CHINA TO-DAY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21119, 21 March 1934, Page 12

CHINA TO-DAY

♦ <;ro\yth of national SPIRIT TKAImm; in a K.Ms and the economic tv;;;emu-s hartled nowhere. The only thoLiftht of; ".diem: to-day :s ;,, budd up iii":;-.:i- i monks and ioliow op. with a policy o." blood end iron. unload of rcjuirdine, ■ "ho woi id a.; a place tor the practise j of ;ao i'mc prmciplcs of humanity." j ■■:• <.'!;< i-"d Mr \V. V.'ah. in an address e> ' du Christchiuch Kcturued Soldier/' A. -ociaiioii Dcba'um Club last nie.h:. Air Wail, who i-- a Chinese student nf ! iaw and the arts at Canterbury Co!- ' Icyc. chose a-- Ids subjee\ -Chum's ! Position ns seen by the Chinese of To- : day." Mr No. : m.u V.'oad presided : To-day. sa.ci tile speaker, tile natmii- •■! km world : hcidd not ti-.ink in ternr ! trim; of humanity. Criticism;; the ' white man's bardcn" he sa:d that !ha; nurd: a .-coined to ton. i: • of leedim' lee li - -■. ■- natuuis not ; .r, nn:eh be Ciir;st;an:'y a.- on the hne of c: mA.l one t.mo the '."nmp.-e soldier v. ,i> . looked en as the 10ve.,! bene; ;;i the human ;i':iir. bn' v, ;!h ti-e dcvclepi.ient of the iorc:'.;n newer- had com." till' solumim rise to e'.o, .. In «-;,rl i>.-.-nam China iva, indolent n its nokev i is icll'-prc-erYatum. In laf. ■■ had ; "net-", a hunc :• urn v. a - culhei ed "o . budd up a r.a\y. Yne K-npr.' ■. annul?, that la r palace-- were no! .-ukicn.i:! in variety l-i s ;it i-fy- in r need-', n mi the money tor t'ne einclion of a rr-A uak.ee. surrounded iiv map.ii il'ieoet gardens There w .1„ ;l -on .1 of compl'-p----c::si, .'ere- U dnr--:- in ma'trm of war. >o difT: ; Ci'! from liv.- outlook of tk> meat Out en Kllvamun. of Ei-.--.kmd. j ■v. 'no was always di hahted to hear oi j tile eaploil'-- of Rn'omh and Drake in | •'.- nna ;r.'; tile Spmm.rn s' beards"' 1' : seemed, in the Weston world. tea' j 1 vcrytkma wa- tiionniil of in term-' ; asked 1o chop weed. expected sixpence i Iv. a.-n tia di.-hc-. ■ apeeied an extra !o pa\ has board. That we- mcompre- ■ I heo.siblo to (lie Chine:- mind, whenI ear. tiling was done !or the h-metd , New Philosophies I Vastlv different political philn mpine - : wore Ik m:; learned, said Mr Wall. Soj end:-!-, a- a le-s violent foim oi com- ■ | inuni.-ie.. and < von Fascism, had en- I i tcrod Cnina. and cell moup of : -np- : i porters was v. lilne; to sacrifice lit" i | to the cat.so. Wdt'i an increase of a j spinl nf r.at ion-hsm caine a de-ire to ! an: a place atnonc the nations of die | world. ' It had been indicated to tin i Chine ar- mind that determination 'hacked up by blood and iron, wa- ■' the onlv means of self-prrservat ion. 1 Hcrelofore China had been most i keenly dcsjrons of internal and cxter- ; nal peace. In \[YM. when 'lie Jap- , ane-e l;ad ii.-'d on Ciiine-e refnut " i trams, the em?m\' had been met with I'i.iv a iv.: .-i\o resistance, and vet the j I.crane of Nations ban said nothire;. jAn English dc legate had nodded to \ indicate tis.l lie "n.;d talan notice, and - 'a French I■. pi-' sen'atiee had lau'-iusi. i cau-n.n lie- Cinne-e dele —da to beI tome e-ee -eme'v am.oyed. All <hi< ' ; mnene the Ch:rm.e. -aid fdr Wain Incitusccl alilihuy liainiiii; . Ti.ei'e was i-o\.' a idan to construe", i HiO!) ac-oplan.es. It \vas said that they j : rn ::-[ la 1 -t tl lor con-mri-cia! pin-- 1 I rrses. hut i: mu-t be remembca'cd i aminos;-, ton. w, ; ; on the increase, ant) u.ihta.v trinnui". woiild orobablv i-oen no in 'hided m the curricula of all th ■ that ; t cur.ty ]:t- u:\\y in iinhy a- -d ' tirnetn." \\' s :eu Ciuna cicn.anded 'naek her lost ten :to: ics. her dcmruidwoukl be sUiipei'ied by armed force. lie: continued. ' One solution was to break down the de.-.re for pos??- . ion. Tne uolicy of Ch.na for t'ne Chinese or New Zealand or Australia for the white., mnst go. There would be conflict otherwise. The whole of the , world must soon be brought to a re- ! ali.-ation that the earth was for hu- | inanitv. '1 he ideas of racial i;o.-se - ■ sd.n re.-t-d on a trail lrvis. Different ! 1 .-l-i - ;->i:s -e- -eri dov. mi'.nt ; and cii n-.a ten ;sties. and 1! v as not impossible for !iv* world to Ju-e aii one lanuly, r-ujoyins j