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RAILWAY DRYELOPMENT IN

SOUTHERN CHINA

The Chiese province of Yunnsp, meaning South of the Clouds, "is not known to many Europesa even by name, although it is mean time the objective of more railways than ain being constructed towards any other region im Asia, if not fa, the world. The rail-milts and rallway plant works of Great Britals, of the Ualted Stater, of France, and of Germany are occupied wili-or are looking forward to or- ders for the metals and rolling stock quired to open op Yunnan-which railways, when they are completed, will complete the railway. route' across Asia and so link the Yellow Ses on the West, with the sea of Arba cn the East.

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Yasuan, which is about half the area of France, bit with only about, one-ti hth of "Trance's population, owes its present day pro. minance toile geographical position la relation to the spread of railways in south-eastern Asia, The north-western boundary of Yunnan touches Tibet, thence it goes sonth and fii'ges Assam, Barm, Siam and Tongking. Across Yusno are the sherent land roules between the British and French ladies and China. The soute from Canto to Ga'culta, vin Yoonan, is 1,630 miles. compared with 4,000 miles, by ses through ibe Straits of Malacca. To a longer view the Yeinan lines. form se important section on the great truck railway now assum Ing shape across Southern Asia, which will lok Canton with the European systems at Con- stantinople, and with that of Africa at Cairo. Of this great trunk railway, fully 5,000 miles in length, about 3 500 miles are either already in operation er under construction; and the graster pait of-the-remainder of the distance has been soveyad and projected.

Te ma'c line of this route, as at present ex isting, runs from Karachi, on the Arabian Sea, across Northera Todia to Assam. From that polat it forks in o two branches, both of which Implage apa Yuonav. The more northerly

branch raicher Sa liya, which is situated on the

border where Tibet, China, and Burma meet, at the post where the Brahmapurs, de.. scading from the heights of Tibet, turas sharply in its course 10 roll onwards "Through—topiviar TiBengal.""""""This Sadiya branch is meantime of importance de- cause of the coal fields to which it gives access, and its continuance into Yunnan world cro te a connexion between he Brahmaputra and

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8 1010

and winter, thern la almost constant sumikina dziing daylight.

At all times the airis to pure and bracing thi breathing is a delight: already the French sie ablishing storia along the line of their Dow railway. The scenery also is megnificent. eid on the grandest scale; though only very amal: portions biva baen visited by Europtant, er desc ibad. But when Yunnan is opened up by the South Asian Trunk lise travellers will asuredly linger amongst us maantain peala and valleys on they now do amongst be Rockies when crossing America by the Caba dias Pacific.

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PROPERTY PARTITION CASE

The Chief Justice Eir Francis Piggott yester day heard parties in an action brought by Her son Ehmer, mechant of Hamburg, and Ma Mau Sing, trader of Jervois Street, ngripit Ng Chi Wai and others, claiming parton of ces tain properly in Hongkong in ter pect of claims which they held as mortgagon. Mr. Alade, KC. fasiructed by Mr. Shenton (Meiers, Deacon, Looker and Deacon), appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. Alabaster, instructed by Mr. Reader Hanis (Wilkision and Grist) for the delend

THE FORBIGN TRADE OF CHINA,

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Chinese Imperial Martime Customs dealing The Report of the Statistical Secretary of the

with the fernige trade of Chias for the year 1909 furelthes a not entailsfactory statement of the A HOUSE in KIFORD TERRICE.

ellos.during the year. It was good general- ly, for whilst exchange was against impons It favoured exports. Thin same low exchange was probably responsible for the fact that stocks of place goods had bann lowired at the end of the year, further large importations Esta."

apparently not being possible. As has been.

• Tas present condition of the country through Mr. Slade, la, his opaning stated that of hepainted out, China is so large that we cannot which the vaticus 'railway are penetrating is in fiva defendants the last was an infant, The expact every province of the empire to be starting contrast against this view of its pro four adults had disposed of the property under entirely fras from alther droughts or floods, bable future, Central Yuanso has been civiliz marigage to Hermion, who in tam sold it to or some other disturbing factor, but from her ed in Chinese fashion, bat its borderlands have Ma Mau Slog, who now wliked to acquire the wary largecess it comes about that condi not altaiced anything beyond the early mo. infact's share of the property also. Instead of tloas which disagree with ons crop prove diatval stage. Its glens are generally held by the partition, however, an offer had been made favourable to another, the result being that *.bber chieftains nader a species of feudal for the acquirement of the infant's aba a and often a good average will be achieved. There tenure, and the tribes they rule strip and hili. had been approved by the guardian. It would Is onusuisfactory feature as regards the ges with all travellera too poor to pay blackmail,, or too be mora baneficial to the infant defendant's in- of the export trade to be found in the greatly weak ta renist its exaction. Is parts the cross-teress than could be secured by partition. In fecreasing export of beans from Manchuria. bow in still the must advanced of weapons, and the latter event a scheme of partition had beeg The prospects seam still good, and axew and poly fast year a Garman scientist was killed by drawn up by Mr. Oogh under which the lofantrga item on the export list, such as this pro- merps of a great-two-handed sword of eally would receive $9,60 By the offer he would vides, wilt bava the effect of bringi g about a Norman typs whilst expl2.lig unknown coon receive a sum of $10,500 and $100 towards the neater balance of unde, which in to manY you the borders of Yunnan and Burms. In costs, while Ma Man Sing would also under-seats is apparently galast China. Increased many districts the rollway surveyork are the lime take to bear the costs of the assignment of the communications, mataly in the way of railways. amangst moder men, to come into contact property to himself. All the parties concerned which in too many instances haya mado with the Middle Age conditions which 40 appeared to consider the offer a seasonable little progress-also assist in agmecting the strangely survivs "South of the Clouds,"

