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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8th, 1927.

LIFE IN NORTH CHINA.

PEKING OF TO-DAY.

FOREIGNERS WHO HAVE CHANGED. MORE

THAN CHINESE.

WHERE THE 13th AND 20th CENTURIES MEET,

CHIANG KAI-SHEK IN MODERATE. MOOD."

LIVES AND PROPERTY OF FOREIGNERS TO BE RESPECTED.

KIANGSI STUDENTS, ZEAL."

Peking One who has known and Peking is not China; but to at

One of the enigmas of the Nation loved Peking can never abandon tempt to write on "China" a &alist party is Chiang Kai Shek, the that love, writes Mr. F. H. Hedges unit is a gross display of ignor Commander-in-Chief. He has been in the Japan Advertiser. The city ance. There is no such unit, and reported dead, he is now said to of walls and palaces, of laughter- China has so many" facets that it be ill with dysentery: Rumours are loving coolies and dignitaries r is impossible to deal with it from presistent of his quarrels with miniscent of the great days of the a single standpoint. Here in Barodin, of his attempts to clear Manchi Dynasty, of camels and Peking, surrounded by great walls out the Soviet influence. But on gorgeous wedding proscatons and bowo gates are locked each night the other hand no one fulminates of the elements that make of it a “gainst either ingress or egress, it more fiercely against "Imperialism' capital in the truest sense of the is a distorted view that is obtained and foreign influener. Yesterday word, enters into the heart and une attempt to look at China we published an account of his at- ahide, and even greater changes All that can be done is to see from tack on the Hong Kong and Shang- than the past four years have the Paking viewpoint and then, in hai Banking Corporation; now we brought will be necessary to root attempt to supplement this de give from the Hankow Derald; his that image out once it has entered fective vision to fourney to other stern appeal quite ineffective, how- in.

citics, other provinces, and seek to ever against anti-foreign violence.. gain the viewpoint, there.

The Peking that was bers six years ago, the Peking I left four years ago is not the Peking that exista to-day.

Before his departure for Hankow, Unchanging Chinese,

in the middle of last month; General Chiang Kai Shek in no Peking is changing and the uncertain terms warned radical From the physical standpoint the king that is here to-day is not groups that lives and property of changes in Peking are so few and of ago. It may be that in Canton and guarded regardless of nationality. the Peking that was here four yeara

all foreigners were to be safe such unimportance that they stand Hankow the fires of patriotism are He also issued a proclamation that out in a startling manner.

They attract attention; but they are not be reserved until those places are

burning high, but judgment should no more posters were to be put up the real change that has take visited. It may be that the Chiunless they had first passed the place in these past four years.

G.H.Q. Censor and that all posters Nor, here in North China, doessa is awakening to this 20th cen the Chinese himself seem

tary Into

were to be signed by the organiza- which he has been born, tion to be but there is scant evidence of "this | them. OT greatly changed. The rikisha boys fact on the streets or in the homes posters attacking the church and person responsible for Anti-foreign posters and still grin, the servants the homes, the clubs and the hotels still of Peking. In Peking the, great the Y.M.C.A. were al ton down, a deferential service, the police attitude of the foreigner.

give

change that is evident is in the though some new ones of that still have the dignity that

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"nature have since appeared. Upon uniform gives and,

The Chinese are changing-Godt being brought to the attention government officials, few though they be, extend thanked--but not at any such of the General that foreign women the same courtesy and the same rapid pate as the foreign tradent in Kian one hundred miles south bland statements to their foreign

af Peking believes.

of the capital were being held prï- guests, and the "returned stud

foreign countries" by students and soners, hostages for Chinese in. onts" still, in the main, extel the

radical elements there, General greatness of China, although they

Chiang sent the following telegram: know full well that greatness lies in the past and has not yet been regained for the present or the

future.

The Real Change.

The change that has come over the capital city of Peking is a change on the part of the foreigner The foreigner is afraid.

Then years ago, six years aED. four years ago, every foreignor who resided within the gray walls of Peking was delighted

The foreigner has advanced at a more rapid pace than has the Chinese whom he now fears, He has forgotten the heritage of his Charlemagne, of the men whom Viking ancestors, of the knights of Alexander led from. Greece to In-

The" 0.-in-C.'s Telegram. To magistrates of Kian and dia. We of the West have pro-Kanchow: It has been brought to gressed beyond those standards and my attention that certain young we shrink from using them, but students burning with patriotic what right have we to fly in the real have been seriously interfer- face of frets and to assume that ing with foreigners in Kian and the whole world, too, has progress Kanchow, We must remember that. ed as far!

although certain countries are im perialistic it does not follow that nationals of these countries are im- perialists. Many of them sympa thize with us in the revolution. The foreigners who have come into

A 13th Century Community.

tely give widest publicity to this Every magistrate will immedia- order, stop any movement against foreigners and render them proper protection. Signed Chiang Kai Shek."

We are applying a 20th century to think that he was on the edge of standard of ethics, business prae- a volcano.

thees, of methods and principles of Somehow he half-realized, half-semi-democratic government and the interior of Chins suffer from. understood the overweening su religion to a 13th century (in the imperialism of their govern- periority complex of the 'Chinese the European sense) society and ment just as we do and we should and the fact that the foreigner had civilization.. The sentimentalists therefore look upon them not as dealt with this paychology in a way say that he refuse to let the enemies. that was effective for the moment Chinese nie us on our ground but that would not last unless con- The real mistake ia that we blindly tinually renewed. And so there refuse ta them on their own was a pleasant thrill in imagining ground. Our position in China, that the foreign population of the from a 20th century-standpoint, is Northern Capital was treading ever fall of moral daws. But when we on the edge of danger, and that at go to China we are no longer in any moment trouble might burst the 20th century; we are in the forth.

13th. And our position in Chinn from a 13th century. Sandpoint, is full of very tangible faws, for the rules of the game in our present- day Western age, the moral, ethical, educational, business prin- ciples and loyalty there to that we bare evolved through struggle of one soft or another during those intervening 100 years, are grean-

Only a lew, a very low, were more concerned with what was happening in China and among the Chinese them with their own methods of meeting the "problem." They were laughed to scara, or worse, for they were practical rather than visionary.

Prophets Silenced.

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HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONE.

FEBRUARY 7TH, 1927. E. E. Bank...

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East Asia patient peasantry, only feudal Coutanca arguments appeal.

1927 and none know what the New Year

may bring, these self-appoint ed prophets and diplomats are silenced. In Peking the foreigner is fearful of the shadow of Sevict Russia. Chinese hatred, Chinese

Force Of Clear. Out, national spirit, Chinese activity is There is but one, whether in 13th concentrated against the foreigner century Europe, or 20th century and against the special rights and Chine, and that is force. It is the privileges which he enjoys in only argument that China, the real g China. It is concentrated for the China and not the few scattering time being against the British in foreign educated Chinese When knows that this is merely because really understands, and the West particular, but every foreigner to form public opinion abroad. the British and British interests must apply it of sever all relations are most prominent, and that it with the Chinese and admit defent will turn next against Japan, and of modern idealism while not un America, France, Italy and all the |derstanding what brought that de-

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