CHINA AND HER GERMANS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1873, 5 September 1918, Page 4

CHINA AND HER GERMANS.

Disappointment has been caused by (he cancellation of the •arrangements to deport Germans in China, which were practically complete when they were cancelled. . The North China Daily News, quoting special instances in the long list of German atrocities, stales that China has given way, not from fear, hut from feelings of humanity and for the sake of her civilian fellow-coun-trymen in German hands. Nevertheless, the damage which this departure from the previous decision will cause to allied prestige cannot he concealed. The newspaper urges that the Chinese Government should at least intern the Germans, who are at the bottom of all the present civil war and chaos in China. The decision of the Chinese Government to deport enemy suhpects from China was announced on June BUI, and on June 17111 it was reported that Dr, Tsar, Secretary to the Chinese Legation at Tokio, had been appointed director of the bureau for the deportation of 7,00(1 German men and women to Australia, and that he had left for Pekin on Ids way to the Dominion. In the meantime Dr. Kriege, of the German Foreign Ollice, had stated in the Reichstag that the Government had taken “most emphatic steps against any such proposed measure, and had threatened the severest reprisals.” A few days later (he Deutsche Tagus Zeituug published a communication demanding that it the Germans in China were deported to Australia reprisals should he taken by imprisoning in Germany 30,000 inhabitants of the occupied French regions. Count Reventlow’s comment on this suggestion was that the reprisals should he applied to British prisonsr, adding, “We have still other means.”