There is, therefore,
every reason to expect, if political conditions are not too adverse,
that the industrial development of China will proceed rapidly throughout
the next few decades. It is of vital importance that that development
should be controlled by the Chinese rather than by foreign nations. But
that is part of the larger problem of the recovery of Chinese
independence, with which I shall deal in my last chapter.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 99: For the history of Chinese railways, see Tyau, op. cit.
pp. 183 ff.]
[Footnote 100: _China in_ 1918. Published by the _Peking Leader_, pp.
45-6.]
[Footnote 101: Op. cit. chap. xi.]
[Footnote 102: _China in_ 1918, p. 26. There is perhaps some mistake in
the figures given for iron ore, as the Tayeh mines alone are estimated
by some to contain 700,000,000 tons of iron ore. Coleman, op cit. p.
51.]
[Footnote 103: Page 63. The 1922 _Year Book_ gives 19,500,000 tons of
coal production.]
[Footnote 104: _Modern China,_ p, 265.]
[Footnote 105: Pages 74-5.]
[Footnote 106: Coleman, op. cit. chap. xiv.]
[Footnote 107: It seems it would be inaccurate to maintain that there is
nothing on the subject in the Gospels. An eminent American divine
pointed out in print, as regards the advice against laying up treasure
where moth and rust doth corrupt, that "moth and rust do not get at Mr.
Rockefeller's oil wells, and thieves do not often break through and
steal a railway.
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