TROUBLED CHINA

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 108, 29 December 1931, Page 5

TROUBLED CHINA

(Press" Assn.-

strong h and needed impressions of new zealand visitor to shanghai BRITISH AIMS^MISUNDERSTOOD

-By Telegraph — Copyright.)

WELLINGTON; Monday. Impressions of troubled China, as viewed by a foreign observer, were given by Mr. H. F. von Haast, who returned to-day after attending the conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations at Shanghai. Mr. von Haast said that anti-Jap-anese feeling ran extremely high in Shanghai. It appeared to him that the Japanese were determined to stay in Manchuria. To a New Zealander, whose ideas of the Chinese raee were formed by association with laundrymen and market gardeners, it was an education to meet a cultured and educated Chinese-, most of whom had been educated at Harvard or one of the English universities. Mr.- von Haast said he thought it would be a mistake to abandon the Hankow concession while Japan still had concessions there. China did riot appear to appreciate the fact the Great Britain was willing to nieet her half way, and mistook the spirit of conciliation for a display of weakness. A strong dictatorship was reqnired in China to ensure, first the establishment of law and ordfer and then of stable Government. There never was a time when China needed foreigners more than now, Mr. von Haast continued but there never was a time when she was more antagonistic to them and anxious to get rid of them altogether. .