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Student demonstrations um strikea will not help the metter. At a time when Koscow is tryi to launch a propaganda offensive against Britain and when Chine is mobilised to put down a rebellion, such activities will inevitably be urged on by elements opposed to the national laterest".
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However, certain newspapers bed from the first adopted a violent attitude. The most important of these the Cheng Yên Pao, which it is interesting to notice is connected with the San Xin Chu I Youth Corps. On the 14th January a leading article in that paper said, "The only thing for Chias to do is to start a nation-wide movement against British imperialism. The only way to deal with the spurious British gentlemen is to show strength". The next day the same paper compared the tardy and ineffectual protests of the students and the public generally on the Kowloon issue with the spirit of thirty years ago when Chin rose against the twenty one demands of the Japanese. To add point to these arguments the Cheng Yen Pao carried a series of articles describing how the British Concession at Hankow was tɛken back by popular action in 1927.
After the burning of the British Consulate at Canton, general opinion hareened against Britain. The outrage itself was attributed to communist agents who were said to have made use of the petriotic fervour of the orowd to create an incident which would embarraas the central government. but the Sin Wan Pao certainly spoke for most Chinese people when in its leading article of the 17th January it said, "World opinion will, without any doubt, understand the true reason why Chinese feeling is much excited". And in fact there must have been many people wh. shared the views of the Cheng Yen so, which on the 18th January said, "Before the Centɔn business happened, the British committed an illegality by destroying the houses ɛt Kowloon. Therefore, the illegal action of the Centonese people in burning down the British Consulate is no more than a tooth-for-a-tooth reciprocity, and is not unreasonable either in human feeling or in Justice". still more striking was the fact that the Ta Kung Pao, which up to then had kept silent on the whole affair, cme out on the 20th January with
leading article which did not so much sa mention the Canton incident but bitterly denounced the action of the Hongkong authorities. The paper said, "Every inch of lead where Chinese sovereign rights reside must be defended. The british must bear the responsibility for starting the trouble. Even if the Chinese people nursed in silence their indignation at the javage insults inflicted on Chinese citizens in Chines0 territory, we do not think that the business would be any glory to Britain but would on the contrary, be a disgrace to the British.
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Um paper alone in whɩnt hɛi expressed anything like unqualified regret for the Canton incident. This was the unimportant Tung Nan Jih Pao which ssid on the 18th January, "No matter whether the unfortunate incicent at Canton was the result of patriotic indignation or whether it was provoked by a few bad elements, we must all beer the responsibility for it as it happened on Chinese territory. must severely punish the culprits and express our regrets to our friend Britain (if britain still looks upon Chia as a friend)".
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The student demonstrations against the British Consulate-General in Shanghel were reporte... upon very sympathetically in the press. Although it was the Cheng Yen Pao, with its Youth Corpa connexion which had most strenuously