CHINA
COMMERCIAL MISSION BIG SCHEME OUTLINED (United Preso Association—By Eleotrlo Telegraph—Copyright) OTTAWA, 2nd January Mr Marler. head of the Canadian Embassy to the Orient, has been, sent to Chit.ii on a great diplomatic commercial mission designed to place China on her feet so completely that .she will become a huge profitable market for British, Canadian, and American goods. The whole plan is now being discussed in London, New York, Washington, and Ottawa for the rehabilitation of silver and the general reorganisation of oriental trade and markets. The idea is to call together five or six leading war lords in China who are at present fighting among themselves and maintaining armies of three million men living by pillage, and to try to convert the Chinese leaders to the idea that everyone will he better off if the Chinese armies were turned into industrial units carrying out great industrial works for their own welfare. Then Britain and the United Stales would jointly arrange a loan of a thousand million dollars fm* opening up of China, by railways and highways and by .lending support to various schemes to ensure' an era of orderly civilisation throughput the nation.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 January 1931, Page 7
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194CHINA Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 January 1931, Page 7
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