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| II. Telegraphs | |
| First Establishment—The Spread of the System—Internal and Foreign Telegrams—The International Telegraph Convention | 566 |
| III. Telephones | |
| Government or Private Enterprise?—The Success of the Government System—Methods of Working—Instruments | 570 |
| CHAPTER XXIX | |
| THE PROBLEM OF THE FAR EAST | |
| BY BARON SUYEMATSU | |
| The Anglo-Japanese Relations the Keynote—Earliest Contact between the two Powers—Russian Aggression—The Tsushima Affair—The Port Lazareff-Port Hamilton Affair—The Boxer Outbreak—The Manchurian Question—English and Japanese Interests Identical—Japan and Western Civilization—Differences of Race and Religion—Religious Freedom—No Fear of Yellow Peril from Japan—China not a Warlike or Expanding Nation—England, America, and Japan—Japan’s Defeat, England’s Defeat | 573 |
| CHAPTER XXX | |
| FORMOSA | |
| I. Early Administration | |
| BY COUNT KATSURA | |
| The Development of the Administrative Organization—The Enlargement of the Police Force—General Sanitation and the Opium Question—The Improvement of Shipping Facilities—Railway Construction, Road-making, and Harbour Works | 581 |
| III. The Present Condition | |
| BY DR. SHIMPEI GOTO | |
| The Work of the Home Government—The Necessary Expenditure to Cover the Cost of Colonization—Railway Construction—Harbour Works—Lighthouses—Official Buildings—Education—Government Monopolies in Opium, Salt, and Camphor—Agricultural and Mineral Resources—Banking and Finances | 585 |
| III. Local Government | |
| PREPARED BY THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE | |
| Constitution of the Empire of Japan—Laws Specially Decreed to Apply to Formosa—Administrative System—Imperial Ordinances and Laws having Effect in Formosa by their Nature—Taxation—Courts and Judicial Administration | 598 |
