CHINA AND THE WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 20 October 1915, Page 8

CHINA AND THE WAR.

Tlhe National Review lias published a paper bjy Mr F. T. Cheng, entitled "A Chinese View of the War," which is remarkable laike for the auhotr's mastery of our language and intimate kn-rvii'ecijrt* of our literature he has Dickens find Dr. Johnson at his fingers enc, —as well as for his sagacity and rVpf-crnment. Ho refers inter alia to "The Hymn of Hate"—which is now asserted to be an old explosion of Saxcn animosity against Prussia adapted to new conditions— and the dismissal of Bismarck as the best signs of Germany's ultimate failure. As regards ni *s own country, he gives the following throe reasons why the attitude of the Chinese cannot be antiBritish. "Firstly, Chinese and Britislh interests are very much interwoven in i the Far East, for practically our entire foreign trade is either conducted through British trading houses or at least carried on in British possessions —a British disaster would bring ruin upon many Chinese homes. Secondly, the acts committed by the Germans on their march on Pekin after the Boxer rising are not yet forgotten. Thirdly, as China cannct sitll acord to go. to war with any nation, it would be .in |her interest to see international law respected, because that might still give \ her some sort cf protection against un- j far dealings in her international rela- j tions." I