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THE CHINA MAIL,

NANKING PATCH.

COMMENT FROM THE

· NORTH.

DIPLOMATIC "TRIUMPH,”.

Says the "Peking and Tientsin Times" of April 5 regarding the American settlement of the Nan king Rape:

In view of the conflicting

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presses the hope that "the earnest tion of Treaty revision can scarce- given as to the punishment of ly be considered germane to that those guilty of the incident will be of amends to the American Govern- completely fulfilled at the earliest | ment and its nationals for the Nan- opportunity particularly

Mr. MacMurray As re-king incident." gards Lin Tzu-han, who was per- merely reiterates In this Note what sonally responsible for the in Mr. Kellogg said more than a year cident," And he concludes by re ago. And it is clear from his minding the Nanking Government careful phrasing that no wholesale and premature acrapping of the that its loyal fullment of

*Treaties is contemplated: "the the terms of settlement would

American Government entertains be regarded ns affording measure of the good, faith and the hope that the remedying of the conditions which necessitated the goodwill with which it (ie. the incorporation of such provisions in American Government) may anti-the earlier Treaties may from time ports that have been in circulation cinate being met by the Nanking to time afford opportunities for the in regard to the terms, of the set- Authorities in other phases of the revision, in due form and by tlement of the Nanking outrages relationship between the Ameri- mutual consent, of such Trenty agreed upon by the American Min can and the Chinese people."

stipulations as may have become ister and the Nanking Minister for} The second American Noto is in unnecessary or inappropriate." Foreign Affairs, we deemed it ex-reply to General Huang, Fu's im A superficial perusal of the Nan. pedient to withhold all commentdent request for an expression king documents may appear to sup- of regret from the American Gov-port the criticism that America, in until the full text

the ernment in respect of the opening arriving at this settlement, documents wàs in our posses of "fire upon Socony Hill, by the gone behind the backs of the other sion. We print five out of American Destroyers. It would Powers, and, to put it bluntly, play- the six Notes which have passed have been better if this plece affed a dirty trick on them. between the American and Nan-impertinence had been returned, or that view, we must, in justice to simply ignored. For though Mr.the American Minister, dissent. king authorities. We cannot pre-MacMurray's reply cannot be In-Deplorable though it may be the tend to regard them as satisfac- terpreted-in its platu, meaning-aggrieved Fowers have not co- lory, though they are not so bumi as an apology for the bombard-operated whole-heartedly at linting, from the American stand-mont, it is at best, a quite super-time since the outrages occurred. fluous explanation of the reasons The American, British and Japan- |point, as Shanghai.press criticisms for the warships action, and at ese Naval Commanders were nil in had led us to expect. There has worst an excuse therefor. It favour of drastic action on the been no expression of regret for seems particularly regrettable that spot. but were restrained by their the Nanking bombardment by the When British and American policy respective Governments. The pro-

in China are directed towards the tests and demands American Government; nor has

samo ends the American Govern- eventually sent in did not take the there been any unconditional ment should elect to gratify Na- form of a joint Note, but of iden- undertaking in regard to Treaty tionalist self-conceit in terms tie Notes, and the Consula concern- revision. There has, however, which the British Government re-ed meekly accepted Eugene Chen's been an explanation of the action garded-and we hope still regards impudent demand that each of them aa inadmissible, We shall have should present his Note separate- of the American Destroyers on that more to say on this rift in the ly. The American Government des fateful March 24—an explanation policy of the Powers, later.

clined to take any steps to enforce which comes perilously near The third American Note, relat-the demands, after Eugene Chen at excuse, and will almosting to the question of Treaty Revi.had refused compliance and Gen- certainly be twisted into at least sion would be quite innocuous if iteral Chiang Kai-shek had ignored a half-apology by the Chinese, on did not figure in the records of the them. Subsequently, with the mur the principle that qui s'excuse Nanking settlement. As alreadyder of one of his nationals still un- s'accuse. And the reiteration of mentioned, the American Minister atoned for, the French Minister America's willingness to negotiate himself emphasises that "the ques- for Trenty revision when there is an administration "so

far repre sentative of the Chinese people, and so far exercising real authori- ty, as to be capable of assuring the actual fulfilment in good faith of any obligations such as China would of necessity have for its i part to undertake, is, as Mr. Mae- | Murray's own Note states scarcely to be considered as germane to the settlement of the Nanking incident, and, it seema to us, is a superfluous and unwise move, The American Government seems to have settled the Nunking incident, so far as ita nationals are concerned, upon terms which, even the "patience and conciliation" experts of the British Foreign Office regarded as derogatory to our National honour, and therefore unacceptable.

