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the West insisting on its right to be so the city, where the Yunnaneso had retir tranton Concessions by treaty have deed, promising them life and liberty if veloped from foreign trade, for without they surrendered. When tho Yunnaneso security there would be neither trade nor laid down their arms they were slaughter- intercourse and without both, or either, the hooligans of the town lending a China con not progress. But not all hand,

Let us consider Mr. Wu Hon Man's ports have been opened by treaty. Many have been opened voluntarily nail at fanciful sentiment about the exploitation same there as neither concessions nor of the labouring classes. The conditions The manifesto" which Mr. Wu Hon Man, Ministng of Forvigu

reserved areas. And the Concessions of labour in China, bad as they are, havs Affairs in Canton; recently addressed to the "peoples of the world" has born given wide publicity. Quotations hare appeared from it in a number exercise no authority of any kind over not been introduced into the Far East

the surrounding territory.

by foreign capitalism. They are indigen- of newspapers, and as the facts of the situation are hopelessly travestied,

ous in China Yet in the concessions and these quotations are' calculated to give an entirely erroneous impression Mountains, deserta, and seas no longer

foreign-owned factories and mills the of China's position. In the following artich Dr. W Hon Man's

isolate China from the rest of the work. statements are analysed and his various contentions fully answered!

For good or ill, China's fate is associat. wages are higher, the task lighter and the working hours shorter than anywhere Mr. Wu Hon Man, the Minister" of person and property without the dbfenced with that of the whole family of

outside. The slaves" go, there volun- Foreign Affairs of the self-appointed of their nations Extra-territoriality in nations. East and Wext are necessary

tarily and eagerly because the conditions Nationalist Government of Canton, China is a remedy for the intolerable to each other in the modern world.

Are much better than in the surrounding bas indited. or caused to be iudited, situntiaa of the first half of the 19th There is no desire in the West to treat

country. For examples of the cruel way |manifesto addressed to the peoples of the century. It was designed for the protec-China unjustly or ishumanly, or even

in which workers are being exploited by world. It specifies the tribulations of tion of certain juridical rights: There unequally. But it is more laudable for Chinese cutside the Concessions, I quote China through her contact with foreign are laws in Chin-interminable codes of China to inspire the coaâdence that from the letter of the Rev. G. T. Warren, Imperialism. Whatever we may think Regulations for civil, criminal and equality conpotes, than to plead for it of the Canton Glovernment as a “ Govera-judicial procedure. But they are gene as a gift without taking the trouble

It would seem that into reach up to it. ment," wo must concede the prize to its rally abortive. Fabrication Bureau. This manifesto is their efforts to deter crime the local a remarkable document: it. uses words Justinians overreacheil themselves and

FREEDOM OF THE NEAS.

which was published in the Times of June 12th, 1923. Mr. Warren lived in Changsha and Hankow for forty years. In both these places, he says, hundreds of children under ten work eighteen Ro skilfully in a Pickwickian sense that the severity of their laws. like the laws of

"The key to our door is not in our hours a day for seven days a week for the questions resulting are not thoses of Leviticus, have nullified their applica hands.... Our seas are carefully chart food only--and an insufficient supply of —— veracity but of misthod. And in places tiun. Leaving Europe and America, outed and guarded, so that no Chinese may that at tailoring, weaving and even a haves an inlet or outlet in his own apprentices to tin-smiths and black-

it wipes out the frontier between reality of consideration, if China is not an inde anil dreams. It was published in the pendent country like Japan the fault is Country." The statistics of ocean riversmiths And Mr. Warren reintes Đầ Carton Gagrite of the 9th July, and we entirely her own. China has within her-{and railway passenger traffic are an over. case of cold-blooded murder by the may be sure that copies have been sup self the elements of her own edification whelming contradiction of Mr. Wa Hon Chinese authorities. An incident occur- plied to various revolutionary leaders or destruction. The latter predominate. Man's statement. There are no foreign red in a Chinese-owned will at Chang- and organizations, and to others who are En 1539 China and Japan entered into laws or regulations outside, conceded over triding question of a small sufficiently unacquainted with the true practically identical treaties with the areas, and even in those areas there are allowance. This led to a slight demon- facts to be deceived by plausible insinua Western Powers. Those treaties Chinaone that interfere with the movements of stration without violence or damage to By 1884 the native population, Quite recently Mr. property. Within twenty-four hours two Japan had so reformed her indicial Sun Fb. son of the late Dr. Sun Yat men who were supposed, perhaps rightly, stem and internal administration that Son, travelled from Canton to Shanghai to have been leaders were arrested in the Great Britain this alleged wicked, Im-on private business and Mr. Fu Ping street at dusk and taken to the Gover- perialist power-voluntarily surrendered Sheung, a member of the Canton Gover her extra-territorial rights and Japan merit, was sent froin Cantor to Shanghai became an independent, sovereign State and Peking on business. This hap

