Having committed themselves to the thesis that the Nationalist Party was to suva China, they felt that it could do no wrong, and that, wwently, any reports discredit-
fpulous and untruthful enemies, {mast de the result of unent on thwarting the progress of Chinese nationalism. This sort of partisanship is more warm-l than wise, for it fails to fa frankly and confuses hopes with actual achievements. Such excess. sive optimism has done much te hurt the Chinese cause, for by mi Jeading people into expecting great} things overnight from the National. ist cause it has made all the greater their disillusion which the inevitable rash has occurred, There is little to be gained at this Into date by trying to whitewash the part of the Nationalists in the Nan. King outrage—especially when to 40 is to run counter to the testimony: of nearly every eye-witness. Who: ever has any doubt about what real. ly happened at Nanking need only zead the dramatic and vivid story in the July "Harper's" by the wife of the Standard Oil Company agent who went through the entire siege. What she says has been confirmed by missionaries and by offcials of the State and Navy Departments. There is no question that the looting and vide was under orders, and that 'Anglo-American naval barrage laid own around the Standard Oil com. pound put an end to the violence and -mipped in the bud an anti-foreign movement which might have result ed in much bloodshed and possibly' even have necessitated armed inter-
Tt is not the cause of Chinese Nationalists that was or is to blame, but the methods of the Kuomintang Teaders. They sought to prostitute the aims of nationalism for thei aolfish ends. It is they who are the cal traitors to Chinese nationalism, and not the missionaries who de-ounce them, Tue inclinations of the rabble in the servico—and out of it as well bef ths Nationalist Army again was @eraanatrated on Monday night, about 11 o'clock, when four pirates, ex-coolies and hangers-on, emall vessel moored near Sie Ju Kiang. Dressed in full uniform they produced Mauser pistols me dated the crew.
Their loot junted to only $200.
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