The first of the five Notes con- tains the apology and offer of re paration by the Nanking Govern- ment, and its specific undertaking that henceforth "there will be no similar violence

WAS IN HOSPITAL OVER A MONTH WITH RHEUMATISM.

Nothing. Could Cure Him Until

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paid an official visit to Nanking, and accepted the hospitality of an up-| parently unrepentant Govérument. i A little Inter the Japanese Govern. ment decided to reopen its Nanking: Consulate, also without any apology or reputation for the insult to its Flag, and the outrages upon its nationals. Mr. MacMurray opened negotiations at the end of Febru- aty, and they were, apparently still in progress when the British Minis- ter appeared on the scene and did Mr. Alexander Beuther, of 1111 liekwise. The British Government į Hanbury Road, Shanghai, is a refused, the American Government marine engineer by profession, and agreed, to allow the Nanking bom- has been serving on ships on the bardment and the question of China coast for the past seventeen Treaty revision, to figure in the years. It was a very serious mat-correspondence relating to the set- ter for him when acute rheumatism tlement of the Incident. The whole

kim from incapacitated

work. business is but another glaring ex- Now, thanks to Dr. Williams' Pink ample of the manner in which the is cured. Mr. Beuther Chinese are invariably allowed to Pills he states:-

play off one Power against another, "For more than a year I was a even when, one would think, ele- terrible sufferer from acute mentary commonsense would die-

My feet and legatate united action. rheumatism.

The spectacle į were so swollen that it was only of Great Powers bidding against | with great difficulty I could move oach other to secure the favour of about. In bad weather the pains a Chinese faction responsible-as agitation

grew worse. The ligaments and it itself admits-for, outrages as against American lives or leg joints of my left foot were so stiff-barbarous as those which took timate interests"; and the Ameri

ly drawn that I could scarcely place at Nanking on March 24, last ean acceptance thereof. This dohend the foot without great suffer-year is neither pleasing nor. cument scema to call for some cring.

dignifted And though we' decline ticism. In the first place there is "I consulted a number of doctors to associate ourselves with the view no specific reference to the murder and used the various medicines, that the American Minister la more of an American citizen. The ointments and lotions they pre-blameworthy than any of his col- apology is only "for personál inscribed, but all failed to bring me leagues, we must frankly express juries and material damages, done permanent relief. Then I had the hope that if Mr. MacMurray's to the American residents," and treatment at the Shanghai General achievement is to be regarded as a one would never suppose, from Hospital for over a month, but this diplomatic triumph, there will be reading it, that the cold-blooded also did me no good-for when I no competition among the other murder of an American University left I was in the same bad condi- Foreign Envoys to emulate it, Vice-President Was one of the tion as before.

And lest we provoke the obvious outrages to be settled. Nor сал "At last on advice, I began to rejoinder that the British Govern. its December (1926) we accept at face value the state. take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.ment by ment that "in pursuance of their When I had taken 3 bottles I not Memorandum, and its proposals of established policy" the Nationalist only felt much better in my feet January, 1927, cut the ground from Government have "repeatedly is. but all over my entire body. So I under the feet of other Powers, we sued orders for the continuous and continued with the treatment until frankly admit that its action on effective protection of the lives and the Rheumatism had disappeared these occasions did much to under property of American residents in entirely. I am now able to walk mine international solidarity, and freely and without pain. Besides created embarrassments for other very recent date, American official this, my health has been fully re- Governments which justify the as- sumption that it may, at any mo- and other property at Nanking was As a remedy for rheumatism,ment, make concessions to the Na- actually occupied by "Nationalist"

even in its most severe and chronic {tionalists which are not warrant- soldiery. Moreover we venture to forms, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for ed by the actual situation, and doubt the truth of the statement Pale People are famous through- which may be exploited to assali that the Division responsible for out the world. Their remarkable the vital Treaty rights of other THE CHINA MAIL," General the perpetration of the outrages record of cures is due to the fact Powers.

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