His Thanks to Great Britain: Money Most Usefully to Be Spent on Railways: Chin; Lack of Communications and Experts to Assist Industrial Development Peking, June 6.
"As " private citizen of the Republic of China I desire to express my gratitude to the British Government and the British people for their friendly act in remitting some $11,000,000, being the unpaid baltance of the Boxer Indemnity," said Marshal Wa Pei-fu to Reuter's special correspondent at Loyang on Sune 4.
Asked his opinion regarding the Aigponal of these funds, Marshal Wu said: "There is no doubt that the funds should be used in such away in China as to promote harmony and to further Sino-British interests. The Chinese and British Governments should now endeavour to discuss and decide upon the ways and means to carry out this object. Theat that there is a growing feel fug among Britons in China in favour of allocating a large portion of the funds for railway construc tion.
'Curious to say, British views coincide with mine.' What China wants to-day are communications, facilities and experts to develop Chinese industries. If these funds fare used for railway construction, that plan will exactly meet China's wants and additional railways will promote and increase British commerce in China."
'A Monument to Friendship "First let_me enumerate briefly the many advantages that would arise from this scheme. The rail ways would form a great monument 420 of Sino-British relations for as long 8 las the ways lasted, and they would be everlasting. Secondly, the railways when constructed would '429 9P€_ up provinces where there are immense resources, and these resources would be "transported supply the wants of the world, Thirdly, the profits of} the railways should be applied to the education of young Chinese. Union issued an official decision that "Thus the masses would benefit.
Fourthly, with. increased railway Jcommunications developing our Breat resources, our economic and [Political conditions would be placed von a sounder footing, giving an impetus to general progress throughout the country which, in its turn, would have a favourable effect as regards not only peace in the Far East but also world-wide peace, The Pernicious Pin-prick want to say through you to the word that China, with her big the future take a more Prominent part in contributing to the peace of the world than she has ever done before. T only wisn that our foreign friends know mora of the methods of Government of our great sages and statesmen, men Tike Yao, Shun, ud Confucivs, who sa} the four seas all men are brethren. am surprised that some of the English newspapers in China continue all sorts of pin-pricking with reference to such cases as. the Fengtai incident. Pin-pricking does no good to anybody, particularly when it relates to questions between ration and nation,
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