vélams of both the export and import list. An instance is provided at Kiao-chaw. Obsfov, wa are told, is hopelessly beaten by the newer port as a distributor of foreign imports, but had in 19g a marked' advantage in imports MORPHIA PROBLEM IN CHINA. and in native produce. The most unsatisfac

tory falare to notice is the continued depro- cintad state of ten-cash pieces, which is a great. oilber, to learn that the position of this curs hindrance to trade. It is but satisfactory,

PRASANI LIFE IN CHINA.

Mr. Frederick Moore senda, to the Dally News a letter from Poltaiho, in "which ha |

writes:---

Compelled fats in the summer to leave Pok ing and its accumulated villainies of stench and heat, we came to Feilaiho. And what a gf of nature Feittibo is to this foul-smeting country i Sarron ded by a range of splendid mountains that seem to meet the sea in a cre- Huropese bangalows, is entirely cut off from cent his bit of sandy rollsug shoje, studded with

tha great expansa of country koown generally a1 Chica These are, it is true, Chiste ailinges within the mountala barrior—Vei- Chida is not boattractive here when one is act compa led to live at close quiriers with her people in the holiest weather, From the bill- top on which our cottage stands fields of kto

the uppse navigable waters of China's great tiang cover all the slope back as far as the

rercent of pine clad mountains that lead our to the splendid landscape. You go

river, the Yang xe Kiaap-from which Sadiva fa less than sos miles dittant-bat the other branch referred to is more likely to form

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Mr. Alabaster having signified his acquies en ce in this arrangement;

His Lordship made an order accordingly.

The Rev. E. W. Thwing, Becretary to the International Reform Bureau, sends us the following article on the above subject m

going on in every part of the Empire. It is

The fight against the opina evli in Chianis difficult saderialing to stop the cultivation and but the success already, attained is marvellous, use of this drug among the millions of China.

However other problems, besides the smoking of opium, are facing China to-day. -

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rency was rather worie at the end of the year miens have greatly reduced their output. The than at the beginning, though the provincial

coln..ge on a large scale will not soon be re- Secretary points out that the importation of copper may be takes as an indication that

sumed Foor thousand picuts only were im „ported in 1910, against_213,401-4-3-the-six-yaura— jarious p.tent medicion is one of the problemsiz exceeded the highest total hi berio rccorded, “The growing uss of anti-oplum pille and lap eceding. The sum total of the trade is that Anatber is the increasing use of morphis.

tha of 907, by Tis. 75, 0.

A recent authority (Dr. Weight) has wald that

Morphin being the chief an effective. a'kaloid of opium, the use of it had spread like wildfire during the last ten years not in China along, Lut amongst the Chinese in the Valay

We have also bsfáte us the annual report on

the foreign trade of China for last year by Ms- w. P. Ker, Commercial Attaché to His Ma- jesty's Lapation at Peking. he makes some

paths to the villages on donkeys hired from Paniniola and other parts of the Far East. Iteresti observations on the growth of anti- the main route through Yunnas to the East boys who drive them to your door and poster had eyes bicɔmoa mipace to the population foreiga feeling and the stl rings of a sense of

It leaves the existing line about 152 miles

miles north of Mandalay and rans to Bhamo

on the Cilnase frontier, From Bhamo, ar from Kin-ion, on the same frontier, to which a third branch root from Mandalay, the ritish Government has the right to ex-

tend the lices through Yunnan and to the

Yoeg 21.

To Siam a line is being carried about goo miles north from Bangiok to Kiang Mai in the Blames Shan States, about 1 miles from the Chinese boundary. Butreach that this lice must past through a corner of "either British or French territory, and even if It ponstrates into Yunnan, the traffic upon it is likely to be la gely local owing to the length of the haulage to tidal water, on the Gull of Slam.

