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HOME OPINIONS ON CHINA.

WEAKNESS IN CHINA MEANS

ASIA

The immediato issue is enthely different, and it is this. We have DISASTER IN INDIA.

definite rights, under treaty with the Chinese. Government, to occupy WHISPERING GALLERIES OF peacefully and for trading purposes certain areas in, China. So long as we are there on our legitimate busi neas, we have a right to be pro- tected in our occupation by the Chinese authorities. If they are unable or unwilling to protect us against their own insurgents, wo have a right to protect ourselves.

LORD MESTON'S - OPINION.

(Lord Meston is one of the most distinguished ex-Indian Civil Ser- vants. He went to India in 1883, and after holding many import- ant positions was India's repro- scutative on the War Cabinet in 1917. He was given his peerage in 1919.]

If wo Britishers take our plea- Bares sadly, wo compensate by taking our responsibilities Hightly. Yesterday morning (January 30th) I asked my companion in the rail- cf way carriage what he thought the situation in China: Not much, he replied, looking up from his newspaper; when our fellows get out there, they will seen teach the Chink to keep in his place. All the coal strike, and one confounded thing or another, there will be an extra shilling on to my income tax.

די .

If Wa Tall—”.

The end in view is the establish- ment of conditions under which Olins and the Western world dan do business to the advantage of both. The concession system need not necessarily he maintained. 1 was at its best an anomalous institu tion, transported to China from Turkoy, Yet it worked well enough. in its day. Shanghai was for de- cades the most remarkable example

in the world of real international cooperation, and the Chinese them- selves combined with the repre sentatives of the Western world in If in this task we fail, if Shang-administering the great port con .The hai falls it will not be Shanghai modern, and efficient lines. alone that we shall have lost, experiment may or may not have Throughout the entire Eastern outlived its usefulness. But at least world one interpretation, and its usefulness in the past can hardly only one interpretation, will be be denied by Chinese business men. pat. upon such a catastrophe namely, that Western civilisation has been defeated by Oriental nationalism.

I know is that, between this and Asia at peace, or an Asin seething Shanghai a great, prosperous, and

Gravity of the Crisis Unrealised.

My friend faithfully represented the majority of us. We in England, except a chosen few, are not really interested in China; it is a long way. off; its politics are incompre hensible, and the names of its The gravity generals impossible.

at the present crisis has not come home to us.

We have not realised that every blunder, every hesitance, every weakness on our part in Chins gacs ringing down the whispering galleries of Asia and weakening our whole position in the East. In order to see the situation in its right proportions, let us get rid of non-essentials.

The first of these, is the Buishe vist element in the disturbances. That infuence is, of course, real and very far from "negligible; but it is rather an adjunct of the storm that its cause.

These two historical events have left indelible marks in India. Only by degrees, and with infinite pati- ence, are we recovering the ground that they lost for us.

If Shanghai were now to fall, the reaction in India might be incal cutably serious.

Real Trouble.

We lay stress on this last point because it is part of the Nationalist case that the Concession system was imposed on a reluctant people by There is much, as we must all force. Force was once, indeed, the admit, that calls for readjustment only argument recognised by the in the old relations between Europe corrupt and stupid mandarinate of and Asia. But during such a read-oking, just as it is now the only justment are we going to have an argument used by the Nationalist Buz force did not make well-administered city. Its growth has been the product of goodwill. That goodwill still exists, and wil be shown to any authority in China which is worthy of it. But it can hardly be extended to a Govern- ment whose driving force is simply the old hatred of the foreigner and contempt of the European.-The Unilook.

with jubiliation over our discum staf

We have had lessons enough in the past. It was the defeat of the Russian arms by Japan in 1904-5 that set aflame the young nation alist movement in India.

Again, it was the rout of Greece by Mustapha Kemal in Symrna that fanned the smouldering discontent of the Moslem world into a blaze | ... which is still raging.

It enormously enhanced our dit- ficulties with our Indian Moham- medans.

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THE IRRECONCILABLE MINORITY."

While the country as a whole backs the Government policy of pro-

LONDON'S CHINESE ON THE tecting English life and property it

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·WAR.**

ME KNOW NOTHING, VELLY

SOLLY."

in

What does the Chinaman London think about this "war" question?

is just as well to remember that there is a small, irreconcilable and vociferous minority.

"The Daily Herald states:

Every artifice of the propagandist is being employed to create the im pression that throughout China the lives of British men and women are in

constant jeopardy. This, al- though from the beginning of the Nationalist advance until now. not A Daily Express representative, a single British life has been lost, in an endeavour to obtain an athough unarmed and unprotected swer to this question, visited a British citizens have been continu- Chinese restaurant, & laundry, and ally in contact with what we are the docks.

asked to regard as ferocious and O

I went down to the kitchen of the restaurant (he writes) where seven Chinamen were seen dimly through the steam.

