MUST BE REVISED

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 61, 14 March 1927, Page 10

MUST BE REVISED

TREATIES WITH CHINA (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. Whichever side wins in China, the foreign treaties will have to be revised and the foreign concessions will have to be given up to Chinese control. This is the view of two very interesting .people who arrived in Auckland this morning by the Aerangi, Dr. F. Howard Taylor and Mrs. Taylor (nee. Miss Geraldine Guinness) belonging to the China inland Mission.' They have come to New Zealand where they will spend five months and a half. • . ■ To s" Star reporter, Dr. Taylor expressed the opinion that the foreign concessions will have to be restored arid the treaties reviewed. There are two reforms which should have taken place long ago. and- which cannot iy>w be further delayed. Whichever party gets the upper hand in China, the Northerners or the Southerners, the force of the .Chinese feeling is such that foreign concessions can no longer, be maintained as they are. under the control of foreign nations'and cut off from Chinese control. It was quite impossible to hazard an opinion as to which side would win, the North or the South.. "The difficulty is that they are both Chinese, and there is no very clearly defined line of cleavage," he said. "They might change sides to-morrow, and the chief danger to Shanghai is lest the Northerners should join the Southerners. In that case, Shanghai would be doomed. Really, China is at the mercy of her two great neighbours, Japan and Russia. Japan is undoubtedly behind the. Northern forces and Russia is behind the Southern forces, In order to pay Japan for her support, the Northerners are giving her more and more concessions' in Manchuria, upon which Japan has long had* eyes, and where she much desires to expand. The Russian influence is paramount among the Southern forces, and throughout the country can be traced the work of Bolsheviks,, which even goes to the length of issuing anti-Chris--tian placards in Chinese."

Dr. Taylor is a son of the Rev. J. Hudson Taylor, who founded the mission in 1865." He has had an adventurous career, and both he and his wife have been closely identified with the great mission. Dr. Taylor, has been working, in China for thirty-four years, and was the v first doctor, to enter the huge provinco of Honan, with its 40,000,000 people. .... - , ■