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PLAIN TRUTHS ABOUT CHINA.

THE DOMINANT MORALITY OF CHINESE OFFICIALDOM

AND ITS MEANING IN HARD CASH.

[BY J. O. P. BLAND, TROK THE "ENGLISH. REVIEW."]

Recently we published an article from the English Review" by a Chinese,"Mencius Junior" who whole-heartedly advocated active intervention by Foreign Powers against the forces of dis order now disrupting China. The same periodical followed up this article by another from the pen of Mr. J. O. P. Bland (from which we give the following extracts) again calling upon Eng. lish people to banish current illusions about China, the Nation- alist movement, and the Russian infinence and to take an active part in rescuing the country from its present" predicament by a policy of open intervention. The present position of afsirs ip | China is no sudden or recent! growth, but the result of causes that have long been operative, and that, with the exception of the Soviet's activities, it preserts no

new or remarkable features.

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Pot and Kettle. There is, in fact, nothing to distinguish the present policy of the Cantonese party, in the matter of dominans morality, from that which led Li Hung Chang to sell Russia right of way through Manchuria, or that of the Anfu party, when they contracted for vast loans front Japan under condi- China These tions ruinous to things being so, what valid ground can there be for basing a policy of patience and conciliation on the ex- pectation of goodwill and good works from the Kuomintang?

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NEW TRAFFIC PLANS ́IN PICCADILLY-CIRCUS.

SEVEN SUBWAYS,

Piccadilly-aireus banned to pede- strains, with all streat refuges re- moved, and with Eros in the centre traveling, in one direction only. Such is the solution of the traffic problem for this area suggested by the traie committee of Westminster City Council.

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Last week in the Provisional Court Shanghai, the heavis and continued in the case in which Michael Paraheko

Russian A police constable, is charged with murdering Clara Frelova, a beautiYangtae insurance ful Russian, well known in the

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the use of the seven subways new being built will be strongly encour- nged

Although the committee has no definite powers in road traffic con- trol, it hopes, with the co-operation of the police authorities and the presence of four or five "Russian Star Ferrita Ministry of Transport, to effect constables. this alteration.

midnight on February 13th.

Dr. O. Fischer and Dr. Wilhelm Steamboat....... are defending and Mr. E. T. Mait Hong Kong Tags land, prosecuting. Supt. P. Reeves Indo-Chinas (Pre) read out a statement which the Do (Dot.) accused had made to him in the holl

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"It seems to me that this plan is the only solution to one of the hard points of the London traffic pro blem," said Mr. M. E. F. Crealock, chairman of the committee," and it will also solve the problem of the Shaftesbury memorial. Eros, both by public wish and by Act of Fax liament, must retorn, and a central site seems the best place for it."" Piccadilly-circus one-way traffe system is successful only in part. It is prevented from being a com- plete success by the fact that traffic coming down Shaftesbury-avenue bound for Piccadilly has to crOBS the circus at right angles and turn into Piccadilly!

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In the statement accused said Chiza that on the night in question he did not put on evening clothes, nor Beagnets did he go out to a dinner party. Accused admitted that, he was call-Langita (combined). ed Mischa." He had never known Do (single) deceased in Russia. Sines one eg Shu, Explor tons ing when she came to his home shanghai Lo

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When questioned about firearms accused had said that he had a pas tol about two months before the murder, but gave it to a man named Penoff.

Supt. Reeves, continuing his.. evidence, said that after the arrest of Parshekoff, he went to the Hong latter's room in Hongkow station. Territorial at the top of Lower Regent-street Behind the door was an overcoat/mphreys Estates.

Ne good can come from shutting our eyes to the unpleasant but un- deniable truth that the dominant murality in the political arena of China to-day is that which has always been manifested when, in

Apart from its failure to take the absence of effective authority, into account the dominant morality anarchy has prevailed. I the of the leaders in the longdrawn power in China, agents of the Soviet have succeeded struggle for

British policy suffers, now as in the iu establishing themselves as the

past, from a curious lack of fox- advisers and controllers of the ibility. For instance, since the doc Cantonese Nationalist movement, bring of non-interference in Chinese Under our scheme it would turn nfinirs was recorded in the Wash to the left by the London Pavilion, they have been able to instigate i

ington agreements, it has come to and and its way into the circular and organiza widespread agita be generally regarded

streams of traffic. Moreover, the sion directed towards the destruc axiomatic and undeviating prin- Haymarket could again become a tion of British trade and influence ciple of British policy. As an two-way street."

abstract moral principle, it is, of it is simply because they have kept course, paassailable, but sa prac view the dominant morality.tical politics, it is.no longer applic First, be The able, for two reasons. This also is no new thing.

cause it aagumns, in the face of over. Soviet Government has instinctive whelming evidence to the contrary, ly conformed to the traditions of that if left to themselves, the Chi- diplomacy in the Far East, as nese are capable of producing and practised by Mouravieff, Cassini, maintaining a stable and effective Pavlow, and other servants of the government Secondly, because the Tsars, in directing to its own ends virtue of non-interference, and self- the money-lust which is the most denying ordinarice, became negative dominant feature of the morality from the moment that the Soviet of politics in China, be it north or Government began to organize and south, old or young. They know, encourage the forces of disorder in and act upon the knowledge, that China as a new weapon in its world- war upon civilization in political propaganda which wide holds out promises of profit or general and Great Britain in parti- plunder will awaken an immediate cular. and widespread response; that, with the aid of sufficient priating presses and ready cash, they can call hungry spirits from the vasty deep and produce crowds to demon strate and shout to any order.

