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THE HONGKONG

MISSIONARY WORK IN

CHINA.

The Students' Christian Movement.

TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1921.

CHINESE CANCELLATION OF CONTRACTS.

Position of the Native Merchants.

Mr. Trao Jui, Civil Govornor

STRUGGLE OR DIE!

Serious Predicament of the Middle Class.

At first sight it may soom that,

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DISPUTE.

SKILLED LABOUR AND THE FUTURE OF INDUSTRY,

control

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That diagram, which showed a

Trustees Said to be Dictators. Not Delivering The Goods."

A Conference under the at-

A dispute is raging between This question of skilled labour ¿ spices of the Students Christian of Chibli, reports to the Ministry at a time when national unity is the trustees of the Christian and the future has very close Movement hold in Glasgow was of Agriculture and Commerce, so imperative, sectional or class Science Publishing Company and connection with the engineering attended by fully 2,500 visitors that owing to financial dopression Organisation is not to be encour the directors of the Mother industry. A recent address by from all parts of the world. The and great fluctuations, in spite of Red. Certainly, over emphasis Church in Boston. According Lord Weir contained a diagram statement made by Mr.displaying a deplorable state of students came from Universities of his requests and advice, the of class interests would be peril to a

Mao-Cullough, a affairs in relation to the and allegos in Britain and in Chinese piece-goods merchants ops, and any magnifying of class Campbell the Dominions overseas, from in Tientsin still refuse to take rights at the expense of national prominent New York Christian automobile industry. America, and from the Continent delivery of goods ordered by thom duties would he damnable. No Sciontist, the board of directors of Europe. In addition there were from British and American firms Patriot can wish that a man of the Mother Church, angered value of automobile imports which men who were spending their uring the course of last year, so shalt think of himself first of all at their failure to maintain an

the entirely swamped our exports in lives in ssionary

work, that the matter has now been as a member of a certain class. autocratic

Blocomotives, prime movers, ministers and laymen from taken up by the Foreign Cunsuli and only secondly as a citizen of whole affairs of the Church, have machine tools, boilers, electrics) various Scottish Churches, An- with the Provincial Government. the State, writes Lord Aakwith. decided to wreck the worldwide! glican and Scottish Bishops, and The foreign Consuls held another But if one class is unorganised organisation founded by Mrs. and agricultural machinery, all added together, is not by any representatives of various pro-conference for the discussion of while others tend to become in Eddy.

dustrial or political machines, or fessions. It was noteworthy that this question in Tientsin, and it both, and are responsive to the sey, he charges, to have the skilled nious, gays a writer They have entered a conspir-means to be attributed solely to our Allies, France, Belgium, and is to be feared that unless an agree. Italy-sent strong delegations.ment be reached between the two pulling of a lover, and if, as a con-Christian Science Church declar-in a Home paper.

None-the-less it is certainly to From Russia and Germany alone, contracting parties, the history of sequence of its lack of cohesion.ed a public charitable trust and among the larger nations of Europe 1908, which resulted in the or of the community, is in grave the public at large. There is nowed by the reluctance of the Amal- this class, so valuable to the life its income used for the benefit of an important extent to be explain- there were no official delegates. ganisation of the Peiyany-Pao-

THE CHALLENGE OF CHINA. shang Bank by the Chinese danger, surely then the patriotic pending in the Supreme Court of gamated Engineering Union to The Rev. Nelson Bition, Lon-authorities for the settle duty of its members, does not run Massachusetts an application fil-allow proper ditution in its trade. don Missionary Society, deliver ment of commercial disputes counter to their instinct of self-ed by the Attorney-General of the If it had been frankly admitted that State to secure a declaration unskilled work was unskilled work, ed an address on The Challenge between Chinese merchants and preservation.

