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SHIPBUILDING IN THE FAR
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SIR HERBERT POWELL ON HIS
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{ABIATIO NEWS AGENCY.) CHINESE EASTERN HAILWAY.
A tour of the shipbuilding and marine
HARRIN, January and Since the fall of the Kolchak Govern- engineering works in China, Japan,ment, there has been in existences a move- Canada, and the United States has just ment started by interested foreigners and been made by Sir Herbert R. Powell, Chinese against Russian interests in K.B.E., and in an article contributed to North Mancharia The chief object of the Glasgow Herald be says, "I was the movement is the agitation for the deeply impressed by the efficiency of their restoration of the Chinese Eastern Rail- organisation, the adequacy of their way to China. The foreign loan to be applicances, their capacity of develop raised for this purpose will be obtained ment, and their potentiality for competii Tokio and Washington. But as the tion. 11
There is, of course, he says, consider Americans are going to withdraw entire able difference in the effectiveness of the from Siberia, is in very doubtful management of the works In Japan the whether a foreign loan for the repayment
Iy native workmen are under the manage of the Kussians in connection with the ment of men of their own race; while in nominal restoration of the Chinese East China the native workman is under what ern Railway to China can be Boated in is to him a foreign organisation, usually the United States. The necessary money, British. In Japan, although the whole will probably be raised in Japan. It is organisation is of the same race the divi believed that the recent declaration of sion between the managing and working General Horvath concerning this line classes is definite and difficult of passage bears relation to this movement The By tradition the Japanese are amenable local Japanese to reason and control, although there in Chinese Eastern Railway to the German daily compares the an increasing tendency on the part of Kiachow-Tainan Railway in the Shan- Tabour to assert itself. In China the tang province. class of labour near the barbour and ports where the shipyards are situated is so. customed to regard the British managers and foremen as being of a ruling race. The supervision is done through Chinese
Na 1 chargemen, and the organisa tion, by which the No. 1 is usually also a contractor for the work, all tends to make control easier and to eliminate the danger of labour disturbances.
CHINESE AND JAPANESE IN MUKDEN.
At
MURDEN, January 218. the Chinese officials and the Japanese There is a rather serious dispute between Consul-General Japanese policemen from the Japanese Mukden because
businessman, named Ms Hus, outside Consulate recently arrosted. a Chinese the amall West Gate and imprisoned him in the Japanese police office inside the Mukden city, without the knowledge of the local officials. thirty-five Japanese policemen attached There are about to the Japaness Consulate and several detectives.
CHINA'S SUPERFLUOUS TROOPS.
"1 gathered that individually the Chinese shipyard worker is on the whole better man than the Japaneen and also on a basis of coat of production both are more effective than either the American or the British workman. That this has not been more in evidence in competition with Europe is mainly due to the dif rulties these countries have experienced during the war in obtaining delivery of roaterials and equipment and to the high prices of these owing to the increased cost nt production and excessive freight
PaxING, January 18th. charges. With the development of steel strife, the proposed disbandment of Owing to lack of funds and party mills in China and Korea, however, it is superfucus troops in the various pro probable that shipbuilding will become a vinces cannot be put into effect at the very profitable industry on the West present moment. In his recent circular Pacific Coast, and the same canses which telegram to the various civil and military are inducing Britons to put up engineer governors, Premier Chin suggested that ing works and steel works and to secure all expenses in connection with the dis sites for shipyards in India will, Iarbandment of superfluous soldiers should pect, lead to further developments of abe raised by the provincial treasuries like nature in China
The circumstances that the Chinaman tion of the Government treasury in Pak themselves in view of the depleted condi Jooks on work as a natural condition of life, seems to like it, and considers faut a foreign loan, which should be ing. Now the governors say that with- small thing compared with the import entirely devoted to the disbandment of ance of wages earned, is evidenced by the the superfluous troops, under foreign circumstances that control of mertime supervision, nothing can be done in this consists in prevention ham working it and direction by the provinces themselves. In not in trying to make him do poy, and ition to the financial difficulty, it that he is not addicted to loafing while in the works. These circumstances go far to provide counter-balancing advan Cages to the great but frequently unex tended capacity of the Anglo-Saxon, while the Chinaman's relatively low rate of pay turns the scale substantially in his favour as an economical producer.
