"tf you have to look any further or an excuse for auch acton," he-< rent, on "you can find it readily enough in the fact that there 13 8 tingle oficial or commander tu this country who enjoys aufclent control over the forces that have been 0 make adequate. reparation for what has happened or. give adequate guarantees of future good behaviour The North ly ruled. by incompetents and savages, the South men. who nee ug fully. imbued with the Boxer spirit a3 any were 1900." Outrages already commit: too all for precisely. the same Lied of demands' that were Pressnts ed' by the Powers in 100170 he Indemnity, effective Corsign control ft. revenues and" communications fu," ost importa of al the wi prised beyond meusuro if the execution of Cheng Ch'ien wore not now demanded by the Powers, for. instance. Present these demands now to this or that Government and who could carry them out? No one. You would have to do it yourselves you do not approach this situation in this spirit, you will be missing an opportunity to do China tremendous service and at the ame time consigning her to a state of hopeless anarchy and terrorism."
No Isolated View This is perhaps the most eloquent appeal for common-sense view of China's unhappy muddle that ha come to a foreigner, but it is by ivolated Chinese opinion of this character, it la the gist of epovted conversations that are comt= ing to us from many sources, There can be doubt that until the Powers are courageous enough to admit that this is the right view of the China problem it can have no per niarent solution, They must realize that the Nanking outbreak cannot bbe treated a9 an isolated incident, bat must be looked upon as symptom of a deep-rooted and wi spread disease, as a manifestation of an evil spirit that has taken possession of a great part of China and can be exorcised by nothing but firm if not drastic treatment, ive in conspicuous loss houses dare not throw stones. What we can this shall 2 flthi st, because all self-re-p lineman bsinzs hate to tell finnest discreetly and piously hope that all our Home Governments are rubbing their 3 and blinking—even though sleepily—at the ghastly facts of this anarchic Chiness spectacle, character, has to convert a whole host ilintory' Japanese to a st ind "borderirz upon a ver and that this righteous being refected in all manner of despatches to Jap fs would sound. crudely fan to endorse and praise such and say that we hop?
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