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OPINIONS ON THE TROUBLES IN CHINA.

NEWS AND VIEWS FROM VARIOUS, QUARTERS.

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Baron Hayashi, speaking at the dinner in London of the British pestion of the International Association of Journalists, said he felt that Japan could not hos ably acemile to the demands of China when they were presented in a threatch! They could-only be con- ing" manner. sideral" when the request was made in a reasonably way and the Chinese could behayo properly."

BRITISH PRESTIGE AND TRADE.

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MISGUIDED SENTIMENTALISTS." Mr. J. O, T. Bland:-Those who have any knowledge of the deplorabio, state to which China has been brought under know what incalculable Bepublic mischief, has bern, and is still being, done by misguided sentimentalists and educationists in encouraging, the poli tion ambitions of their own intellectunl offspring. Young China militant. while loudly prating of democracy and model constitutions, and eloquently asserting their unfortunate country's claim to full quality in the comity of nations, have reduce it to a chaos of misrule, corrups tion, and strife, so that today the pros 11 united The TimesWe have too long neg-pect of China surviving as

nation governed by Chinese seems more lected our special advantages, and in

hopelessly remote than ever That pros the present crisis we at any rate-what-

peet will be finally extinguished, and the ever others may do or not de-must take world's oldest and wisest civilisation be threatened to its foundations, it the our own precautions. We are not

Powers are now misled into following focble folk, and we shall not easily

America's lead. A China Conference acquiesce in any attempt to ruin our there must be, in necordance with the prestige or our trade. First of all it terms of the Treaty of Washington, but is absolutely necessary that the Gover it is earnestly to be hope that those ment should take adequate protective who take part in it will avoid the

Armed intervention in

fundamental error of confusing the Chinese internal affairs is, of course, argint needs of the Chinese people with impossible, whether for one Power or

the class interests of the westernised for a combination of Powers. But the students and politeiaus who, through the British citiars who are now pursuing platform and the Press, have so far their avocations, in various parts of monopolised the world's attention. What China must be rescued and protected in China wants is, not politics, but peace. an energency. And this is not a ques tion merely of providing refugee-ships. It has become obviously necessary to

Dr. J. K. Robson, who has recently assure our naval strength in the Pacific. petarned from China, speaking at the since the Chinese crisis in only the pre- United Methodist Conference on July lude to further complications in which yth, sail the missionaries now going out British interists in the Pacific art

wont have a much harder time than the vitally concerned. The present state of missionrries of the past. He related Laffairs in the Far East has an intimate the sufferings of the people at the hands connection with the discussion of the of the 'soldiers, and bis own sense of crujar programme. We must be assured personal danger in a Christian com. that we have at our own unfettered dis-pound of 300 refugees. He described posal the means by which British General Feng (the Christian Chinese nationals and British trade in the Far leader) as a.sincere mạp nad a soldier, East can be continually "protected.

measures.

FOREIGNERS IN CHINA.

MISSIONARIES TO CHINA,

but not a statesman. He was blued by the Russians and supported by frantic hordes of young students. In the wild in the course of a speech at a recuparies were in constans danger.

wave sweeping over the country mission- tion to members of the French colony in London on "July 14th in connection with the French National Fête, M do Fleuriau, the Ambassador, made the following reference to the position in

China:

MONEY FROM MOSCOW.

support. This money, says the Dally Mail, the Soviet in the first instance collected fron American concession- hunters who have been very busy of late months in both European and Asiatic Russia. and with whom the Bolsheviks have been dealing on the ready-money principle. What rewards these Ameri- cans will reap from their scary pay. pents, plus their wonderful faith, Te- mains to be seen, but some of them are ainady very much pertaɣbed.

