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BY THE The SHANGHAI CONLESPONDENT.) Construction work ou the railway from Shanghai to Nauking is actively proceeding, and it is hoped that the opening of the fleet section may take place before this eloso of the yost. Readers of The Times are familiar with the history of this concesion, originally granted in May, 1898, and recognized to be an exclusively British undertaking us one of the compensatory Chines+ Govern advantages" following upon the ment's breach of faith in the Laban affair. It is unnecessary to recapitulate the causes which, ines 1898, bave postponed the beginning of work on this
important conversion they originated to a certain extent in the reluctance of the London money market to invest capital in China sftar the Boxer outbreak, but they are more directly attributable to the political intrigues which EXPERTS.hove inducaced the Chinese Govoranont in general, and Sheng Ta jen (Directer-General of Railways) in particular, to oppose British entor MANUFACTURERS, TUNERS to support the Frauss-Belgian group
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JAPAN'S RELATIONS WITH AMERICA.
PROPOSED ECONOMIC AJRANCE. Baron Kaneko, ex-Minister of Agriculture in the Cabinet of Marquis Ito, concerning whore uniston to the United States there has he
much sonjecture, said to an interviewer on August 80 that liis business in America wast purely of an economio natare.
He said: In the year and a quarter that I have been in this canptry, I have been studying constantly. My sojourns in Europe proved to me that the European markets wore filled with their own produce, and I saw here that if the front door of the American market was closed the book door was open to Asia. In the comes of my investigations I have talked with all kinds of poople and have learned a great soal shut what I balleve to be the glorious future that lies before the United States in the Far East
America is our nearest neighbour. In her is bound up and since our country es opened up by America in 1954 we have ever maintained cordial relations and boon the sincerest friends. To me the United States has always seemed a second home, and if I can bring about the economie alliance that I am now ires to talk about, I shall feel, on account of the good that will neerua tỏ this country from such or allintor, that I hare paid a part of my debt of gratitudo.
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of capitalists, supported by Russian diplomy The Laisser faire policy of the British Foreig
polition Ofeo nud ita failure to recognize the and commercial importance of couquest by way in the Far East and other vital facts has brou a central factor in the situation. Thess are ratiory of history, the entire course of which Jinx bean and will be altered by the results of the great war; we are me concerned at present with the prospects of this British undertaking, under existing conditions, and with the attitude adopted by Chiness officials, recognizing a jail accompli, towards the development of internal railway communication.
The final contract for the Shanghai-Nanking lina was signed, after protracted negotiations, by Shing Tajen and the concessions (the British and Chinaso Corporation) in July, 1903, Between that date and the actual beginning of arthworks further pourriers were necesitated on points of clail, financial and administrative, in regard to which Sheng Ta-jan's attitudo Brutaally, at ная persistently obstructive. the instanos of the British Government, an intimation was conveyed to the Director-General from the Wai-wn-pa that farther obstruction would entail unpleasant rasslis; and since then matters have advanced more satisfactorily. Nevertheless, progress has been slow, and the recent experiences of the corporation shed instructive light on the met buds of tho manduria class, of that corrupt bureaucracy which blocks
all reform in China.
with long
The lie to Nanking, ie the provincial capital (Souchow) is approximately 20 miles loug, running through at counter iators-tted by many creeks and covered us far as Chinking morable graves; thence to Nanking on the slope of the hills which lie parallel and close to the. Your-tsze. By the terms of the contreet Shòng Ta-jeu receives £250000, in return for which he is bound to acquire all necessary land and to obtain the romors of graves within the limits required by the rail- way. At the beginning of Muroh, 18 months after the arrival of the engineering staff, only 38 miles of the total length bad been nequired, and this in isolated soctions; but sincs then matters have advanced more rapidly. The con- struction of the Grst earthworks began in Jotohor, and new proceede as the fami i honded over; it is therefore evident that
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diacovorad that a completely organized “cocter" had been formed by the Chinese to control the supply of skilled labour and of bricks. So effective was this "combing" that considerable tius olapsed before work could be done at any thin thing like reasonable prices; and one of the eon. suiting engineers (Mr. A. J. Barry) has there fore recently made arraugotients establishmentof independent brickyards and tho importation of labour frozu Tientsin. In the westwhile the construction of all bridges us far as Wusich has been contracted for
was subsequently orgon ized to command the supply of ballast; the native syndicate in this case has acquired control of all the existing quarries at Soochow and even extended its operations to Ning-pa Popular report even credited the Chinese mombers of the Board of Commissioners with benevolent interest in those corners. At an early state of the local negotiations, after the signature of the tial agreement, the Chinese claimed that no
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contracts for construetion work should be made except through
of Contracts." The organization of "corners" nation official who claimed the title of "Director followed upon the collapse of this preposterous proposal.
