Evening star., 1927-05-09
BRITISH TO DELAY
PENALTIES IN CHINA
Application of Force Inexpe-
dient at Present, Chamber
lain Tells Parliament.
Bv the Associated Press.


LONDON, May Sir Austen
Chamberlain, the foreign secretary.
told the House of Commons today the
British government had decided that
the present application Of penalties
fer the anti-foreign outrages at Nam
king and the failure of the Chinese
Nationalists to observe the conditions
of the Hankow agreement was mex
pedient. however. fully justified.
Sir Austen said that he believed
similar reasons had led other inter-
ested governments to like conclu-
sion. Under those circumstances the
British government did not propose
to address any further notes to Eu-
gene Chen, the Cantonese foreign
minister at Hankow
Great Britain, the foreign minister
said, has informed the other Powers
of it's decision but has reserved 1uii
liberty of action concerning the future
and particularly concerning further
outrages, which might be perpetrated
upon the British flag, BRUSH suo-
iects and British property.
Keeping Out of HankOw.
Great Britain also has decided not
to reoccupy the British concession at
Hankow, which was given over TO the
Chinese authorities. by an agreement
with the Hankow government, at the
present time.
Sir Austen said that the National
ist government at Hankow had lost
its dominating position in South CHINA
and was nothing more than the
shadow of name.
Great Britain, he said, had ample
justification for the reoccupatlon OIL
the British concession and for re-
garding the agreement on the conces-
sion Cancelled by the acts OF the Ma
tionalist government there.
British have been at hand so as to
reoccupy the concession, he con-
tinued, but on full consideration Great
Britain had decided not to take this
step now and hoped that it would not
be forced on her.
Blames Moscow for Disorders.
The foreign minister in addressing
the House declared that the Third
International at Moscow was respon-
sible for the Nanking disorders. he
said, however, that the Communist
element in China was thoroughly dis
credited and that the perpetrators OF
the crimes against foreigners had
been punished with severity and
speed which would have been impos-
sible by any foreign power.
The British government, he con-
tinued was unwilling, even under
such provocation as it had received,
to abandon hope that its friendly
policy would soon evoke an equally
friendly response from the Chinese
government, free from foreign domi'
nation and thus would be enabled to
devote itself to single minded serv-
ice of the interests of the Chinese.
The present stalemate in the
Chinese situation is likely to con-
time, according to the British view,
until one of the three rival forces,
Chang Tso-Lin, the Northern war
lord Chang Kai-Shek, Nationalist
generalissimo, or the Hankow Ma
tional regime gains ascendancy.
Chang Tso-Lin appears to be the
strongest, but only as a temporary
ruler who is unlikely, the British say,
to solve the fundamental problems
confronting the country. British Off
cials look upon the definite eclipse of
the Communistic element in China as
the most important development
there in recent months.
Moderate Troops at Swatow.
A Hongkong dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph reports the arrival
of 600 Moderate troops aboard a
Chinese troopship at Swatow, in
eastern Kwangtung Province. Their
arrival has eased the tension there,
and danger of Communist coup has
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