Ju a letter in "The Times" to-day, replying (ea a letter written by Mr. Robert Lim, Acting Chairman of the Central Union of Chinese Students in Great Britain and Ireland, with regard to the dependence in China of the methods of government and industry on officials' and traders' educational antecedents, Mr. J. O. P. Bland declares that very brief visit to Peking or Can-ten will dispel the illusion that the. methods of government' in China depend entirely on officials' educational antecedents, Ho asks. do Dr, Sun Yat-sen's methods of government' reflect the results of his British education? Are not all the political activities of the most prominent representatives of foreign education (those of Dr. ©. GE. Wurand Dr. Wellington Koo just as much as those of Marshal Tuan or Mr. Tang: Shao-yi) essentially and necessarily Oriental in cause and effect se soon as they exercise on Chinese. soil Can anyone deny that until now education of China's intelligentsia abroad only swed te increase the confusion and unrest inevitably resulting from a rapidly changing environment He declares that, however good may be the intentions of those interested in increasing the number of Chinese students in England, there is no getting over the significant fact that the principal object of the ive propaganda of the semi-official, and chiefly Cantonese, section of Young China since 1918, has been to secure the remission of the Boxer indemnities and thus provide the government which. it aspires to contro! with increased financial resources.—Renter's Special Service.
2 in the city of his adoption in the endeavour to bring more industries to that centre.
Arrest oF TreNtsin Man, A mild sensation was given passengers aboard the liner President Madison on docking at Victoria a week ago from China. Stephen Power; a first class passenger, was arrested immediately the ship reached port on cable advices from Shanghai to the provincial police. He was charged' in the Victoria police court with misappropriation of funds of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. Powet's address was given as Tientsin bit the alleged misappropriation—the sum of $2,645 is involved—is said to have taken place in Peking He was remanded
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