Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-20
CHINESE TRADE
TO BE REVIVED
BY RANDALL GOULD
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

| SHANGHAI, June iS.-Waning
antl-IorelgnIsm, a trade revival, but
scant hope OF a sound Government
Z Tor years to come-these three
points sum up the outlook in China
according to the view of Stirring
Fessenden, American WHO has been
70 years III China and who for near
| ly tour years past has held the re-
! sponSible post of chairman of the
, Shanghai Municipal council.
! Promoters of anti-forelgn aglta-
tion have brought the Chinese to Il
! point OF emotional tension for "A
time but this cannot last, Fessen-
den declared to the United States.
! Though Fessenden believes the Chi
nese have natural antipathy to
the foreigner, active anti-foreign-
ism already has dropped off marx
ediy against the japanese since the
high point of the Twenty-one De-
mands and the recrudescenee at the
time of the May 30th incident y
in Shanghai, and he foresees similar
development III the case of Britain.
-AS 10 lHt tCOuOiuIC SloN, NhbN
is merely a matter of the Chinese
themselves increasingly feeling the
pinch of tn. trouble and the foreign
trader in China has suffered, con
tinued the council chairman. 'Chl'
nese have suffered more from their
wars and other disturbances than
foreigners have. There will come
time of exhaustion, followed by
gradual recovery.
Outlook Is Bleak
The outlook for a firm govern
ment in China is bleak indeed, in
the opinion of Fessenden. He feels
that the Nationalist movement Is
crumbling, does not appear to find
great hope in developments Ill the
north, and i'll general looks for a
patching up of differences between
north and south but nothing on d
particularly sound basis. The po-
sition will, as he sees it, be much
as before the recent increase in i'm
portance of the Nationalist cause,
and this of course means a possibil-
itv of renewed trouble later.
China has been going along in
the same general courses for 1000
wears. explained Fessenden. = The
Chinese do things in the same way,
trundle the same wheelbarrows, fol
low the same governmental prac-
tices-which involve the idea not
only of giving each official his
private squeeze from post, but
of looking after his family and
friends as we'll. It will take many
wears, in my opinion, to Introduce f!
Occidental ideas of government in
China with any real success.
Too Much Propaganda
The Chinese are not naturally in
clined toward bolshevism, ac-
cording to Fessenden, but they
have been tn object of long and |
assiduous Soviet Russian propagan-
da. Fessenden feels that the social
and economic inequality of educat- !
ed returned Chinese students from
abroad. as compared with foreign |
ers in China, also plays an import (
ant part in building up resentment |
against the foreigner. This factor |
Il decreasing, ne DelltEto, dS tHo |
old feeling of detachment on the
part of the foreigner breaks down |
gradually and as returned students !
more and more are received into |
foreign homes and otherwise treat !
ed as equals. The actual unequal
treaties are by no means the most
vital issue in the whole situation,
in the opinion of Fessenden.
81 believe Sir Austen Chamber
lain S declaration against the sane
tions plan, with reference to the
Nanking affair, is on the whole
wise said Fcsscnden. " Inter
vention in China might achieve
temporary and immediate results
beneficial 10 the foreigner, but in
the long run it would not bring any
good which would at all compare
with the expense and trouble en-
tailed -
Joe Armstrong caught catfish