Extortion has driven capital from the most remote quarters of China into the foreign Concessions—and within the past ind further extor= ping, have even int foreign controlled areas, hi too little resented, and. have cone sequently robbed the Chinese sidents of their foding of security and therefore of their enthusiasm for invest development. Trade depression is in much greater degree traceable to this situation than to warfare and the intorruption of communications—obstacles which the Chinese merchant has evaded and overcome for centuries he is an expert at it. We have had imposed upon this community, the 30 million loan, the 24 million Joan, the rent tax, the Central Bank bubble and the "opium suppression" schemes,. And now they have (Continued on Page 436.)
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