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tons each; and the Chinese merchants in BRITISH NAVY ESTIMATES
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the United States now rug the China Mail Steamship Company, with two or
THE CANTON SITUATION.
A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS.
A PRESIDENTIAL SURVEY,
three larger "vessels-averaging 10.000 tona | Wa give below the Votes for the Far The Bureau of Eesnahiic Information each. Otherwise, the shipping is emily Eust as far as they appear on the facu A recent visitor to Canton infories the extracts from President Hau's new book, in foreign hands. Moreover, the vessels of the Navy Estimates for the year Daily Press that Dr. Sun, Ye
China After the War," which has just with the British, American and Bath whore givou, are the votes of the year other provinces only among the labour- above mentioned are generally registered 11- The figures in parenthesis, popular throughout Kwangtang and appeared in an English translation, the nuthorition: hetee the Chinese commers 0-21.
lu, the present estimates, the ink and artisan classes, the iterati and following survey of present-time comme cind. For international trade to pros lumped together, so that we are unable ming, the Civil Governor,
cial Bug remains yet to be seen in foreign votes for the naval yards "abroad are merchants
supporting Chen Chiung nientions facilities in Chinn:-
per, one cannot rely solely upon foreign to give the usual details of the different then Chinung-ming supports &
So long a four railway lines with a total mileage not develop a nerchant marine of before the War The only iteros avail position is considered to be scelte.
Altogether there are in Ching twenty shipping. So, as long as China does departments at Hongkong and elsewhere sen (and he has stated that he will cot-
East, as was the custom tinue to of about secrn thousand. Of this 2,000 own, her trade and commerce with the ab.e are under the heads of works, build Chung-ming
support him) Sun Yat-sen's miles are foreign concessioned lines, rest of the world will always be bandings and repairs, and certain miscellaneonied-classes as auch money ne he re commands from the namely, the, Chinese Eastern. the South Leapped.
ous votes of a inore or less unimportan: qures. The fiterati are not concerned Manchuria. the. Kinochow-Txinan, the uch progress has of late been record- Canton Kowloon, the Yunnan Railwayed of the country's postal and telegraph ever, that a decrease of £11,000 in the cular papers regarding Great Britain character. It is of interest to note, how with the reports published in the verna and the Lung-then while the Chinese services. But we are still lagging along total vote for salaries and allowances and the fovernment of Hongkong, as Government lines number only eighteen, way behind the other untions. Accard for naval yards abroad is due mainly they have a profound faith in Croat and extend over about 4,500 miles. This sug to the report for 1018, the number af to reduced cost of staff on the, China Britain's sense of fairplay. is certainly altogether insufficient. The malls carried by the post office aggre Station (Hongkong. Weihniwei, muth United States with a territory of aboat gated 390,000,000 pieces. This would the same size, and with only one-fourth work out at less than one piece per of our population, has 200.000 miles of capita of China's 40,000,000 population railways, or times as long, as ours, In Europe, on the other hand, the figures Moreover, many of our lines, though now show from fifty to sixty pieces per capita nationalized, were at first built with of its population. As to telegraph lines; foreign capital. The diversity of foreign we have at present not more than 40,000 interests has made it impossible to lay out males, whereas in the United States there lines according to some comprehensive are 1.820,000 miles of them. The propor plan for the whole country: -
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ton is therefore one to forty. Such being the case, part of the rapital-
Such then is the industrial buck-ward seems to have been invested in unit-ness of China. In order to remedy the portant routes, while many more import. Government, revise the taxation system, situation, we need to establish a stable regions are without any modern
ant
of electrical fitting
functions previous to and during the Chen Ching-ming's abrence from ait inauguration of Sun Yat-sen, which bot not previously been mentioned, was de to the multifarious duties of bis various posts.
The tendency of wages in the Province is decidedly upward.
SUN YAT-SEN AND CHINA. SIR JAMES CANTLIE'S VIEWS.
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changhai) owing to the fall in the value of the dollar, to a slight decrease in bonus for English stuff employed at Naval yards abroad, and to a reduction in overtime payments, modified by the grant of increased bonus to locally entered staff, progressive increases of pay, the grunt of Servants' Allowance to Naval Ulicers, and the grant of a more favour- able exchange compensation concession to perionnel que the Chiun Station.
