Though aware of the practical difficulties which present themselves in the accomplishment of this project, it meets with my utmost appreciation, I assure you, for the modern spirit by which it is animated and for the depth of its conception. Accept my best wishes for complete success, in the advantage of your noble country and for the interest of humanity. Believe Me, Faithfully yours, (Signed) GENERAL CAVIGLIA. APPENDIX V Peking, June 17, 1919. Hon. Sun Yat Sen, Shanghai. DEAR SIR: Permit me as a professional railway man to express my pleasure with your article appearing in the Far Eastern Review for June. I will not at this time express approval or disapproval of the route which you have chosen but the idea of a line to connect up the great agricultural interior with the densely populated coast appeals to me strongly. I feel that you are making a definite contribution to railway economic theory in this respect, whereas the line itself would relieve congestion, open up a production area which would lower food costs, furnish employment to large numbers of soldiers to be disbanded, and put in circulation a large amount of hard money which would go far to correct the currency situation. I am especially pleased to have your article appear at this time for I had already written one at the request of the publishers of the forthcoming "Trans-Pacific" magazine in which I touched upon the same line of thought. This will not appear until July and your opinions will have done much to prepare the minds of sceptics upon the subject by that time. I trust that this intrusion of an entire stranger may be pardoned, and that you will continue to support the thought which you have so ably presented. Very truly yours, (Signed) J. E. BAKER. APPENDIX VI 3, Piazza Del Popolo Roma August 30, 1919. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, 29 Rue Molière, Shanghai, China. MY DEAR DR. SUN YAT SEN: I thank you for your very kind letter of June 19th which has just been forwarded to me from my office in Rome, also for your kindness in sending me your splendid project "To assist the Re-adjustment of Post-bellum Industries," and the program for "The International Development of China." I assure you I read your proposals and studied the maps in connection with your able and logical argument with the deepest interest. And I beg you to accept my hearty congratulations. I am entirely convinced that your noble _ideals will be_ realised, not only for the benefit of China and the welfare of your own people, but for the benefit and prosperity of the whole human race.