Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-08-28
FEAR OF JAPANESE
PROBABLE CAUSE
Spending Million Dollars For
Paper Mill Establishing Foreign
Language Schools and Other
wise Extending Scope of
Her Educational Policy.

Shanghai, China, August 2S.-No
one appreciates better, the fact that
Japan wants China, than does the
Chinese government and it is now
taking steps to keep the japanese
back from the old gate through which
the island emperor would so much
like to send his troops and which,
the Chinese believe, will be the object
of attack should opportunity ever Of
fer.
China, however, is educating her
army in modern methods and today
she has one of the best drilled bodies
of men on the eastern hemisphere.
She is not alone spending money,
however, for armament and drills, but
for the education of her people in
every line, thus preparing them to
understand the situation to better ad-
vantage.
Million For Paper Mill.
Consul General j. w. Ragsdale of
Tientsin furnished the following in
teresting news showing the modern
development of China:
THE president of the tu-chih pu
(board of finance) has obtained per-
mission to spend 100000 taels (tael,
80 cents) for the establishment of the
proposed government paper mill at
Tung-chu and the printing Office at
Ching-ho, in the west of Peking.
Taotais Cheng, Ching-tao and Hu
Shihkien have been appointed direc-
tors of these two establishments re-
spectively. with full powers to engage
foreign experts, purchase machinery,
and do all other matters with a view
to enable them to perform their
duties without hindrance or interfer-
ence. TaOtais Cheng was educated in
the United States and was one of the
32 successful candidates who passed
an examination before His Excellen-
cy Tang Thaopi, in Peking, obtain
ing the Chin Shih literary degree for
economical subjects.
Foreign Language Schools.
''The retiring Tartar general of
kirin, central Manchuria, has memoir
ialiZed the throne in regard to the
establishment of a foreign-language
school at Kirin for training Chinese
students to learn foreign languages
and literature for government ap-
pointment in future. The proposed
school is to be divided into five class
es, namely, English, French, German,
Russian and Japanese, while the num-
Der of students for each class is to be
limited to 20 men, who are between
is and 20 years of age and descend
ants of respectable families. The
teachers are to be engaged from five
countries named, through the medium
of the Chinese ministers at London,
Paris. Berlin, st. Petersburg and
Tokyo, respectively. after imperial
sanction has been received by the
memorialists. The annual eXpendi-
ture for the maintenance of this
school is to be about $4,000 taels.
Constitutional Government.
In view of the good success of
the Tiensin Shih-tze Chu, or self-gov-
ernment Office, i'm this city, establish
ed by Niceroy Yuan Shihkai in the
winter of 1906 for the purpose of max
ing preparation towards the introduce
tion of the promised constitutional
government into China, the Picking
government has issued instructions
to the governor of Shun-tien, advis-
ing him to lose no time i'm establish
ing similar offices in the various dis
tricts under his jurisdiction, after the
methods of Viceroy Yuan here. Thus
Gov. Fei Wei-yen has dispatched an
official to Tientsin to make personal
investigations i'm the local self-gov-
ernment office and copy its existing
rules for limitation in Peking and be-
yond
AT a recent conference among a
number of officials, gentry and mer-
chants in Peking, convened with the
object of concerung measures for the
redemption Of the Peking-HankOw
railway IL was decided 10 procure a
big loan from certain Belgians who
are acting as agents OF various Eu-
TOpean capitalists"