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CHINA.
LECTURE BY MR. J. O. P. BLAND.
At a meeting of the Central Asian Society held at the Royal Asiatic Club on December 11th, Mr. J. O. P. Bland gave an entertaining lecture on "China," illustrated by lantern slides.. General Sir Edmund Barrow was in the chair.
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FUTURE OF THE BAGDAD RAILWAY
One of the greatest German schemes which the wat bas overthrown was В German-controlled railway line from Hamburg to Bagdad. With the armistice the Bagdad railway has entered an- other phase of its eventful history. What will be its future rests with the Peaco Conference to decide.
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of Musul (Nineveh) SEAMEN'S INSTITUTE.
The lecturer, in the course of his re- marks, said: When we come to consider the question of peace, the establishment of a League of Nations, and other im
As to the actual condition of the line, portant questions, the position of China,
had which contains a population representing 1
1 .
with conversation
M. about a third of the human race, deserves Edouard Huguenin, director-general of very Barious consideration. Unless we the railway. The tunnels through the hare studied the subject very closely I do Taurus Mountains were opened for not suppose anyone has any idea of the broad gauge traffic last month, and trains character and extent of the Oriental can now run as far as Nissibin, a hun- Bolshevism which has overrun that great dred miles west
The track throughout is in good condi country. We have been all of us too pre ocoupied with our own immediate affairs tion, but the rolling stock has much de to pay much attention to China, but I teriorated owing to overwork during the war. Although there are still plenty of may say that during that period of
serviceable freight cars, two-thirds of the Oriental Bolshevism there have been more lives lost than in the whole of the Euro-
engines are unût for work through lack pean War.
I propose to set before you a of spare parts, which Germany has not broad outline of the course of events Į supplied. since the collapse of the Manchu dynasty in 1911, and to draw your attention to the fact that the present deplorable con- dition of China has been brought about,sible, with a larger service of trains in western Asia Minor, whence the food not by her political system, but her social supplies of Constantinople are drawn, if it were not for the coal famine which system, whose roots go back into the dis- tant past. I hope also to convince you has brought the working of the line to that there is no hope of establishing any extremely reduced and irregular propor.
Liona equilibrium without a benevolent despo tism or some form of autocratic Govern ment. The conclusions which I have arrived at are, I know, running dianutri. cally opposite to many which our mission. ary societies have held, but I ask you to believe that they are perfectly sincere. Many people who study politics from the point of view of our own little island believe in the principle of Representative Government, and are of opinion that which will euro deanocracy is a
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As regards the continuance of the wor vice, the question of the existing German staff is a vital one. "Most of our Get-
civilians
have man engineers are been in this country thirty years,” said M. Huguenin. They have required a special knowledge of the peculiarities of the Bagdad railway, without which the line could not be worked. Even should the Allies insist on replacing them by engineers of their own, it would be the evile of a State Republic is. inf necessary for the latter to pass a couple my opinion, the highest form of govern of months in collaboration with the pre- ment yet devised, but it does not follow sent German staff before they would bo
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complete the Bagdad railway to the Per- sian Gulf, M. Huguenin said a great deal depended on what the British had done in Mesopotamia. Beveral hundred miles of track laid by the Turks beyond Nissibin would need to be reconstructed, as it was hastily done with materials.
Erom both ends, with adequate Working supplies of material and labour, and with the use of the British military railwaye in Mesopotamia as lines of supply, thought trains might be running through to the Persian Gulf in two years.--
press.
