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Show ill Ghina Be -- Experts, Including New Minister to United States, Believe She Will Escape Nation Today Worlds Greatest Problem Her Vast Population of 440 Millions Easily Might Smother the Earth With Numbers Mr. Bland Says Empty Cradles is Only Hope, Chinese Birth-Ratif Not Balanced by High Mortality, Would be Vast Disaster Dr. Hsieh, "Chinese Gompert, Says New Methods Would Prevent Peril Difference Between North and South China is, One Wants Pssre Democracy Like That of United States, Other Wishes Cab m t Responsible to Parliament. ' e, - the worlj principally tea, silk, bean oil,"" straw, bead of hV'merlfaft tlliair.Vr of Commerce .in beans, cereals, tallow, tlmberhi, and wood oil. JVhmr- - . owns the question ... of "We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to breaking up large estates does not exist with u as the Americana," said Mr, fte. -- I Took forward to It did in Russia, Our g system alone. meeting-thr- m I have been greatly, in Washington If there wen" no other bulwark, would protect tty t touched ty American kindness." . against Bolshevism." - In gomg to the United Slates Mr. Si is forced "The suffering in Chin this winter has to , leave his family in Europe, because he does not u been srvnrt, but ths people, looking a( Russia, see wish to interrupt theYtwdie of- - threw hMrea.now V ha prucrd Uhrvi.m thc that in English But hi.'wif very pretty lit- - even more sever. This maker China not even tie lady who speaks Fngii-- h witH s' musical voice, YaTT" fieliT" herein" Bolshevist propagandthli and his baby, presently will join him in his new srork." post 1911 Mr. Sxe isa conservative in polities, In MAYNARD EVANS. , he held aloof from th revolutionists, and when Washfirst mentioned for the port of minister to ington, was rejected by the Young China party. . . But with th organisation of the republic be sprang CHINESE COMPERS-HOPEINFLUENCE AMERICAN FOR and the North between into th dispute vigorously . South China" racGoni. .. . - " (Special Correspondence.) . PRESENT CONFLICT BETWEEN NORTH EW YORK, February 7 vThe declarations of ' . AND SOUTH. Mr. Sxe are borne out by those of Dr. Hsieh, It is unfortunate,", said; he, that these, two known as ths Chinese Samuel Gompers, who "is now is parties are not distinguished by different names, in the United States, but well known in England where he has studied and won a degree at Oxford other thsn tlioto of their sections, for great num(Special Correspondence.) bers of South Chinamen are in the North and mcew Dr. Hsieh 's comment- - is that the China Mr'Sxa versa. The real distinction is that the men - of will represent will be (he powers that be in Jhe new ONDON, February I. This arSouth China want a cabinet responsible to Pariia-- . Chinese republic. ticle tells of the new China. And as are European cabinets. .The North China ment Th--- : w, tn China," ho s no real rebellion, it introduce Mr Sao Ki Alfred. "party wants a republic on the American model, with declared to me last night after ho had read Mr. Sre (pronounced Zhu) the new president selecting hir own cabinet.' To make am Szet statement. 11 China is at peace. So Mr. Sxe Chinese minister to the United analogy in some other respects the South China will represent here more tijan fou- - and a half milStates, who. has represented hi party may be compared to the Democratic party lion square, miles of territory and all its. populations. Maw Chinese Mlaleter f TaHe sew Wife ( ChlBSM nialMt elle t in 'America and the North China party to the James' The political government which sends him is --country at the Court of St Statea Has Seta Peyalev IVresssts BliW Ckleee. lleAel at tSaeh-acI- L S. "American Rcoubtlcan." BU Yeara Her Umriaa n lla.fa etety the progressive element which rapidly is revolution. a at (eart taasea Hlch.gekeol at Ci for th past six years. - He will sail from EnglandJ Fer Past Six He says tout, the review: jof.Xlx..RcinxchT lade and cusloeac-T- he Tver SfaUt.r et txthg 'not'Mllyp'UVtie February 15 to &ke up hi post in Washington. In 0 American minister to Peking, expressed a of is merely Chinas growing be unrest speak London he will be succeeded by Mr. Wellington Koo, China is a poor attributa"exceptional interest and vahie." The country; therefote we cant have thought that present disorganization pain, it will serve a very useful purpose. Dr. Reinsch said that the history of China ble to an with whom he Is exchanging positions.' the on of Chinese incapacity one. But fortunately for the security (he peopart of the thrilling feature of th change is that .hardly any time and attention can be given to the old hangers on. when "Chin. is full of splendid dreamsw'6he feels almost (bat she can be one of the world's saviors rather school than a breeding ground of menace. . She can sup- first Chinese student at Washington high school, and vast natural re- recently An effort has