As a matter of fact, unemployment in China is due largely to the Introduction of Jabour-saving mi chinery, automobiles, traing and Steambonts which have upset the feconomie balance of centuries ant thrown out of employment thousand: of labourers and carrier cool There has been an increasing junt of unemployment, hunger, wring and starvation. Add. to the fact that 96 per cent, of the population are illiterate, ignorant find superstitious, and' one can readily see how fertile a soil awaited Russian trained demagogues and agitators.
Inspired largely by educated Chinese deeply resentful of social inequality and the stupid treatment accorded them in treaty ports by the British and other foreigners, coloured by economic suffering due to the introduction of Western machinery and factory methods, coged on by Russian advisers and spread broadcast by the extraordinarily successful use of modern advertising methods, anti-foreignism is a moving force in large parts of China to-day.
The chief school for turning out political agitators for the Nationalist cause has for some years been located at Whampoa, near Canton. Tt is sometimes spoken of as the Whampoa Military Academy, The characters above its entrance, literally translated, mean "The Cet tral Military & Political Academy. Tt represents the spirit of Nationalist Party, and its cla has been identical' with that of the Kuomintang, the political organization electing the committes, oF oligarchy, which chooses the officers of Nationalist China, Misconception in America skilful propaganda, aided and abetted by many well meaning per sons in this country, has led to a ious misconception of wha is in China, Optimist and "enthusiastic patriotic Chinese students in the United States have led many Americans"to believe that the day of unified China is rapidly approaching, and that the Cantonese or Nationalist Government, is likely to be successful in promoting law and order in the Republic of China, No one can predict definitely what is going to happen in China, but one thing which appears fairly sure is that the 400,000,000 Chinese are intensely individualistic, so self-reliant, and so welded to family traditions that it is, going to be.
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