THE CHINAMAN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 May 1910, Page 3

THE CHINAMAN.

A RUSSIAN MERCHANT'S VIEWS. GREAT AWAKENING IN THE EAST. PROSPECTS OF MILITARY REFORM. MISSIONARIES AND PROSELYTISM. COMING WAR WITH JAPAN. [BY ELECTRIC) TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.') [PKll PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 8.40 1a.n1.) SYDNEY. This Day. Captain Varawa, a, Russiim merchant, of Shanghai, who is at present visiting Australia, says 'tho biggest question just now in China is the change in public opinion respecting military service. The best families once looked upon military service as something 'beneath thoir notice; now they are actively participating in the formation of Volunteer companies. There is a, steadily growing feeling that the Chinese outbreak ■against the missionaries was a small sectional uprising against. tho_ missionaries only, because of tlreir' interference with the family life. The Chinese acknowledge that the missionaries do good to the sick and poor, and teach them good lessons, hut the point is they also break up families. When one or two of the sons are. taken away from the family faith to bo made Christians, the family lionoll pis affected. Tf the whole family were proselytised at would be all right, but to proselytise a portion of the family is unwise. No one, snys Captain Tarawa, recognises what family life means to the Chinese unless they have lived there. It was a. belief amongst the Chinese ithat China would pass tlironah its greatest struggle between 1.907 and 1917. , fleers expect a great war, probably with Japan.