Quo Tai-chi yesterday morning had serious enough results but it was fortunate that Mr. Quo Jescaped with such comparative slight injuries. As it is, he received a severe wound and there will be general sympathy with him, as well as hopes for a Ispeedy recovery. It seems that flagrantly misleading—reports regarding the proceedings of the [Sino-Japanese "Conference here Ihave been published in certain [Chinese newssheets, These have been seized upon by the unruly elements among the students to reinforce their preposterous leriticism of the delegates who jate representing their country jin the Conference. Happily there is ground for the conviction that this latest incident will not greatly delay the conclusion of the agreement at which both parties are believed now to have arrived, after several weeks' earnest and arduous negotiation, with the help of friendly neu-tals. 'The gravity of the students' outburst, lies in the disclosure that the lessons of the recent crisis have yet to be digested by them. A few days ago, it was stated, with every sign of accuracy, that many students had now come to the feonclusion that the Government Iliad been wiser than they in refusing to be stampeded into a military defiance of Japan. These saner views have no attraction apparently for the group which elected to prove their manhood by a cowardly attack lon the Chief Chinese Delegate lat the Conference. The heady Chinese organisatic Ihai to the world at large. In far as these effusions are inspire led by communist propagandists they must be accepted as the [symptoms of that particular form lof political disease. Where they receive endorsement or encouragement from men and women professing to have the interests of China at heart, they. late pathetically exemplary of ithe folly which hampers the efforts of all who endeavour to bring peace to this country.
Te does not seem to dawn upon such self-appointed censors that during the last few months China has been able to draw upon the goodwill of the world to an exceptional degree. The whole machinery of the League lof Nations has been put motion at the request of her Government to facilitate the Jdisentanglement of problems of extreme intricacy and of vital moment to China. Chinese representatives of good standing land ability have devoted themselves with assiduity and, at the
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