In commenting on the surrender, unconditioned, of tariff autonomy, we voiced the amazement which all feel that the British delegation should almost be! going out of its way to. make concessions to Peking, while in South China the Reds are waging the most ferocious war on Great Britain. How far that war is from being relaxed, notwithstanding delusive reports of Cantonese merchants bearing! olive branches to Hongkong, may be seen from the speech recently, delivered at Swatow by the' Kuomintang extremist and chief emissary from Canton, Chou En-'The gist of that speech, which every Chinese as well. as foreigners should read, is the destruction of "International Capitalistic Imperialism that! dwarfs anti ssu the growth of China's industries." The British must first be destroyed and rooted out: Amoy must be included with Hongkong and Swatow in the general strike and boycott. After that, Americans, Japanese and French will be dealt with, if they have not been warned, To this purpose all possible determination and organization must be addressed with the utmost ruthlessness, It is easy to answer this speech on matters of fact. So far from capitalism dwarfing and suppressing China's indust-the impetus and development given to these since foreign capital came to China is out of all proportion greater than anything known before. Hongkong itself was barren and stricken during all the centuries it was Chinese. In only eighty-five years of British rule, it may quite safely be said that it hes made the fortunes of five Chinese for every foreigner, while millions of Chinese have found a comfort and security on its shores that they never knew on their own, Of some hundred. and seventeen industrial enterprises in the Shanghai ares, close upon a hundred are purely Chinese; and it is notorious that) conditions of work and pay in foreign mills are far superior to those in the Chinese. As for Imperialism, nothing, be it observed, is said of the imperialism of Chinese militarists, who hat wasted the land with huge armies and senseless warfare and ground it down with unmeasured taxation. Especially is nothing said of the Imperialism of Bolshevik Russia which haa) already stolen Mongolia, is stealing the Chinese Eastern Railway and now rules Kuangtung as if it were a Ruasian province. Its taxes are collected and spent, its policy dictated, its armies launched, ail at the orders of Moscow.' Chou En-lai himself is a living example of the Soviet's imperialism. No Chinese could ever have made such a speech unprompted. He is but the puppet of Moscow. In all China's dealings with the West she has never had to concede, to all other nations put together, a half of what Bolshevik Russia has unblushingly stolen from her in the past eight years.
These facts are now well recognized by most Chinese and with all but a few of his wretched fellow-dupes Chou Enai's speech can have no effect but to deepen suspicion and alarm. The question is, What are they going, to do? Our Swatow correspond ent told us a few days ago that the ordinary Chinese of the. district are the very reverse of
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