A party of representatives of the Soviet professional trade unions, headed by Lepse, Briskin, Baskoff, and Smoor- guis, the chief promoters of the Red In all countries the interests of our

Professional International,' has left French communities must be watched Moscow for China in order to get ac and defended with the greatest care. quainted." The delegation is bringing That was my special care when I was in red flags as a gift from the Communist Peking, as it is now that 1 am in Lon-workanen of Moscow to the Chinese pro- don, and I can assure you that the poletarians and also a considerable sum tion of our compatriots, in China at this of money. Karakhan, the Soviet envoy moment is deserving of all our attention Peking, has raore than once glorieu and sympathy. What has enabled them the sacers of the Soviet Gnancial to live and prosper in a country where certain clements among the rung classes have always stirred up the population against them is the regime of treaties in force. These treaties could not be touched without the greatest risk to foreigners in China. When someone talks about altering them and of making concessions to # Chinese Government, which has no authority in the country, the lives and property of foreigners are thereby imperilled. The agitators who atir up the well-disposed Chinese against foreigners would not go,ou with their Justardly work if they were not fully encouraged from outside. The affection I have retained for our compatriots in China makes me hope that at the in- terested Governments will unite in de fouling their nationals, not only at the present moment hy immediate concerted protective menAUCES, bit also in the future by maintaining ior their nationals the guarantees provided by the old treaties, until China bas reach ed the stage when she herself can ensure the veurity of the lives and property of all those who reside in her territory.

DISCOVERIES IN CENTRAL ASIA.

FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT CHINESE

SILK IN LONDON.

Some of the most interesting pieces of Bilk in the world, now-on-view as the British Museum, says the

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Probably the earliest specimens anyone will ever be able to look at, the frag- ments were once part of the clothes in which Chinese · soldiers, traders” and travellers, who died in the track of u trade route from China to Central Asia, were buried." Thought by Sir · Aurel Stein to belong to the first or second century A.D., and taken by him from a grave in the cemetery at Loudan, a bag, which might quite well be carried by a Foman of fashion to-day, is composed of little diamonds of faded rose-red silk

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A SOVIET TRADE,

Prepare yourselves for open hos tilities with England," Frunse (Soviet War Minister) is reported in Moscow drswages as saying in an address to, soldiers of the Red Army. ** Latest events," he continued, leave no room for doubt as to what England intends. The union of the Russian bear with the Chinese dragon represents a power that' the world dare not defy." There can be no doubt that Moscow regards the British Empire as the greatest enemy in' the way of its realisation of world-re volution.

A little bag of silk, buried with some wanderer from China in the Lou-lan cemetery a century before or after the Jaginning of the Christian ern, is not much more than an inch long, but bas little drawer strings from which the re- mains of tassels dangle. There is also shown well-parved pastry which has been buried, with soine Chinese traveller in the seventh century. Delicate little biscuits pierced and wacked until they look like filigree buckles, had been pré- pared to comfort the dead traveller.

HEALTH OF SINGAPORE.

The Magicipal health statement for the week ending July 25th, gives th total number of deaths us, 187, represent- ing death rate of 24.53 per mille per annum compared with 25.7 in the pre ceding week and with 99,73 in the corres ponding week of last year. The chief

of the colour which lines old work-boxes, causes of mortality were :--Beri-beri 10,

cf unaze Rød of blue silk. A fair sized picce of the silk of the same period shows a delicious running pattern in soft blues and chestnuts in which droop. jug flowers like snowdrops figure.

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phthisis 22. malaria 15, pneumonia 23, convulsions 18, dysentery 14. Among the nationalities death occurred as follows: European. 1; Eurasian 1, Chinese 151, Malays 20, Indians 12 Nine persons died who had been less than three months resident in Singapore. Deduct ing these the death rate was 213b- per 1,000. The infantile rate was 1155 per

A small piece of sprigged silk, show. ing birds in dowery trees, daien from the seventh or eighth century. Blurred green and yellow designs suggest, that: the popular shadow" cretonnes of Iste į mille per annum compared with 233,1 - in years are in the direct line of descent the preceding weeks and with 227.6 in the from these ancient Chinese fabrics.

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