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CHINA'S FUTURE.

MR. J. O. P. BLAND'S #VIEWS.

INTERVENTION AN IMPERA- TIVE NECESSITY.

CRITICISM OF SPEECHES AT CHINA ASSOCIATION MEETING.

It may entely be asserted that the attitude and sentiments of the prin cipal speakers at the recently held dinner of the China Association source of profound dis appointment to those who for some

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FIRE ON THE S.S.

"DORSETSHIRE."

BEFORE LEAVING

SHANGHAI.

CRIME IN SINGA- PORE.

PREVENTION FACTS AND FIGURES.

GALLANT RESCUE OF UNCON THE WORK OF THE POLICE.

SCIOUS COOLIES.

Singapore is a town where thed use of lethal weapons for the com- mission of crime is of very frt- quent occurrence, and it is perhaps. hot to lie wondered at it, when a more than usual startling outrage

SHANGHAI, Jah, 6th.) An account appears in the 3.-C. Daily News of January 8th of an on board the exciting incident

uriclshire just before she sailed, five coolies having the narrowest ecours, a good deal of hasty Our criticism is levelled at those whose possible escape from death. contemporary states :—-*

tuty it is to deal with the per- Fire broke out yesterday morningpetrators of such outrages.

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cern, not only for the security of our follow-countrymen in the Far East, but for the pitiful condition of the Chinese people, writes Mr. J. O. P. Bland in the endou Morning Post,

We made bold to hope that those whose duty it was to speak' of the Association and of the British Gay ernment would fare the realities of the situation. We thought that they would utter something which might be taken as a sign that the civilised Powers, as A matter of simply humanity, are prepared to consider

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Just what happened has not been Stated definitely, as it is understood make an that the victims were too bad to accurate report. The cooltes had gone inside to put the tanks in condition for the long trip As those acquainted with ship construction are aware, entry to the tanks is difheult, owing to their peculiar construction, because

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remedial action. We hoped, in fact, For some authoritative pronauńce. mcat.

Ar I listened to Lord South borough and Lord Peel I longed for the magic carpet of Tangu to transport this brilliant assembly to China, and there give those who need it a glimpse of things as they are. say in the city of Changtalu. where not so long ago some 53.000 men, women and children were savagely butchered by the Chris tian General's troops.

foreigners at work in the engine

all

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The average man gets his d¿den of the amount of work done by the patios frem

the police court columns of his daily newspaper, but it may truly be said that in- cidents which terminate in a court case for only IL portion of the officer's work.

very small average police

For every deed which is report- ed on the press, however, the are dozens of occurrences which go un- work of the law's long arm is chronicled. Whist the punitive described at length, its preventive

room. Úlficers tried to get

work goes practically unnoticed. atid bring them out, but the smoke was

The arrest of a murderer or armed such that they had to withdraw.

rolaser is moat praiseworthy, but, Someone sent it rush cal for smoke after all, the deprivation of potên- masks, and then quickly donning List criminals of the instruments them were able to crawl through whereby they hope to carry out the interstices, and slowly drag the then fell design is, if not so wen, who had been overcome, back spectaculis, at least as useful from to fresh air. Without the, masks. every point of wow. An idea of no one would have been able to the great amount of crime preven- If one may judge by the speeches enter, and it is almost certain thation carried out by the police delivered on this occasion (wherein the Chinese would have been through the seizure of deadly was no mention of any such dis-smoked to death.

weapons may be gained from the tasteful things), it will need some-

following figures. gåt thing in the nature of a miracle to dispel the illusions and to clear our minds of the political vant, whereby the doctrine of non-intervention, the facile path of laitter-fure, have been justified in high places since the Washington Conference. From which painful reflection my mind went back to the days of that August assemblage of the Treaty Powers, to the eloquent exposition -or nogle sentiments and benevolent purposes whereby the gospel of non- intervention was to be blessed and te the deep solicitude professed by all concerned for the true welfare and pence of China.

False Theory,

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Fortunately they out and despite the burns they received, it not expected that any will die.

