China Missionaries Confident and Considering Return: Starving Peking Students: Tom Mann Knows All About China From Our OWN
London, July 28.
There is still a good deal of China news in the papers and missionary meetings generally refer to the situation in the Far East. At the United Methodist Conference, the Rev. W. H. Hudsmith was loudly cheered when he said that Christians in China were standing up manfully against the taunts of their fellow-countrymen who were calling them foreign slaves and the running dogs of the Christians. The Rey. Charles Stedford said they were witnessing in China the greatest revolution in the history of the world, but they were not pes-ims to have helped the British miners through the Hong-Kong-Canton strike to shake the of: British, Imperialism."
No one, however, seems to have discovered the appearance of Mr. Tom Mann, who apparently did not go, and, in any case, had he gone, he would not have received much of Jo welcome, because the Confere would not have anything to do with Russia, and turned down the Communists one again very hard. There was a proposal from Scotland. jealling on the federation to work fand vote in favour of Communist party affiliation to the Labour party, The Communists had circularized the Charles Andrews' in an address to the Wesleyan Conference at Bradford; "despite all the troubles in you are going to see arise there a fully equipped Church of Christ Many of the missionaries who left China in consequence of the internal troubles now are planning their return. In some eases they. have decided to go back and take their chance at their posts in the interior and some of those belonging to the Friends organizations are inquiring whether they can denaturealize themselves and become Chinese subjects. In other eases they are preparing to notify the Foreign Office that in no event do they expect to receive the protection usually extended to British subjects in foreign countries.
The Chinese Government students here for a long time have been in acute perry. Some have gone home, when they could raise funds, but the majority who remain here must be very nearly starving, The only Chinese students who are well off are those who come from British Colonies and from tropical countries under flags other than the Chinese. These still seem well off and this year are holding their conference at York, Trade with China is slightly improving, but the uncertainty as the outlook, which is reflected in all the newspaper telegrams from the Far East, is shared here by. experts who presumably know something about the country. Questions in the House do not throw much light on anything, though people are glad to see that it is Possible to reduce the garrison at Shang Tom Mann Falls Plat The Miners Federation has been meeting at Southport and the following announcement was issued to the members:— delegates, and had done much propaganda with the object of gaining the support of the federation, The Labour Party Conference at Liverpool three years ago decided that the Communists could not be afiliated, and that no delegates from 'Communist organizations could tend a Labour party' conference. The executive of the party have decided that, under the Standing. Orders, the question cannot be reopened' at Blackpool this year, and no resolutions relating to it were placed on the agenda,—Scotland, 'South Wales, Lancashire and Notts were among' the districts which it is understood support the affix tion of the Communists. The solution of Scotland was defeated by a very large majority. It, is understood that South Wales did not carry their support to the point of voting.
Mr, Tom Mann, however, appear at Battersea,. presumably. under Mr. Saklatvala's auspices, ax the following paragraph tells us: decorate the Battersea Town Hall on will the Kuomintang troops, The banners were presented trade unions and military bodies to the a Sporty Mere
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