New Britain herald., 1925-08-06
"China- -Disillusioned, Loses Faith
 in Christian Nations," Says Minister

Of June. We have heard Of no vio- lence whatever in thls region--un- less perchance there was some violent language! What the next stage in the carrying out of the pro- test will be, we do not know.
 "The causes of the present anti. foreign feeling are complex. Some of the more remote causes are the following: Years of inequality Of treatment of China by the western powers-almost a century of it since the time of the Opium war. To he sure, China in former times did not always treat the nationals Of other countries as her eQuals,-and there are reasons why she didn't, But for all these years China has seen. the enactment and the enforce mcnt Of one unequal treaty after another; finally at the peace con ference at the conclusion of the World war. and particularly at the Washington conference fin 1920, China tried 10 get a hearing for her grievances, and tried by means Of peaceful conference and negotiation 10 secure a thorough consideration of her grievances, While certain actions were taken at the Wash ington conference looking toward the amelioration of the unjust con- ditions, the western powers have allowed almost five full years 10 pass by without actually putting into op- eration the major remedical rleas- ures that were proposed. eona poo- pie in China have begun to doubt the honesty and good faith of the western powers with regard ,o 'h'ir willingness 10 change the 'nequali. ties of the present situation.
 "A second cause of the present anti-foreign feeling is disllusion- ment-China has been disilusioned with regard to western peoples and western civilization, She has found out that America Gas other western poWers) Is not all Christian. With almost l,5Q0 of her students and many travellers in America every year, China has found that there are great inJustices In our own social structure. great evils in our own political life, and she is disillu- sioned-AmeriCa is not the America some of the Chinese supposed it to be. And the feeling has gained ground that much of our Christian idealism (which many of the Chi nese greatly admireD has not been put into actual operation in our in. terna tional relations. Perhaps the greatest factor in bringing about this disillusionment was the World warrior China was shocked at the awful carnage of the war and the horrible spectacle of these western Christian nations engaged in such a struggle. Particularly the terms of the treaty of Versailles contrib uted to the lowering of respect for western nations on the part of the educated classes in China. The pres tige of the western nations has fallen in the estimation Of the Chi. nese,
 "Thn thlrd cause is intimately connected with the two just men, ,tioned--it is the rising national con. sciousness of the Chinese. Although still divided by marked provincial
 ism, the Chinese are increasingly be
 ginning 10 think i'll national terms This is a part of the great move, ment toward self-realization which is in evidence among many of th'
 peoples of Asia and Africa. Very naturally, with the fallen prestige
 of the western nations, the quostiol
 comes up: Why should we Chi
 n"se suffer indignitios and even in
 ern poUers'' And SO there is re
 sentiment for the inequalities and [
 demand that justice shall he ac
 corded this great people Of th
 Orient who had g high degree O
 civilization for thousands of years
 whose history began hack in the din
 past, in the heyday of Egyptian an Bahvlonian civilization,
 The more immediate causes e
 the recent outburst of anti-foreig
 feeling are easily understood: Tn international or mixed court sittin '2t Shanghai sentences certain stril,
 ing Workmen lChinesel 10 impris ' onment, The causes of the stril, and the justice of the demands [ the strikers, have been given yer
 little publicity in this country, Cer tain accounts that have come { hand seem tN indicate that ther ! were other complications hotwee ! Japaneso and some of the striker Al any rate. tho Chinese students z [ Shanghai organized 2 demonstratio - in protest against what thnv deome n injustice tO the Chinese Workme
 and raraded into the 1ntsrnation, } settlement cf Shanghai vitho, ' ViNlnnco
 Tho British police in this for r eiEn settlement ordered fho crow
 of students to disrerse. when th D students failed 70 comply the polic ' hred-hrst over thoir heads. an Q then into tho cro7d. killing sever, , and 0oundinE others. Now. arcort ing 'o English law, policemen ar . ustifnd in firing into Q crowd ths refuses 70 disperse at their order
 moi so with Chinese custom for l . China policemen are not expoctc ' 70 fre into any unarmad crow 1.
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