Show ENGLAND ENGlAr D TO TOBE BE LENIENT Members of the House of Lords Dis Din Discuss Discuss cuss Chinese Question London July J ly 18 Replying to a ques question question question tion in the house of lords today re ye regarding regarding garding the tte position of affairs in China the foreign secretary Lord Lansdowne said it was as hoped to restore Tien Tsin Tam to the Chinese within a month Answering another question Lord Lansdowne said that the Chinese In Indemnity Indemnity debt was a gold debt but Great Britain TV Was IS not vindictive and andin andin in inconsequence consequence of the serious tion tien In the valuation of the had suggested to the other powers a miti multi mitigation mitigation gation of or the terms by b h during the th first eight years China should not pay pa more than she s e would have hae had the tad minted at the value at which it stood when the protocol was signed I The other powers decided to relieve China but differed as to the means 1 to be he employed Lord Lansdowne thought every effort should be made by Great Britain to act with the other powers |