A CHAMPION OF CHINA
: ■'>'•'■ ' ' ■.-, ; DE.'G t E..;MOERISON.' ••Dr.'George fErnest Morrison, political . adviser to President Yuan Sni-L,- re- , centlysmke-ou "the present position inChina" London .Chamber. of . Commerce. ,;/l!!le prevalent v,iew that - : Glnna was in aistate of anarchy, he said, -was baseless;. .No one pretended that all - China s difficulties were, past, but thev were less, noiv- than at any. rti me since the .revolution,, and the. continuous ex. tension of railways, posts, telegraphs,- and' flnliand tsteam.v»navigation n jj eo dil v strengthening .Jhe authority of the Central Government. ... ... .. " With regai.d|to. finance, Dr. Morrison' said that cre dit had suffered by the. hawkinm about London of Treasury Mis bearing '$ high rate of interest, issued mauilyaly the Provisional Govl eminent afNariking.- The President now himself exercpd supervision over the Ministry of~lhnance, and no loan contract was' bihijliig without his sanction, the future prosperity of the country depended uponjfcn'o development of its mineral resources* Jn the past there had been a foolish imlioy preventing their de- : vcopment with foreign'capital, but that policy was, ho hoped, to bo abandoned. Dr. Morrison spoko of Press criticism of Chmeso affairs as "tho absolute limit of i i. grotesque and extravagant hypothesis."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2231, 18 August 1914, Page 8
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194A CHAMPION OF CHINA Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2231, 18 August 1914, Page 8
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