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BREAKING: CHINA.

TBY THE REV, LORD WILLIAM GASCOYNE CUIL:

Is China broken?

The great Empire that has dominated the eastern portion of the world seems likely to

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6rm, 1913,

THE DANGER OF THE HOMENT. The Chinese will remain essentially Chin- use. They will try to follow the West, but

they will not wholly succeed. The blue gown will always show underneath the frockcost, and one must not judge China by Western precedents

Still, there is a great danger that the re- fall to picces, and it is obvious that it wvolution may follow the French example, not be restored to its former condition. The that the wild optimism which is evident in party of "keep things as they are" has the extreme reformers may induce them to practically disappeared, and it is doute destroy all things which make for stability, parties who advecate change that dispute and so confusion and discontent will desolate the field. What are those parties? What the land till the revolution will lose itself is their plan of action? What is their ideal, in blood and China will be mended by some fierce tyrant, and become great but miser- able in her Western materialism,

their dream?:

First, there is the extreme party, with a glorious dream of a huppy, prosperous China. The cruel pangs of hunger and tortures from untended discase which are now being suffered by millions, or injustice which hurts worse than the crunt punish- ment by which it is enforced all these shall be things of the past. For poverty in China means slow starvation, such as thousands tipon thousands are now experiencing in the cruel famine in the Yang Tee Valley. Let me not harrow you with the stories I have heard of people gnawing the roots of the grass from hunger, the huddled group trying to retain enough strength to be able to sow the fields next spring; the child, a span long, crying to the mother powerless to give food; the face blackened by hunger: the skeleton with distended stomach-all these are sights but too well known in China: yet there is food enough and to spare if the Government had been efficient; there are Fertile territories hardly touched by cultiva tion. Who would not crave to make this tragic world disappear?

THE CURSE OF INJUSTICE.

And then there is the curse of injustice, The poor man, who has no chance because he not rich enough to bribe his judges, must endure terrible torture.

I remember showing a group of Chinese students a book descriptive of these tortures; they made but äre not Chinese one comment "these tortures," they said, they are Manchu."

Yes, when one thinks that it is, within man's power to alter all this, to make that vast population of four hundred millions happy, to bring food to the hungry, to alleviate the ills of the sick and suffering in every village, and above all to place justice in the judgment scat and torture in the me- morics of the past, even the traveller feels can inspiration and longs to have the wealth to educate some of China's sons in the science that has freed the West from such suffering and in the Christian principles which have ameliorated Western govern ment. At any rate ict us give all honour to those who have taken their lives in their hands and faced the cruel risks of war to save their follow-countrymen.

Opposed to the extreme reformers is the party of moderate reformers headed by China's greatest statesman, Yuan Shih-kai, While he has every sympathy with reform he holds, like the great statesman that he is, that reform should be introduced gradual fy, that the nation should be educated under its old forms to understand Western methods. He appreciates, as all statesmen should do, the value of tradition and deams that the traditional respect of the Emperor is an asset which should not be thrown away;

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The modern West may be typified by the motor-car it is essentially selfish; it always NEW DELIVERY OF covere the pedestrian with dust; and it some- times runs him down. What we have to car is that the Chinese motor car will always

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people down and may for that reason Another solution Western China may to submit to the evil of foreign intervention. After all, in many ways the Chinese would NEW SHADES AND STILES be happy enough in Singapore and Hong- tong. Many Chinese have foreseen this con-

STRAWS. tingency and told me when I was in the country that China might have to pass for NEW BOWLERS. an educational period of her existence under some foreign Power. Of course, all foreign Powers are not alike, and so one could do anything but dread the domination of Powers who believe in government by massacre. Alas! the East has seen such massacres more than once.

Not that any foreign Power should desire to have such a domination, for it will bring. her face to face with an industrial crisis. The excellence and cheapness of Chinese fabour and the untouched deposits of coal and iron will tend to draw capital which the dominating Power can afford to lose. I Empire, after all, is a tool without a handle, and it often wounds the hands of those who wield it. Far better would it be that the missionary and the educationist should gradually spread Christianity, dll China shall stand on an equality with other races and her greatness and prosperity make her children happy under an enlightened Chinese Govern

ment..

A TRYING EXPERIENCE FOR WELL-

KNOWN SHANGHAI BESIDENTS.

