The Archive · 1929

Kiating, Sze., Sept. 23

West China is again enjoying the thrills of another anti-foreign and anti-Christian campaign. Anybody and everybody connected in any way with foreign educational institu tions is denounced as a "foreign dog" and a propaganda leaflet tells its renders to "open the knife and slay. all who profess the foreiga teaching." These leaflets are being broadly" scattered in different par's of the province and anyone connected with the Y.M.C.A. and educational institutions is' sharply and carefully warned, Foreign institu-Hons are denounced as demoralis; Ghina and the YALCA. is marked ing to the young people of wes! out as a business concern, The propaganda, however, seems very little effect on the public, as Christian—services in the city of Kiating go on as usual, People are now deginning to see also that this propa ganda is the work of a very smal section of the community and that Chinese business men, and officials, both military and civil, take very ttle notice of it, So it will soon dig a natural death, There is another species of propaganda quite a different sort and which apparently is anti-government,

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