When each class is organised to this effect. The filing a large part of the automobile of China." To every one of foreign firms, may repeat itself them, he said, who gave thought this year, states a Peking report. When each class is conscious of the

the balance will be restored. of this suit, which followed manufacture which that diagram to Chins there must be present Not only this, following the exits own needs, and has the power tion by the Court restraining carried out in this country, with granting of an injune-represents might have been in the mind that morning the ample of the Chineso woollen to express them collectively, none the directors from interfering consequently enormously greater spectacle of the 15 millions of merchants in Shanghai, the

employ mont for unioh starving people in North China, woollen merchants and dealers in will have the power to dictate to with the trustees of the Christian total More than twice the population Tientsin may approach the for the rest. It is not without proced-Science Publishing Company, members than they have attained of Scotland would die of starvat-eign firms for the cancellation of real in should present severally a Cullough, only one of the efforts

ent that the several estates of the represents, statos Mr. Mac-by their policy of restriction. ion in the next five months an- their oniere because the present schedule of their peculiar griov-of dictators in the Church to the moment however, is that the The point specially in view at less and in so far as relief could exchange rates have placed many

the undermine

fabric of the unsound state of affairs display. Chineso be brought to them from outside. well-known

woollen

institution. He further alleged by the diagram will sooner or In a

vast area there was, no merchants in financial difficulties

that they are endeavouring to later tend to rectify itself, with- possible means of sustenance for in spite of the fact that some of life left. There were means of them made fine profits in the past. at the present moment the middle discipline the Publishing Com out the help of the unions if it helping Information was avail-As Peking merchants generally class in this country the Church to withhold financial nothing impossible in building pany by influencing mombers of cannot do with it. There is able in the club rooms of the have branches or avencies in serious predicament. That classi

support, and. compares the

ance to the, King.

THE SMALL-OWNER TYPE. It must be acknowledged thet

There are indications,

*** conference as to how to help.to/ Tientsin, so some big firms in the would include professional men of directors of the Church to blind the ordinary type of motor car save the lives of some at least of wetropolitan capital are also all sorts, who work for themselves. Samson puiling down the temple labour, and as in the building practically entirely by unskilled- people. In expressing affected by the situation. The or are employed at a salary re about his own cars. This gratitude for

op-native merchants are exceeding tail shopkeepers, farmers, master-

industry, if skilled labour will "It is unfair to Mrs. Eddy not carry out the work waiting portunity of speaking on ly sorry over the matter, because craftenen, and what the French founder of Christian Science) to to be done some other type of half of a land and people he being forced by circumstances call rentiers, that is to say, men

believe that she relied

for labour will. loved. Mr. Bitton

acknow-which they cannot control, they and women who live on a small leged indebtedness to that fine are compelled to approach foreign fixed income a phrase to which of the directors of the Mother harmony on the despotic power

The skilled man has already body of young Christian men and firms about the cancellation of the depreciation of the currency Church," said Mr. Charles E. practically lost the sewing women, the Chinese Christian Orders with a view to avoiding has given a somewhat ironic Hughes, Republican candidate for machine and cycle industries, +064+400**CC}}CCH¥\_XHLQINGQKH€&HC Students' Association in Scotland mutual losses and also for the flavour. To these may be added the Presidency in 1916, in his and his present attitude will who, through personal friendship, protection of their mutual any working inan who has

or concluding argument on behalf of sooner later cause. him bud Jargely enabled him to keep interests in the future,

acquired so much property as the directors of the Christian to lose the motor car in close touch with their land. In In commenting upon the com- cottage; for he comes the recent issue of the Aviatie mercial depression, a certain re-swiftly to think in terms of the their dispute with the trustees of state of affairs prevails in the

Very Science Publishing Company in industry also. Much the sams | Quarterly, his Excellency the sponsible and well-know middle clase. But the type is a the Mother Church.

moulding trade, with the result Chinese Ministor to Great Britain Chinese merchant who has loen small-owner, and that small.

that con-

quite. # large pro- said that in all essential respects in the piece-goods trade for over owner, as has been said, is in tinued Mr. Hughes, that Mrs. portion of the repetiton and the China of 800 B.C. was alive twenty years in Poking and danger.

feared Eddy

the despotic smaller work has already passed to-day and was virile. That fact Tientsin, admits the seriousness Among some other members of

lone compelled reverent admira- of the situation, and he is of the community class organisation power of these trustees when out of the hands of the unions.

she drew up the deed creating tion for the people of China and opinion that the request of the is complete. The workmen, or the publishing company

Another cognate matter which for their character.

