CRISIS FEARED IN CHINA. .

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 936, 1 October 1910, Page 5

CRISIS FEARED IN CHINA. .

———o;,:. ANTI-FOREIGN MOVEMENT. By Telegraph—Press Aesociation-Oopy'risrlit. Now York, September ■ 29. ■ American officials-in the: Orient 1 report that -.the situation in China is critical,, and .that an outbreak- similar to tho- Boxer rebellion,.'would;.':;not- be unexpected. . ■-■■■ MANCHURIAN RAIDERS." ' London, September 29. Advices by the Japaneso steamor. Sado Maru state that Ncwchang, at the mouth of the Liao River, was raided ...by Manchurian bandits, ' and fifteen wealthy Chinese hold for ransom. The banks were also raided.; : TROUBLE AHEAD. .' In spite , of the universal cry of the progress. China is making, -there.' is th® feeling, writes a correspondent of; the .Manchester "Guardian" in', China, ■ that a great outbreak is inevitable. -Merchant, L missionary; traveller,, and official / all agree, that; there is trouble ahead, despite' the-, assertions of those men . who study the reform movement of the Government and refuse ,to study, the attitude, of. the common 'people as well: I have' been travelling in Western China for'over, a year, and. have traversed Yunnan from one end to the other, and though it is. .'certain that ten .years have altered much in .thir lives." of the peoplte,.yet one must recognise; that Boxerism and . the spirit which incites the people to Borerism have riot,, abated one. iota.; .- ■

•'.Mr.-PrederioK'Moors,, in the ,'DailV News". ; says:—"That China's ■ hatred..of the foreigner is due: in : part, at'any rate, to his commeroo in opium is incontestable, in 'spite.of .the'.statement of .Lord . Curzon," when Viceroy ; of India,, that the Chinaman no more dislikes ; the Brito-n , for. bringing him better opium than the Briton dislikes the French man for matin?, better brandy. 'Tor half a century .the Chinese have been arying _ out, whether rightly, or wrongly, against ,'tlie. foreigner' on the score of opium. The very name of the drug,, .Toreipm. Earth,* : is evidence of the 'association in the Chinese mir.d. Indeed, the anti-foreign feeling in China has much to do with the remarkable campaign, which' those addicted to the use of opium, no l«s than those for whom it •has.no temptations, are waging on behalf, of' their country. : The Chinese, declare that the 'foreigner', brought this curse upon them (opium , probably first isame ; into ' China . overland across ■ the Western '.borders); 1 they: see . that by - its consumption , theforeigner. . grows rich while they, .grow poor;', and .they ltnow that. the hold upon China, which they desire to break,. has, until the present revival, grown tighter every' year." .