Employees at the Old Ningpo Wharf, where the Dorsetshire was moored telephoned to the Fire Brigade, who upon receiving the call at 0.30 am, responded at once. The fire had been extinguished be- fore, they arriver and the cooles were on the deck of the engine room

First aid measures were aduinis tered. Several doctors, attached to the British forces applied antves, pieric acid, and bandages to alievi ate their pain. To carry the coolies to the deck and then to the wharf was no-small task the padion ways leading from the ear

com gine room to the deck are almost vertical,

Once on the wharf the first vic tim was rushed to hospital in Capt. Dyson's car, the next three went in the Brigade rescue van, followed by the last in a Municipal ambule

In those who possessed any know- ledge of the history and social economy of the Chinese people of their utter incapacity to establish an effective system of representative government on a democratic basis. the falsity and futility of the poli- tical theories underlying the Wash ington agreements were manifestance. from the outset. Now that these Burnt sucks and cloth carried theories, and the hopes built upon inside by the coolies, upon investi- then, have been completely stulti- gation by the authorities, were seen fed the statesmen of Christendom to have been alight. Other than on both sides of the Atlantic are there, there are no traces of dam- strangely silent.

age, and the Dorsetshire, which Touching this shibboleth of non- was fixed" to sail at 11.30 1.m. intervention, the great majority of to-day, with the Green Howardia the respectable classes in China-aboard, is leaving at the sinted the gentry, scholars,, merchants, time. manual workers and farmers—would he fervently grateful for intervén- tion by ang nation and in any form, lieve that amicable relations and

Some there are to-day who be which would restore security for

goodwill in trade should be sought life and property. If the truth were by a wholesale surrender of our told, the rising tide of China's Treaty rights and extra-territorialis political self-consciousness" of which we have heard so much, is no which Sir George Stanton used in ed Concessions. Yet the wise words more a reality than the alleged 16 to dissuade Lord Amherst from hostility of her people to ourselves, Both are delusions, skilfully devised prostrating himself before the Chi. and propagated by the Westernised nese Court remain aa true to-day as section of Young China for its own

they were then. The result of the ends. Lord l'eel referred to then would have fatally shaken that disgrace thus purchased, he said, both, in justification of the British confidence which we have with con Government's policy of non-intsiderable success established at Government's **

t's prescience, in that Canton, in the firm adherence to they bad recognised this rising tide British character, a confidence which principle which distinguishes the and endeavoured to meet Young, China's aspirations. It may there- fore reasonably be inferred that the Foreign Offee school of thought has

vention. He took credit for the

From November 1926 to Novem- low of the vent year, the cum- her of rounds of anununition seiz- ed and handed in to the Firearm nad Explosives Departments for destruction amounted to 4,613. Thirty-six revolvers and ranety. five automatic pistols were taken from wrong hands. In a few cuscs. seizures we made on board ships" by Government Monopolies officials hat most of the weapons were cap- tured by police officers, often at great personal risk. Besides fro urma, 24 dendly-weapons-snch-as- daggers, spears, ex, were captur- ed.

These figures give some indica- the police in the prevention of tion of the valuable work done by crime. With clever and courageous work, Singapore, although at no men devoting their wits to such time an ideal residential locality, is rendered a great deal enter than Free Press.

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Adhering To Principle.

Constables R.40% C. A. Grimes, ments of the same kind, but the official attitude of unconcerned neu

By firm adherence to principle, by H.403 S. C. Ho, R.401 B. A. Young, trality is apparently proof against putting the vital interests of the R. 405 A. W. Grimmett, R.407 W. any appeal to elementary instincts Chinese people before the selfish V. Field. R.408 W. W. Dalton, R.410 of humanity. We shall continue, it interests of the political factions, J. C. M. Greenham, B.411 F. W. scoms, in the "almost impossible and by the adoption of certain con- Mathison, R.412 O B. Raven, R.413 task of recognising chaos," all

certed measures (not necessarily ex- K. Stuart-Smith, R.415 W. Ward, heedless of the silent misery of ita tensive or expensive), to restrict R.417 J. K. Ross. innumerable victims. We shall can. the movements of bendits and tinue to shut our eyes to the self- rival forces over certain main evident fact that there can be lines of communication, the Powers hope of the Chinese finding a way could soon bring about a great im- out of their present afflictions unless provement in the deplorable con- helped from without.

ditions under which the Chinese people at present suffer.

It was, no doubt, inevitable that Lord Southborough should make a respectful gesture in the direction of the fetish of Chinese Nation alism, but as regards the possibility of measures to relieve some of the sufferings of the Chinese people he was ominously silent.

(Continued on next Column.)

Japan appears to be ready and willing to co-operate to this end. The question, in so far as this epun- try is concerned, is, can the Press and Parliament be induced to take aay acrious interest in the matter?

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