Opinions vary considerably ay to the actual value to China of her} nationals educated abroad, In con nexion with this consideration, the following report the "San! Francisco Chronicle" deserves to be noted. The report is as fol Chinese students carrying back their native country" a smattering Of socialism absorbed in "American Lniversitien are the most" dangerous maders in the. sovealled Bolshevistic evement sweeping China with unrest Thi was the announcement of Con felon Hpac in a putty of 12 sessinan James Te Begg of" Ohio, who with their families Praneiseo en the navy, saumnont atte our of the China, Hae Hews, tion" is the only' panacea for poverty {id chaos a9. ike there.
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Ing' is not. helping matters any. 'They the American Inaicutiona of arn: chine to this country, pick up the ents. of secialient spread liberally at Gur Gfveraten and then saturn Chinas "Although "they "to "not. know really' what it is all" about these Hudents disseminate "their, vocialistie {ideas throuch thole country. There. broad Bolshevistic movensent in. China, T'have found, Dut thee Chinese American students and not the Rus the most uetive exponents Whether Congressman Begg is in a position to give an authoritative pronouncement on the subject we do not know, but there is ground for believing' at least part of his statement. We do not, however, think that of the Chinese who have gone abroad, those who have gone to America should be thus specially ingled out, nor in fact students at all, although we know their activi ties, It is a fact, we believe, that members of the Chinese Labour Corps who served with the British Army in France, and whose work will always be remembered with appreciation by those who saw it, came back to their native country, some cases permeated with the principles. of communism, Paris the headquarters ternational body promoting and the opportunity was taken of instilling into the minds of these Chinese everything from moderate trade unionism to the reddest communism. It is not difficult to understand how this was possible. The Chapei Bolshevik leader, Li Lit: san, "is said to have been brought up in Paris, and as in every great centre inthe world Chinese [find employment, there would be no Inck of apostles in France. Still, to return to the main subject 1 of this Note, Congressman Begg has made a protest—it seems nothing} less than that—which should be considered carefully by American educational authorities.
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