BRITAIN, CANADA AND U.S. PLAN TO EXPLOIT CHINA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 1

BRITAIN , CANADA AND U.S. PLAN TO EXPLOIT CHINA.

Mission Will Persuade Leaders Commerce Pays Better Than War.

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received January 3, 8.25 a.m.) OTTAWA., January 2. Mr Marler, head of Canada’s embassy to the Orient, has been sent to China on a great diplomatic and commercial mission designed to place China on her feet so completely that she will become a huge and profitable market for British, Canadian and American goods. The whole plan is now being discussed in London, New York, Washington and Ottawa for the rehabilitation of silver and the general reorganisation of Oriental trade and markets. The idea is to call together five or six of the leading war lords of China, who are at present fighting among themselves, maintaining armies of 3,000,000 men and living by pillage, and to try and convert these Chinese leaders to the idea that everyone would be better off if the Chinese armies were turned into industrial units carrying out great industrial works for their own welfare. Then Britain and the United States would jointly arrange a loan of 1,000,000,000 dollars for the opening up of China by railways and highways and by lending support to various schemes to ensure an era of orderly civilisation throughout the nation. jg ng t§2 HE ®®®®lS®Sl®E ®®S3 Si IS EE® SI ®l*3 EE! 13 HI HU ®®@3HIIS®HI ®®® HI ®