Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-10
AFTER THE PEACE OF PORTSMOUTH

| It will be asked by the curious, has Great
Britain done about that7
The Bulletin du Comite de rAsie Fran
caise Tor April. 1905. reports that schools
have been established throughout the prov
inces OF China: recently twenty-five pri-
mary schools. 1854 youths. Four of these
schools. modelled after Saint Cyr. at Pao-
ling. Outchan. Nankin and Canton. In all
these schools the military instruction is
given by japanese or by Chinese educated
| In Japan The military school at Canton
whom are Japanese. Each year 700 young
Chinese graduates OF the schools In Japan
are assigned with rank to the provincial
army They are all exalted and imbued
with new japanese ideas. Actually there
are $500 Chinese students In the schools
and universities of Japan. The military
mandarin. once despised. is now elevated
and honored. The literary. the most emil
nent Of them have finally recognised the
Importance. even necessity, OF organizing
national army. solid and capable of COM
, of the empire.
Prince Konoe and M. Nagaoka have or
ganized a society under the significant
~,e.A name OF ''Toadobunkai'-
Se es Society OF the Far East OF
moves. the Same Civilization. This
society has opened three
schools-at Fuchow, Svatao and Shanghai,
also at Tsin- Kiang. At Hoai-ngan an
agricultural school with Japanese profess
sors. Chang Che-Tong has recently sent
hfty-four young Chinese. destined to be-
come professors In an agricultural school
The costume is half Chinese. half Japanese.
The tress may be cut on! The fever Of
| novelty has seized also the women, the
| practice OF bandagfng the feet is being dis
couraged and perhaps interdictedI The wife
| OF General Yuan-Lie-Kwai has caused to
be opened a school at Tientsin under her
patronage, and the empress dowager also
has ordered the establishment OF metro
! polttan school at Picking for instructing
young girls IN the European style, The
professors in these schools are Japanese
rms youth, brought UP in japanese style,
| 70 potn revolutionary and nationalist. They
| demand the most radical reform and preach
opposition to the foreigner. Everywhere the
cry Is heard throughout all China: THE
anairs OF the yellow people belong only to
The press is In the hands of the Japanese.
Inc journal. The Clock Destined to
| awaken Our Epoch published at Shan
Snai oy former student in japan. recently
IN which the whites OF Shanghai treat the
yellow men. and pointed with indienatio
10 the notice posted at the entrance of the
puDlic garden-"Dogs and Chinese not al
lowed in the garden" A Japanese journal,
recently praising the Anglo-Japanese ALI.
ance. expressed the hope that il might he
exercised to obtain from Great Britain the
shameful benefits accruing from the sale of
| opium" significant symptom for the
| future state of Great Britain's assocIa tion
with her yellow ally.
EE
the daily consular and trade report of the
| Department Of Commerce and Labor for
! August q Q9O5), in an arti-
| Gle entitled Future of the
| prospects. United States in China. -
| says: THE foreign trade OF
the empire Of China. as stated In the re-
turns of the imperial maritime customs for
1904. amounts to s4OS, 4S2. 4O3 gold, this sum
| measuring the value of foreign goods at
| the moment they enter or leave Chinese ter
| rtto-y. This represents the whole value of
foreign and Chinese goods of every descrip-
ton entering or leaving China, with the ex-
! ception of goods of small value
"An examination of this foreign trade Of
China in detail indicates that the business
| men of the United States fail to take adyan-
| tage of their opportunities In many lines A
detailed examination of the exports on the
| one hand indicate that China is selling
| goods or at least has goods to sell which
the United States could handle with great
| advantage. This Is true especially in the
| line of raw and waste silks and in teas.
| An examination of China's imports on the
| other hand indicates that American BUSH
! ness men are NOT selling even a reasonable
| PERCENTAGE of what they ought to SELL This
| is especially the case in cotton manufac-
lures, machinery and prepared and pre-
| served provisions. Indeed. 1t may be said
| of all those articles Of foreign manufacture
| the Introduction of which In China Is to
| make the change Of China from old to new
things. Yet while this Is true 1t is fact
| that American trade with China has been
| growing IN great circles Of development
/ and this. too, in spite of lack OF atten-
| ton heretofore on the part Of American
| manufacturers. the men most interested
| The police, that double-edged sword of all
| revolutions, is under the complete control Of
Japan. Col. Aoki since 1902 was commits
stoned by the Manchu generals. Na-Tung
| and Lou OF the Tartar banners, to organize
| the police of Picking. General Yuan-Lie-
| Kwai and Chang Che-Tong confded to
lice 1t was equivalent to delivering to ia
pan the key to the front door of China.
| ~
| China until now had no national army,
| only the bannermen attached to the en-
| peror; the viceroys possessed
| SAlnas troops under them respectively.
Army. but their organization was in
complete and ineffective.
At the present the empire is divided into
twenty military regions, each of which
| should have two divisions, composed of
twelve battalions Of infantry and cavalry.
a regiment of artillery and company of
| engineers, counting reserves, a total Of
| $4,000. In two years China may put in
| line 100000 men. well armed and equipped.
| commanded by a staff of Japanese or Chi
| nese instructed in Japan
Recent information discloses the fact that
China is establishing ministry of marine
| and naval schools at Tientsin and is nego-
| tiating the construction of q fleet in Japan.
The metamorphosis from old to New
China Is revelation.
There is reason at this moment to believe
| that the suggestion that the mikado became
the Emperor of China and Japan would he
acclaimed by. large party In both coun-
| tries But Gen. Yuan Lie-Kwai is an ac
knowledged factor-candidate for the throne
of China The author of 1.-The Japonization
of China" says: There are many in China
who think that when the empress dowager
dies the moment will have come to consti-
tute Chinese dynasty and that the Access
sion of General Yuan Lie-Kwai would salts
fly national sentiment as well as the party
for reform. The viceroy of Chill. the chief
of the only organized army, cultivates jap
frfo debt md 10 bnt,