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LECTURE BY MR. J. O. P. - BLAND.
At a meeting of the Central Asian Society held at the Royal Asiatic Club some weeks ago, Mr. J. O. P. Bland gave an entertaining ture on China," illustrated by lantern slides. General Sir Edmund Barrow was in the chair.
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The lecturer, in the course of his remarks, said: When we come to consider the question of peace, the establishment of a League of Nations, and other important questions, the position of China, which contains a population representing about a third of the human race, deserves very serious consideration. Unless we have studied the subject very closely 1 do not suppose anyone has any idea of Valparaiso thecharacter and extent of the Oriental Bolshevism which has overrun that great country. We have been all of us too preoccupied with our own im- mediate affairs to pay much attention to China, but I may say that during that period of Oriental Bolshevism. there have been more lives lost than in the whole of the European War. I pro pose to set before you a broad outline of the course of events since the collapse of the Manchu dynasty in 1911, and to draw your attention to the fact that the present deplorable condition of China has been brought about, not by her political system, but her social systern, whose roots | posl. go back into the distant past. I hope also to convince you that there is no hope of establishing any equilibrium without a benevolent depotism DC some form OF autocratic Government. The con- clusions which I have arrived at are, j I know, running diametrically op posite to many which our missionary societies have held, but I ask you to believe that they are perfectly sincere. Many people who study politics from the point of view of our own little island believe in the principle of Representative Govern -ment, and are of opinion that democracy is a panacea which will, cure the evils of government yet devised, but it does not follow that every nation has attained such a stage of development that it can pro- fitably apply this form of government When certain politicians profess to believe in democracy, do they mean democracy as it exists in misguided Russia, or as I have seen it in For tugal, reducing the efforts of honest labour to impotence? Or, again, take the present position of India. It is proposed to give self govern ment to India, and yet, when it is remembered that this is the very principle 'which has had such dis- astrous results in China, it might well cause our politicians to "besitate. Political theorists have declared with regard to China that it is not the business of this country to interfere with the development of the principle of self-determination, but this opinion does not coincide with the views held by the men of experience-the con- suls, the diplomatists, the financiers, and traders. They hold it is cur business to maintain a strong central authority. When Yuan Shi-kai wanted to establish a firm Central Government, we failed to support him, and to-day China is suffering "America very severely as the result. While the Chinese Parliament has argued, wrangled and daflied, the only prac
tical thing they have done in the course of their six years' Parliament- ary activity is to pass payment of members. There they have followed the example of Europe. (Laughter.) The people are taxed more heavily than they were before. A civil war is going on between the leaders, of the North and the South, "and the military leaders on both sides have levied enormous sums from the civil populations in order to maintain their authority. Borrowing on a large scale is going on from Japan, but the North and the South have. agreed, as they did in 1911, that the last thing they wish to do, is to fire any shots at each other for any pur- pose of politics. Here we touch upon
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An amusing comment is reported by a newspaper correspondent as having been made by a German resident of Cologne who was looking at British soldiers cleaning their machine guns in the streets of that city. "So you have wound up," he said," as the Watch on the Rhine!" Again are British lovers of a good American apple to beregaled with that delectable fruit, which has not been exported to them for two years,
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* PEAK HOTEL "Railway Age" says that a recent
Major Lacey collision was in part due to the Capt. Ailan still as important for British interest
mistase of an engineer who carried Major Apthorpe, Major Locan
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Mrs Litt a watch fitted with two hour hands Mr CB. Bird Mr and Ms H. A in the Far East as ever it was.. But
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Has the war beautified or disfigured and who thought he was running his
Blair
Mrs Matthieson mind that Japan bas aimed at merchant ships of the nations? Ships trains on Mountain time when in
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It Mitrovitis supremacy as a World Power in the of the Allies are either, camouflaged reality he was in the section where Rev. R. A. Bundle, Mr J. Finlay Miller Far East, and it has been to her or painted grey, and are armed, no Central time was the standard.
Capt. T. H. Butler Mrs Mocre interest to encourage, dissensions in beauty about all this. It is when we An army airplane made the trip. Mr A. J. Cartep. Capt. Newmas
L.-Col. & Mrs Thurs- China by lending sums of money to see the neutral steamers that we between Dayton, Ohio, and New Major Carthew the North and South for the purpose really get something of the colours York City on November 30 in four Mirand Mas F. W. by Pelham
Chry
Mr T. L Perkins. of the civil war.
of war. With a worthy dignity, hours and ten minutes, without Mr & Mrs Cochrane Major Patterson The Chinese joined in the war these vessels flaunt their national stop. This was at an average Lt. Col. E. J. Coles Mr W. E. Roberta Mr F. J. de Rome against Germany rather late in the colours on hull and stern. The iron speed of 132 miles an hours. This Mr E J. Coomes
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Vincent saying that the Chinese have deve- and Denmark her red with white parent purgative effect experi. Mm F-Goodrich
ienced after taking Chamberlain's Capt. Gurney Capt. loped a species of militarism far more cross. Sweden boasts a goiden cross
Major&Mrs Wake- Tablets and the healthy condition of Major Hudgen corrupt even than German Junkerism on a marine-blue background, and body and mind to which they contribute, Mr Hdu Flos man And yet we talk of the virtues of Holland bars of red, white, and blemishesore feel that living is worthwhile. Hutchison Major Walker Republics! 1 met the other day a respectively. It does not seem so
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Major Kendal Walls distinguished Liberal politician who long ago, either, when the trim keepers. expressed the hope that the time American merchantzan blazoned her would shortly come when there identity to the seven seas by means was not a single throne left of a mighty "star-epangled banner zipon the whole of the planet. Ion het hull 'endeavoured to convince, him that it was not the political system of a country but the character of the people which made for good or bad
Conditions. Since the removal of the principles for which the Allies were Manchu dynasty in China corruption fighting. She received as a reward is more rampant than ever. We have sums of money amounting to some seen the revival of the opium trade seven or eight millions sterling. That which had been suppressed by the was the beginning and the end of Manchus. And then take China's Chinese participation. The autocrats record as a belligerent. She went into would, I think, have done more than the war professing to believe in the that
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