. American engineer and railroad journal . f each does his duty success will be certain. I would also ask you to remember at all times the importanceof exercising courtesy and forbearance in dealing with the na-tives. There is oflen much to provoke or exasperate, but onno account should violence be used toward them, save only indefense of life. Nor should violent or abusive language beused. Adequate punishment for real offenses will be found indischarging or fining the offender, or suspending him fromduty ; and if mote severe punishment is deserved, it can beadministered in due form of law by
. American engineer and railroad journal . f each does his duty success will be certain. I would also ask you to remember at all times the importanceof exercising courtesy and forbearance in dealing with the na-tives. There is oflen much to provoke or exasperate, but onno account should violence be used toward them, save only indefense of life. Nor should violent or abusive language beused. Adequate punishment for real offenses will be found indischarging or fining the offender, or suspending him fromduty ; and if mote severe punishment is deserved, it can beadministered in due form of law by the local official havingjurisdiction. It is always possible to exercise firmness or dojustice with show of violence. Nothing causes us loss of pres-tige more than a habit of giving way to angry passions. Being in China, I do not expect to take part in any rapidtransformation scenes. Reform and improvement will have towork their way gradually, but I hope none the less surely andthoroughly. Mr. Pethick being an American and familiar vvitii. COMPOUND EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE, LONDON & NORTHWESTERN BY F. W. WEBB, LOCOMOTIVE SUPERINTENDENT. In future instructions to the staff will be issued in the form ofGeneral Orders, printed in Chinese and English, and numberedconsecutively. A copy will be sent to every employe con-cerned, and such orders must be carefully preserved and fre-quently read—no one who has disobeyed an order need thenplead ignorance of it. W. N. Pethick,Assistant Matini^ing Director. This order seems to be addressed chiefly to the Chineseemployes, and is a sort of primary instruction or con-densed elementary treatise on their duties. At the sametime Mr. Pethick issued the following circular, which isespecially addressed to the members of the foreign staff ;the headings, etc., are omitted, giving only the substanceof the order ; Gentlemen ; Having been appointed by H. E. the Viceroyto the position of Assistant Managing Director, with control ofthe Working
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