Peking, Nov. 27. While some sections of the outside world are planning to devote some of the time in which they are not fighting to commandeering certain trade that seems to be drifting away from its original owner, there are certain politicians in China who have decided that the time has come when their country should also cast about to capture some of the flotsam for herself.
Some publicists will probably ro-for to this as another sign of the awakening of a recumbent giant. Perhaps it is; though bleaching bones of modern equipment on the industrial highway of China would seem to provide sufficient reason why the efficacy of the gasp should be discounted. To cope with modern competition in manufactured articles, knowledge, skill and capital are required, and some how the Chinese have a lamentable shortage of the two former though they occasionally seem to be blessed with more of the latter than they know how wisely to employ.
The Heaven sent Qhance.
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