The "love of country" sentiment has been showing itself in Kueiteh in several ways. First there was a meeting for prayer for the country held in the church of the Canadian Church Mission. This was attended by the magistrate and many of the various officials of the city. Among others the magistrate made a speech dwelling upon the fact that the old religion of China was the worship of Shang Tib. It seems strange that, although the Chinese classics have so many references to Shang Tib, to-day anyone using the term is set down at once a Christian.
The next meeting to show love of country was called by the local gentry and held in the courtyard of the City God temple. It was called a patriotic meeting and was fairly well attended but very little enthusiasm was shown, although some of the orators tried to infuse a little by greatly raising their voices and thumping heartily on the table, provided perhaps for that purpose. One speech followed another without variation of the theme, Chinese students and police had been ruthlessly killed without reason and China was on the eve of perishing and all were going to be the slaves of the Japanese. The only remedy suggested was to boycott and burn Japanese goods and send a telegram to the Peking Government urging it to stand fast.
There was a little aftermath the next day when the students of the Government Middle School here raided a shop and burnt a quantity of Japanese paper and other goods. There was nothing very remarkable in this, of course, since their own principal had been one of those urging the burning of Japanese things. These orators entirely lose sight of the fact that China's weakness comes from within not from without. even though their neichhours are certainly acting in a most intolerable fashion.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.