'The very beautiful speech de. livered by Dr. Hu Shih at_ the Chinese students' banquet in London, a full report of which appears fon page 275 of this issue, may not be too well received by' his compatriots in China. Yet we would fain hope that it will be read and pondered. There is nothing in hi explanation of why the revolution in China has failed which reflects on anyone in particular. Dr. Hu Shih says that that failure is due to the fact that there never has been a true revolution. The Manchus were thrown down and China was The Recreation Ground Only two points to take up in Mr. Bruce Lockhart's letter about he Traffe Commission's recommendation of a road across the recreation Ground, to link up Foo-how and Wethaiwei Roads; and hose do not affect our wholehearted ndorsgment of what he write Mr, Lockart says it is extraordinary hat no protest has yet been heard, 3ut tivo very strong protests have joon made by this paper, the first] note than a year ago, we think, chen we got wind of the idea being mooted; the second about the tine last' ratepayers' meeting, when he Council's Annual Report., dissed what the Traffic Commission vere advocating. The second point 8 Mr. Lockhart's objection to the oad, that it would let out the tuffness and tawdriness of Foochow Road on the town's chief "lung." The real objection goes deeper. First, such a road, if cut, would inevitably be "the thin end of the vedge." Other demands would be neard for similar roads north and auth. With precedents thus estabished, it would not be long before sacred claims of business and he jarry-builder were urged against the supposed wastefulness of keep-ug so much ground in the heart of hho Settlement for sport—whi actual fact, in the gain to general health is probably the least waste. ul thing Shanghai does. Secondly such a road is totally unnecessary. Anyone who wants to travel. west by Foochow Road can do so now! and a traverse north or south one of the best roads in Shangh namely. Thibet Road, will bring: in a very few mintites to any one of four excellent arteries westward. Why jeopardize the splendid heritage of the Recreation Ground for 0 ite? Must. everything be sacri-fixed to the, insane modern craze for A Ghinese recently suggested! tha tk he was not against foreigners, but faced with the task of erecting a new system without any proper training for it, The result has beer that all sorts of adventurers have been thrown up to the top and called upon to manage affairs for which they were utterly unfitted. The corollary of this penetrating and perfectly true analysis is that China must accept a period of tutelage as the Japanese did. As yet the only guidance accepted by any of her People has come from Moscow and the purpose and result of it have been alike, namely, to plunge her into confusion worse confounded.
The supreme question now is whether she will try to battle through her present difficulties to something like order, or whether the mere endeavour to do so will reduce her to so much lower a stage of dissolution than even she has yet touched, that indicated by Dr. Hu Shih's finally become unavoidable,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.