The news from China has been very grave during 'the
week. Canton has passed into the control of the Kuomintang after a heavy slaughter of the Yunnanese. Following the unfortunate incident at Shanghai in which 'a police station was attacked and several deaths occurred 'amongst- the Chinese students, there have been violent `outbreaks elsewhere, Strikes and demonstrations against foreigners at almost all the treaty ports continue. The Central Government at Peking has sent a note to the British Legation in which it is assumed that the British were to blame for the Shanghai incident. It is said that the Central Government is controlled by the Christian General Fen Yu-hsiang, who is taking the part of the students and strikers. On Monday the British 1000 legation answered the Chinese note, denying that the 1001 British authorities at Shanghai had been guilty of any 1002 inhumanity, and reminding the Chinese Government 1003 " of the grave responsibility they were incurring by 1005 allowing the present anti-British agitation to remain unchecked." Indeed it is evident that there is wide anti-British feeling throughout China. Whether this has been caused by the conditions of labour in the factories of the treaty ports, where conditions arc better than 1009 elsewhere, or by the feeling that China has not been treated as a full-grown sovereign state, the fact remains that this country, as the most important of the foreign powers, is regarded with a special dislike by the Chinese nationalists.
