A WORD FOR THE CHINESE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1927, Page 8

A WORD FOR THE CHINESE.

Vuiir <-om*«pondoiii "CB." writes like | typical Englishman—he sees only fixia mte |Kjiiu of view. He thinks Mr. .Sidney Soott i« a "weird" pereon devoid tif any regard for hn&land's record, her beauty, her traditions, etc. If "C.8." reflects for a moment end bring* to bear sufficient common t>ense Jotiink of a China torn and distracted after yam of internal strife, with the added buries of a foreijrn yoke around her purse string*, mj suffocated by lack of orjraiiis-ed capital (Juve not the "foreijrn devil-, ,, used this, their tranq* card, for years past?) then ]»erhaps he wnft be in such haste to condemn without jotjw thought, the of otiiers. Also In might in due courM-, by expansion of tie juintl, come to rcaliM: that the Oaiitonet.p, Jho Xatk* orncrs or whichever power eventually ?aira complete control, will assuredly end forever what must l>c Jo the intelligent Cliinese «s "insufferalilc and inMilrnt donniiation 3 ly foreigtier*. All this j.i Hie alw»ut ETigliad* tradition"-, in other word*, "England right or wrong," won't stop the ;iivakt'nitlj of China. Nevertheless "CB." reveals a tirwJ psychological deduction when he antkajMitei that "foolish old (ireat Britain" will emsftx* allv "retire from China." , ANOTHER SHREWD HEAB. '