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be formed by the execution of projects Nos. 8, 9, 12 and 13 in addition to the existing line from Honanfu to Kaifeng.
15. From Tsingkiangpu along the Grand Canal to Kwachow (on the Yangtse opposite Chinkiang); over 100 miles.
16. Sinyangchow to Fengyang or Pukow, 270 miles.
17. Chaochowfu or Swatow viâ Waichow to Sheklung or Shunchün; 200 miles. Alternative projects for connecting Swatow with the Canton district and the Canton- Kowloon Railway.
18 Macao to Fatshan (on the Canton-Samshui line), 75 miles. Concession granted to a Portuguese syndicate in 1902.
9. Kweilin to Chuanchow (Kwangsi), 80 miles. Preliminary survey made in 1909; no funds for construction.
20. Langson to Lungchow, 46 miles. A proposed French extension, metre gauge. of the Hanoi-Langson me. It is proposed to continue this line to Nanning (150 miles), 21. Yunnanfu to Szechuan, 450 miles. To Suifu or to Luchow. Two American engi- neers were engaged by the Viceroy of Yunnan to survey in 1909. Probably metre gauge.
22. Bhamo to Teng Yueh (Tien-Mien), 123 miles. Preliminary surveys completed; 2 foot 6 inches or metre gauge.
The year 1900 will ever be memorable in the history of China. It witnessed the last and a most determined attempt to break away from foreign influence and to revert to the exclusiveness of twenty centuries. The causes of the great social and political upheaval are not far to seek, though from their interaction and overlapping they are by no means easy to set forth in the sequence of their importance. The associations brought about by an expanding trade, by missionary effort, and by reciprocated diplomatic representation have not in any way lessened the hostile mental attitude engendered by alien civilizations, literatures, and moral standards: there are still gaps between the Western and Chinese mind that no sympathy can bridge. The whole trend of Chinese education is especially calculated to ensure a hostile bias towards change, towards reform of abuse, and towards the adaptation of environment to new conditions, on which depends the continued existence of men and governments alike. The governing and influential classes have an enormous vested interest in retaining things as they are in every phase of Chinese life. There can be but one issue to a policy like the rs in thes days, though the Chinese, unlike their more nimble-minded neighbours in the East, are unable to see it. As in all countries where an enormous population lives on the narrow ledge that divides poverty from famine, there is ever a large element of social discontent ready to be moulded to whatever end crafty or plausible leaders may determine. In many places this has been directed against missionary converts and the Christian propaganda, and has given rise to a widespread idea that the Christian religion is in itself hateful to the Chinese. It may be admitted that in cases the indiscretions of the missionaries, and in a few more that of the converts, in claiming special privileges and in using the ægis of their teachers for the advance of their private ends, gives some colour to the charge that missionary enterprise is the main cause of anti- foreign feeling in China; hut by anyone who knows the relatively small field of missionary influence, and the huge area over which the blind national enmity obtains, it must be dismissed as incommensurate to the phenomenon, though it undoubtedly assists in swelling the tide of anti-foreign hatred. A more just explanation may be found in education and in the recent history of China. Shallow observers dony that there is patriotic sentiment in the Chinese, but that is an error. Patriotism has not the fine edge that it has in Western countries, and is not so active in personal or national conduct, but to say that it is non-existent is absurd. The national conceit in their own ineffable superiority implies a strong feeling at least akin to love of country. This conceit had, among the educated classes, received severe and deadly wounds from the issues of the Japanese war, the seizure of Kiau-chou, Port Arthur and Wei-hai-wei, from French aggression in the South and the ill-concealed designs of Italy in Chekiang, The degradation of high officials at the call of foreign ministers, the overbearing attitude of strong men like von Herking and Pavilov in l'eking, even the extension of the foreign Settlements in Shanghai and other places, and the utter insouciance with which the partition and general treatment of China is usually discussed in the foreign Press, have all contributed to accentuate and to intensify the chronic bitter anti-foreign feeling,
To this we have but to add the unfathomable ignorance of the outside world and its resources displayed by the harem-ridden and secluded Manchus in Peking, to get most of the elements in which the recent troubles originated