The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-12-24
CHINA SOON WILL
BE A WORLD POWER
Predicts Prominent Woman Physi.
clan of w. F. M. S., Methodist
Church.

Ten years of awakening in China
at the present rate will place the
Celestial Republic among the worlds
greatest powers" predicts DIR. Ida
Khan, Chinese woman physician who
came to New York recently to attend
the international Conference of
Woman Doctors. DR.. Kahn, together
with another Chinese girl, Dr. Mary
Stone, was adopted in early child
hood by an American missionary in
China, Miss Gertrude Howe, who
educated them, finally sending them
to the United States, where they were
graduated from the medical course at
the University of Michigan. They
are both not only heads of hospitals
now in China, but are also promin-
ent in promoting China's welfare in
various ways. DIR. Kahn is in COM
plete charge of woman's and child
ren's hospital in Nanchang, Kiangsi
Province, supported by the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. She is
frequent contributor to Millard's
Review
I'VE are deeply patriotic people"
said DR.. Kahn Il do not think the
world understands us, because we
have been taught to stay within our
selves There is a large faction that
would like to fight Japan about
Shantnug, but all the arms and NUM-
tens are in the hands of the govern
ment and the government is bought
by Japanese money.
I'm Nanchang the Chinese men and
women are organizing patriotic Soc
ieties and collecting money to redeem
our resources, especially our railroads,
from the hands of the Japanese. The
railroad is mismanaged and practic-
ally bankrupt, and the Japanese mort
gagees will soon foreclose. We ara
trying to raise enough money to save
il, but we hope that American capital
may be interested enough to take it
out of Japanese hands and run it.
The Japanses cheat us all the time.
We are never safe, but we would
have confidence in the American way
of doing things.
Through Central China house.
wives, working people and school
children are making promises never
to buy Japanese goods. for the rest
of their lives. The shops now show
only European and American goods.
1t was always Japanese, japanese,
wherever one went, before.
Matters with the Japanese will
come to head some time. And the
Chinese are not a cowardly or phleg-
matte people, as they have been re-
presented. Little school teachers
have been cutting their thumbs and
writing in blood promise to boy
colt Japanese goods, so aroused are
they over yapan's attitude toward
China. A nation whose women would
do that is not nation to sit like
patience on a monument forever.
1.-THE trouble with China is that she
is inarticulate. The people who have
leisure to present her case in the
foreign papers cannot write, and the
people who can write are too busy
After my hospital work was done, |
have sat at midnight preparing arti-
cles on China for foreign papers.
believe China needs to be introduced
to the Europeans, and ! do my Bit
but my doctors work must come be-
fore my writing.
I'VE really have more in common
with America than you would think
at first Orientals of course are new
er as free and easy as occidentals.
But the Chinese are not sneaky. They
are trustworthy and honest, especially
in business. Foreign nations are mis-
taken in not cultivating Chinese
friendship, for China is richer coun-
try than Japan. has greater natural
resources, and offers wider field for
activities"
DR.. Kahn further stated that Japan
had already begun policy of aggres-
sion in Siberia, having landed over
10000 troops instead OF the 1000 ar
ranged for. "The idea is" said DIR.
Kahn, ito cement a Slav-Japanese
union which will extend far enough
east to include Germany. While China
is so located as to be check to this
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