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Show mm FEARFUL OF 0, 5. Ill CHINA ENGLISHMZN SEE DANGER IN AMERICANIZATION OF VAST CELESTIAL EMPIRE American Ways in China Are Not Approved Ap-proved Sy British People; Insist In-sist That U. S. Should Not Monopolize. j London A solemn warning on the i menace lo Britian tft rhe "American-I "American-I izing of China" is uttered by a special ; Far Kastern correspondent of the Daily .Mail, who recently intended the tenth anniversary celebration of Hie American indemnity (Tsing Hua) college col-lege in Peking. The college was established as a result of the United States govern, meat remitting part of ils share of I lie Boxer indemnity. "The boys here are China's future leaders," the correspondent says, ami after pointing out Ihat they all go to America after completing their studies in 1'eking. be coniliiiues : "Educated under the American system sys-tem aware, that they owe their schol-lirship schol-lirship to American justice, and saturated sat-urated with American sentiment by five to eight years' resilience in the United States, they will look lo America Amer-ica solely for cooperation in the troublous years to come. America is rearing the China of tomorrow. "Why should not we'' (the British) he demands, "share an influence that ive formerly monopolized and that is now slipping away from us?" and lie sjops on : "I asked a returned student as we watched 1he boys at baseball, why China did not look to England as an educational Held. " 'Sure we will,' he replied,' when you remit Hie Boxer indemnity.'" The Chinese president of the college put it to the correspondent this way: "Chinese-American friendship has become so proverbial that few people take the trouble to investigate the cause of such good International understanding. un-derstanding. Any country that wishes to captivate the hearts of the Chinese can do no hotter than follow the example ex-ample set by America." B. Lenox-Sirapson, an Englishman who holds the post of political adviser advis-er to the Chinese government, and who is at present in London, writes to the Daily Mail that the process of the Americanization of China is a very real one. "Big business," he says' "is tending to go more and more to American firms, because the Chinese believe in favoring those who favor them," and he concludes: "The helpfulness of America, not only to young China but also to old China, is a subject of common conversation con-versation throughout the immense Chinese society which til's the Far Eastern continent. So far the results of this have not been felt or understood under-stood in this country, but unless we take speedy action, we are destined to drop during the next twelve months to third or fourth place in the Chinese republic, and thereby affect our whole standing throughout Asia. |