and may be mentioned in this con- Unworthy Chinese may affect the sanctity ratlier their leaders, are so strong gave members concurrent powers nection is the promotion of a nations did not live through mill-of contracts and also the honesty ly entrenched, have so potent a with the trustees of the Church.company entitled Atalanta, eniums. They died and were for of the Chinese businessmen; he force, that they can and do dictate He contended that the unity Limited, by the Women's Ed- gotten, or lived on the memory of argues that during the last war to the Government. Since 1914 which the trustees desired was gineering Society. This company bygone glory. There should be ad in many other times, foreign the wages of workmen have gone of a kind which might destroy the has works at Loughborough and

room in the minds of any [firms had approached their up many times. Advances may organisation they professed to is to to engage stadent worthy of the name for Chinese customers for the can have been justifiable: nous of the uphold. Governor John L. Bates, engineering work to be carried in ordinary cheap sneer or easy contempt for cellation

contracts or advances

may have been too for the trustees, contended that out antiraly by women. the Chinese.

agreements on the ground that great, though it is certainly held the argument of the directors matter is they could CRINA'S PEACEFUL POLICY.

a small one in itself deliver by the great mass of the middle inoloved a breach of faith with from the restrictions imposed by

class that no sention of the com- the donor of the trust.

trade unionism." munity has the right to demand

This dispute arose between the advances at the end of a pistol trustees of the Mather Church

As already, said there is no withont thought of the interest of and the directors of the publishingbind these movements. They are campaign - of union breaking be. company when the trustees dis- This fact, however, remains, missed one of tlie directors, but the expression of necessites, and if organised labour maintains was claimed that by the will of its present attitude they will and have doubled, the Mrs. Eddy the authority of the must increase in extent. They dividends of the middle class have the trustees had no authority for the community to escape from a

two bodies was distinct and that merely represnt the attempts of not risen appreciably, but in many such action. cases have remained stationary,

impossible situation. and in many others have shown a disastrous fall.

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In the story of conquest by their goods within the specified peaceful penetration no people time or price. It is reported that had ever accomplished so much the total worth of goods ordered as the Chinese by trade, by diplo-by the Chinese merchante macy, and particularly by culture. Tientsin is about twenty million the community as a whole. Yet her soldiers were not to be dollars, while in Shanghai the

while despised; they were not cowards. figure is said to be much higher that The Chinese Minister, whom he than Tientsin, and up to the pre-workmen had already quoted, had stated sent, nothing definite has been salaries, profits, rante, and that the peaceful development of settled in either port. China and her millions was an

absolute certainty unless that

The

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ORGANISED FOR DEFENCE.

which it has no control, unless it becomes articulate and politically That is what we see on the one organised-organised not for as atrack on Labour, but for the

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MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.ed, according to a report from pratical help along lines of ser-On the other hand, what an their shoulders, and yot try to lift of famous pictures on the wall. 1 will continue for five days for

Mr. U. SUGA

2, Beaconsfield Arcade.

doveloment was deflected into Church at home to the hope of a channels of militarism by foreign living Church abroal, China per:] agencies. In any fair comparison haps more than any land would of history it was found that they and did inquire what Christ had had much to learn from a nation done for Europe and America, and side. which, in spite of a lack of pro- would judge accordingly. The On the other we see bureaucracy defence of itself. gressive thought and in face of standard of our life and the zeal growing to vast proportions, with much perverted idealism, had of the Church at home were a the incidence of ever increasing

With reference to the holding never lowered those standards of vital part of the missionary cam taxation falling mainly on the

It is a class we could ill afford of a far Eastern Press Congress national life which made for paign.

in Tokyo, the majority of the: Every missionary who middle class. The middle class to lose. peaceful policy.

uurest looked at his tusk with open eyes man is beginning to see that his Despite the jibes of revoulu Chinese newspapers, editors, and in China at the present knew that it was 80.

That was crying grievances will not reach tionary orators, most of the ideals proprietore, entertained the editor time was the cry of the why the scandals of our national the deaf ear of Parliament unless which animale British people of the Japanese Dempo news Chinose beart for truth and rest life at home held back the coming they are shouted through the to-day have come from it. We agency, Mr. Watanabe, and ether and knowledge, and it was at of the Kingdom. The Chinese President's pro-such a time that the figure and been more deadly to Christ in isation. Writers of a past ganera. a touch of the humanities, althe other evening. According to Opium had megaphone of a powerful organ find there, more than elaswhere. Japanese journalists at Peking

facsimiles of the four libraries with power for the souls of men. people. The most potent obstables articulate masses,

hundred created by the Emperor Chien Time must be allowed, patience to

but it is the and letters, even if that he only presentative, the proposed press Christian effort in China middle class men who now are expressed by a few shelves of congress will be held in Tokyo

the Lung in being seriously consider- exercised, sympathy given, and were made, not there, but here. inarticulate. They grumble, shrug books, a few cheap reproductions on 8th April and it Peking. The originals were in-vice which had proved most amazing power lay in the con- their burdens. Mrs. A SUGA

Our personal liberties, so seriouly the discussion of all matters stalled at Mukden, also at the effective for our own moral and structive work which had followed Imperial Palace, Duke Kung's spiritual welfare must be freely the Christian message.

