London, Aug. 20, The Annual Conference of Chinese Students in Great Britain and Ireland, which is a Conjoint Conference of the Central Union of Chinese Students in Great Britain and Ireland, the Chinese Students' Christian Union in Great Britain and Ireland, and the Overseas Chinese Society, is being held this week at High Leigh, Hoddes-don, the same place as in the tuo previous years. Fifty Students, and in addition their friends, are assembled.
Mr. Chao Hsin-chu, the Acting Chinese Minister, opened the Conference on Monday reminding them that he fold them at "the Annual Students Dinner last winter he would be going home soon. This summer he was going to Geneva to attend the League of Nations, "What I am going to speak about said Mr. Chu is the biggest question China has ever put forward to the foreign Powers. Are you not aware that the Chinese Government has recently addressed Notes to the Foreign Powers on the question of revising the Treaty relations 1 think we all agree that we Chinese will b able to work out our own salvation and that we do not need outside help which may be misguided into intervention, But I have noticed some statements made on China by a diplomat of another country. Let me quote him: We are all determined to help China, but China must enable us to do so." I think such a statement treats China like a child. would advise you to pursue your studies without being interfered with by any impulse. Do not form a rash judgment on any event which you cannot see clearly from the Overseas distance.
eral English speakers have been invited to address the Conference. Undoubtedly the one who was commended himself most surely has been Mr. Harry T. Silcock, Seretary of the Friends' Foreign Mission and late Vice-President of the Chengtu University, Szechuan, Not yo much, perhaps, has this been, for his matter, as for his manner. The gathering felt that on his pien for an understanding between the two nations and for an immediate and sympathetic investigation of the recent happenings he has on behalf of a large number in Great Britain shown an appreciation of their point of view, while, at the same time, they have understood through him something more of the British point of view.
With courtesy and interest also did the students listen to the address given to them by Mr. Archibald Rose, late Commercial Attache at Peking and a Director of the British-American Tobacco Company. He put forward excellently the point of view of the business man engaged in modern industry in China in regard to efficiency, development through cheap capital and the bringing of one-time luxuries as well as necessities within the reach of all, Nevertheless it was evident that he did not succeed in converting to his point of view his hearers that these forms of modern progress had been entirely for the good of their country. Tt was easy, he said, to put one's finger on the things Britain had done wrong, but he asked his Chinese audience to try and find: the balance between what Mie thought were the small mistaices and big achievements. He believed that by providing technical as-serves to keep goi ig, and many of them finally going under, would not have sent the price up where—_ production, could be profitable. Rubber men in those years took their medicine. Now the manufacturers,—really not the manufacturers, for they do not lose; it is the public that pays—must take their medicine, andewait until they can get. more rubber at a cheaper price by the same perfectly: natural process which has landed them where they ore. sistance and cheap capital the West had very materially benefited China. The present boycott is hurting investers," he said, "but the suffering is small compared with the injury to the Chinese nation. T also think very strongly that the Treaties should be revived"—a statement which was received with great ap-
Progress, however, is not eschewed, as a lively debate on the 'tention of old Chinese Custom: showed. The opposition was led by Mr. G. ¥, Oon, and seconded -by-Lim, the first Chinese law student to study in London. As the latter pointed out, England is the result of the mixing of many European nations and—_ their customs. Why should not China benefit from the best other people had to offer her? As a result of the debate the supporters of change won by ole vote, their plea being for the "Chinanization" as they termed it, of the best in Western customs.
"The Europeans were in a wrong psychological state of mind to meet the ancient civilization when they Ast attempted to open up China 600 yeas azo." said the Rev, H. J. Lee late of Hongkong and "now of Lady Margarget Hall, Cambridge, in this morning's Session, "They were like a pack of school boys flushed with sitecoss and thought they could do what they liked." These were the beginning of the misunderstandings between China andthe West, Another thing is tha China stands for homogend the West for divers some of the reaver see things from the same point of low. When we can appreciate the cthers viewpoint then we can begin to learn. In answer to a question regarding the Opium wai last confu Lee said he had no word of justification to offer for Britain's action, On Thursday John Jordan should have spoker,, but he wrote saying that perkap! under the eitcumstances his presence would nob on Friday Dr. Hodghe Problem Ting replacing Soothill, Professor Oxford University, gave address: on Sunday the "preacher on the subject "Worship" was the Rev, W. Lock (Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford University),
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