 November 1928, Page 9
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