(By Anritun Ca Newron, nai—Retied.)
Such steps could not be taken without explanation in the face of the Occident's sentimental concern for China's rights, and such an explanation would have to be official statement of conditions in The following extting has been sent sus though we donot rom what ree will be read witha thru Fyre. "And incidentally, how accurate the relief "espreated in. the last China. "Such an advertisement of the real state of China abroad would a crushing retort to the official and unofficial propagandists. whose grotesque misrepresentations are spread broadcast throughout the: world without correction or coniradiction. China would lose "face" that she could only recover by putting her house in order. The control of Peking by the warring military groups would mean less" than nothing to the victors, and one of the greatest incentives to civil war would be gone. The craving for recognition as a bond fide nation would be intense 'n all Chinese circles except the inst illiterate jand uninformed; and those who post-Poned the day' of recognition conspicuous qeviltries and irregular-
Frederick Campbell. Darley, Royal Navy, Croix de Guerre, I first met on board the Australia, which was building in 1912, before hier guns were in her, and from that day T was with him and by his side daily for the next five years. A somer what shy and unassuming gentleman, and yet possessed of that high polish and genial bearing whic) are characteristic of an officer of the Royal Navy, there was underlying it all the fearlessness and courage of his race, and a whiter man never lived.
Only hu untimely end in thi atest naval action in China offers his unwritten permission to give to the Australian public an incident in his life which took place during ities, whether in foreign relations the Great War. It was. in. the domestic administration, would North Sea in' 1917. We were 0 be so cordially detested that "clearing ship for action," a com-life would not be worth wi mon exercise in those days; and at The De Facto Rulers this command all guns are loaded and every soul on board stands by So far as the writer has been for the next development. able to learn there is little or no foreign official opposition to these On this particular occasion' one of thoughts in Peking, but a growing the 12-inch projectiles for the tur-feeling that they should be made yet guns was being sent up from the basis of a new policy. They the shell-room to the lading cham-are, however, negative and simply ber by hydraulic power, It was a clear the ground of useless rub-lyddite shell, weighing 850 1b, and Pish.
Since it would be physical.|ftted with a highly se ly impossible for China, with all} {use or detonator. The tell the help and international good-will in the world, to provide a recogniz~ able Government with time, it is clear enough that sort' of an interim modus vivendi must be settled upon and, in contemplating this problem, the hi authorities seem to have' only two alternatives: complete withdrawal from China, baz' and baggage, pending the country'. habilitation, oF the recognition of de facto local potentates.
The latter is by all odds the ular choice. The only. effective diplomatic work that has been done in China for many years past has been done by the consuls, facing the local problem on the spot and holding the local authorities personally responsible for a fair and square settlement. Negotiation—through the Waichiaopu, or through other organs representative of Peking, has contributed little but humiliation to our experience in China, while the existence of the Waichiaopu and kindred organs has been used, times without number, by responsible local potentates to evade direst settle. ign consular folk, (To be Continued)
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