Dr. W. W. Peter's Advocacy in Washington on Behalf of Famine Relief Measures Dr. W. W. Peter returned to Shanghat on Saturday on the str. President McKinley after a busy three months spent largely in Washington, D. C., as the special representative of the Hwai Conserjvaney Board and the Chinese and Foreign Famine Relief Committee lof Shanghai.
Dr. Peter told a representative of the "North-China Daily News" that he was primarily instructed to work under the direction of the Chinese Minister to Washington to secure the passage of the resolution fof the House Joint Resolution providing for the remission of the} balance of the annual instalments lof the Boxer indemnity. It becom early apparent to friends of China [that the important thing was to secure the passage of the Bill and not to jeopardize its success by insistence "upon a reclamation. measure which, important as it might be, probably would arouse opposition on the ground that it involved a tremendously complicated engineering problem, the solution of which is not yet agreed upon and that it might be favouring special interests or that such reclamation projects should be solved by the Country concerned. The opposition to this farther remission centred upon the difficulty of making, it clear that it was based upon a different proposition from that of cancellation of international debts: and that since the claims for compensation to American citizens and the expense of military and naval operations had been fully met, the balance, G$6,137,552.90 should be remitted by the United States as an act of friendship.
What is the Chinese Govt.?
Another point which aroused much difference of opinion was the status of the Chinese Government and the uncertainty as to whether the balance actually would be used as the resolution states "'to develop the jeational and other cultural activities of China." This difficulty, however, was met by pointing out the fact that China never has defaulted in its payment of funds to be used for educational purpose according to the arrangements made when a special remission of the indemnity was made in 1908, and that there was every reason to think that this would be continued. Moreover, Mr. Alfred Sze, the Minister, has made suggestion that a special Board be created by the Chinese Government consultation with the American Government, the majority of its members to be Chinese of prominence in the educational field, but. the Board to have American representatives as well.
The preliminary hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representati and the discussion in Congress on May 7, when the resolution was finally passed with a record of years 211, mays 114, not voting 107, were very spirited and must have been enlightening to the American public, clearing up much of the popular hhaziness with regard to the Indemnity Fund. Statements were made by Professor Lucius C. Porter, Dept. of Chinese, Columbia University, Dr. Warnshuis, Secretary of the International Missionary Council; Dr, Edward H. Hume; president jof Yale College, Changsha, Dr. W. H. Foulkes, ' secretary ' of the General Council of the Presbyterian Church; Miss Mary E. Wood, Boone College librarian; Mr. Dwight W. Edwards of Peking; Mr. Ralph A. Ward, secretary of the Methodist Church, Hon. John Van A. Mac-Murray, Chief of Div. of Far Eastern Affairs, Dept. of State; Mr. Robert McElroy, Princeton University; Hon, Leonidas ©. Dyer, Con-
As Shanghai people well know Dr. Peter's enthusiasm for the health education movement which he has fathered in China, our representa ive could not refrain from asking /him if he had an opportunity of pre-nuting his own particular interest, Not a word" came the reply.
News" and "North China Herald," to which he has recently had access. He found it particularly interesting that so shany things in those days fare paralleled by current events, particularly making references to readers.. 1 letters to. the editor from irritated to Shanghai and is prepared ito undertake care of children or ject as companion or secretary in return for passage. Highest references. "Miss Scott, 91 Belgrave Road, London, S.W.
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