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THE CHINA PROBLEM AND ITS
SOLUTION.
CHINA'S DOMESTIC TURMOIL ANALYSED.
NO HOPE OF SETTLEMENT IN NEAR FUTURE.
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The fantastic nnarchy of modern We published recently an interesting anolysis of the China
Chin is Puplasised by Lieut.-Col. Situation by Av. A. de C) Sowerly in the North China Daily
Etherton (former British Consul-General for Chinese Turkis Ners." By gave the following calvarts from u zuluequraq article
tan and additional Assistant Judge i in which he wenes the urriasity of foreign intervention and gives u
of the British Supreme Court in antlier of a play run which he considers it should be conducted:
(hina) in his invaluable and timely
**China-the Facts 41 The Powers Involved. With the exeption of Shaust and !
fished, Bern, 128, 641), Kweichow, the whole of the 18 pr The Powers at present involved, **Within
space of Fourteen vinees of China are the scene of ¦ seranged in the order of the extent | years,” he says, '15 43 Governments netual warfare, writes Mr. A. de C. of their interests, are Great has been set up and deposed in Sowerby in the North China Daily Britain, Jayan. France, the United | Peking, right Presidents have come Fred to this the facts that States of Ametien," and "italy The cont grain, and China now änds her. roughout the wine af China well is the Powers that should com self without a cented ruling author organized bandit hordes are operal hine in formulate a joint policy. rity." ing each on a more or less extensive Plans should be made for the des scale, that in certain areas, notably patching to China af naval and in this worth-cented regions, the military forces large enough to bent populace is extensively mobi | patrol the coasts and the Yangisze lized into hands such as the Red River and to garrison the treaty Spears Society," for protection ports and guard the railways. To aguina Bandits and de military do this very few more war vessela alike, and that the soldiers every; I thun are now on the China róast where do as much footing and | would be needed, while well under plundering of the people as forlat a hundred thousand foreign troops fog, and we have a picture of such would be ample to occupy all the anufterable chaos and misery that railways and treaty parts. it is hard for the Western mind to onder to give China me, envisage it.
Phance of sising her house in order, the Powers should then send an ultimatum to The various way lords and the herds of the polifical factions immediately to cease hosti
Tal
There is no low from any of the warlords, venuse not one of them, exerpt Yen Hsi Shun of Shansi, cares for anything bout his own en- richment and personal aggrandize-lities, and to meet at some central point for a round taide consulta- Bach is in the game entire ly for what he ran get out of it, tion with a view to coming to terms While everywhere is the sinister in and establishing adequate govern. fun of the Condumist agents of mum for the country, either as a Mewow, working eenselessly to be whole or in sections. The safety Peter the confusion and Chars, of all would be guaranteed i never allowing it to die down, egg The Powers, whose representatives If Ling the Chinese on against the would watch the proceedings.
"Chis—ruumilaabte conference were "fuvigner-in" short doing every-
The thing within their power to bring successful, well and good. about a cataclysm such as the world plaus has never before seen. In Central Ching they have succeeded in rous ing the labouring classes to a point even beyond their contrat, so that all commercial and industrial en- terprise is at a standstill and nothing but ruin faces the mann facturers and the merchant and shop-keeper clasey, while the weal thy are being muleted by the self- appointed Government and made to contribute Irrge sums to its sup. Port As the factories are all closes, the labouring ned artisan lasses are all out of employmo, and the self-appointed Governs, ent is being hard put to it to kee hungry musses from starvatio
No Really Strong Element
ינ.
There is no hope of a settlement in the near future, since not one of these warring elements is strong enough to defeat the others, and the tide of battle sweeps ceaselessly up and down the country. Now one party advances, only in retreat in disorder. This is followed by the crumpling up of the erstwhile
E despatching foreign Troops to China would be shelved For the time being, though the threat of intervention would be maintained till such time as the systent or systems of governement. evolved at the conference had been pup into effect and had proved to benelequate for the maintenance of law and order, the restoration of prace and the restablishment of amicable relations with foreign 1 the militarists and Powers. political leaders failed to comply with the demand to hold such
oferener, or if, having been call el, it proved a failure, then the plans for eupation would be put into effect.
A Provisional Government.
A provisional government by the five Powers would he established. which would operate with due con sideration of the Chinese legal code, and would have complete jurisdiction over all foreigners in China as well as the Chinese. The Customs, postal and salt and land tax services would be taken over As soon as one of the and conducted in such a way as to militarists or one of the parties provide di retssary funds to run gets strong enough so as to look the country and maintain the army like succeeding in dominating the of pacification. legal taxation whole situation, treachery bringe i would no stopped, Chinese dis him or it down again to the com- trick magistrates would be retain- moa level. And ever the people ed in office and backed by the pro- suffer leir homes are looted and visional governmentlas long as they
victors.
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The Chinese fake practically n interest in diceal affairs,
Of the Chinese people 07 per cent, are literate, and of the re- maining 3 per cent very few runs ern themselves with politics and what is passing in the great world. Teyond their own frontiers.
Mice Eaten Alive.
The author's account of Chinese ments will not allure the Westiener, At great banquets
the dishes are of an infinite variety and comprise slags ten slous, hambon shoots and baníbor routs, pigeons" eggs preserved in alkthehe CZK the Kickber its edible value--latis seeds, liver of all kinds, and sea sługs.
