By Rowan Lirruc It is of the highest importance ha: we should realize the real "aes in the present rapidly grow-hope that the moderates will lo to persuade the extremists cffcet a compromise is futile, The expeetaiion that if the Powers d most of the Nationalist de-ands the eriais will be averted ally futile: for it is vastly wider ad casper than appears on the Should the Powers immediately in their entirety all Chinese sands there might be a temporary' ay of operations in order to con solidate, bat it would only be temporary It is dangerous further to blink! jeho real issue which is becoming! clearly evident, though efforts are' being made to'conceal it under the jeamouilage of Chinese Nationalism, se feelings are being worked ito a passion on patriotic lines! fand are being exploited in a way that excites our wonder at its astuteness, The capture of China by Russian Bolshevists, now so successfully under way tinder the "Nationalist" disguise, is only the first step towards the realization of the accepted programme, The seeming confusion of day by day developments has Jcompletcly blinded the mass of the Chinese and many foreigners to the) real goal.
The southern extreme Nationalist. section is definitely committed to Bolshevism and ix "Nationalizing" China ax a preparation for the next step which will be directly. against the Powers under Russian direction.
I submit the policy of the Powers should be somewhat as follows:
(1) To proclaim that as soon as the present unrest is settled and a yuited Government formed, towards which end we are working,—alt Chinese demands will be accepted in principle -and ge tually put into. operation at the earliest -possiblg moment.
(2) To require China unequivocally: to cut loose from-all connexion with Soviet Russia the extent of pbolishing the Russian Embassy and Consulates with all their stalls of bloody revolutionaries, and to tha sternest repression of all their insidious propaganda.
(8) To declare that China will not be permitted to turn Bolshevik, and will be prevented from doing so the armed forees of the Powers operating on (Chinese soil, low and the defence of Shatigud stich like questions are mere a deadly scheme. Our 0 exclusive concentration ato interests. must endeavour to get mas erate and sane Chinese to seo the teal issue and to line up with us their own interest as well as cure, they will not then Wwe must ahead anyway without them. We not be at var with China evan though we have to be at war with the Chinese dupes of Russia, Chrougle whom she is working, backed wp. Terhaps by Rawsian Red Armies Chinese soil.
The time has surely arrived foe virile action: words are now of Belle usher use. frie STANDARD OF EXCELLURNOR
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