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MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1925.
THE POWERS AND CHINA.
FOREIGNERS SAFETY DEPENDENT ON
RIGHTS.
WU HON-MAN'S CLAIMS ANALYSED.
Not
Representative
Of True China.
Sun Yat-sen, travelled from Can-' ton to Shanghai on privata busi- ness and Mr. Fu_Ping-sheung, member of the Canton govern- ment, was sent from Canton to Shanghai and Peking "on bual- ness." This happened when a state of affairs existed that was described in Canton as a blockade of that place. The ship on which Messrs Sun Fo and Fu Ping- sheung travelled probably passed through the territorial waters of Hongkong, without any interfer- fence. And ships flying non- British flags are reaching Canton without interference. A Russian ship went there the other day on" a friendly mission to Canton. Even the British colony of Hong- Mr. Wu Hon-man, the "Minis- tion. The latter predominate. kong-where, incidentally, quite ter" of Foreign Affairs of the In 1858 China and Japan entered three-quarters of the landed pro- self-appointed "Nationalist" gov-into practically identical treaties perty belongs to Chinese-is free- ernment of Canton, has indited, with the Western Powers. Those ly accessible to Chinese without or caused to be indited, a Mani- treaties China now" denounces as class distinction, much to their festo addressed to the peoples unequal. By 1894 Japan had 86 satisfaction when they flee, as of the world. It specifies the reformed her judicial system and they do so often, from the oppres
administration tribulations of China through her internal
sion of the ruling party in Canton. contact with foreign Imperiallam. Great Britain this alleged wick-The image maker does not wor- Whatever we may think of the ed, Imperialist power volun- ship the gods: he knows what Canton government as a "Govern- tarily surrendered her extra- they are made of," says an old Chinese proverb. The naval ment," we must concede the prize territorial rights and Japan be to its Fabrication Bureau. This came an independent, sovereign patrola are few: they guard manifesto, is a remarkable docu-State after a lapse of 36 years, the attacks of pirates who infest Chinese and foreigners alike from
The key-note of the following analysis of a statement made by Mr. Wu Hon-man, prominent member of the Canton Government, may be said to be the claim. that extraterritoriality cannot be abandoned until the growing strength of China enables her to main tain the right of administering protection and impartial justice within her borders..
that
ment: it uses words so skilfully Similarly Siam in 1907, after a the rivera.
in a Pickwickian sense that the lapse of 54 years, secured a re- questions resulting are not those vision of ber treaties of 1855,
THE SLIGHTEST PROTEST ON THE
of veracity but of method. And in thereby obtaining rights of juria-PART OF OUR PEOPLE WHO ARE places it wipes out the frontler diction over foreigners.. In TOILING TO AMASS WEALTH, NOT between reality and dreams. It 1925, after a lapse of 67 years, FOR CHINA BUT FOR FOREIGN was published in the "Canton China stands where she did; CAPITAL, ARE BEING SHOT DOWN IN Gazette" of the 9th July, and we although In 1902 at Shanghai and COLD BLOOD AS FOREIGN SLAVES.. may be sure that copies have been twenty years later at Washington WERE BY THE PATRICIANS IN AN- supplied to various revolutionary she was offered political autonomy CIENT ROME FROM THE TRE leaders and organisations, and to on conditions well within her MENDOUS RESERVOIRS OF DUR others who are sufficiently un-powers of fulfilment, but which, AGRICULTURAL POPULATION, THESE acquainted with the true facts to so far, she has not fulfilled. CONCESSIONS DRAW HUNDREDS OF be deceived by plausible insinun-Granted that the extent of the CHEAP LABOURERS INTO SHOPS tions.
country la considerably greater AND FACTORIES IN THE CONCES
Mr. Wu Hon-man makes him- than that of Japan or Siam, sure-SIONS, WHERE THEY BECOME self the spokesman of thely for a highly intellectual race, DEFENCELESS SLAVES TO BE EX- nationally minded people of as the Chinese rightly claim to be, PLOITED IN MEDIAEVAL FASHION, China," Before examining his
and one which historically and BEATEN INTO DUMB SUBMISSION statements it is desirable to traditionally has always affected AND SHOT DOWN-WITHOUT MERCY examine his status. Who is Mr. to" despise
other two, BY HIRED SOLDIERS AND POLICE Wu Hon-man? He is an official of ill under foreign tutelage is a TIONS OF THE WORLD.
