Modern Review December 1924

It cannot be denied that the coming into power of a !About Government in Britain (which was the oucome of an act of faith on the part of the British people) has changed the atmosphere. the morale and the political outlook not only of Europe but of America. [...] Accordingly when the English troops took possession of the city leaving the Emperor in undisturbed command within the Palace and Fort the general sympathy of the people was with them and they were pleased with their forbearance. [...] Sir Theophilus Metcalfe was perharps the most (anions among the Resident Commissioners and he used to live in the large hungalow on the banks of the river Junma at the foot of the Ridge which still called 'Metcalfe House' after him today. [...] What else Could; they do ? Unfortunately the more exact from the Peking 'Government the they stir up the opponents of Peking out the country ; for the Government : by the politically1ninded not only 626 "ti26 THE MODERN REVIEW FOR DECEMBER 1924 corruption but also because it reprogents the humiliation of China in her relations with the other nations. [...] It is typical of the state of affairs in China that while Chinese are prtesting.against this sacrifice of the innocent and saying little of the original outrage a foreign Puss correspondent at Wanhsien writes of the heinousness of allowing the guilicle_escape but has not a word for the lleheatWvictims.