Evening star., 1927-03-09
RISE OF A NEW CHINA
Chinese ParaIyze Enemies With Boycott British
Suffer Great Losses and Natives Take
Over Concession.

| British treasury was forced to ad-
vance public money to keep them
alive. After seven months the Brit
ish agreed to acquiesce in Canton'S
| imposition of customs taxes-prac-
tically anything else Canton de-
| manded-if only they might be al
lowed to come and trade again. How
far their power had sunk is shown
by the fact that the new taxes to
which they assented were intended
to construct a port at Whampoa,
which the young Canton leaders de-
signed should eventually eliminate
Hongkong.
Recently Chinese seamen on the
Pacific modernized their old guild
into a union. They demanded some
additions to their $14 month pay,
and recognition of their organization.
They We're refused, their headquar-
ters at Hongkong outlawed, their
officials imprisoned. They could not
holdout, said the shippers. But they
took their ships into Hongkong, left
for Canton and went back to the
farms, where their elder brothers,
who had inherited the land We're,
under Chinese custom, bound to feed
them. Soon most of the shipping
was tied up. Hongkong faced ruin.
The shippers gave in.
And the Governor Came Down.
"All right" said the seamen, "if
the governor of Hongkong will come
down off the peak and open the head
quarters which he closed, and him
self sit as guest with the union men
he imprisoned to celebrate the occa-
sion" The governor came down.
China's foreign trade today Is one
half of Germany's. OF it America has
| one third, and has greatly benefited
| by the boycott of Great Britain. The
Chinese are as ready to apply the
boycott to us, bringing our trade to
| a dead stop, as to the British IL we
| give provocation.
| The Nationalist government heads
are now having some difhculty IN
| curbing the unions they have created.
| Finance Minister Soong told me
Labor Dispute Commission would be
given absolute power to arhtrate
strikes. A, the same time the unions
are used by the government as semi
| official organs. Mr.. Soong, for IN =
cents on each meal eaten in a restau-
rant in Canton by giving the walters
union 10 per cent of the collections.
How Propaganda Is Carried On.
Propaganda is another bloodlesS
weapon which is used with great
! force 1t Is carried on as effectively
| in the army as among the workers.
Every junior officer is held respon-
sible for indoctrinating his men in
| the party creed. which is, briefly.
International equality, unification
and economic development with
Chinese controlled money; really,
China for the Chinese. He must also
| hold night schools for the villagers
of occupied territory.
Nationalist propaganda is spread
| by every student, many merchants
and some workers. 1t prepared WI
Pei-fu's armies to go over to Can
toms armies and has prepared
Shanghai to rise under it's rulers
whenever the Nationalist forces ap-
| proach.v AS soon as general joins
| the Nationalist cause he is given
more money and less power and his
army made safe by being petty fiji
cered with the fervent young cadets
Of the Whampoa military school.
The cause.-The creed-is bigger
than any man in it. II may be as
sassinated, Gen. Chang may be de-
feated, we may go to pieces through
party dissension," were Mr.. Soongs
parting words, "but we have founded
a cause and demonstrated an or
ganization which will meyer stop now
until it is supreme, regardless of
what personnel it works through at
that time"
Mr.. Close will tell in his next
article how the Chinese movement
is affected by the Bolshevik infiu-
ence and how 1t is not.
tCopyright 1927,