One notices a continual stream of complaints in the Shanghai papers about the rudeness and incivility of the tramway employees in that city. Here we suffer apparently from the same trouble, only up here the tram~ way people donot get away with mere platonic abuse in the papers. Indeed, things came to a head recently in a pirened battle between students and tramway employees, in Which the latler being in inferior numbers, got badly beaten up.
'The following is the college auth-rites' version of the incident: "On The Chinese, of course, are quite unperturbed by such news. Probably ost of them do not hear of it at all For news of this kind ly only spree lowly by word of mouth, chiefly by the servants of fo "The local "Chinese press pre ts © picture of ftnother, entirely imaginary, world. Tt youryead the Chinese. papers, you Mould gather: that the. "ce-prospe phere of greater east Asin" fa in full Slorking order over the whole of north China. You have only to take a rain or bus trip to the interior, in Order to find a. smiling, prosperous, Peneetul countryside, where" "New Peoples." "anticommunist" "Youth Movement" and similar societies will be walting to receive you with open rms, The Chinese public, however, Gppeirs to. have "become. some: swat sceptical, having read. These promises of Utopia in their Dapers Yor the last 30 years. or 50, And 0 they do not go outside their ity walls; more than they can help; wherein perhaps they" are not unw "The war in Europe is given similar imaginary treatment in the "Chinese press! Britain Is. facing. immediate Tollapse, (So, according to the Chi-hence press, hac she been facing these Istabe months." But then po chinese There has not been © single Mahan feader expects logic from his paper).
dlofeat. "On the contrary, the Tallons Sire" winning hands. down, though not see' in. any -of the. Chinese papers the. famous "Radio "Roma hressage, after the fall-of Benghazi, the effect that "ihe war Is develop ing. just. as. it was planned by the Hallam leaders, and the Talien people proud of their forees, which are Doving the wey for the final victory Ttaly:" In fact, winning hands upt order, therefore, 10 enliven an otherwise dull. Peiping, the fatuous AntiBritish Society has been break mit out into print again and has been Vublishing inthe papers. a highly Coloured and chief imaginary. Count of its valuable activities, And the public is called on to admire its Martling. programme, containing. following ten important measures' hich are to be carried out during the fist quarter of this year—"To warn landlords to turn out their Pete eamunte ite tnyestigntions Into Pee keep check of Brith goods in stlgate the number of Beltsh o"'the movements of) British nation: "To strengthen n-Brtsh work In the fnvestgate those in employ of the pail 'And to show it' 4s really doing something, the society gives a list of four houses from which the British tenants have been "driven." Three of the eases are known to me personally, and had nothing whatever to do with the activities of the Fidleulous society. But what Is most Britons in Manchoukuo Advised to Leave Harbin, Feb. 23. The British Government has again advised. British subjects in Manchoukuo to evacuate, Britons. remaining. in the country do so at their own risk.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.