Show I II I Chinas China's A Awakening wakening r l j pHERE HERE are e many evidences that the national awakening so T THERE 1 long predicted for China is about to take place The slumber of contentment which has held the Chinese at a level while all the rest of the world was advancing is slowly giving a away way to a I 1 restlessness and soon the giant of the Orient may open wide his eyes stretch forth his limbs and stride forth to a leading place among the nations of the world The peace conference proposal to rob China for the benefit of J Japan pan has done much to solidify sentiment among the Chinese I I and create a fe feeling ling of nationalism such as has never before been I wih- wih witnessed in that country China has been robbed many many times in inthe inthe inthe the past she has been browbeaten and humiliated spat at and trampled on but all the abuse has rolled off her lethargic shoulders while she continued in drugged slumber But the peace conference settlement of the Shantung dispute has not passed unnoticed in China The Chinese have awakened at this latest affront and they are showing a determination to to secure their rights They have not threatened war but they have threatened what Japan c can n stand even less and that is an effective boycott against everything Japanese There is too an unanimity behind the threat that China has never before evid evidenced Chinas China's sons and some of her daughters have gone forth in inthe inthe inthe the world orId during the past few decades and the they have learned teamed many things They have enrolled in our schools and colleges and they ha have ve carried the teachings and aspirations of the Occident back to their native land They have spread the propaganda of nationalism nationalist national national- ism of a China united and independent and it is because of their teachings that China today raises its head and offers objection to further spoliation of her sovereignty |