DISSENSION IN CHINA

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1930, Page 7

DISSENSION IN CHINA

PERMANENT PEACE UNLIKELY. - ATTITUDE TOWARDS FOREIGNERS' Permanent peace in China is unlikely to come about for many years, in'the- ? opinion of Mr. K. B. Grace, who arrived at Auckland on. the Ulimaroa .after spending 13 years in that country. Air. Graee, who formerly held a scientific appointment in Manila under the United States Government’, said that during his residence in China he travelled very widely, visiting the main centres in the ' coastal districts and throughout the in- - tjerior, and he had never had reason to regard.it as a dangerous country to live in. No untoward, incident had come under, his. personal notice during -that long period, and he had found that in the ordinary course foreigners ran little risk of molestation if they adopted a tactful attitude. • The causes of dissension among ..the Chinese themselves -appeared to be too ' deeprooted to be capable of settlement under a unified. government.‘ In ’• Mr. Grace’s opinion, the Yang-Tse River was likely to become the dividing line between Northern and Southern China.’ The southerners, who -were small people, and the northerners., who were of large’ stature, neither liked nor understood each other. -’ ’ . ' ’’ Mr. Grace has-come to New Zealand to visit his ,son at Kerikeri, Bay of •Islands, before proceeding to "South America, where he. intends to settle in retirement.