PATIENT POLICY

Patea Mail, Volume XLVIII, 17 February 1926, Page 2

PATIENT POLICY

FRUITFUL IN CHINA,

RESENTMENT AGAINST COMMUNISM.

In the House of Commons, in a lengthy statement regarding the Chinese boycott of British trade in Hongkong, Sir Austen Chamberlain said the Canton Government at present was subject to. such anti-British influences that a reasonable settlement was hopeless. The position was quite different in the rest of China, where Britain's policy of patience and conciliation was bearing fruit. There was evidence that Communist influences were disgusting all sections of Chinese. This resentment would undoubtedly spreoad, and if intervention by a foreign ' Power strengthened the extremists, it would unite China against aggression. He thought no good purpose would be achieved by sending a special commissioner to negotiate with Canton. • Sir Austen Chamberlain also said he was watching the Franco-Soviet Conference and hopcd.it might facilitate a revival of Anglo-Soviet conversations.