Show NEW FACTORIES I IRISE RISE IN CHINA I ICo IN LARGE NUMBER Co General Consul J. J W W. Ra Ragsdale sdale oi of of- furnishes the following interesting inter inter- esting news from Chinese newspapers newspaper's as is showing the modern development oj of China The Tho president of the tit chili pu board of finance has obtained permission lion sion to spend fasts tail tae 80 cents for the establishment of the proposed pro pro- posed Government paper mill nt lit Tun Tun- chou and the printing print 1 office offie at ho Ching-ho ho in the west of Peking Chen Cheng Cleng Chin tao Ching-tao tao and Liu Lin Shih kion hay have he been n appointed directors of these two establishments respectively with full fuJI powers powers powers' to engage foreign ex its purchase machinery machinery ma- ma chinery and do all other other matters matters with witha a It view tt to enable them to perform their duties without eor e or inter er nG ense Cheng Chent was educated in the ithe United States and was one ono of the thirty- thirty two successful candidates candi who V pass passed d I art alt examination beford r His ills l Excellency Tang Tan Shao- Shao yi Shao-yi yi in Peking P kin obtaining the Chin Shih literary for c economical cal subjects The retiring Tartar general of Kirin irin Central Manchuria has memorialized i the throne in re regard ard t ta to tho the establishment establishment establish establish- ment of a foreign language lan uJ e school at Kirin for training Chinese students to learn foreign n languages and literature for Government appointment in m in future The proposed school is to be ile i into five classes namely En English French German Russian and Japanese while the number of stu students for each class is to be Abe limited to men who are to be between 13 IS and 25 years of age ago and descendants of respectable f families The teachers ers are aro to be bo en- en from f om the tho five l mamed mamel oI through the medium of f tho the Chin Chinese se sem m ministers at London Paris Patis Berlin t. t Pet Petersburg and Tokio Tokie respectively after after after af af- af- af ter imperial sanction i has a ae been received h by the th- memorials memorialises s. s The il e eapen pon dituro for the maintenance Hof f this school is to o be about In view of the good success of the tze Chih-tze Chu or self govern ment office in this city city- established by Viceroy Yuan Shih kai Shih-kai kai in is ui the winter of 1906 for the th purpose p of making makin preparations preparations preparations toward the i of If the ibo promised constitutional government into China Nina the Peking Government has lias issued is- is issued issued is is- sued instructions to the Governor of Shun tien advising him to lose no time in establishing similar offices in the various districts under his jurisdiction after the methods of Viceroy Yuan here Thus Governor Fei yen Wei-yen has dispatched dispatched dispatched dis dis- dis- dis patched an n official to to make personal investigations in the local s self self- lf- lf government office an and copy its existing rules for imitation in Peking ti and beti be be- yond At a recent conference among a anum cumber number cum num- ber of oft officials gentry and merchants ants in Pekin Peking convened with the object of concerting measures for the redemption of the Peking railway it was decided to procure a big loan from Certain certain Icer- Icer tain Belgians Belgia s who are acting as as a agents of various European capitalists |