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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

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THE CBAOS IN CHINA, PROSPECTS OF RECUNEY

A special correspondent in a contribution to the Observer tells us that frankly China is in a bad way. It has been confrosted with the waity of adapting Western raethods without in the least being pre enly desirous for the change, Japan on that it senly hope to

becoming a vassal of Europe, was to

20гH, 1923.

MR COOLIDGE ON US. IDEALISM.

FIRST SPEECH AS PRESIDENT.

WASHINGTON, September With Mr. Calvin Collidge, President of the United States, speaking at the auquel convention of the American Red Cross- this first public maldress since from gainst on

that faith in things spiritual tempered by the Japanese people, common sense, was the kind of practical

Europe's way i-or-not-loi-ve time)-idealism reflected in the history of the

whether they liked-i

in

other

"the change China on the United States.

hand, not to be tops, adopted The American people, is said, were an the formula for the spirit, and established likely to adopt any other. The idealism at Peking the fiction of a republic. Now of which by spoke was, he said, illus

in the Origst Japan we have this

with Mon Form of consentient / trated by the men who went to the reaLIZO | hat a republic in spirit, and China with of Europe when their own liberty and the liberty of the world were at atake, but republican form of government bata feudal state in spirit: Some allowance who, after the victory was won, retired must, of course, he made for the difference from the field-unencumbered by spoils, etween the two countries; Japan is small independent, nnattached, unbought. An- and compact and, therefore easily welded her illustration was the recent appeal while for five million dollars for the Japanese its new form of national,

in anity. China is, and always has in earthquake sufferers, when the American geneous conglomeration of disunil states, people immediately contributed about separuted by lifferences of climate and double that sum. Lifferenes in dialect, I do not mean to He went on to say that men wero лу that the Chin people are-not-demo-gradually learning that great wealth-a derberatic aaay mighty army and navy were not the real rentio: they are people.

secure the security of referees to the rulers of the world. Military forces were

sefarious | necessary to practices of the Tuchun, he says the nations just as polies were required for privileges of spoliation on grand seal the safety of society, but it was signi- are divided among the super-Tuchans feant that the leading nations had agreed

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which has been loyal to Peking. Peking Scant was it that civilisation was relying has been a vast empty space so far as more and more on moral fores. It was Government is goncerned, The foreign the Red Cross application of this prin- Powers, for convenience

of their own, pro mple that made it such a tremendous tended that a united grisenmant did exist

success-Reuter, there, and that it was a government

sible for the whole of China, hat the ot

for fiction invented

expediency. Sporadic bandit outrages a foreigners may but anything serious enough to armed intervention is unlikely. China's worst enemy is its low standard of living. Engrossed in earning a livelihood,

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the unmilitary class, who are overwhelm In all Shapes, ranging from $1.50 each

ingly in the majority, have little time to consider their entry's affairs, even if they were so inclined. Uskilled in eisil que tions they bow to any demagogue who as supes, power over them.

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EVERYTHING ILLEGAL." Everything in China is "illegal" temporary Premier was appointed to deal with foreign affairs his nets were illegal..) The President's tenure of office was illegal. Parliament

itself was illegal and its illegality was the cause of all other illega-"

It never

until last week had liti legalised itself by the creation of a perman- cut estitution. Conditions in China will rmain chaotic until the formation of a Parliament unselfishly devoted to China' welfare. I do not see how such 'n reform is to he brought about but I believe that the

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Chinese people will tire of their native 67, QUEEN'S RUAL" CENTRAL oppressors, that by violone or otherwise they will overthrow them and that then, with the unsuspected ingenuity 10 affect sudden changes common to Orientals, they will conjure out of their Cover is not

fficiently Flashes- present, disorder i stably to command repest Ja for from China: Its history is familiar to the Chine, and the Chinese head is not so dull as to be in bk to the example thy a heighhour who swiftly assimilated Western methods in order, to cops with Western civilisation.

"THE TITLE.

China is growing lowly, reluctantly, yawningly, but growing nevertheless. is the hardest-working nation in the world, but the must poorly paid. Until it is better paid and becomes a great consumer, it will remain backward. I am not one to Politically write of China awakened."

it most certainly is still asleep, but its sleep

of the Past

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not so sind na formerly. There is a A. TACK & Co., stirring of the giant's limbs, as has been manifested in serious boycotts instituted against the purchase of Japanese-made pro- duct

More than that, as Japan knows, China is the most promising factor in Asia. Let the Chiness ence become ne nation of well-paid workers, of hearty consumers. with only a modicum af nationalistie spirit and Japan's influence on the Asiatic mainland will wane,"

Compared with Europe's plight, China's Its debts are not so sms not herpeless. hely as those of one European Powers. It is not threatened with war, and it has no prent need of a large standing army. Its neople are happy, industrions and in- telligent. There are no more beggars in Peking than there are in some European cities. The standart of living is slowly rising. Moreover, the Chinese people arg doing what no other people on earth hass er done-thriving, with a minimum of disorder, without a government. I travell ed 5,000 miles in interior China, and I can ttify, that the wheels of industry make more, noise than the pops of bandits" guns.

AN ELECTION IN ARMST STATE GOVERNOR DEFEATED.

- The most remarkable election in the hi tery of the United States was held in Oklahoma on October 2nd, when for eight

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Governor Walton's much-advertised fight to the death against the Ku Klux Klaa end d in a fiasco. His State militia and secret service legions of rugged plainsmen were overawed and ingred to arms ** abashed by fifty thousand Vigilantes, work to ensure to the citizens their right to vote. The right to vote, in fast, was the only point at issue, in, spite of the Governor' fforts to manke Ku Klux Klanism the issue, Among the Vigilantes were probably is many opponents supporters of the Klan, but they were united by a common deter mination to restore civil law to their State

In this election, which the Governor bad proclaimed to be illegal and had declared he would stop at any cost, there was a majority of 250,000 in a total of 450.000 votes cast in favour of amending the Con stitution to permit the Legislative to Thus meet of its own will at any time.

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Governor and deprive him of his office

Upon an application by counsel, og he half of the Governor, the State Court has issued an injunction restraining the lo tion board from cortifying the return of the special election on October 3rd

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