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irresponsible, self-satisfied, low life-concept, or rather absence of suy life-concept of the| smaller portion, and out of the complete morni relaxation of the greatest portion, is composed And as neither in a the life of our work. semblance of faith nor in its negation with that substitution of a casual collection of information on various subjects which is called solence, nor in moral relaxation, is there nor can there be either a motive or a restraining power giving direction to the activity of the men of our time and society, therefore life goes on withent any giding principle whatever, merely by gho momentam of the past, more and more declin- ing from the enguely expoxiduced religious conscioamers proper to our time, and therefore life bocomos more and more sinuseless and suffering.
THE WHITE MAN'S IRRITABLE TEMPER.
the lens being affabled so lally that the gro to be removed. Mr. Russell was arrested
on bail. Mr. Bussoll Rail he released had no intention of injuring the man's
ye and was willing to
compensate him for the injury. What compensation" can one oler for suchi an injury as that? Nebody would nggest that one man would thus wilfully blind another, but there is, unfortunately, a tendency
An incident which certainly seems to hear in a recent issue of the Advocate of India. It is the imprint of the White Peril" is reported recorded that Mr. M. Busmall, manager of Bears Barn & Co.'s Engine Works, Howrah, For the rest, the working plans and sections want to the foreshore at Koin Ghat, intending A boat of the line bave been completed as far as to proceed by boat to the gard Wusich; and the survey to Nanking is advancing.anje, named Sheik Ahmed Ali, went to embankment work is proceeding rapidly where bim and offered his boat for hire, wherenjion ever possible, the first consignment of rails has Mr. Rassell ordured him away and poked at him arrived from England, the deopers from with his unbrella, the end of which entered the man's eye, causing serious injuries thereto. Australis have been shipped, and orders for girder work and rolling stuck are lang led Ahmed Ali was removed to hospital, where it was found that his eye was seriously injured in England, and much is on its way to Chimi Unless now difficulties are created, the engineers hope that the flest section to Naxiang will be
and opoued to traffic in October; the second, to Quinsan (General Gordon's headquarters in 18, at the end of the year; to Soochow in Mah, 1906, and to Wasich, the great silk dis trict in Jane. As to the luanuis peosports of the railway, opinion is practically ausuimus that the undertaking cannot fail to be highly
in India aid elsewhere to resort to brute foren remunerative; all the conditions for success are present in a far greater degree than in the case at the lightost provocation. Supposing the of the northern and Laban lines, and the om- bratraan had accidentally blinded Mr. Russell. Would the man have got off so lightly? We pletion of the undertaking my, therefore, bo expected to lead to considerable development are inclined to doubt it. In Japin, a passen- of British enterprise in Chinese railway conger, whether, European e Japanese, who strection; and this is the inure probable because attended to strikea rikisha volie or a sando the Chinese Government appears to have realized would to in danger of severe punishment. that our aim is to soenre commercial and not. Feople are compelled to restrain themselves in territorial advantages. The only is stacle this country, and if the attitude of men of the to rapid development of railways and interral rikisha coglie class is at times irritating trade lice in the cupidity and corruption of the must keep his tempor, and on the whole, wa Dative official; but he is amenable to reason if it think, mattors work as smoothly in this part reaches him from Peking. The caly obstacle to of the world as in other parts of Asia, where share of that railway developraont and Crade us at cours- Chrouich. Great Britain's obtaining and retaining a largo a kick or conff is administered quite osa matter in the apparently hopeless conservatism of our ova Far Eastern polley--the policy of dritt.
ADEN HARBOUR.
A NOTAULE DECISION.
TOLSTOY AND TO-DAY.
