The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-22

taining peace in the Extrene Orient"
 Group II carried into effect the policy proclaimed in 1908, the pro longation of the Japanese railway leases in Manchuria from thirty years to ninety-nine years. It transferred for the same period to Japan the control of the Chinese railway which runs from Changchun to Kirin, the strategic gateway, militarily and com mercially, of Northern Manchuria. It considerably extended the rights and privileges of Japanese to South Man churia; gave Japan exclusive mining concessions. and the exclusive right to supply railway or other loans, and to provide political, financial, or mill ftary advisers for that province. Fur ther, Eastern inner Mongolia was added to the Japanese sphere of in fluence in North China, and Japan obtained the same rights there as in South Manchuria. This provision alone has in it the seeds or immense future trouble, for there is no such geographical or political entity as Eastern Inner Mongolia. The district came into prominence after the Rus so-Japanese war. Russia lost her spe- cial trading privileges along the Man churian Siberian frontier, but retain ed those in Mongolia. These she pressed by a strenuous politico-com- mercial campaign. Threatened by tuncture of the Japanese and Russian spheres in the north, China com menced an extensive immigration movement and devised the Kinchow Aigun railway scheme, for which a concession was granted to an Anglo American syndicate, in the hopes of driving a neutral wedge between her two enemies. The late Count Hayashi obtained the withdrawal of the con- cession on the ground that a railway running parallel with the South Man churian Railway infringed the lease of the latter. Again to protect herself China dug out an ancient edict which transferred those parts of Mongolia to the Viceroyalty of Manchuria. So
 fin 1909. when Russia began to send traders to To-nan-fu, China demand ed their withdrawal on the ground that technically Toman-fu was Man churian and not Mongolian. Presum- ably this is the district which now falls under the Japanese influence, for on July 12th, 1912. M. Kurachi, the Japanese Vice Minister of For
 eign Affairs, defined Eastern Inner Mongolia as that portion of the Province of Manchuria formerly known as Inner Mongolia" The dis trict is largely pastoral, and exports
 annually 25,0O0 horses, 10000 head
 of cattle, 25O,0OO sheep, 3O0,0O0 hides, and large quantities of furs. The soH is very rich in minerals.
 Group III is concerned with the af- fairs of the Hanyehping Company. CThe name Hanyehpig is formed by
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 erated by the company-Hanyang
 Foundry. Tayeh Iron Mines, Pingh-
 slang Collieries.) In 1892 Chang
 Chih-tung, the "incorruptible," was
 Viceroy of the two Kwangs (Kwan-
 tung and KwanEsi), and ordered from England two blast furnaces with
 which to aid in the development of the mineral deposits of his viceroyal- ty.
 Before they arrived he was trans 1erred to Wichang, as V1ceroy of Hu- man and Hupeh, and thither the fur naces followed him. On the north bank of the Yangtse, at Hanyang, Chang had his furnaces set up, liter ally where he could keep his eye on them from the viceroyal yamen at Wuchang on the south bank. The ore used came from the Tayeh mines. which are located fifty-seven miles east of Hankow, twenty miles inland on the south bank of the Yangtse. The Tayeh field is among the richest in the world. It consists of a range of nine low hills composed of 67 per cent. of iron ore.
 The official Japanese survey of the mine proper states that the iron ore vein is 265 feet thick and of i'm measurable length and depth, the amount of ore being estimated at | 7OO,OOO,0OO tons. The mine at present surveyed only included five of the hills. The foundry was operatred | for some while by the Viceroy at a | loss, chiefly on account of the high | cost of fuel. Nevertheless, under the 1 advice of Ii Hung-chang, Sheng | Hsunhui acquired the property, Sheng Hsunhui, an extremely capa- | ble and interruptions person, was Lis | factotum in all business matters | Known in Shanghai as 'the old fox ,'
 he represented Ii on the board of the China Merchants Steam Navigation
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