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TO-DAY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SAIURDAY, MARCH 2Nd, 1907.

BRIDGING THE YALU RIVER.

JAPAN'S ENGINEERY IN KOREA. The railway through Kores, from Fasan in

oments, Yaln, is

So much as Iven written in the European policy, the repudiation of formal igre monta was the south-east to Wiju on the south bank of the

calls itself a Government," he said, " submit to dialation in such matters." It watter of malleon} was suggested that, ne a not vapedioal. ozelnimed: You about Chinese referm, that a description of the van who perhaps more then suy other e

Prince

We do not repudiate," ho

"we acknowledge the agreement; lengthing completion throughout its approximately 38 miles, and the staz ds for Chinen reft cu may be of interest but we will carry her out in our own waleni of bridging the river at Wijn so na to: It did not grour to him that a a Government to readers of Le Times, writes a correspondent which, for recent offences, sees its capital carry forward the line to Binkdan of that jourant.

occupied by

thi e troops of ten nations, a Govern attracting attention in Japan. The present to bridge the stream some Onthe last serasion when I saw Tang Shao-ment which entrusts the conduct of its foreign intention is

it was at bis modegi residence near the fairs to on official on tortupt and ignoraut as little distance below the town of Wiju, and tha Myi it

Hatemen in Peking: English rises were bloom-

rince Ching, can hardly expect to adopt, with western end of the structure which it is proposed ing in profusion in the cool courtyard, while

the rivermal approvTub

of the Western Posters, to erect will be situated at Shin-Wiju, on the of Antnag, west bank, not far from te city bius. an adjoining recta cans the familiar the attiinde advocated by

which, together with

with Ta-tung keo, a few miles Those who know anything of the existing the south, Was sound of a plane, giving forth laborious cafen.

recently opraed to the trade of His Excellency volunteered tus explanation position of affairs in Cbizn

that the to realize

All nation from

under the treaties made by Chins: motive force behind the present movement lies with America and with Japaa in October, 1903. that his daughters were learning music German governces. As we sat in his study. principally in the provincial authorities' end of comfortably furnished in the European manZOK

bridge is

is about

fies miles down alread from that the The sealer were specerdest by an sir from La funds. The depletion of their exchequia, The place at which it is proposed to provide tho Iron-of-which was the gene of the crossing of General Traviata, whore insistent reminder of another temporarily led by the illicit profits of

Kuroki's forces on April 30th, 1904, and Bhin ivilization leat fusiastic background of in minte, cells urgently for

ravanne. Especially urgent is the call to

to Wiju- -that is, "Now Wijs"-stands just supply sinews for that meli-vaunted army beneath the heights which the Russian batterion congruity to the scoro and to the conversa. tion of the msn to whom the rising generation in being which in the eyes of students and China untiles already looks for lentiership and achievement.

ardent patriots America, at Columbia College, he retais at the age of 4h many of the characteristics of that Rindent elnes which basely endeavours to adapt Western democratic i'ens to the uses of Oriental ethics and policies, to pour some of the new wine of personal liberty and equality into the old bottles of Chinese philerophy. It is true that those Europeans we knew big bout say that since his rise to power many of his unorthodox

мой

Tang Shao-yi is a Cantober; fiacated in imposing her own conditions on the world Rusi" to the north of Antung. The other

in

have

tendencies-or at least their display-have given | Canile atisined by the Northern Railway fierce encounter at Komatang in the afternoon

attracted

general

TO CARRY ROAD AND RAIL.

gans wore mainly posted on the sloratad further Korea in general. little wonder, therefore, that those positions nearer to Kiu-hoa-chong, who support the policy now to favour pereid op stream where the road from their opportunity in the control af Cusions orgsses and enters ou Manchurian soil in the that some terrible fighting took pleadland at the Hubsa and railway licences; little wonder, Loo, that province of Liao-tang. It will be remembered their intimate knowledge of the jealousies and differat cea which prevent any united action by firer Mount), the conspicuous the Powers emboldens them in a determined cufluemos of the Rivers Ai and Yalu. Tho attempt to obtain this control. The spladidassians were dislodged from Kin-lien-cheug in the foreroon of the 1st of May, ool there was a attention, end. forgetting that. place to conservatism of the classical type. To those results would not have been attained bat

