ing han neat 3 Sie Tint Pea, 2 Weodkead, ones lets, 'This pamphlet consist of @ mum of editorial articles by Wowhead, which originally appear-ein the' "Peking and Tientsin Times, of which he is the editor Lin. "Woodhead. gathers together all the facts concerning extraterrferialty and the tremendous growth in commerce and vested capital in-
Yestiments arising from Sts" exist tence. "For instance, he finds that foreign banks with' x capital are than $1,000,000,000 do business China, while. practically all the Snsarance business in the country is of the Chinese people under the present unpleasant, circumstances, Now, no one can deny that historically the revolution is essential to China, for a modern state can only be made out of the congeries of peasant. states which roughly constitute. China by- the political force of the industrial revolution and. the spiritual force of nations lism... And it also is to be agreed that during such a revolution suffering for the individual is an inevitable concomitant. Why then do China's protagonists seek abroad to deny the existence of the revolution which is so essential to, their na. tional well being? Why do they seek to destroy the one factor which somewhat reduces the national and individual suffering by offering, temporarily at best, a reserve centre tone by foreign, companies, In a Statistical, Zectaal manner, My. Woodhead shows exactly what this seconomie development is and. how Smportant ie is that that" Interest should be protected by law.
He then discuss the state of Chin coe Inv. He reaches the conclusion As the Admintateative Court at Nanking is not yet functioning, he' plain unvarnished truth that there is no legal means to-|* day by which a Chinese citizen can secure redress for the illegal acts of public officials. is important at this point to emphasize a cardinal Kuomintang yrineipal which Mr. Woodhead, like all foreign and Chinese writers, seems to disregard and that is that during the period of Tutelage, the 'Kuomintang can do no wrong" and 4s not subject to criticism.. Recent-Jy; Mr, Edward Lee, a' Kuomintang propagandist, sought, in an aarticte, in the "North China Sunday News," to justify the censorship on various grounds, but he missed the essential fact that in accordance with Kuomintang ideology press censorship is not only justifiable but an essential mechanism of party control during the Period of Tutelage. The Party can do no wrong. Ye has '4tho Knowledge, ay handed down by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the "Five Power Form of Government" and the San fin Chu 7, and therefore it knows What to do, The people, who are not yet. prepared for "democracy, know neither what they want nor how to do it. The Party, as Trustee for the people during this period, acts as guardian in the law fora minor—the acts of the minor are subject to guidance, supervision, censure and yonishment. The press, then, except Party organs, must be included this classification of minors: there-Sore they mirist submit to a feus censure by the Trustee.
The Counter-Revolutionary This is orthodox ideology to deviate from which is to be a reactionazy or a counter—revolutionary. This principle also affects the law and the administration of the law: During the period of Tuteloge, the Party can do no wrong; ite servants can do no wrong. The conduct of all officials can be subject to review by the Control Yuan, the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang and the Party Congress, Dut not by people, who are in the position of minors and surely not by foreigners, who cither as imperi lists or capitalists, are bound to oppose the doctrines of the party, When we understand this basis for the Kuomintang constitutional basis of Government, we understand all that occurs in the Legislative Yuan where codes, which should occupy years in formulation, are rushed. through ax rapidly as translations! and adaptations can be made.
Mr. Woodhead's chapters on the of life and property make interesting, if gruesome reading. But Chinese may point to Chicago and other places where life and property is at times, insecure, What would be interesting and worth while, would-be a study by Me, Woodhead or some other competent person of the sufferings of the Chinese people during this transi tional period. "Me. Woodhead gives a vivid and awful account of what happened to the non-Treaty nationals; who, according to Dr.
Wang, benefit by having lost their extraterritorial-righto, "But no one s ever dent fully with the subject highly epeeis for the wealth of the nation, th in extraterritoriality nerve-centre, the economic house of China, Shanghai?
Shipping in Mr. Woodhead's chapter on shiv-ping is particularly important. Of 116,210,000 tons of shipping which entered and cleared Chinese ports in 1927, he says, 20 per cent. were under the Chinese flag. G7 per cent. of the coast and inland shippin laws. She has no training school for deck officers or Harine Eng-inoers" 'The fact is that since 1874, China has been seeking to develop A merchant marine tut pohhes, nepotism, corruption has kept shipping' companies pave ken. The China Merekants Steam Navigation Company origin to the genius of the late Sheng Kung-pao, is to-day not even beginning' of a merchants? marine; Set, there are youthful Chinese who would drive every foreign vessel off the rivers and away from the coast of China. Of course, the youthful assumption.is that' the foreign companies, realizing that they can no longer do business, will sell their ships, godowns, wharfs and business for an a: which will be so small an to be also confiscatory and that the foreign eaptains and officers will remain to pilot for some years. Hut what they do not realize, that even so efficient a nation as the Uni States has not suceseded in making its shipping pay. Shipping la a ized industry in which
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