'A Kuo Min message to-day tells us that ' the special committee appointed by the Ministries of Communications, Foreign Affairs and Finance to attend to the question of the termination of various special privileges granted to foreign telegraph companies will be formally is not likely to have any for Jong time. We are told that it thought that, if foreign shipping companies are barred from coasts and rivers, they will be willing to sell their ships to China for a song. Hard-headed directors of shipping companies do not do such things—and it is with them the Chinese officials would be dealing, not with diplomats, There remains the argu ment that the agitation against, shipping, ete, is all a matter of "face." "Then may it be pointed oat, that in every province in China Danditry la vite, that the state of Kansu resulting from militaria famine and the Moslem revolt, beyond description; and that, first sign of civil war, foreign Governments deemed it' prudent to remove their nationals from Nan~
King? These are the things, and not the indispensable work done by foreign enterprise, which "los face" for China, Two Views of Justice Our Hankow Correspondent.r0- ports, to-day, ease which illus trates how diametrically " opposed chinese and Western ideas of A foreign Indy motorist accidentally knocked down a Chinese [woman, who in consequence died. The lady was taken to a police station, where the Chinese' constables' who brought her in testififed that they had soon the accident, that the lady was blameless, and that the fault was entirely the dead woman's, In due course, the lady was released on promising to pay compensation. To. Western conce tions of justice, since the motors was Blanteless, she was not liable for any compensation: the question lof whether she would make a com ssionate grant would be one en~ tirely for her own decision. The Chinese view is, "Here is some one dead: no matter whose the fault. something must be paid." A. few days ago n worse case happened in Shanghai. A German knocked down, 'a Chinese on a Chinese road, took the man to hospital and spontaneously went back to the Chinese police station to report the matter. He was immediately locked up for the might in a filthy cell, not allowed to communicate with family or friends, liberated next_morning fon $200 bail and eventually fined }$20 by a Chinese magistrate. Tt quite probable that none Chinese officials concerned in thi affair had the slightest notion of the gross injustice of their conduct, any more than the Hankow Chine police saw anything, unfair in mak-if a Indy pay compensation for fan accident for which was she blameless. When the Powers ask that Chinese justice, shall brought to the same level as Western, they ask rather a hard thing nothing less, in fact, than a complete mental revolution in the in-hented Chinese conception of the
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