These who, taking advantage of such times as these, to loot and rob, looted rin boats ou Sen. day, and well-known Shangho residents were nearly drawn into the fray, sage the hanghai Times. It appears that Mr. A. 8. P. White- Cooper, of Messrs. Deamond White-Cooper

Philips, accompanied by Mr. Hill, of Messrs. Bradley & Co, had been spending the wark-end at Three Waters, near Bocchow, and late last night they started on the return journey by the Scochew tow. All passed uneventfully antil over half the distance had been covered and then when nearing. Wangda the fanch was suddenly stopped. On inquiry the lowdah re- ported that there had been great deal of shooting by a big band of thieves and, in fact, the frath of the statement was soon discovered, for the travellers were surprised by the

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that the art of governing consists of govern the more quickly got into älght coats and

ing with the consent of the governed; that to gain this consent you must govern people according to their traditions, and that an evil to which man is accustomed is preferable sometimes to a novelty of doubtful excell ence. Alas! in the day of popular movement the voice of moderation is inaudible, and it secus as if the wisdom of his counsels in going to be their undoing and China will prefer the extreme man with his entrancing vision of a Westernised China to the wise if unexciting policy of Yuan Shi-kai, Re member that the West is no longer an un- known land to the Chinese; many have been in Western countries, and when they go

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of shots. Mr. White-Cooper and Mr. Hill at AND CIGARETTES obtainable, consistent with price. suce made preparations for their defence if it should be necessary. It was DOT very early in about three o'clock and, in the darkness secured their guns and ammunition,

making thom ready for use. It was then discovered World-wide reputation. that a band of about a hundred robbers armed with rifles hind looted Chinese ice-boats fast a few hours previously. All the rios had boon skolen as well as sums of money and four men Two other tows, from Quiusoy, were also stop. on the boats had been killed in the encounter. pail and all wore delayed for alose on two hours, During this time several shots were heard, but ultimately the launches were started again after half-past four and Shanghal was reached three hours after the usual time.

The Philippines str. Eula loft Manila on the 4th inst, and is due bore en or about the 7th lost, at daylight.

hoaie comparatively rich men and tell their LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. travellers' tales they make the ears of every hearer tingle and his mouthwater with their accounts of Western wealth and luxury, Every story ends with: "We should be as rich and prosperous as the white men if we had their government." Think how the wages of the western coast of America, sufficiently large in our ears, must sound m

Tho str. Glenlochy left. Singipore on the 3rd inst, and in das here on or about the 9th inst.

The F M. 8. 8 Co, ate. Persis, which sailed

to the ears of Chinese 1 And so another from Hongkong on the 5th uldms, arrived at

great force which makes for revolution de

If the velops itself the hist of money. reformers' dream is of a peaceful, prosperous China, the coolies' dream is of riches, or at least of a life which knows so hunger or cold.

CHINA'S POSSIBLE MISTAKE.

San Francisco on the 2nd inst.

Frapeises on the 6th inet,, and is due to arrive. The T.K.K. str. Tengo Mary leaves Blan at longhong on the 4th prox,

The T.K.K. tr. Shingo Maru sailed from Yokolsun on the 30th inst. for Ban Francises.

The T.K.K. str. longkang Baru sailed from Salina Cruz on the 29th inst, for Peruvian and Chilean ports.

The st. Dabar left Karatan for Hongkong on the 4th last, and may be expected here on or stout the 9th inst. morning, w

The Bank Line str, Orteric led from Van

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The cargo of SUk shipped on board the M.M. air. Austration, which left here on the 2nd ult., was delivered in Lyons on the 3rd inst..

The mistake the Chinese may make is that they may attribute the prosperity of the West to its political constitutions rather than to its moral principles. After all, it is an casy mistake to make, because it is the mis take the West is making about herself. We never understand our debt to Christianity, and it seems so natural to have a work incouver on the 1st inst. for Yokohama en route which the merits of justice, honesty, and truth are regarded as obvious that we do not realise how much that high public opinion. depends on long-continued Christian teach ing, and if we do not recognise it why should the Chinese? Would the average clerk in a treaty port tell the Chinese compradore that the high public opinion of the West in matters commercial had its origin in Chrl. stianity? If they discuss the subject the clerk will explain the situation by saying "Don't you know that a fellow ought to play the game and the compradore will be left under the delusion that if you runi. frantically about a football field you will somehow get imbued with a high moral

tone! Yet the vitality of our public opinion

does in reality depend on Christianity, and if the Chinese suppose that they will attain Western morality without Christianity they are making a great mistake.

The bright hope is that the intellectual) men of China have appreciated this point. Surely it is a remarkable thing that they have at any rate nominated a Christian to be President. We hear a good deal said against missionaries by people who have never seen their work we had a book the other day by an Englishman under a Chinese allas full of such sentiments, but the Chinese who are onlookers have no doubt of the value of Christianity. The commercial man comės. to China to trade and become rich, to receive, and then to away; but the mis. sionary comes to give. What little medical knowledge the Chinese have acquired they have acquired in missionary institutions, What Western education they possess in China is mostly of missionary origin. Be sides which there are things mysterious in this world, and the strength of Christianity is among them. Christianity is growing rapidly in China ito power may even k present be sufficiently great to enable China to produce the men who shall safely steer ber through the troubled sea."

The C.P.R. Cos atr. Empress of India left Yokobans for Victoria and Vancouver, DC., on the 4th inst., at 1 pm,

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