To the Editor of the "NonrH-Cuia Dany "ews!
Sm—It is a striking fact that it Bie largely' men of Mr. Kwe's type living in the pence and calm of the concession protected by foreigners who have such pronounced against foreign intervention.
T find as I move about that there are great numbers of Chinese who! ould welcome beyond anything else the intervention of foreign troops which would ensure their living peace and quietness. Many Chinese. with whom one speaks complain. almost with bitterness against foreigners because they permit the. present state of chaos to continue, The comparison between the occupation of parts of Germany and intervention in China is to compare shark with an elephant: it simply can't be done because of their un-ikeness ju nearly every particular, Mr. Gilbert is right in assuming that foreign intervention would stabilize things and cause railway bonds to go up with a bound, Mr. Kwel is optimistic that China is about to right herself: I fear! no Informed man who understands: ying to evade payment of reparafons for actual damages, nothing whatsoever can justify the same step against an ex-allied, trying but unable to meet payments for outstanding loans and reparations for, 20 years old fake domal There are many other similarities between China and Germany, as for instance the one that those many Chinese, who, according to Mr. Little, would welcome beyond anything' else the intervention of fcr. eign. troops, would be considered as traitors of the worst possible nature, and would be treated accordingly; a fundamental difference of course being that neither in Germany, nor in any other country of the world (except this ill-treated, wretched China) would men Mr. Little be allowed openly to ad-Yocate abolishment of the sovereign rights of their guest-country—and get away with it.
It is a striking fact that it is largely men of Mr. Little's type, living in the peace of a holiday. resort or in the calm of the concessions, who give cheap advice from Uchind the firing line. There does not seem to be much difference between the "home-fighters" in Gerssany and China anyhow: They give advice, while the work is left to the doughboys.
T believe the discrimination, which the Editor of the biggest newspaper in China has to use, fully to Justify one written by Mr, E. S. Little, for, to close with that' gentleman's own words, one becomes impatient, nai disgusted with their cheap patriot {am which Is of course no patrietish at all, Tam, ete,
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