1901.
Me. F. Taxon begins his "Report on the Foreign of China for the Year 1901," which is issued by the Statistical Department of the Foreign Qustoms, by remarking that the elasticity of that trade was d; wu last year even more plainly than was expected. It was not until the Teh of September that the Peace Protocol was signed and security descended upon the Empire, and one month later the Court started for the capital, which hardly even the most sanguine expected that they would reach, After giving a brief sketch of the journey, Mr, Taylor switches off to the subject of railways, on whose progress mainly depends the expected increase of foreign trade. the end of the year, he rells us, the Shantung railway had nearly 100 miles completed; the Iny ial Railways of North China, 540 miles; the Shang-imi-Woosung railway, 11 miles: the Lu-Han railway, from Peking to
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