tions.

Mr. Wu Hon Man makes himself the spokesman of the “nationally minded people of China. Before examining his statements it is desirable to examine his status. Who is Mr. Wu Hon. Man i He is an

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denounces as unequal

official of an unreengàised, revolutionary: After lapse of 38 yiurs. Similarly pened when a state of affairs existed that

the fountain-heid and focus of China's

nor's headquarters. The next morning

their decapitated bodies were lying out- side the city gates. No legal help could have been obtained at the trial, if they marly at present in power in Canto, Siam in 100%, after a law of it years, was described in Canton as a blockade had one, and no, witnesses or documents |secured a revision of her treaties of 1953, of that place. The ship on which Mesars could have been produced. There was anrest. This Government is attempting thereby obtaining rights of jurisdiction Sun Fo and Fu Ping Sheng travelled a sequel to this flair. In the same juris with generous assistance from its Bolsbe-over foreigners. In 1995, after a lapse probably passed through the territorial diction four lads under twenty had been vik, sponsors, to throttle the unfortunato of 67 years, China stands where she did, waters of Hongkong, without any inter.į imprisoned for four months not only prophe, under its away). It rules nomiu-though in 1908 at Shanghai and twenty ference And ships fying non-British without trial but without any kind of

ally over the Kwingting province, which

represents about five per cent of the years later at Washington she was offer Bags are reaching Canton without inter

tion of China. It is no more representa-

formni accusation. The Chinese Gover-

area and eight për cent of the popular politient autonomy an conditions well ference. A Russian ship went there the nor urgently needed someone to translate into English letter to the Press, in within her powers of fulfilment, but other day on a friendly mission to

which he defended his action in executing Even the British "colony of tive of true Chinese thought and aspira- which, so far, she has not fulfilled. Canton.

the two labour leaders., Mr. Warren Granted that the extent, of the country Hongkong--where, incidentally, quite tions than, say. Cuba is of America.

undertook the translation on condition is considerably greater than that of three-quarters of the landed property that the boys were released, and so they I lay no stress on the opening hyper-Japan or Siam, surely for a highly, intel belongs to Chinese is freely accessible to hole of Mr. Wa Hon Man's diatribe.lectual race, as the Chinese rightly clain Chines: without class distinction, much It is merely a rhetorical exaggeration to be, and one which historically and to their satisfaction when they Bee as of Dame Partington's historie attempt traditionally has always affected to des- they do so often, from the oppression of to sweep th Atlantic from her doorstep. pise the other two, to woan that they the Tuling party in Canton. The inhuman exploitation of our people are

He predicts that unless the peoples of the world give urgent attention to his warning, a new universaj tragedy will beenacted in the Pacific can. It will then be too late for you to help to ex- tinguish the conflagration". But fu quoting his wrious statements I lend them the conspicuity of capitals.

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LABOUR- CONDITIONS.

regained their liberty.

EDUCATION.

