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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1925.
DAY BY DAY,
BE A PHILOSOPHER; BUT, BE STILL A MAN.-Hume.
AMIDST ALL YOUR "PHILOSOPHY,
stated yesterday, merchants in the Philippines, Singapore, Borneo and other centres are refraining from utilising British ships for the con- voyance of cargo to Chinese parts because they fear the boycott. of; the vessels on arrival thereat, "It
The rate of the dollar on de- will thus be seen that British in-¦mand to-day is 2a. 3,13/16d. terests are being victimised from many points.
There was again, à cloan bill of The facts being thus, British health in the Colony yesterday. tradera surely cannot be expected
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the accession of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.
MISSIONARY WORK IN CHINA
FOREIGN CONTROL
RESENTED.
SOLUTION FOR CHINA?
PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT".
The present chaos in China is Christion Science Monitor editor basically political”- says the ally. Ta no sense is it national
A Shanghai correspondent con- tributos the following to a New York newspaper:
One of the most significent, rothald Baancial, albeit...
or racial, nor at bottom oan it bo financial ligious movements in China to. day is that for separating the ss and weaknesses are out- native Christian church from the through-and-through political
standing and many. One graspa.
foreign control and protection.
character of it all in realizing to sit back and merely wait the
The extent to which the move how clearly a hurried attempt, to, pleasure of the agitators until such
ment has progrossed has boon pass by a too hurried attempt to time as matters become normal,
revealed in the discussions, of the transplant full-lican administra National Christian Council, ation into a acil accustomed only to There must be a Ilmit to British
Mrs. "Owen Hughes and Mise group of Chinoge Christian leaders personal rule. It is an obvious patience, and we should say that Peggy Ellis wore among the pas- and foreign missionaries, which case of the failure of the West to that point has already been reached. sengers leaving by the Patroclus has just concluded its third an" make over the East solely ac-
for England yesterday.
nual conference in Shanghai. cording to Occidental formulae. If satisfaction cannot be obtained
The council delogatos, drawn "Yuan Shib-kai, the most in any other way, then we would
from every provinco in China, sagacious statoman China has The attention of golfers is reported the most serious bar to produced in our time, had some- urze upon British trade organisa-directed to an advertisement ap- further growth was the belief bow sensed this fact it might be tions, and the firms affected, the poaring elsewhere relating to the among the majority of the Chinese put more accurately that he fore- necessity of sending Home to the supply of meals at Fanling and people that the church is controll- saw what would become fact un-
Doop Water Bay. Foreign Oflee a strongly-worded
ad by foreigners and designed to dor the pressure of such an ex- serve the purpose of foreign partment as bas bunn tried. Ha cable directing attention to the
The tramway service between Powers.
held always that political evolu- They expressed conviction that tion, not revolution, was the re- facts, giving some idea of the in- Causeway Bay and Quarry Bay terests at stake and demanding that will be extended right through to the sooner the Christian Church medy for, his country's Hils. Ha action he taken to permit British Saturday, August 1st...
the Shaukiwane terminus as from becomes essentially Chinese in its would have retained the men- administration and interpretation archy and formed an administra- business enjoying the full rights
of Christianity the sooner will the tion composed in part of the way he opened for substantial trained off ials of the older and privileges to which it is entitled
For solling to. Sanitary Ins-progr. as.
school, partly of the younger men, MUSTARD & CO. by Treaty. Things have come to a pactor Thomas adulterated milk, With this bolief most of the foreign-trained. It might not have pretty pass when a handful of the proprietor of a dairy at No. foreign missionary leaders are in worked but the alternativo
48, Haiphong Road, was fined $25 sympathy.
which the hot-heads of the South armed Chinese Labour officials and by E. W. Hamilton at the Kow- It was pointed out the day has forced to accepto noe assuredly students can flaunt Treaty obligh-loon Magistracy yesterday. The passed when missionaries use has failed. Under a ready-made tions as they are doing just now. milk was stated to contald two their own legal and political Republic" plan, a machine was privileges to any large extent to thrown together "over night," sa Only stern action will bring these)
ehelter Chinos Christians, and it were; what paesed for elections folk to their senses and restore us
the astiva church setually is were held, and a Constitution was under foreign-protection.
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our commercial rights: The sooner collars and prophesied a tighten- our Foreign Office realises that ing up of all contracts with Chinese, point, the better will it be for
It is a sad fuel that the gaining British trade and shipping in the western culture should have
cost the Chinese some of their old time worthiness.
A TIME FOR ACTION. East.
