:08:00
Well, if l were you,
l'd jump overboard while l still had time.
:08:04
- Do you know anything about her?
- Uh-uh.
:08:06
American gunboats in central China
are a painful local joke, Mr Holman.
:08:10
- And the most painful is the San Pablo.
- Oh, yeah?
:08:14
l think she's something you chaps inherited
from Spain after the Spanish-American War.
:08:19
Well, l missed that one.
:08:21
They don't let her on the Yangtze proper.
They keep her up in some small river.
:08:26
You must know her.
She operates near Changsha.
:08:28
- Yes. We know her.
- Mr Jameson dislikes gunboats.
:08:33
Whatever flag they fly.
English, French, American...
:08:36
Symbols of what
the great powers did to this nation.
:08:39
Nation? Don't be ridiculous.
:08:41
lt's a patchwork quilt of bandits,
warlords, mobs, rape, loot and chaos.
:08:46
China will be unable
to put her own house in order
:08:49
until she is free of
your enslaving, unequal treaties.
:08:52
Foreigners collecting her taxes, placed
in charge of her Customs, postal system...
:08:57
Foreigners enjoying immunity from her laws.
Would we tolerate a Frenchman
:09:02
who had committed a crime in America
not to be tried in our courts?
:09:05
You know Chinese justice.
:09:07
Confessions by torture, corruption...
:09:10
Have you seen the executioner of the
warlords walk through the streets? ''Oh, you.''
:09:17
''Ah. You!''
:09:20
Well, do you think that's funny?
:09:22
Well, you do it kinda funny.
:09:25
Yes, those things happen.
But they're trying.
:09:28
Responsible Chinese leaders
are trying to put their house in order.
:09:32
- From the south, the Nationalist Party...
- Mobs, that's all l see. Mobs that threaten us.
:09:38
Confusing, isn't it? And painful.
:09:43
l bequeath China and her agonies
to you youngsters, with pity,
:09:47
and with the hope that perhaps
you can understand what's going on,
:09:51
can comprehend what so many people
are going to have to die for.
:09:56
The good, the bad... the innocent.