To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuva DAny News"
Sm,—During the few days there has been some correspondence in Your columns dealing with cruelty to pigs whilst unloading. 1 would like to bring to your notice and to the notice of those concerned another form of cruelty to animals. One had only to be present at the finish of the paper hunt last Saturday to witness this. These are the faci enduring vitality?
But to return. While appreciating the laceration of friendly foreign feeling at the sight of her afiction, it is the victim-herself who would remind us that her head is bloody but unbowed: that she seeks our understanding, not our pity. Let us not believe that the China of w-day, which, in the repetition of her historical vicissitudes, has again sensed the worth of nationhood, places any dess value upon her national honour than do we of foreign lands. And if our hopes for her flag, and our fears for her mount and oppress, have we not the witness about us of a fortitude, an endurance and resilience, nay a strong courage, on the part of ihe Chinese people that amazes and which inspires to a fresh trust in the /invineibility of the Chinese spirit? Our faith will be aided if we will remember what a careful student of the Chinese character has said:
The Chinese have always taken the long view of present events... They work, not ior the moment, but for me future they will e. All this is bound up with the Chinese Outlook on personal unmortally....1t Was no good making a great front now out of a snady deal, it ihe sons the family were to suffer later Under a dishonored "name. Ií by losing a lite now (or, at least, by not gaining so much now) a good name could be ensured, then poste ly would, at me, worst, receive a goodly heritage.... The Chinese are Geeply conscious of what is to them at least, a fact that is, that China Cannot indefinitely remain disunited.
In the claims of posterity do we find the key to the present Chinese attitude of enduring every ill for the sake of the China of to-morrow? Similarly, in the long view lies the course of true statesmanship in British relations with China. Such a perspective engendered the British Government Memorandum of December, 1926, when Britain initiated a new liberalism in the policy of the West towards China, in giving recognition to the legitimate aspirations of the Chinese people towards national integrity and independence. China's response was instantaneous and a new Anglo-Chinese friendship was cemented, Japanese persuasions or threats will not be permitted to deter Britain from persistence in a course which the British sense of honour dictates, namely the rehabilitation of China as a nation.
By such persistence will the name of Britain in China be honoured by 1. The "going" most of the way was heavy as a result of the recent generous rains and as a result the ponies soon tired.
2. Ponies have not had the opport-Unity to get into condition owing io me country being closed uni nite recently.
3. The last jump was a ridiculously "Wide one ior a finishing jump. The result was that almost all the the immortal Chinese race.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.