The story told by our Chefoo correspondent to-day is one of those things that make friends of China ready to cry. So long as the Chefoo-Weihsien railway project was opposed from Kiaochou, it was an excellent basis for agitation on the usual "sovereign rights' theme. but directly: opposition is withdrawn and the way is open for the construction of a much needed railway which would bring prosperity to Chefoo and help China to make money by exporting more of the stuffs that the world badly requires, all interest in the line vanishes. Worse than this, the Peking Government sees a chance of making money out of the mud road, which it gave not a penny to construct, by selling a monopoly on it to the four principal towns it connects. There are times when one really: begins to lose hope of any improve-
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