Struggle Between the Old and the New: Some Western Ideas By Lapy Hoste 1 rae "Sunoay Tres There is, as everybody knows, trouble once more in China; and the various generalissimos, or the jaraas in which they besiege and re tire. Hef reads that China is in chaotic condition, and he knows that all the names are unpronounceable. To him it is a cross-word puzzle to which he has lost, the key.
Yet I have just come back after seven months in China; I travelled from Hongkong in the South to Peking in the North, with various expeditions up the Yangtze and to small outposts; I came home through Manchuria, and travelled vid Si-liberia with' numerous Chinese: and [never heard a gun fired in a battle or ran up against any anti-British. feeling. know it is there, because an Englishwoman, a friend of mine, had her home sacked by a yelling, shriek~ ing mob whose laughter was the most fearful sound of all. She herself was driven to her last refuse in her spare bedroom when rescue came, Yet such is the magnanimity with which many a foreigner regards the Chinese amongst whom he has lived that, knowing they were as deluded) children, her first trembling cry to liber rescuers was: "Oh, I hope and pray that nobody has been hurt!" That not a drop of blood had been: shed was to her an infinite relief.
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