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Filially, Mr. Baldwin read a Cabinet resolution which defined the

duty of the force as the defence of British lives and nothing else, and made its movements dependent upon the advice of British representatives on the spot. If these representatives reported that the danger was not urgent the leading brigade would be halted at Hong Kong, and the concentration would take place there. Meanwhile, the general British policy was to continue the negotiations and not to take sides as between rival Chinese factions. When we arc going to press it is stated that two battalions which had already been landed at Hong Kong arc proceeding to Shanghai— evidently" as the result of decisions by those on the spot. This may mean that the war lord of Shanghai, Sun Chuan-fang, is falling hack.

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