"Leave Us Alone!"

According to a despatch from Shanghai, a movement to forward moderate foreign intervention is growing among the foreigners resident in China. United States and British commercial bodies are well to the fore. The following steps are advocated :

1) Withdrawal of recognition of the Peking Government until recognized in a certain manner by the Chinese people.

2) Internationalization of the Chinese maritime customs under an international board of control, the surplus funds, after payment of foreign obligations, to be held in trust until a Government is recognized.

3) The institution of a large naval force with landing parties on the Yangtze River, which is the principal foreign trade route.

The Chinese political leaders are not entirely antipathetic to these plans, but insist that if they are only left to themselves they can deal with the present political situation. They contend that foreigners only bolster up and corrupt incompetent governments by selling them arms and ammunition; then they blame the Chinese.