WAR IN CHINA

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 29 December 1926, Page 6

WAR IN CHINA

(Per Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Dec. 28. The newspapers comment favourably on Britain’s memorandum regarding China, arguing that it outlines a far-sighted constructive policy and not a . narrow self-interested foreign dictatorship. The “Daily Mail” ’says: “The situdemands more than blank negation. It cannot be met by mere passivity. We cannot go to war with China. Sir Austen Chamberlain’s object is to obtain the concurrence of the powers in a joint scheme.”

The “Daily Chronicle” hopes “the memorandum will dispel profoundly the false impression of British policy prevailing in China, which leld the anti-foreign feeling, to assume an anti-British form. The latest proposal is an appeal to the Powers to satisfy the legitimate aspirations of the Chinese nation.” PARIS, December 27. “Pertinax,” in “L’Echo de Paris," expresses the, opinion that Japan has profited from the course of events m China, where the anti-foreign outbreaks are driving trade northwards to the Japanese sphere. The unforgettable slight in repudiation: of the AngloJapanese Alliance will tend to make Japan persist in her attitude, and she is unlikely to favour the British memorandum to China. LONDON, Dec. 27. The Hankow correspondent of the “Times” states that the agitators are continuing their anti-Christian activities. They raided the Blind School during a Christmas entertainment, and hauled out and seriously assaulted the missionary. Wesley College, at Wuchang, is closed, owing to threatening letters. The Nationalists seized the Teaeheas’- College at Wuchang, and turned out the staff.