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CHINA A MODERN STATE OR ONLY ANOTHER CHAPTER OF INTRIGUE.

PARTY RESTLESS AGAINST ELDER

STATESMEN.

COULD A WOMAN MAN, A SHIP?

THE MASTER MARINER'S LIFE.

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gers were against women master mariners, and only two voted in favour.

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"I think some women, il proper- ly trained, could take command of a ship as well as a man," Mrs. C. The Fifth Plenary Conference of: The essential difference between. Fry, the wife of the well-known England cricketer, told a reporter the Kuomintang and other parties on June 1st. the Kuomintang, writes Mr. George in China is that the Kuomintang

Commander Fry, is now director of the Nautical" School E. Sokolsky, in the North-Chian has represented itself as the party training ship Mercury, Daily News, is called to reorganize, of modernity, the party which would

Mrs. Fry was discussing the put an end to feudalism and which speeches made at a meeting of the or a. better word would be, to

would create out of chaotic China Southampton Master Mariners' revise, the policy and personnel of

a modern state, equal in prestige Club, when one of the speakers said the Nationalist Government. If the to other Powers, enjoying a similar he knew a woman who would have

of Fourth Plenary session the area, man power and economic and made a capable master mariner had Central Executive Committee was natural resources. No one expects she taken her certificate, and he legitimate from the standpoint of that China will attain to the post-named Mrs. Fry, A vote taken at the Kuomintang Constitution, then tion of the United States or Great the meeting showed that 33 skip- the Fifth Meeting is legitimate. Britain in a day or even a decade. "The Kuomintang Constitution pro- But what one doe's expect of the vides for an annual election of the Kuomintang is that it should in- Central Executive Committee by the stitute such historical and social

Mrs. Fry said that she would like Party Congress. In the event of pricesses as will in due course pro- to see women given a chance of the Party Congress not being able duce modern state of Asia. In becoming master mariners.

She to meet for one year, there is pro the present era, enough is known thought, however, that they would vision for only one annual post of the history of mankind to enable require a much harder training ponement, which would give the the student to be fairly guided by than they received in their usual maximum duration of the life of a the past in his survey of the pre-walks of life. The necessary Central Executive Committee as

દશના Some things never succeed qualificacious I would name," two years. The Second Party Con- in history. For instance, such in- said.

are plenty of nerve (not gress met during May, 1925, the trigues is the Kuomintang mili.

nerves), L comprehensive mind, arc now conducting with Third Party Congress was to have tarists

and of self-control, plenty August of this year, but it Chen Chiung Ming's Hakkas in

stapana." will probably be postponed..

Swatow, with Tang Seng Chi in

Mrs. Fry mentioned that she had Hunan, with the Chihli Party in

on occasions led the boys of the Tientsin, never in history produce Vereary to the masthead, and that a powerful nation; their commitants she was

not ng all troubled in are chaos, disorder, insurrection.

making such an ascent. Asked if

the she thought that

average woman would have sufficient nerve for such a feat. Mrs. Fry replied

absolutely!

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Commander Fry said: "You can- You cannot not cheat the sea cheat the winds and waves. There no way of getting round the things that happen at sea except by being competent to deal with them. Consequently any training for a a life has got to be a reality and not mere eyewash.

are capable of becoming master "No body can tell whether women mariners until they have proved themselves capable of dealing with the work.