HONGKONG. Works, Buildings and Repairs.- Ona ther nount required for completing the ALLEGED DECLARATION OF THE LATE. Battery shed for submarines 20,250, far- means of communication. Ever since the encurage technical skill, and get to wark £13,100 (machinery estimate frit construction of railways in China gether a larger amount of capital. Above $11,600), storage accommodation for oil
DR MORRISON forty years ago, no less than $400,000,000 all the people should be taught to have the £5,500, probable expenditure to has been expended. Ket trunk lines are a knowledge of international conditions March 31st, 1921, 45,000, total estimate & representative of the Morning Text, Sir In course of an interview granted to found only north of the. Yangtse River social, political and especially ́ccono- | ~~~,000 (machinery estimate £4,500); James Cantlis commeated on the Canton. and east of Honan province, leaving the mical. The European and Americans extension
shop Parliament's Manifesto and its election great plains to the south and west prac generally have far better commercial £2,000, further amount required for com- Bically untraversed. In this way such and industrial training, yet part of their pletion 29,800 (machinery estimate of Sun Yat-sen as President of China. portions of the country as Shensi, Kans, post-bellum reconstruction programme is 20,580); roadways and paving round Sir Junes said that this was but another Szechwan and Kweichow, are inaccessible to make such education more universal basin and dock £3,100. Total, £78,350, step towards the realisation of Dr. Sun's. to the coast. and their development is so that there shall be greater productive Minor works, additions and alterations ambition-the establishment of a truly consequently retarded, industrially as power and greater efficiency. How much ordinary repairs and innintendemocratic Parliament consisting of pro well as commercially. Nor is this all.
ance, 151920,
perly-elected members, and maintained Mural Armaments. - Sälaries and most emphatically that it was not a move for in recent years railway loans made to China have often partaken of the
allowances, £6,703 (£5,941); wages of inspired by personal ambition, pride of nature of politico-commercial trans- China being vast in territory and po
police, 24,850 (£3,300).
place, or hope of gain.. The recent utter Miscellanmur.Civilians employed on unces to the effect that Dr. Sun wäs actions. This not only hinders the pro- pulation, trade has flourished all through miscellaneous services £301; allowances favourable to communistic methods of per industrial development of the coun-, these .centuries. Hence there has been to draughtsmen and others for instruc-government in the South try, but it also sows the seeds for future developed in the Chinese business world tion of apprentices, etc., international complications. Therefore,
£40 (-10)slanders of his enemies. Dr. Sun had one a well ordered system of customs and con-wages, clothing, etc.. of police force, ideal-properly constituted democratic in the interests of all concerned. such ventions, of commercial guilds and asso-15,100 (14,750); gas and electric currule in China with a Legislature model. arrangements should be modified so as to ciations, of principles of mutual help and rent, 70 (710); hospital and infirm-led on that of Westminster. Such a pro.. preclude all undesirable possibilities. matual protection. Between the employ. Bry, 125.
Just as railways may be compared to
gramme means opposition to the military SINGAPORE. the lines of longitude, so may roads and and the seller, there is a sort of un-
er and the play, between the buyer worke, "Buildings in Repairs-Ona uchuns of the North and the consequent highways be compared to the lines of written contract, and good faith is pre-250,000; further amount required for having pinned their faith to the fortunes
storage accommodation for oil fuel, enmity of Peking. latitude. Each supplements the other dicated in all transactions. This explains
Great Britain and the other Powern and each has its sphere of usefulness. the prosperity of our domestic, and, to completion, £200,0000" (machinery est-of the late Yuan Shih-kai and the parties.
more have we, who are in these respects backward, to spur forward t
TRADE AND COMMERCE IS CHINA.
mate, £10,000).
miscellanious services, £1,078.
Aarellaevas-Civilians employed on
WEIHAIWEL.
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In ancient China well-constructed courier, soine extent, our foreign trade, as well roads ased to radiate from the Metro as the commercial integrity of our mer polis to the provincial, capitals and from chants. these to other cities of the country In the West, it is said that the busin There were more than 60,000 miles of man 18 not born but made. He has his dence for senior and subordinate officers,
Works, Buildings and Repair-Rast such ronds, but now-a-days few of them environment to aid him and help further £1,700; probable expenditure to March are good for travelling. This is partly his inclination. Possessing a large fund 31. 1, £8,000; total estimate for the result of age-long neglect of repair of capital, a better business organiza- work, 5,000, increased from 28.300 ing and partly the result of late dinise tion as well as better commercial and minor new works, £1.340: ordinary since the modern postal and telegraph technical knowledge, he is able to invade pairs and maintenance, £2,180, services no longer employ the old courier other countries with his
wares. So,
“Miscellancuar.—Civilians employed on roads. A few new ronds have indeed coming to China, he studies our needs miscellaneous services Leso been constructed by the municipalities of am requirements. He begrudges no en Peking. Tientsin, Shanghai, Haukow, and
Agent (Accountant Officer, tisement the opportunities in store fot
Naval
BHANGHAL
other cities, but the government at large pense to make known by proper adverR.N.), 1,30 (£1,394).
→ YOKOHAMA.
