Unorthedox Ideas thought, but certain instances have Perhaps nothing more interes lilies been heard here for weeks than the reports which are now being received from people who have been up-country, and have been able to ting out what opinion is in the districts not too far away from Shang-bai. It is very valuable to have such opinions, especially as for some considerable time now we been observed where apparently it was nothing more than the outcome fof stupidity and Jack of training.
gentleman who has just returned from a tour on the Yangtze throws an interesting light on the matter when-he mentions how slight is the training that some of the men recruited into these armies operating on the Yangtze have had. In have not been able to go very far afield from here into the inten some cases, he says, the day after the recruit has been collared. he gentleman who has just been starts his experience as a soldier making a tour of the waterways between 20 and 50° niles away, made inquiries of the peasants as to what they thought about Nationlism. He found out that although net is under the control of a Nationalist army, these people have never heard of the Nationalist Party. They describe the troops occupying their territory as Cantonese bandits. That is an important matter when so many foreign politicians are so intensely concerneq with the idea of Nationalism in the life of China. Then we come to something with its typically, unconsciously humorous side. These same people asked why it was that the foreign nations keep so many troops in Shanghai doing nothing but playing mahjongg, when they could be sent to these villages. If 30 the villagers would rise against the "Cantonese bandits" and, with the help of the foreign troops oust ther is a typical Chinese way ings. They know foreign troops are properly paid, and do not have to pillage for their existence as unhappily so many Chinese armies have to do; therefore they regard their presence a8 something eminently desirable. It would be very unwise to found any far-reaching policy upon sud. sentiment, for at the back of it all was the idea that it would be a way to bring Sun Choan-fang ack to the province,
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