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Mr. Lloyd George knows as much about the uses of

propaganda as any man, and he does not need to be told that his heedless words will be used as propaganda to make the task of the British Government much more difficult and perhaps to stir up that fanaticism which will expose the lives of foreigners to greater danger than before. It was a minor offence to speak of British. traders in China as merely " greedy." No one. denica that, like all other traders, they have traded in their own interest, but as a class they have observed a particularly high standard of conduct, and the trade, the financial help and the Customs administration which stand to the credit of Englishmen in China have been of vast benefit to the Chinese themselves.

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