OVERSEAS LEAGUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20303, 10 July 1929, Page 17

OVERSEAS LEAGUE.

WELCOME TO MR. HEU'GHAN

i A delightful tall; upon hi.- travels in ■ Australia and tin: Orient was given by Mr. | Willi.tin lleughan. Iho notable Scottish : to members of the Overseas League lin the Delmonieo Gale last evening. Mr. !lou_:!iaii spoke as a member ol the Overi.seas League in London, for whom ho is j praetieallv an ambassador to tlu.-a! distant parts ol' the Umpire, j Al'tei speaking of the Overseas Leaguo I a.s lie found it in the dilferent cities of i.\ list ia I ia, Mr. lleughan look his hearers ti; Lastern lauds, and told tlieni of the ' wonderful pioneering work that had been | done bv nan of the British blood in all I these plai es that he had visited. Malaya, I Siam, (liina—\i\id word picture.) were | given ol' what had been achieved in thej past and what was being done there at j the present time.. Of China In; had much | that was of \civ uieat inteiest to (ell, particularly ol Shanghai One (.'I the I great misgivings of the Biitish living there, ! lie. said, was that some day .some party | in power might conceivably think it their Idulv to hind back the iniernational cotil cessions to China 'I Ins, he was culi--1 vinecd. if it were ever thought of, would jbe a great mistake. In thc.-.e concessions I lay stability—stability of life, of property, of great business interests. The Chinese I themselves had realised this, and had j gathered up the threads of their business ! interests and sent their money there during tile tune of turmoil. Hongkong was also described, and ■peaking of the stormy period of a year .or two ago, Mr lleughan told his hearers lof the effect created upon the Chinese people bv tlio arrival of the British regiments. At lirst the women and children lied out of their sight, fearing them, but soon tliev found that they were safer than they had been for a !ong tiino previous to their arrival. I hey came to the conclusion it hat if this was the way in which the ■ordinary I'.ritish soldier behaved, then the. Uritisli'race was a race tu' be thought well j of. i That there was a great market for New Zealand produce, in China was strongly i stressed by Mr. Ileudiau. As the Chinese people were becoming \\estcniisod they I were looking with favour upon Western