No stone must be left unturned have the judicial inquiry at ax dit inquiry the whole of the facts relating the May 30 affair, those leading up to it, the share of the Soviet agents in bringing.it about, what was going. on in the Chinese' colleges within the Settlement boundaries, as well as what eetually happened on Nat king Road on that fateful Saturds afternoon, are brought out and sifted by' men competent to deal with such matters, and set down in black and white, so that a sound basis for subsequent negotiations and a satisfactory settlement laid. This is the only thing that con retrieve the blunder made by the Peking Legations, and Shanghai residents will be well advised to sert themselves and insist upon course of action being followed.
Before any other negotiations occur between the foreign Powers and China, the Nanking Road affa! and all the events surrounding it must be impartially and judicially order that there may be no lies, no misunderstandings, no falsification of facts, no By Axtaen During the recent agitation in China, which, as has already been pointed out, has centred to & con-iderable extent on Great Britain and the British, the old cry that, Great Britain forced opium consumption on China at the point of the sword and against the latter country's will, has been resuscitate ed and used a8 a reason why British! trade to-day should be boycotted. One would have thought that that old canard had died a natural death long ago. But, since it is the only answer that the Chinese, and other nationals in relation to China, have Great Britain, when they are engaged in some nefarious undertaking, or exploitation, its dead body is continually being exhumed and paraded before the world, Indeed, 0 often and with such vehemence has the statement that Britain forced] opium on China been made and reiterated that even the British themselves to a considerable extent have] come to believe it, while to jeans and many other nationals it article of faith, Recently pubished histories of China by Americans make this very clear, not to mention many a Chinese history used in missionary schools in China.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.