The long sandback facing Wij in Chin-ting- dog-cart in which he was wont to drive in the for British caplink and administrstice ability,

ek

tao ao monne island), and it was on the Cantones group streets of Peking, with a hall-dog (son of

politicians who are "boxide him in un longer in most active in this question, base upon its

that the Japanese artillery was posted when tho "Rodany eridesce; the sociable card parties at which corn their contention that such incrative assault on Tiger Mount and Kiu lien-chang was Wiju and and

rely made by the Imperial Guards from Wi used to meet their other

eir snterprises must bonsaforth remain entirely the second divising fram Gen-ha-long-

The Foreign

friends at Tientsin have given place to under

Chiness control. The impossibility the origin of official if it fata respin of bisining meary in Cains for railway construc. sandbank immediately to the south of Chin-diag too is Tui-ma-tao, facing Autong, across conditions th pignore, as well Nevertheless his conversation displays range of Lin under

ed this and the And

adj sudbins it is knowledge and ideas and a zare even in foreiro-el of detail very as the rights of 4 farsign boudholder. A

to build the new liny, including the iron Cliner is similarly with the Customs; their vise is that modesty is unchanged, and if his the foreign staff is largely superfluous and that

the abare to Chine

bad of this structure is to be 40ft. shok blo abilities are, directed to the main-

the high salurites

paid

Bole al_ho all the existing reg touance of

regive

The delicate question of honest administration water, and the length of the bridge, erosing as advancement of China for the Chinese, it is, is burked, the rights of the bondholder narrowed it will the main chanual-the ethers are all planned bat ereply save in the rainy season-is The so doubt, brennsa bo Talleres that, for the

clown to a simple I Imperial guarantee, and present, it is along these lines that lies the whole confused by Tagu cisims to sovereign to be 334ift. Embankments will to require? on Fath to

rights wile while to success for his country.

undeniable in theory, must either side, but the engineering diffentine new which,

not exposted to be of an ext sordinary character, Tang owes his advas content primarily to the remain inadmissile in practice sa powerful pretetion of the Viceray Yun Shik

is n debtor and adraíaistratively

the e estimate of $244,00 for the onlira, work will kai. At the time of the Boxer franties

In spite of

prove to be a sufficiently liberal one, The Tain, director of the Northern Railway:

in place higher up stream, is math narrower, The

but to bridge it anywhere ther

WIN

|

that will carry both railway and cong

of his tarty Cand are by no means jasnemoustahls Possibly

Tha

Shao- res the junt of Yuan Shib-kai

8 pointment of Yuan to the intter's coats intermediary to the

Киссаи Li Hong-chug Viceroy of

b was given the post of Cuálem Tantus / Giews nod Grand Council in matters of foreig\ RECOMBitatea considerable detour, and tak

he is the foundations of his n

yo

assured oarser. To day 1 is Duector-General of Kailways finelding The Lalms, the Shanghai Kanking, on th Cang-ding-Tai- Vice-President of the Wai-w-n, pecially

more in

gilantion

with

account. the clcice

#iso doubtless a is

for railway for general trails, such roadway, by the wa being convertible at will into the bed of an ditional railway track. As regards the junk traffe, the height of the bridge abore high- water level will render it tilful only for the sailars to lower thus appor section of the masts in the case of a large n-going vessel, and the

clear. majority of junks will pass clo

CORRIDOR TRAINS ON THE BATTLEFIELD. As is wall

i kcówn, the Japaneno e gineers are busily

estimated at £25,000 a year: from on a clution which derives its wealth

the Gover

Crument of China stands Tiestein, where, keeping in close tenth will thPolicy An

of the powerfal who has sitra become the de facts ralor ofteny, practically nothing can be done without ing everything into the knowledge and approval satrap, wus

"Control of affairs, from his Tamén Tho britten will be padway of amplo | in Teusin, is complete. In view of possible but it will also carry a ot

the fact contingencies,

fact is worth remembering Tang Hestefore represents primarily the views of the great Viceroy: but many Chinese

સો with Manchurian negotiations, say that be now procending, High Commission of Cuatams smetics)