We hava to go fanbereist stili, to Tangking, to had a rallway which has actually tapped Yannan. This line is the wonderfultizce of engineering lately completed by the Franch from Haiphong, on the Gulf of Torgting, to Hanoi, and thenes up the Red River

valley to the Chinese franțier: a total dis- tance of 250 miles, Beyond that it has

been continged for about tos miles'farther to

Yunnan-fu, io miles in the interior of China, - which is likely to become an impartint juretion at the istenection of the South-Asian Tren't Railway with the main lise running south from Peklog to the Gulf of Tongking'

Apart from the British political interests levolved, many of there lines Frs being built by British engineers with Brith money; whilst their equipment has already provid. Red soxe, and may furnish much more employment for British workmen. It bas bian foretold that the spread of railways In China will involva a "boom" in the iron and engineering trads such as has never been ex- perienced bliberto, and nowhere in China is callway construction more active to-day tha · it is in the Yondan region.

Besides that Yurdas bffers a mire pro 'm'sing sphite for commercial activity than al- most any other area in the Cctorial Espies, It differs from most of the other great pra- vinces in not being over popalated, but its ve millions of inhabitants are both able and will- log to exchange its products for those of West-

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you till you leave your home-for this is the

season whee the man who owns a donkey

respy a sich reward. You come upon villagers at work, small villagers and tall villagers, but alsaje malo villagers and always this and al ways dirty follows, The villages give one as impression of the past that is unusual. There

is a cuch of barbarity in the dress of the we

of the large citier of India. It had been found to be a cheap substitute for opium, that it could by administered conveniently and secretly lo produce the same effects as opium, and for ites reasons it tended to displace the use of the original drug by large sections of the urban population of far eastern countries,"

patriotism in Chi a. Ha remarks that it is unfuitenste that the two ideas should be so

closely asociated in matters commercial, bat and four of foreigners is at present one of the the fact cannot be ignored that the jealousy main stimulans of material progress in this country,The Chlonso of to-day are opt to re- gard commerce as a conflict lo which the suc menta ofthe isjection of morphis, and the spread

Therapidin'reduction into Ctina ofthe imple.cass of one party implies a corresponding loss of the babit led to the treaty between the Uait-eign Imporis drain their country of its to the other. They are convinced that for. ed States and China called "treaty ar to wealth; they stok to contail the privileges

men-bobble-fected all, because outside the great citles, the bellef in still unabaken that wa- men with bound feet basr children botter than others. Thereisalook of the Redindian-in many of the faces, andibe smell of ages. Since the commercial relations" concluded Oct.ber 8, of the fareizu wadar jo every way; and seats of 190, 19ht, and 1901, when foreign sol-19 3. proclaimed January $3,1994

Article XVItaeir aim is to produce for themselves die were camped in this neighbourhood, the of this only aimed at the morphine habit, the piece-goods and other commodities which Chinese hold the white as-and the Japanes which, having lakes root in the Far East in they have hitherto imported. Is is somewhat in great respect. Upon the bills there stands recent years, rapidly spread over China, and extraordinary that such views should prevail, perhaps a hundred rains of houses, which the added a new terror to bar opium problem because the Chinese are largely a commercially- Boxers wrecked in their mad cimpliga, And

Article XVI of the treaty of 1983 is as fo low minded posplo, by whom exchange of com. The Government of the United States comodities has long been carried on, and its valuo, on the walls of villages are to be scan still is black letters in German and Russian the names

seats to the probibition by the Government of theref re, fully recognised. We should expect and Dumbers of regiments that look up winter Cia of the importation inte China of mor that this phase is one that will soon pass away, quaners in them-regiments whose sidian phia and of instruments for its injection; ex for commerce is international, and only aske plundered the peasants and astulted their wo-cepting morphs and instrumasts for its injec that it may be free to carry on its ramifications men. Children whose hair is not black and tion imported for medical purposes, on payment unfettered as far as Governments willow. eyes are not equiot; children of sight or pins of tariff daty, and under roguinions to be from At the sims time, says Me, Ker, the brighter year of age, are to be seen in these villager,ed by China which shall effectually restrict the

side of the situation should not be overlocked hobblies on crumpled feet if they are Kit Chinese Government undertakes to adip at

use of such Import to the said purposes. The n the first place, the establishmes! of factories carrying the short maltack and the heavy basket if they are pig-talled bays. In their home life once measures to prevent the minufacture in the Chinese have evido:ify many virtues. China o morphin and of instruments for its Adultery and prostitution bardly exist in these injection, villiger. Tho system of early marriage, pluril wives, and general family life are so well ordere ed that vice of the kind that is known in the Wen has little room to thrive. It would seem, tor, that their respect for traditions ho's them in check,

THE CARBUÈ PUBLIC FONDS.

