It is curious that la the present Gisplay of antagonism. in China towards Britons and things British, no one, ce far as this writer has observed, has taken the trouble te point out to the Chinese how "ly indebted they are to the British nation. It will, of course, readily be admitted that Great Britain and the whole of the British Commonwealth are linked economically with China, but if we review the past 300' years of Sino-British intercourse it wi be teen that practically everything Delonging to modern civilization which China has attached to the ancient structure of her age-old national life came to her as a Girect result oft her association plants, your great dockyards, your furniture factories, your gas works, your factories for lace, leather, needles, matches, rope and so forth, your lumber and saw mills, your teap and candle plants—realize that this is the work of the British. 'The British started and maintain' your sugar refineries, your packing and pressing plants, your news-spors, Go to all these, and more than these, I say, and realize that it was British imagin: and {British money and British eelness that brought all first Chi {not idle boasting; it "The British have put as much into China as they have taken out, and believe that every foreigner reading these lines will admit the in-
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(ce ome The above shows that China's advance in foreign trade hes been fairly satisfactory. At all events,
Ddeyond the experimental stage, shows that China' ade has got her needs are firmly. established, faranteeing that her demands Iwill grow, equally as her export trade must. I have not figures by me at the moment to show what 1900
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(000's omitted in British It would be a difficult task to set forth in a newspaper article the details of England's sales to China
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