Face Where Face is Due mark that it would seem impossible Those who assemble in the Chi-to average it down to anything nese Chamber of Commerce building, 20 per cent. over the whole year. who make a profession of trouble"
Considering this it might be pos-jing the local waters and then fishing sible to see" the native banks rein them, and the "Nationalist" formed out of existence. Apart Jauthorities who have made such an from that, if the Nationalist Govjunsayoury mess of their adminisernment finds means to enforce its tration of this district, are now decree in the small villages within Jadmitting to their friends that the its domains, it would be an excel-artificial opposition to the payment Jent thing, for interest there is Jof the 2 per cent. increase in rates usually about 100 per cent. per an-which they tried to force upon the! num, and the wealthy farmer of timid Chinese commercial popula-the vicinity, who is usually the jon, is a failure. Having confess-money-lender, waxes fat at the ex-Jed so much to one another, they are pense of his poorer neighbours. looking for intermediaries who can arrange an "und ing" that The Foreigner in China will save their "fa In other! words they would like to have the: The appreciative reception ac-Council go through some kind of corded to "China in Chaos" (which nonsensical abracadabra with them ig. now out of print) has induced us which would make it appear that to have the original work in it re-they were the legitimate and revised! and brought up to date by [presentative spokesmen for—this the author, Mr, Rodney Gilbert, Te [Chinese community, that there was will be published in large octavo justification for their opposition, form, library size, in the course of fand that their vicious assault upon a few days, and will consist of the integrity of this Foreign Settle-about 50 pages of reading matter ment has won for them an incre-bound in a stiff cover. The extracts ment of prestige and for China land illustrations from the local Jsome sort of a concession of "right. [press which appeared in "China in Naw, in our opinion, the Council Chaos" will not be reprinted, the could not serve the community aim of the work being to present a worse than by entering into any complete and succinct description [bargain that would give credit and of the relationship of the foreigner standing to its most dangerous, to the Chinese since China first resourceful and irreconcilable opened her doors to the world 70 enemies. It seems to us that it is years ago. It tells in brief and time, for a change, that the elements Vivid language the story of China' here which are fighting for the pre-impact with the foreigner down to servation of honest administration, date. Tt will be sold at $1 per copys decent manners and immunity from extortionate meddling in the legit unate trade of the community, were "In the Grip of the Reds" riven a little face at the expense of The remarkable series of act the promoters and exploiters of con-which we close this week with fashion. The names of the members Captain Bugene Pick's very, frank notification of himself with the Soviet's work in China and his blackmail system in this Settlement! dramatic account of his narrow fare known to every Chinese and! feseape from Communist assassins foreign business man in Shanghai.
Hankow has probably been the The names of those who assemble subject of more comment and saa here thet meeting 2 in North Honan Road, within the discussion than anything which hi Settlement: ing plac appeared in the public press te" for who Yor that who China for some years, We do not rae in ham the Ok of nor. believe that Soviet propaganda, and Jagitation methods or the system on mining the Council's authority here, Jwhich Red endeavour is organized character sid quality of this revelation'? going tobe examined critically with devastating results, It is going to be pointed out (lat Dr, Sun was human and that, like most other human beings. he often changed hiy mind. It will be ency to show tat, like all his colleagues and subordinates, he was to some degree under Russian influence when he outlined his principles in the pans, bt he was not Brazel gaia, uch imponiton ay 30 risk anything if Britain serious-tiger be worth much, but wel isk any! tai ly proposed to adhere, to el that the Germans in this because he felt that this policy|predicament should have it all would ruin British trade wher-for whatever it is wort lever the "Nationalists" had con-lus the incident appeals very rol and that wherever Buitish|elear evidence of the Chinese prestige declined in spite of her|conception of the way in which treaty rights, the trade of na-china is entitled to deal with a extraterritorial Power that has lost treaty rights protection simply could not golessential to i jon at all. He granted that for|As history proves so fully, they advertising purposes the "Na-lhave no conception of equality. now sacred lectures, just as he hal Doon under the atttence of tionalists" might be inclined to}f they are not underneath being in|bullied, they conceive themselves democratic and Christian British thought in his youth and under the spell of American democracy at the time of the Re~ volution and for some time after. Some will remember, too, how he was once obsessed by Japanese Pan-Asianism. Since all his followers have now revolted to some degree against Soviet in struction so, it might be argued, would Cly, Sun have revolted in time, only with more decision and' thoroughness, revising his political theories as expressed in the Three Pifneiples in his usual arbitrary and radical way. Once the now famous lectures come to be thus critically read they will be found to be the most vulnerable documents, full of glaring inaccuracies, and the more tenaciously the Kuomintang adheres to them the greater will be its loss of "face" and confidence. One of the grave risks of attempting government by revelation is that it may be Jaughed out of existence and we sincerely believe, after an examination of the bulk of. the! Three Principles, that this is the fate in store ofthe great "Nationalist" enterprise,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.