The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-03
CHINA WILL BE ONE OF WORLDS
 GREAT NATIONS
"Oriental Giant' Rapidly Awakening Anti -Japa- nese Feeling Runs
 High.

"ITen years of awakening in China ct the present rate will place the Celestial Republic among the worlds greatest powers" predicts Dr. Ida Kahn, Chinese woman physician who came to New York recently to attend the International Conference of Wom- an Doctors. pr. Kahn, together with another Chinese girl. Dr. Mary Stone, was adopted in early childhood by an American missionary in China, Miss Gertrude Howe, who educated them, finally sending them to the United States, where they were grad uated from the medical course at the University of Michigan. They are both not only heads of hospitals now in China, but are also prominent in promoting China's welfare in various ways. pr. Kahn is in complete charge of a women's and chiIdren's hospital in Nanchang. Kiangsi Prov ince, supported by the Woman's For eign Missionary Society of the Meth odist Episcopal Church. She is a frequent contributor @ Millard's Re view
 We are a deeply patriotic people," said Dr. Kahn. ''I 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 Shan tung, but all the arms and munitions are in the hands of the government, and the government is bought by Japanese money.
 Tn NanChang the Chinese men and women are organizing patriotic so- ciedes and collecting money to re- deem our resources, especially cur railroads, from the hands Of the Jap enese. The railroad is mismanag ged md practically bankrupt, and the Jap anese mortgages will soon forecIose We are trying to raise enough money to save it, but we hope that American capital may be interest enough to take it out of Japanese hands and run it. The Japanese cheat Us all the time. We are never safe, but we would have confidence in the American way of doing things.
 Through Central China hous-- wives, working people and school chit- dren are making promises never to buy Japanese goods. for the rest of their lives. The shops now show c01g European and American goods T. was always Japanese, wherever one went. before.
 ''Alatters with the Japanese will come to a, head some time And he Chinese are not q c0wardly or phlesmalic people. as they have been represented Little school teachers have been cutting their thumbs and writing in blood a promise 10 boycott Japanese goods, so aroused are they over Jaran's attitude toward China. 4 nation whose women would do that is not a nation to sit like patience on a monument forever.
 ''The trouble win China is that she is inarticulate. The people who have leisure to present her case in the for eign papers cannot write, and the people who can write are too busy. After my hospital work was done, I have sat at midnight preparing arti- cl.s on China for foreign papers. I believe China needs to be introduced to he Europeans, and l do my bit bus my doctors work must come be- fore my writing.
 '.ie really have more in common with America than you would think at first. OrientaIs of course are never as free and easy as occidentals. But the Chinese are not sneaky. They are trustworthy and honest, especially in business. Foreign nations are mistaken in not cultivating Chinese friendship, for China is a richer coun- try than Japan, has greater natura. resources, and offers a wider field for commercial activities"
 Dr. Kahn further stated that Japan he'd already begun a policy of az gression in Siberia, having landed over 70,OOO troops instead of the 1000 arranged for. "The idea is,'' said pr. Kahn, "to cement a Slav-Japanese union which will extend far enough east to include Germany. While China is so located as to be a check to this menace, she would be power less to act without arms and anmu- nition.''