The first stile at which we fall, then, Is in not using enough common rrense (0 keep the Chinese informed well enough to be able to create some opinion of their own. We now, and helplessly depore the fact, that none of the Chinese newspaper? tel! the truth, and very few of them. any part of iG, We yead the "North hinge" and believe a great deal a ne of us also read the Local American paper and believe a great deal of that, although we doubt very much whether the "boycott" is fas Anti-British ay they make it out to be. But what do the Chinese vend? The "Sin Wan Peo", "Shun Pao," a score of so-called mews Papers, and perhaps a few posters worded in the grand manner by the Council' translator. And withal at opinions can one expect the Chinese to Zorm with this buck ground?
"A friend of mine told me, with feelings of surprise and grief, that one of hiv respected Chinese friends had told him that all the Chinese killed in Nanking Road had been shot in the back, and that the murder of Mr, Mackenzie had beer done by the S.V.C. Well, why should he not believe such a story when probably all the Chinese papers printed something like it?
Even the Municipal Council's Gazette is only printed in English and one wonders whether any part of it ever appears in the Chinese papers. There is a strong case to be made out for an efficient intelligence and propaganda department of the Municipal Council. The inteligence is now probably run by the It should be as separate as Scotland Yard is from Bow Street. The Propaganda Dept. would naturally need a type of man that the Council devs not now employ; this a specialised profession that many countries train men exclusively f¢ A Chinese Gaz compiled for the Chinese and a view to meeting their needs, mig} well he started. Had this been la existence to-day, no Chinese ratepayers would be without the true facts of recent incidents, and would have had at hand counter propa-anda which would have inspired confidence,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.