El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-26
CHINA PLANS
BUILDING
ROADS
Cabinet Proclaims Intention
of Building Railways in
Kingdom.
MASSES OPPOSE PLAN,
FEARING FOREIGNERS

Picking, China, Aug. 26.-The coming
session of the Tzucheng Yuan. the
national assembly, is expected to prove
China.
The newly instituted cabinet recog-
nizing the importance of developing the
country, has proclaimed its intention
the land with money borrowed from
abroad A minimum of 5000, ZOO, 900 will
be needed for this project, of which the
Hukwang loan of $5o.000,ooo. signed in
May, provides only the first install
ment.
Government Opposed.
But the great mass Of the Chinese.
as well as the provincial assemblies
and the elected half OF the Tzuchens
Yuan, are violently opposed to the gov
ernment's program. And those mem
bers of the Tzucheng Yuan who are
chosen bg the provinces are the radical
and controlling section of that body.
The newspapers of the country, which
enjoy peculiar license. are now calling
Sheng Hsuan Huai, president of the
board of communications, a traitor to
China, for the reason that he put
through and signed the Hukwang con-
tract At the same time appeals on
several grounds have been made to
the prince regent for the dismissal Of
prince Ching from the premiership.
To Limit Assembly's Power.
In combating the hostility to their
policy the prince regent and the cabf
net, in whose hands all real power is
still preserved. are preparing to limit
or control the power of the national
bered, came into being through the ef-
forts of the throne. and the government
to reorganize the administration and
promote advancement on the lines of
western countries.
The fear of the masses is Of foreign
contro. becoming fixed upon them
along with the railways, but the gov
eminent is drafting all loan agree
ments with careful, precision in order
to insure agei It any sach calamity.
It is considered unfortunate by the
agents os the lending banks and the
foreign co1.-s.:.ors here .ha, Chimes e
government D1I1CL4-S ID not -D-t-9 the
confidence Of the people. who beiias e
that the only object os officials is MAX
ing foreign loans is for purposes III
Squeeze" or, as It is called in Ameri-
ca, graft"
Woman Travels Alone I'm Asia.
Miss Elizabeth Kendall. professor Of
history at Wellesley college. is just
completing a year of travels beyond
the railways of many eastern countries
without companion of her own race
and color.
Beginning on the palmatipn 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 terrier, 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 ra.lhead at Hankow. max
ing the journey by Chinese boat pony,
native 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 the
Trans Siberian railway at station
near Lake Baikal, and returning TO
America by way Of Europe. the Irish
terrier will follow her across Mongolia
and will be taken home by her to
America