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WESTERN CHINA. LECTURE BY II M. CUNS, GAT NANKING.
5TH. 1917.
Asian Society in London, a paper wastery 18 ng with a popular zambet and occupa has but the con
Consul at Nanking, on The Boundary the north bank cf this great river, 2,403as proved disastrous for China, and not passed off satisfactorily, but let th
very largely to its excellent water com- from Lhasas leaving behind a most fav HONGKONG SHARE MARKET. munications; and the old and haray type ourán impression not only the s
Mcars. Vernon Smyth, in their of boatman is never deterred ny meagre of the peepic generaty, uat also of the pay, dangers of wreck and exposure to niketan orrcayne programs of the weekly share report dated the 4th May,
und tor elements from braving the many mission was viewed who suspicion At a recent meeting of the Central dangers of the numerous rapids in the alarm, and in a weak nioment the Court 1017, State:--:
Higher reaches at its rivers. The main ut Peking gave way la evil advice. Chin Since our last report of 20th April,
the Yangtsze, ese vrou not baly over-ian Lustern
business in our local market has been read by Mr. E. C. Wilton, C.MG, H. and the city of
tion of 300,000, built on mine hills, stands version of amber into a Chinese province very small and restricted. The Settle- was even attempted. The whole campaign ຫາເ
commercial Provinces of Western China." Tho chair miles from the sea, as was taken by Sir Francis Younghusband gaveway for the entire provines. In spite dispassionate cuservor would venture to market inn comatose state for several
and the extra-auty that cars fatal departure of its picturesque situation In the course of a very interesting stence, it is a cheerleis city to live in, heavy blow to her prostige throughout the been apparent during the last two days. ordinary life and bustle of its commercial traditional policy buy resulted in a very daye, although rather more activity has Investment stocks, keep firm, but with whole extent of the buter zone covering
scarcely such a good demand as there has her three seatern boundary provinces.
Shanghat has been very HE DISCUSSION-THE WEALTH OF SZECHUAN been lately.
The Chairman said that Szechuan must quist, and only a small business has been be one of the most valuable and rich parts possible.
its vegetable products were Singapore market for Rubber shares or the world. exceedingly vannable, and the province remains firm and a fair business has been also possessed great mineral wealth.
50 millions-were population of
The following are to-day's wired quo- very industrious peuple, and, when all
Alor Gajabe these advantages of climate, tortility, and tations:-- mineral wealth were considered, one could
Ayer Paus Gierealy not help raising how much scope there way for development, providing proper means of communication with the outside Mr. Witton had world could be found said that the provincial governors were exceedingly nervous and Jalous of our there was. the slightest exuse for that
We had the tremendous Plantation Rubber advance from India in that direction, but obstacle of the Himalayas between apprehension. natural
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€4.25
12,60
2.65
Kedahs... Kempas
4.35.
6.10
Milan Pindne Malakoffs
2.70
4.50
4.50
6.20
21.25
New Serendahs
L
in London b. Bar Silver is
Bills are both nominal.
have
he and Szechuan, and he was sure it was quoted 3/1 per not part of the policy of the Government quote 38. Sterling T.T. is 2/41- 8in- the problems of steam navigation as tarot India to move further in that direcgapore 1 is 102. The Shanghai TT. tion. We did move in that direction in rate and Bank's huging rate for 3d/s. BANKS. Hongkong ·and Shanghai the mission to Thibet, bat there was not the slightest intention or desire for an nexation, and, as soon as we had achtoved Banks have kept steady, with sales re- or objects of putting our relationships ported at $712), and probable further
MARINE It
INSURANCES. Unions with the Thibetans on a satisfactory foot buyers. ing, wo withdrew from the country. was exeedingly gratifying to hear from come to business at $880 ex. div. of 800, Mr. Wilton that, as a result of our mis- and further shares could be placed at sion to Thibet, there was good feeling now the rate. Nothing has been done in other upon the frontier, because that was-part Companies, and prices are unchanged, for Cantons, Tls. 150 for North Chinas, of their intention, and in that work Mr. and nominal at $350 (ex. div. of 825) Wilton took a very great part. He was
FIRE INSTRANCES-China Fires for people in It was hard perfectly right when he spoke of the value and 8217 for Yangiszos, with ex. 73 of prestige. England to thoroughly understand how wanted at $146 (ex. div. of 89) and gre travelled, especially those who had travel- 9325.