been made to base political port her population if modem methods are introducThe Chinese development of China, if I may her illimitable finanfrom which t graduated in 1897, and the first at put it tha( way, must make for peace" if to be placed under the tutelage of power on military organization and foreign ed, and this can be done only by American influ only be-- sources is likely effort formidable ce apparently "Cornell University, getting my B. A. degree in 1901 with wil a cause the whole of Chines culture (est on the another state inspired grea crumbled in x week before popular opposition. The recent movement of the Chinese banks to devel.and my M. A. a year later. Tha( is the crux of Mr! Szcs whole thinking. power and appeal of moral force. The entire body Throhgfi all, according to Dr. Reinsch, the op the railways is vitally Important. Thirty-seve- n Mr. Sx waa then made attache to the Chinese of Confucian teaching centers round that concap- - China has not been and must not be Japanized . growing consciousness of the Chinese people victorsuch institudons hr. opposed a government loan of t legation at Washington, beginning a diplomatic .cm- - tion.-hold material force m meanly" that the although T"must be careful and state that he iously asserts iilself. Try to dam the country many millions for railway construction, and that lafloods at the cost of untold misery; dhe streams the reer which has included service as secretary to the-,- ,,.,. mention Japan by name at alL con proof of China '8new-bor- n b the Iowerf memberin our social greatest Chinese unrest rather as a good final course cannot be obstructed. He have such regards hitherto Commission at the first Hague Peace Con- in fidence for herself, enterprises archy. And the Chinese filiation of the fighting The course of the Chinese people, Mr. Reinsch been left to foreign espital. sign- - than a bad one,-- for he holds it to be a ibing ference, secretary to the High Commission sent from man remam Bnchanged as long as the Chinese 5f a in which is declares, is a irrevocably determined. They, will : inevitable to any country process American influence is plain everywhere.' The Chjna to study (he American system ef government .. peopl ara .Unwed' to progress and develop along' . other those and have representative institutions in spite of all minister of finance, Chao Chi Tri, formerly was systems governmental in change in 1905, attache in the legation at the Czar's court in the lines of their own national fundamental alterations in the peoples fife which obstructions,' misery, discouragement.- - He believes .. consul in New. York, then consul general at San character." of communications in Tan the coming civilisation already, is inevitably appar- - Francisco, and (wiee was minister of commur.ica-entdeclariSt Petersburg,-ministe- r must be associated with such .an event -- He Mr. Sze has given his View of the present that wise statesmen will ally them- - t,nn of cereiminies that similar U.nrest.tQd:iy.exists.jnalniObt an Amcrican-trainc- g n, Ehsoyi cabinet Chinejgacute ery"fr'nkly 5rihe"BnHsKpiMtr and all the force with release the to due selves the uitrigue denying by great country, the respect not only of the commands He European nd able. every residential palace. In 1907 he took a group of An article contributed to the current Issue of The "Great War fit ideas and forces which shake the . , classes but unquestionably of the masses. "Chinese students to the United Statev depositing Asiatic Review (written, by the way, in beautiful foundation of the European systems. . Mr. Sze directs attention, also, to the fact that j . Mr A1yrd Sm theTiew minister to Washing- them at various universities and colleges. , of France, after vis- ton, was educated In America and is a contemporary Mr. Paul Painleve, " English) attracted much attention. He has put . WE MUST NOT ASK TOC MUCHT deHes a slim, little man, of an amiable and new" thought about China 1! into EuropearT iting China expressed his confidence in her He of Chao Chi Tri, closely his friend.1 . Claim is that a mxw type the he Twentieth The says In mental Europe nied vegetation. dable disposition test has won him a host of fnends mind3. 1 Perhaps . he will stagnation, The railways of North China for overlweive perform the same service of life is being introduced, and that complete effiwill be Chinas century, M. Painleve declared, just have been under (he control of Alfred, Tzea SN." years daring the years that be baa been in London. His f0T America. been cannot be expected until men have Nineteenth was Americas. Tomorrow China the as ciency Jxe Chao .Tung, and a third brother, brother, Servitfes did "China much to bring into diplomatic We are a people bo, of all living races, wbrk this will be a nation, extensively decentralized but on e. go trained and even bred' to accept gnd a graduate of Cornell, is gaining Thomas Tze, side oid of Allies and on the the to effect the . farthest back into the past, said the war .in. iheconcert. The, men trained under the scheme of life. andundivisib!er an elementof-weight Sze at Washington will find hostsof old -he.We Mr "u . ' transport of tha 100,000 Chinese laborers who served a tiation long before the Roma set system of government" m usiTgo" n nt i f thisjias of civilized powers. friends. We shall have something real at the Chin' If this-i- s enthusiwith imperfectly.