All was well until this Eden was! invaded by hordes of wishered con-spiraters concerned solely with the ne farious task of dragging the British Empire down in the dust, It appears that these orniss from Moscow were mostly Jews masquerading ax Russians, and" all of them were amply provided huge quantities of dollars to subvert the simple Chinese. By means Jof these dollars and a campaign of wicked publicity to show that the foreign policy of the British Forjeign Office had no moral foundation in the Sermon on the Mount, the Chinese was beguiled from' the In a savage at-
China, a few Chinese accidentally were ' shot, and this occurrence' has been magnifi the Russian conspirators unti China is aflame.
If in the opinion of these idealists, the Soviet Gov-jemment could be wiped off the face idea of the dificult problems the of the cart everything would be European in China has to face, but all right such people are few and far hay as it "It's all tween.
'The average Manchest those Reds 'So much for the man does not buy minority to whom Lords Rothermere ian" for such and Beaverbrook are prophets, They he exhibi are in all probability nearer the able' pride in its international high-truth than the majority to whom brow status. they are opposed, but they rum, Widespread Ignorance is tired of hearing every disaster Apart from these rare indi Jand discomfort he offers from as the general mass of the people fal {eribed to the Bolsheviks. roughly into three classes in the There remains the extremely views, or the absence of views, jective, vindictive and determined they have about present Chines enemies of everything that savours affairs. By far the greater major-of and their more or less active and passive sympathisers.
place and happenings s0 remote, The latter are people who are not 'The business of picking winners, usually interested in polit but getting bread and butter, getting who see a danger to British pros-and Keeping a job, or meeting the perity in the erection of British camp rival mill With' Shanghai round the corner occupies their at-trading and shipping centre, tention to the exclusion of all inter-sympathies would have been fiercely est in events happening 10,000 British, but with Shanghai miles away. Asked what they thi facturing centre, exploiting cheaper about "this trouble in China, labour and causing' unemployment they hesitatingly answer, fat Home, their pro-British. sym-seen something about pathies are considerably modified in the 'What now? and it would not need much effort Some police wasn't there, firing on to raise a little money from them the strikers, or was it soldiers? in support of a strike that might 'Didn't know' there was any British fit by handicapping the new en-police out there. Seems a bit funny. to me mow—our policemen and Chinese together. Didn't know we had any' soldiers out there, seey, to be all over the bally place dont they? Don't think there's much They say these Russians are at the bottom of it all. Getting " bit of an old tale now, still, U wouldn't terprise in favour of the old.
Had the trouble in China been eon-fined to the industrial worker in the miles this section of the British ublic—employers, and employed—would have come out strongly in favour of the grievances of the native strikers. It failed to do so be. cause the trouble lo spread to. the shipping interests and developed boy-cot tendencies involving consider. able losses to the home manafacthe copyri ight owner. Furtl
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