Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-15
Change of Policies in Dealing
With China Seen as Necessity

American opinion, following with
profound interest the unrest in China,
the rise Of antiforeign feeling and the
weakening of British prestige through
events at HankOw, inclines to the be-
lief the time is at hand when the world
powers must adopt wholly new poll.
cieS in dealing with the hitherto help
less nation.
Because the Chinese are an essen
TALLY pacific race, because they have
permitted themselves to. be bullied
and outraged by foreigners in a way
no other great people ever tolerated"
declares the Baltimore Sun. there. are
still some who think that treaties
forced upon China in her period of
helpleSsness can still be maintained
by foreign troops. This school will
now endeavor to show that Western
civilization is menaced by a perfectly
normal patriotic movement, libeled by
calling it 'BOlshevik' in inception. If
that argument triumphs, then is dis
aster really near"
I'VE in America" advises the Hous-
ton Chronicle, Twill be wise to take
with a few grains of salt the talk we
may expect to hear about bolshevism
and communism in China. and If Brit
ish or other interests become hard
pressed, we can expect to be RECALLED
with the usual stories of horrors and
human brutalities. Some of which
may be true, of course, just as 1t is
always true where there is racial or
national conflict. but, nevertheless. we
should bear in mind that ancient
China is struggling toward new ma
tionalism and possibly a new civiliza-
ton, and we cannot look with any too
great favor on the foreigners who
stand In her way"
Suggesting that puzzled Blitons,
reading of the Cantonese attack on
the British concessions at Hankow,
may ask why it is that the hnti-for-
eign feeling in China continues to be
focused on them,'' the New York
World offers the explanation: Partly
for old historic reasons. running back
to the opium war. the seizure of Hong
kong and the spread of British COM
mercial interests in China, but more
largely, it is probable, because of the
intense Chinese resentment caused by
an incident of 1925. On September z
of that year British police of Shang-
hal. after sporadic previous shootings,
clashed with Chinese demonstration
entering the international settlement,
wounded a dozen students and work
ers and killed three
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"How deep the trouble lies is not for
the present telling" observed the Bir
mingham News. 'At least the Chi
nese have grievances against the for
eigners because of their attitude of
superiority, because of the conces-
sions, because of the economic strug
giles under which the Chinese labor
struggles and difficulties for which
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sponsible." The News also holds that
zone thing which foreign governments
are beginning to UNDERSTANDABLE 1t
is almost inexcusable that something
hasn't been done about it's that
China is evolving into that state called
racial consciousness" The Ogden
Standard Examiner emphasizes the
peril involved with the statement that
with anti-foreign sentiment well de-
veloped the Chinese holding allegiance
to the Cantonese government cannot
be trusted, no more so than could an
American mob that has been aroused
against foreigners"
Great Britain will be wise" says
the Santa Barbara Daily News, 'if she
recognizes the legitimacy OF the Chi
nese demands and gracefully with
draws from a difficult position. If
China comes into her own, the sphere
of influence system is doomed. 1t is
more than possible that the agitation
of the Chinese against the British is
the beginning of the end Of the entire
system of foreign rule in China"
The Philadelphia Ledger sees EN-
barrassment in the fact that 1.-THE fic-
ton of Peking's sovereignty is the sole
stock in trade of the diplomatic corps,
which Is charged with the protection
of foreigners rights in China" and
that ''the Western powers cannot, un.