“NO SCHOLARS NOW.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 November 1925, Page 9

“NO SCHOLARS NOW.”

ONLY BOLSHEVIK DUPES. THE SITUATION IN CHINA. “In China, before the revolution, scholars ranked among the first ih the land. To-day it i s no longer so. lhe examination system which once obtained has been abolished, and in place of scholars China now has students, who put in a couple of years at a university, call themselves graduates, and think' they know a tremendous lot. These are the young men who fa-P easy victims to Bolshevik propaganda.”

Mr Robert .Slessor, a mining engineer, who has been seven years in Changsa, in the interior of _ Chum, throws this interesting sidelight on the troubles which lately have acutely afflicted the Republic. Mr Slessor arrived at Sydney on a business visit recently. “Where I have been, right in the interior,” said Mr Slessor,_ “there has been no actual trouble during the last few months except for strikes instigated by Bolsheviks and students. These strikes are directed against the British, and, to a lesser extent, the Japanese The Agitators describe al l foreigners as enemies, and their policy is to fight these enemies one at a time. Inst now they ai-e fighting the British by means of tlie boycott. “British goods are refused transport up or down the rivers, and, as ‘there is no longer a. central Government to appeal to, firms like the British-Ame-riean Tobacco Co., the .Asiatic Petroleum Co., my own firm. Arab-old and Co., and many others, find their operations: imneded and hindered. The position of the mission stations is certainly precarious, and missionaries find great difficulty in moving about because of the brigands and the hostility of the populace.”