or noticeable gratitude and from their acquired
wealth they remit large contributions to the Kuomintang
in China. They never become good British subjects in
They are not in-
the sense of developing a loyalty to the Empire or
feeling a community of interest with the British
commonwealth of nations, and in sentiment they remain
Chinese first, last and all the time. There is no
reason why it should be otherwise.
digenous to any part of the Empire other than Hongkong,
and if the truth be known, they regard that island as
rightfully belonging to themselves, the native inhabi-
tants, and not to its British rulers. Many of them
own a share of the ancestral property somewhere in
the interior of China, and all of them hope some day
to return to the family home and to be buried with
their forefathers.
The numbers of Chinese who have made their
fortunes and owe all that they have in money or
education to the beneficence of British rule must
run into tens of thousands, but during these two years
of anti-British agitation has any one of them come
out on a public platform or in the press and defended
the British against their detractors? If so I have
never heard of it. My strongly held opinion is that
these people should be regarded from their own ma-
terialistic point of view. So long as they are law
abiding
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