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January 18, 1902.)
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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I do not say that there are vessel, then handed over his patient to the loyal Viceroys, the Grand Council has only wealth:-" naval doctors. The Sandpiper escorted found itself able to banish Tune and to political reasons which could justify such
But such reasons, he continued, the Nanning down to Canton, while the apologise to the Powers for its inability to venture." Robin made for the scene of the attack. carry out the richly deserved death-sentence to be decisive, must be overwhelmingly Mr. Cowan, was brought on to Hongkong on him. Tuxo, it will be remembered, was strong; while their strength would be the night before las and now lies in Hos-deprived of his office as Governor of Kansu manifestly enhanced, could they be rein- pital; it has been found that fortunately no by an edict of the 13th February last, forced by financial arguments, which in the bone was injured. The latest news from pending the determination of his ultimate present case are conspicuously lacking. the scene of the affair is conveyed in the fate. Now he is to receive nothing worse The Times in a leading article, taking up Telegraph correspondent's letter from than banishment. However, if the Chinese the Viceroy's remarks, says that there might Canton, which says that the steamér Sainan | Government just re-established in Peking be strategical reasons for the railway, were passed through Tamchau (hannel on the becomes, with the benevolent assistance of Great Britain in undisputed possession of morning of the 14th instant and found all the Powers and a firm determination on the Yangtsze region-which of course she -quiet, the Chinese soldiers and gunboats its own part ti avoid the mistakes of the is not and is rot at all likely to be in the having all disappeared. The matter, as we past, a real and effectivo Government, TUNG future. We have to deal with things as state in another column, has been reported FuнSIANG's future power to do evil will be they are, the London journal goes on, aud to the British Consul at Canton, who shattered and his life or death is hardly no one looking at the question from a has made some representations to the material. The same may be said of Prince practical standpoint can pretend that there Viceroy. Here affairs rest for the pre- TUAN. The latter's relationship to the is any strategical reason for making an sent. Until the character of the Nanning's reigning monarch gives him additional im- enormously costly and unremunerative assailants has been cleared up, it is hardly portance, but a sojourn in Chinese Turkes- railway. The Times, it is to be noted, like profitable to discuss the likely result. If tan for the remainder of his existence Lord CURZON himself, does not allude to the offenders were Chinese troops under should answer the requirements of the case. the railway which the French are planning discipline, then the matter is very serious To press the Court to exact the utmost to carry into Yunnan and which, we may indeed and calls for an immediate explana- pena ty would savour of vindictiveness now, be certain, if carried to Yunnanfu, will not tion; there was obviously no accidentul if indeed it were not merely demanding the stop there. This railway scheme, so dear It is seldom that everyone to the heart of M. DOUMER and his friends, discharge of a shot. If they were re-impossible. bellious soldiers, still the native anthorities connected with a crime in which a large cannot, it seems to us, be left out of con- all arguments which are responsible, though in a less degree. If, number participate can be purished to the sideration, and
Collectively, neglect it are thereby defective. The on the other hand, they were merc pirates, full extet of his deserts. then it is plain that the rumoured thorough China has more than paid for the faults of advocates of that line do not conceal the determination of the Chinese officials to a section of the Empire. Many innocent fact that they aim at making Yunnan, extirpate these pests of the West River is have suffered, and the rough approximation and then Szechuen, part of a vast French very slow in bearing fruit. In any case, to which alone human justice can hope to sphere of influence in South China. Their enemies say that the railway will never pay, the Chinese have a very grave outrage to attain does not leave the Chinese debtors.
that for the time it will exhaust the revenues atone for.
of Indo-China, and that the money would be profitably spent in developing the present French possessions. In fact, they argue as Lord CURZON does against the The French ex- British Yunnan line. t'pansiouists, however, making no conceal- inent, urge that the money expended will not be thrown away as the railway will remove any possibility of Great Britain competing connect Burma with the head-waters of the with Frauce in South-western China. This, Yangtsze. We have from time to time though it may not appeal to the commercial during the past few years alluded to the Frenchman, certainly appeals to Lis political We do not think principal views publicly expressed on such fellow-countryman.
THE OFFENDERS OF 1900 AND THEIR PUNISHMENT.
