Neither his illness nor his retire ing disposition would seem te cripple his energy in the supervision of the administration of the Northwest from his temporary' seat trip at Kalgan. He is throwing him-elf heartily into projects for the establishment of banks, the build~ ing of roads, the initation of rail-ray and colonization schemes, all aimed at the development of China's Great Northwest. All these pro-Jects are eminently praiseworthy; Uhey reveal x decided constructive iterest in the fature of the Nurthwest; yet the author would have ux believe he is ill and has retired from the world.
He is not Tutung of Jehol, but his administration of that area is tated in the papers in Peking to be admirable, No lawlessness ix now to be found in Kalgan, for the Christian General is stated to be siting the wrongdoer with prompt came eral for his administration of the Peking-Suiyuan Railway. Gonditions on the Kin-Sui are now almost: back to normality and the hand of traced in regulations which, unlike most railway result tions," are actively enforced—that free rides will not be allowed. The Virector-General of the Peking-yuan is Sung Liang-chang, a nominee, but his ix not the control responsible for the sudden transformation of the service now offered on the Peking-Suiyuan. As in the new administration of Kal fan, there is too much iron in A Matter of Form
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