This shows the new feeling that is growing up'in-the capital. When Chang Tso-lin packed his own bags for Mukden, most of us packed: any lingering expectation we had still held of even a last stand by the Mukden cause, and waited to be plunged in a welter of fresh trouble. It was certainly not the time to think of any improvement of conditions, especially in communications. ' But foreigners hail reckoned without the ving views that make up present-day political China. It is as unprofitable as it is unwise to make any! deduction from a given situation. You will use Western processes of logic, and Io! -you will be confounded. We had also reckoned without the determination of Chang Tso-lin and his mon to resist humilistion. On this base a new enthusiasm has been built, and constructive-minded officials have taken their cue from it.
Mr. C. 8. Liu, the Director of the Railway "Department of the Ministry, is one of these constructively-minded men. He has a direct mind and persuasive personality, knows foreigners, and is liked by them. A few weeks ago he warned the various foreign associations in the north of the imminence of the yuilway conference, and requested them to prepare memoranda of abuses for consideration. It stook. sometime for the foreigners persuade themselves that some show of reconstruction was in the air, but when they did, they diverted their typewriters to the task of giving the Ministry chapter and verse of their grievances. These have been studied in detail, as T have ranson to know, and" many minor complaints have alrendy been adjusted.
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