19 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 2

On Thursday, February ItOth, the Chinese question was debated in

the House of Commons on the Labour amendment to the _Address.. Mr. Trevelyan, who moved the amendment, threw the whole blame for Chinese hostility upon British policy. He weighted every incident in China against the British Government, but finally he had to admit that the British Government really wanted to grant exactly what Chinese Nationalism . demanded. Yet, in his opinion, the British- Government had placed one insuperable obstacle in the way. They had sent troops to Shanghai and had thus shaken the mailed fist in the face of China.