Then and Now,
"The Coal Crisis. There seems little hope of a
"
But it is difficult to persuade the Chinose people of this fact., FORCE ALWAYS IN BACKGROUND,
Bags above the gates.
is clear that Unidu officials and ing Chinese are not the elderly proper grasp of both sides of the sionary leaders in China as a self-seeking militarists and a lack
:
VITAL NECESSITY; Without going into deeper de- tail, it is onlightering enough to Christianity was brought to point out that this documea: pas- China from the West and has sed over what the Americans a boen developed largely by foreign century and a quarter.explier, missionaries. They have received had learned was a vital necessity, Two days ago we published some
special rights, by treaties' sup- pamely. Preciso.definition of the outspoken statements regarding the
As a sidelight on the present |
ported in those rights by foreign ralation of the savera! States to present situation in Swatow, Amoy Chinese situation generally, comes
gunboats, and housed in foreign the central authority. For a and Fouchow, showing in vivid a very interesting little bit of satisfactory settlement of the coal
owned property, protected by baker's dozen of yeare Peking bas run along (at times “running," in- manner the way in which extremist evidence from, lee House Street. crisis. Beyond the report of the The growing nationalistic spirit deed; at times hopelessly staticl) elements amongst the Chinese have Several of the brokers complain commission which aat specially to sentmont against such a state of bound to it by fixed obligations... in China has heightened the re- without the Provinces. being: taken over control of these ports that some Chinese operators" are consider the matter, and which, affairs, resulting in the many. The result has been that they have and make it their special, business taking every possible advantage of incidentally, has several pleas in demonstrations during the last gradually allocated to themselves. to interfere with British shipping. the present situation to repudiate favour of the miners, there appears in the minds of many Chinesa tion of "States rghts" has grown.
year against Christianity-linked revenue and power, till the quaë❤ From the incidents mentioned and their contracts and the brokers
to be nothing tending towards a with imperialistic policies, to a devastating extreme. Add to from other circumstances as well it hasten to explain that these default-
The problem confronting mis- this the presence in the land of
dispute such as might lead to consequence of this feeling is by of any wide spread appreciation students, are in open hostility to all clients with whom business has been
via media acceptable to all parties, no means simple,
of or desire for genuinely repre things British.
With pistols in done for years but their sons and The question of a Government subhas made great progress in the state of affairs now too well The native Christian Church sentative government, and the their hands; these trouble-makers other young Chinese speculatorssidy is mooted as a means of rench last few years, and many of the known is recognized as only what have forcibly, prevented passengers
Time was when the word of a
outstanding leaders of China was to have been expected, ing a solution, apparently on the
attacked Christianity.
Since the latest of the nation's from boarding or leaving British Chinese was as good as his bond
principle that if the owners are
But it seems fairly certain the many regimes came to power ships and have even made it impos. and in consequence of an innate unwilling, or more correctly unable, church is not yet in a position, last fall under Marshal Tuan, financially or otherwise, to reject two men, noticeably spokesmen sible for Europeans to go aboard honesty the Chinese trader was
to pay an increased wage or sanc
[assistance from the West.
by the book, have predicted vessels entering the ports. So bad often held up as a model of business tion shorter working hours, then
The foreign missionaries cannot further and more elemental. has the situation become that some morality. That was when a young the State, will enable them to make renounce their special right, in change. One of those is Dr. C. British shipping services have had man was fed upon the classics and
In the fair pees to themselves or to their T. Wask, hold" by many the grant to the miners.
governments, although many do Binologues as foremost among to be altogether suspended. What upon the teachings of Confucius, end this will amount to the connot believe in insisting upon such the constructive-minded leaders is happening, apparently, is an when China was still immersed insuming public paying the difference, right.
of Young China. The other is Sir John Jordan, whose 44 years" attempt by the worst clements her ancient moral and ethical codes, and is hardly a fair solution of the BETTER METHOD NOW SOUGHT residence and work there were amongst the Chinese to exhaust All too often, the young Chinese dispute. The Labour view seems The National Christian Councilolosed with service as British British patience and to goad merchant and business man of
to favour early nationalisation of decided something must be done, Minister at Poking from 1906 to foreigners on to acts out of which to-day is fast becoming an un- the industry; but that would only anity, a universal religon, from cares flatly that the best out-
and soon, to dissociate Carlet 1920. This latter authority de capital may be made. Under the scrupulous opportunist, a man who
mean increasing the cost of output Western civilization, incidental to come of the chaotic conditions conditions prevailing, the Chinese will stick to a contract so long as
and thus putting up the price of that religion in the minds of the now prevailing would be "the
Chinese people
development of a sort of United governmental authorities appear |it pays him and who will repudiate
coal, unless it be intended to Leaders, both foreign and Chi-States of China, though in much helpless to do anything. Mob rule it and haggle so soon as he sees sacrifice all idea of profit and also nese, have been assigned to a looser form than in American.” prevails, and, in the process, peace- no chance of making the profit he
lose much of the country's export country-wide study of ways and
MODIFIED COMMUNISM. ful Chinese suffer great hardships, expected.
