Whatever opinions there may be Jabout the famous coup d'état no one has ever denied that General Feng, Vu-hsiang is an excellent administrator wherever he happens to be.
yur Peking correspondent to-day gives an interesting account of the special measures he is taking to hunt} down the formidable brigands on, the Northwest Frontier and [further schemes of colonizati seems that Gen. Feng is qui The Returned Student Very interesting are the letters jwe have lately received from Chin-jose readers on the question of the returned student's anti-foreignism. And in passing may we take this Jopportunity of saying that we al ways welcome letters from Chinese Jand that they are assured beforehand of a fair hearing (provided of course they do not write libels) and, they wish to sign a nom-de-guerre lof their anonymity being strictly ents are indeed anti-foreign isa question which admits of a good Jdeal_ of discussion.. One writer fyigorously combats the idea that. Jany Chinese ought to be so labelled wed appeals to the hospitality and that every foreigner sure of when he gets out into the leountry. This is sound. " Very few (Chinese, we imagine," have active feeling of hostility" to individual foreigners, fewer still would show it, if unprovoked. We come, Jagain, upon the baffing difference fand distinction between" individual relationships and class feeling. But there are none the less things which returned students, and others, may dislike and resent, and a correspond-lent yesterday put. his finger on the basis of much ill-feeling when
These men wrote:—bein rote fo "Chin (students), upon feign education, ity of thers terra oom countries rh chat Eat (oF Course There ote, umetous Sine' foreigners, meneralif of interior focal position to those with whort he Faternised cread, nosuuing isappeiatment' with all fore foreigners ary Uneretore Ghinese are Frequent? atiness og eat would otherwise make for the common good, 'There is no answer to the anomaly, felt by many foreigners and certainly by Chinese, that whereas the Hatter may become members of, practically any club in Europe, they. cannot even be taken into' most [Shanghai clubs, except on special ceasions and by special arrangement. The consideration which sets aside public gardens for foreign juse, namely, the possibility of their being swamped by humanity thrown open to all, does not hold in Feepect of clubs, ' membership which is elective. And of one thing. We may be sure, namely, that if Chinese were eligible for the clubs lof' Shanghai, no one would be more jeareful than' they themselves to see only those put up who were Jas acceptable as any men of other nationality.
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