BRITAIN READY TO MAKE CONCESSIONS TO CHINESE GOVT.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—CopyrightA.PA. and Sydney “ Sun ” Cable. LONDON, December 15. Debating an item of £3,090,000 on the Supplementary Estimates for the expenses of the British forces in China, Mr C. P. Trevelyan, Mr J. Wedgwood end other Labour members urged the withdrawal of the defence force and the treatment of China as an equal. Mr Lloyd George said that he was firmly convinced that no Government, confronted by the same conditions, could have failed to send an expedition to China. It would have been utterly futile to back up one of the rival generals or bandits. Mr G. Lockyer Lampson, replying in the debate, said that Britain was prepared to grant China tariff autonomy and to surrender Wei Hai-wei directly anybody was available to negotiate with. The vote was carried by 242 to 103.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18339, 16 December 1927, Page 13
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