Canton Attempts to Force Them Utterances by Viscount Goto and to Strike Defeated by Men's Comrade Kopp with a Good Sense Hidden Meaning Hongkong, Feb. 20.
The remarks of Viscount Goto Replying to a toast at a dinner} at the Engineers' Institute last ight, the Governor paid tribute to tue Chinese engineers of the Colony.
His Excellency said that for! several days before the—Chinese New Year a determined _attempt was made by the Canton Strike Committee to persuade members of the guild to down tools. They] refused to do so, and behaved with sound common sense.
Chinese engineering labour was deserving of special praise and had shown great courage in spite of and in the face of threats and attempts at intimidation. They had been taught the worthlessness of Bolshevik propaganda, The victory over this last attempt of the Canton Strike Committee was complete. His Excellency hoped hat this mark. od the beginning of the end of the trouble—Reuter's Pacific Service, are always of interest because he so keenly reflects the general sentiment of the masses vf the Japanese people. Even when he cannot himself hold office, he manages to remain a popular idol and therefore we publish his remarks on the Chinese situation as indicating an important if popular Japanese view, Referring to the Sino-Russian situation in Manchuria, Viscount Goto said to the "Japan Advertiser.
"The Chineve diplomats are consider ed to be ina way the cloverest in the world. traditional principle of. Chinese diplomacy has been for thousands of years to play one Yower off against another, The Chinese" diplomats of the new school are straight and do things above board, but there are still some others who are under the spell of centuries of tradition, and who ry to create friction and jealousy Lctween foreign Powers interested. in Chinn in the belief that China will troft thereby. That, Tam afraid), is he ame now being played as tres gards Russia and) Japan,
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