Miscellaneous-Wages, clothing, etc.
has not had the time nor money to build the foreign traders. There is close ea a respectable system of highways for operation between the western Merchant of police force, £200 (£150); hospital the whole country. Consequently, inland and the western manufacturer. Whatever and infirmary, £540. travel is especially laborious, and transit the merchant Incks, the manufacturer j over one hundred miles will occupy, a will produce; whatever the latter needs, longer time than over one thousand on the railway. In loreign countries, how ever, there is a perfect network of roads and highways connecting cities, and cities, villages and villages, and the stream of traffic is almost endless whether by carriages.. carts, or motor cars or trucks, and whether in the entry ing of goods or passengers. The United States alone has more than two million miles of highways..
the merchant will supply. Added to thir. THE GROWTH OF SHANGHAI. are the facilities of transportation, com- munication, exchange and credit. Such being the ease, it is little to be wondered at that the foreign trader reaps hand some returns wherever he goes.
A Chinese merchant, however, is not so favourably situated. Lacking up-to-date knowledge, he is unable to seize time by the forelock, and, lacking incentive he is apt to let handsome opportunities
were the
which succeeded, him, recognise the Northern Parliament, and no small guid ing factor in the choice was the advice Political Adviser to the Chinese, Gavera of the late Dr. George E. Morrison, ment
Dr. Morrison been alive to-day he would But." added Sir James "had have been supporter of Sun Yat-sen against the North.
A
DR. MORRISON'S ALLEGED STATEMENT, Asked to amplify this imporant- and surprising statement, Sir James Cantlie said:
After Dr. Morrison's return to this country, and when he was taken ill, at
answered his call I discovered that his of last year, he sent for me. When I his London residence in the early summer
sending for me was not for my medical make what was practically a death-bed services, but, to my surprise, in order to
LABOUR AND PORT FACILITIES.
declaration and confession concerning his hitherto somewhat antagonistic attitude The propose International Labour" towards Sun Yat-sen, his programme, and information Bureau at Shanghai is now his party, Dr. Morrison said to me: "I can. in courag of formation. Thirty-one firms now see that i laves all along been mis have entered their names for member taken in my man. Had I properly appar ship, of which 10 are British, seven Ame cinted the character of Sun Yat-sen, I ricau, one French, and three Japanese would have furthered his cause. The next step, says it special corres there would have been co Boxer Rising. pondent of The Times' Trade Supple Had I the strength and opportunity now I would undo the work of the last ten Chinese ringloyers of labour to join. Chinese, like foreign, employers are aliva Dr. Sun occupied a very different posi 18 anticipated that they will accept, for to the potentialities of Shanghai as an tion from what he does now." industrial centre.
The Editor of the Landon, & Rihina
And
1sip by. Besides, he is seriously handi ment," will, probably be to invite the bear and make it my duty to see that.
country
NAPOLEON'S CENTENARY.
the
With an pretentious railway mileage, China has more need of an adequate capped by insufficient capital, lack of system of good roads and highways, I adequate transportation and communie Some time ago, the Ministry of Interiortion facilities, uncertainty of commercial promulgated a set of regulations for the laws, the existence of the cambrous likin construction of highways, which fixed system, an unfair tariff, schedule, lack the breadth of those to be built by the of up-to-date commercial information, for the development of Woosung, at the fulfaws:-"Without suggesting any doubt Interesting evidence of this is a scheme press comments on the statement sa Central Government at fifty feet, those disorganized state of internal currency, mouth of the river on which Shanghai as to the bona fiden of Dr. Csalie's by the provincial authorities thirty feet, and lack of an international credit, sys stands, and some fourteen miles away astonishing declaration, most people who. and those by the district authorities tem. Hence he follows where others from Shanghai itself. A Chinese syndi knew the late Dr. Morrison and his work twenty-four feet. As regards the width lead; he responds where others direct; cate intends to co-operate with the in China will be interested to see if any of those built by the village authorities, be does not venture beyond the coast. Shanghai-Nanking Railway in develop confirmatory evidence. From any other the standard was to be adopted accord. Foreign goods are imported by foreign ing Woosung as an industrial district source is forthcoming as to this recanta ing to the needs of the local community, traders, although he may be asked to The scheme is still in embryo, but the tion of his well-known views on The programme suggested by the Minis- carry on an agency in the interior of intention is to lay down a system of subject. All we can say is that we w try is an ambitious one. Although it is the country. Similarly, Chinese goods roads with tramways connecting with the Dr. Morrison several times during his not easy to carry it our completely, are exported by foreigners, and, very termini of the Shanghai tramways to last illness, and heard nothing about it good beginning, for example, will have often, the latter commission their agents provide new wharfage facilities and to in discussing with him affairs in China." been made if the old courier roads are to scour the interior for native goods. connect them with the railway line that ༥ ་ - སྐ reconstructed AD that there will be The Chinese merchant is not consulted runs to Shanghai: to build godowns and 10,000 miles of modern roada radinting and he is left out in the cold.