The Japanese recognise the possibilities of industrial development in China, and Are making successful efforts to acquire controlling interests in various under. takings. The United States are also making a big bid for an increased share of Chines trade their commercial travellers are ubiquitous, and the number of their residents, especially in Shang bai. is increasing rapidly. This is owing, to a great extent. to Germany's exclu sion from the Eeld of commerce, and to the inability of Britain to take:iber place,
is stated that there are difficulties arising out of the jealousies of the military leaders of the so-called Chibli faction of the Peiyang Party who suspect that the disbandment of the troops under their command may be a mere ruse or plot on the part of the leaders of the so-called depriving their rivals of their powere Aptui faction of the same party for and for gaining complete ascendancy for themselves
"ATTAMAN SEMENOFF'S PLANS -
HARBIN, January 17th
BQ 46 to
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Attaman Semenoff at Vladivostock ban My previous report about the arrival of now been confirmed by official telegrams received by both Russian and Chinese officials from that port. There are various reporte about the intention of this Cossack lender at Vladivostock. One reports says The Americans have also been helped that he is going there to establish his by the failure of British merchants and headquarters as Viceroy of the Russian contractors to carry out their obligations that he is more interested in the formation Far East, while another report indicates So long, as the execution of contracts existing or made at the beginning of the of a buffer State to be called the Trans war was prevented by the war the Ramian territory from foreign occupation.
Baikalian State,'
protect Chinese understood and were patient, but Further, it is persistently reported bere when, at the end of the war they were told that Attamen Semenoff has come to some that the agreed prices were repudiated arrangements with Chinese military lead and they were asked to pay increased ers in Manchuria for prices, they were astounded and dis- the Bolsheviks, bronze Perion against gusted at what they regarded as a breach present helpless position, China is bound in view of ber of honour. It is well known that, while to co-operate with Japan in accordance the Chinese business man of standing with the Sino-Japanese Military Treaty will use every means to arrive at a bar of 1818 for the protection of her north- gain advantageous, to himself, bs will, western and north-eastern frontier against once the bargain is made, observe its con the Reds.
CHINA AND THE BOLSHEVIKS.
ditions with punctilious fairnesa Hit- herto he, har bed the example and sup port of the British in doing so, but now for the first time these traditions have
HARBIN, January 17th... been upset, and for the reason that the Kuei-ching, Military Governor of Kirin It goes without saying that General Pao Briton is financially unable to fulfil his and Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese chligations without serious loss of dis military guards along the Chinese Eastern aster. The Chinaman, who is d ready Railway, will repent his neutral tactics- speculator, an honourable and eagrageous which were so successfully employed when loser, does not understand, feels that he he was Military Governor of Heilung is cheated, and that British integrity is Kiang in 1917-towards the Bolsheviks, slain by the war. He consequently tarps because today's advices from Kirin indi- elsewhere, buying from America often at cate that this "Neutral" General bas higher prices, which the exchange maker
wired to both even more unfavourable Is the world maintain strict neutrality towards all Fengtien and Heilungkiang sirongly suggesting that Chins wido tradition that caused it to be a Russian factions General Pap anys that should custom in every port where lingua francall refugees from Siberia will be disarmed was spoken for a man to back his asser and interned in Chinese territory until vation as to honour by laying his hand on his heart and saying, parola in gless" to become a legend 1
Japan bas so far as Inhouses; the same advantages over is that Chinhas Alert, intelligent, and fidiatrics, under adequate supervision, her u
not only efficient" aota basis of com they are
are
the
the termination of the civil war in Rusaja when they will be handed over to responsible Government
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CHINESE GOVERNMENT MINT.
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SHANGHAI, January 18th. Uficial advices, regarding the establish beir ment of a Chinese Government Mint at great hardship is the absence
Shanghai for the coining of silver dollars produced steel, and that 18,
and websidiary coins in this and other which will diminish, with the
Yangtze ports show that the new Mint development of the iron deposits in direct control of the Currency Buteau
will be established by Chine Kores, and the equally certain reduction without foreign interference, but for the on the cost of ocean transport. Japan eficiency of the establishment Allied stands to day with a substantial, adran technical experte will be employed. For age on labour costa, which will go far. the safety of the mint, a site situated be to help her to compete when normal con- tween the Chinese city and the Inter- ditions become general. In plant and national. Settlement will be selected.
lay out Japan has on the whole au advantage over China owing to the scale have been instructed by Peking to raise General Li Shun and General Yang on which the works are established tharande jointly so that the mint may be modernness and in many casos baranse stablished, as soon as possible early next of their elaboration of equipment.
Spring
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