BRITAIN AND CHINA

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1923, Page 7

BRITAIN AND CHINA

TRADE PROSPECTS ENDANGERED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Peking, Dec. 20. A Canton telegram says placards are appearing in the streets urging an antiBritish and American boycott. Others appeal to the people to unite to secure the Customs surplus in order to save the Chinese nation. Hong Kong, Dec. 20. •Sun-Yat-Sen has telegraphed to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald asking him to bring to the notice of the British people, particularly the workers, the grave situation which His Majesty’s representative in China has been mainly instrumental in creating at Canton. “My Government,” he says, “is being threatened with acts of war by an international force. Nearly a score of cruisers and gunboats have already landed armed soldiers at Shameen. This is the work of the diplomatic body at Peking, and is taken at the instance of the British Minister on the advice of the Senior Consul at Canton, which is His Majesty's Consul General, and the InspectorGeneral of China’s maritime Customs, who is a British national.” Sun-Yat-Sen raminds Mr. McDonald that China, which is admittedly one of the richest markets +’or British goods, cannot he secured by tl-e gunboat policy of the old diplomacy, though it can be won by a policy aiming at tha capture oi Chinese goodwill.