EVENTS IN CHINA

Evening Star, Issue 19443, 29 December 1926, Page 5

EVENTS IN CHINA

* AGITATION AGAINST CHRISTIANS BLIND SCHOOL RAIDED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 27. The Hankow correspondent of ‘The Times’’ states that the agitators, continuing their anti-Christian activities, raided a blind school during a Christmas entertainment, and hauled out and seriously assaulted a missionary. The Wesley College at Wuchang is dosed owing to threatening letters. Tho Nationalists seized the Teachers’ College at Wuchang, and turned out tho staff.—‘The Times.’ THE BRITISH MEMORANDUM. FAVORABLE PRESS COMMENT. LONDON, December 27. The newspapers comment favorably on _ Britain's memorandum regarding China, arguing that it is an outline of a far-sighted and constructive policy, and # not of a narrow, self-interested, foreign dictatorship Tho ‘Daily Mail’ says: “If the situation demands more than a blank negation, it cannot be met by mere passivity. We cannot go to war with China. Sir Austen Chamberlain’s object is to obtain tho concurrence of the Powers in a joint scheme.” Tho 1 Daily' Chronicle ’ hopes “ the memorandum will dispel tho profoundly false impression of British policy prevailing in China, which has led the anti-foreign feeling to assume an antiBritish form. Tho latest proposal is an appeal to the Powers to satisfy the legitimate aspirations of the Chinese nation.”