When you ask me if nien would Berve under the rom-

Why A Congress Is Feared. The mass of the Kuomintang fear a party Congress. It is sug- gested that that fear is due to the

Intrigue Oosily And Fruitless. supposition that should be locais have an opportunity to select dele-

If there is, thea, sincerity of pur- gates, most of them would be Compose in the Knomintang, if the munists or semi-Communists. There- Genro really seek to unify China,

Asked what about mutiny! fore, to avoid Communistic domina- to modernize and rehabilitate

then tion of the Kuomintang, the PartyChina,

Mrs. Fry said: "There would be one of the first Congress is constantly being post- tasks should be the suppression of o fear of mutiny if a woman were poned. But the fear of the Com the costly and fruitless intrigues woman is no tnore liable to sensiek. in command As for seasickners, a munists is largely illusory. If the of the Kuomintang militarists. membership of the Kuomintang is Peking has been attained by theness than is a man,”. pro-Communist, is it not usurpation Kuomintang not by 6ghting but by on the part of the Genro to prolong reliance on Marshal Feag Tu their tenure of office against the Hsiang and General Yen Hsi Shan. wishes of the party members? If We have yet to see whether such the Communist Party is so power strategy is not Pyrrhic. General ful that the mere calling of a party Yen has started his career in Chihli Congress would return them to by appointing all local officials with power, ought not the Kuomintang out any consideration for Nanking's to admit the fact and appeal to authority. This may be adjusted the Chinese people to support them or, the likelihood is that Nanking against the Communist Party? No will issue a blanket appointment of Government in history has long sur- the men named by Yen to avoid vived usurpation and suppression that appearance of a confict. But and the Kuomintang is facing pati if that is done the revenue of the tical decay because the leaders have North will go to Shansi and not to lost contact with the rank and file Nanking and the authority will be mind of a woman, I any that of the membership. We are being Shansi's although the responsibility told that the Nationalist Govern will be Nankings. Such confusion will always servo anybody ment represent any appreciable is possible because both Marshall who proves himself or herself element of the Chinese people or is Feng Yu Hsiang and General Yen capable of the work in hand. it a mere subatitation of the Kuo- Hai Shan regard Nanking as conduct a ship safely they will If men think that a woman can mintang Genro for the Tuchuns of military satrapy under the aegis of The General Chiang Kai Shek

certainly serve under her."' thousands of troops who have been killed in these wars and the millions. of dollars which Shanghai expend- ed on the Northern Expedition will have been in vain if nothing mere is accomplished than a change of Tuchuns. This question of intrigue will be brought to the Sixth Plenary One of the oddest of a recent Session of the Kuomintang by up- series of endurance tests in danc in position members of the Centraling in Australia was dance by Government are being held by non- Executive Committee. Kuomintang members; there

Mr. Eric Sunderland from Geelong Principal Leaders Absent. to Melbourne, a distance of 33 even the suggestion that anti- Kuomintang politicians will be put After serious problem which faces miles, which he completed in 11 into important positions. The real the Genre is the absence of the hours. authority has been transferred to really

Mr. Sunderland followed the important Kuomintang military men. One Kuomintang leaders from China. It is this which main macadamised highway, which leader recently told me that even has given the militarista their op- was muddy for moet of the dis- tance, He danced with rough the Party Congress would not save portunity to establish a new T- the Kuomintang, for the Genre chunate. Kuomintang leaders have vigour, tiring out a succession "of would engineer the votes so that been exiled because they were girl partners. Gramophones in ac only militarists and officials would either pro-Communist or anti-Com-companying motor cars supplied the be on the New Central Executive munist. The Left Wing were forced music. Committee. He said that if Marshal to go because they were suspected long-distance walker, Enished at a Mr. Sunderland, who is a noted Chang Tao Lin should be alive, he of organizing the Communist plot Melbourne dance-hall. will be elected to the Central in Canton against the Kwangsi Executive Committee, for surely some of Nanking's allies like General Yang Sen in Szechuan and the Chihli Party in the North are no more nationalist than Chang Tso Lin. When I repeated this conver: it be Wang Ching Wei or Hu Han sation to another leader, he said | Min, leaves the present Kuomintang without sarcasm or even a smile, organization in Nanking without that General Yang Yu Ting and prestige among those Chinese whose

the North!

Questions Right And Left. These questions are not only being asked by foreign observers but by Kuomintang members. The proscribed Left and Right wings constitute the bulk of the Kuomin tang membership. The centre was

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