Identifier: ThirdSalisburyAdministration1895-1900 (find matches)
Title: Third Salisbury administration, 1895-1900
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Whates, Harry Richard
Subjects: Robert Cecil-marquess of Salisbury Great Britain-History-Victoria,1837-1901
Publisher: Westminster,Vacher

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f China toforeign trade in June, 1898, and the assurance as to the non«alienation of the Yangtsze Basin. Sufficient time has not yetpassed to measure the effect of the admission of foreign steamersto the river systems of China. The regulations have not workedsmoothly, the provincial authorities having hedged the newtraffic about with unnecessary restrictions. But a study of recentConsular, reports shows that—though, advantage has not been takenof the opening to the extent that might have been expected inview of the eagerness with which the necessity of this concessionwas pressed upon the British Government oy the commercial com-munity—the change gives such facilities of intercourse that tradeis likely, sooner or later, to expand largely. China is at last thrownopen to the Western world. A new era in the relations of theChinese people and the foreign devils has begun. In the battle for concessions for railways and mines theGovernment were able to gain more than any other Power, in
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