CHINA’S FINANCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 69, 14 November 1912, Page 4

CHINA’S FINANCE.

A few weeks ago Dr. Morrison was interviewed while staying in Berlin regarding China’s finance, and expressed the opinion that had the sole issue between China and the ■ ■ Six-Power;--’ 1 Syndicate consisted in the question of financial control, an understanding might ultimately have been arrived at. “Every child, however, knows the schemes of Russia and Japan pursued when they entered the Syndicate. . .

They wanted, by entering the Syndicate, to increase their influence and rather to prevent than to encourage China’s consolidation. And the SixPowers Syndicate, which ■ had been formed because the Americans- had conceived the false hope of being able to checkmate the ambitions of Russia and Japan if these should enter the combination, was brought by a right-about-face on the part of France into a position as against China which was perfectly intolerable to the latter.” In the opinion of Dr. Morrison the best policy for the future would be the restoration of the original Four-Pow-ers Syndicate, or if that , should be impossible owing to the attitude ol France, the formation of a new Anglo-American-Gcrman Syndicate f which should keep finance and politics strictly apart.