Following is a typical extract from a very
The Tlars of India says:-The 'reront reply long Tolstoyan contribution to the Taner
Something similar is e pericaced by every of the Marquis of Bath, in the House of Lords, to a question concerning Aden Harbour, seuras man who passes from une period of his age to another. In the consciousness of a child patsing to have a mere nofalde significanes than at first- into a youth, aur of a youth passing into a sight appeurs. The Under Secretary for Jodie fold an enquirer that the deepening of the maa, and of a man passing intä on old w there takes place gradust, impore ptible altera. harbour at Aden had not been considered 4 tions; bat in passiar from one of fteso perioda matter of strategic importance. Some time of life into another, a man sometimos long ago we pointed out that it hal been demoizstrated
Aden lay open to continues to live in the life-concept of the that the outer anchorage previous period. So having ceased to believe torpedo boat attack; and we urged the des. what he formerly believed, and having not yatirability of deepening the inner harbour. The established a new relation to the quiverse, at such transition times man lives without any guidance.
What takes place in the life of a mpurate individual, also takes place in the life of whole society. And as separate individuals dating such transition periods often live a particularly unreasonable p inful wild life, so also is the case with whole sci-ties when the form of their life no longer corresponds to their consciousness.
Sack is, I think, the period which Christian nations are now going through.
progroes will depend chiefly Shong performance of his duties. He pro- rail la giva the company full possession of all the land as far as Somehow before April and thence to Wasich before June; but hitherto continuous pres-ure has not succeeded in secur ing the fulfilment of this official's promican. In the meanwhile it is interesting to observe that, the survey of any section is completed s soon as aud the line definitely loated, Chinese syndi cate-of which Sheng Ta-jen's son is the reputed head--purchases the land, wherever possible, from the agricultural owners and holds it-gainst the railway company, claiming a large advance ugri on the market value. (The price paid for cultural land, compulsorily acquired, varies
The religious consciousness on the foundation between £20 and 14 por aero). These opera- tions primarily concern the Chinese Government; of which the existing forms of life developed but as they delay construction work and thus has been outlived by humanity, but a new increase the ultimate cost of the railway, they religious understanding of life is not yet concorn also the concessionnaires, to whom conceived and the men of our time are living Sheag frequently appeals for more funds to meet without any defiuito understanding of the "unexpected contingencies. At the Shanghai meaning, the vocation of their Ufe, and so terminus, in particular, the necessary lard has without any inuer guidause in their continet. been so effectively "cornered" and is held at One considerable portion of the men of our such high prices, that the position of the statins professes a variously distorted, but always tion may yet have to be altered, and in any distorted, Christian faith, under which they ante cannot be completed before the opening to understand a cođe composed sixteen hundred Seashow takes place. The humorous side of yours ago by the scclesiastical councils, and the matter is thrown into relief when we asserting the most senseless degnies. restuber that this is & Chinose Government pseudo-Christian faith, in direct opposit on to railway and that Sheng and the Chinese Conall contemporary knowledge and to common- missioners on the Board of Construction are ostensibly carrying out the work with economy
and despatob
Another soures of difficulty lies in the rouroval of graves. This is question with Probably within a few wooks I shall go presents itself everywhere in Chius; but in the back home and shall tall my people the results country between Shanghai and Wusich it is of my study. I shall tell them that the sally prominent, because the line runs United States is a country without a thought of territorial aggrandisement; that the Amer ican people will defend the rights of other nations as they will defend their own, because they love individual right and individual liberty I will tell my people that the way to open Asia, securely and peaceably, is through the introduc. tion of a moriran civilisation.
"And I shall do roce than that if I am
allowed to do it. I'm ready to serve as a loyal subject of Japan and as a sincere friend of Amories in bringing about an economic alliance ant a treaty signed on parchment, but imprinted in the hearts and the minds of the people of Japan unit the United States. That is my ambition. To achieve it I came Lore on my self-appointed mission, and I trust that my shorts will be crowned with
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soose, without giving any principles for conduct except blind faith and obedience towards thote individuals who call themselves the Church, occupies the place which has always been and should be occupied by religion, which gives an explanation of the meaning of life and, deduced from this meaning of life, a guidance for cosduot.