One of them shuffled towards me, "War," I said to him, not know

**War, what g the language. about it?

There is in India a persistent underworld of restless, fanatical He shrugged his shoulder. He batred of the West and all that said something in Chinese. The

fanatical moda.

The war-talk is beginning. Even the Limsy pretext that brigades of infantry and squadrons of cruisers are intended to keep order in the streets of Shanghai is being drop ped. The prophecies, freely made, that there would be serious ont-On breaks in that city during the week. end, have been belied by events.

it implies. It is not an element other Chinamon laugh lagabriously; all these war preparations that can ever be induced to co-evidently the reply was a Celestial operate, with us, nor cao it ever joke, but I shall never know. be appeased by political pro- gress.

Too Busy to Bother.

Smail though it is, it is dan- A kitchen boy with a knowledge gerous beyond all proportion to of pidgin-Cockney, offered to act as is size, and it knows no argu- interpreter. ment except our strength to sup press it. It is constantly on the

for any waning look-out any part of the world;

merely a foolish and costly attempt to intimidate Mr. Chen Or are the military and their allies in the Cabinet deliberately attempting to override the civil departments and to push this country into wart

"For Chinese Freedom." "War," I said again. "Ask him what he thinks of the war."

The British Labour Council for Mee Chinese in Lunnin. Meo Chinese Freedom, whose members.

eeme Lunain work: Mee know no

My next informant was a studious looking young Chinaman.

include Mr. George Hicks (chair

and if Shanghai had to be thing of war; mee no make warman of the T.U.C. General Coun evacuated, this refolutionary war only newspapers. Mee to hear eil), Mr. George Lansbury, M.P., underworld would ball it as a sign nothing of war; mee only work, and Mr. James Maxton, M.P., 13

issued a statement as follows: that our strength bas departed, acc!?? and would renew its activities ac

"Until the Government's instruc- cordingly.

tions to its representatives in China have been published its policy can only be judged by its acts, and within the last week it has sent ad ditional warships, marines, and a hospital ship to China. These acts are warlike, and will certainly seem warlike to the Chinese people."

Just as India is settling down after the extravagances of the Gandhi era, this revival of trouble would be a sheer disaster.

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"I am a patriot," he said. "I I speak to you as a National, that ir not enough. You only get one sido. If I speak to you as an Im In the foregoing estimate of the perialist, you merely get another situation nothing has been said one sided view of the situation, and about the pan Asiatic movements, I speak to you as a neutral you get EL which the French Presa is another view entirely! always darkly hinting. They are

Bad For Eusiness. very obacure; and so far they

He stopped, and I invited him to have been mostly effervescent and ineffective, from the pan Islamic speak either as Nationalist,

But he only egitation of the old Sultan Abdul perialist, or neutral. fizraid to the Soviet League of smiled as inscrutably as ever, "No, I am sorree, but it would do no Asia which Moscow threatened as 4 counterblast to the League of good. It might not be good for

business" Nations at Geneva.

I went to Limehouse and tackled There is little real intercourse, and not much practical sympathy, hir. Choy Sing. Mr. Sing carries between the various nations of on a boarding-house. I asked him what he thought of the situation in Asia.

the East.

That is what Mr. Choy Sing said: New Forces. But there is no questioning the I been Landin: twenty years; I parallelism of the new forces stir-never go schooling in Landia; ring in India, in Persia, in Arabía, know nothing! No business mee do and now in China. They are not now in this house. You go other unaware of each others' activities, Chinese houses in Limehouse, they and they prean themselves on each tell you same no Chinese. I know other's successes. The danger of nothing. Moe velly Bolly.

weak or vacillating policy in day!! Chine at the moment in sufficiently

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great, in its reactions on those CHINA AND THE TREATIES, countries with which we are most closely allied, to reconcile all think- ing Englishmen to the measures that are now being taken,

The treaty ports must be safe guarded against the irresponsible anarchy which now, prevails around them.

OUR STAKE IN CHINA. The following figures, showing the vast British interests in China, were recently supplied to the Sunday an authoritative Express from

Export and import trade with Great Britain, £23,500,000 in 1925.

Export and import trade with the British Empire, £34,000,000 in

1925.

British Empire's China trade, 20 Percent of the whole of China's trade.

In Shanghai alone £63,250,000 ol British capital invested in all forms.

British holdings in, Chinese loans not less than £20,000,000.

British money in Chinese railways at least £20,000,000.

British money altogether in China at least £950,000,000, and probably £300,000,000.

THE BEST WE CAN DO." CHINA'S VAST TRADING POSSIBILITIES.

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