The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-26
CRITICAL Times AHEAD
FOR CHINESE ASSEMBLY
Government Planning To Construct
Railways with Money Borrowed
from Abroad.
Associated Press Special.

Picking. July 26.-The coming
session of the Tzucheng Yuan, the
national assembly, is expected to
! prove an interesting if not critical
one for China
The newly instituted cabinet,
recognizing the Importance of de-
veloping the country has proclaimed
its intention of constructing railways
! throughout the land with money Dor
| rowed from abroad. A minimum of
! $500, 900 will be needed for this
| project, of which the Hukwang Loan
| of $4,000, 900, signed in May, pro-
vides only the first installment.
But the great mass of the Chinese
as well as the provincial assemblies
and the elected half of the Tzucheng
Yuan, are violently opposed to the
governments program. And those
members of the Tzucheng Yuan who
are chosen by the provinces are the
radical and controlling section of
| that body The newspapers of the
country, which enjoy peculiar IL
cense, are now calling Sheng Hsuan
Huai president of the board of
communications a traitor to
China, Tor the reason that he
put through and signed the Hulk
wang contract. At the same time APP
peals on several grounds have been
made to the prince regent for the
dismissal of Prince Ching from the
premiership.
In combating the hostility to their
policy the prince regent and the cab
met, in whose hands all real power
is still preserved, are preparing to
limit or control the power of the ma
tional ssembly-which, it will be
remembered, came into being thru
the efforts of the throne and the gov
eminent to reorganize the admins
tration and promote advancement
on the lines of western countries,
The fear of the masses is of for
eign control becoming fixed upon
them along with the railways, but
the government is drafting all loan
agreements with careful precision
in order to insure against any such
calamity 1t is considered unfortun-
ate by the agents of the lending
banks and the foreign contractors
| here that Chinese government Off
| Gals do not enjoy the confidence OF
! the people, who believe that the only
| object of officials in making foreign
loans is for purposes of squeeze,
or, as it is called in America
graft. -
| Miss Elizabeth Kendall, professor
of history at Wellesley College. Is
lust completing a year of travels be-
yond the railways of many eastern
countries without companion of
her own race or color
Beginning on the Dalmation coast
she then went to Turkey and India.
Failing to obtain a passport from
the Chinese government permitting
her to enter China from Burma, she
went by sea to Canton, where she
picked up an ownerless Irish tel
rier, a strange dog in this country,
who followed her afoot across China
to the borders of Thibet. She came
thence down the Yangtse klang TO
the railhead at Hankow, making the
Journey by Chinese boat, pony, ma
tive cart and sedan chair, according
to the nature of the country and the
facilities.
Miss Kendall is now arranging to
cross Mongolia by the caravan route
through the Cobb desert, meeting tue
Trans-Siberian railway at a. statloh
near Lake Baikal and returning u
America by way of Europe. The irish
terrier will follow her across Mon
aoIia and viii he taken home by her
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