Even this sounds like a formidable force, but, we must say parenthetically, that it would be a remarkably.small force for such 1 big Chinese territory. When the writer was recently in Port Arthur he saw the Japanese soldiery very much in evidence and later remarked on it toa veteran Chinese oficial. "How many men," the writer asked, are the Japanese wye in this Kuantung territory under the agreement?" "Fifteen thousand," said he, "but they never. have half that number here," "Even that," said "gems like @ lot for police work in auch a small district." "From the foreign point of view that's true," aid he, "but what would you have here if this territory were returned to full Chinese control? Not only ity thousand armed men, camping on and eating up the market places, but fifty thousand bandits hopping over the hills and making traffic impossible. en or eight thousand Japanese troops slouch around here, yawn at the sky and wish that something would happen, but bandit is scarcer than the beaver in these hills. Look for yourself!" rom thix point of view a hundred thousand respectable and well dis: ciplined soldiers for all of the three Eastern Provinces would net amount to much. That reductions are taken seriously one ¢ help believing fter listening to Mukden arsenal gossip, This cannot be much quoted without giving away what are considered confidences, but one example from the present Dudget will entice arsenal made four of those abominable six-inch howitzers monthly that kept Peking qwake for weeks when they were shelling Chockow—forty miles away—and the oners now are for four a year. Here is a division by twelve and, if we say that other operations are somewhat in proportion we have probably said enough. The arsenal, in fact, wants suggestions for eommere production. How, they this highly specialized ery be used to make anything than buttons and safety pins?
Dutton and safety pin market in Manchuria is big but still limited compared with the arsenal's eapaity, Perhaps some bright reader would cheerfully become. producers at once, The proportion that would tun Hunghutze (bandits) would who knows all about riffle bars and high explosive processes. will suggestions to make.
The Foreigner's Anxiety ossing of the men, who could be To.
The problem did not lie in dis-return, dealt with og the immigrants had] digression, to "the young Marshal" been handled, but in disposing of the wanted the officers, every one of whom was over, why the fore somebody's schoolmate, relative or much concerned and worried about friend. "He, the Commander-in-this unification with the Kuomin-Chief, had a lot of friends of his tang. The writer tried to explain own whom he would find it hard to that security had all but jut collapsed displace from the army and: then in China wherever the Kuomintane churia and that its decision as to whether this was not the new Eldorado would depend almost entirely upon the kind of security commerce that the Mullen government was prepared to. offer. The young Marshal bristled a trifle at this, but he finally said quite cal the head of the y that where in Canton, the do business despite Kuomintang.
Kuangtung and Kuangsi were nov wide open and quite secure. He first said that it wax a question of what the "lao po-lis ranted—the will of the people again—and that the last element considered in any part of Nationalist China was the "Ino po-hsing"—the wretched producing _proletariat—he with me and also agreed that the dominating personality, as in Canton, was the only factor worth taking into consideration. As Yhe [dominating factor here, he wanted foreign business and was prepared to offer it his personal security. He wanted foreign capital investments in Manchuria under Chinese The young Marshal at a recent Feview. "This horse ta "said Thave cost him $10,000.
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