4 AUGUST 1928, Page 2

-British policy in China has been expounded in plain terms

again and again by Sir Austen Chamberlain, and on Monday, in the House of Commons, he stated that it is unchanged. Great Britain led the way at Peking in 1926 in promising China tariff autonomy and made it clear that she desired to give up all claims to the Concessions and to extra-territorial rights as soon as China established a Government of responsible authority. On Monday Sir Austen stated that the $ritish Govern- ment were awaiting satisfaction for the Nanking outrages of last year. It is, of course, essential that the Nationalists should honour their word in this connexion, and it is good news that they seem inclined to do so.

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