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bratin, seeing that they concluded an agreement with them only a

jonths ago, and it was plain to me that there was something more

flattering preference behind Chang's persistent demand for the

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e upper Yangtsze at the present moment,none is more conspicuous e

obrikeng ro startling than the growing influence of the Japanese. There

jaid to be some 5000. Japanese in or about Muchang.They are found

angsha and at Iohang, their flag is to be seen everywhere on the

,and the Viceroy, strongly pro-Japanese in his sympathies,is surr-

d by a ring of Japanese advisers whose influence is perceptible

ery turn. Their distinct methods of business, and their peculiar

f eoquibing information, seperate them from other foreigners.

they have great ambitions in the Yangtsze valley there can be

mer of doubt, and their object seems to be to conquer as much by

pcess of absorption by numbers,as by the ordinary competition of

They evdently have reasons for attaching a great deal of impo- ace to obtaining a share in the present railway scheme. They have

mey to contribute,but they have labour and they have materials,

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e if possible that the loan with which the railways are to be b

should carry with it no vexatious conditions likely to affect

in these fields of industry.

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has come under my own observation, it is no longer difficult to

account