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 COMPARATIVE TABLE

SHOWING AREA AND POPULATION OF THE DEPENDENCIES OF CHINA, AS COMPARED WITH OTHER WELL-KNOWN COUNTRIES.

"How important has Canada been esteemed, and how poor is our appreciation of Manchuria; yet the latter is perhaps the richer country of the two."—Dr. .

"I have a feeling as if I had all my life been systematically duped and misled by the stereotyped European and American delineation of the Heathen Chinee—possibly the Manchurian Chinese are a different race. It seems incredible that these dignified, clever, often noble-looking men, and these sensible, practical, hard-working women should have served as originals to the Chinese depicted in Western literature. I have never in all my life even imagined a set of people so passionately, feverishly devoted to work. There is no eyewash here; no extra efforts under the eye of the master or mistress. All have some share in the profits, and they all of them put their backs into what they have to do as if their very lives depended upon it. Energy is only half the battle; these men and women possess high individual intelligence to guide that energy. To be realised, their farming must be seen. Such furrows! Such promise of crops with each sprouting corn-stalk tended like a rose-bush in the garden of a duchess! And all this energy, strength, and intellect available for about tuppence ha'penny per diem!"—From A Staff Officer's Scrap-book, by Lieut.-General Sir, K.C.B., British Attaché to the Japanese forces in Manchuria. 300