News of the Week
IT is a great pleasure to know that the British Govern- ment have taken the lead in proposing a realistic and modern policy in China. Mr. Miles Lampson, who is possessed of energy and an open mind, has done his best at Hankow to come to terms with the Kuomintang or Cantonese Government, but the proposals which have just been made to the Powers by the British Government cover a much wider field than Mr. Lampson had the authority or the opportunity to explore. According to the Manchester Guardian of Tuesday, the Government have submitted through the British Chargé d'Affaires in Peking a circular Memorandum to the representatives of the other Powers. It is to be hoped that this means the end of the period of stagnation which has lasted ever since the lamentable breakdown of the Conferences on the Customs and extra-territoriality.
