Recent examples of the maltreatment of foreigners by petty Chinese officials have naturally caused vation among their combat We all know the insolence of the -office all over the world, But sand municipal politi Not for the first time it seems that women have a hard time of ihe Chinese specimen goes beyond all bounds. Among incidents described in our col it. How many ever me spect their kitchens, ize-chests and pantries, or are even expected todo so? But 3 woman who fails in this particular is a hi ing, and a rebuke among all her neighbours. She might, however, write to the Health Commission er for 2 photograph of the cow that supplies her brood.
Motorists who knowingly or knowingly go upon Chinese roads without a licence must expect to be Med up and made to pay. The Chinese have a right to pul a tax on cars using their roads, But they have no right to behave as they did to the American lady whose case we reported last Tuesday, treating her like a common felon. This sort ug is a disgrace to the Chinese nation. In respect of Mr, Lillierap at Canton, seized by the local Tax Bureau, thrown for the night into a filthy cell, his cargo confiscated and still not' returned, there is no shadow of excuse. Mr. Li was acting quite legally and as he had often done before. Unequivoeal apology, compensation and purus ment of those responsible will alone wipe out t! disgrace, Mr. Chu Chao-hsin, the Canton—Foreisen Minister, apologized personally to Mr. Lillicrap, but he do to have been able to effect anything more—a sufficient comment on the unsubordinate nature of minor officials, All eases display the sum features, the passion for "squeeze wherever a chance presents itself; overweening arrogance; and, as th affair proceeds, the disappearance of all self-control, so that the offender plunges further and further. in outrayeousness. That iv a common feature of Oriental nature, partieularly visible in crowds. "A sort fof madness seems to seize upon man, driving him on to ever greater excesses. The point to emphasize in all these incidents is this: How can Wwe expect petty officials to behave well when they have s0 bad an example from their own Government? The ease of the St, Paul's Church property in Nanking still illegally occupied by Kuomintang committees; of Ningpo Methodist College still ai legally held by some local Chinese school; of Hangchow Christian College obliged to close because the Government refuses it the religious freedom so often proclaimed: these things are fresh in every memory. To-day we have the American Government's Note to Nanking and the astonishment it expresses that the Nationalist Government has never offered the slightest regret nor made any effort to punish the murderers of Dr. Seymour, When Government acts like this, how can we blame its subordinates for being arrogant? And how can such Government expect to be treated by others ax an equal and a civilized
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