*BE sympathies of his And these in and, if rumour speaks truly, member-derignate native province of Kwang-tang. of the Grand Council. His official salaries are their turn present in no small measure tho of Chinese subjects overseas, of that alone £7,000, and fresh offers are being

he draws

112 trust upon

the its liberal ideas from the Pacilie const, day. It is not as Every promely in Chins that ur offit bo in his Stinite Setilments, and this Hawaiian Islands,

the Throne should be the paid ad of which a certain section, follow

following the director of Ealf-a-dozen railways.) For so load of Kang Yawei, Liang Chitsno, and Son

to held such a sition in Yat-sen, is frankly anti-Mauchu. Locking at substantial line of the erdi nay gange, and

bar the traff young a man sufficiently remarkable, and there can be but the present position of Chinese internal affairs strengthening the track to

of an

the ordinary standard-gauge- railway, little doubt that, for good er evil, he and the age cannot but recognize that the superior in-

the ut the Cantonese prens by the year 1989 to the 4ft 8in. ginge,

idas being to practically recanstract ported, will leave their power writ large ou

placing them in

Position influence and power, and as their claunish coming events.

is proverbial, even in Chins, their political tendencies are worthy of attention.

light Decauvitio razy that was laid during

the war from Shin-Wiju to Mukden into a

iceroy, whose proy in has so fatchinly eupligence and energy of increasing Yala bridge, it is hoped, will by that time be

As to what that policy really is, what its nspirations and the motive forms behind it, few would care to alter a final opinion. The of us present condition of Chica isone of format ord gresing mresi; we car but observe their marios and immediata resalta pressed in the conversation of Tang Sha-3), Mauchus sad of the Chinesa position of the j of the Eastern Chinese Railway" will hare)

different mar

of

be

The real opinions of Tang Ship-yi and the

до ho represents ara largals matters of parties, and res must bear in mind and his would wear the determined

literati should he

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w

ready for use, and passengers from Japan will step into a train at Fasan, on the coast of south-

ringe over 100 miles to the ancient

Kores, and travel without change of ital of carriage over

gauge Manekaria. Possibly by that tiure the gal

far the boundary been converted likawin ut Kv

Kwan-chong-isu, Bear Kiris. and then the will be a break of gange to

was fought, ia

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A

point from

of

Bussian lender fall at

THE BRIDE'S P ·LITICAL IMPORTANCE,

are not entirely rossuring to those who believe display any marked tendencies towards radical is only now reform of the Administration. His present that the Far Fasier who realize that line of action is a enfarote, ennforming, as it does, Fuson, if all goes rell, within five 76079 reaching its critical stage, a the Chines alore and people, have by no to the prejedices of the ancient r a whil the date on which the fierce batile of the Yaln that state of autismi grafitying the zutionalison of his fellow prosity with very luxury of mulorn trava), will be ght, is 1904, corridor train, egripped mans attai

Briery and unity

purpos which aloecials by mergelic support of their winter, crossing the river and climbing

nul

proges Chines

for development of China for, could justify their present tendenci s

wastward, past Feng-hwang-ohong and the observed, that tho claims, Auli

and by, the those of a great majority opinions of Tung are

la recent years he has been peculiarly passus of the Mo-tien-ling, where Kuroki's mea strove hard with those of Keller, and where the arociated with the affairs of Great Britain in of the Eative Press.

Увоз Isu ridge. In discussing general subjects, Tang's China. In 1969 be first came into praminence wander is courteous, and his views are expres- as the result of or unfortunate incident con- el with wonderful lucidity but in finone al erected with Admiral Seymour'a relief solumn, devoid of cariain degree of imposto in Politically this bridging of the Yalu is not political negotiations be by comes another and a when, is causequences of his refusal to sathoriz

to Herein bis alitud the new of the Northern ailway's focomotives, asmuch as Japan will be able, if necessary, Turz embodies the views which bave been so freely he was placed in conficemont by order of the sad tre pe as far as Mukden, at a'i events without touching the Eastern Chinese Railway expressed in the conclusina of the Russe British zaval authorities, in subset which both Russia and Japan are debarred

das to the

intervention of persoanl Japanese way by patriotic students and by the roles was

of military trans Press. With the noisy and irresponsible the Kassian military commander, Genera! from using for the purposes