Large sums of money made by the

are still under foreign tutelage is imng: maker does not worship the gods: being spent for the so-called 'education Lamentable confession of weakness and in-he knows what they are made of," saya of our youth; in reality, for the purpose old Chinese proverb. The naval of corrupting and degrading them so competence. The truth, is that China has an pot attempted to rais: her own inter-patrols are few: they guard Chinese and that they might be better utilized in the national status. It must be admitted foreigners alike from the attacks of horrible scheme of exploiting our coun

try. No makter what humanitarian that there are many difficulties in her pirates who infest the rivers. path, as they are of her own making- difficulties created by personal Am- bitions, the purloining of Educiary funds, EXTRA-TERRITORIALITY,

the predominating rivalry between North The document states that all the con- and South, the idiosyncrasies of revolt fusion in China is due to her unequal ing troops and, latterly, subservience to international status. The key to China's the Bolsheviks. internal trouble is extra-territoriality.foreign-particularly British-imperial antiest Rowe. From the tremendous re ing the people into the tools of oppres- Mr. Wu Hon Man says the agitation is ism, constantly impede al! sincere efforia servoirs of our agricultural population, sion." It is a curious fact that the not due to alien and subversive in- to establish a stable Central Cavernment these concessions draw hundreds of thorpeople are so willing to be degraded. In Auence.China bas. Awakened to the and secure administrative, and political sands of cheap labourers into shops and passing 1 may remark that the children

Painful. Realization that she is got an progress. Independent Country like Japan, Russia, England, France, Italy or the United

These difficulties, not

CHINA AND THE FAMILY OF NATIONS.

names are attached to this education, the result is clear; it degrades a portion of our people into tools of oppression." Mr. "The slightest protest on the part of Rockefeller and other subscribers to edu-" our people who are toiling to amassational and charitable institutions in wealth, not for China, but for foreign China will be interested to learn that capital, are being shot down in cold blood their benevolent "intentions are described. as foreign slaves were by the patricians lain Canton as subtle means of degrad-

factories in the concessions, whereof Mr. Liu Chung Hoi, head of the they become defenceless slaves to be ex- Labour (Bolshevik) Party and recently ploited in mediaeval fashion, beaten into Civil Governor of Canton, are being States." Apart from the ethics of this

dumb submission and shot down without educated at the Canton Christian Col vexed question of extraterritoriality, the Since the Opium War, a dark Period mercy by hired soldiers and police from lege. necessity for the measure remains. It is began for China, A period during which the most backward portions of the At the moment there are more than 5 perfectly obvious. It is one of right, of the Powers imposed upon our Country world." Those horrors are so graphically million students in high schools, colleges fact rather than of principle. In rarliest a series of Treaties, which stand in the descriptive of actual conditions and and universities in China. In 1913 there times the Tyrinn voyager along the coasts way of our Economic and Political proevents in Soviet Russia that one is tempt later the figure had risen to 1 millions were 1 million students: seven years.

of the Mediterranean secured only such gress....The Awakened Portion of oured to ase the red hand wielding the red- and is still increasing. There is never rights as he could buy er enforce. With countrymen can think of these Treaties bot pen. But let the credit be given to any compulsion about attendance: the the extension of the loan dominion the in no other terins but those of inequality, Mr. Wu Hof Man. After all we do live dimenity as a rule is to provide accom juz Romerne épread, and every citizen injustice and inhumanity." Extravagent in the 20th century; and mediaeval bar-modation for all the imbibers of Western travelling was under the aegis of the Jus assertions curry little weight. The barism now finds favour only in Russia. knowledge, and competition for the Bomanum The idea, like many other direct cause of the so-called Opium War I said only in Russia: sometimes it is privilege of going to America, Europe or Roman legal ideas, cafe to stay. Chin-was not opium but the growing need for practised in Canton. In June, 1995, we Japan is always keenly contested. Men- in Europe enjoy the security and better protection to life and property, had a mediaeval outburst, there, when cius said that a man can learn foreign Justice of well-considered and properly though behind this was the larger need the Yaunanese soldiers whom the late things best abroad. And Chang Chik enforced "laws, which include the rights for better relations generally. The war Dr. Sun Yat Sen brought in to help him Tung, a noted Chinese scholar, grand of Extra-territoriality for their Minis was a struggle between the Far East and were ousted by the redoubtable, Whampoa councillor and viceroy, advised the send THE STEAM LAUNDRY Co.,tries and Consulates Have conditions the West, the East refusing to act on Cadets, the flower of the Cantone army, ing of students abroad in his famous 20 much in open fight as by Chuen Heuch, Pien, which was published in China ever encouraged us to believe terms of equality, diploinatically and not that Europeans would be secure in commercially, with. Western nations, and strategy." "Leaflets were dropped into an 1868 with the auction of the Emperor

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