The annual report of the China Inland Mission, issued under the tile "New Life the Dead Receive," cone faing some very illuminating corns ment upon the internal situation in China to-day." The: members of the China Inland Mission do not rely {won contacts with ofllaldom for Leir information. 'They are Ju touch with the people,' among whom most of their work fies, and os a" result they may be said to have their eae closer to the ground to detect the Feaetion "of "real China" to. modern changes than most business or ofclal organizations. "Phe comment upon the situation is, of course, incidental the "report, but it sustains. ihe claims made by the supporters of the New Life "Movement" and. General Chiang "Kai-shek in such a striking way that it bears quoting." The re: Port describes how that Chinese-reading travailer. Ig assailed by slogans of the New Life Movement from the moment he arrives in Woosung to the time he reaches the ullimato pro: vinees that have come tinder the in-JAuence of the Central Government. [Everywhere ure appeals" for clean: lines, "propriety, "righteousness," intogrty, anda sense of shame. It says {hat the reign of law fen some places superseding that of "face" and favour. It quotes how a prinelpat of school "'Szechuen "was imprisoned education inspectors when they discovered that his school contained only twenty pupils instead of. the eighty hho had" officially" claimed, And it tells how an ofMeial of the same pro: vince was severely punished for inis-appropriating famine relict funds 1 no common thing (the report says) for city ofilas from the mayor downwards, tobe. seen weeping Stree as an. example to the. people
Sanitary" inspector pays'n weekly visit fener ana in wore of {o-every, house, and aftes "a" jibe Marked' "Clean, "ally 'Clean', or "Dirty", accordingly. But the. tup pression of opium, of oficial corrup= ton, of dishonesty Ji business deal ngs' are also. in the forefront of the programme, and though we recounlte that men are not made. sober, honest, or, virtues by Acts of Pa yee it the "rulers" of "China "what they preach—and Chiang ihek''s own example seems Unie formly helpful—something, at least, of value may "be accent"
As the political situation last year had a considerable bearing on' the (Continued on page 220.)
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