to providy housing for employés, The from the National Capital and another
Moreover, that China imports are Chang Chien, of Nantungchow, not far prime mover of the scheme is a Mr. 50.000 miles radiating from the provincial chiefly manufactured goods and what she from Shanghai, & well-known and in-informed the French Government that the Mr. Churchill as Colonial Secretary, capitals. The old courier roads make exports are chiefly agricultural print fluential Chinese who have been parti: British Government bad, no objection to good foundations, and the expense of re- In such exchange between pairing them will certainly not be so possessing raw materials and another cularly hetive in various industrial enthe centenary of the death of Napoleon great as that of constructing highways on possessing manufactured articles, the in-
yonevitable loss would naturally be on the in the local Press, which is almost daily form of a Roman Catholic service on May The scheme has received much notice The programme was expepted to take the being commemorated at St. Helena itself, entirely new road-beds.
China has long been considered as a former. Besides, such fancy articles 22 occupied with discussions arising out of country very lavourably provided with Chinese embroidery, carved wood, fac the inland waterways. The mileage of rivers querware, porcelains, gems and jade, etc., difficus expansion of Shanghai and the 5th at Longwood House where the of finding suitable localities for Emperor died. Guns were to be fired navigable by Chinese juuks is over can no longer find large foreign markets, new undertakings The scheme is also from hour to hour by one of the coast 20,000 miles and that of waterways for their lovers of former days have now interesting in courection with a confer batteries on the stand and clover navigable by steamers and steam laun. perforce to retrench in their expenditure fence which is to be held here next Octo- minutes to six o'clock, the moment at ches another four or five thousand miles, alter the War and discourage the purber under the auspices of the Whangpoo which Napoleon breathed his last, there Since the opening of the country to chase of luxuries.
Conservancy Board, to consider tho was to be a salvo of 101, guns sa ia Paris foreign trade and residence however, On an average, China imported during question of port development. It and other European centres where the Chinese shipping has been seriously the last few years Tis. 500,000,000 and will be international in character the anniversary was to be celebrated. handicapped Because of treaty stipula exported Tis. 170,000,000 worth of goods countries to be represented being Great tions, most of the large rivers as far annually. The difference was, therefore, Britain, France, the United States, north as the Sungari River, as far west Tis. 80,000,000 in favour of imports. After Japan and Holland, each of which is to Pearl and West Rivers are open to ually revived while commerce with Japan is the opinion of men long resident and comfort to your eyes. It they do and if the as Chungking, and a far south as the the War, the trade with Europe has grad-nominate an engineer, who shall be
specialist harbour and river work navigation by foreign vessels. Since and Amerida is bound to grow even in the Yangtze Valley the problem will then the role between the guest had bot grooter in amount. Ascur-foreign trade have to be considered has been reversed; for, not only are the is almost entirely in the hands of for schemes for Yangtze River Conservancy. Right. Do not be satisfiesl unless they are to mountings are properly adjusted, they are All Chinese junks unable to compete with eigners, we shall be exporting more and the latter is a question which has been foreign shipping, but also few Chinese more raw material and importing more talked about for many years without There is no comfort in spectacles that are steamship companies prosper under such and more manufactured products, with anything material having been accom conditions. The Chins Merchanta Steam perhaps a greater and greater difference-plished. Fresh schemes for investigation merely good enough." They are either Right ship Navigation Company is among the in favour of the latter. If so, the con of the whole Yangtze question are, how
terprizes.
relation
YOUR GLASSES SHOULD GIVE REST
few notable exceptions. Consequently, of tinual drain upon our natural resources ever, now on foot, and it is probable that or All Wrong, If your glasses are in need of the one thousand odd steam vessels ply as well as specie supply will be tremen the proposed development of Woosung,,
ing to and fro on the waterways during dous, yet in addition to that we have to combined with the Whangpoo Conservan changes, adjustments, or repairs, send them to the last year, only one-fifth or 200 flow pay every year sixty million tasla asja. oy's conference, will bring them to a head. the Hongkong Optical Co., Successors, to Clark the Chinese flüg
terest and, part principal duo on-the- An regards ocean-going vessels, the Boxer. Indemnity. The outlook is, there nations are also in duty bound to assist & Co, Refracting & Manufacturing Opticians tonnage of Chinese shipping is almost fore, uninviting, and it behaves our com for such unsatisfactory conditions are (the originators of manufacturing Toric lenges bil In Tukien and Kwangtung, the mercial and financial, cases enerate the sure to rent on the world at large. For in the Colory) located in 53, Queen's Boad, Chinese business men having commer devise why's and means to ameliorate not only will Chins be impoverished, but
cial interests in the Bouth Sea islands situation. On the other hand, the other the Chinese will be too poor to buy the Central. They have the equipment to adjust. own a few cargo steamers of some. 2,000 (Continued at foot of next column.)world's surplus supply.
your glasses to a nicety-AnZ.
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