United Church of Canada and the " North-China Daily News":
A Virulent Paper Provocative of Bloodshed: Comments on the Other Side of the Case No little discussion has been in-pized in local missionary circles by editorial paragraph, entitled "A Poor Service to Chinay" which appeared m a Canadian church publication, "The New Outlook," for April 39 of this year, The "New Out-ook" is published in Montreal under the authority of tie United Church of Canada, which is represented by many missionaries in this country the officers of which are in tome instances at least retired mistionaries from China. From the text which we reproduce below it will be ween that the British press not, they get a good deal of the material for their despatches from the columns or galley proofs of that paper, if, indeed, they are not members of its staff and schooled in its ways. A stream does not rise high-ex than its source, and, if - this truculent, arrogant' and spiteful journalism of the Treaty ports is to be the spring from which the West is to slake its thirst for information -about China, then the people of the Western nations have a poor chance of keeping any balance their attitude toward China. Fortunately, the United Church of nad also got Hongkong and five treaty ports. France joined Britain later in "a expedition" up the Yangtze, which resalted in more treaty ports, Britain, in 1907, was sivan 10 years by the Chinese to remove the opium trade. Britain agreed to reduce it 10 per cent. annually. 'That was to have ehlite. rated the traffic by 1917. In 1917 Britain hod still such a stock of opium on band that to give up the business could not be considered and: the trafic was to-day: still going! om, despite an appeal to the League'
Nations in 1925. "The appeal was useless, said Mr. Moriarty, because Britain dominated the league.
"We are a very much misunderstood nation," the speaker quoted Sir Austen Chamberlain as saying re-fe ently. Mr. Moriarty asked what Sir A. Chamberlain could expect when, to protest the slaying of a Chinese factory hand by a Japanese foreman in 1925, a demonstration iwas held in Shanghai, and was met
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