absolutely essential world's peace and progress. that! something be done, and that right quickly, to set China's house in oF-ler, for she is becoming more and amore a_menace to present day civilization. The eruptions and inability to maintain order within her borders, to run her public services such asthe. postal, customs and railway services, and the colle tion of the salt taxes, without foreign aid, to prevent the misappropriation of public funds and the position of illegal. taxation, to check the continual recrudescence of the horrors. of civil war as the] various warlords fight oath other! and. ravage the country. through which they" pass, to eliminate. the ever increasing robber bands that) harry the towns, cities and villages, looting, burning, murdering and carrying away for ransom the help-Jess citizens and farmers-—ail these facts have either been carefully sup-preted, or, if mentioned, have bees belittled and characterized as necessary and inevitable evils that must occur during the tr from the old mon are al regime to the new republican system. The: facts that this has been going on att of the missionary body, and
Fesident in China, are now unanimous in the' opinion that hothing short of drastic action will lear up the situation in this caum. try to-day. They also know tha the existence of foreign treaties; treaty ports under foreign control, end extraterritorial rights have had nothing whatever to do with the present state of cheos in China, and that their abolition would only make confusion worse confounded and! withdraw from China the last semblance of law and order. To quote Silas Strawn once more, who, by the way, appears to have been repudiated by the American Government for broadcasting the inconvenient truth; "Anyone who. has investigated conditions in Chine today must conclude that extraterritoritality, unequal treaties, -im-Perialism' and other slogans which T have referred have nothing, to do with China's troubles. These catchworls are being overworked by the agitators, many of whom are Dolshevists, the politicians and the nillitariets'to conceal from the Jong-suffering, patient and industrious people of China the pathetic fact that they are being impoverished and enslaved to the ambition of the warlords for greed and eggrandizement." bringing the people of Great Britain, America and Europe to a true understanding of the conditions prevailing in China in that these are so fantastic, unbelievable, so altogether beyond! reason, while propagandists' stories of China's progress, her determination to establish a sound republican government and her nationalistic turmoil within are having their effect without, and there isan Increasing danger of other na-ions being drawn into confiet one with another over _China, Not only so, but this chaos in China is upsetting the world's commercial balance. Four hundred rail lions of the world's population, and voet stretches of territory uch as lie within the borders of China and her dependencies cannot be withdrawn from the world's markets and commercial activities without disturbing their equilibrium and causing very, considerable financial losses to other large sections of the human family. The Russian Soviet acting was quick to recognize this by one of the documents the Peking Government in the Soviet, Embassy, which pointe out that the Chinese rovolutior: is one of the mont important. and most "powerfal Factory in disturbing the. stabil ion of capital Though foreign residents in China, not excluding the members of the diplomatic and consular servic are fully alive to these dangers ai thoroughly understand the whol now for 15 years and that th have been going from bad to. worse, 1g9 aspirations are face of them that the rational mind far nin year by year, are carefully kept in urally rejects the former and the background.
"Let China work accepts the latter. This, equally, out her own salvation," has been naturally, makes the iden of inter-the burden of the. propagandists! vention and the use of force on the. slogan' in. foreign countries, China one "give part of outside nations to put China, the. chance. to. attain to rights repugnant. Such action her Just nationalistic aspirations." considered out of "Hands off China" has been. the anachronism. The world to-day is echoing cry from the communistic said to have outgrown this kind sympathizers in foreign lands. Al-thing—and yet, as everybody who most nothing has been done to coun-has carefully studied the whole teract all this, and steadily " public question knows, there is no other' feeling in sympathy with China and possible way of restoring law and Believing in her capacity to order in China within a sufficiently straighten out her own affairs has: short time to save her from utter been created; so that now, when collapse and ruin, Short of leaving the internal eruptions of Chin: China to exhaust herself and then by chaos wre making themselves slowly to rebuild upon the old ruins outside, now that foreigners a process that would take many a been engulfed in the turmoil, some cades, there is nothing to be done being murdered, others losing all but for the big nations of the world their property and the whole for-to step in and straighten things out, ign population being threatened ing force if necessary, but acting with financial ruin and the loss of always concertedly and with China's their entire interests, it ig extremely own good in view. There is a vast dificult to make the people at home difference between such an action appreciate the true significance of and the conquest and subsequent, it all and give their support to their exploitation of China, which is what own governments in "taking such the Chinese fear. And, what is situation in China to-day, extremely dificult fret to make the Home Governments understand. it fand then to get them to adopt the only possible means to meet it adequately and effectively. Naturally, the governments of such countries as Great Britain and America re-fleet the mental state of their people, and if the people of these countries fave ignorant of the true state of affairs and fail to grasp the necessity of the drastic action that alone can put things right, a similar attitude may he expected from the American Public The main factor contributing to the present unsatisfactory state of foreign governments vina-vie China is the ignorance on the part of the general public in Great Britain, Europe and America of the t state of affairs prevailing in ti country. For many years now, and greatly intensified since the May 30 neldent in Shanghai in 1925, the Chinese both in China and abroad, exgged on, aided, and to a very considerable' extent financed by the Soviets, have been pouring' propaganda into America, Great Britain and other European countries placing China in the light of 40 awakening country, honestly seeking the light, reaching out to: freedom and equality in the world with ether nations, and only kept from attaining her just aspirations by the imperialistic oppression of foreign nations, especially Great Britain, against whom the chief nom of the Soviets has been Girected with a view to isolating her and bringing her to her knees first, since she is considered the chief bul wark against Bolshevism. The true facts of the case, China's utter action as is necessary. Though Great Britain has had her pro-Chi agandists and fanatical miesior who shamelessly mis represented the state of affairs, she has on the whole been better informed than America, which doubt-Jesu accounts for the fact that the British Government foresaw what might happen to Shanghai and was able to send out a sufficiently strong military force in time to save that city from a catastrophe similar to that which overtook Nanking. But in America the deliberate misleading of the public has been nothing short of iniquitous, Not only have the people been deliberately misinformed by certain newspaper correspondents stationed in Shanghai and Peking, but efforts that have been made by reputable bodies of Americans in China to get the truth over to the people of America have been suppressed. Though the American }people may be ignorant the American Government is not; but the re-grottable part of it is that it) appears to be.acting more upon the ignorance of the public than upon knowledge of the actual facts in its possession. Since the Nanking out. rages there is not an American of any standing in China who does not deplore the present action, or rather Tack of action, on the part of the American Government and its general attitude toward China. Some few newspaper men, who ave willing to betray their fellow nationals for:
it own gain, and a few fanatical missionaries are doing all in their power to prevent the American Government's taking any definite action in Chita, and unfortunately they have succeeded in securing, certain very definite following in America. But the major of Americans who know China, not excluding the greater more, there is plenty of evidence to show' that a large section of the Chinese community, especially the:
srchant class, would welcome such
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