Hat perhaps the most horrible dh served, apparently at luncheon,
www a number of newly horn, white mice served alive, to be dipped _in_tredele and swallowed like a "praižje oyster.**
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sense
humanity among the Chinese war Fords. They vistain a profitable in
ane by cultivating opium, and when there arrang wounded in their Pernal faitle they recrive only the crudest treatment. many cases they are not even res 11
moved from the battlefield, fact, they are left to die.
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As, for Chinese justice, it ruth lessly employes torture.
Mud Flat To Great City, The British and foreign toners. sions in Chium were rented, as the author reminds the world, ni the suggestion of the Chinese Goy ernment itself in 1876, and by none are their comforts more appreciated than the Chinese.
Shanghai has an area of 5,500) acres, and the present value of land and property there excords £20,000,000. When it passed inter international control it was a mud Hat. Today it is one of the great commercial cities of the world, possessing well-made streets, elec tric lighting, modern drainage, and an efficient police force.
A lear and interesting nevount is given of the malicious artivities of the Bolsheviks,
MAKING GOLD BY CHEMISTRY.
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as soldiers or are marched off factorily. Wherever possible Chi-{ as curfiers, mere beasts of burden goss would be used in the higher for the hurting soldiers. At best administrative posts. The military the troops are billeted upon them and naval commands would at once: and they are made to feed the lategia organizing and training Chi-j ter, without payment of any sort. Rese soldiers and sailors and out of M. Jollivet-Dasielot, a chemist. There is no end to the picture of the present rabble armies would be of Douai, has discovered a new horror that could be drawn; the made smaller, but efficient, well formula for producing synthetic sum total of the misery and suffer trained and well-disciplined forces geld by chemical means. The ing in China, siner the outbreak of under foreign officers capable of process consists of bringing to a the revolution in 1911 is not to be preventing the recrudescence of temperature of 1,100 degrees a mix calculated; "the loss of life must run | banditry and
maintaining the ture of six grammes of pure silver, inter hundreds of thousands if not peace of the untry. In a similar two grammes of yellow silver, two millions, while the destruction of way a navy strong enough to patrol grummes of antimony, one grumme property is beyond computing. Die inland waterways and coastal of orpiment, and one gramme of And the appalling thing is that it
Waters and uppress piracy would tin. is growing stendily worse there is built
solution from within, nothing
Forming A Stable Oficialdom. but a dreary vista of wars, intri gue, inassacres, corruption, rapine, As soon as this had been done, a and the final dissolation of a once proud Empire into a number of etty mutually antagonistic states. There are longer any forces in China that will hold it together only disintegrating forces are left The Asiatic Breakup.
The break-up of China, the des- truction of foreign prestige and interests and the domination of the Bolsheviks would be the signal for similar disturbances to commence in other Asiatic countries.
process of withdrawal would begin, On the both civil and military. civil side well-trained Chinese officials would gradually be worked into higher and higher positions
During the heating process nd- ditions of silver and antimony, are
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M. Jolivet-Dasielot states that of responsibility. The same would he produced ten milligrammes of apply to the military side, and in gold, which he claims is sufficient the end China would be left with to prove the continercial value of a stable and efficient government his process. The greater, part of that would be wholly Chinese, and the six grammes of silver was re- which would sovereignty in its own dominion covered, and can be used again, Automatically all questions of
enjoy
extraterritorial rights, the holding China to bring about the present India would follow suit, and of Chinese soil by foreign Powerschans, and the world must judge
Flushed Japan would not escape.
and Custoine autonomy would be whether it is going to allow its with success the Russian Commun solved by elimination. Thus would peace to be jeopardized by the ials would sweep through Asia de China be given a good government, frenzy of a group of school boys stroying existing systems and fore-regain her peace and prosperity, or the selfish schemes of ruthless ing the whole continent back into and be placed on a footing of militarists
the misery of the dark ages.
And there are those who actually suggest that to this mess and welter
equality with other nations.
Opposed to those would be the Justification Of Intervention. merchant classes, the gantry, at The justification of intervention large section of the labouring shall be abandoned the foreign con in China lies in the menace that classes, and the farming classes, cessions, that foreign interests, shall be placed in the hands of those continued chaos in this country who would welcome the restoration who have shown themselves utterly would be to world peace and pro. of law and order, hat who now are
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incapable of managing their own sperity. That it would be bitterly dumb, daring not openly to give MONSTER ENGINE'S RUN BE-easiest corridor train that has
affairs and that foreign residents resented by certain classes in China voice to their feelings, but secretly up the in Chins shall give themselves up to be expected, but have those wishing that the foreign Powers to be governed by the rogues who classes proved their right to be would step in and clean have brought about the rain of this considered? The warlords and pre- hordes of soldiers, and bandits and gent official classes would resent it, do away with the oppression of The masses of great country.
but what justification have these the militarists.
By nature a As has already been pointed out, shown to hold their present exalt China are dumb.
peaceable people, the Chinese are the only hope for a speedy anded positions
enky victime to terrorism; but their permanent solution of the Chinese
The student classes would raise articulate call rings out to the problem is intervention on the part of the leading nations of the world, their voice in protest, but it is a nations of the West to save them That this is proved fact that the students have from the appalling oppression and auting in unison.
been the chief tools in the bands practicable obvious to najority of those who know and of the World's enemies, the Comages of the terrorists and mili the responsibility of those who have is an outline of a gen scheme done more than any other group in it in their power to give the needed have studied China, and following munists from Russia, and have tristes, and heavy indeed will be
(Continued on next Column). aid but who fail to respond. that might be adopted.
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