The Archive · 1925

CHINA'S 'MALADIES BROADCAST

Address to All Listeners in on "Great Britain by an old China Hand The British Broadcasting Company recently invited the Rev. Nelton Bitton, secretary of the London. Missionary Society, who will be remembered by many friends Shanghai, togive an address on the present evils of China, This is what. he says and it will be seen that he used. his opportunity well.

To provide themselves with some kind of excuse for their own gross failures many Chinese politicians have striven to make it appear that foreign intervention in China and the existence of treaties harmful to Chinese independence were at the bottom of the internal troubles which aMicted China, By dragging this red herring across the trail they hoped at least to palliate their own appalling errors. This is not, the first time in the history of China that the foreigner in that land ha: been made the stalking horse for the adroit Chinese politician, All these things have found lodge ment in the sub-conscious mind of many of China's most patriotic stu-donts, and together with another influence now to be mentioned, have inflamed the student mind to the point of exasperation made so des-berately in the recent outburst.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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