And this leads us to question third assumption: that the Nationalist Movement is *Yational. We have suggested thatthe returned students were victims of unnatural conditions. In that respect they suffeted at the hands'of well-meal ing friends, but they have thereby been made peculiarly susceptible to the evil influences of unserupulour foes, so that they have been misled into' actions that are entirely detrimental to their own Iand, The fact: that they are using' the language of patriotism docs not alter the other fact that they are destroying their country. Of course, it will be ar~ gued that we do not understand the nationalist movement, that we do know nothing of the lofty idea ism that is to be found at its centre. That may be truth; we can only judge by deeds; it is nly by their fruits' that we know them.' We are given to understand that it is the extremists of the "left wing" who are at present in control of the movement. Then let our words be directed to those who art responsible, whoever they may be. Judging however, by the utterances of the most articulate section, the movement is, in part, anti-British and anti-Christian. ' Incidentally, we are not insensitive to the soft impeachment implied in identifying Christianity with Britain, though we should not ourselves: making that exclusive Jo: that pass. What we is this: would i not be in the interests of veracity to add a third description and call the. movement frankly anticChinese, For it is an exotic "thing through and through, devoid of anything that la char:
teristically Chinese. Its voeavu its though'-forms, its genius ly foreign; and, consciously or unconsciously, it is' directed to the disruption of China, Facts not Fietion But someone will say that this article breathes an unfriendly spirit that we have spoken of certain ax sumptions as false bacauKe we: desire them to be so; that the wish iw father to the thought." That is not so, We are amongst those who will welcome the day when the present tention are no longer nee sorys wher the students of China find congenial spheres of usefulness: and when a united and happy China takes un honoured place in the family of nations. Bue that day will not be hes polite fictions ant assump tions, by by a frank facing of the of Scotland} the equator on January 27, Jost before arriving at Padang in. Kumetra, more than 100 of her ners were inducted into the Order of Neptune. The Ancient. Order of Things was revived and, sol volunteers were Iathered, shaver turned. upside down in the urning tank on the forward deck by Father Neptune and his court.
Sin. Gershom Stewart, a former resident of Hongkong, in a lette> to' the "Morning Post," says that the Cantonese telegram to: America shows an apprehension that the British Note to the Powers has much to recommend it to reasonable: people." There is an_ element of bint about what the Cantonese say ut Shanghai. They declare that Shanghai has een "on the eve of passing into nationalist central," bat mast "now become a theatre of much bloodshed involving permanent injury to foreign trade." If there is anything that can make foreigners sink their differences und join tin a common effort to ruprort the British Note, it will ho an attack. on Shanghai by the Cantonese, The Northern armies are not defeated yet, and Chuarg-fang seems tobe putting, tip a sturdy defence, If the there defeat they have the armies of the North to cope With, and their line of communica tions will be a very long one. think we should treat China as a whole. show no favour to either side, and assist her us best we may. to pay her debi.
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