Recognition has been withdrawn from the Peking Government for reasons both good and ample, but neither tie Chinese people not the Occidental peoples. have been made to understand. this clearly. Tt essential that they should understand and therefore essential that the withdrawal. of reeggnition be made abundantly clear through the withdrawal of the Ministers euch, end the further announce: iment of the fact of China's national non-existanee by such international organs as the League of Nations and the Hague Court, In express sing this opinion the writer is quoting 9 senior diplomat, not quoting himself.
Ceineidentat with such a gesture should. come the definition of the competent Chinese Government which the Powers will be prepared {to recognize. Through treaty violation, contempt for obligations and the deliberate official fostering of a oiscnous ant i Use Chinese people, foreign {of every sort in China are in a con= spiewously bad way; but it is very clearly recognized now that the discilities under Which the foreigners labour in this country are trifling compared with the intolerable hard-ips which the official caste. in China is inflicting upon the Chinese people and that foreign relations with China can never be wholesome until the masses of the Chinese people are provided with responsible and respectable Government For this reason any definition of a competent Government must take into account not only the safeguard ing of foreign interests but the eradication of all major evils that erable for the Chinese people.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.