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The Chinese Organism and its Environment.

The following is the first of a series of articles, examin. ing the Chinese situation with rolarence to its origin and

development. present

The entire series is being written by Mr: Eugene Chen for tha Canton Information Bureau, which сида the rights of publication. Mr. Chen WAS sometime editor of the Prking Garette and other dailies Peking and Shanghai. In 101s be was sent by the Military Government of the South-West 00 diplomatie mission to Washington. He next proceed. ed to Paria as a member of the Southern section of the Chicae Delegation to the Pesca Conference where be rendered

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Alter Bu extended HK in Europe, Mr. Chen returned home and now holds a re- sponsible position in Canton.

Lord Haldane bas lately been reminding us of the relativity" of all our knowledge, tracing at the same time our worst blunders and hesitancias to man's ingrained habit of forgetting that fact. It is probably true that not a few of the worst interpretations of 'binese) atairs are due to the foreig observer's ingrained babit" of envisaging the facts and pheno meas of Chinese development, since the Revolutionary transaction of 1911-12, in terms of purely Europeas thought and completed achievement.

A bistorical change, as pregasat in its ultiruste significance as the Fren: Eevolution, takes place in Chics, and because it goes to the ; roots of cations! He, disarray) necessari al profoundly the work of government for less than a decade: and the impatient Europesa fasters on the sets of disorder-the mark and proei of the reality of change-and forth- with attempts what a great politi-¡ cal thinker bundeclared to be an impossibility: Ee indiets a nation for its alleged incapacity and convicts the Chinese of racia? waltnesa to govern themselves Geder parliamentary institutious,

The Vice of Foreign Criticism. Forgetting that parliamentary government in even the advanced commucities of Western Europe cas had to pass through a develop-j ment of many centuries of civili wars, practuated at times by the FONO, he is English, wonders chopping off of crowned beads, the

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its racial mind bourished on the ideas and thoughts of a cbar. acteristic culture, sed the historic eaviton tent jo which this organism iras lived a rostiounus He of mor- than four thousand years. And selecting one aspect of this environ- ment for consideration here, it may be painted out that from the time of her emergence out of the feudal period down to ber first effective contact with the West less than a century ago, China's chief foreign concero has been in connection with the delence of ber great Northern frontiers. In the old days she tried to solve this problem of

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The Environment Changes. Contact with the West, however changed for a time the land-frontie, in the North for the sea-frontier in the South, and substituted the economic method of the Treat- Ports and indemnities for the method of dynastic conquest when. China suffered her first considerable bumiliation in the struggle involy. ed in the sxpansion, of Greater Europe. The date is 20 August, 1842, when the Treaty of Nanking was sigued. The new methad prov- ed to be a greater danger to Con. fucian China than the old method of victory which Moogol and Tartar conquerors bad practised in the past. The latter passed from a (Continued on Page 7.)

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Copenhagen, Aug. 31. It is believed that the report that the Soviet have signed an agreement with the Great Northern Telegraph Company is correct.

In connection with the trial of German war criminals at Leipzig. By the agreement, the concessions for the lines Petrograd-Irkutsk the evidente was taken at Bow Street of Captain Starkey, the master and Irkutsk-Kiatcha have been renewed and a new line Irkutsk- of the British ship Torrington, sunk by the German submarine U.55 Vladivostock taken over. These lines were be reserved for the north-west of the Scillies on April 4th, 1917, when on a voyage from Trans-Asiatic service at the same rates as British Companies, bat Gibraltar to Cardi. Captain Werner, the commander of the sub- pending an investigation on the condition of the lines it is impossible marine, is charged with wilfully murdering 4 members of the to fix a date for the resumption of the service.

U.S. AND AIRSHIPS.

London, Aug. 31.

Torrington's crew by drowning. Werner has not yet been arrested but the British and German Governments have agreed that Captain Starker depositin be taken so that it might he available in the event of Werner's arrest. Captain Starkey, is his evidence, said the A telegram from Washington states that Mr. Denby, Secretary Torrington carried one gun to resist attacks. He and the crew of of the Navy, has declared that he will not recommend the building his lifeboat were taken aboard the submarine. Werner told him he of further airships of the type of R.33, believing them to be dangerous was "a bloody pirate" and deserved to be shot. The submarine and of doubtful military value. sabmerged and twenty of the Torrington's crew, who were on the, deck, were drowned. The remainder of the crex, who were in a second lifeboat, have not been heard of and were presumably otherwise disposed.

BELFAST OUTBREAK.

London, Aug. 31.

GERMAN REPUBLIC IN JEOPARDY.

Berlin, Aug. 30.

in an interview with a representative of the Voss Gazette. Chancellor Wirth stated that Germany's situation was very serious. The Republic is in jeopardy, but the Government had resolved upon the sternest measures to curb monarchic reaction. Two socialist fractions have united in calling upon the Government to avenge

institutions.

ng reached a very intense pitch in Belfast last evening. Isolated saipings developed and there were several valleying duels. Erzberger and adopt stringent measures to protect Republican The tramways had to be stopped. Later, armed men suddenly rushed out of side streets and blazed away towards the centre of the city causing a stampede for safety. Ambulances were very busy and doctors were dressing wounds in the streets amid the bullets. There were many non-combatant victims, including a five year old girl. Mr. Wilfrid Frost, a collector who was sent to the Malay Six persons have been killed since Monday.

GERMANY'S FOREIGN TRADE.

New York, Aug. 31.

A RARE COLLECTION.

London, Aug. 31.

archipelago by the Zoological Society last December, has arrived in London with 121 rare mammals, birds and reptiles. A few were lost during the journey but the. most valuable part of the collection arrived in good condition.

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LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Mr. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, in a statement says that German competition in the field of foreign trade, is showing signs of weakening. The Germans are strenuously active in various parts

Geneva, Ang, 30. of the world but they are having dificulties in handling the orders The inaugural sitting of the Council of the League of Nations, which obtain through the attractive price quotations. Particularly after hearing Baron Ishii, its Chairman's report on Silesia, Germany is finding it impossible to produce goods of pre-war quality. unanimously decided to accept the task devolved upon them. The Mr. Hoover cited a case in the Argentina where Germans were next extraordinary sitting will be held on September 1st. Meanwhile obliged to sarrender large steel contracts owing to inability to the Council is to sit on current business with the Chinese delegate,

Dr. Wellington Koo, as Chairman.

deliver the goods.

· GENERAL SMUTS.

Capetown, Aug. 31. General Smuts has arrived. He was given a most enthusiastic welcome.

RUSSIA'S GREAT DISTRESS.

Helsingfors, Aug. 31. A message from Moscow states that the infant mortality ander thirteen months in the famine areas is seventy-five per cent.