It will be remembered that the English columns of the "Nanfangpao" of Shanghai were suspended in October, 1907. The proprietor and the editor of the Peking "Jih Pao" now intend to establish ing paper in the capital with the object of Y criticizing those foreign journals which give one-sided views in matters concerning foreigners or foreign interests. The proposed hi-lingual journal will also reproduce any leaders or comments touching China's foreign relations from English, French or German newspapers at the various Treaty Ports, with a view to placing the foreign-speaking Chinese officials, students and others in possession of foreign ideas. Considering however, the difficulty of finding newspaper experts, even among the rising generation of China, I do not think that the hi-lingual journal can make its appearance for at least some months.
As the natives of North China are jot to enlightened) as their brethren in An Imperial Edict, dated the 6th instant and transmitted through the Grand Council of State to the Waiwopu, has been issued sanctioning the memorial of Prince Ching and H.E. Yuan Shih-kai touching the settlement of the Chekiang railway question. But the word " Soo" (Soo-Hang-Ning) has been changed Hu," ive., Proposed line will be built from Shanghai to Hangchow and Ningpo, instead of from Soochow as originally intended.
Mr. J. 0. P. Bland left here for Tientsin yesterday by the mail train in company with Mr. G. Brown, retiring laced General Agent of the Pekin Syndicate, and Herr Cordes, representative of the Deutsche-Asiatische Bank, in connexion with the construction of the Tientsin-Pukou trank line. Mr. Tucker will leave here for Pukou in a couple of days, It is stated that H.E. Viceroy Tuan Fang has been instructed to build wharves at Pukou so as to facilitate the transportation of railway materials.
Thus, during recent weeks, three important diplomatic questions, namely, the policing of the West River, the Pekin Syndicate and the Chekiang railway loan, have been settled between China and Great Britain to the advantage, it is to be hoped, of both countries. China has now no important affairs to settle with other Powers, except with Japan in South Manchuria, where the postal, telegraph, salt and mining questions still dewand urgent attention.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.