the Editor of the "sNonen-Cunwa Datty News."
Sin—In printing the the Fecthasn Report bY a Student of Foreign Affairs" in your issue of the Bth, you remarked that ity gave. the "first authoritative glimpse we have kad' of Chinese opinion.
This. gives it a very particular interest, for there is nothing more important about the Report, than the Chinese reaction to it. Need I justify. this statement? Are there hot ultimately only" two ways which the Shanghai issue can be settled—by force or by mutual Agreement? If force is to. be the arbiter it is anyhow waste of breath to discuss rights amd. wrongs; mutual agreement, discussion. from both sides is obviously essential.
Now we come to the article, Probably other English readers besides myself have made the attempt. ead. the Report. through.. Chinese spectacles. It is sufficient to. have made this attempt (leaving aside What we have eeen of comment from the Chinese press) to realize that the article ws on the whole a very. restrained exposition of the Chinese point of view.
a point of view far re from our own, but what to expect when we are des question which involves at Same time vital material interests and national amour propre? Without forcing the comparison, look at the gulf which divided the two sides in another international case in which 'Mr. Feetham was concerned, namely the Irish Free State boundary! 'Admittedly the writer made some exasperating remarks and said not few things which invited a erushing reply, but can we not take his criticisms' as being at bottom a useful starting point for the two-sided discussion which alone can pave the Way to eventual mutual agreement?
This brings me to the point of my letter, If my view is correct and "Chinese Student's" article has constructive value and is not merely prejudiced animadversion on Judge Feetham and work, is it not rather a pity vat the wer to it printed in last Saturday's issue] Shout be "given a, tone 30" little encouraging to further discussion? Ona number of points myself Srooid "not "tay. all-the Chinese Eritiiame, were, me polished, But one treneral impression that the attacks the Chinese critic were regarded {ts an almost impertinent intrusion Spon inviolable Yeretory, Im mat: tery political no document is outside the, range of criticism and Jud Feetham himself, with lis. steady fat ence on the need for agreement trid cooperation, would be the Fast to claim exemption for his report You, Sir, too, welcomed the expe sono the Ghee spot ts be careful to avoid nipping the bud, Peking, Sept. 14, 1931, Barox Osten-Stecken who is travelling around the world bs motor car and who recently gave a lecture on his experiences at the! Tientsin Rotary Club, has left! Tientsin en route to Nanking and [Shanghai via Tsinanfa, Mostuens of Kuomintang convict-charges of higit treason, be, fraud, and embezzlement will sentences one-third heavier than ordinary offenders, according {to the new law relating to the punishment of guilty Party members which has been passed by the Legislative Yuan.
Praying on a bed near a window in Hongkong, two Chinese girls, aged 6 and 3 respectively, fell out Jof the window into a lane forty feet below. Both were fortunate in es-leaping serious injuries. They were removed to the Government Civil Hospital, where, after medical attention, they were allowed to-go ome.
Miss Li Shao-fen, the "eldest daughter of the late' President Lil 'Yuan-hung, -hag' accepted the. invitation of the Northeastern University to become Professor of Edt cational Administration, through the offices of the chief-secretary, Mr. Ning En-chen, Miss Li. has been both in America and Europe, and holds the 3.4. degree of the Teachers College, Columbia Uni versity, New York,
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