To: the Editor of the "Norrn-Cumwa Dairy News."
Si—The: time is approaching when'all the real friends of the Chinese people, will have the opportunity afforded them, of living up to the oft. repeated protestations of friendship, witkwhich the country has been de-Juged-of late, by insisting tat the Chinese Government first performs the most elementary principle of govexoment, by giving its people, the' Yeast as well aa the greatest, real personal rights and freedom, before: surrendering to that Government hose securities which alone permit foreigners to dwell in the interior 'Surely such an. opportunity will never' come again, for no-one—not even' the League of Nations. or the most virulent pacifist, could gard the present situation of. the {arming and smaller commercial communities here in the interior provinees, without pity and "With-Out feeling that perhaps, after all, the foreign nations have failed' to make the best uses of their opport~ tunities to show real and sincere Helpfulness towards the untold mile ons who possess no rights of any sort.or kind either in life or freedom. or property.
Here we have a small coterie of people in power at the moment, Beseeching the world-at-large to acknowledge them as their aqua and'as Dr, Hu Shih and Mr, Tang Shao-yi have many times pointed out, the people of the country, as apart from the officials, have no Yights of any Kind—less to-day: Indeed than they had under the s0- called "militarists"—and- many of the: present-day governors have Uitte. actual menied or invested interest in the country or its. w doing, so that, whatever happens, their own selfish prosperity remains unaffected by the misery of the me ferior- million But our diplomats and. governments, have, to-day as they never "before an opportunity at bring to our humble friends great gifts, for they alone have the Means to persuade the rulers here, to exchange against the surrender of foreign rights a Dill of personal vights for the people of Chi "A greater gift no man who knows China at this time could conceive, for whilst the missionaries may alleviate the sufferings of a few thousands amongst the millions, whilst: the hospitals and schools do aid, the few hundreds, yet this gift would: be a. universal one, affecting every Chinese whatever his degree might be.
A gift for a gift, The surrender: of the rights of a few for the rights manager of the leading British hotels here wrote that his hotels have no roles forbidding respectable Chinese from entering by the front 5 door and thought that the incident related by. Dr. Koo could never have happened.
About two years ago Dr. T. Koo spoke before the Rotary Club of Shanghai. He told of this incident without mentioning the name of the hotel. At the conclusion of his address, the manager. of. the 'Astor House Hotel, who was pres-tent, apologized. to 'Dr. Koo before] that audience for the rough treat-}ment accorded him, 'The fact that' Dr. Koo. did not give the name of the hotel and the manly apology of the. manager of the Astor House Hotel showed that the incident actu-fally took place.
Tam, ete Tone F, Seo.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.