PUBLIC OPINION.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1927, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION.

DATIN';; I HO.M AIUSSOLINI. ‘‘Mussolini is quite right to add to tjw date of all documents issued by his (lovernment the words ‘Year 5.’ TTie regime that lie founded, which readies its fifth anniversary next autumn, marks an epoch in the life of Italy utterly distinct and different from anything that went before."— Viscount- Kothennere.

THE REAL CHINESE TROUBLE. “Ever since the Chinese revolution which displaced t lie Manclms the country has been seeking for a stable Government, but so far has found none. The extraordinary confusion of the past few years, when, like the satraps of the declining Moghul Empire, military adventurers and provincial governors were playing for their own hands, has apparently hardened into a conflict between Peking and Canton, but a stable Government is as far off as ever. That is the 'Yellow Peril' of to-day." writes Air Stanley Rice in the “Asiatic Review." All tho symptoms of the great mass revolutions are present today in China. Authorities are agreed that, while mandarins roll by in silk and satin and the aristocracy are wallowing in wealth and arrogance, the Chinese proletariat are sunk in such poverty as Europe has perhaps never known, and besides which all the much-advertised poverty of the Indian ryot is a comfortable competence. Doctrinaire theory, fanned by Russia., hut taking its origin from the campaign of Sun Yat Sen. holds sway among large masses of the people too ignorant to appreciate the subtler consequences, but ready to accept any doctrines that promise ;m amelioration of their lot.