SRIPPING-Douglases have been very great this value was but those who had Hougkong Fires at the reduced mond led alone in out-of-the-way parts of Asia, knew how extremely important it was that quiet, and but little has been done in his prestige should stand high. It was them. They are offering at $85 with because of the prestige which was catab buyers in the neighbourhood of 84. Fished for our country that Englishmen Indo-China Deferred were done from were able to travel na they do in every $124 down to 3122 for cash, at which part of Asia, and that officials like Mr. latter rate fair quantities were reported Wilton were able to carry on their work sold. Considerable sales were also made Since which, under the influence of rum- in these far corners of the Chinese Em at 8234 June, and 8124 to $128 July. pire.
Sir Frederick Fryer (late Lieutenant-ours of a favourable nature, market has
fre
pap.r, dealing with the thres proviners the average sunshine is but one day of Kansu. Szechuan, and Yunnan, Mr. seven, and it is a Szechuan proveru Wilton said:-Kansu is the northern of that when the sun appears at Chungking the dogs bark, so great a stranger is he the three boundary previnees and corres Below Chungking for a distance of 400 ponds geographicly to the ancient miles, the river is broken by deep gorges Tangut Kingdom which long success-nd dangerous rapids, and all passengers and merchandise were hauled up in native fully defied the Chinese and was finally junks at infinite toil and considerable risk subjugated by the Mongols in the thir- before the advent of steamers within the last few years. The pioneer of steamer teenth century, The province has been enterprise on these upper waters of the subject to civil war, and the devastation Yangtze was the late Archibald Little, who did not live to see his dreams fully of two Mahommedan rebellions; and the realised, but it may fairly bis claimed that generál unrest has effectively arrested any it was British enterprise and British development of its natural resources dur- determination which showed the way for ing the last century, although portions of steam navigation on the Upper Yangtze where it led others have followed, the north-west and north-eat are now and to-day a rogular service of specially rapids, and Chungkinh exhibiting some signs of agricultural built steamers is plying between Ichang,
at the foot revival, A Belgian syndicate was granted Beyond Chungking, too, it was British a railway come ssion "five years ago for a enterprise which led the way and solved line from Lanchou eastwards, right across
even as the confines of the Thibetati, Chins to the sea coast, but no portion of marches and almost to the city gates of
the this line has as yet been constructed in
Bovincial capital itself.
prestige in Western China Kansy and the province can boast of no was at a low ebb twenty years ago, railway communications, the usual means but it is high to day, and this is due in to British naval officers measure to no small of transport being by carts and pack and bluejackets, who sen to have the animals. Since its inauguration as a pro- happy back of hitting it off admirably vince in 1750, Kansu, in spite of civil with all classes of the Chinese, Prestige" dissensions, has ceased to be a battlefield is anathema to some people, who would for China and her enemies, and served as like to eliminate it from the dictionary an advanced base and lines of communicabat prestige is a very real things and tion for Chinese armies in Thibet and when gained, as ours has been, by firm Chinese Turkesten during the eighteenth noss combined with tact, patience, end and nineteenth centuries: To the south fair dealing, it is, I venture to believe, of Kansu lies Szechuan, the land of the asset of incalculable value. In the Four Rivers.
It is the 1. rgest of all the south-west of Szechuan, and in the great Chinese provinces, with an area of 20,000 band of the Yangtze, lies the area known square miles and n population of tys Liangshan inhabited by the indepen- millions. Thanks to its temperate climate, dat Lolo, noted for their physical fertile soil, and the industry or its druge and manly appearance.