to moan that they are FROM THE. MOST BACKWARD POR- These unrecognised, revolutionary
an
the
SO
party at present "in power in lamentable confession of weak- horrors are graphically Canton, the fountain-head and ness and incompetence. The descriptive of actual conditions focus of China's unrest, This
truth is that China has not at- and events in Soviet Russia that government is attempting, with tempted to raise her own inter- one is tempted to see the red generous assistance from its national status. It must be ad- hand wielding the red-hot pan. Bolshevik sponsors, to throttle the mitted that there are many dif- But let the credit be given to Mr. After all we do unfortunate people under its ficulties in her path, but they are Wu Hon-man. sivay. It rules nominally over the of her own making difficulties live in the 20th century; and Kwangtung province, which repre- the purloining of fiduciary funds, favour only in Russia. I said created by personal ambitions, mediaeval barbariam now finda sents about five per cent. of the the predominating rivalry be only in Russia: sometimes it is ares and eight per cent. of the tween North and South, the idio-practised in Canton, population of China.
In June It is ho
syncrasies of revolting troops 1925 we had a mediseval out- representative Chinese thought and aspirations Bolsheviks.
of true and, latterly, subservience to the burst there, when the Yunnanese These difficulties, soldiers whom the late Dr. Sun than, say, Cuba is of America.
more
COUNTRY LIKE.
PORTION OF OUR
CAN TRINK OF IN NO OTHER
carry
Labour Conditions.
For
I lay no stress on the opening-Imperialism, constantly impede were ousted by the redotibtable not foreign-particularly British Yat-sen brought in to help him hyperbole of Mr. Wu Hon-man's all sincere efforts to establish a Whampoa Cadets, the flower of diatribe. It is merely a rhetorical stable central government and the Cantonese army, not so much exaggeration of Dame Parting secure administrative and politi in open fight as by "strategy." ton's historic attempt to sweep cal progress.
Leaflets were dropped into the the Atlantic from her doorstep. as unconscious intimidators orj
He predicts that unless the PERIOD
SINCE THE OPIUM WAR, A DARK city, where the Yunnanese had perhaps terrorists. Take the peoples of the world give urgent PERIOD DURING
BEGAN FOR CHINA, A retired, promising them life and latest piece of rumour, which has attention to his warning, "a new POWERS IMPOSED UPON OUR COUN- When the Yunnanese laid down WHICH THE liberty if they surrendered. travelled from tongue to tongue universal tragedy will be enacted TRY A SERIES OF TREATIES, WHICH their arms they were slaughtered, with a persistency that reflects in the Pacific Ocean. It will then STAND IN THE WAY OF OUR ECONO- the hooligans of the town lending somewhat on the intelligence of a
be too late for you to help to MIC AND POLITICAL PROGRESS, THB a hand. extinguish the conflagration." AWAKENED presumably intelligent people. But in quoting his serious state COUNTRY MEN H.E. the Governor has parti- menta I lend them the conspicuity THESE TREATIES
Let us consider Mr. Wu Hon. cularly requested that rumour
of capitals.
TERMS BUT THOSE OF INEQUALITY, the exploitation of the labouring man's tanciful atatement about cense on the lips of foreigners
Foreigners Protection. | INJUSTICE AND INHUMANITY. The document states that all the Extravagant assertions in Hongkong. But gossip ia such confusion in. China is due to her little weight.
