As regards the further definite into the May 30 incident, and would accept any finding that resulted from ouch an inquiry. Thene are yet other Ghinese who have been misinformed, who are being Jed into taking up an uncompromising, assed with the doubt that any dex Tine of action on the part of the finite plan or line of action is being pursued. Everybody and every-authorities above, the following suggestions might be thing—Chinese, foreign, civie, con-solar and diplomatic—seem up in considered. become very evident that not-to say.actively antagonistic at—titude as a result of the propagand: of lies and misstatements that.has been carried on by those wishing to disrupt Chinese and foreign good the sir, The Legations in Peking assume a wise attitude (no doubt with Justification,) but they issue nothing for publication. They do not even take steps to correct the tals: impression that this line of seercey engenders in the minds of the Chinese.
We foreigners in China, especi ly in Shanghai, are like sheep without a leader. "We are showing 2 Iamentable lack of cohesion in probably the most serious crisis that has ever faced the for-ign community and foreign interests in China—a crisis that if wrongly handled may lead to an palling stateot chaos, the wreck-foreign interests in China, and the utter ruin of China' herself. There are disrupt' ive forces in the cou: ftry from which the Chinese must br saved as well as ourselves.
The Chinese seem to know what they want, but what they do not seem to realize is just where their method of getting their desire leading them, namely away from their true friends and straight into the arms of the aggressive "Im-Soviet Government of is the breaking down of the pi ciples of private ownership of property and private enterprise and a destruction of all the institutions win civilized man has built up og painfully during the ages for his protection and well being, and the setting up throws! out the world of a tyrannical G ernment worse than any that has yet been known.
In Shanghai there is an undercurrent of feeling that things have not been managed as well as they: might have bern, that things have been left undone that should have been done, that a stronger and more definite line of action should have been taken by those in authority, but so far there has been expression of public opinion calling upon the authorities to take such action or assuring them of full support if they did.
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