Consider what a man of small threatened of late, find in this concerning the improvement and (Opposite City Hall). Tel. 3193.

It was means feels, a man who is pay-class their strongest champion; hetterment of Japanese and Palace, Peking, and Nauking, offered to China to repair the not on appeals to sentiment or lofing over twenty shillings in the and if a craving for some nobler Chinose newspapers and news but Duke Kong's library has ravages which our

and their future. own civilisa-pity that we apparently disappeared. It is tion had made in the great body promote Christian

should seek to pound in rates, when he reads purpose in life than mere money- agencies. estimated that each resproduction of Chinese life. A vast moral Britain on behalf of China. Not felington) propose to erect a palace will come, I think, first to the

service in that his Borough Council (as at grubbing is ever to come to us it relations.

For the purpose of encouraging will cost $60,000.

The Japanese Legation states for the bappenings in China and The social conditions the political a million! I am in favour of

responsibility lay upon the West that there was no cause for pity. for themselves at the cost of half middle class.

the Chinese journalists, who the In fact, it is largely because so report states, are gerally under- of all kinds, especially for ship-sets, and it is believed that other inust not be supposed that we in vast submerged souls, the great but

that Japan is ready to take fifty indeed of all Asia to-day. It injustices, the hopeless lot of the extended educational facilities; many man of this estate, especi-paid at the present hard time.. tot building and engineering works, countries will

is it proper for County ally professional men, have been attend the congrass, the more Gomplete stock,

the the West had simply to offer tragedies of human wos such as Councils to have had solemnly to engrossed in work of national the better, the administrations opportunity of getting this rare what we considered to be the the present faming, all called for debate whether gorgeous new importance that the other classes of the Japaness railway and Immediate delivery.

collection. While it is stated that right remedies for the ills of the pity of men, but other homes ought not to be bestowed have been able to overreach them. steamship companies will volun none of the existing libraries is China and find them accepted countries also presented their on education authorities? now complete, it has been as- without question.

The But now, necessity has them by tarily supply free tickets to certained that the whole could be own long past China had learned pictures of heartbreaking need, middle class man suffers, and has the throat, and they must perforce those who are willing reconstructed by drawing on the to judge things on the merits was not pity but respect, and the]

proceed to Japan before the end The challenging word in China no helper.

struggle or die. It is highly improbable that the The strength of Britain has of March next. It is believed. three available.

of their accomplishments. It instinct which was effective and British working man will turn been the strength of the little there will he two parties of Chi- was useless to carry. China

to surviving was not sentiment but red, revolutionary (who as Bis, man- the small-owner. It is nege journalists, ona party to pro- gospel abont the brotherhood.

Chine had great marck asked would run the because wo have had en many cred, to Japan via, Muzden, and power of which we had lost resources of strength, as, yet racehorses! But it is useful to small-oxoers that we have been Korea and the other brothegrea A Washington message says: hope here at home. If this flower untapped a patience, greater remember that the Russian Bol- individuals, so free. Wins, out route, and, they will be, scoppi. An alleged plot to blow up the of Christ failed to save in Europe than the West had over shown, shovika deliberately intend the the small owner and you leave panied by Japanese represoPIE Presidential yatobt Mayflower it was folly to believe that it would a persistance more dogged than extinction of the bourgeois, or the bureaucracy and the Trade tives. Further, it is reported that has been discovered. An enlisted be effective in Asia,

any other country possessort, middle class. Whatever be the Unions face to face with every if time permits, Philippine and men is under arrest in the Navy EFFECT OF HOME CONDITION, Yard in connection with the

These and other great gifta Chine intention of anybody here in probability of harmful struggles Siamese newspapermen will he It was perfectly futile for people could offer as her contribution to Great Britain, our middle class and grave disadvantage to the invited to attend the congress A alleged crime.

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