The Shanghai National Rorier makes the following romarks in a relent hing :-Daring the recent fonncial crisis at bus transpired that in some it stances public funds bave bres de posited in private or semi-private banks, and have thereby been placed in considerably jso- pady. The practice is certalely a reprehensiv

ble and in a land where banking laws are as et of the most elementary klo, for it places era civilis.lice. For instance, allbough the the departments of the Government concerned people generally wear collon, cloibing, they

to a very awkward positon, If at times of KTÓW NO COŊOD And would be glad to bara ibe csis they withdraw their deposits they but add textile fabrics of Lancuialra in return for the 10 the general state of unsaniness and the fict grain, foxit, and cattle which will be exported that they bare withdrawn their", funds may in abundance as tracsit facilities eccesso, camily give sise to a paule. If on the other Yunnan is also exceptionally rich to mine hand they decide to leave their deposits in the als so much so that experts who have ex-keeping of these basks in spite of crisis they amined sections of it Sara expressed the view may very easily lose their dipunits and thes that it is ons of the most highly miseralized iflct injury on the taxpayor. The discovaly hargas' in the world. Gold, silver, tio, copper, of cases of this kind during the recent crisis has load, zinc, rubie, and Jide have it been led H.E, Duka Trai Tam to Issue "instructions wrought in prim't ya fabion by the natives to the Board of Fisanco iba all sums for which And thore ao cinnabar deposits of such extent it irresponsible shall be placed in Government kad richness that, when railways reach them, banks, the Ta Ching Hack whenever possible, they may becom's greater quicksilver producers and similar orders will shortly be issued to all than any cliowhere.

departmeals of the Governmist, some Bourdai

In the daily fatorn, Yondan in likely to be come a great resort for cosmopolitan health and plessurs seekers. It is a mountain covered placas averaging 5,010 (att-aborn sus level, and although the Tropic of Cancer intersects its southard section, this elevation causes it to

F'at all seasons. During amiz months the days

7 bus by this article the Cnited States con- seated the prohibition by the Government of Chica of the importation into China of met phia and implemnots for fis in action, except rati daty. By this same article the Chiczne for medicinal purposes, and on payment of a

Goverment pledged itself to at once adopt measures to prevent the mind actors in Chine of morphle or lostraments for its injection. It was silpulated that, to eff cratin this article'ail treaty powers should accede to it. This they di by the anturia of 1908, and the article prevailed on thert of January, 1920 *—(ma age from the President of the United States Feb 21, 1910),

• SMUGGLING MORIHIA. *This treaty, which all the powers have aci

coded to, would seem to stop the traffic in morphia. However it is easy to smuggle the drag and this is bring done on a large scale Esch ounce of morphia represiots a pound of crude or medicinal opiam. Belog so small in bulk it can be carried easily. I was told by the Parier of ons of the trans-Pacific scam or, of an American doctor who smuggled occ00 worth of morphia lo his trunks into China for sale here, the

A missionary doctor who ordered drugs found one bottleisbelied "Pyracating* orrome such sama that to had not ordered. A letter coming afterwards, said that it way morphla called by the same to avoid trouble at the Customs, Shanghai. The doctor was much prowsked with the dig firm 11 he was willing to declare any morphim that he needed thin just shows that it may be Introduced Into China as for example the Board of Communications in large quantities as • face powder,** baby act as their own bankers and conduct a bask powder or some other name. The Chloras order their own management. To this there regulations are deficient lo sot providing pro- ti of comete no objection and the new order permeans for fi iding out what may be morphia, will not affect such Boardu.

Certainly much more morphla le coming into Ohian" now than the Custom House returns abow. It is being used extessively in many parts of Chiam. It forms a habit more difficult to break than that of oplum-imok quasilon that Ollas must consider pressers het paóple who acá bylag að húð.

Events Coming.

Monday, 14th November, Breaking-up of Camp, Hongkong Volgatter

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in Chica afards an over-widening opening for the use of imported machinery. In the second place, ine national movement is signalised by effons which are likely to assist the develop ment el national resources and react of com- mercial prosperity. Report of His Majesty's - Corials from many parts of the country mention the establishment of agricu tu al industrial institutes, "and so forth. It is true museums and schools, technical colleges,

that these institutions suffer from lack of train- od teachers, and they are not so effective as their ares would imply, but the encourage. ment given them by officials and commercia bodies is a move in the right direction,

We hive noted above the overproduction of copper coins. This is a subject to which Me A er also refers To the injury already wrough Mr. Ker notes the furt.er grave danger tha These coins may be succended by the still mor lociḥilye, process of lesuing bank so:és unas

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