WORLD NEWS IN STORY AND PICTURE

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 3 (Supplement)

WORLD NEWS IN STORY AND PICTURE

JAPANESE TRADE IN CHINA. Japanese experts admit being baffled in their attempts to stabilise financial and commercial conditions in North China. Chinese in private life refuse to co-operate. Army headquarters at Tokyo refuse to send capital except tor military operations.—Cable. Naturally the Japanese have been baffled in their attempt to stabilise financial and commercial conditions in North China. Hie answer is obvious. The Chinese do not want the Japanese. Through several centuries China has fought and defeated invaders not so much by military prowess &» by passive resistance. That passive resistance meant that China and the Chinese, without making a big song about it, decided to just sit quiet and boycott the invader in all his plans, financial, commercial and every other way. The Chinese individual has great patience, much more than we have, and with that patience he can wait, content, although suffering himself, even if it means handing down the suffering to his descendants. The descendants, in their turn, through the teachings of the great philosopher, Confucius, learn to

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respect the wishes of their forebears and so the boycott is carried on until the aims of the invader are defeated.

That is not all. The Chinese have another weapon of defence. With their huge numbers they have been able to absorb and assimilate all those races which succeeded in con-

quering China in au initial military victory.

So, in the long run, China by passive resistance, absorption and assimilation, won, just as she will against Japan.

By the way, an interesting fact little known to the outoide world wu that eenturiea ago a number of persecuted Jewish tribe** made their way to China. They eetttled at a place called Kaifeng. As a Jewish unit they are now non-existent. The Chinese have absorbed them. Their descendant* to-day have lost Jewigh religion and the only example of their anceatry m, iu the cane of ft

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few, characteristic Jewish countenances, although colouring and everything else is apparently, Chines*.

So much for the power of the Chinese to absorb a foreign race.

When it conies to finance and commerce, which, when all is a*ld and done, amount almost to the same thing, the Chinese are probably the most astute people in the world. Tlieir methods are different from ours, their mental processes are different from ours, but I can say emphatically that froin my own experience as man and boy in China, let alone that of others, I would sooner place faith in the older type of Chinese than in the average European or American who has business in China.

As for the Japanese,' well, I might get into trouble when it cornea to diticuoeing their bueineaa method*. However, the cable above gives the answer. Japanese bueineet in North China cannot get ahead because the

CliiiMM do not want tte Japanaae, and, what la more important, they do not trust thin.

From nil this yon ou mliu tint there in mora «tj« of defeating an •DM) j invaderthan bow* and arrow*, bluadarbuaaaa or poiaon gas, aerial bo tuba, battleships or meohanieed armies. And do not forgot that it it China which baa perfected that atyle of warfare. Gonfuciua taught paaaa and paaaiva resistance to war. Hia teachings ara imbuad in tha Ghinaaa, navar mind what particular brand of religion they belong to. It is through tha teachings of Confuciua that China will win—not the beastly method wa call war, TU AMBKICAS. Tlie appeal of the United State* of America to the Latin American Republics to aid Iter in her new "front" against Germany is ou account of the growing influence of Germany and Italy in South America. The majority of new immigrants to South America hava beau Italians and there have been many Garment. The United States fears that she will losa trada if ths so-called "Fascist" countries gala influence in South America. That is why she has appsaled to Latin America to help her agsinvt Germany and Italy in South America.