SOUTHERNERS MOST POPULAR IN CHINA, SAYS SYDNEY PROFESSOR

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18053, 13 January 1927, Page 5

SOUTHERNERS MOST POPULAR IN CHINA, SAYS SYDNEY PROFESSOR

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 13, 10.45 a.m.) 'SYDNEY. January 13. Professor Griffith Taylor, who attended the Pan-Pacific Science Congress at Tokio and then travelled in China, has returned. He says he was surprised to find how lightly the Chinese treated the civil war. The people as a whole did not seem to care which side won, so long as peace came. The feeling generally was more anti-foreign than anti-British, except in the south, wdiere most of the foreigners were British. The southern party, which Professor Taylor thinks will be the winning party, with the slogan “China for Chinese,” is the strongest and most popular party throughout China.

PATIENCE NEEDED SAYS SIR J. ALLEN. DUNEDIN, January 13. At the jubilee celebrations of the Tuapeka County last night at Lawrence, Sir James Allen expressed thankfulness that Britain had preserved calm in the Chinese hubbub, and had done nothing to augment bad feeling either from China or other nations. Sir James added that it was impossible at present to come to a conclusion on the Chinese question. He said that wc must exercise profound patience, and be careful to do nothing that could be wrongly interpreted. At the end patience would be rewarded.