GLOOMY YUNNAN mhabitants, it produces everything. Coming to Yunnan, this province is a except cotton, necessary for its dense population, together with a large surplus broken plateau with an average elevation available for export. The most intensely of 6,00016, the Chinese element is in the cultivated and dens ly populated part is majority in the leve lands, while the that known as the Red Basin, which various members of the tribes predominat vecupies approximately the centre, and is in the highlands. These tribes, including
Slan Lolo, and Miao families, con Governor of Burmah) said that when he strengthened, and the shares are now want Burrounded by mountainous and sparsely inhabited country, to the east, north, and titate a very interesting ethnographical as in Barmah there was considerable red at $124 cash. Star Ferries have been
tudy, nad, although
Gur rela west, and is bounded by the Yangtsz, on
Chinese, they do not on the Burmah frontier.
Steamboats have been steady, with a few the south.A
to be the aboriginal inhabitants. tions with China were now very much sales at $15. agricultural as distinguished from the car Industrial districta is the absence of The Shabs liave migrated into Yunnan more friendly, because every year a party villages. The farmer and the farm long two lines from the east and from of Chinese officials meet a party of our
hour.rs live in farmhouse on the innt, the north the Lolos from the east and officials to settle any disputes that and, the tendency is to the separatione Minos from the east likewise, although have arisen during the past year. In con
Of each Father than to the congregation of dwell at a later date. In addition to these three sequence of this, our knowledge of Dgs; as a result, the whole country side is tincipal tribal families; tribes of ther had very much improved, and the
from one another
railway
MINES-Raubs are reported done at distinguished from
life off the elevation of 6,2c0ft, agricultural
These are gen, rally Most picturesquely situated on the shores whilst the speaker was in Burmah a road $2.50 and $9.00, the latter figure retadin stis kat (Change the front Marco Polo`as a very griat-and neble,elty, From the Rriorder into Yunnan, and
streets lining the main roads con- vi the Kun Yang lake, surrounded by was being made from Bhumo to Tengyuching the popinal quotation. Kailans are sisting of shops owned by the inters, mountains and wooded hills, it is the which was intended to be practicable for wanted at Va1/put the plans and let to traders on the market days, terminus of the French railway for Tong-wheeled carriage. We made our part of tempt sollers Tronohs are on offer at which fail on every third, fourth, or fifth sing. This line, about 300 miles long, is the road, which was 70 miles long, but 27/6. dry, as the case may be, Theen gathering of andery provinces of westet "ot made theirs. He believed it would kong,WHARVEE AND GODOWNS.-Hong- are the centres news, gossip, officiul China, and it has long been the dream of be quite practicable for a railway to be quiet, and only a small business has been of the boundary kong and Whnupos Decks have been announcements, festivals, theatricals, and public and even family meetings, and are many practical men to link up Burmah made as far as Tengyuel, although he done. They close steady, with buyers at very lively scenes on the days of meeting and Yunnan with the vast markets of told at beyond Tengyuer there would be $123) cash. Kowloon Wharver have been done at $79), and there are sellers at Szechuan and the Yangtze Valley by aonsiderable dificulties. In addition to its other natural resources,
800. Shanghai: Docks have come to busi- THE NEXT TRUNK LINE Fascinating as this problem Szechuan possesses abundant salt-wells railway,
Mr. George Jamieson, C. M.G., touchingness at Tis. 90, and there are further however, its solution still lies in the scatterci vince. Tidespread throughout the
LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.-—A mail : wells have all been labori future. The overland communications are on the commercial side of the question bura
difficult and costly, so that, away said, with reference to a railway from cusly bored by hand, some reaching to strom the single line of railway, mer Burmah into Yunnan, that he hoped some sale of Lands at $074 is all there is to
But the whole depth of over 2,000 feet. The brine is brought to the surface in bamboo buckets handise as carried slowly and painfully day it would be bail. attached to bamboo ropes would round on the backs of pack animals Inasmuch rend of trade was down the Yangtze report in this market.
