The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1912. INTERNATIONAL MORALITY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 93, 19 April 1912, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1912. INTERNATIONAL MORALITY

An exceedingly sarcastic article by Mr Sidney Low is published in the “Fortnightly Review” on “The Most Christian Powers,” in which, the writer remarks that during the past ten years a wave of sheer materialism and absolute contempt for international morality lias swept , across the foreign offices of Europe, and has re-acted disastrously upon the various Eastern nations in their desperate struggles to reform their Governments, abolish i autocracy, and establish a constitutional system. Turkey, Persia, and China have had good reason to doubt the benevolence of the “most Chnstion Powers.” Air Sidney Low points to Austria’s annexation of two Turkish provinces, and Russia’s encouragement to Bulgaria to declare its independence. Italy’s attack on Tripoli he calls “sheer robbery under arms.” And not a single European Government even formulated the mildest of remonstrances. England, he says, upheld France in suppressing the independence of Alorocco, and is upholding Russia in attacking the independence of Persia, her action in both eases being dictated by a desire to stand well with the despoders in view of a possible attack from Germany. Russia is also grabbing at Mongolia, now that China is so much divided by internal dissension as to be unable to restrain foreign aggression. Air Low presumes that ii Russia gets Mongolia, Japan will demand Manchuria as “compensation,” and Britain, Franco, and Germany will each want a slice of China. “In any case,” writes Air Low, “the transaction is unlikely to convince intelligent Buddhists, any more than the Persian proceedings have convinced our Alohammedan fellow-subjects in India, of the superior morality which infoims the foreign policy ol the Christian Powers of the West in their relations with the Governments and peoples of the brown and black and yellow world.”