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CANTON, September gata.
CHOSEN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]
The editorial footnote to the com-
SIR,-Those of your readers who have muniqué issued the Canton Informa-lived East of Suez will need no satitoxin tion Bureau, which appears in the to Mr. Ponsonby-Fane's articles, publish- Hongkong Daily Press. yesterday, com-ed in your issues of the 22nd and 23rd pletely overlooks the significance of the of September. Such persons have had Following passage which we emphasised dealings-commercial, social, and possibly" in the statement appended to Fresident even legal-with the Japanese and they Sun Yat-sen's declaration on the Wash will be able to judge for themselves, ington Conference, published in the same Even if they have not been to Korça, they will be able to form, a pretty fair paper on the 10th inst.:-
estimate of what is going on in that dis tresatul country.
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"Any Chinese delegation [to the Washington Conference) will be unable
People who have not been East, how adequately to present China's case vis-a- vis Japan as long as the direction of ever, may easily be deceived. To them policy is centred in Peking. This is the the Japanese Are the "little" people The lesson to be drawn from the Paris Peace struggling to be great" of our popular Conference when the work of the Chinese and popularly-educated novelist. Pence Delegation was fatally weakened very hest thing that such people ought by the Peking section of the Delegation to remember is that no people has learned (The insisting on an incomplete presentation the value of the control of the Press so of the Shantung case in order to avoid successfully, as the Japanese compromising the Peking administration correspondence of Reuter's Associated in connection with the Secret Agreements of September 24th and 28th, 1913."
If any resolute stand "—as suggested by the Hongkong Daily Preas-was taken by the Chinese Delegation at Paris against the Japanese, it was certainly not on the initiative of the Peking see- tion of the Delegation. In point of fact, as stated in a forthcoming article of the series on the New Government of China which the Canton Information Bureau is now issuing for publication to the Press; the Peking section was most disloyal in the vital matter of team-work at the Paris Conference. It practically frustrated the attempt of the Canton section to secure a consideration of the Shantung Question as an indivisible part of the wider issue of the Twenty-one Demands and irretrievably weakened the work of the Delegation by raising that particular question in terms which divored it. in principle, from the "rest of the Domands.
as a
As regards the refusal of the Delega tion to sign the Treaty of Versailles which is generally retorred wo masculine gesture, it is well-known that Lu Cheng-hsiang, who headed the Dele gation as chief member of the Pcking section, insisted on signing but was eventually deterred, in spite of Peking's instructions, by the Chinese students 13 Paris threatening to kill him if he dared
to do so.
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When the Hongkong Daily Press peats that no diuciente, potound.or superficial, is indicated in the published declarations of representatives.of the two. factions regarding the principles which should be insisted upon at the conference regards the maizteriance of the sovereignty and integrity of China," we have to point out that there is a "profound difference between what Reking says for the edification of a confiding foreign Press and what Peking does in obedience the sinister forces that master it. That, at any rate, is-for Canton-the practical lesson of the Paris l'eace. Con-
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Knowing all this one is not surprised to find
appearing in the most unlikely article, inspiration" and "inspired places. If, therefore, as Mr. Ponsonby Fane says, there is very adverse criti cism current" on the Japanese adminis tration in Karen we may be very surB that "it would have been much moro adverse and have had a much wider car. wall but rency if the Press had not been so catered for in Japan; not only so. we may also he pretty sure that the criticism has been more moderate than the reality warrants. It is not so very long age since there appeared in the columns of the Hongkong Daily Press an account of a holocaust of Korean Chris tians who had fled to a church for protecUsual Prices-BOOKING at Messrs. MEHTA & CO.,
According to the account, the church was set on fire by the Japanese But how few of such 10- authorities and all the fugitives barned alive. ports get through the cardan of censorship which surrounds Korca like a wall! Only about. 20 per cent, of the present writer's correspondence from Korea ever reached
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It would take a volume to answer Mr. Readers can find the Ponsonby-Fant truth-in numerous books dealing with Japan and Korea Some arecial points, however, should be noted. Mr. Ponsonby Fan calls emorial attention to the exec). lent in the preservation and upkeep of interesting o'd buildings and wonders did he ever monuments. One In the same issue of the Hongkong hear of the mark: pazada the most of Daily Press, a leading article con important architectural heirloom to
He need only look at it to see Korea? statement that
the vandalism of Japan.
ference.
the
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cludes with submit Japan's amended offer regarding
Then, eain he tries to justify the Shantung to the judgment of the people might have something to recommend it, action of the Japanese police in Korea by the following extraordinary state- but merely to. pabush the offer in the
The verage Japanese puts, up ment: Press and wait to see how the country takes it seems to us a ludicrous exhibi- with and thinks nothing of police inter- tion of the bankruptcy of statesmanship forenre that would be considered intoler in China." We'venture to suggest that is able by an Englishman. Surely if there is, neither true nor reasonably fair to is any logical conclusion to be drawn apply to Chine as a whole, the mural and from this statement it is that a neoplo intellectual incapaerty of Dr. W. W who have auch an uncivilised polic Yen and the rest it the Peking adminis.stem have no right to control any other But the vol en of the whole matter tration. Too much emphasis cannot be pron's fard on the lass that Peking--propped is that the fanarea have not the shadow up and kept alive by the diplomatie intervention of the Fore.gn Powers-is nu ef right of presion in Korea Thr ing the war a letter was reprinted in mose Chian than the Mopiah" ris.ng (we anmeet the local hipers dilating on the forbear to mention a certain island) 18hardthin Mr. Poranh.Fan was suffer- an indication of the general state of the ing because some of his land in England was being utilised without the return of British Empire.
It seems a great pity prorer rental. that arme Bolshevika did not take sway all M. Ponsonby-Fane's land and pro- Be might then have be PRO-perty in tota
Run to realise something of the state of Koreans He might also have had ភាគចាប់ to work for a living, and might have: We have received a copy of the "rules had lets me to spend is bristering up of the Hongkong Tenants Protective the 'ministration of one of the foulest Association, of which Mr. Mok Lai Chi and thically-cold blooded pieces of is Chairman. The objects of the Associa-and gabing in the annals of human tion are set forth an follows:
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Mr. Pannby-Fere's last sentence is with mufferer that it in realira that chosen is entirely unatted for inderandanne the hotter." We might nap dr this, we will leave the reader to do it for himmelf,
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