Mar. 28.
No measure passed by the! British House. of Commons in recent years has' been more eri ized than the National Insurance Fund, more popularly known as "the dole."
The great mining strike so depleted this fund' that it is, for the present, sed through since 1920 the Unemployment Insurance fund Ihas distributed no less than £278) millions in benefit. This stumendous sum has relieved more anxiety than can well be conceived and, until the coal strike lof last year, every penny had been met out of contributions with the exception of a paltry million. Under the proposed new regulations proviso made against malingering, which, the committee says, there Ihas been remarkably little. The scheme is wrongly nicknamed a "dole"; it is an insurance which is bought and paid for by the workers themselves; supplement jed, and rightly supplemented, by contributions from the employers. and not attempting to gloss it over.
General Chiang Kai-shek now in Shanghai and the country, waits to see what he will do. He stands now at the dividing of the ways. Of the breach between him and the Hankow Gov-jemment there is mo shadow of Jdoub*. He himself has said that he wishes for the friendship of Russia but that some of her ints are another matter. Borodin will not forgive that and the Communist Party which he ha: built up and: directs will not} cease from their efforts to lay' General Chiang low. 1+ is no exaggeration to say that he and Generals Ho Ying-yin and Pei Chung-hsi remain now the only twenty-four hours before he Southerners arrived. Some of the refugees from Nanking report that the soldiers said they had been instructed to attack} only foreigners. Mra. J. K. Davis, testifies that the soldiers said We do not wan? money, we want kill the foreigners.
The motive for this appalli display of barbarism is still] obscure. But. the result is evident enough. The whole Yangtze valley is in a state uproar and blood-lust for which even the riots of 1891 afford no parallel, Those who have had the best means of observing the havoc wrought by the Southern-jets are of opinion that an insult has been perpetrated against the Mar. 30.
Iris ne much to say that the answers given by Sir Austen Chamberlain to a number of questions in the House of Commons, as reported to-day by Reuter, will lift a great weight from the minds of the British community throughout Chin: Let us set these out one by one. throughout ro at present in many parts China, it was impossible (said Sir Austen) to say that Britain could safely rely on Chinese guarantees of safety for British subjects. We must watch what happens and judge not according to professions bat by performances.'"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.