CHINA MAKING PROGRESS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 414, 21 April 1904, Page 8

CHINA MAKING PROGRESS.

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' larop«USMidAiiHSTieaii«wlioEave lived long in China are quite unanimous in the opinion that the greatest country of Asia, taking account of ttree, papulation and natural resource*, la malting steady progress industrially and commercially, and the general t»l lei jb that more rapid gains are as* ■Bred for the next few years. Statistics of exports and Imports tell the same- story. So does the development of railways and telegraph lines. The world-wide importance of this progress I* not easily exaggerated. It promisee to insure the existence of the Chinese empire as an immense independent

.state, for it lessens the force of such '• gpre texts as might hare been discovered y or Invented for dividing or seizing the Country. It also makes the international importance of China so evident i and so. great that no one European power Is likely to find the way open for the absorption of so rich an empire, while the taore progressive the Chinese become the less chance there will be for an agreement between the leading nations of the west as to the terms of a possible partitioning of the mCJ* dfekingdom -,jy