Whyte adds journalism to his other accomplishments, having been. special correspondent for the London "Daily News" at the Peace Conference at Paris in 1919, he has not sea fit to honour his own countrymen by coming into the British press in China and expounding the extraordinary phenomenon of a Knight Commander of the Star of India going out of his way to deliver a glowing eulogy of Ghandi, the enemy of- England, before a meeting of Chine on the ancient Europe, thuswis they talk pedantic and impractical nonsense, and have the intelleetial Sobleskt of i impudence to imagine they are fit ye would me countrymen of Nelson.
this "regard. though they did They stoop seem to be known toa namber of 30 low that they glorify and eulogize the avowed enemies of to judge from certain their own race.
Some do it in the win the Press, there are Points which are disputed, name of a curious and perverted Journalists are not omniscient; arm of "personal religion," inter= take Sir Frederick Whyte on the Nationalist movement, for. ex-Others in the name of a spurious ample! But some of us, though we perversion of polities which is the don't make a song about it, have friend of every country but its own, indeed heard of Attila, Roland, and There is no "die-hardism" about John Sobieski. Further, even, wel this: itis pure plain fact. Sir have also hoard of Queen Anne, Frederick Woot ites about the and it will be superfluous forme Chamberaing thorn bony and to inform a special correspondent Of the Cocoa Press that the lady his pinchbeck triumphs at Honolulu still dead, fete ay mocha cheap ach We folks out here are living very Etichwor us any callow Chines much in the atmosphere of 1927, Stent fi Nad ith thd Instead of concerning cursive SOW8Y use of the Thoo, Poe his "own Colestint with the proceedings of the late Mahatma, Attila, the late Roland, the Into 1 who also hailed from John Sobieski of Poland, and the Honolulu! He speaks of the "New fever lamented Into Queen Anne of China" "as "it "ie was something England, are compelled in Selt-|ctrontery actualy to place alk worthy of zeapect "and has the Protection, and for what we con-country "on the' sider to be the honour and the the Penitent Bench! Transcendental transient! interest of England, to carry other We foreigners have our fou Dames in our minds, The names which I am going to set against the ways of administration have prover but taking us in general on fore above list have owners who are] of the greatest good to the greatest very much alive to-day, much as number of Chinese whom we have. tone may regret being unable to] r ruled at the same time as we have refer to them in the same tense as ruled ourselves. ne of the Chine the guest of the Union reverently used.
Club ese who ape the fore ways imagine that the externals of Alexander Frederick Whyte, clothing and of book culture are X.18.1, Ghandi Mahatma, Alfred suflcient to enable them to rule as Henry Scott, J. Henry T, wwe have ruled, How utterly vain Hovigkin 11.04 Tem—Mann of {and foolish they are to. imagine Trafalgar Square, Eugene Chen,|* uch, The Whytes and Hodgkins and Mike Borodin nee Grazenberg Who come and tell them this are of Moscow, are but a few of the 8 vain and foolish as their dupes. ames that harassed journalists of closing sentence of Sit China-in-1927 are compelled to tne a profound example of the over= Frederick Whyte's speech seems to
We are not politicians performing wheening self-assurance and vanity for the cheers of cheap galleries. of the peripatetic politician on the We are ordinary well-intentioned and quite decent people living in re China and making our livings in various ways in this land, We are] lies and they ath, and ithe Chin not hostile or aggressive' in inten-could bein to show their pellet int tion towards the Chinese, but we ly of Great Britain, then he cond live amongst them and their ways Heme sure thut solution of hele "problems fare not our ways. The crux of the eud trid contin question here is racial, and it is There seems little doubt that Sit racial from Alpha to Omega.
Frederick Whyte is firmly convinced (Will Sir Frederick note the vas that if Sir Frederick Whyte can knowledge of Greek that adorns return to Hampstead with the com. Far Eastern journalism!) The great outstanding fortable feeling that one-third the human ra had begun to show foreigner vis-i-vie of Chinese is belief in Sir Frederick Whyte that we know how to govern, how. and were suddenly changing their to administer, and how to accom. characteristics to satisfy his sense plish orderly and reasonable public of the fitness of things, that, then, any life, retire Poet area eerie Hey Presto and Abracadabra, Sir
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fed our tas of te ces on" [Pace Relating! at Howat shore littered with the driftwood he Sandwich Isles, has, by a couple that time and tide have washed of utterances at a couple of tiffin from the wreckage of the craft of parties of the Union Club in the Old Cathay. We are the sons, the
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