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...hard-hitting British Editor Henry George Wandesfdrde Woodhead of the Peking & Tientsin Times started a campaign in which he "questioned"-to use his own mild fighting word-the advisability of Britain's continuing to devote her share of the Boxer Indemnity to Chinese Education. Editor Woodhead recently recalled in Oriental Affairs: "China at that time was already experiencing considerable trouble from the insubordination of her students, and it hardly seemed credible that purposes mutually beneficial to China and Great Britain would be realized by adding enormously to the number of higher educational institutions...
Feng Flayed- Members of the present Chinese Government cannot very well be taken to pieces by a Shanghai editor & publisher, but what Mr. Woodhead might have written can be surmised from his manner of cutting loose about recent Chinese leaders who are barely over the threshold of retirement, such as the famed "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang...
...curious mixture was the Christian General," writes Editor Woodhead. "He was a man of violent temper. In February 1924, when he was on his way through the Legation Quarter to dine with the American Minister, the police attempted to stop his car, which was proceeding at excessive speed, with glaring headlights and armed guards on the footboards. The car stopped to avoid running over one of the police on point duty, and General Feng got out and ordered his bodyguard to kill the constable. Fortunately this order was not obeyed. He snatched the man's baton from...
...Although the present Chinese Government professes to rule in the spirit of its late and sainted Dr. Sun Yat-sen's principles, not even Saint Sun's imposing granite tomb at Nanking nor the Saint's picture in every Chinese official's office deters Editor Woodhead from attempting to scorch...
Imperialist Woodhead, Thus every page of Henry George Wandesforde Woodhead's memoirs carries the brisk imprint of the Imperialist, the white man of business who finds the Chinese "anti-foreign," and has a hankering sympathy for the Japanese because today they are a people with the virility and strength the White Race once showed in bursting into China, and establishing itself with special superior status in the "treaty ports." Not only does Editor Woodhead take many illustrious Chinese to task, but he relates a wealth of anecdotes. Of the humble Chinese family whose robber son was being strangled slowly...