'The article in the "North-China" weekly issue of January 9 by' Rodney Gilbert stating that foreign residents in China are abusing the' diplomatic body, should be the cause of some concern. Making allow. ance for exaggeration, we must suppose the statement to be true. But that foreigners should be irate with a body which is trying to conciliate the Chinese is not encourage ing for the future.
The present article is mainly concerned with the part -of the British in all this. Let each man speak for his own nation, It is part of the agreeable occupation of the writer to teach the history of the British Empire to Chinese students. "When he stresses his opinion that the British government is superior to that of other nations and has commended itself to races in all parts of the world—and adduces in support. of this contention the fact that Indians found us preferable to the Portuguese, and even to the French, that, Africans and others have demanded to be taken under our protection, and that even the Chinese (especially in the Straits Settlements) have in tthe past acknowledged the advantage to themselves of British supervision—he finds himself continu asking why it is that the ish are so generally persona non grate just at present and that the Came cry of execration comes from Egypt, India and remote China. If the Chinese pupils believe the record of past approval, they probably ask the same question.
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