CHINA'S PROGRESS.
Sir Robert Hart, interviewed on his return to London recently, after 54 years' work in China at the head of the Customs, said that he had the utmost faith in China and the Ch i nese. Everything i 3 progressing, said Sir Robert —railways, steamboats, mining, commerce, everything is going ahead. The Chinese are an intelligent, most industrious, lawabiding people. Nowhere else are mental ability and literary culture more appreciated. China is bound, he thinks, in time, to become a great and potent nation, and it is tlerefore to the interests of other nations to treat her with justice and consideration. There may be, a Yellow Peril from the industrial point of view, owing £to the ability of the Chinese to live more cheaply than Europeans. He emphasises the point that progress .must be slow. It ia in -the air, and he notices a great change for the better since he first went to Chins, but the Chinese do not move rapidly.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9151, 25 July 1908, Page 4
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164CHINA'S PROGRESS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9151, 25 July 1908, Page 4
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