-and tfcejfworic done been' Sze these Mr. the Allied armies in France. His brother-in-laquoted expressions ese embassy. the British Isles. asm.true in Europe, he maintains, it 1st truer still T And there are real things in China also. WithlisrryTong, a graduate of Purdue University, It is a little stunning to hear him say.that the China, where the operating change is indefinitely Discussing the Chinese situation with interna-tiorin the new cabinet are such men as Dr. W. W, Yen. enlisted s private in the American rmy and was Chine8e haJ Wn JIving twenty' centuries' greater."" expects here in London, which is their'gath- -' formerly of the Washington legation and a' grad- m- later made s sergeant. V a ATr disturbance as of Stc regards period of tiieir before rivers th valleys . ering place, however, one gains (he impression that Ba(! of the Univcrrifyof VLmnia, And he, at pres" Englishman seto Mr. Sxe goes to the United States at a time when foot In the Thames' valley.' Cmir of natenW will there is a real dangerthat the 'that At ent, is minister of foreign affairs at Peking. Amer s time,' wh te in the aorld, China has fewer, by far, be torn a Prt through the activities of certain fr-- jCJm in th. Far East has become pregnant M ol the' influence, you will observe, ft strong thOre. He . Europc without the sIighte8t small the couniry trained men, of course, than European nations. roed of a new world wr. s eign governments anxious to partition f,MrRflled man one pf the foremost of. our Confurianism tlonr,M is a living, The same problem of into spheres of influence. - There is a plot unqiies-- duct the state department-- of to The Japanese attitude of holding China as witK- . breathing, powerful force in China. tionably existing to cut China offfrom the United nation. The peoples and the races who were the con. .. - n,e minister gobbling her trade, alienating her friendMr. Fan 'Yung States, education, , with- sage said, and government will flourish; but ghip joinjng her, perhaps, to ceftem potential all temporaries of , these early . Chinese all have van y - nf Viepn months , toflf .t decays. The admmistraeontinuons- -f neAmerican republic. out tbeJnen-- X mes Open' Door' o jHgr-ihteducators America, through.the butlhe traveling the " great Chintheo6scuritybF past, Lz tion of govern nient lies m getting proper men. tion. The Occupation - of Shantung continues to ese Jh chances of success for this Idea'are out the country and studying everywhere the survive, a living, coherent body, four times as Mr- - SV, thought that whetherjh.s oele- is It women heljrhtene, by the.harrowing fact that' 58, 000.000 stir up the feeling of distrust that was aroused numerous in numbers as the brated saying of tfi great Chinese philosopher ex- - Chine sre starving in the provinces' of Chic-l- i, people of the United lie will in China next believes and that th? century whes the province was pot under the Mikados States, totaling about 40,000,000. The aggregate plains European unresjpr not, it explains Chin-- Honan, jShantung and. Shendi, through the failure of in the hands of women. It wg through his instrucon trot at th Peace Conference and. that was is inconceivable. And ho wus ruid by an autocracy up q. P. Bland, famous British expert on mentality that a (mecial delegate of China, Dr. W. declares that while the ese unrest. China ,the ctopt re- of 1911-1, This then was revolution to and well .known in America, the among the first causes of the Peace T ready chine affairs, Chinese are the oldest race on earth, their minds P. Quo,; participated in Chinese r presentation a( democratic system, for the operation a long period of .the Peace Table. Chinas only hope it tbat by tion by the Senate at Washington. - The Nationaleareg possess the vitality , and elasticity which enables none nr . really had been trained. gmptycradles.