They who concern themselves with the maychology of the Chinese, cannot fail to be attracted by one characteristic of the lowly riesha coolie, That is, his apparent obsession that he is "the only. occupant of a thoroughfare. One so frequently finds himself, when in a nesh blocked by another which carr! passenger, and the utter indifference of the coolie of the first to the proable haste of the passenger in the second, is at once laughable and exasperating. What, get out of the path of a fellow "horse" who is lucky enough to have picked up a fare? Not het The fortunate one may rot, for all he cares, - Yet note the transformation if an intending passenger hails him. He comes to life at a bound, and, being by habit oblivious of the presence of anyone else on the Street, creates more turmoil and cot-fusion than a "killer" whale that first feels the harpoon, The metariorphosis does not end here, Having captured his passenger, he is immediately converted to the point of view fof the coolie for whom he refused, but a minute ago, to clear the way. He spies an empty riesha directly in his path, and drawn in precisely the same indifferent, leisurely manner of which he, himself, was guilty ce. Thereupon he pleads, snd curses all in the same breath; and his indignation at the other's Inck of interest is de-ight fal to bebatd, Missionaries and Intervention One of the strongest comments emanating from missionary sources that we have yet seen is contained in the following extract from a pamphlet entitled "A Statement To Chin-exe Friends," by "A Group of Nan-King Missionaries." The pamphlet is published by the Mission Book Company and states:
"As recently as the of February Hed and vent able amto" {ening againat the use. of force" in mexican government. and. public, pro tale wil- Ching and urging a polly of conciliation and' the prompt next, Sas at "new treaties ona basis bur little more than a The usa of foreign force to. save. our onthe hat we lite Thes have favoured the retura Concossions to. China, but tovday foreign. Sextlement ta "our. only place refuge. We have assured our people Shroad thatthe Nationalist movement San Snot anti-Christian nor Yoreigas but now wer are driven from Sur homes and disporsesned of gue Bro: perty "We who remained in. Nanking starch "21" were not personally Gopending on extraterritorial privileges for any other form of foreign protec. fon, but were patting our trust! Sswranecr of, the." Nationalist events show that" out faith was, not fUstitods "tu ait. these: matters, the EScte of the altuation "ati contradict to. oppe more tnt be turi throttling effect upon the tender Nationalist" blossom of the "Unequal Treaties," and the like. We hear of one Chinese apostle lof camouflaged anti-foreignism who delivered over sixty lectures in America to audiences running' into the thousands. If any member of the Washington administration had the courage to conitradict the statements made in' such lectures and to refute them) from evidence in the Government's files, not only his facts but his motives would be viciously attacked by hundreds of eloquent persons who are bubbling over with sympathy for an imaginary China which they have shaped in their own minds' from the misleading propaganda that they have! absorbed. For several years Baron Tanaka has' been severely cri 1 of the) forcefully before the mas the people in Britain, Am¢ Japan and every other forels country for that matter, but the truth has to be supported against counter-propaganda of the most insidious character, Publicity of larly. sort costs money, but the ud of a campaign which we have to carry on abroad, if we jate to retrieve our nearly ruined fortunes and save China from ithe perdition towards which she jis now heading, would be a trif_ing percentage of what we are likely to lose beyond recall if we sit sheepishly here waiting for rescue from Governments that are showing less inclination daily to challenge misinformaition at Home. Individual merchants, missionaries, journalists Jand small groups and societies lof one sort and another are struck a blow at Bolshevik pro-agenda from wi ich Soviet Russia will never fully recover, by making a grand effort, that has cost us of roubles, look s0 utterly futile and foolish that it will henceforth be very difficult indeed to hire any Chinese above the social status of the scavenger to spread the Red gospel.
So much for the end achieved. It is enormously important and, on the ground of expe: would seem to justify almost anything in this desperate tion.
We are not quite certain, however, that the foreign com: munity in China will feel five years hence that the game was worth the candle.
The raid upon the Embassy or rather upon the bai racks which are an integral part of Embassy proper involved an invasion of, the Legation Quarter by armed] Chinese poli
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