Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1929, Page 12

GLIMPSING THE FAR EAST By GIDEON A. LYON, Member of American Journalists’ Party Which Has.Been Touring the Orient as Guests of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. On Board Steamer Shanghal Maru, Shanghal to Nagasaki, July 15, 1929. A bell clangs, a deep-toned whistle blows, a tug snorts and the ship moves away from the dock. A hundred Jap- anese Boy Scouts, ranged along the up- per deck, tug at the paper tapes of all colors that stretch to the hands of friends and relatives on the wharf. The air rings with banzais and the Chinese equivalent for that Japanese word of | geeting, farewell and patriotic cheer. ‘The more ceremonious ‘“sayonara” is heard. ‘We who have been touring through a little corner of China—but a very im- portant corner—for the past three weeks or so in the hope of getting a better understanding of that land of complexities and _dramatic possibilities, turn from the Shanghai side of the “Who did these things in the name of China? Was it the railroad adminis- tration? Was it the Manchurian chief- tain, Chang Hseu Liang?.-Was it the Nationalist government at Nanking?” At this time of writing, nobody seems to know. The other day the hint was given in one of the dispatches from Peiping, where the chief Nationalist of- ficials were about to disperse after a series of important conferences, that if Russia were to press the point of re- sponsibility too far, Nanking would “pass the buck” to Harbin and disclaim the affair. Then immediately came the report that in a very short time the “foreign affairs” departments of the three provinces which constitute Man- churia would be merged with or trans- ferred fo the foreign affairs depart- go_to Manchuria, and possibly Mon- golia, on such an issue? The late Sun Yat Sen, whose body now is enshrines mausoleum at Nanking—which a grou| of our members went to see, but vlhlzg was denied me because of a passing in- disposition—established the Nationalist government of China upon-his three famous_ “principles”—namely, Nation- alism, Democracy and Livelihood. His words, his “will,” his principles and his “five-fold constitution” now are bla- zoned all over China on walls in great white characters upon a fleld of blue. Every Monday morning at 9 o'clock every government worker, in all parts of China, and even the employes of large Chinese-controlled business and indus- trial establishments, are assembled and recite in unison the “will” and the “principles” and then bow three times before the portrait of Sun Yat Sen. Evasive Answers of Kuomintangs. In this way are Sun Yat Sen's suc- cessors trying to develop and solidify a nationalist spirit. But back of the government—in fact, the makers of the government—are the members of the Kuomintang party. I have endeavored to ascertaln how membership in this party is acquired, but every time I have 80 far as it applies to all < should be proclal in a magnificent | pal Ip. Perhaps it may be the part of wis- dom to hold the power of government, na, in the hands of a small group pending the evolution of what may be called a cit- izenship consciousness. But to call China a republic mea lle is to use & metaphor without real mnnlnf. It may not be the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” as they call government in Russia, but it is strikingly like it. It is certainly the dictatorship of a group of more or less self-selected persons, ‘e hind whom stands a large mass of in- fluence known as the Kuomintang party. It is regarded at Shanghai as some- what anomalous that just as the Chi- nese government—whoever may be tually doing it—is putting the skids un- der the Russians in the matter of the Chinese Eastern Railway, thefeby rais- ing the question of the “scrap of pa- per” value of a tre: Dr. C. T. Wang, minister of foreign affairs at Nanking, ing that all extra- territorial rights and all settlements and concessions must be abolished by DEPENDABLE QUALITY 'SERVICE LOW PRICES Have made the A&P Food Stores the daily shopping place of over two million American wives and m put the question to a wearer of the Kuomintang badge—which is issued to | 1% 18t of next Januasy, = o ore him and recorded by number and which | o0 he must not lose on penalty of a fine | o ',ltmu'F”"“""m:‘u:':'::fi‘mwflllk{'] of a month's pay and a severe demerit | [of % 18, xecogntacd That Bh ot Ce oy —I have received one of those evasive | oo £O0® ¥ Tt g e d answers to which we are now accus- it e TI tale of th tomed. I do mot know whether the |Prevalling at the various capltals of the question is understood or mot. But the world belleves for a moment that con- | fact stands that nobody has been able, 1 Sy, Wil B¢ Eiven by them so long A3 or willing, to tell me just how a Chinese | CES CVTCC BURINTE, FICn O res. gets into the party that runs the gov- y 2 ernment. —_ ‘There never has been an election in China as we understand the word. The republic was proclaimed by the Kuo- mintang. The other day in Peiping Chiang Kal Shek emphatically de- nounced all attempts to form a second | or competitive party and declared that China must have only one party and that the Kuomintang. Which sounds, forsooth, suggestively like the pro- |l e nouncelgenu oft:lhe l{l‘osco;v commis- sars, who aver that there is room in vt tor ovie the Commanst par. - | DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Just what is meant by “national'sm”? | Eyesight Specialist Sun Yat Sen recognized that China | 2 contains five racial stocks, Hans, Man- | . chus, Mongols, Tartars and Tibetans, ;Fdl h'lldm‘l'lllm tuhl'. .h certain I’lcl;l‘ A typical illustration of the Kuomintang propaganda campaign for a unified | distinction still exists which distorts the . real meaning of a republic, 50 steps China is found in this government propaganda on the walls in ;:;2;1:;.0 A L | must e taken to Cement the unity of - A 1| the individual; peoples inhabiting China | ment of the Natlonalist government at | —We must satisfy the demands and re- | Nanking. quirements of all peoples and unite | Up there in Manchuria, Marshal them in a single cultural and political Chang Hseu Liang commands an army | Whole, to constitute a single nation. of approximately 250,000 troops. He ade. has just left Peiping after taking part s i in the conferences with Chiang Kai Advance has unquestionably .been | Shek, the president, and Marshal Yen, [made toward this end. But in_the| who 'was persuaded not to go abroad |judgment of many who have long been true aspect of the situation so varied | with Gen. Feng, who in turn reconsid- | students of the Chinese that advance in principle and in detail that we feel ' ered his foreign trip. The “Young|cannot be carried much further at somewhat as we did on leaving Peiping, | Marshal” of Manchuria evidently wants | present. It will be limited, they believe, when two military bands played fare- | to play ball with Nanking. 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