Customs Revenues and Shanghai.

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Tragedy of Non-Interference. If it were merely a question of leaving the Chinese to fend for themselves, ut whatever cost out of their afflictions, the prin- ugh ciple of non-interference,

For the benefit of the walking public various improvements are to be carried out in the next low months. They include more:

Subways at Trafalgar-square and Vauxhall Bridge-road;

Refuges at danger-points;'

Cross here" signa; "Look left and "Look right signs along one-way streets:

White lines at hold-up points, so that vehicles will leave room for pedestrians to cross to the refuges when trade is at a standstill. Our choice lies clearly between two alternatives: complete surrender and evacuation of our position, or its deficite assertion and resolute protection. Nothing but further bumiliation can come of half-men- sures of friendly parleying with insolent and irresponsible leaders, advance to afford effective protec of sending warships forbidden in

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Dr. Fischer-What were your im pressions of Parshekoff when he was arrested-He appeared to be so frightened that he could not say a word. He turned pale and could barely articulate.

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Lane Crawford.... When counsel asked if accused Mackintosh..... always slept in barracks. Jispr. sinceres Reeves replied that he was ordered United Asbestos fore the murder, he had fixed up WL Fowalls, to do so, but that several days be- Watsons. (old)

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hand of established authority, there. has always been material and to spare in Chica for the political agitator, amongst the submerged 10th, the outlaws and the destitute. The leaders of the Cantonese fac tion and the Soviet Government,. each for its own ends, bive skil fully availed themselves of these dangerous elements and now pro

claim their success as evidence of as enlightened spirit of Nationaliam and anti-Imperialism in the masses, Given the requisite printing presses and dollars, it would be just as easy for any other nation or poli- tical group or stir up the same sort of agitation against the Cantonese taumselves or their Hussian allies. A False Assumption.

protection of China's rabble sol- night. diery. Unless we are prepared to Counsel:-Accused has a brother sacrifice to the delusion of the poli. in tical ideziists (which have brought wri Shanghai (referring to

of a series of letters to

the

on grounds of expediency. But the central fact, and the tragedy, of the actual situation are that, while the Powers that might have helped China have stood aloof, the Com- us to the present sorty pass) all counsel and police, in which he ex- manist Government of Moscow has the fruits of two hundred years of pressed regret that his brother had malevolently intervened.

legitimate commercial enterprise in suffered, and confessed that he kill- was leaving Furthermore, with "regard to the the Far East, we must henceforward ed Ferelora and principle of non-interference, it is insist upon the Chinese respecting town) -I think he is in Shanghai. to be observed that, while adhering usages and obligations common to and now that a warrant is out for to it implicity in theory, we have the civilized countries with which his arrest, we may take him into persistently violated it in practice.they claim equality. We must cease custody.

Dr. Fischer than demanded copies.

The ideas diligently implanted in playing with the fiction of non-

the minds of the younger genera interference, and recognizing that of all letters that the police had tion of Chinese, by numerous the hostility which confronts us is in their possession and a copy of

diary." religious and educational societies, more Russian that Chinese in Sergius Parthckoff's, the nether,

are certainly proved more in origin, face it fairly and squarely. jurious to the stability and unity of

One entry dated February 14th, Take Sides Against Reds. the nation than anything that could

the morning the body was found, In the second place, we should read as follows:-I don't know have been done by armed invaders. The political and social ideas which give our moral support and mate- what I shall do now. Why didn't Many politicians and publicists in Young China has acquired from itrial assistance to any and every I put a bullet through my heart!

alien education during the past 50 political and military force in China Why did the Chinese save me 7 Fears have served to imbue it with which proclaims its intention to did not have the sin on me, which unrest and a highly sensitive amour oppose and expel Bolshevism and, to I have now. It is already daylight put an end to its compaign of mob and my eyes are full of remerce.

