SIR ROBERT HART AND THE SIR FUTURE OF CHINA.
ssir llobert Hart oaid some very m Liidon- Chamber of Commerce- 1 ;; and Americans and 10,000 UuneoL China had been growing, was growing and would still grow. When he ueiio tin 1854 there were only five ope ports; now there were between to it, and Jiftv. Railroads were being bmK ad m tho course of time China wouk have railways m every direction. *. tlie present day telegrams could . k senth-om every part of that empi«: and a post -office was established m al most every town. It was dilhcult to. ■ nvbody to think about the luture oi ffina If they considered what a coun try of 4,000,000 square miles couk produce m the way of food and mater als, and what a people numbering 400 000,000 might do .if they.tuniec their heads and arms m the right c i rections,-there was certainly a tutiu« for that country.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7731, 26 February 1909, Page 1
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