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Show CHI POSSESSES BIG METAL MIS Representatives of Oriental Republic Here on Visit on Way East. NOT AFRAID OF JAPAN Country So Superior in Population Pop-ulation That People Rest in Security. Four distinguished representatives of the republic of China, members of the Chinese commission to the Panama-Pacific exposition, are in Salt Lake today. They arrived here yesterday and are guests at the Wilson. The members of the party are EC C. Li, N. Y. Wu, P. L. Fang and C. Chang. Mr. Li Is a mining engineer who recently received his degree from the l." ntvcrsl ty of London. The other three are provincial pro-vincial officials of the Chinese government, govern-ment, Mr. LI will spend .several days in Utah. He plans to visit Alia, Park City, Bingham, Garfield and other Ctah mining camps. He was entertained yesterday by E. K. Jennings, the local mining engineer. engi-neer. The commissioners yesterday visited the Utah state fair as the guests of the Utah state fair board. All of the commissioners com-missioners were greatly interested in the fair a nd examined the exhibits closely. They were very warm in their praise of the fair and expressed great wonder that Utah had such remarkable resources. Will Sec President. Mr. Wu. Mr. Fang and Mr. Chang will leave todav for New York. They intend to OSll on President Wilson at Washington Washing-ton before returning to their duties in San Fran'isco. Mr. Li will visit other mining sections of the United States be-fore be-fore returning to San Francisco. Mr. li-plans li-plans to make his home In the United Slates. He will be located in New York as the American representative of the Hunan mining board oi Hunan, China. Mr. LI said: China is second to the United States in known mineral resources. In the north we have vast quantities of coal and hydrocarbons, with large oil fields. In central and southern China there are many large metal mines. We have gold, silver, lead, zinc, and particularly antimony. The mining section which I represent repre-sent is In the upper reaches of the Yensel river. We have had a great deal of trouble there with floods, which have devastated groat districts and killed hundreds of persons. The plan, of the government is to deepen the channel and prevent the recurrence recur-rence of such disasters. Zeppelins Dreaded. For the last Ave years 1 have spent' nearly all of my time In Europe, studying In Berlin. Paris and London. M y summer vacations, however, I have spent at home. 1 left London last July. The people there were very enthustastic about their prospects for victory. They were greatly exercised, exer-cised, however, over the occasional visits of the Zeppelins, which kept them in a constant state of alarm. While I was In London, the city was twice attacked by Zeppelins. These attacks were on the east side. I visited the scenes of both after the attacks were made. Some houses were wrecked, hut the damage was comparatively slight. At Newcastle, however, many people were killed and a great deal of property destroyed. T was not fortunate enough to see any of the Zeppelins. Progress as Republic. Recently thee have been many reports re-ports that China was to be a monarchy. mon-archy. From my point of view would prefer to see it a republic. However, we must be frank enough to admit that the mass of the people of the republic are not yet advanced to the point where they can understand the advantages of a republic. Until they are educated to the extent that they are able to decide for t hemselves what form of government they prefer, and that they are able to participate in the government as the American people do, it may be that the monarchical mon-archical form is preferable. I have the utmost confidence in President Yuan Shi Kai. He is a wonderful executive and a great diplomat. dip-lomat. All of the Chinese people, or very nearly all of them, are satisfied with his policy. Dr. Sun Yat Sen Is a great man, but 1 do not believe that tie would be a good ruler. He is a Iheorlst, an Idealist, but not the practical prac-tical man of affairs. Were Dr. Sun president of China I believe that China would be a second Mexico, continually torn with revolutions. Japan Not Feared. China under the republic is developing devel-oping Wonderfully. Considering the few years that it has been a republic, repub-lic, and considering the fact that there have been grave international complications, com-plications, this development has been remarkable. Our president is a great believer in education and with the education of the people will come a development in China that will astound the world. Japan for a long time has tried to dominate China, but we have no tears that she will succeed. There arc so many more Chinese than Japanese that there doesn't seem to be the remotest re-motest chance of her succeeding. There is such a bitterness among the Chinese toward the Japs that I am afraid out of this unfriendliness will come great trouble. |