"Chalux" Takes His 16th or 17th Trip Round the World: The Problems Before the Unrest of Asia and An Ideal Policy of Collaboration As "Chalux," M. R. de Chateleux,, recently arrived in' Shanghai, known to thousands of readers of the "Nation Belge," the leading daily of Belgium.' Traveller,. explorer, philologist and a student of world' polities par excellence, he, continues to run about the world.! fall of eager vitality, seeking t find out what it's all about, forming definite opinions which are just as definitely stated and which apparent ly are accepted by those who knov: the keenness of his perception and) the vastness of his experience. This fs the 16th or 17th (what does it ter) time that "Chalox" has traversed the universe, all of it, as! he says, except the Poles.
The Self-Determined Cannibal a "North-China Daily representative to tell him something about the general awakening of Asia, the impending strogele, Chalux" said:
"The prestige of the white races fs at present almost at its lowest ebb. The hegemony of Europe over Asia is a thing of the past. Everywhere, throughout Asia and even in countries, the leaders of which could not even run a municipality, people seck equality and want to' govern! themselves. I found these coniitions everywhere in Syria, Persia, India, Sumatra, Java, wherever I went. The natives clamour fcr] independence, without realizing the responsibility of autonomy. Even in) the heart of Africa where T spent the years 1923-4, I met a fellow who two or three years before had been '2 cannibal, but had learned to read) in a mission and who was reading) aloud the "Rights of Man" and) expounding the dogma of equi to a gathering of naked savages, 'a primeval forest village! Of course, neither the reader nor his hearers! could make head or tail of the} famous Declaration! There is perfec: madness in all this, but facts are facts."
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