DISCONTENT IN CHINA

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 11, 10 December 1926, Page 7

DISCONTENT IN CHINA

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? MISSIONARIES NOT TO BLAME. LONDON PAPER’S OPINION. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received December 10, 9.35 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 9. The Daily News in a leader says:— “It is absurd to stigmatise the Chinese missionaries as the promoters and instigators of the discontent in China. It is rather tho political missionaries who have traduced, poisoned and choked the religious missionaries’ efforts that are tho real authors of the present trouble.”—Sydney Sun cable.

Lord Inchcape, addressing the shareholders at the Peninsular and Qriental Company’s meeting, in mentioning the losses of the company through the Chinese trouble expressed the opinion that missionaries were largely responsible for the antagonisms.

SEVEN CRUISERS. IN CHINESE WATERS. POWERS COULD STRIKE. LONDON, Dec. 1. An Admiralty statement discloses the strength of the naval forces available in Chinese waters to, go to the relief of the foreign communitii/j in the event of an emergency: De- River GunCruisers. stroyers. boats Britain 4 9 15 America 18 9 Japan 1 1 10 France 10 6 In addition there are twelve British submarines on the China station. The naval correspondent of the Daily News states that the aircraft carrier Hermes, with 20 aeroplanes aboard, is lying near the mouth of the Yangtse. She has a speed of 25 knots and in case of emergency could get within striking distance of Hankow in twelve hours. IN MELTING POT. BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA. LONDON, Dec. 2. “The utmost that can be deduced from Sir Austen Chamberlain’s answers in the House of Commons concerning China ; is that the British policy, like China itself, is the melt-ing-pot,” says the Times, in a leading article. “Cool observers,” tho article continues, “are gravely alarmed. The Chinese leaders are more political neophytes, resentful of the restraint of tradition and convention, and therefore any peculiarly susceptible to Moscow’s expert revolutionary advice. “There is a despondent note in Japan, partly due to the cessation of the Anglo-Japanese treaty and tho subsequent failure of the Washington Convention, and at present Britain must face a dangerous problem very nearly alone.”