TKOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
The Danger Scot in China
“In all previous upheavals in China, Shanghai lias always, as the vital centre ot the commercial life of the country been scrupulously respected as neutral ground, and that a “turhun” of some throe years’ standing should openly proclaim bis intention of attacking it and should use as bis line of communications a railway constructed by British capital and British on. gineo:s, shows to what lengths the arrogance of the military caste in China has gone. Shanghai is probably the best administered and most flourishing community east of Suez, and it owes its present prc-cmiucncc entirely to the work of successive generations of pioneers, mostly British, who have evolved a system of municipal government which, so far as I know, has no parallel in any other part of the world. And it is this elaborate structure which is to lie sacrificed to the personal aggrandisement of two men who have only recently emerged from comparative obscurity."—Sir Jc.l’mi Jordan, in the London ‘'Observer.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1924, Page 2
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170TKOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1924, Page 2
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