Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-04-28
u. S. SHOULD MAKE
FRIENDS OF CHINESE
American Professor in China,
Visiting in Duluth, Gives
Views Says China Resents
Force and Remembers.

take the Chinese and the Chinese
situation more seriously, for the
time is coming when America has
got to have more to do with the
East, believes Raymond R. Brew
er, professor of West China Union
university of Chengtu, Szechuen,
China, who with his family Wis
tied relatives in Duluth recently.
An interview was published in
the Duluth Herald which read in
part as follows:
Mr.. Brewer, who has been teaching
at the university for five and one
half years, bases his belief on the
assertion that the center of the
worlds history is being changed
from the Mediterranean to the Pacific,
and this will mean that America will
have to have more to do with China
in the future. He declares he does
not believe force will stop the present
Chinese trouble because, he points
out, the Chinese are the worlds old
est race, tracing a history for more
than 5000 years .of unbroken reign,
developing a race that believes firmly
in the age-old customs and the pre-
cepts and teachings of Confucius,
whose principle was against force.
Are Opposed to Force.
According to teachings of the great
Chinese philosopher, Mr.. Brewer says,
the Chinese believe they should be-
ware of anyone that tries to use force
to gain an objective. That is one rea-
son the Chinese are hostile to nations
now making demands backed up by
warships. The principal reason for
the present upheaval is Russian influ-
ence, he declared, tanning to flame a
rebellious spirit against foreigners"
in China. .--....
The present situation in China is
exaggerated in reports received in
this country, Mr.. Brewer says, as only
minority in China are carrying on
the agitation. The smoldering ami
mosities against invaders burst forth
with remarkable suddenness, although
those in China conversant with the
situation date the trouble back to
1917.
The aim of the rebellion is: To do
away with war lords and set up a
republican government; to regain con-
cessions from foreigners and foreign
nations and capital and concessions to
foreigners in sections of Chinese CT
ties, and to do away with treaties I'M
favorable to China made years ago,
according to Mr.. Brewer.
U. s. Must Be Careful.
Whether all Americans in China
will have to leave the country de-
ponds on the United States attitude,
MI. Brewer declares. If our govern
ment attempts to coerce China with
gunboats, then the time will come
when the United States will have
to take every one out, including mis-
sionaries, to. save their lives, he be-
lieves.
There is no doubt but that Russia
is working against Great Britain
through the Chinese" Mr.. Brewer de-
clared. Soviet control of the Chi
nese is increasing rapidly, and Great
Britain has lost tremendously in trade
in the last few years by use of the
bayonet, 1 believe. But the Soviet
government hopes to force it's doc
trines on the entire world through the
large fertile field for Communistic
principles offered in China. The So
viet's dream of a Communistic world
during and Immediately after the
World War was shattered in Europe,
principally through Great Britain's
efforts. The Soviet feels Great
Britain stands in the way of it's try
ing to spread its doctrines and is
trying to embarrass Great Britain in
China.
Soviet Russia is posing as China's
only friend, and the southern govern
ment of China has accepted them.
The northern government is very un-
friendly to Soviet Russia, however.
Russian officers are training and
leading troops in Southern China.
M. Borodin, Soviet Russian, right in
Hankow, is advising the military
chiefs, directing operations and heads
the propaganda force. He is shrewd
and is, no doubt, the greatest man for
this job. He is engineering the feel
ing against foreigners, backed solidly