Show ADVANCING CHINA China is surely forging ahead Mr Lambeth in inthe inthe the Review of Reviews gives some figures regarding her Only seven years ago there were but post post- offices in China now nov there arc over o In 1902 1002 letters were posted in 1907 Telegraph Tele rele graph lines penetrate practically all of the pre- pre cities and many others Every province is in direct conne connection tion b by electric wire with Pekin Last November the order was issued to extend from Pekin the telegraph service to Lassa in rib Tibet ct China has las today miles of railroad completed and 1000 miles more under tinder construction Five railroads now run into Pekin One of these the Pekin Pekin-Kaigan line is financed constructed and run by Chinese without any iny foreign assistance or advice whatever l is road tunnels under the great wall and heads for the Mongolian l desert We may say that that is a region where millions of sheep are kept so that by another j year ear or two China can supply the world if necessary with wooL A project is now on to consolidate all the railroad systems bling them under one head and have that owned by the government and a scheme is al already already already al- al ready laid out for two trunk lines bisecting the con coun- coun n try ry from rom north to south and from east to west with as a center and with radiating lines attached attached at at- to these trunk lines Railroad tracks and trains telegraph lines with electric lights shining on the dragon flag with schoolhouses being multiplied multiplied multiplied multi multi- plied will soon transform China Her manufactures are increasing Twenty years hence China will be very much of r a to the nations that live by trade We cannot to save our lives see why our government government govern govern- ment does not with rith feverish haste seek to adjust its money system with the money system of the orient in some way to take away the clash elash now which so lowers exchanges that trade with the orient is almost an impossibility |