The age-herald., 1901-03-29
GREAT BR|TAIN'S
 CHINESE POLICY No Further Military Operations Are Contemplated Now LORD LANSD0WNE TALKS British Minister Instructed to Be Mod. est in His Demands-Governme Does Not Desire To Impose
 On China.
LORD L.ANSD0WNE TALKS

London, March 2S.-In the House of Lords today, Lord Lansdowne, the for eign secretary, announced that no fur ther military operations by the British troops in China were contemplated for the present.
 When Field Marshal Count von Wal dersee recently ordered preparations for the expedition, the foreign secretary said the British government instructed General Gazelee to communicate with the home government before proceeding therein. The compliance of China with the demands of the powers is hardly of such a character as to justify the with drawal of the allied forces, but the Brit ish government hopes to be able before long to withdraw reduce it's forces in China. Negotiations were necessarily slow with a refugee government. On the broad questions, however, there was practical unanimty among the powers. The allies had agreed that they were rot at war with China and desired to de- rive no territo rial advantage from the present events. They also recognized the binding nature of the existing treaties and desired to maintain the open door in commercial and economical questions, while within the spheres where existed rights there should be equality of op portunity for all the powers concerned.
 Must Be Moderate.
 The British minister at Pelkin had been instructed to be moderate in his demands and only desired to strengthen the guards sufficiently to insure the safety of the legations In regard to the question of indemnity 1t has been decided that the claims should be forwarded by the pow CTS in one lot. AS to the source whence the indemnity should be paid 1t was not desired to impose on China. To do so would be contrary to the policy of the British government which policy was to respect the existence of China as pow CT. He did not despair of seeing China reformed. Both the British and German governments had informed China that it was not desirable while negotiating with the powers as a whole that she should enter into private arrangement involv ing territorial or financial considerations with any other power.
 Russia had assured Great Britain that the occupation of the British was only temporary and without prejudice. Great Britain had not waived her rights in con- nection with these railroads nor had she ignored the interests of the sharehold- CTS. As to sources of revenue he thought the maritime customs might be readjust- ed so as to impose a real instead of a nominal five per cent advalorem duty. Certain free articles should be subject to duty, but caution was necessary lest the interests of British commerce be dam aged. The AngIo-German Agreement. Referring to the Anglo German agree ment, he said that when this was being negotiated, the German government gave Great Britain to understand that from the German view Manchuria was not a place where they considered they had any influence. He thought, however, that the point did not deserve too much attention pointing out that the only two treaty ports in Manchuria were New Chwang and TaLien Wan, with regard to which explicit assurances had been given by Russia. Lord Lansdowne said he had seen newspaper reports suggesting that Count vonBeulow, the German imperial chancel- Tor, had interpreted the agreement diff ferently from Great Britain. but the point did not seem vital because all the pow CTS, including Germany, had repeatedly declared that their policy was to main tain the integrity of China.
 In regard to the reported Manchurian agreement, Lord Lansdowne said he was not In position to pass opinion upon the matter. The government would not criti- else any agreement regarding Manchuria, which was in the nature of a modus vi- vendi. It was suggested that the versions of the treaty published were simply trial balances on the part-of some official or pure inventions designed to bring about a misunderstanding. He added
 Nothing would give us greater pleas ure than to cooperate with the Russian l government in exposing such an unworthy | object. If Russia would only. by com l municating the real text of the agree ment, enable Great Britain to put an end | to this misconception, she would be pre- | pared to cooperate with her"
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