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this country and in America who are in favour of the policy of patience and conciliation habitually justify it by the assumption that the propre; but they have produced violence. La rendering such assist Why did I not confess at once? Kuomintang, or Nationalist, party

ance, it would be advisable to. Why did I take the car, why did offers the best prospect of restor-

endeavour to come to some prac- everything happen so Poor Mis- ing order and establishing in due

tien! working arrangement with cha, why is he suffering so much? course in effective government. It

Japan, whose commercial interests How did I do it? I cannot under- are similiar to our own, and with stand. Oh, how hard. Yes, only is an assumption which errs, as

any other nation which desires to yesterday, I said "Smile always

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Privato, 30 days sight...! A New Menace. The Can- the dominant morality.

see peace and order restored in How fate is playing. Sergiva

Witness pointed out The creation and increasing in China. As a definito step towards

that the Om YoxOHA-On demand... tonese party has been particularly prominent and powerful in Chinese fiuence of this class combined, after checking the activities of disruptive entry was dated February 14th, the ON MANILA.--On demand

ON BINGAPOzx,-Ɛa demand.. affairs for the last es

years, 1000, with the decline of the Man elements, the adoption of a scheme day after the murder, and that

Os Batavia-On demand Several of its most distinguished chu authority, to create new and such as that advocated by Mercius Mischa Parsbekoff was not arrested scholars became Cabinet Ministers serious menace to the unity and Junior in "The English Review" until February 10th, how could On Hairgone-On demaad... nom. and high provincial officials under stability of the Chinese nation. As last month would be perfectly Mischa," he added, be suffering Of Baand the last of the Manchus; cthers the result of the Empress Dowager's justifiable and feasible, namely, the at the time of writing!"

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25 7/8 nities for the display of independ-after her return from exile in 1901, communication (similar to those ens constructive statesmanship in and of the rapid ascendancy of the maintained by the Japanese in the Government of Canton for the Westernized student class, the Manchuria) adjacent to the prin past decade. But the fact remains ancient classicaPsystem of competi. cipar railway lines and navigable that not one of them has ever cae tire examinatiga for the public rivers. The training and mainten sistently placed the welfare and service (regarded by competent arce of the necessary force of needs of his country before, the observers as the chief cause of the Chinese police under European BIRMINGHAM PROFESSOR ON gratification of that deep-rooted longevity of China's civilization), officers for this purpose would not

SCAMPED STUDIES.".. instinct which impels every Chinese was abolished,

present any great difficulty and to place himself and his family be-

should speedily be made self-sup

Professor Grant Robertson, Prin- yond the reach of want.

What, then, of the future? What porting. The Bolshevik menace oipal of Birmingham University, in morality," the lack of disinterested should be the policy of Great once removed, these zones could be his report to the Council eays?'

administered for a period of усата, "The annual carnival for the al in the public service, is, more Britain, confronted by the fact that pending the reorganization of the hospitals threatens to become a dan- aver, manifested by the readiness anarchy must inevitably prevail in of the Kuomintang lenders to make China for some time to come! In country's administration and fingeroas Frankenstein. The cause is "ances, in the same way as the admirable, and as a joint Univer effort is a not unwelcome safety under Russian trol and for the benefit of the valve. erament. They are intelligent and tility displayed, keen politicians, these Cantonese; direction, by the Chinese faction, Chinese, Goverment, without viola

but if it is philanthropy of youth, they can be under no delusions as persistence in a policy of tamne sub-tion of Chinese sovereignty and with going for the Brst four weeks of a

incalculable benefit to the Chincee

absorb term to

the

full time, to the motives which have led the mission to indignity can only ag- Russians to assist them with arms, gravate the dangers and humiliation people. money, and the machinery for pro- of our position, International co-

Continuance in the present policy thought and netivities of a large of students, their work, and of turning the other cheek to the the work of the University, will pagands, or as to the benevolence operation, to stem the tide of strife

Though they and anti-foreign aggression, would smiter can only serve to increase suffer. Such absorption is fatal to of her intentions. must know that the results will seem to be unattainable. If we do the extravagance of the Cantonese the best interests of the students, altimately be disastrous for their sire to preserve our self-respect and own country, they are willing to the respect of the Chinese, we must party's demands, and end in a com- quite apart from what professors or Do those who advocate or acamped studies. After all, we asrist the Soviet Government to therefore rely upon ourselves, and, plete surrender, without the honours lecturers may feel about neglected attain its immediate object-the abandoning our deference to the of wat infliction of injury upon Great political delusions of Washington, Persistence in the policy of patience are a University whose primary and conciliation realize that the duty is serious work, and Univer- Britain-if, by Russia's help, they pursue without wavering a course disastrous results of such a Bursity work is like Nature: you can can hope to secure control of the of our own, adapted to, the neces

render would speedily make them defy Nature, but the bill for de government and revenues-especial. I sities and realities of the situation. selves felt far beyond the frontiers fiance is always paid by the rebel, ly tao revenues of China.

(Continued on next Column),'.

This defect in the "dominant

Face the Facts.

common cause" with the Soviet Gov- the face of the high-handed hos Maritime Customs, under the con- s for high.spirits and, the civic

of China t

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