as its frontiers lie on Thibet, Burma, and towards Shanghai. There would never probably be obtained at 890. Other lines drum by hulleged buffaloes. The natural Indo-Chinn, Funnun is bound to continue be any reasonable mode of communication are nominal and unchanged on the week,
to have 遇 deep political interest
ortine of Szechuan in the past was that are wanted at $77.9
COTTON MILLE-Shanghai market has bamboo pipes and utilised for the that the economic outlook of the province was so isolated from communicating evaporation of the
Ewos are in request at Tla, 150, and political and ethnographical points of is so newhat gloomy, and it would appear with the oasters part of Chine. The only been quiet, and prices are rather lovers view the country to the west of the Rod that its future progress and material vay was down the Yangtze, with its dan
only within the past Ehanghai Cottons at The 190, Kung gerous rapids; and Basin is by far the most interesting, is prosperity depend absolutely upon
tazepoos are nominal at Tls, 5k, stretches towards and beyond the wild satisfactory development of its enormous Lew years had steamers been constructed Yiks could be placed, at Tis, 141. Yang
mineral resources hitherto practically which were able to navigate it. Still it
MISCELLANEOUS. A small business has regions as the ans and exploited We have now glanced chang to Nanking, it was interesting to been done in Cemente at 28.10, and more
at was an expensive journey. Freight from ople inhabited.
of Thibetan stock. As regards the hes three boundary provinces, inhabitants of the Red Basin, there are from the neighbours of Chinn on the note, was about three times what it was shares could probably be disposed of at
orth and on the wes
west for nearly 200 years from London to Jehang. The next trunk the rate. A fair quantity of Trams has all Chin se, and the Province may be said. to have been but recently colonisely the buff zones, of Thibet and Mon-ine to be built in China would be the line been done at 86.80.ex dividend of 48 cents. and there are further buyers. Dairy golia. The creation of these buffer zones to connect Hankow with Szechuan. Iri the seventeenth century it was prácu beer 26 accident, but the deliberate fact, the preliminary contracts had been Farms are wanted at 803 China Lights tically depopulated by the notorious
Kinlung entered into for financing the undertak Chang Hsien Chung, a man who waded to power through streams
Lance
marked feature of the the province than the arrivals in hostility between the Chinese and British sold at $32, and buyers now offer 831).
સ
may
were
OILS. Shells have been quiet, but small sales, have been made at 1067 Langkaty
one Tael). Ural Caspians are nominat are wanted at Tls. 16 (ex dividend of at 31
REFINERIE). This market has been very.
Aloitus over with cottages at a short dis- Thibetan stock are scattered along the speaker thought that now it was the uict with sonrcely any business passing. characteristic of the purely f Another western and north-western frontiers. The that our relations on the frontier W China Sugars are wanted at $113), and
nies capital of the province is Yunnan, at angencialty execllent There had alw Malabons are quoted at $82 nominal
pro
very
of which there is a large supply in
and described by
ve.n a great
to carry a
Centrals could
principal salt centre, is conducted in China: It cannot be denied rom Szechuan westwards, and the mis with the exception of West Points which
From
Thibetans
(in the middle of the eighteenth
the
In
a bloodthirsty mad policy of the Manchu Emperorntury) ng, and, if it had not been for this shock at $42, and Watsons at 881 Powells have. of blood and removed every obstacle by probably the most powerful and sagacious ing war, it would have been well under come to business at $8.60, but more shares the simple expedient of wholesale massacre statesman that ever ruled the 'd stinice of way. When this railway has been built, are offering at the rato. China Borneos
commerce will flow
not be an easy at 89. Ropes are quoted 828 nominal, men, women, and children, he spared the Chinese Empire. He was far 60 along the line. It up and down and China Providents are both nominal none. He was finally killed by the Man enough to perceive that the wastes i
take it
Maxo-Next Battlement Day, 20th hus, who invaded and conquered the Mongolia and Thibet could never be railway to make, because for a great part also Waterboats at $16.
olonised by Chinese, but were formidable of the way it was intended to
Nevertheless, May. vice towards the latter end of the yuffers against any hostile approach from through the great gorges.
