REDS IN CHINA

Evening Star, Issue 19050, 19 September 1925, Page 19

REDS IN CHINA

A IWESSO’S VIEWS The I>inl acoustic properties />f tie meeting-place, and the distortions of tact indulged in by the Oriental delegates, were two of the principal reasons that led Professor J. Macmillan Brown to abandon attendance at the PanPacific Cnnferonco at Honolulu. Ho pave the conference a few days’ trial before coming to the decision that ho could occupy'his time to_ better advantage. From what he did hoar of the discussions ho arrived at the conclusion that they only emphasised the irreconcilable viewpoints of Occident and Orient.

‘‘ 1 came to the conclusion,” Professor Macmillan Brown told a representative of the Christchurch ‘ Press ’ in the course of an interview, “that, though tho Chinese were constantly saying that there was no Bolshevism in tho movement in Southern China, tho Bolsheviks were there. And I had it from people who came from China that t here were thousands of Bolshevik propagandists at work. •• What decided me that there is Bolshevism in the movement was that the Chinese speakers all insisted on having tho Customs tariff in their hands. Now, tho Customs tariff was established to give some security to the European nations that were going to lend money ■to China for its development. If _ the Chinese get the Customs tariff into their own hands they are going to wipe out. all past debts, just as the Bolsheviks in llussia. have done. 1 have corag to the conclusion, also, that the Bolsheviks have discovered that their best lover against the Western nations is tho East,and they are going to keep tiiat raw as long as they can. are not going to allow it to heal.”