*£ impossible theories we are tot Wogack. Mors recully, as Trad rs of The port, without a violation of the Portsmouth Red but it is impossible to listen to men remember, he represented Ching Treaty, and which would osustitute an act of the stump of

of Taag Stanyi, tolor their in the Tibetan ego intions, Est at Calcutta war. On the other band, Japan is bound nat

of China's sovereign dogmatic arramplioa

and again in the negotiations for the treaty to igoreass ber forses in Manchuris beyond a right and entice ability to control her which has just been recluded at Peking certain limited number, and wore sbo to do so RA would assuredly, and with judico, ledgo The handling OF one destinies, withoul rome doubt as to fair

diplomatic questions affecting

a complaint. It is an advantage in every way, gel faith or their intelligence. It is insps. British interests (ey, railway and mining con-

and to all, that there will presently ba au alter- sitle to believe that wou of real ability cau siu. her command

cessions) appare le bo delegated ta kim, ay cerely maintain that hins has st

matter of courer, by the Wai-wa-pn. is native route to Mukden, however, aud progress to-day fficials capable of efficiently adminis

consideration of the great r facilities that will fering the Custotas Service, the Imperial paint to that board was due to represale of this kind is to be welcomed on every side in

perial tips wade by Sir Ernest Satow to Yum Shib-

accrue to the commerce of all nations-Duilg railways, or any othe

other matter directlykai, urging the uncination of an

an energetic and a feeling the Government's exelequer. Con capab oficial to that invertebrate baly, and Graphi» fronted by such pretensions, we are forced the gation has since bad cause to congealaiato apon the unpleasant conclusion that itself, insuch as Toug has shows himself behind these napirations i those fors & possessed of at least one quality most rare în which have been for centuries identified with

China, that of being able to come to a decision Chiness officialdam ¿, self-interest and the animale a definite stalemost without the endiosa evasions of Oriental diplomas That the statements are not entirely to our liking is nother matter:

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greed of money. Wo hesitate to adopt this Conclusion, and wo so for its disproof the were keenly beenusy hard men ait produced by the western education from which "His misper. A curious blend of American nuch was, and still is, hoped. We feel that, free-art-easiness with the orthodox balear of whatever may be the ignorance of the iterati metropolitan officialdon, impresses with the Other officials of the old school, men like Yuan and Tang are sense of things unknown, perfectly well aware that their Toasted reorgani-educated abroad, men like Wa Ting-fang and zion of an ebermette national army is an idle the sons of the late Marquis Tseng, seem to dream, that the corruption of the Administr 1ecori naturally to theacient immutable order tica is goat as over, while its necessittea are of things Chinese, becoming parts of the incessed by the exactions of the Court; that picture; but for som indefinable as the reform of lbs judicial procedure is neither

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le does these things, wathing of cohesion or purpose, sept it be repair e anestrel tombs. And yet of course, those instinetite me prejudices which the mandarinate so studiously encourages for ite vwa ends.

Roferring to Tong Soo ri's altituda at an early strge of the Manchurian negotiations the

it were Ching that had defented Russia.

THE GOOD OF LAUGHTER.

Russian Minister observed:-"You speak as if Oh, who cut estimate the worth,

The Of sunuy-eyed and dimpled mirth? sentence fairly embodies the impression which How decale would be the earth oue gathers from observation of this latest fores

If it were not for laughter!

Par

Enstar politics. Not Rasia only.

but all foreign nations, seem to

to be negligible

quantities in the scheme of a new Chins, malit Of all the cures by man possessed,

Listening to such To hear the beurt by grief oppressed, nut and self-sufficient.

confident utterances, one is almost. Inclined to There's no bath power, it is conteased, doubt the thousand proofs of their absurdity That can compare to laughter.

which onefeout us at the very door.

To give an instance

ree of this attitude. Tang

was discussing, in the presence of Haveral! So, for each sorrow so oudure, interested listeners, the burning question of Unlesa ye nourish ít, be sure foreign concessions, and the right of the Te bare at band au ensy sure; bondholders to exercise control. He grew : -Halba! 'tis only laughter

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