CHINA'S CONSTITUTION.
PRINCE ITO'S DOUBTS. WESTERN SILENCE CON- ' DEMITED, (Received 8.5 a.m.) TOKIO, August 26. Prince Ito, Japanese Resident-General at Korea, in a speech at Fakushlma, expressed a doubt as to whether. China could successfully adopt a constitution, while failure would imperil the peace pf the Far East. Among his reasons for his doubts he gave the following: Firstly, the enormous area of the Empire and its defeotive communications; seoondly, immovable conservatism, forbidding a change even in the system of taxation; thirdly, that the Chinese were untrained in local administration. The latter was an essential prelude to a national assembly. He was astonished at the silence of Occidental publicists on this question, so yital to the peace of the Orient.
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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 204, 27 August 1909, Page 5
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