Chinese need not -6=venteenth century. There appears no reason to question the popular belief that Central Asia Thibet has never in any it could be done. The be recorded his murders on a stone tablet habet even more than toi Mongolia bely wished to have access to it as a been a Chinese province, and to be afraid that we had any intention of at- side. Szechuan from the Indian as the tablet of the: 7 shas, each granted autonomy for he for saw that the kn (kill) representing a million Aual infinence of the Dalai Lama at market for our goods, and it was do
sha": (THE IMPORTANCE OF SZECHUAN..
hase and the Tashi Lama at Shigatse
almost untapped market The population
After the Manchu conquest the provinced keep in check their co-religionists had an enormous amount of goods to give
Chinese
wild
SPORT,
LEAGUE TENNIS.
The following are the teams to repre good to-day.
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DIVISION 1.
was colonised by Chinese from other pro the Mongol tribes, and that a suzerainty, us in return for our therefore, so
inces, and the revival of this prosperren as shadowy as Turkey önce held over wild silk which was almost sent the Kowloon Club in the matc les and wealthy province has been accom
Mr. N. Kato said, plished within the space of the last cen Egypt would be a far more valuable asset the best silk in Shanghaith regard to the toy tury and half
Not only has it con than a precarious attempt to establish
and desolate feeling of the Japanese towards British tributed largely in the past to aude. Ever sings the close of Kienlings prestige in China, that there were a few revenues of the Central Government, but
in 1706,
there has been a constant people who thought that the Japanese it has also given considerable insistance to the exchequers of its pedrer struggle between the provincial authori were competitors in business in the Yang Valley, but more enlightened people of Szechuan and the Central Govern neighbours, such
welcomed the British Kucichow and 28 Yunnan, and has also provided the funds required for the former upkeep of the have aver adopted an RECTOSELVE attitude
deuterior of China, with sincere hopes of
expensive establishments maintained in
taze
d towards Thibet, the former merchants to
at Peking as to the policy to be knew thatvelop the resources of the
5.0.0. (A) v. University. (A) on the latters ground. E Green and E Abraham, W Kay and L Forster, C. R. Chunyut and J. V. Bragh............********
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K.C.C (B) v University (B) on the formers ground-C W. Jeffries and C. C. Stark, C Stapleton and J. Ralst
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.
ENGINEERS.
THE REST." ROYAL
This exhibition machi, which was post-
Thibet for the Chinese Amban and the towards that country and the latter had their success. andations that J. W. Christian and R. H. Jewsbury.”
heen desirous of maintaining the status In replying to several ao-called Chinese garrisons in that counts In the days of the Monarchy it was had been put to him, Mr. Wilton remark-.| Proj Ery
of communication be- It's
and strategical import
ed, on the Wealth
subject Viceroy to endeav strong ince explain, in a great measure the the rule for uneasiness and suspicion which China har or to snatch and administer whatever tween the East and West of China, that portions of Thibet came convenient to bis railways might compte with the river, manifested towards India and the policy part but he was invariably overruled un but he thought the river stood the better of the former in maintaining Thief as
adis the appent of the Thibetans to the Central chance, especially now that the Maritime bull 1 zone against an advance from India overnment. The mission which Sir Customs had got to work to improve the penet last Saturday, on account of tas direction-an advance, it need ounghusband took to Lhassa met water-way. He thought something con- weather, will be played to day at 5 p.in, be said, which was w wholly
at first, as you all know, with a great deal sid rab'o would now be dore to modily on the Club Ground. After the gauz Ent, nevertheless, a hnger con-
sent the cup and medals to the Real istently held up before the eye of the of hostility on the side of the Thibetans the cast and remove a great many of the the Hon. Mr. P. B. Holyoak will pre-
dangers of the navigation of the Upper Court at Peking hy Praviorial The tact and putince of Sir Francis, Yangtze. With regard to a railway from Enginer team, who are winners of the Sprement, of Szechuan The extra-lingever sided by his extraordinary ordinary prosnerity of
of Szechuan is d awwledge of the peonies of Central and Bhamo to Tengyueh, he did not think that Hongkong League. A ch'in de will be
dur Eastern Asia, converted this hostility into would be tried for some time, and be made on the ground, for One
Home for blind sailors and soldiers. nt only to the fertility of its soil and the, industry of its inhabitants, but also good feeling, and the mission departed doubted whether would pay.