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THE YUNNAN RAILWAY
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(Daily Press, 17th January.) (Daily Press, 14th January.)
The speech of Lord CURZON, Viceroy of It is to be gathered from our Shanghai | India, before the Chamber of Commerce correspondent's telegram in yesterday's Rangoon last month, effectually disposes issue that the presence in Peking of some of any idea that the Indian Government 7,000 Chinese troops, forming the body-might be disposed to favour a scheme to guard of the Empress Dowager, is not looked upon with favour owing to the fact that they took part in the outrageous attack on the foreign Legations in 1900. It seems to us, however, that it is unprofitable to à project, and we remarked not long ago that the British politician, cold though he cherish feelings of animosity against these that unless the advocates of the railway is apt to be toward the aspirations of the or other troops which, acting under the could come forward with a practicable British merchant, is quite prepared to see commands of their superiors, involved scheme, cut and dried, it was in the highest access to the Yangtze head-waters per- themselves in the guilt of this attack. The degree improbable that the official attitude, manently barred to his country. For this moral effect of their finding themselves either at home or in India, would be reason, in spite of the Indian Viceroy's unpunished for the crime which they were modified. Lord Curzon's words, which we unhesitating pronouncement and the widely ordered, or at least encouraged, to commit quoted in these columns yesterday, show expressed approval which it has met with in should have been compensated for by the that under his rule India is not prepared non-commercial circles, we do not think that lesson which they learnt of the difficulty of to thrust "tentacles into the unknown,", the last word has been spoken on the ques- use the speaker's expression. The tion. India need never look with sympathy making any impression on a vastly inferior to
the scheme, but nevertheless the number of Europeans and other foreigners, a Viceroy 3welt on two points in particular, ' on large proportion of whom were not military the enormous difficulty and therefore cost directors of the Empire cannot at the men, as well as by the sentences passed on of the scheme, and the inadvisability of present moment shelve the matter for ever, the highly placed ringleaders of the anti- India, with a most splendid and lucrative The real question for the future is whether foreign outbreak. The sight also of the field of investment lying at her doors, the enthusiasts for the Burma-Yangtsze spreadeagle railways line will be able to overthrow the objections alterations in Peking since they fled from the devoting money to
con of previous experts and point out a practic- city in August, 1900, should have a salutary over foreign countries and remote
Allowing for the rhetorical able route; then whether they will be able effect. The Powers have protested all tinents." through that they had no quarrel with the flourishes of this speech, we may find sound to interest the commercial public. In such people of China as a whole. Known mur- commonsense underlying them. From the an event, we do not believe in the quenching derers of defenceless missionaries and other point of view of India alone, the railway power of official cold water. civilians have rightly enough been denounced through Yunnan and Szechuen does not for the severest possible punishment. It is appear to offer any advantages in the future
The supremacy in total volume of foreign trade which Kobe won over Yokohama in 1898 to be feared that a number of the ruffians to counterbalance the expenditure
before the railway - can be whose hands have been stained with inno-quired
and rǝtained in 1899 and 1900 disappeared in We may take it, therefore, that. 1901, and Kobe again takes second place in thi cent blood still enjoy perfect immunity; but built. with the Chinese troops who carried out the the Indian verdict has been pronounced matter among the open ports of Japan. Y duties dictated to them by military discip- by Lord CURZON with all the finality that hama's gain in 1901 over 1900 was 13° line we cannot claim to quarrel. We can attach to such utterances. The home yen, and Kobe's loss 6,161,823 yen. fought them in 1900, we are at peace with Pres, judging by the papers which have!
reached as by the last mail from Europe, There are in Yokohama alor
more than 1,900 foreigners · have taken this for granted and are pre- the house-tax, which fro pared to relegate the Yunnan railway 23rd of Meiji to the scheme to the limbo of impossible ideas. However, it is not wise to forget that Lord that very low CURZON said, after pointing out India's since the duty to attend to her immediate chances of (exclusiv
them now.
That such prominent offenders against the law of nations as Prince TUAN an TUNG FURSIANG are apparently to evade all fur- ther punishment must be admitted to be highly unsatisfactory. As we have reported, in spite of the advice of the three leading
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