To the Editor of the "NonrH-CuiNa Dairy News"
Sit,—Three Finnish Indy mis-' sionaries have now to be added to the rapidly-mounting list of foreign victims of Chinese desperadoes. Yesterday it was two revered Italian priests, A few days before, Mr. Pike of the China Inland Mis-jon. Looking at the pictures of grand type of humanity the, Italians represented, one wonders where the morale of this people has gone, when they can callously do to death aged men such as these, Where is that reverence for age, formerly a characteristic of the [Chinese people, even of their rafl-
The growing lawlessness of the people is the measure of the pres Jent lack of government of the My point is not carping feriticism of the National Government: their difficulties are recogniz-fed. But I would emphasize—th hollownessof their assertion th are "governing" a "unified? China. They are not; and so long that is the case they have no ight to cause foreigners the loss of prestige in the eyes of their people by depriving them of their extraterritorial safeguards, and thereby reducing them to the level of their own people's—misgovernment.
The atrocities perpetrated on foreigners during 1929 and 1930 probably have no parallel since the: Boxer Year. Why? Because Chinese ruffians no longer respect the foreigner who is content to allow himself to suffer the same standard misgovernment he suffers him self—which is their, interpretation fof our abandonment of our former' safeguards.
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