Opium. Again Flourishing: Railways Deteriorating: A Country.
"Overrun With Bandits:
The Bolshevik Grip: Students Above the Law: Feng Vu-hsiang's Attitude (The writer of this narrative, the Rev. A. W. Lockead, has been a missionary in Honan for the past twenty-one yeara. The article was published in the London "Spectator" few weeks When the Chinese Republic was cetablished nearly 14 years ago, someone asked a well-informed; old China hand what he thought would be the outcome of the revolution in 18 years. He replied: "One right put that question to three or four men who had been in China Sor 40 years, and had intelligently followed the course of events, and each' of them might state clearly just hat he thought most likely to happen, and yet you might be sure that something altogether different and quite unexpected would happen."
Progress Indeed ent patriots have been able to close [their eyes to the great increase in the cultivation and use of opium in the feountry, to the bloodcurdling tra dies that are daily perpetrated by bandits, to the cruel oppression by the militarists, th the complete subordination of civil to military authrity in all the provinces, and tum all their powers of hatred against Japan, and now against Britain. "One morning last week while student agitators were de nowneing the hated British and Japanese dogs, 400 bandits from Shantung passed through the west suburb of Weihwei with about 100]
Who could have foretold that in 1926 the opium trade would be flour. thing again, that railway construction, would have long since ceased, that colating railways would have greatly deteriorated, that no elections of any kind would have been held for years, that the country would be overrun with bandits, while millions of men under arms would be throttling the fife out of the country? Who could ye foretold that a Christian Gen-
1 with tens of thousands of bap-tizad soldiers would be allied with the avowed enemies of Christ from, a country that has been China's! most consistent aggressor, and that this General would be the leader of a large number of the people who brave the moral judgment of the world with " hatred, virulence and mendacity scarcely surpassed by the Boxers, while the forces of law and order would be rallying round an excbrigand. chief from Manchuria?
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