VOLUME CXXII

The Annals

NOVEMBER, 1925

EDITOR: CLYDE L. KING

ASSOCIATE EDITOR: JOSEPH H. WILLITS

ASSISTANT EDITOR: J. T. SALTER

EDITORIAL COUNCIL: C. H. CRENNAN, DAVID FRIDAY, A. A. GIESECKE, A. R. HATTON,
AMOS S. HERSHEY, E. M. HOPKINS, S. S. HUEBNER, J. P. LICHTENBERGER,
ROSWELL C. MCCREA, E. M. PATTERSON, L. S. ROWE, HENRY
SUZZALLO, T. W. VAN METRE, F. D. WATSON

Copyright, 1925, by

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

All rights reserved

EUROPEAN AGENTS

ENGLAND: P. S. King & Son, Ltd., 2 Great Smith Street, Westminster, London, S. W.
FRANCE: L. Larose, Rue Soufflot, 22, Paris.

GERMANY: Mayer & Müller, 2 Prinz Louis Ferdinandstrasse, Berlin, N. W.

ITALY: Giornale Degli Economisti, Rivista di Statistica, Milano (26)—Via Canova 27
SPAIN: E. Dossat, 9 Plaza de Santa Ana, Madrid.

PART I. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

THE FAR EAST AND THE PACIFIC AS A PHASE OF EUROPEAN POLITICS....

Herbert Adams Gibbons, Ph.D., Litt.D.

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CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA UNDER THE

REPUBLIC..

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Harold S. Quigley, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota; 1921-23 on the

Faculty of Tsing Hua College, Peking, China

WHAT POLICY IN CHINA?.....

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G. Nye Steiger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Simmons College; formerly Professor

of History and Government, St. John's University, Shanghai

IDEALS OF THE PHILIPPINES.....

Maximo M. Kalaw, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of the Philippines

THE UNITED STATES AND THE PHILIPPINES-A SURVEY OF SOME POLITICAL

ASPECTS OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY......

Ralston Hayden, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan; sometime

Exchange Professor, University of the Philippines

PART II. COMMUNICATIONS, COMMERCE AND WEALTH

DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IN JAPAN..

J. Takaku, M.B.A., General Passenger Agent, Tokyo Division, Government Railways

of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

THE CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY..

Chin-Chun Wang, C.E., Ph.D., LL.D., Peking, China

THE CABLE SITUATION IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE

TO THE FAR EAST.

George Atcheson, Jr.

ELECTRICAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THE PACIFIC..

Walter S. Rogers, Chairman of a Committee Appointed by National Social Research

Council, to Inquire into International Communications and Opinion

CHINA'S POST-WAR TRADE....

Julean Arnold, American Commercial Attaché to China, U. S. Department of Com-

merce

NATURAL RESOURCES OF JAPAN...

Hirosi Saito, Consul General of Japan to the United States

PART III. EDUCATION AND FINANCE

CHINA'S NEW SYSTEM OF SCHOOLS.

Chi-Pao Cheng, Executive Secretary, National Southeastern University, Nanking, China

and W. T. Tao, Director, National Association for the Advancement of Education

EDUCATION IN JAPAN.......

Hon. Ignacio Villamor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines

THE EQUIPMENT OF AMERICAN STUDENTS FOR FOREIGN SERVICE.......

W. B. Carpenter, B.A., M.A., LL.B., Lately Lecturer in Peking Law College, Peking, China