CHINESE SITUATION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 96, 27 August 1913, Page 5

CHINESE SITUATION

SOME PLAIN SPEAKING.

THE COUNTRY IN 1912

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright fUnited Press Association.]

London, August 2(3. A Blue Book dealing with China in 1912, up to November, emphasise! the bitterness of the Nationalist, the' Sun-Yat-Sen party, against Yuan Sliih-Kai, and their equal hostility tc foreigners, as shown by the persistent agitation against a foreign loan and an attempt to collect native subscriptions instead. The Blue Book shows that the failure of the attempt was partly due If patriotic subscribers contributing bad paper money issued during the Revolution, and unnegotiable.. Yuan-Shih-Kai estimated that a million waf unpaid and was unemployable. Tin soldiery were left armed after the Revolution and were distributed throughout China, with the result that a long series of mutinies, murders and looting occurred.

The report of ' the senior British naval officer at Canton declares that Chinese patrols wore invariably me' streaming as fast as possible awa\ from any disturbance on the West River.

The Chronicle, commenting on tip Blue Book, remarks that the seatotal of human misery in China since the fall of the Manchus was staggering. Although the Chinese were a clever race, the Blue Book shows that they are so steeped in the tradition! of dishonesty and individualism as tc he almost incapable of organising their chaos. No substitute has been found for a national unifying on the principle of the religious respect fni merly paid to the Manchus.

OUTLOOK NOT ENCOURAGING

Times — Sydney Sun Special Cables London, August 25.

The Times’ Peking correspondent says that the situation is not encouraging. Nanking, despite interna' dissensions, is still resisting three Government armies. The flahhinosi of the provincial administration is er. couraging isolated risings. r J he country' is flooded witlr depreciated notet and scrambles for concessions are recommencing. Anyone possessing ■ i little cash is able to obtain railway contracts and orders for war materials. British enterprise is suffering.