22nd Oct.
Ly a recent issue of the Financial Standard is a rather amusing article headed "Chinese Sevens and Sixes." Its object appears to be to recommend to "the attention of boomers' the secu-tities of China, the sevens and sixes of recent years in particular." Then it diverges into a series of statements as to the financial capture of China by Germany, with special reference to an announcement it made on the Ist of August, "that a treaty as against Russia had been concluded between China and Germany a treaty which has been kept uncommonly dark. The Emperor of Germany, we are told in the straightforward if somewhat un-classic language in which London fiancla journals seem to revel, "is not growing a beard for the mere sake of possessing one, He has large ulterior Chinese views, and, in addition, his is the merit of having succeeded in thawing out Peking. We could not do it, our fellows, in the ease and luxury of India having become arrogant and superficial. France, with its love of Parisian gaiety, fails equally in another way, and Russian pipe-clay being at variance with the capacious baby silken gowns in which the mandarins clothe themselves, and with pig-tails generally—although a slave of tea—the one and only point of celestial sympathy and contact is German. Australia and the Pacific Coast would as soon seek communion with the doumed, and it may be that in tura in the far-off future the German stomach may turn at the thought of Chinamen without the sight of China; but for the present, the fact to be made a note of is that China to-day is as much an infatuation in Gerwany as the Holy Sepulchre was in Crusading times, and the coat without the trousers now is at Treves." Africa, we learn, has been a blank draw for Germany, and that country has now turned to China instead, where her Minister soon persuaded the Chinese to transfer the supply of their military and naval supplies from the Tyne to Essen; the consideration think with the author of "Another View being the rehabilitation of Chinese of the Situation," in another column, credit on the Bourses and the Stock {will no doubt be glad if the difficulty Exchange; though, as is the case with is allowed to blow over: 2s for ourselves, most of the article, it is news to us that we see no difficulties of any importance Chinese credit wants rehabilitate in the programme set forth by us in The general complaint against the Chi August. Hunan is like the power of nese is, that they won't issue enough China generally, a bogey like Oscar loans. We need not devote much more} Wilde's "Original Otis Ghost." time, however, to an article which makes will collapse as soon as it-is tackled. such an extraordinary confusion as in here are not probably more than 6,000 the following sentence:—"The German- Hunan soldiers all told in Hunan, and China situation then is this: the pro- in their hatred of things foreign they gramme, keeping on the line of metals, have refused to adopt any foreign ap-Without breakdowns or collision, China' phanoes. There is no proof that the
sevens and sixes way, to begin with, be! invoke a rebellion; with is to be heseeitae run by Someny. ate display of neared for im sneer ould he infer-taken off the market, and a heavy five ence that the anti-foreign movement is
loan substituted.
even aa oad cat consolidated, really sireeted Against the perenne', Strategic lines of there has not been an incident in railways may be constructed to salient movement that has really shown any points on the Russian frontier; the! aim to injure the government. Mean~ material supplied by Germany may be! while the government, having dfiitely paid for in construction bonds after the! promised at the last audience that earlier manner of the American railways. foreign Ministers should not be again Much Chinese produce, now unmarked! asked to accept an audience in the table by reason of the long and expen- Tributary Nations' Hall, has informed sive transit, may thereby reach the! the three Ministers now awaiting an seaboard, to the advantage of the cou-' audience that that is the only place in gested populations of the far-off dis-! which they can be received; and it tricts," will be interesting to see if their gov-So far from there being a special, ernments intend tu be satisfied with treaty between Germany and China, this explanation. the German Minister is strongly backing up his colleagues at the present ment, in both the riots' and the audience
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.