means to effect the dosirable He has been fed on
Dr. Wang, who was whilst foreign interests are being modern education mostly-mathe-business in the commodity. As it endu
There has been much discus- of the originators of the sacrificed.
matics, and chemistry plus a lot of happens, it is difficult to visualise!
sion recently in the Protostant democratic experiment in 1911, bo- What British business men want doubtful philosophy and advanced any of the Labour suggestions denominational journals of Ame- come thoroughly convinced of the to know is how long the present political theories which, excellent except in the light of a means to state of affairs is to be permitted though they may be for the culture an end, so that the coal crisis is to continue. Under specific Treaty of the West which is capable of probably merely being used as an rights, the ports mentioned were assimilating them, only serves to very many years ago thrown open undermine the native Integrity of to foreign traders, it being express-the East and leave the youth of ly provided that they are permitted China hot-headed and untrust fur from bright, either for the tions, both of America and of affaire." This does not imply to carry on trade with whomsoever worthy. Old standards of honour mining industry or for the peace of than counterbalances any oc-day world takes the word and the industrial organlentions In casiofial dissent in the ranks of the idea behind it) stands say they please and to proceed to and and personal estimation have been
real chance of acceptance by the from at pleasure with their vessels lowered, and the business men of
general, there remaine always the missionaries.
The council was founded three Chinese. During the arms con- and merchandise." In face of what this Colony know it to their cost. Possibility of an agreement between gears ago by delegates selected ference at Washington in 1922. the employers and the men, whereby from all of the mission boards, Dr. Wellington Koo (or was it Dr is now occurring at many of the A few years age. we entertained a Treaty Ports, these words must prominent merchant of Vancouver concessions can be granted which working in co-operation with Szet) said, in reply to an inter- Chinese Christian leaders, viewer's query as to China's open- It has been a pronounced suc- ness to Communiem: "I think strike our readers as sheer irony. who was over here looking into the might obviate much of the bitter- Yet they represent the pledged pro- causes which had led to the breakness at
had enthusiastic support from the ment with that. You remember way to peaceful adjust entire Christian movement in we tried Bolshevism in the third
rica and England concerning the unadaptability of party goveta- ries of China into fundamenta Russia supplies the suggestion for division among foreign missions-mont to China. He believes Soviet
a moro workable type of popular. list" and liberal groups. excuse for pushing forward the But the history of the National rule, founded on the ancient Christián Council calls attention Chinesa self-governing units of well-known nationalisation de-
to a significant tendency toward guild and village commune, with a mands.
While the prospects are union of all Protoutant denomina- dictatorship in charge of national
European countries, which more that Communism (as the present-
mise of China, and the Powera haveing of certain contracts by Chinese paint tent prevailing and Coss from the beginning and has my people will not again experi
century and again in the eleventh It failed us, both times. We shall hardly give it a third trial.Se
Because of strict radio regule
an absolute right to see that no dealers and he told us that his firm ment. It is evident that the miners China. interference is allowed of the one of the largest in Canada are not entirely unjustified in their normal flow of trade and commerce. was having much more trouble than demands for better consideration. If a bridge is built across the Not only has account to be taken formerly with Chinese dealers. His and it behoves the conlowners not Golden Gate it will be the great- of the actual activities of the mission failed because certain to permit any developments which est mechanical engineering fast
in history. The bridge plan- tions in Australia which require extremists in impeding shipping Chinese here denied their partner- might result in placing further ned will be 4000 feet bu- the owner of a feceiving set to facilities at the porta, but there Is ships in a firm which had since weapons in the hands of the extween piers of double the length have a licones, two men have an even wider aspect of this ques- gone bankrupt. Our visitor mourn tremists, who look to industrial dis of any other bridge in the worldbeen sentenced for posing
The towers will be 1000 foot bigh Government inspectors and tion-namely, the effect which is ed the loss of Chinese Integrity putes as a means for fur and the total length of the bridge collecting numerous fass from
6040 feat. 54 being produced far afield. As we more than the loss of his firm's their alme
persons who did not obey the law.