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the efforts of honest labour to impotence Or, again, take the present position India It is proposed to give self-govern- ront to India, and yet, when it in ro memi-red that this is the very principle which has had auch disastrous results in China, it might woll cause our politi cians to hesitate. Political theorists have declared with regard to Chino that it is not the business of this country to Interfere with the development of the principle of self-determination, but this opinion does not coincide with the views
one executive head, any such league was held by the men of experioner-the con
and
useless. It was a good thing that in suls, the diplomacists, the financiers, traders. They hold that it is our busi spite of the instruction of the Western nese to maintain a strong central autho- nations, China still remained pacific in rity. When Yuan Shih-kai wanted to her disposition under the influence of establish a firm Central Government, we the doctrines of Confucius and Buddha. failed to support him, and to-day China If they had been warlike they would have Europe. In conclusion, Mr. +be While Chinese Parliament haa
wrangled and dallied, the only Chinese people that the permanen
only of their troubles lay it candi end actical thing they havo, done of; as he believed, in their course of their six years Parliamentary
tions. The solation of the social problem activity is to pass payment of mombers. There they have followed the example and the eradication of the belief that it to have a numerous necessary (Laughter). of Europe.
The people wa are taxed more heavily than they were progeny to worship ancestors' tablets was of the the only way to relieve the before. A civil war is going on betweeTE the leaders of the North and the South, and the military leaders on both sides have levied enormous sums from the civil populations in order to maintain their and had been greatly interested in the authority.
Borrowing on a large sente tecture, even if he might disagree with
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES CUTLER PALMER & CO›│* ASAHI BEER," teine very severely is the result. Bland said we had tried to persun
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Dr. H. B. Morse Applau
said the had been in China longer
than
Bland,
is going on fron Japan, but the North some of Mr. Bland's statements, he had and
the South have agreed, as they did given him very seriously to think.
Colonel Pemberton said the message in 1911, that the last thing they wish to do
is to fire any shots at each other for anywhich Mr. Bland had delivered was not our of hope, and he would certainly be purpose of politics. Here we touch upon delicate ground, for the Anglo-Japan were not perhaps present in a larger sorry to think that the clements of hope Allinace is still in force and is still
the lectarer supposed. important for British interests in the Far. degree than
Although the Manchu dynasty may have But there is no left the people alone, and the people may East as ever it was. doubt whatever in my mind that Japan bas aimed at supremacy as a World have governed themselves, surely some. Powes in the Far East, and it has been thing more was expected of a Govern to her interest. to encourage dissensions eat. What was required was a strong in Ching by lending sums of money to excentive. The Manchu Government had for years given the show away in Korea the North and South for the purpose of
and Manchuria, and it was altogether the civil war
effete as an instrument of government. Something had to take its place, and, although the present Republican Govern ipent left much to be desired, be could see no alternative than to leave a great nation like China to work out its own destiny. Colonel C. C. Yate, who was announcell He was requested to say that to take the abair, had asked him to ex press regret at his abscaco, and to ex- press the hope that as a result of the peace negotiations the astronomical in- struments, taken from China by Germany, in 1900, would be returned.
CHINA AND THE WAR.
The Chinese joined in the war against Germany rather late the day, and I remember there were any comments in the newspapers in this country about the oldest civilístión in the world joining in the war daginst German militarism But there is much that has happened recently in Ching which would justify ong in saying that the Chinese have de veloped a species of militariam for more corrupt even than German Junkerism. And yet we talk of the virtues of Be publics I ret the other day & dis- tinguished Liberal politician who ex Pressed the hope that the time
Would Ehortly come when there
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the discussions respecting those instruși planet. throne left upon the was not a single pedition he was directly connected, with Representativas of cortaid Indeavoured to convince him that it ments. was not the political system of a country Powers, some of whom were now in allie but the character of the people which ance with us, drow up a scheme for the made for good or bad conditions. Since distribution of those marvellous astrono the removal of the Manchu dynasty in
mical instruments. The proposal did not commend itself to the British or the China, corruption is more rampant then ever.
We have seen the revival of the American authorities, and the command- ore of their rospectiva forces put in a opium trade which then take China's very strong protest, Thore were boites by the Manchus. And
cord as a
belligerent. She went into discussions, and two or three Powers, netably Germany, were not antislled with the war professing to believe in the prim
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