for
Another, smaller portion of meu, calling through what might well be described as a themselves enlightened and educated, is in a continuous graveyard. Tombs and family position yet more disadvantageous for the lead- burying grounds, frequently of great size, ure ing of a good and rational life. These mor scattered haphazard throughout the highly having become free from the fraud of the ealtivated fields; during the past year, bat even on
pseudo-Christian faith, are under the power of many have been removal
the another error scen worse than ecclesiastical onermons Christianity, of the so-called scientific view, land already handed zamber remain, and for those, gaps have from which no rational guidance for conduct to be left in the embankments. For anch can be deduced. This view consists in surroo- grave's removal compensation has to be paid at dering that most important vital feature of human natare which distinguishes una frem rates varying bolweon 10s. and £1; and as this business is also toanaacted by Shing's staff, it the animal-ic, the power of elucidating bis lay, position and hic vocation in the universe-in presents a coational cause of friction and delay,
of so-called benevolent societies bars bees formed giving up that which represents the assOnce at various centres, and collect subscriptions with religious consciousness, and in substituting the ostensibly pions object of removing the this cousciousness a collection of samal and remains of the numeroas departed Chinese who attorly unconnected and annoces ary observa- left no descendan's to practise for them the rites fios and facts concerning the most variod of filial piety. The Tai-ping robellion left many objects. According to this Bio-concept smch casos in its track. Those societies employ fit our ca so call what is the absence coolies to collect the bones, which are then of a life-concept), every ligion is its reverently placed in a Devoe's kerceano packing ezanoe is an error, and there is no recus. case or other equally inexpensive receptacle and sity to seek for a rational explanation of the therafter deposited on the nearest piece of meaning of life and for a guidance for waste land, the society's work being confined to one's condeat flowing from it, as science in claiming and getting the compensation per set of general gives a perfectly sufficient guidance for bones colested. The smallest remains will sufles condust, and especially so the imaginary science to justify a claim, and unidentified ancestors are of sociology, according to the laws of which therefore in demand all along the lins. It is humanity moves. But as this scienes will reported, though difficult to prove, thut the datermine all the laws of life only in the fature. Chinose members of the Board of Commissioners therefore in actuality men of this view live and other local mandarins Lave been prominently other unconsciously under the influence of connected with the "benevolent" societies. former roligions rules, or else skogether with- Under such conditious credit is due to the out any guidance unrestrictingly addicting concessionnaires and their engineering staff for themselves to their passions and vices, and even the progress which has been and is being muto."scientifically" justifying thom Such is the Bach has begu dons by the suaviter in medo, pitiful delusion of the minority regarding and more by the fortiter in res and until now, thous-ves as the progressive representatives of despite the facts above stated, the Board of
society.
Commissioners has worked smoothly, complete The third division of the men of our time is, in South Africa, and whose records are said to harmony existing between its three English the largest. These are men of all kinds, all be excellent, have been degraded for refusing and two Chinese members, for pasca un profit-classes, all degrees of education, who having to submit to this voluntary test of fitness. For able terms is the watchword of Chinese officiul completely freed themis Ivca from any restriction the most part, it is true, the examination seems
dom. The British engineering staff consists of of the Chareh faith and having assimilated from made with ordinary consideration the engineer-in-chief, three execative engineers, the scientifle superstition only the idea that and tact, and to have been endured willingly, and ton assistants. Of the latter, six bave been there should be no religion--not only live like i with a certain sort of good-humoured loyalty. But this does not mean that it has failed to regularly engaged in carvering operations naimals, merely an egotistical, sensuous life, but inland, and they have met with unvarying kind- oron regard such a life straggle for axistence, cause rather widespread uneasiness. It gives ness and courtesy from the natives,
the ("over-man") as the last word of han
colour to the notion that, offeintly, the volun- Another interesting example of Chinese offi- wisdom.
teer foros is viewed ungratefully, and rather cial methods came to light wheir the construc- Out of this semblance of faith of one considered as a stumbling-block than a welcometion of bridges was begun. The corporation soon' harge portion of men, and out of the utterly show of patriotion,
Government now say they do not considor it strategically important to edge, and only one construction can be placed upon their announce neut. It
It is that Aden is Eo longer regarded wither as u harbour of refuge, or even as a naval cosling station of importance. From the point of view of the Admiralty, who must be regarded as the flual arbiters upon such issuer, Adon be- comes of little moment. Whether this is due to the policy of greator concentration of naval strength in home waters, or to the notions of to Blu Water school, is not clepe; but it is plain that the Admiralty do not mean to recommend the outlay of Imperial funds upor Adon. Nowadays Great Britain soms to change its policy of unval d-fence once a week: and there may yet arise a greater than ir Jaha Fisher who may hold Aden to be of immense importance. For our part, wa sh it not cease to holl that Adan has a greater potential valus than is now cornisad, particularly in view of the insecurity of Tarkish rale in Yowen,
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