classes. The conditions of labour The direct cause
in China, bad as they are, have a rooted part of ordinary con- unequal international status. of the so-called Opium War was not been introduced into the Far versation that a rumour or two. The key to China's internal trou-not opiur but the growing need They are indigenous in China. East by foreign capitalism. principally concerning servants Wu Hon-man says the agitation is property, though behind this was foreign-owned factories and mills ble is extraterritoriality.. Mr. for better protection to life and
Yet in the concessions and and labourers and their attitude not due to alien and subversive the larger need for better re- the wages are higher, the task on August' first, was too good to influences, CHINA BAB AWAKEN-lations generally. The war was a lighter and the working hours miss. What harm has been done ED TO THE PAINFUL, REALISATION struggle between the Far East shorter than anywhere outside, THAT SHE IS NOT AN INDEPEN and the West, the East refusing The "slaves" go there voluntarily by this wicked and senseless DENT repetition, it is difficult to say. RUSSIA, ENGLAND, FRANCE, ITALY matically and commercially, with altions are much better than in JAPAN, to act on terms of equality, diplo and eagerly because the con- But it is easy to assume that it OR THE UNITED STATES. Apart Western nations, and the West in the surrounding country. has reached those to whom it from the ethics of this vexed sisting on its right to be so treat examples of the cruel way in question of extraterritoriality, ed. Concessions by treaty have which workers are being exploit- particularly refers who will not the necessity for the measure re-developed from foreign trade, ed by Chinese outside the Conces be slow, probably, to make use of mains. It is perfectly obvious. for without security there would the sense of fear which, to them, It is one of right, of fact rather be neither trade nor intercourse sions, I quote from the letter of it implies. It is sincerely to be than of principle. In earliest and without both, or either, China was published in the "Times" of the Rev. G. TWarren, which regretted that the Governor's the coasts of the Mediterranean ports have been opened by treaty in Changsha and Hankow for times the Tyrian voyager along could not progress. But not all June 12, 1925. Mr. Warren lived request has not been observed and secured only such rights as he Many have been opened voluntari- forty years. that so much harm is likely to be could buy or enforce. With the ly and at some there are neither
In both these 'done by a senseless repetition of the par Romana spread, and And the Concessions exercise no hours a day for seven days a week extension of the Roman dominion concessions nor reserved areas. children under ten work eighteen places, he saye, hundreds of It is possible to believe something which may be true, but every citizen that quite half, if not a greater which may also prove to be under
travelling was authority of any kind over the for food only-and an insufficient the aegis of the Jus surrounding territory. portion, of the trouble with which a series of old wives. tales. At Romanum. The idea, like many
supply of that at tailoring, East and West. the world is inflicted, is due to the moment the
other Roman legal ideas, came to inveterate
weaving and even as apprentices the people who talk too much. gossiper,
stay. Chinese in Europe enjoy longer isolate China from the And Mr. Warren relates a case of Mountains, deserts and seas no to tin-smithe and blacksmiths. or rumour monger, the security and justice of well- rest of the world.. For good or cold-blooded murder by the Those who talk much never eay should be shunned at all costs considered and properly enforced ill; China's fate is associated with Chinesa authorities. An incident anything, we are told, agreeing especially that type which Plautus laws, which include the rights of that of the whole family of occurred in a Chinese-owned mill with the fact that a fool and his hit off when he said:"What extraterritoriality for their nations East and West are at Changsha over a trifling ques words are soon parted. But what the King has whispered into the conditions in China ever en-modern world. There is no de led to a slight demonstration Ministries and Consulates. Have necessary to each other in the tion of a small allowance. This harm is likely to accrue from a queen's ear they know; what Juno couraged us to believe that Euro-sire in the West to treat China without violence or damage to multitude of gossip, the repetition chattered to Jove they know; and Deans would be secure in person unjustly or inhumanly, or even property. Within twenty-four of rumours, and the arguments of things which never will happen of their nations Extraterri-able for China to inspire the con- pozed, perhaps rightly, to have and property without the defence unequally. But it is more laud fours two men who were sup the moment trilled forth at and never have happened, they toriality in China is a remedy for once that equality connotes, been leaders were arrested in the vapourous length, and generally know them none the less." the intolerable situation of the than to plead for it as a gift with-street at dusk and taken to the as unstable as a spider's web!!
first half of the 19th century. It out taking the trouble to reach up Governor's headquarters. The People talk of war, the next step
was designed for the protection of to its very next morning their decapitated is preparation for it, and the two,
certain juridical rights. There THE KEY TO OUR DOCK IS NOT IN bodies were lying outside, the city. are laws in China-interminable OUR BANDEROUN KHAS ARE gates. No legal help could hava hand in hand, finally lead to it..A
codos of Regulations for civil, CAREFULLY CHARTED AND GUARD been obtained at the trial, If they It is difficult not to urge the
criminal and judicial procedure. O BO THAT NO CHINESE MAY had one, and no witnesses or Government to introduce a Bill Exceptionally high rates of But they are generally abortige BAVE AN INLET OF OUTLET IN HIS documents could have been pro- into the Legislative Council to be coolie hire at the beginning of the to deter crime the local Justin
wages were paid in respect of It would seem that in their efforts oWN COUNTRY. The statistics of duced. There was a sequel to #au Ordinance to prevent the strike and these have been grad-overreached themselv people of Hongkong from talking Bally reduced with the continued too much," Wa could give good return to more normal cond and sound reasons for therin
until the figure cents a day duction of such a Bill, and one have them would be the
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some of the Fos
Hongkong peop
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railway passen this affair. In the same jurisdic
whelming tion four Inde under twenty had been imprisoned for, four months, nonot only without trial but out any kind of tom