- of which fewmen this mat's energies And it has been . ist taovement in Korea has led to th policy of sup- them to have adopted, very through a period of dif- recently, (he most Chma p'-'- e Therefore the converted has thousand rm- China twenty that pression that makes the English policy ip Ireform ' of government a republicanism, fieult transition. Her parliamentary machinery,". . her' language have which hitherto bots yeoresented th Korea which, if properly directed, win be based land mild by comparison;, and of necessity must be worked by mem into an alphabet of thirty-nphonetic characters. upon the brand new, e old or and system by amateurs, trained under the dispute that caused th model furnished by the United States. TW ChinThis will Vevoiuiionize China, making Jt po!ble for they be, (hey really do not yet earnest though quarter of a century ago. man upon the street to learn to read without dethe dead instead of being ese, race, are, indeed, he know how to work it. " o . .. riobef y. r to it. voting hab.tabie th overwhelm WILL JAPAN GOBBLE CHINA! would an of intimates, aggregate very vital, very enerThe nations present d.sturbances, Mr. Sze ar- - speedily the conversion toward will This will Immensely help Chine population the and elbow room, food n f or racial almost with China going to femain getic thinkers, striving mespaetty Tha question are Unprecedented in other worda T nil It of the nation to modero idevs. If is confidently asfaults of" national chrrecterT' but" the defects in- - doubto within twenty years, energy toward progress. independent or is she to be administered by tba serted that in Ch na ton year wiil see the 90 per Would amount at t)ie end of th present tentury of transition. He re- -. ' He attributes the Chinese survival, which ts separable from the period cent of Clsterqte reduced to 10 per. cent. Foreignthan more the haifbilTions, a. twoand tosst Japanese empire as another India! to at -riv a the Surface, ImCcatiims of th- -n -shown notable most the . the eeea than baa China ecu and ers, H 1 Bald. Will be able to master the new tb iron tones aa her by' globe vraridYbistory, to which are stirring China . tal present population of Japan for deep zi'jrr It. so timpei the earth can support. From this Hood, th world ten language within six weeks, great prise; If be is still resolved to dominate .the fact that the people are adaptable, having a daily to the remetijd depths of soul and body. When this has b&w done and the dialect shall bv saved factories -been has during past ked Bolto to if he abandon only 5z th felt that demands" afford cannot ef capacity ts respond When Mr. peculiar any part of China, tb have been Unified into one language, the American and Infanticide. e, famine, pestilences, civil wars - bef pber-0wr- is a pe-- tl m h eouhtry'his reply was: fihsatohg ar Korea. Tbe Ugifod- - rhange hefc.ancA.tbeyvmlirotbrm, ., Tis. (xm- -. " Mr. which hitherto compclled to know China through tbe-uhorrible sal fguards. A tt sf the wry r '"'"No"; anyihrng W the natute "bf'dlrtctirm- by -" -: m China, with representative Chinese, in"rrr. Tniled SUErewBTStates is virtually tb only power capable of tredietory a it may be to the popular conception' S, proletiruit re to today refere a Bland opetiv atrong nd developedrrcPP06 a as hestotes fundsmenUl new As some Chiaese Chinree, of form (he ritaation. the famine, for rfoistance. fact of the count conceptions. racUnt thg pwy of workers. - Ohm, essentially an agrWul- - The most powerful fYtided 1 ZT !!!"" by the Amerkan min: he Tbeatring ihat China is changeless," nrW thst bMmditoi - mhinerv - Amerksn ctmimiftee' puf It this wayrBOward Marshal) Syndicate lae, H C. Faxon, CopyngM fry 6 mUeinevBj leading foreigners to - the iwn which Bolbens' iiust be founded. We give Tstor, Charles R. Crane asd beedad by V nur. Chlnwiullo, Th la tka mlnda of la, to tb Vnlttd tka moat Important la tka world. For tkla Chars ara atvtral rtuaaa Oaa la that If awakaolof China n pormlttad to fall aa-dJapan leadership, ttrcnsthonluc that os (resale) military aatloa with tha man power mof fmta hundred Ulfcn..tlta long predicted War Kao." colored acalnat whit, according to moap of tha world1-bes- t thinkers, surelje woo Id he pro clpltated. And bow would it eed? "Another la' that China is trying to carnhat'hls Idea and need help. between aa a republic, she warer ' aid ruropwil' klurTrir AllierlMUl pirns and tdela The world will he safer If she follows the American lead. In the arcompanyinc article, from London and New York, especially prepared for this newspaper. are the espressloa of Mr. Bso lit Alfred Baa new Chinese minister to the I'nlteJ Btatea, now resident In Borland, but educated In America, who favors American leaderahlp la China; tha am ring V. Bland, the famous British prediction of J. Chios expert, "she betierry that only an. era of amply Chines cradlcat. ran ears the world; and a rsrapttnlailoo of the whole situation from the Up of Or Tehyl Hsieh. the famous organiser of Chinese labor, who believes that only the Cnlted States can preserve Chinn for her hew democracy and preserve civilisation a we know It. Each-farm- er his-lan- d; j land-holdin- 7 . yUlt a S, -- u,,. -- hoi-lHess , :1 man-pow- ' We did-no- -- nos-nb'- hier-Chine- se - ng and-mast- er e-p 1 -- so-'i- m infTu-ene- yre foot-withi- . n.. r : , r al ixtiie oldt wheilHle excep-whhj- h. Pan. intem-ievrin- - poltey-amatter-- - ' g f- it- -- -- j . 2. -- -- 7" "T s th-oo- gh ' it-w- Cbino-Japanea- - isrI -- Civ-gur- m se y-- Hr ' Chtn-shevis- m - n- -- - a -- t if- :J -- i 4 |